Friday, 22 June 2007

Unreally Happy Friday

Every Friday the last working hour (17:00 - 18:00) is so called "Happy hour", when no one is supposed to work. It usually goes like this:
16:40 Ryan with someone else go shopping (beer and stuff)
16:55 they are back, 9 out of ten people at the office are staring into their laptops, finalizing their week work, in order to have their weekly priorities "done" on the next MMM.
16:59 the more conscious guys notice that happy hour is about to start soon
17:00 usually Ryan, Ondro, Habib etc. start shouting all over the office "HAPPY HOUR, HAPPY HOUR..."
17:10 even the most resistant people noticed the happy hour has just started and joined the group
18:00 half of people is going back to work:)

All the people gather somewhere in the office, drink beer or juice, eat crisps or crisps and talk and talk. Usually the plan for weekend is outlined as well.

After the Happy hour...
This Happy hour was very special. First of all, it was my first one, so I wanted to participate, but I also needed to finalize my CEED plan (which I was working on during the week), so it was the first stressful afternoon here.
Secondly, Ryan came up with idea, that we can play Unreal tournament. And so we did! :)

The girls at the office described the game as... peaceful;) But none of them joined us, so we were 12 guys playing... I have never played the game before so the beginnings were tough, but I worked through to the better half:)

So relaxing, so much fun! :))
Of course, everyone has their nickname: Zeno alias "Amunra" was the name to fear (the best player), other players like "F*ck you Daddy", "Peacelover", "Lord M" etc. You can imagine all of us screaming "Eat this!", "I chopped your head you little p***y", "I've got the flag! Hold positions!", "That's a stupid map!", "Who the f**k is that Lord M?":)
Trust me, it was even more exciting than you can just read:)


The playing schedule was approximately as follows:
18:00 (after Happy hour) we started to download installation packages
19:00 we started to play
22:00 we went for late dinner at our favourite Turkish restaurant
22:30 we started to play again
01:30 we finished and went home:)

New nickname
Since the next playing time (sometimes during the week, after working hours, of course:)), I started to use my new Unreal nickname "Salma", which I was given as "brother of Salma Hayek"... Whenever then some of the guys called me Salma, I knew the game was about to start:)

Well, enough of nicknames, let's move on...

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