X'MAS + BIRTHDAY PARTY PART 1
Christmas - My favourite holiday of the year.
Since young, i have been dreaming about having a white christmas. I wanted to build a snowman, have a snowfight, hang up my stockings - waiting for santa claus and his reindeers to arrive and secretly places his presents in it (Now i know they are fake. Haha...) or even sit under the chimney just to feel the warmth from the charcoal fire. Well... I know i can never experience that in sunny Singapore, unless the weather goes berserk and snowflakes, instead of rain started pelting down on us. Hmm... maybe the closest i can get to having snow in Singapore is by going to the "Snow City" near the Singapore Science Centre. Haha... I have never been there, but still, it cannot be compare to the REAL thing. I shall wait and hopefully in a few more years time, i will get to spend my first white christmas somewhere. Yeah~
Just had a mini celebrations at IqDynamics. It was quite fun actually. About 3 weeks before Christmas, everyone was asked to draw lots to see which person they picked. Each person shall be an angel to the person they picked without revealing their identity. The budget allocated was $30 and everyone will be given a piece of paper to write their wishlist and hang it on the Christmas tree. A deadline was given to put up the wishes and we had to go to the christmas tree to check what our recipient wished for. As for me, I wish for a Takashimaya Voucher. Really cannot think of what to buy at the moment as most of my wishlists are above the budget. Haha... Anyway, i got to fulfill someone's wish by buying him the Norton Anti-Virus software as mentioned in my earlier post. To make it more interesting, they decided to have a gift wrapping competition as well. It will be separated into male & female categories. A $50 gift will be given to the winners. By 22nd Dec, which is our celebration day, all the presents were finally placed under the Christmas tree. I just love our christmas tree! \(^o^)/
Generally, the guys requested for thumbdrive and sd card while the gals requested for shoes, bags, accessories & shopping vouchers. The funny ones requested for toto quick picks, begawan Solo voucher (we already have that shop at our office building), a book that the person wanted his/her angel to recommend (That is tough, at least to me. Haha..)
Everyone started gathering inside the training room for our games session
Everyone was divided into different groups - Santa, Elves, The Grinch and Reindeer. I was in the Santa group! Pictures of X'mas trees at various locations were taken by our organisers, James, Sock Hoon and Lilin and we had to guess the exact location as parts & pieces of the X'mas trees were revealed square by square using powerpoint slides. Losers had to do a forfeit - Sing us a Christmas Carol~ :)
Our group, Santa lost narrowly by a point!
Look at all the food! Drool~*
Feast Time!
Christmas Logcake!
Presents for our gift exchange! \(^0^)/
Our Voting Board for Best wrapped gift!
After voting, our lst prize winner for the female category was announced. Really super nice! The whole thing just looks like a cake. It was actually made from a cookie tin. Too bad i was not the person who received this present.
The lst prize winner for female category
Our 2nd prize winner for the female category on the left. There is a X'mas tree & a snowman on top with cotton wool below to create the snowy effect. According to my colleague, each boxes there contained some jewelleries. On the right is another present which was nicely wrapped as well. Realised that there are quite a few talented people in this company. Maybe they are aiming for the best wrapped gift award. Haha... Wow... if only i have their skills.
Generally, the guy's presents all looked the same. Had a hard time choosing the best wrapped gift. Eventually, the guy's lst prize winner went to Vincent, who created a musical box that was done during his school days. Every winners had to explain how they wrapped their presents. Don't pray pray... We cannot play cheat by asking other people to wrap for us. Haha..
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My present! Yeah~ Actually it was rather pretty as well. My angel, Lilin told me that she used those red & green wrapper, then cut and folded out those flowers herself! Wow... Can see the effort there. Very happy to receive it!
Some little gifts that i received from other colleagues. Never really expected them to give me something. Felt a bit embarrassed that i never prepared anything for them. Hmm... Maybe i should buy something for them on my last day of work there. Anyway, it was 1 of my most enjoyable moment at iqdynamics so far :)
Celebrated my brother's 21st birthday on the same day - 22nd Dec. Finally he is an adult! Haha... I guess he has been waiting for this day for a long time.
Ah yo... my mum seems to like ordering key shaped cake for 21st birthday. Seems pretty much the same as mine just that the colour is different.
My Family!
Our grandparents! I love this photo! By concidence, all of them were wearing purple. Even the cake was purple. The funny thing was, my brother said purple is an international gay colour and yet he was wearing a purple shirt on purpose. But he is definately not a gay. Lol~
Some of the presents from his friends!
"Tang Yuan" - a glutinous rice flour balls in soup which can be served plain or have fillings like peanut or black sesame in it. For good luck, the Tang Yuan is usually served in pink and white balls. Almost every year for his birthday, my lucky brother gets to eat this as "Dongzhi" usually happens to fall on the same day. This year there is no pink Tang Yuan as my mum spent all her time on the buffet spread for my brother. Even though there are no fillings, the original tastes just as good. I love Tang Yuan! :)
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