Eshin Direct

Well, just got back from the company dinner at Metro. It was great fun except for the fact that I felt a little lousy towards the end of the meal. But thankfully it was a passing thing. My secret santa got me two large bars of Toblerone. Woohoo! There were some interesting gifts given and plenty of tat too. Tat included chocolates and bath thingies. Interesting ones included a porn magazine and a Santa themed lingerie kit. One guy got a small model robot (they’re into those things here) which will no doubt adorn his desk at work.

The food was great although a little weird. Fusion seems to be an excuse to throw everything together in one big bundle and see what works. Salmon terrine in chesnut soup was an out of the box experience. But the beef and and foie gras was great (yep, I’m sucker for foie gras even though I know how they make it…my sister will kill me).

Less pleasant was finding out that someone had lied about what I said to them. I’d love to have said misquoted or misunderstood but the fact of the matter was that they lied. Wasn’t too happy about that but cleared up the resultant fallout from that. I now hold that person with slightly less regard than I did before. Neutral to negative feeling now.

The bulk of the team went off early to karaoke or something. The die hards stayed on and some of us ended up in a new club called Jewel. Got the chance to talk with one of my colleagues in more depth than I had in the last two years I been here and working for my company. It’s always good to discover a new friendship.

Had the opportunity to meet one of Glenn’s friends who I thought was hot. Didn’t go anywhere since I was dealing with something more important and not likely to go anywhere because I’m sure I was reading the wrong signals. But it’s nice to know there was a connection there and would love to get to know her better. Doubt it will happen though.

I also bumped into a friend of this girl I briefly dated. It ended badly (in my opinion) so I gave her friends a wide berth when I did see them. But in this instance this friend came up to me and started talking with me and pretty much bygones were bygones. She’s hot but unfortunately has a 4 year relationship with her boyfriend. A shame too ’cause she’s hot (did I say that already?) and she’s a flight attendant with JAL. Anyway, we exchanged phone numbers so the contact is there. Chuffed about that.

Went for one final drink with a friend and only now ended up at home. Definitely a day of sleep and rest tomorrow. I did sit next to a Christmas tree at the last bar with the Christmas lights which I played with. They definitely reminded me of my earlier childhood experiences and it definitely feels more and more like Christmas.