My mum saw her first Christmas tree when she was a 5 or 6 year old mischievous kampong girl. It was the opening of some building or other, and there was this Christmas tree in the lobby. She and her bunch of cohorts were so fascinated by the tiny twinkling lightbulbs on the tree that each of them stole one and ran away. Somehow I can't picture my mum stealing a lightbulb now. lol.