we celebrated one of the sales engineer’s birthday today with a cake during the unofficial teabreak and i felt really guilty for not having bought him a present yet. he’s a really entertaining guy with all sorts of stories to share. plus he always drives us out for lunch, haha.

so after work i hit jurong point to shop for a grown up man.

i thought of some mug thing which he could use in the office, since he’s forever drinking from huge mineral water bottles.

the neighbour-in-black wasn’t particularly helpful in suggesting presents, till she suggested some kind of cushion, cos the sales engineer always stole my previously-pregnant admin head’s cushion for his oh-so-old-and-aching back. that really sparked the evil idea in my head.

you know, the shop that sells the widest variety of cushions and mugs in jurong point would be…..gift-a-name! that’s the shop selling all those tacky animal ornaments and soft toys and stuff like that.

so in the name of humour, i got him a winnie-the-pooh cushion and a mickey mouse mug. the mug is in a shade of dusty pink and red, to match the leftover pink-and-purple calculator he inherited from a colleague who left.

to add to the fun, i got him a card for the “bestest sister”.

sheesh, i can’t wait to see his face tomorrow!

post-edit:

the mentioned sales engineer, after squeezing the wrapped present a little, went “eeek! it’s soft!! did you girls buy me a soft toy?! noooooooo!!”

it was a damn funny sight watching him hold the pooh bear cushion to his beer belly.

and he cheekily suggested entering a meeting room armed with the mickey mouse mug.

and this was the only happy event at work today.