Final Singapore weekend of 2015

 It feels like it’s been an incredibly long time coming, but we’re finally on the week or less countdown to home, and so our final weekend to be spent in Singapore in 2015 flew past in a flurry of jobs getting ticked off the list!

            With the accompaniment of some of the best Christmas films (we’re talking Home Alone, Love Actually and Miracle on 34^th Street) we made our way through all of our lists, and yes, we checked them twice, and it finally feels like our time to get home is edging ever nearer.

On Saturday we also celebrated a full year since Nick popped the question on a slightly stormy sunset beach in the Gillis with the aid of steak and champagne, so there were even a few celebrations to be had alongside the planning, online shopping, list consolidating and packing plans.

Then there were all the standard jobs like hair dying, flat cleaning and a quick lunch with our friend Scottie to get done. What could have been a totally manic weekend managed to be pretty calm and collected, but we’ll see whether we manage to maintain that over the coming few days as the flights home get ever closer…I already know that I am going to need to pay for extra luggage when I get to the airport! 

Merry Christmas Team

Following on from the success of our client Christmas event, this Friday we spent the morning at our internal team event to round off what has been a very stressful and super busy year.

            With so many of the team not really into drinking we set aside a full morning to get competitive in the kitchen, and spent a good few hours whipping up some real Thai delights, before sitting down to a Christmas lunch today.

            There was less turkey and stuffing and more tofu and Pad Thai, but it was delicious, and really qiute a lovely way to say goodbye to two of the welcome, welcome two newbies and celebrate the demise of a year that really has put me through the mill!

Merry Christmas Clients

Every so often we like to organise a little party for our clients, and whilst we normally take the party to them, for the first time we decided to host an event and make them come to us – the double positive being that we were announcing our new MD to the market on the same day, so were able to make an arrangement that worked for everyone!

            I found a great little café bar in one of the trendy parts of town, which we proceeded to fill with drinks, food and a photobooth, before inviting 100 of our biggest clients out to celebrate with us.

            In the UK a Christmas party would be a bit of a fancy affair, perhaps with cocktail dresses and mulled wine. In Singapore you just come from work, drink cooling cocktails and sit out in the evening sun with the air of some serious aircon to make it bearable.

Work buddies

And clients!

It was a great night, we got amazing feedback, and we got a great turn out too (which was a bit sketchy when a storm broke just a few hours before kick off). All in all it was a great way to round off the year, and with this done and dusted, we’re not one step closer to home time!

Welcome to the Newbie

After nine months of holding the fort, making things happen and trying to keep our little company together and powering through a very tricky time in the market, we finally have our new MD chosen, approved, announced and installed. Finally!

Welcome lunch for the new hire

            It will take through until next year for him to be fully up and running, but with the responsibility of the office now firmly over on his shoulders (or as much as possible at least), I can finally breath a big sigh of relief and hopefully have plain sailing straight through to the end of the year. Hooray! 

The Final Countdown

I know that I have been counting down to our wedding all year, but we really are on the final countdown now. Not just to our wedding, but to home time, to Christmas, to family time, to the end of the year, and of course, to the wedding.

            When we woke up this morning the first thing I thought was that we are flying home next weekend. Just two more working weeks to go and then it will be home time! After a couple of incredibly stressful weeks at work all of a sudden none of it matters, because I can almost smell home time already!