It's my first time celebrating Christmas in office and was pleasantly surprised that colleagues were pretty 'on' about giving gifts etc. Also had an intra-unit gift exchange and received a cute little bracelet from fellow colleague. yay! Christmas has never really been a very big day for me; since my family never celebrated it and I am really not big on buying gifts for ppl; nor receiving them, for that matter. However, felt an urge to reciprocate colleagues' kindness and thus went last min shopping earlier this evening. shops were totally CROWDED with ppl and didnt feel like getting anything in the end. doesn't help that I am a rather fussy shopper and can spend hours walking around without finding anything that really catches my fancy. oh well. boss is flying off tmr morning to US to spend Christmas with fiance.... then rest of us gathering at colleague's new place to meet up with old boss, who flew back for winter break. time flies! have worked for 5 months without really realizing.