An MCC Christmas

20Dec08

If only I still liked my job and wanted to pursue my shipping career, I’d definitely stay. I just LOVE my office crowd now. Kung kelan naman ako paalis eh, saka pa that I met them and we all clicked! Someone told me before I got back to Manila that I wasn’t really gonna jibe with the MCC crowd. True enough I didn’t jibe with ALL of them but some of us actually did get along, enough to hang out as friends. :) We had our MCC Christmas Party last night–dinner at Oki-Oki in A Venue, drinks at Attica, and videoke at Platinum until 3am!!! After all the “let’s donate 30% of the winnings to charity” drama (which I oh so strongly opposed), not everyone was there but at least it’s the people that mattered ;)

TJ, Acey, Naresh, Marc, Me, Ian, Jeaf, Archie, Kristine, Carlo, Nasseir

The food at Oki Oki was great! I wasn’t able to appreciate it that much since I had colds, but I could taste it a bit nevertheless. I love their crazy (fried) maki. We had drinks at Attica after, and of course I taught everyone my staple drinking game (learned it from my friends in Shanghai!)– where you’d have to burn the tissue with a cigarette without dropping the coin inside the glass:

Nasseir dropped the 10 centavo coin during the first round, and I dropped the 5 peso coin during the second round– bottoms up lang naman! Haha. I love this game I play it everytime I go drinking! Anyway after drinks we finally got our room at Platinum KTV in Jupiter, after waiting for 2 hours! All the places were just jam-packed. We tried to go to Top Grill first but it was reserved and so we had to find other places and have dinner first while waiting. Buti nalang Top Grill was full because I loved our choice of places for the night. I wouldn’t have had it any other way!

Jeaf, Me, TJ, Acey, Ian, Alvin, Kristine, Archie

My voice is soooo husky now from the sing-off. I had sore throat, cough and colds to start with, and it even got worse after all the singing! We had a sing-off in pairs of 4 songs each, and the pair with the lowest average score has to do a bottom’s up. Pairings: Acey & Ian, Me & TJ, Kristine & Archie, Jeaf & Nasseir (in order of final standing). Second place kami ni TJ! Haha. Our winning pieces: Never Gonna Let You Go, Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, and I forgot the other one– or maybe we only did 3?! Pero basta it was super fun, everyone’s scores were in the 90’s range!

I hope this won’t be the last time I’ll hang out with these people at the office– though most likely it will be the last! I’ll be having my despedida early next year before I start work at Colgate-Palmolive so hope it’s gonna be as fun– and I hope I’ll have the same fun with my new officemates! :) In the meantime I’ll be maximizing my time with my MCC crowd while we’re still all together since it’s gonna be less convenient once I’m gone :( Last 2 days at the office next week!!!

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