My boss had a terrific idea ....

B: Let's do something fun! Let's get all our 300+ staff do stuff together .... on a Saturday!

Errr, yeah boss, you just got voted for the The Most Tactful Boss Award. Why Saturday, you cruel, cruel man???

Promptly ignoring our whinings by going temporarily deaf, the genius announced "Since we have people of different nationalities on the payroll, let's get to know each other's culture better. Shall we have a multi-cultural celebration, everyone??".

Can we say no? No.

So today, 300+ staff gathered together, after a whole morning of boring, continuously droning annual meeting, to enjoy each other's culture. There were food from Myanmar, Japan, China, India, Algeria, Turkey, Pakistan, Vietnam, Malaysia (Malay food-lah!), USA, Switzerland ... wow, are we *THAT* multi-cultural?? Amazing.

There was a fashion parade of some sort, cheongsams, sarees, kurta, baju kurung, etc etc. On display were games played in different parts of the world and costumes worn by people of different cultures: Korean hanbok, Japanese kimono, dresses of the Karen tribe in Myanmar, sarees, shalwar kameez, cheongsam etc etc. There was a live demonstration on making Chinese dumplings, sushis and Indian chappatis. An ang-moh (Caucasian, for the uninitiated) man played Indonesian songs (he's married to a Malay lady) ..... on a saxophone, no less.

The craziest thing on the programme? Line dancing to a Thai song. Line dancing. To a *THAI* song.

Heh. Nothing beats that for originality AND the funniest cacophony of a performance.

All in all, it was quite fun (thanks boss, you just won the Boss With The Cleverest Idea Of All Time Award for your .... ummm .... clever idea). I think most people enjoyed themselves thoroughly (who wouldn't when there's free food to eat??). I had couscous and tabouleh for the first time. That's Algerian and Turkish respectively. The rest of the food was good too and I think I over-indulged (hey, haven't we heard that before??! Sheesh!).

The best thing on the menu? Personally, it beats everything else hands down, no competition ....

Can we say F-O-N-D-U-E, ladies and gentlemen??

A pot of gorgeous bubbling thick rich Swiss chocolate sauce *drooling as I type* ..... trays of strawberries, cream puffs, brownies ....

For a long time I was rooted to the spot directly in front of the pot ....

I had a chocolate moustache (and beard) all afternoon ....

Delightfully sinful!!!!

*sigh*

I think I over-indulged ....

*runs around, arms flailing, looking for P90*

*BUUUUURRRRPPP!* ....... out!

My, I'm fond of fondue ....

Jewel mused @ 8:18 PM | | Permalink

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