A bit belated, but a little update on the Dinner & Dance. More of Dinner and Prizes for me because I didn't stay for the dance (have to work the next day, you know?).

Su had 2 makeup vouchers, so we stopped by the Mac counter at Raffles City shopping centre to do a bit of eye makeup before proceeding to the venue. Everybody who saw my Pink outfit gushed over it! It was definitely worth the price. Initially, we were a bit worried that we might be overdressed since we knew that some of the other department's gals were intending to go straight from work. Turns out we needn't have worried because some gals actually did more than us, the full works - salon-setted hair, gowns, makeups etc. (A bit of an overkill in view of the venue if you ask me)

Food, the usual 8 course Chinese dinner with cold plate, sharksfin soup, roast chicken, mixed vegetables, steamed fish, cornflake prawns, crispy noodles and mango pudding. Nothing extraordinary, but I like the prawns though.

Entertainment was a great improvement over last year's. At least the host this year managed to get the whole ballroom involved in some of the activities. Previous year's best dressed lady participated in another bar top dancing competition on stage with a guy. This gal really has the guts to shake her booty in front of the whole company, senior management and all, 2 years on a row (she was the talk of the company last year)! She doesn't really dance that well, a bit sluttish and rough-looking, but I must admire her courage and sporting attitude. Lost out on the Best Dressed Award to another gal on her table. She must feel a bit peeved about that, especially since we can tell that she has tailored an outfit specially in keeping with the rainbow theme.

Prizes. I didn't win any of the 21 prizes, but we won some Ikea bottles in a table draw. Crossing my fingers that there would be a post-draw like last year where everybody got shopping vouchers.

Overall, it was a nice break, if only we didn't have to work the following day.

# posted by Shopaholic : 3:08 PM