Annual Dinner

Hello and happy day to you! It is starting to get very warm here in Hong Kong and I hope you all are beginning to thaw. We are now back to day light savings time in the USA, so the time change is back to 12 hours from eastern standard time.

In our neck of the woods, last Friday we celebrated the company Annual Dinner. This is quite a big deal! They had a very nice party for all Hong Kong employees, and families & kids were invited as well. The theme was "Oldies" and there were prizes and raffles given out.

Here is a cute picture of me (I'm the big whitey with the afro puffs - hey, the 70's IS oldies to me?!?!) and some fellow Honkee costumed friends.
Our friend Brian was the MC complete with his full sequined disco attire. They played one game where Tony had to go up on the stage and over head phones, listen to a famous Cantonese song and then sing what he heard to the group so they could guess. It was one of the funniest things! They made our President do it as well, I have it on video, at the end he asks to pay to get off the stage! And of course there were the raffles and prizes. When we walked in, everyone got to take a red pocket with either $100 or $500 Hong Kong inside (surprise) and then drop your name into a barrel which they used later to draw from. They gave away cash up to $5000 HKD (about $600 US!), gift certificates, Ipods, Nintendos, everything! But alas, even though about 50% of the people won prizes, I did not win anything. I got a $15 Starbucks gift certificate though for guessing a baby picture correctly. Woo hoo! I can buy like 2 coffees now!

Tony won a gift certificate for two to dinner at the Excelsior Hotel buffet. You may recall, the Excelsior was where we lived for a month when we first moved here, not DYING to go back to eat there again, but, hopefully he will ask me to join him ; ) Here is a cute picture of him and our female admin, Carl. She wanted to sit with us because we are fun. But they are not fun, neither of them wore a silly costume! Good thing I captured this silly face instead.
So, having not won a raffle prize, I thought I was a shoe in for the costume contest! However, to my dismay, afro puffs and all, they had a unspoken rule that only local people could win, so my hair was sprayed and teased for NOTHING! I told HR that I was filing a complaint....not really, I am glad they took me out because it was really no contest at all : )

And of course, what is an ANNUAL DINNER without the Dinner? Here is a pic of one of our ten courses...think Babe. Yes, you guessed it, whole roasted sucking pig. He looks like a burn victim!

I had to give Tony the skin parts, but the rest of it was pretty good. Oink oink.

So all in all the annual dinner was a lot of fun. Everyone got really into the prizes and Rockwell gave away a ton of stuff. It was very nice, too bad we will miss it next year. Till next time, I LOVE YOU & MISS YOU!