Life has never been more motivating and rewarding. In this Christmas, we are going to work like little elves that are helping our Santa Father to gather the presents and warp them nicely for collection.
It is indeed a daunting task to buy 170 gifts for everyone in the company. In view that there would be closed-door member sales on Wednesday, we went to the mall one day ahead to scout for suitable gifts. The selected items have to be practical and the designs of ladies bag selected should never repeat. We are acting like a bargain hunter with a fashion police attitude who checks and scrutinize every item to make sure our buying is worth every cent we paid. The budget is $30 per pax and we need to work around the price and discount to make the purchase as fair as possible. Due to some untold past experiences, getting gift vouchers is not an option. It is relieve to have some electronic items delivered to our office directly. As for the shopping gifts, we went to the mall on the sales date, leaving the office slightly earlier to pick up the items, which we have set our minds upon. It is a labor-intensive duty to carry all the shopping bags. During payment, we had become the cause of complaints and there are a lot of weird stares from the other shoppers who are stunned by our number of shopping bags.
It is very light heartening to have two other energetic colleagues around. Somehow, they have secretly become my source of strength. I may have once again over-exerted by lower back. In a deflecting laugh, I should be glad to be able to move and do big shopping. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile experience.
Work has become so fun when it is filled with so many activities. I almost felt like I was a student once again. On the departmental level, we had done karaoke, Jack’s place dinner, pizza hut lunch, triple three hotel buffet, popiah wrapping, nasi lemak lunch and k-buffet. There are still some balance funds for another activity before 2011. On the company level, we had fruits day, seven-month festive, bowling, movie screening, appreciation dinner, Christmas and we have even started talking about Chinese new year. The sense of comrade was built through these activities and I think the birthday celebration and the bus journey have helped to foster closer ties too. So much have been done in less than six months time. Such entertainment volume is not common for our company, and it has been a really exciting year for me.
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