Company's Christmas lunch

I totally enjoyed the Christmas lunch with my colleagues and the directors. It's an eye opening thing for me, it might sounds quite silly!  but hey I really was amazed. I did go to the Christmas meal when I first joined the company but it wasn't as proper as this year. This time we booked it in advance, the tables were all well decorated and we each got a cracker on the table. It really felt so much more chrismassy than the last time. At first, I wonder what those were (the crackers), I haven't really paid any attention on those things before. I thought those were small presents prepared by the restaurant for each of us. It got more interesting when one of my colleague asked me to pull opened the cracker and you could hear a loud "bang". The inside contained a joke, a Christmas hat and a little present (it's a present for 3 years old I guess, cause I got a spin). it felt so different, it's certainly something new to me and now I know what the real Christmas really mean.

Another highlight was from one of my colleague. he has so much wisdom, he is at his 60 I think and he used to work in South East Asia and China when he was young. He talked about his experiences and the book he read. he was telling me about the story of him and his colleague stranded in the airport in China for few days due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances. He was complaining and cursing, but his colleague was so calm. He was complaining non-stop until a point the colleague said to him "why u westerners like to complain a lot?, u know there is not even a word for crisis in Chinese, it is the combination of two words which are danger and opportunity. I was so impressed that he actually knew this.

危机= weiji = danger + opportunity so we have to treat both the same. When the crisis strike look at it as an opportunity too, instead of worrying.