Christmas celebration 2010

24 Dec - Christmas eve dinner with my Beaumaris Community Baptist Church family

Veggie salad I bought to the dinner

Thai chicken wings I made.

'Loved the table decor!

This was taken after the dinner, hence the almost empty food plates.

Opening of the gifts.

Everyone seems to be happy.

More laughter...

They're laughing at the emcee, the very manly Rupert, who got an eye shadow set!

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25 Dec - Christmas lunch with Ate Rose's family

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree....

Arrangements courtesy of Ate Rose.

Santa the cupcake! Made my Ate Rose's eldest daughter, Pamela.

Ate Rose's family, (L-R) Elaine, Chris (her bf), another Chris (Pamela's bf), Pamela and Ate Rose. Unfortunately, Ate Rose's husband wasn't in Perth on Christmas day.

The Madeley Girls.

(Madeley is the name of Ate Rose's suburb.)

Myself and Elaine making pa-cute!

Christmas lunch 2010

My cubicle-mate, Riccardo. He replaced Bill when the latter transferred to another jurisdiction.

Peter, one of the most beautiful people at work. He's a good friend of Bill.

Who's arm is that????? hehe.

Notice my and Bill's eyeglasses. :0) Irene, our librarian.

(L-R) Karen, my former manager who transferred to another agency two weeks ago. Mathab and another Karen.

(L-R) David, trying to scare the photographer! Mathab, who owns the camera and she served as the unofficial photographer. Mark, our executive officer.

evaluation

I just had a meaningful performance evaluation with my executive manager (let’s call him Mr. M) and you know what? In my 12 years experience working for different managers sa kanya lang ako nakaranas na magkaroon ng productive performance evaluation. Actually he is not my line manager but the manager of the managers. He’s not supposed to be conducting my performance evaluation but since my section doesn’t have a manager at the moment, I report directly to him. We’ve only been working together for two weeks but I can already say that he is a good man, a godly man even.

Yesterday, when we had our section’s Christmas lunch, magkatabi sa upuan si Mr. M at si Bill. Yes, my section still invited Bill kahit matagal na syang wala dito. Kanun ka-“loved” ang mokong! And since Bill is the proverbial chatty person, kung anu-ano tuloy ang nadiskubre nya tungkol kay Mr. M. Chatty Bill relayed to me (yes, we still talk) that Mr. M went on a mission trip to Africa and that he’s active in church. No wonder he behaves the way he does.

I'm priveledge to have a Christian boss.

and then they're gone...

Bill left first week of November.

Darren left last week of November.

Karen left second week of December.

My neighbors left middle of last week.

Sas will leave sometime in January.

I wonder who's going to be next....

how time flies

It’s been a month since I last saw Bill. I can’t believe how time flies. One whole month. One whole month. That’s equivalent to 43,200 minutes, 720 hours, 30 days or 4 weeks.

I can’t say that I have already recovered because the truth is I have not. I’m still going through an emotional rollercoaster but I know that time will come when everything will be OK.