bashed x-mas bash

it's 8.30am wednesday morning but cubicles around me are still empty.

and i thought i am the one who always come late.

the rain finally stopped this morning. it has been raining continuously since sunday i almost forgot how it feels like to be dry outside the building.

it's about time too. my throat has started to feel weird and itchy from all these wet and cold weather.

god forbid but if i were to get sick, i hope it will be this friday.

because that's when we'll have our annual departmental x-mas bash, and for the first time, i don't feel like going.

previous years, i looked forward to this particular day. in fact, this year i did too, until the management committee decided to add in theme wear.

we are being put in different groups following our bosses, and each are required to come with a group theme wear. i heard other groups have decided for hawaiian (so fun!!), cowboy (a bit outta place, but still cool) and school uniform (sexy:).

our group? sports.

sports wear! i mean, who'd go to an xmas bash wearing sports attire? have u seen ppl with full soccer jersey with shorts and everything in a pub? it's like wearing a sarong and dine in the equinox. so not appropriate.

plus, it's not just a pub, it's a pub at the chijmes. it's almost illegal.

enough that we'll looked silly in those, we are expected to do a little presentation (or 'strutt our stuff' as they put it) too. and that's of course on top of whatever stupid game stuff the mc will force us do.

not to mention it's a 3pm event, so it's not like we're gonna have a full set of gourmet christmas buffet anyway. i'm sure most of the food budget has been allocated to cater for that free flow of beer, which i don't drink.

i am so not going.

so perhaps i can join my other friends to shop around instead that friday night. it will be christmas shopping round 2 for me, having done the 1st one in junction 8 last weekend.

when singapore says it's having sale, it really having sale. i bought myself a pair of jeans for just 39 bucks. plus a few t-shirts and get this, a piece of white gold men necklace for 150 bucks.

the manager of junction-8 lee hwa jewellery, and i must mention his name, ken lim, was very nice. he's the kind that make the customers feel well appreciated. such a rare breed nowadays.

you know i called him few days after that to ask if i could change my necklace to a longer type, and he said normally they couldn't but he could do something about it? such a simple gesture felt like an early christmas for me.

he even gave us tips on on-going lucky draws around the department store which we would be eligible after the purchase. so we went ahead later for this 1 dollar lucky draw instant dip, from which i won a can of new moon abalone! i don't really appreciate abalone and i don't understand why it's such a delicacy here, but who cares, it's expensive!

it's christmas season. we're allowed to go a little off the hook this time of the year.

with appropriate clothes of course.


...ed