Bidding farewell to December

Hey there, it's been a month since my last short post !
December has been a hectic month that is full with celebrations !

Let's see what was it that I was caught up with in the beginning of the month..
SHOPPING! hahaha.. Year end shopping with Jia Yi at her favourite mall.
I guess it's her favourite since she's been going there every weekend.
Me myself hasn't been out much to shop and I must say, it felt good once a while.
I must also thanks my personal Sunway Pyramid tour guide, Miss Jia Yi ! haha..
She's like the ambassador of the mall.
That day ended with a shot of Christmas decoration all around the mall and some pink shopping bags.

It feels as though a curse to me, since I don't fancy pink, and I got pink shopping bags from the places where I bought my stuff from.
But some note to myself for shopping on weekends, Don't go shopping on weekends, otherwise, go early. The parking is chaos ! It took me nearly 45 minutes just to get myself a parking.

That week too, I met up with Johnson during my lunch hour. It feels good to meet up with uni friends again. I miss the rest of the gang, but I was too occupied. Got some souvenir from Johnson as well. Thanks Johnson =)

And then there's Yen's farewell dinner in a Japanese BBQ at Taman Desa, where we need to cook by ourselves.

That night has opened my eyes to the other side of my colleagues ! It was enjoyable at some point. But it could be better. But nevertheless, wishing Yen all the best in her career =D

On the 14th of December, we congratulated Loh Foo on tying the knot with his beautiful bride. I couldn't get a nice shot with my phone camera, but they were both good looking bride and groom !
Congratulations again on their wedding ! ^_^

Some selfies of ourselves on that night. =P

The following Thursday, that's my team building !
As organized by our team members, we have a full day team building right from breakfast till dinner!
First started with breakfast at Subway, then off we go in 4 cars with 8 people to Escape Room at e@Curve. There's a few difficulty to choose from, my boss picked the 5 stars one, while the remaining 4 of us picked the 4 stars one. 

 It was fun and challenging but we did not win the game. To be honest, it's quite expensive if it's not on the company budget. hahaha.. yeah, I'm a cheapskate. Roughly RM32 per person per game of 45 minutes. If you like puzzle games, I think this is quite interesting to go for it.

At the end of each game, whether you lose or win, you'll get to take home a Polaroid photo and another shot taken with a digicam that will be posted in their Fb page. Look at the other team's photo ! They covered the loser banner. Smart.

Then we went for lunch at Ikea !

SUPER FULL. I can't even finish the remaining 2 meatballs. Lesson learned for being too greedy.
Well, I'm gonna use the next activity as an excuse.. "There's badminton after that, I can't be too full before a sports !" There.. sounds legit right?

But I'm not lying ! There was a sport activity after the meal at nearby sports center.
It's fun to do sports with a team, I haven't done that for a year since my uni. I wonder if my uni friends still organize badminton every Fridays.

After the game there was a heavy rain where we waited in the sports complex until it's not so heavy before we walk to Kayu Nasi Kandar nearby for our final item in the itinerary, dinner. As I was too full from the lunch, I only have tosai and drinks.
It was a great one all in all, I truly enjoyed the company and the activity, despite the bad jam heading back to office after the activity, which took us more than an hour stuck in jam. It's the peak hour after all.

The day after, there's Christmas party in my office where there's food and Secret Santa gift exchange. I got mine from Whisly, a necklace hidden in a socks ! Thanks Whisly !

That day's "teabreak" was awesome ! Loads of variety of food from all over the places we used to get our teabreak from. Namely, muffins from Kenny Rogers, Pie Tee from TCRS, Pizza from dominos, fried chicken from KFC and carbonated drinks. No wonder I've gained weight ever since I entered this company !

That night, we had farewell dinner with Jon at another Japanese BBQ at Taman Desa, but this one, we don't need to cook the meat ourselves ! We ordered some cocktails. Interestingly, it came in a kettle !

Don't underestimate this drink in the small glass, "It's enough to kill an elephant !" hahaha.. as quoted from Poh. So we were there, chatting, eating, drinking, and Wai Kun arrived, after a glass, he requested for refill ! OMG. There we were trying to finish it so we could end the torment and get ourselves some nice beer. HAHAHA , that was hilarious as WK doesn't know what drink it was ! So we died twice trying to finish the drinks. We're the elephant that night. Regardless, with everyone's help, we manage to finish the second kettle.

Then we each order ourselves a bottle (or more) of Kirin beer.. It's nice and smooth =D .. i rike..

The next night, there's Christmas gathering with Jon's friend. We started off with dinner at Maiu Japanese Buffet. We ordered a crazy amount of salmons and lots of other sushi.

Then we head over to LoudSpeaker for some karaoke. It was fun to see each and everyone of them singing their hearts out. Then the highlight of the night, the Secret Santa gift exchange !

It was truly an awesome night and I enjoyed myself there. Then we call it a night (midnight in fact)

The next day was a special day for my dearest, Jon.. It's his big day as he turned 26, and it was also a winter solstice day. That day we did not go out for celebration. Instead, we made it a simple celebration at home with his family. What's more important than to celebrate the special day with the ones who made this all happened?

I helped out his mom in making the tang yuen for the winter solstice celebration. I was surprised that his mom's tang yuen was the small type.

I had fun making these as my home did not have such culture. We don't regularly have it at home. And what's more important, is that I got to spend some bonding time with his mom =P earning some cookie points, I hope.

Since we spend quite a long time making the balls, it was almost dinner time, we cancelled the plan of dining out as it's late and we had simple dinner at home. It's still good ! =D I always liked his mom's cooking. She made it looks so simple yet detailed with the taste. She's such an amazing cook. I hope I can cook like her one day. Since Jon is so picky. *pressure*

That night, we celebrated Jon's birthday.

Happy Birthday, babe ! ^_^

Then last Saturday, we went to a friend of Jon's wedding as the friend of the bride. We were placed with other people at a table since we do not know anyone else in the event. But gladly enough, the people at our table were friendly and some of them have a cool background. We felt so small just being at the same table as he is.

Here comes the bride and groom ! Both cheerful and bubbly personality. They're so meant for each other. They made people feels nice to be around with. Eventhough this is the first time I met her, she gave me the impression that she's very friendly.

Congratulations to both of you in this wonderful night.

And that was the 28th December night ! I've pretty much summarized my December highlight in a post. There will be another gathering for New Year's celebration with Jon's friends.

Nevertheless, Happy 2014 in advance everyone !