Well, the 'wonder-land' part is true, but every time I hear that song the winter part just sorta makes me scratch my head. In spite of the misleading lyrics, they do slowly start to put you in the Christmas mood. Its a good thing the mood was rising because last Friday was the Rolls-Royce Hawaiian Themed Christmas Extravaganza. I had heard these parties have the potential to really turn into shenanigans as a result of the ridiculous entertainment and the free flowing alcohol (both of which I fully support). This year was no exception…
It all starts out when you walk though the door and there are two unbelievably stunning women dressed in bikinis and grass skirts (God bless the Hawaiians) who are there because they heard I was coming . . . . . . . . . . Ok, back to reality. They were there to build the mood and take group photos that I will upload when work posts them online. Bottom line, the lovely ladies made it very clear that this would be like no work party I have ever been to. After we check in the hostesses start bringing out the beer and cocktails that are, if I do say, are just a great second impression to make after an already good first one. We sit down for a buffet style dinner and we all snap a few pics.
This is Sanjeev who works full time in Singapore doing the same thing I do. His wife and kids were in India so he was playing the role of a bachlor that evening.
This is Patrick and his wife. Patrick is the one that insists that I try durrian, the pouplar tropical fruit that smells like poo, literally. Some people are really quite crazy about the stuff, even though it makes them smell like poo as well.
The entertainer for the night was a ventriloquist from Vegas. At first I, along with everyone else, was just thinking about how big a tool this guy is. But after he got started he turned out to be really funny. He didn’t just mouth a puppet but instead got people on stage and mouthed ridiculous things they were saying. In the end it turned out to be really funny. I suppose you should never judge a book by its cover right?
This is all the office big wigs doin a hula dance, nice....
This is one of our salesmen looking like a big dummy on stage. I forget what he was doing but in this picture but looking at it now he kinda looks like he is taking a $#!^
Yea, thats right, I was Bon Jovi for a those lucky enough to be in the audience.
The night led to a few clubs and unfortunately too many drinks as we spent most of the next day recovering. Saturday night we did find this cool bar on the roof of a building downtown called Loof on the Roof (a pun because the Chineese can’t pronounce ‘R’s and it comes out sounding a lot like an 'L'). Its places like Loof that you only find out about if you live somewhere for a while but that really add to the experience.
Sunday we made it to the Zoo. It’s a pretty good zoo with more monkeys than any other zoo in the world. It is probably about the size of the Columbus zoo complete with manatees and everything. Here are a bunch of pictures.
5 Comments:
wow so can you continue that tradition and bring parties like that back to mtv?! i'm jealous. All I go to do was hang out with the yellow dart and his comrads at Flappers on friday night. No fair :)
A
8:08 PM
What is wrong with hanging out with the yellow dart and his comrads on Friday night in mtv? You should be honored since he does have a way with women :)
Did you get lucky that night?
8:55 AM
A
And what's soooo bad about hanging out with the Yellow Dart and his old buddies? We know how to party too - just can't stay out as late. Got to get our rest.
Yellow Dart's comrade
9:10 AM
Wait?!? How the heck does everyone know who A is?! Not Fair! Yellow dart there was nothing wrong wiht hanging out with you... I'm just saying I wish that RRESI would throw us fun parties like a luau instead of a bbq in plt 5 :)
BTW thanks for coming to flaps tonite. Good times Good times!
A
12:25 AM
tis is stupet
10:50 AM
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