I'm a Green Santa

This year I had the pleasure to celebrate Christmas at KY's Christmas party. Before this, I've heard so much fun and hype about KY's party that I just have be there this year!

Actually that was half a lie. Lol. Was there as it was also half of my job. What's my job? Well, let's just say that I was a green santa?


Of course, there was a green super hero too. He's the Eyeman. You must be asking me why am I in green if I'm supposed to be Santa?

Well according to some information I found on the Internet, Santa Claus was originally depicted in green! He turned red because of the popular soft drink, Coca-Cola.

Before the Coca-Cola ads ''popularized'' red as the color of Santa's suit, he was often depicted in green, though also in red, brown, and white. Green was the traditional color of the British Father Christmas (remember the Spirit of Christmas Present in ''A Christmas Carol''?). Also, green, as in "evergreens," was traditionally associated with the winter solstice season.

Coca-cola, BTW, did '''not''' ''start'', ''begin'', ''create'', or otherwise ''originate'' the red suit. They just made it popular. Well, technically, the paintings of Haddon Sundblom made the red suit popular; he was the artist who painted Santa Claus for Coca-cola, and his image of Santa Claus that gained so much popularity.

Well, you can check the facts from over 100 years ago, but you'll find out that I'm right. ;)

Yea, I bet the color of Santa turned you around didn't you? Well, the other reason why I was in green was - the party was sponsored by Heineken and theme color was green. So yea, since I'm Santa, I should be a green Santa. Yea!

Just in case you wanna shoot me that I'm too skinny to be a Santa, I topped my stomach up with a pillow from KY's couch. Ho ho ho. Definitely people were happy to see me. :D


Thanks to Heineken, this year's Christmas party has got lots of food! Buffet for everyone who attended and lots of satay! Noms!


No party is complete without booze, ain't it? A total of 8 crates of Heineken were brought to KY's house. To top that up, they had vodka, absinthe, some Taiwan wine and others to make people really happy. Ho ho ho.

The highlight was of course, drinking all the mixture through a funnel connected by a rubber pipe. The mixture is quite strong and nasty. Not many could have down that at one go.


The highlight of the party was no doubt the gift exchange. Well, everyone brings a gift and stack them up together. Numbers were given out and the person with the lowest number can go and unwrap presents accordingly. Higher numbers can then either open another present or hijack an opened one. If your present is hijacked, you can then open another, pretty simple. That being said, the highest number has the biggest advantage over all the presents opened. Fair enough. :P

There were quite an extensive range of presents unwrapped this year. Among them were a package of adult diapers;


a plastic chicken which makes damn annoying sound,


six packets of assam laksa all the way from Penang,


a set of cocktail shaker with glass from Banana Republic,


Barney the gay purple dinosaur that can sing the "I Love you, you love me" song and many more.


Despite I looked happy in the picture before this, I didn't manage to keep the cocktail set. T_T Someone hijacked it away from me. Wuwuwuwu.

All in all, KY's party was awesomesauce! I really look forward to be there again next year and hopefully, I won't embarrass myself as I didn't get drunk this year and certainly don't look forward to be drunk next year.

Cheers
Robb