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Last night was fun, I went to a big knees-up for people working on the IT systems for the new airport terminal.

Hot lobster

There was a prize ceremony with gold, silver and bronze awards given out to subsystems that the gods are currently smiling on, followed by a banquet. One of the dishes was lobster covered in some kind of batter which tasted so good I’d like to take on a romantic weekend to Rome and sit on the Spanish Steps listening to a gypsy play the guitar as we stare into each others eyes.

Wine flowed like water, much of it down my gullet, and all was going gangbusters until suddenly at 8pm the main boss stood up and said it was time to go home.

My boss Adrian collecting our prize for “Marvellous work”

As well as prizes (which included a big bundle of cash I might add) for companies, there was also a prize draw for 10s of thousands of RMB. Unbelievably, all four of the people from our company who attended won in this draw- I got 500RMB and one lad, Jay got an envelope stuffed with 3,000.
Not a bad reward for attending a free pissup I’m sure you’ll agree.

Jay and Xiao Xi working the crowd

One drawback to the money however, was that you had to sing a song in front of about 100 people to claim it. I did a very emotional version of “Yesterday” which, I’m pretty sure, moved several of the network guys to tears.