Christmas

it's that time of year again... the season to be jolly!!

yesterday was our departmental's christmas lunch. there was the 'end of year talk' given by the head of dept followed by buffet lunch (which we had to pay for mind u) and lots of alcohol. the talk was good, it's always good to know what the dept got up to throughout the year and where we are headed and how the university is changing. the uni is having a new generation of degrees starting next year. total change from the current system, sounds like a lot of work for the academic staff, nothing doing with me. i'm research staff. hehe...

after the talk we all sat around the tearoom and on the varanda for lunch. sometimes i feel such events are meant for ppl to mix around and talk to others but most of us sat with our own lab anyway. not that that's anything bad, i actually had a good time chit-chatting (gossiping) and drinking beer n wine... think we drank more than we ate (if the food isn't delicious enough for u to eat 25bucks worth, then drink to ur money's worth) haha.... after lunch few of us watch some others play cricket. from cricket it became a hmm... 'knocking beer bottles down' game. 3 ppl on one side, 10 beer bottles in the middle, knock em' down. hehe... that was pretty funny. my aiming was pretty shit i have to say. haha... n brad kept laughing at me but it was all good fun!! by the time we came back up to the lab it was 430pm. the only person that worked y'day was lori (from our lab). we actually came back up to the lab to pack up, took our bags n headed off to the pub n the party continued. hahaha.... but unfortunately (or fortunately.... i'd have gotten so drunk) i had to leave to go to LG. i had a good time, didn't expect myself to have such a ball at a dept event but well.... always expect the unexpected. ;)

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i was browsing thru goggle just now and came across this picture. straight away i tot of my family. they've been telling me about their christmas shoppings and what they bought for whom and at whose's house they r going to be at on the 24th, 25th n 26th n of course the 31st. ahhh how jealous i am...

i see my mum in this picture... hehe... buying presents for everyone in the family n how she'd have bags of presents in the car. of course it aint as ridiculous as this cartoon. my dad'd have gone crazy if we were to buy THAT many gifts. hehe... the money spent during christmas is well worth if u are with ur family/loved ones and everyone is enjoying themselves. presents bought during christmas are often lil gifts anyway. =)

this is the first year i'm away from home for christmas n new year. it feels rather different. i try not to think what plans i have as i do when i'm back home - thinking what to wear to this n that party, the food, noise, laughters, PRESENTS!! i guess i'm not used to.. being brought up in a family that celebrates everything...... this year just seems too quiet....

to think that this year i'd be spending christmas n new year's eve at LG.... the difference.... but in a way it's good. LG serves as such a distraction...

my thoughts are my own...