This Christmas thing is out of control

As I sit here in the lobby bar of the Flamingos Hotel here in Phnom Penh next to a fully decorated (albeit fake) Christmas tree.  There are Christmas decorations everywhere - not just in the tourist areas - (klitmat as they say it) - the dreaded word "cadeau" is on many lips - the French apparently left behind an excuse for consumer excess - there are actual Christmas carols (no lyrics) on the radio.  Somehow I think that betting on a white Christmas here would be a losing proposition.