Two things occurred
this week which are worthy of mention from a eating point of view (and the
second thing was also kind of a big deal for the office).
The first
was that our office hosted a Pink Ribbon Breakfast. This was a breakfast that
an organisation throws where the staff donates some money towards Breast Cancer
research. Technically this was not free, as you should give a donation but the
food was well worth the small donation. Our Office Administrator and Business
Manager prepared all the food and it was awesome.
My only
regret is that I hardly eat breakfast and as a result I could not really eat as
much as I would have liked to.
We had pikelets,
cupcakes, omelette, sliders (Yes! Mini burgers for breakfast), muesli and some
other stuff I couldn't even try because I got too full too quickly. There was
even pink decorations and our model maker made a pink toaster for the donations
box (ironically we didn't have toast).
All in all
it was worth coming in half an hour early for.
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| Pink Ribbon Breakfast |
The second
event of this week was the NZIA New Zealand Awards night, held at the Marine
Events Centre at Wynyard Quarter (Karanga Plaza). Our office was lucky enough
to have come out with two awards and we had booked three tables for the
evening. Because I had worked on one of the projects that we had won an award
for I was lucky enough to tag along.
The night
started with a few of walking into a room lined with waiters with trays of Champagne
or beer. I decided to take it easy and only grab one drink, holding myself back
from downing a glass of wine there on the spot and chasing it with a bottle of
beer for each hand, this was probably a good idea as the clients from my
current project were also attending the event.
After a bit
of chit chat and catching up with people you recognise working in other
offices, we were ushered into the main hall, where we found our tables and got
ready for dinner. Of course there were a series of speeches from the sponsors
and hosts prior to our first course. Naturally my table started finishing off
the bottles of wine that was on the table.
The first
course was a salmon dish, which was ok. It was not too fishy which was good.
This was
followed by a steak main, with some sort of potato hash brown and peas. The
steak was prepared medium rare, which was good for me, but probably wasn't so
great for others who couldn't handle a bit of blood. There were no choices in
the menu (unless of course my office had just pre-chosen for everyone and didn’t
let us know).
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| The Steak Main |
After the
main course there were the awards presentations and the short speeches that
followed each award, except for one student who claimed an award for some
competition and was really enthusiastic and spoke for about five times the
length of everyone else.
After the
awards were over and we had finished giving each other high fives, we were
presented with the desert course. A platter of assorted deserts, mini eclairs,
mini tarts, mini cheese cakes and some other mini desert thing. It was pretty
good.
I would have
to say the food was all of great quality, but as one of my colleagues who also
went said, there wasn’t quite enough. The other downside was that they ran out
of wine and beer and stop serving out table.
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