I've never worked in a workplace where upon resignation, the senior executives genuinely wishes one well for their future endeavors. Until today.

Great day today. I made a cheesecake for the office (didn't know there were so many people on leavel 3 until morning tea!). Another lady made pavlova and we had morning tea. Then a team lunch and this afternoon, we had our monthly Friday drinks.

Our CFO made some really funny notes about my colleague leaving (going to recruitment ironically). And Ace returned in kind, with some very funny words of his own. Even daring to tell the whole office how shit our current contracting company is. And that he would give us a great deal if we moved to his new company. HA HA HA even got a laugh out of our MD!

Friday drinks wasn't really for Ace. It was our monthly drinks and also we had a raffle to help raise some money for a colleague who needs implants in both ears. Unfortunately, she isn't able to work at the moment and has no income.

We (the whole Sydney office) maanged to raise over $32,000 in 3 days. Which is genuinely inspiring on its own. But then MD made a speech and the company has decided to match our efforts!!! And then, for a bit of fun, they 'live auctioned' off a bottle of sparking wine... for $370!!! That was really really cool. We've definitely got some great personalities in the office. Very good vibe in the office this afternoon. I haven't seen anything like this before and it just makes your heart melt.

We had a couple of more drinks in the pub and wished Ace well. And he told me to always remember that it is yourself you look after first. And at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything if you can't find a home somewhere where you want to be long term.

A couple of the guys and I had dinner at Mamak in the city after. And we went to capitol randomly where Andrew managed to claw THREE soft toys (a whole set basically) of these little good luck charm stuffed things... he's really good at it! Which he gave to me. lols. random but fun. we caused a fair bit of commotion tonight...