We had our office Christmas party at Red Box Karaoke, Greenbelt 3, Makati City last Saturday, December 18. We all had fun eating, singing, playing games and exchanging gifts. Our bosses even gave each of us Php1,000.00 for attending. Isn’t that great!


Our generous bosses


The early birds
Here are our “birit” (belting out) moments caught on camera:












Some of the games we played: "Pinoy Henyo" and "Pass the Christmas Gift"




Finally, our Christmas party wouldn't be complete without exchanging gifts.


Red Box Karaoke is a great place to hold parties. There’s never a dull moment around here as you can groove on the music and sing your hearts out. We loved partying here!


Group picture
We hope to have a better, grander and a livelier Christmas party next year. I sure would like to see my officemates wearing Christmas party costumes in our next company Christmas get-together. I wonder who among them will wear polo boots next year.

Last Saturday was a busy day for me because I had to attend two important events: (1) my son’s school Christmas production in the morning and (2) the mommy bloggers’ Christmas party in the afternoon. Choosing between the two never crossed my mind because I meant to be present in both affairs, and I was.

The mommy bloggers’ Christmas party was held at Unit 421 of Legend Villas in Mandaluyong. We have to attend this party wearing cowgirl costumes. Yihaa! Armed with my brown checkered blouse, gray vest, cream cowboy hat, and the closest to cowboy boots that I could find, I went there by my lonesome bringing some gifts to my fellow mommies and a pledge of Grendha, Ipanema and Rider gift certificates from ELRO Commercial & Industrial Corporation. Thank you so much, Cel, for these! The mommies were so happy to have won these prizes in our raffle.


Cowmommy Tetcha
There were only 12 of us present, namely: Pehpot, Joy, Michelle, Beds, Lyn, Yami, Nora, Jingke, Jes, Czaroma, Fedhz and me. The first 10 mommy bloggers to arrive received a Body Shop Moringa Milk Body Lotion. I also gave 10 small presents to the first 10 mommy bloggers at Legend Villas. There were lots of sponsors, so prizes were given to lucky moms every 30 minutes.


The cowmamas!


Michelle and Joy


Say cheese!


One more time, smile!


Cowmama Pehpot and cowprincess Sati
I received the very first raffle prize that was given away, an active health bag from Unilab.


Thank you, Unilab!
The other prizes that were raffled off, aside from the three gift certificates from ELRO and the Unilab active health bag, included Ainon products, Johnson’s Baby Powder, Playtex Quick Straw, Maya Hotcake Mix, Walter Double Fiber Wheat Bread and Massage Package for 3 moms courtesy of Mommy Leirs. The grand raffle prize (cooking stove) was given by Ms. Tin-Tin Bersola-Babao, creator and founder of Parentin.tv, the first Philippine online parenting show).


Raffle prizes and loot bags
Agnes of Ainon Baby drew the grand prize winner, while Miss Sheryll of Proud Mama dropped by to give us moms some of their products.


Agnes of Ainon Baby


Joy, Sheryll of Proud Mama and Pehpot
We had great food, we played games, we sang, we exchanged gifts, and we goofed around.


Yummy!


One of the parlor games we played


Those are the prizes that we won in the "Pinoy Henyo" game


Jingke belting out


Jingke showing off what she received from me in our exchange gift


Joy, Beds, Pehpot and Agnes


Beds, the grand prize winner


Picture-taking before going home
All moms went home with a loot bag that contains the following products: Soyami Soya Chips, Walter Double Fiber Wheat Bread, Maya Hotcake Mix, T-shirts and token from Unilab, Ainon Baby products, Proud Mama products (bra extender and kiddie shoe bag) and Johnson’s Baby Powder.

We all had fun! Now, we’re all looking forward to next year’s Christmas party.

I had a fun time today meeting up with my small group of tutors and our two bosses for our first ever Christmas get-together at Dad’s (SM Megamall). Because we all work at home, this is actually the first time for all of my active tutors to see each other in person and to meet our bosses.


From left to right: Anton, our CEO; Leah, our CFO; Tetcha


From left to right: Resty, Noribel, Marissa, Nesa


Clockwise: Anton, Leah, Tetcha, Resty, Noribel, Marissa, Nesa
Our bosses surprised us by giving away Php1,000.00 check for everyone present (we were all present, by the way) and a gift each from Marks & Spencer. My tutors have gifts for me, too. I’m such an inconsiderate project manager because I came unprepared. I only brought along my present for our exchange gift. LOL! I owe you guys one.


Our presents for our exchange gift


The girls opening their gifts
Seeing the entire group today made me realize how blessed I am to have worked with such competent colleagues. My tutors give me headaches sometimes, but at the end of the day, I’m thankful that I can depend on them to meet our expected monthly quotas and to deliver more if need be. I’m also grateful for having vibrant and youthful bosses whom I have bombarded with a lot of requests in the past.

Merry Christmas, guys! I hope to see you all again next year.