Pre-Holiday Update Time

It's been a long day. I purposely woke up early to make it to work earlier than usual, but that sort of went bust. Because today was our corporate Christmas party I put extra effort into how I looked and that just ate up time like whoa. So it looked like I wouldn't get to work early, just on time as usual. But then I realized that I was surrounded by morons on the road. Honestly, fate must have been out to get me this morning, because things were slower and wackier than usual. I haven't heard myself cuss out people like I did today in a long time.

Despite the insanity I arrived at work in a spectacularly good mood. I have a feeling that it had to do with the fact that I was all dressed up in corporate styles and wearing some nice coordinated jewellery. Shallow, yes. But if it makes me feel so confident and cheerful, who the hell cares? Also, I smelled fantastic. Like the sample of Delicious by DKNY my mom gave me :)

The drive back from the office to my place was even more insane than the drive in. I swear, the Toronto maniacs were out to get me! I made it to the restaurant where they were having the Christmas party 15 minutes late and it was already supremo packed. There were tons and tons of people, mingling and drinking wine. Of course, because I know barely anyone at the corporate office, I once again set myself up to sit with people I had never met before. I ended up sitting with a bunch of people from Finanace, a girl from VC and another lady who is dating one of my safety contacts. A few of them were really friendly and I had a good time. My glass of white wine made things interesting as well. The food was Italian and different to what I'm used to: raw salmon with persimmons and fennel, ricotta gnocci with eggplant, apricot and chestnut stuffed chicken with a mushroom sauce, assorted cookies and custard tarts, and a delicious latte to end it off. There was a segment during the dinner when everyone could nomminate a charity of their choice and enter it in a draw for a chance at a $1000 donantion. I love my company! Although I'm still disappointed that my charity (Canadian Diabetes Association) wasn't picked :P At the end I had time to catch up with the few people I know at corporate and have a good time with them. All in all, a highly enjoyable event!

After the party I decided that since I was downtown and not tied down by my car, I'd take the subway to Eaton's Center. Not for Christmas shopping, but just because I hadn't been there in a while. I ended up running into one of my former classmates, Patricia, from my first year at Ryerson. We chatted for a while and I was fairly aware of the fact that I was still rather buzzed from my wine ;) Then while I was walking by Indigo I saw my next door neighbour from first year residence at Queen's, Katherine! It was surreal. She looked really good, and mentioned that she had seen a bunch of our mutual Queen's friends yesterday too. Even though I didn't buy anything, it was well worth going down that way.

So now I am taking it easy. Waltzing around the mall for an hour and a half in my corporate-bitch boots was not fun for my feet, and now I'm limping around. I'm sure I'll be fine in a few hours. I'm gonna take it easy and watch House MD tonight :)

It's That Time Of Year Again

I'm finally starting to look forward to Christmas holidays now. They're so close I can taste them. And they taste like gingerbread and candycanes. In less than two weeks I will be relaxing at my parents' house. Yay!

For the past week I was travelling around the east coast on business. It was tiring and fun at the same time. However, the madness is by no means over. Tomorrow there is this massive simulation I'm taking part in as a controller/observer, and I have to head down to the conference site tonight and do a pre-event prep with my teammates and the event leaders. I'm so very nervous, because I don't know much on the specifics on the team I'll be observing. Sometimes I wish I was already with the company for 5 years and didn't feel like such an uber-n00b all the time ;)

Oh man, I just can't wait to take a break from it all!

Parde Ke Peechhe

I'll admit that when I'm not living at home I completely lose touch with the world of Bollywood. I lose track of all the upcoming movies, soon to be released soundtracks, juicy gossip, and the like. It's only when I go back home that I'm get back in the loop, mostly thanks to my sister.

That being said, I took the initiative and looked into a few of the recently released soundtracks. I found the movie Bluffmaster: lame title, wicked music! It's hard to explain what makes the music so good. There's a strange and subtle fusion of the new music style with old Bollywood music cliches found way back from the 40s to the 60s. It's very catchy. I can't stop listening to the songs :) And I still have no idea what the movie is about. Something about Abhishek Bachchan being a ghetto gooda? LOL, I have no idea. All I know is that I'm getting mad Bunty Aur Babli vibes.