Every year, the biggest Christmas feeling I get is always from my colleagues. Every year we would have a Christmas party where everyone would be Secret Santa for someone else and give that person a gift at the Christmas party itself.
The whole point of this Secret Santa exchange is that everyone’s Secret Santa is randomly selected so it gives everyone an opportunity to get to know someone else in the office so that you know what that person wants for Christmas.
Credit is given not to how much a gift costs, but how thoughtful that gift is for that person.
The thing we did different this year too was that we had a little Christmas decoration contest too between departments. Everyone was given just RM100 to buy decorations and were not allowed to go beyond that amount. This is how workstations were decorated.
The Admin department even had one of our guys Min dress up as a Santa.
The bottom two departments though had to do a penalty which was to hold a riff-off of Christmas carols at the Christmas party.
This is what happened.
Christmas is always loads of fun with the Nuffies.
By the end of the party all 55 of us in the KL office were singing Christmas Carols together. That was the most awesome Christmas feeling.
Merry Christmas everyone! It’s my favourite time of the year.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space