X'mas Party & Shopping

We were all very excited today...its 1/2 day X'mas celebration for our office..I brought potato salad and egg salad I made night before...thanks to No 4, she helped me cut most of the stuff and I can make all the stuff on time before going to bed...

CH was so wonderful she made cup cakes and also pasta for us...the rest of the people bought apple strudel, drinks, sausages and ham etc...There were so much food on the table by the time we were ready to start our small X'mas celebration....

Before the event Hx said that it will be better for us to buy something that everyone like for the gift exchange...hence we were being asked to write down the 1st choice and 2nd choice of the items we wanted...Ah J drew me as the receiver and I drew Mr Silent&Listening....I wrote down "anything Hello Kitty for me and have to be original or else the color drop off I will cry" So end up poor Ah J had to buy another gift for me cos he thought that the Hello Kitty umbrella he bought for me is "Chiong" (meaning fake) one...poor thing...

After the office party I joined C1, C2, G1 and G2 in a shopping trip to find G1 & G2's gift...The plan in the first place is to pamper the G1 & G2 and get them something they like...So I gave them a budget to play with for getting the gift that they want...Interestingly we managed to find a gift for G2 @ Toys 'R' Us in vivo city...G2 is actively calculating the amount he can spend...and finally he found the nerf gun that he wanted...sadly we were not able to find the G1 a gift so all of us decided to go to suntec to continue the quest of gift searching...(all of us thought that the Toys 'R' Us there will be bigger)

To our dismay...we found what G1 wanted in Suntec...and G2's nerf gun was out of stock in Suntec.....Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!! OMG....so end up both G1 and G2 bought their toys from the "Simply Toys" shop next to "The Rock"....lucky me...what amaze me is the way G2 calculate his way to the gift that he wants...G1 chose a X-Wing Lego but it was way off the budget....I had to hint G1 to negotiate with his dad to help chip in with the present before he went to his dad to ask if he can help to pay for the X-Wing...

After talking to the shop owner I realized we can get some discount out of the items we bought so I told the boys they have more budget....after leaving the shop C1 asked how much he had to pass me and I realized its very difficult to calculate the total amount and I decided that I will pay for all the present bought so far....LOL being lazy....so much for budgeting....anyway I was just hoping that the kids will have some fun out shopping....

What a tiring day...my favourite slippers gave way and I had to buy a new one at Suntec...then C2 drove me home since I promised my dad that I am going to cook for him and the family for X'mas eve...So I prepared pasta, potato salad, sausages and ham for everyone...poor daddy end up eating rice in the middle of the night...LOL...