Well… It’s been a while… So trying now to recall past events… Right.. Oh yeah, our corporative Xmas party. In the middle of December. I must admit I love my company. I think the best two things about it is the atmosphere and people themselves. There are so many people to fall in love with :) So party time is the best time to get closer, to enjoy yourself and a nice people around.

And it was great, hugely enjoyable. The dress code was evening dresses for ladies and tuxedos for guys. Well… in my company no one wears suit and/or tie at work. Including directors. Only if they are visiting some huge client and wanna impress :) So all you see every day around are computer geeks in jeans and t-shirts and designers-rebels wearing some freaky stuff. Sometimes not that freaky. Anyway, it is very informal. All the time. So when you see all those people looking smart, I mean very smart, you think : “Wow! That’s something.” And you also realize that that’s probably the one and only time you’ll see the guys with a bow-tie. And then it all was champagne drinking, festive eating and socializing. The party was definitely a success.

One of the evening’s highlights was Oscar-style awards ceremony. We even had a red carpet for arriving guests. Not so many funs though… Anyway, we had six nominations voted by everyone in the company: Best Dressed Male, Best Dressed Female, Biggest Drama of 2006, Biggest Chancer of 2006, Best Comedy Moment of 2006 and Most Profitable Person of 2006. I really fancied the idea of winning one, I thought it would be a very good memory and then I could tell some stories to my grand kids about how cool I was when I was young :) (Not that I’m not gonna be cool when I am older ;) And considering all the possibilities I realized I had quite good chances of winning a Best Dressed Male award. And as you can guess from the title I did it! :) In spite of rather strong competition, I must say. So I was excited to win it. My man Aidan, company’s golden boy, won the Most Profitable Person award. Well-deserved. I voted for him :) And it felt like everyone was happy for all the winners, everyone was shouting, cheering and applauding. It felt great.

Actually I was not wearing a suit that night… Well, I tend to wear quite formal outfit at work lately (surprisingly enjoy wearing a tie :), so decided to do something different: to wear a kilt. Well it was not complete Scottish outfit, rather eclectic mix of clothes, but then I thought : “Is there any better occasion for it, since all my kilt does is gathers dust on a shelf?..” But looks like it worked well. So well that David told me that night: “Oleg, I should have voted for you”. :)

I guess the funniest thing is that this year’s I hate Xmas sales. Overcrowded shops with people running around hoping for some bargain. It gets on my nerves. I try staying away from sales this Xmass. Just one day gave myself a break. And what a waist of time it was! Did not buy anything. Actually, did not like anything… Probably just tired of all that. There are times when I hate fashion. I guess it’s one of them.

Posted on Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 at 7:39 pm under General.
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