It's That Time Of The Year Again

Yup it's that time of the year again. Not my birthday. Not even any of my friends birthday. It's my company gift exchange day for Christmas again. Ironically, I don't celebrate Christmas but I'm into the concept of gift exchange. My company is predominantly Chinese yet they don't give angpow during CNY. Only one hand can calculate how many people celebrate Christmas in my company, yet it's a grand occasion in the calendar that everyone is waiting. All the photos shown hereunder are courtesy of Tham Yuet Weng, our full time engineer cum part-time photographer.

Of course, there's nothing that break the silence than the ice breaking event. To start of the party, we were asked to play 2 games. The first one was the jigsaw puzzle of your colleague's face. Gosh, I'm glad that my face was not chopped into pieces. Some more people get a chance to look from close view how many wrinkles, freckles, stained teeth, nasal hair, and pimple you have.

If the first game match handling is poor the second game was even worse. The players were arguing and attacking the referee's every decision. Each of the group is required to sing a verse which contain the words from the one we picked up from the envelope.

We squeeze our brain juice out. Some came up with 60s oldies, some some with 80s and some came up with songs sung even the older one can't even figure out whether the Akon is a male or female artist. We sang out guts out. My group managed to qualify to the final two stage. It's a sudden death game now. After some gruelling 5 rounds of karaoke session, one "worthy" winner was announced. Though we lost, but judging by the prize, I'm glad we didn't won.

ONE PACKET OF TISSUE & ONE STICK OF MENTOS!!!!

Just look at the face reaction and you'll know.

At a time when our company is practising resource saving policy, the toilet paper was considered a restricted item, I found that this prize came at a right time. Just joking. The games was just part of the warm up session for the big event.

Then , came the much anticipated session. The gift exchange. Most of the staff doesn't favour the stealing gift method used in the previous years. Therefore, this time around, it's what comes to your hand and that's your gift method.

Yeah, another reason for spending more time in the pantry.

The budget is RM20. It's quite challenging considering the low cost yet you need to maintain yet it must be something that can come out to the public. Presents ranging from a set of toiletries (one toothbrush, one tooth paste, etc.), mug, tray, container, cushion cover, Julie's cracker, cookies, toaster, thermos and the list of weird things goes on.

The biggest winner. First, a packet of tissue & mentos now a chide from the t-shirt Nathan got from the gift exchange which show:

MALAYSIAN DRIVER NEVER BEAT THE TRAFFIC LIGHT

WE ARE JUST COLOR BLIND!

Well, at least he got something special from Malaysia to bring back to Zimbabwe.

The food is awesome, a mixed variety of local delicacy and western cuisine mixed and banging up all together that somehow works, even Boon Chuan's food blog is jealous.