Week of monthend... and Christmas Parties!

wow it's been sometime since I blogged! Well last week was monthend week; I was down with a very bad cold plus my colleague went back India for 3 weeks so in essence, I could not take any sick leave :( He went back Mumbai to attend his friend's wedding and we were all very worried for him as we could not reach him. (n just today he came back office safely YAY)

Last week was a busy week coz not only monthend, we had a GEM Christmas Party (Global Emerging Markets which is the line of biz I am in) and it was a party with everyone in GEM. Front, Mid, Back office, Ops, Research, Risk, Trade Suppport, blah. And I turned up with my ultra croacky voice, no choice. It was quite a good event to finally label people's names with faces since we seldom have such a chance. Hmm an eye opener for me too I thought. They booked Bar Susho and with free flow of drinks paid by the front office bosses, so you can imagine the scene.

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where the Christmas presents are!

with Monica

And then Friday was the Christmas dinner I was looking forward to! It was dinner with my connect group and we had it at Mon's place which was really nice. A red brick house and a spiral staircase which leads to her room in the attic was was super cool. We all brought presents to exchange and had a traditional English Christmas dinner with Christmas pudding n minced pies. (umm must say not really my cup of tea). As a church tradition, we all brought some supermarket food (they had prepared a list of standard items) like hot choc, biscuits, tea, juice, pudding, etc so each CG would wrap a hamper and all over the CGs in London, they will collect and give to the needy and homeless. I thought it is very meaningful isn't it?

Overall I really enjoyed myself, two thumbs up! Looking forward to how a traditional German Christmas is like now!