Synovate CNY dinner

Yesterday night was my company annual CNY dinner and this year it is held @ M Hotel. We reach there around 6plus but waited till 8 plus then started reason been we are waiting for "our guest of honor - an ang mo" who took a flight from Beijing. As most of you know it is snowing terrible in China and his flight was delay for 7 hours. But everyone is complaining hungry plus tomorrow is still a working day :( I just dun understand whyy my company like to arrange events on such day y not a Friday...

While waiting for our guest of honor to arrive, we play a virtual mahjong game. Since last year our company has been divided into 4 teams, so this year the arrangement of the team is still the same. So this is how the game goes, each team will nominate 2 ppl to play for the team, there are a total of 6 puzzles, we need to identify what are the possible missing tiles. Our team won the overall for last year, but guess what for this game we got -13 point lolz cos each mistake there will be a 2 point deducted *pengz* from the 1st to the last one...but ok la let other teams has a chance to win (say this to make us feel better)

Finally, the dinner started we have 8 course meal which consist of yu sheng, shark fins, spinach with abolance, steam groupa, pipa duck, lotus rice, dumplings with red bean soup and lastly fried nian gao.. overall the food taste average... As our company are quite active in charity activities, we have 2 rounds of luck draw whereby each employee write their name on the $ note (min is $2) and all these $ will goes to charity group our company support. The first lucky draw is a 8G ipod touch pad and the next one is $888 cash!!!!

As usual, i am not the winner *sad* hw I wish I can win the $888 then it can contributes to my reno expense... (daydreaming again) Towards the 4th dishes, I can sense that they r trying to end the dinner asap.... (similar to what happening during weddings) Finally, we manage to leave around 10pm and shared a cab with 4 colleagues since all of us stay @ hougang. Total damage of the cab fare is $18.90 (inclusive of ERP $0.50 and CBD $3) which is damn X lor. Lucky is share by 4 of us else i will rather take a train back.... :P

Cindy
30-Jan