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cèst la vie ...

Well having my morning cuppa tea, reading http://www.askmen.com for "keep my eyes busy", I was thinking about my first company xmas party in Hong Kong. Lets say...it was different. first, everyone only consumed orange juice and the occassional beer (yeshhh!). I of course ordered white and red wine....as I looked at the menu for the night...and realized...that I wasn`t able to eat alot of the traditional Chinese food being prepared.

We played plenty of interactive games and the department gave away so many computer prizes...the I thought the event was sponsored by Sony PSP or Apple Ipod nano? The major grand prize was a IBM laptop...that they joked could be brought to work. My highlight was the "make a fool of the management" section during one of the contests. Western oriented HR teams would be in a cold sweat as they asked four senior managers on-stage to chug a beer, before other human defying tasks.

The event was fun-ny, if you know what I mean. A good time was had by all and then another typically Hong Kong thing occurred.... by the time youd could say "bye byeeeeeeee" a quarter of the room had their coats on were down the stairs. There is none of that mull around stuff going on...

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posted by t. @ Wednesday, November 23, 2005