Lunch at The Keg

Victoria Restaurant

Christmas Festivities

Friday, December 14, 2007: (Please see my "Flickr Page" for many more photos; I will post more pics there later this week.)

This was the second time we had a Christmas decorating contest at WIMAC. At 10:30am, people from the 4th floor (the MSF team) went down to the 2nd floor (Broker Services team) to take a look at their handiwork. Each of us from the 4th floor wrote down our vote of which team had the best display for the 2nd floor, and placed it in a bowl handled by Mary Brandt.
Then we all went upstairs so that the Broker team could take a look at the 4th floor's decorations. This made it convenient for everyone to chat up the judges in an attempt to sway their votes. Linda Ruf was in charge of collecting the votes from the 2nd floor people.
At around 12:30 a few MSF reps came in and delivered a lunch (sandwiches and salad) for the 4th floor.
At 2pm, we had the 50/50 draw (also on the 4th floor). Laura Wong won the prize.
The office closed down early at 3:30pm and we headed to the Keg's 3rd floor dining room. Dinner was served at 4:30, and many door-prizes were given away. At 5:30, the winners of the decorating contest were announced. Ed's team won for the 2nd floor, and Allan's team won for the 4th floor. The last and biggest of the prizes (a notebook PC with other gadgets) was given away at 6:10. At this point many of us started to leave for home.

Decorating the office

Monday, December 10th, 2007: Some of us start decorating for Christmas.

Bernadette's Baby Shower

Friday, November 23, 2007: At around 2:30pm, we gathered around Bernadette's desk for some presents and food. Michelle also dropped by with her baby. (More pics on my Flickr page.)

Kimono Restaurant with Hiromi and Jessica

Friday, November 2nd: Originally there was going to be a free lunch provided by an MSF rep, but a couple days ago it got postponed. So we assembled a farewell lunch for our two remaining temps.

Halloween Activities at WIMAC

On Wednesday, October 31st there was a potluck lunch, a pumpkin carving contest vote, and a going away celebration for Sylvia Laronde. More photos to be found at my Flickr website (see the link at the right side of this webpage).

The pumpkins were carved on either Monday or Tuesday. Each team was given a pumpkin to carve in the likeness of their team leader, and we only had one hour for the carving. We were each scheduled a time slot in the large boardroom do the carving. However, adding further decorations and props was allowed up until the actual judging on Wednesday noon.

The desserts were in the boardroom, while the main dishes were in the kitchen. There was even a cake for Sylvia; it had the writing "Happy Retirement Sylvia":


Here is the pumpkin made by Chris Mortier's team:Here is Derek Lee's team shortly after they finished their pumpkin on Tuesday:
This is the pumpkin by Ed Cruz's team:

Here's the Allan Jollymore pumpkin. Sadly, it had started to decompose a bit earlier than the other pumpkins:Paul Devine with his pumpkin:

Here is the first place winner (woo hoo!), by Betty Cheng-Sung's Team :
We did our initial carving on Monday at 2pm. I actually did most of the carving, following a template we had printed out from a photo of Betty. I had placed the print-out over the pumpkin and used a push-pin to mark the lines for cutting. Tamie had provided the carving tools to me; these tools were a couple of saws around 8cm long. Unfortunately, I had not enlarged the print-out sufficiently, so the face was not quite life-size.
At 10:30am on Wednesday, we gathered in Betty's office to finish the preparation of our pumpkin. We added a wooden frame for the body, then stuffed a shirt and pants with wads of newspaper. Betty added some make-up and other decoration to the pumpkin.

Betty Cheng-Sung's team:


And then one last group photo with Sylvia Laronde, now retired: