Charity shopping hunt.. *loves*

What keep me motivated in work.. never have i thought an activity so simple yet meaningful could keep myself smiling all day long.. maybe despite how angry and upset with the fact that i have yet gotten the opportunity to return to corporate tax and the fact that i have to take be an assistant considered "independent" and will be separated from my senior, i cant help but to admit the fact that KPMG remains in my blood.. it is part of me and i love it regardless what... by writing this, i really sounds like someone who enjoyed being bullied..

I had great fun yesterday.. in conjunction with the company's corporate social responsibility activities.. we have a charity shopping hunt!! the goods will be donated to Nur Salam.. a charity home in chow kit road which house the children of that area, many who are children of prostitutes and drug addicts and those innocent, poor children do not even have a birth certificate as their identification.. and so, the KPMG Malaysia tax department collaborate with them to organise a charity shopping hunt to purchase goods for them, and they only sponsor us RM50! which means whatever extra cash we spend will be out from our own pockets and given to the charity..

It is a bit unfair really.. if you join people from the same department, no extra points, if cross departments, i think extra 5 points and if you have a partner in your team, extra 10 points.. well.. my team is the second one.. with me from international executive services, 2 from corporate tax, one from special issue group and one from japanese unit.. and there were 23 competing teams!! Gosh..

Our department actually outsource riddle professionals to create the riddles.. gosh they are hard.. we are supposed to guess what is it that they want and buy it for them.... it was so tiring, worse than working in office.. because we were discussing about it since lunch.. such excitement.. and when the results were released at night and we realised our own mistakes as well as others... it was so funny!! i never had so much fun in office in my life.. i want to remember this day forever and ever...

The answers

1) Tiger biscuit - well, they said the biscuit is something about vessels, whatever it is, and his father is an earl and he travel around a lot..

Guess what we bought, a pack of biscuit with the logo and nature and water, and since napoleon travel around the world in history.. so we got a locker brand biscuit Neapolitan flavor.. it was so funny when announced... they emphasise on us being so environmental friendly, because it is a non trans-fat biscuit! hahaha

2) Pilot G2 blue or black pens - we exchanged this answer with other teams, but it was correct! Someone got KOKO Krunch for this answer, ahahahahaha

3) Kellogg's cornflakes - We randomly select and it was right!

4) Ribena mobile drink - peach and blackcurrant - at first we suspect that it will be yogurt drink but luckily we did not buy that, cause i remembered ribena have this flavor, but it was out of stock in Jusco, and my teammates have to get that from coldstorage.

5) Buncho crayons - Stupid mistake, we bought oil pastels!!

6) Spiral notebook - This is funny, because the question mentioned knights and war.. and it is A5 in size, so we got this faber castle 36 pieces colour pencils, so expensive but definitely worth it.. LOL.. but the answer is wrong when you start thinking about it, it really is so funny..

7) Palmolive products - We got this correct!

8) Tong's garden cashew nuts - We got this right too!

9) BOH Tea - We saw others buying it, so we just buy.. and it was right! ^^

10) Ayam brand sardine - Opps we got Marina sardines

11) VICO liquid drink - Our biggest sacrifice, my teammates drove out to tesco just to get that

12) F&N condense milk - we got this right too!!

I really had fun.. our total bill was RM223.40, and we are the biggest spender, so we were awarded the most generous team and earned RM500 parkson vouchers.. hahaha.. i was so shy when walk up to the stage to get our prize..

The buka puasa dinner was not so great, but i simply love the event a lot!! =)

Today, Thursday, CJ officially started me off in Phillip Morris.. sigh~~ a client i do not want but have to take... and i have a stack of notifications to deal with on monday.. T.T .. luckily tomorrow Friday is a public holiday in Selangor, at least i have one extra day to sleep and rest..

Had lunch with eunice, wica, leechoong, auyong and jacqueline today.. miss the CPTX team, eunice, wica, leechoong and auyong are leaving soon.. probably before i get to return to CPTX.. sad sad.. i will miss them a lot for sure.. aiks!! how can i forget to take a pic with wica?? we were once senior and junior, when i was still an intern.. and still very good friends today..dang.. how can i forget?? -_-