Whilst soaking myself in the festive mood, something unfortunately happened in my family. Dad got into an accident. Never will I forget 22 Dec 2009 (Dong1 Zhi4) when I received a call at 630am. Dad was unloading his goods from the car's boot to the stall in the morning as usual. He suddenly felt a sharp pain on his leg and he was pushed forward where his teeth knocked against the back windscreen and his shoulders knocked against the car as well. When he turned back, he noticed a van reversed and squeezed him in between my dad's car and the reversing van. To think that the van still did not stop until a passerby shouted at him. Think my dad's legs could have been broken if he continued to reverse. Anyway, dad has a swollen left leg and not walking too properly. All checks have been done. Doc says the blue black and blood clot will take about 3 months to disperse and disappear. I only pray he will have no problems walking in future as his job nature requires him to stand long hours and walk for long hours. *prays*
Putting the unfortunate incident behind, this year's Christmas was a very fun one, just like every Christmas! Eve was spent being a Santa in office! Prepared a lot of presents (about 50+) to be given away. Well, it's the joy of giving that matters! Really happy to be exchanging gifts and wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! We had a small Christmas Eve party in office with buffet and some games.
Christmas tree in office with many presents on it. Each one of us will 'pick' a buddy through drawing lots and we're supposed to get our buddy a gift of min. $10. I bought a keyboard brush for my buddy. I hope she likes it cos' I found it really cute! And you know, keyboard being the dirtiest of all in office, a brush will come in handy to maintain the hygiene level!
Very good dry mee siam! However, the quantity was too little for 50pax in my opinion.
Very pretty grape tarts.These 2 dishes were the best amongst the rest, so I share the photos here. The rest were normal :)
Photos with colleagues.
This is Jane & me - who keeps exclaiming that my camera has a beautify mode cos' she says she looks prettier in photos taken by my camera. So cute of her! Yeah! The desk you see behind is mine, looks neat isn't it?! And the one to my left is my boss'.On Christmas day, I started to unwrap all the pressies! Exciting moment - which I will always share with my mum. Whatever I open and she wants it, I will give it to her. But every year, she just takes 1 or 2 maximum out of the tens I have received.
A little notepad from Service Team's colleague, C. So sweet!
Cake towel from the newbie in my team.
A cute pink cup from my team's support staff.
One of my favourite gift this year - Bag hook from ex-colleague, J. Nice!!!
Passport holder from project team mate, A.
Another one of my favourite gift - towel, shower & lotion set from my mystery buddy. Thanks to whoever you are! I love it!
Coasters from Service Team's colleague, M. In sweet pink! *loves*
Merci chocolates which arrived via internal mail from one of the Sales Team Leader, PJ - the one who always calls me auntie when I am one year younger than her.
Very kawaii pouch which also arrived via internal mail from another Sales Team Leader and one of the senior sales staff, V & E.
Wrist cushion from Service Team's support staff, I.
Lilo & Stitch mug from MO team colleague, B.
Nice pair of earrings from ex-colleague, W.
Another pair of earrings from my team mate, A.
Very pretty storage container from Service Team colleague, J. *likes*
Another cup from Service Team sub-team leader, P.
If I am not mistaken, this is from ex-colleague, BY, as there was no name on it...
Another one of my favourite gift, Salt & Pepper set, from Service Team colleague, S and MS & YY from another division. It's gonna appear in my new house! Weet!
Very cute clock with alarm from ex-colleague, TT.
Chocolates from ex-colleague, C.
Very pretty coaster from MO colleague, W.
Small cloth container from ex-colleague, C.
Pack of chocolates & candies from Service Team colleague, SY.
Another one of my favourite gifts - aromatherapy set from one of my closest ex-colleague, C aka mimi. So sweet of her! I wonder if the aromatherapy set can wait till I move into my new place. Ahh! I like such stuff so much!
Precious Moments Photo Albums from 2 new colleagues who recently joined us known as the JJ team!Apart from these, I also had a 2010 organizer from Prints, given to me by another closest ex-colleague, HS. I also had a box of Ferrero Rocher from my neighbour as well as a pink handphone holder from QQ, Loccitane solid parfume from JY and a set of Mickey Mouse pink towels from PP. I hope I havent left out any... haha.
Anyway, all these were done within 1+hours and my dearies started to arrive at my place. It was our once in a year Wii & steamboat session!
Steamboat & Cereal Prawns - our annual menu!
Nervous, exciting and hilarious Wii gaming session!
Yummy log cake!Photo taking time:
*love is in the air*
Here's wishing us many, many more fun Christmas together!
Cute JY with PP who definitely wants to be captured in this shot!
Cheers to Christmas 2009 and a Happy 2010!
Cake cutting time!
Yeah! *loves*
Almost at 12 midnight of Boxing day, we passed each other the pressies we have prepared! This is JY who is so happy with the gifts she has received. For memory sake, I gave them a FotoCalendar each with our photos! Hopefully they will use it and we are constantly reminded of the 10 odd years of friendship we shared together! *muacks*Looking forward to our next Christmas! Wondering if it's possible to hold it at my new place? Prays hard that my new place will be ready soon! I simply can't wait!
