March Celebrators

Every month, our team in Accenture recognizes all the birthday celebrators for that specific month. Naturally, there is a committee that handles these celebrations. I am part of this as an 'extra-curricular' activity. For the January celebration, we had Jolibee for breakfast so we asked everyone to come in earlier than usual if they wanted to get the 'limited' breakfast (actually, there was enough for everybody. we just wanted to get full attendance early in the morning. hehe). For February, we had it on Valentines Day with some sort of 'love' theme (we just had pizza so no relation on the food there. Hehe). For this month, we have some sort of 'pinoy summer' feel by giving everyone 'Halo-halo' along with other pinoy mirienda such as 'lumpiang toge' and all sorts of 'kakanin.' Yummy! It's a bit self-serving because I influenced what was to be served for this month by my personal preference. But what the heck, it's my birth month too!

Going into the preparations, our manager had this brilliant idea to make our celebration more meaningful. She just found out that I am an SFC member. Coming from SFC herself (she is now married), she thought it would more fun if we have some sort of 'honoring'. Since we cannot afford 70+ people to honor six birthday celebrators for the month, she thought of just asking the people closest to us to give a line or two.

And so the birthday celebration came this afternoon. My senior team lead, being the naughty energy that she is, made some twists to the plan. Instead of just asking the people closest to us, she asked the people who are 'linked' to us in the project. Their goal was to pair us up with other team members. In effect, the honoring became more of a teasing session with loud 'yiheeee!' from all over. It was quite embarrassing because I am really uncomfortable putting my personal life in the spot light. But it was nonetheless fun! Thanks to my fellow committee members for pulling this off! The short program was entertaining and the food was great! See you in the next planning for the April celebrators!