The Mayans were an ancient people who lived in Mexico some thousands of years ago. In modern times, they are famously known for seriously scaring the crap out of everyone by foreseeing that there will be annihilation of all human life on December 22, 2012.
Incidentally, that is precisely the reason why we decided to celebrate our Team Christmas Party on December 21st so that we could, um, party like it's the end of the world. At least, if the apocalypse does come on the 22nd, we would have spent our last few moments inebriated with ice cold alcohol, sated with porky, vein-clogging cholesterol, and partied out until our feet gave out from right under us and our voices hoarse from too much shouting, singing, and laughing.
As it was Christmas, we planned a shindig worth its salt and pulled out all the stops.
The food was heavenly (and fattening!).
Let me tell you, that lechon is the mother of all lechons! The skin keeps crispy even after a few hours and the meat is so tasty. This is from Edgar, our lechon guy. The rest of the menu for this party includes an especially-garlicky molo soup, yummy garlic rice, beef stroganoff pasta, chicken cordon bleu, crabs with aligue sauce, pork barbecue, tenderloin tips in oyster sauce, and for dessert chicken macaroni salad, buko pandan salad, and fresh fruits. Catering was done by Ayang's.
The booze was overflowing.
Our mobile bar for the night, Bottoms Up, even presented a 10 minute flair-tending exhibition featuring their bartenders.
Many thanks to Bottoms Up's Jeorge for seeing to it that we had enough drinks to keep everybody happy. He even comped a lot of the extra flaming shots for us!
And we have a lot of them, it seems. While some were too shy to sing, some won't even give up the mic and staged their own personal concert. Props to Joseph, Jez, Andrei, Scooby, and our OJTrainee Kim for taking time out to practice even after office hours. These guys truly rocked!
The laughter was genuine, not to mention hearty.
A deadly combination of alcohol, special talent numbers, and parlor games made us all split our sides laughing like there's no tomorrow (we were actually thinking there wouldn't be one...hello, end of the world).
The humor might be lost in translation, so just look at the pictures to get an idea of how fun it was that night.
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| Happy to be here! :) |
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| And they weren't even boozed up yet. |
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| Cheers and catcalls...when JA showed up as Psy to dance Gangnam Style! |
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| The boys laughing at Hapie, who just got eliminated from Musical Chairs |
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| Laughing at the bartenders' facial expression when they were flairtending |
There were amazing gifts and raffle prizes.
See the kiddies happily scramble to put in their names for the raffle!
Up for grabs were two 8GB flash drives, Logitech laptop speakers, mice (2 pcs A4Tech mouse), a grey-and-orange sports watch from Spyder, gift certificates from Starbucks and Krispy Kreme, IMAX Theater tickets, and random loot bag prizes of chocolates and candy.
Special prizes also went out to the most deserving team members:
NANINGKAMOT AWARD (Most Improved) - Pat
30 DAYS OF NIGHT AWARD (Performer of the Month) - Andrei
GAHOTERA OF THE YEAR (Best Costume Effort every Themed Fridays) - Gianina
And Marlon and Wilma each got well-deserved kudos for coming very early to the office as well as for taking care of everybody and offering assistance whenever needed. We are truly very lucky to have them on the team!
This team composed of Ayra, JA, JC, Earvin, and Jez, won the Best Team Presentation of the Night. It was actually in the bag, the moment JA donned those shades...more so when he galloped around a la Psy, mouthing "Oppa Gangnam Style!" and bouncing around on the dance floor.
The gifts under the tree.
The party went on into the wee hours of the morning and needless to say, everybody had a blast. We kinda felt a little bit cheated when the 22nd dawned and no horsemen came with the sunrise, or at least weird wonky alien overlords floating around blasting everything to bits. Oh well, life goes on then. And we weren't all the worse for it as we really had a pre-apocalyptic good time...not to mention a new post-apocalyptic lease on life!
Thank you to the generous Ingenuity benefactors for providing everything for us. The whole year would not be possible without you! Gigantic thanks are also in order for everybody who organized the party and made it a fun, laughter-filled activity of sorts (Gik and Baia with the help of Marlon and Wilma).
It was truly a very merry Christmas party!!
Thank you to the generous Ingenuity benefactors for providing everything for us. The whole year would not be possible without you! Gigantic thanks are also in order for everybody who organized the party and made it a fun, laughter-filled activity of sorts (Gik and Baia with the help of Marlon and Wilma).
It was truly a very merry Christmas party!!
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