The Not Too Common Social Parties
Last 2 weekends, I had my not too common social parties. 1. The hubs Company Dinner. 2. The Srikandi Hi-Tea Party.
I'm not so much of a party goer. Parties that I've been frequenting lately were mostly kids' birthday parties. not even the grown-ups ones. No baby shower, no bachelorette. Life is pretty simple and I like it. Hubs suddenly asked whether I want to go to his company's dinner, at Mandarin Oriental. nothing fancy there (to him it was.. He became interested to go since it would be at MO, not to me though). And I have always avoided his company's event (raya, buka puasa etc). One thing that striked me though was that it would be a themed party and the theme was '1001 Malam' or simply put, the Arabian Nights. Trouble of finding a costume aside, it seemed like fun to join a full fledge company's costume party. So I said yes. Frankly, a good friend had just had the hubs' company's costume party, and it seemed fun preparing for it. I kind of still feel the spillover excitement over my kids' last birthday party preparation. Yeah, sometimes the fun part is the planning part.
However, nothing was prepared in that regard though, until the hubs shared me the invitation card, midweek, stating that the party would be on that weekend. This is so typical of my husband actually. He is a very simple person, don't fancy planning (especially on these kind of things) and can pull out a thing on a very last minute. Very much an impromptu person. Problem now is that, he has put that onto me as well. For me, anything unplanned can be a disaster. Well, to be fair, I do have my fair share pushing things on to the very last minutes, but it's not at this scale. I wanted to chicken out. But it was not an option and I have obliged. Came across a costume shop though, and the 'Gossip Girls' recommended it as well. Off we went to pay a visit there, on the Saturday that the dinner was supposed to be on.
I kind of got the feeling that we might bumped into someone there. Knowing that it's a company wide event, who knows right. True enough it was. And they are hubs's good colleague in the office, whom I've met the wife before. So it was like terkantoi la. I wasn't planning on putting much anything fancy though. As long as we play along with the theme should do it. Visualising whatever that I already have in my wardrobe, I settled with only the chain belt and the cleopatra head gear only from the shop. Both costed me RM50 for rental. Hubs wanted the top hat (the arabian kind of hat). It's either it was not available or he couldnt fit the size. In any case, it was so chaotic. Baby was screaming all over, the elder rascals were crazy over the superheroes costumes..'I want venom!! There's the capt america costume!!'..the sooner we leave the better.
Then we had to find hubs's stuff at Kompleks PKNS. Apparently other people been hogging around that area as well. He bumped into few colleagues, the thing that we were looking were also sought by someone else as well. It couldn't be too freakingly coincidence that other company is also having their arabian night's theme on the same weekend could they? we finally settled with the Keffiyeh, ala Yasser Arafat style.
Fast track to the dinner, aren't we glad we tried to pull something along with the theme. Others pulled up quite an extravagant effort to the event and ours were far from close. But at least we did. It was a huge ballroom, food was the normal Chinese cuisine. A lot of entertainment from in house talents, peaked with the performance by their top management. Quite a decent one I would say. They sure can rock well (they played the instruments themselves, of course they got backups from maybe 2 guitarist, but still good enough). It was hosted by Faisal Ismail aka FBI. Siti Nurhaliza was the main performance but hers was quite late. Her show only started after 10 -10.30 pm. I was already itching to leave, but had to stay awhile still, since the lucky draw was not yet given out. Talking about lucky draw, our number was one of the few that came up first. Although I know that it didn't mean good, I was still hoping that it's quite a good 1 still. They have around 30 ipads to be given away, the main prize maybe a 50" tv, something we really have plans on buying. But no luck still. RM 50 parkson voucher was all we got. The powerbank doorgift was a much nicer deal. We left eventually while siti was still performing. She got paid rm19k for the night. I think the performance only lasted 2 hrs +/-. Lucky her. Once we reached home at about 12.30, Qaisar was still up...poor him.it was already too late and he still waited for me. This is why it's so hard for me to decide on going.
That was 2 weeks ago. Last week it was the Srikandi hi tea party. Also I wasn't initially plan on going due to Qaisar. But I went anyhow after much thoughts... I never joined any major Srikandi event. The last time was when we just graduated and everyone was so excited to enrol in the alumni. After that nothing at all. It was also a high tea party, so i think so much trouble free and requires less commitment than dinner. Hubs give complete approval which made me think why should i feel so worried then. Lastly, Qaisar is quite big now and more manageable.
The theme was purple. I had to spend some time looking for an appropriate attire. In the end I settled with just a skirt bought from giant. Quite a decent 1 though. The event was quite eventfull. I knew there would be games and karok session, but I didnt think that I would sing there. And I did. Lucky it was with Ida, so I had someone else to share the humiliation with. The song choice was quite limited so I settled with Katy Perry I Kissed a Girl. That was just slight fun. The real fun was there was a dance floor. And we danced like never before. Literally. There was no worries whatsoever. No men so who cares. Initially we were like a bit shy, but Meon was a committee and she headed out worry free. And came the rest of us. Not all of us though. They opened the floor up for everyone initially with the poco poco dance, which Meon was so good at. Apparently she first learned it through previous srikandi event as well. There was joget, chacha, and I especially love the twist part. It was so fun. Totally love the dance part. There were few games. We were second for 1 of the game, and I got a bit lucky this time with the lucky draw. Not too fancy still, but good enough. I had planned on not staying throughout the event, but so I did in the end. Also partly due to the lucky draw. Good thing it's worth it this time.
Back home, Qaisar was asleep for 3 hours straight right after i left. Bibik was so happy. I am glad myself at least my baby didn't miss me that much.
In 2 weeks back to back, the non party goer me had my share of not too common parties. One with the costume, the other with the decent, and age appropriate dance party kind of, on which I had my healthy dose of my dance fix.
A slight rewind. I had heavily contemplated on going to both parties. I have always avoided events that require me leaving my kids behind. After Qaisar was born, I never had any hangout with the girls cos it will require me to leave the baby...I can definitely bring my elder 2s, but having all of them will not be possible. Until Qaisar was big enough for me to handle him single handedly outside and he would be fine in the car seat himself. And that could only happened when he was about 10 months old here. Even then, he was only sane very shortly in the car, after which, the tantrum began. He slept while we were eating, and my car was conveniently located just near us that I managed to let him sleep on his own in the car. Quite dangerous though.
I'm not so much of a party goer. Parties that I've been frequenting lately were mostly kids' birthday parties. not even the grown-ups ones. No baby shower, no bachelorette. Life is pretty simple and I like it. Hubs suddenly asked whether I want to go to his company's dinner, at Mandarin Oriental. nothing fancy there (to him it was.. He became interested to go since it would be at MO, not to me though). And I have always avoided his company's event (raya, buka puasa etc). One thing that striked me though was that it would be a themed party and the theme was '1001 Malam' or simply put, the Arabian Nights. Trouble of finding a costume aside, it seemed like fun to join a full fledge company's costume party. So I said yes. Frankly, a good friend had just had the hubs' company's costume party, and it seemed fun preparing for it. I kind of still feel the spillover excitement over my kids' last birthday party preparation. Yeah, sometimes the fun part is the planning part.
However, nothing was prepared in that regard though, until the hubs shared me the invitation card, midweek, stating that the party would be on that weekend. This is so typical of my husband actually. He is a very simple person, don't fancy planning (especially on these kind of things) and can pull out a thing on a very last minute. Very much an impromptu person. Problem now is that, he has put that onto me as well. For me, anything unplanned can be a disaster. Well, to be fair, I do have my fair share pushing things on to the very last minutes, but it's not at this scale. I wanted to chicken out. But it was not an option and I have obliged. Came across a costume shop though, and the 'Gossip Girls' recommended it as well. Off we went to pay a visit there, on the Saturday that the dinner was supposed to be on.
I kind of got the feeling that we might bumped into someone there. Knowing that it's a company wide event, who knows right. True enough it was. And they are hubs's good colleague in the office, whom I've met the wife before. So it was like terkantoi la. I wasn't planning on putting much anything fancy though. As long as we play along with the theme should do it. Visualising whatever that I already have in my wardrobe, I settled with only the chain belt and the cleopatra head gear only from the shop. Both costed me RM50 for rental. Hubs wanted the top hat (the arabian kind of hat). It's either it was not available or he couldnt fit the size. In any case, it was so chaotic. Baby was screaming all over, the elder rascals were crazy over the superheroes costumes..'I want venom!! There's the capt america costume!!'..the sooner we leave the better.
Then we had to find hubs's stuff at Kompleks PKNS. Apparently other people been hogging around that area as well. He bumped into few colleagues, the thing that we were looking were also sought by someone else as well. It couldn't be too freakingly coincidence that other company is also having their arabian night's theme on the same weekend could they? we finally settled with the Keffiyeh, ala Yasser Arafat style.
Fast track to the dinner, aren't we glad we tried to pull something along with the theme. Others pulled up quite an extravagant effort to the event and ours were far from close. But at least we did. It was a huge ballroom, food was the normal Chinese cuisine. A lot of entertainment from in house talents, peaked with the performance by their top management. Quite a decent one I would say. They sure can rock well (they played the instruments themselves, of course they got backups from maybe 2 guitarist, but still good enough). It was hosted by Faisal Ismail aka FBI. Siti Nurhaliza was the main performance but hers was quite late. Her show only started after 10 -10.30 pm. I was already itching to leave, but had to stay awhile still, since the lucky draw was not yet given out. Talking about lucky draw, our number was one of the few that came up first. Although I know that it didn't mean good, I was still hoping that it's quite a good 1 still. They have around 30 ipads to be given away, the main prize maybe a 50" tv, something we really have plans on buying. But no luck still. RM 50 parkson voucher was all we got. The powerbank doorgift was a much nicer deal. We left eventually while siti was still performing. She got paid rm19k for the night. I think the performance only lasted 2 hrs +/-. Lucky her. Once we reached home at about 12.30, Qaisar was still up...poor him.it was already too late and he still waited for me. This is why it's so hard for me to decide on going.
That was 2 weeks ago. Last week it was the Srikandi hi tea party. Also I wasn't initially plan on going due to Qaisar. But I went anyhow after much thoughts... I never joined any major Srikandi event. The last time was when we just graduated and everyone was so excited to enrol in the alumni. After that nothing at all. It was also a high tea party, so i think so much trouble free and requires less commitment than dinner. Hubs give complete approval which made me think why should i feel so worried then. Lastly, Qaisar is quite big now and more manageable.
The theme was purple. I had to spend some time looking for an appropriate attire. In the end I settled with just a skirt bought from giant. Quite a decent 1 though. The event was quite eventfull. I knew there would be games and karok session, but I didnt think that I would sing there. And I did. Lucky it was with Ida, so I had someone else to share the humiliation with. The song choice was quite limited so I settled with Katy Perry I Kissed a Girl. That was just slight fun. The real fun was there was a dance floor. And we danced like never before. Literally. There was no worries whatsoever. No men so who cares. Initially we were like a bit shy, but Meon was a committee and she headed out worry free. And came the rest of us. Not all of us though. They opened the floor up for everyone initially with the poco poco dance, which Meon was so good at. Apparently she first learned it through previous srikandi event as well. There was joget, chacha, and I especially love the twist part. It was so fun. Totally love the dance part. There were few games. We were second for 1 of the game, and I got a bit lucky this time with the lucky draw. Not too fancy still, but good enough. I had planned on not staying throughout the event, but so I did in the end. Also partly due to the lucky draw. Good thing it's worth it this time.
Back home, Qaisar was asleep for 3 hours straight right after i left. Bibik was so happy. I am glad myself at least my baby didn't miss me that much.
In 2 weeks back to back, the non party goer me had my share of not too common parties. One with the costume, the other with the decent, and age appropriate dance party kind of, on which I had my healthy dose of my dance fix.
A slight rewind. I had heavily contemplated on going to both parties. I have always avoided events that require me leaving my kids behind. After Qaisar was born, I never had any hangout with the girls cos it will require me to leave the baby...I can definitely bring my elder 2s, but having all of them will not be possible. Until Qaisar was big enough for me to handle him single handedly outside and he would be fine in the car seat himself. And that could only happened when he was about 10 months old here. Even then, he was only sane very shortly in the car, after which, the tantrum began. He slept while we were eating, and my car was conveniently located just near us that I managed to let him sleep on his own in the car. Quite dangerous though.
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