It's Christmas today! THM and I went shopping.
Yesterday we went to the department year-end luncheon in Lakeshore hotel. It was my first time there. THM had always wanted to to spend a night there, or at least try some of their food. Now his wish has finally come true. ^^
The luncheon was a traditional Chinese style. We sat around a big table to eat. Something worth while to mention is that it was a all-you-can-eat kind of luncheon. Usually, all food is on a big table, and you need to walk there to pick up your food, and come back to your own seat to eat. But this one, you order from your own seat, and the waitresses put the food on your table. The advantage is that you don't need to walk around and can still eat a lot. The disadvantage is that the restaurant tend to get slow after you've ordered a lot of food.
Anyway, in every year-end party, there is prize-drawing. They required everyone to bring in a 500-dollar gift to exchange with others. However, managers had to bring in a more valuable gift. I got $500 cash from the secretary. THM got a gift from the department manager. At first, I thought it was a $500 book, then I found a $5,000 gift certificate inside the book.
This was the first time I got such a big prize. Well, not really mine, but THM's is mine, anyway.
THM said he always spend away such prizes, so we went to Sogo to spend the $5,000. We stayed in Sogo for about 5 hours. At the 4th hour, we had only $1,000 left, it's not enough to buy a pair of shoes, and too much for stationary, and a pair of gloves was too expensive. We already didn't know how to spend that money, so we decided to have DimSum since it's time to eat.
In the end of the day, we spent about $6,000 in Sogo...
What an experience. Now I can understand why those people who win lotteries went crazy. When suddenly you have too much money on hand, you don't know what to do with it, and problems come...
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