Ho ho ho... wow it's been 2.xx months since I've blogged. That says quite a bit... Work is the same, I can not describe the sameness because there's no difference of the day to day activities.
Here's a rundown of stuff that I did...
Bought a Wii. Base system = $399, Wii Remote + Nunchuck = $109, Call of Duty 3 = $90.
Nearly 600 bucks. It's fun and interesting... Will try to play it more, but seems to be more chance to be during the weekend... since work takes up a lot.
Now, Xmas party.
Yesterday. we had our company's xmas party.
4pm, at the company's reception/entrance area.
I thought it was gonna be crap, and for the first 1-2 hours it was.
It was raining, and windy. All the people who didn't wear enough was cold, so cold that they went back inside and got their labcoats. So half of the crowd was in white, which was quite funny... :P The event started with a couple of speeches, by the bosses, and the managers (production, and sales). Then there was the ceremonies of people who worked there since the 'beginning'. I think they got a bonus of like $50 each. Then there was the ceremony of people who 'contributed' to the company. That was dodgy as well... and I guess they got $50 as well.
Then we had food. That was nice, semi-buffet style. They had a pig. On the spit, so it was nice and crispy. Salads, hams, and fruit salad. Even had mochi. Not a bad meal for sure.
I had 3 plates worth, even though I had a big lunch before... >:D
Then came the fun and games.
The fun - They hired a belly dancer. Not sure of her nationality, they said she was a Lebanese, but she seemed aussie to me. She did 3 dances, trying to drag the crowd to dance, and there was a period during the second dance where she had about 5-7 guys dancing around her, but when she tried to drag the girls to dance, not many wanted to... only about 2-3 dared to dance. The third dance was even funnier, they pushed a guy and tried to take his shirt off, and then a guy jumped in and they took his shirt off... then the song ended, but yeah, it was fun alright... :D
Games, they had 5 games, which everybody can play for free, and get prizes.
1) Coin toss on a glass table. Sounds easy, but it's not. I just got too much arm muscles... :P
2) Toss a dart into numbers. 2 big prizes of 2.1 speakers. Some minor prizes, but everybody gets a prize of spray. Useless, but fun.
3) Toss 3 novelty sized tennisballs into the basket. Again, my aim was off, even though I had no beer. Just not my day for sports.
4) Guess the number of jellybeans in a canister. Obviously it's not my forte, by I had a hint from the guy who counted the beans, he couldn't play. I was about 20 out. The winner was 5 out. The prize was a 5.1 system.
5) The grand raffle draw.
5-6 minor prizes of bottles of wine. Obviously from $15 to $50... 3rd prize was a DVD player. I think it would be easier to walk into a shop and buy one for $50. 2nd Prize was a Digital camera, which I won. AHAHAHA! In your face suckers! nahh... It's a nice simple digicam, an Olympus FE-150. Simple point and click 5 megapixel camera. 2.5" screen. What else... It's probably around $300 new. But its probably not new. 1st prize, a DVD+ home theatre set. Probably $500 new. The funny thing was that the girl who hands out the prizes was holding the big carton of the dvd home theatre box. It was as big as she was, and then her name was drawn out of the carton, and people were going 'Vivian! where's Vivian?' and she's there holding the box... everybody claps because it was so coincidental... >:D So, by the time the whole event finished, it was around 8pm. 4 hours of half boredom, and fun.
It took us about half an hour to clean up the mess, and still a lot of drinks (beer, wine etc) left. Bosses took the wine home, but there's plenty of beer left.
I got home about 9, which was fast.
Then I slept at my normal time, because I had booked a service for the car at 7:30am.
I got up at 6 feeling crap, even though I didn't drink.
Went to the service centre, and only waited about 2 hours, got home about 10am. I was tired so I went to nap and got up at 2pm... :P None of my downloads finished, so I went and played a bit of Wii Play. It's quite hard I guess for me because I'm not good at holding still... But with training I'll get better, I'm sure :P
