Today was the annual movie day at work. I didn't go though, the movie choices are not that appealing, "The Holiday" or "Blood Diamond", not enough to drag me down to Eglington at 8:45 in the morning!
I did meet up with the folks from my old dept for the annual Christmas lunch though. Kind of nice that they still invited me to join. We went to this Carnaval Brazilian Grill place, the food is pretty good and not a bad price considering you get all the meat you can eat :) The servers would come out with a skewer of various meats like chicken, sausuages, beef roast (hmmm.... beef...) and they would carve slices of it onto your plate.
The dept Christmas lunch usually included a gift exchange portion as well. I didn't bring a gift this time, felt that it might be kind of weird to participate when I'm not working with them anymore. But I was looking forward to watching them go through it, it's fun to just watch since people are allowed to "steal" other people's opened gifts or pick a wrapped one. This year, I was disappointed that not many people brought gift, and not much stealing going on :( Maybe it's because there were not as many people there to begin with; and actually it seems the lunch and gift exchange didn't carry with it the same kind of energy and excitement from previous years. Or is this just my own perspective as someone who's not part of the team anymore?
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he he... i know why u dun feel the same... cuz right now ur good buddy is not around to rub in your encounters @t the workplace no more... ho ho ho
What? What encounters?
Well, it's really the people at the event who need to bring the spirit.. Next time, if you are invited, just bring a gift! if you are invited, they love you, want you there, and want you to participate - because they loooove you.
Maybe your old team just needed someone to kick-start the stealing. Next time, make it yourself. ;)
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