Xmas Party No. 2 - CBA Fortitude Valley Xmas Party

18 Nov 2007, Sunday - Kookaburra River Cruise, Brisbane Riverside

Unlike the LMS Xmas party, there's no dress code for the CBA Xmas party. We all met up at the Kookaburra River Cruise terminal along the Brisbane River.

We boarded the "cruise ship" and proceeded to the table allocated to us.











And when we've each got our seats, we proceeded to order our drinks...













and filling our plates with the buffet food and stuffing them down our throats...











We even have desserts - the very sinful pavlova (made out of nothing but loads of sugar and egg whites)....














The party is also a celebratory party for Emma who is expecting her first child. CBA colleagues chipped in for an early baby shower...














We felt bad about stuffing ourselves silly so we went for a little walk around the decks of the ship...






















Esmo's ex-colleague at MSY Technologies joined him in CommBank... Tim brought along his pretty girlfriend - Yudith...

While cruising along the Brisbane river, we saw....











This was before the election. I wonder how the person who drew this feels now, now that Kevin Rudd is the Prime Minister of Australia?

When the Story Bridge comes back into view two hours later, it signals the impending end to the Xmas lunch aboard the "cruise ship"...










Sydney has Harbour Bridge, Brisbane has the Story Bridge!!!











Waiting to embark from the Kookaburra River Cruise....

Thank you all, it was a wonderful lunch....

From left: Tim, Peter, Pannee, Steve, Esmo, Emma, Antonella, Leanne

Party No. 1 - LMS' 2007 Xmas Party

16 Nov 2007, Friday - Fox Hotel - Rooftop, Theme: Gangster

Not a lot of us had mood to work that day. We are all anticipating the good time that we will have in our annual year end party. Come 4pm we were all changing into our respective costumes and went to our party venue in batches.

Early in the evening, when we were all sober:

Fr left: Kylie, Lori, Jenny, Stephanie, Tim and Vaasa (Note: Lori made her own outfit, all in 1 day!)

Fr left: Gloria, Stephanie, Lori, Emma, Bee Yen, Kylie, Kevin (my immediate boss), Linden, Mike

We had unlimited food and drinks:

The yummy tandoori chicken and the even yummier lamb chops (see how the other two guys - Vas and Kev - were eyeing the one lamb chop in Mike's hand?)

The prawn skewers literally "flew off" Bee Yen's plate coz everybody had their eyes on them.

We had raffles draw and scratch-its:

We have husband and wife team as well as fiance and fiancee team:

We even have guns, a sniper and mafia bosses and a damsel in distress:

We also have a "blood stained" mattress cover and a horse's head! (If you had watched the movie "The Godfather", you'd recognise this scene and know that it's totally related to the party's theme of 'Gangster')

As the night wore on and we got more alcohol into our system, we had dance offs:

crazy poses :

Lindin and his obsession with straws and tequila sunrises:

But most of all, we had great company:

and lots of fun.... What a party!!!!

Fr left: Nik, Missy, Kylie, Tim, Mike, Jenny, Kevin, Matt, Me, Bee Yen, Emma, Stephanie