Silver Year

We thought that we will be having “White (Shining and Shimmering) Christmas” as the theme of our Christmas party for this year. But according to our poll, the 80’s Christmas Party won.

I have been listening to a lot of “New Wave” songs again recently. I love new wave music. I remember back in 1999 when I became addicted to this kind of music. Well, thank you to the Chorus Girl CD.

I have told my fellow rookies (new employees in the previous year) that I will join them in the presentation, if ever we will have one. And so I did! Practicing at night after work is so stressful, but it’s just fine since I like dancing. Seeing my officemates practicing their presentations made me more eager to perform. Our Finance & Admin department (where the MIS department belongs too) was supposedly not going to perform anything due to busy schedules. But maybe they realized that it would be okay if most of us will perform. I can see that they also didn’t care much about winning. They just wanna have fun, which is a nice thing actually.

The preparation for the party was really stressful for the people who organized our party. But it was all worth it when we saw the outcome last Friday night. It was so nice to see my officemates wore their 80’s outfit. It was a very colorful and happy night.

The two groups I joined in the presentation both did not rank from first to third, but I don’t care about it because I really had fun that night. I realized that 80’s party is so cool.

What made me happier is that I was supposed to win the “Rookie Of The Year” award. This award is given to those employees with less than one year of stay who have a good performance. But I was disqualified because technically speaking, I have been an employee of the company for a year already last Wednesday. But still, I feel happy, since a friend of mine won the award.

I was also nominated for the “Jack Of All Trades” award. I am also happy for it even though I did not win. Being nominated is already more than enough.

It was a very memorable night for me – food, new friends, nice performances, prizes, disco, etc. At least for a while, we left our work behind and had some fun!