Christmas decorations are abundant in many shopping complexes at this time of the year. Ingenious designs at their lobbies will bring one into a fantasy world where fairy tales are brought to life. Glittering lights on Christmas trees will surely dazzle, luring shoppers into a paradise of lights and colour. Shoppers are tempted with infinite alluring gift options.

Indeed Christmas has been turned into an economic franchise. A time when annual savings are potentially spent in an instant, with many absorbed by the hypnotic decor and festive cheer. So non-Christians may ask, what exactly is Christmas? Is it Santa Clause or perhaps the buying of gifts?

What has happened to Christ in Christmas? Is it not because of Christ that Christmas is celebrated? Or is it now X'mas rather than "Christ"mas?

Some exclaim that the word Christmas is too long and thus the birth of the abbreviation X'mas. I beg to differ. There are many who have hijacked the true meaning of christmas and thus have attempted to remove Christ from Christmas. Walk along any shopping complex and you will hardly see Christ in the festive equation.

Imagine on your supposed birthday, you are deliberately ignored with others celebrating for an apparently different reason. Would you not be upset?

Despite all the festivities and cheerful faces, it must be an extremely sorrowful period for the One for which these celebrations were initially meant for. It's X'mas that many are witnessing at shopping complexes, sadly NOT Christmas.