Doughnut Day 2

How time flies when you're busy building Asia's largest public sector, security and defence communities ... but amazingly it has been 5 months 23 days since our inaugural Doughnut Day.

There have been other staff perks which I've either been unable to recollect the following day through the hangover, or which are best left unmentioned in order to ensure that IRAS don't come after the staff for receiving benefits in kind [only joking IRAS, this is just silly English irony - Ed.].

Alphabet's Doughnut Day was meant to be a monthly thing, so it is a clear measure of how stretched we've been that we hadn't been able to spare the time to stand in line at the Donut [sic] Factory in the basement of Raffles City.

But we've been having a great time of late, and I figure that there will never be a 'quiet period', so it was time to pile on the carbs. Here then, for the benefit of my personal trainer and anyone working for the tax man, is what was dished out to staff...

James1:
2 x glazed

James2:
Strawberry white chocolate (a bit gay)
Apple cinnamon

J3 (Jianggan):
Lotus mocha
Coffee roasted almond

J4 (John):
Apple cinnamon
Coffee roasted almond

Amelia:
Glazed
Strawberry white chocolate

Dawn:
Peanut butter (glutton!)
Hazelnut milk chocolate

Melissa:
Double chocolate
Hazelnut milk chocolate

(fat) Bryan:
Kaya white chocolate (deviant!)
Apple cinnamon

Vanessa:
Hazelnut milk chocolate
Lotus mocha

Kelly:
Glazed
Double chocolate

Chris:
Double chocolate
Raspberry dark chocolate

Linda the Temp:
Peanut butter (glutton!)
Hazelnut milk chocolate

Hoody

It's like being back in Basildon: everytime I want to go to the loo, or refill my water bottle I have to edge past a brooding, cowled figure wearing a sky blue 'hoody' top.

But then I pinch myself and realise I'm in Singapore - and that the hoody is none other than Chris White, our latest recruit to the ever-expanding Alphabet family.

Just like me, Chris joins Alphabet from Terrapinn. Truth be told I was beginning to feel the heat from Dawn who is ex-IQPC, and so it's good to reweight the business in favour of the ex-Turtles. And just like me, he also has an Essex boy link, having lived for a time in the genteel countryside outside of Saffron Walden.

Chris has been taken on board to run the PSTM community's sales and marketing efforts - which encompasses the magazine, the proliferating number of conferences and industry seminars, as well as the web site which we are looking to overhaul early next year.

Happily he is not only gifted with the kind of lateral thinking that should help build win-win outcomes for our clients, but also a laconic wit which I'm already imagining being put to good use as an 'Assistant Editor' of this blog.

All this, and he is proving to be an exceptional goalkeeper during our Friday afternoon in-office football sessions. What employer could wish for more? Chris, welcome to Bedlam!