Notice: GEP (10 Dec 2008)
Dear all,
For Christmas Eve 2008, some of us will be having dinner at Iggy's (what are the rest of y'all doing????).
In line with the festivities, we will also be participating in a Gift Exchange Program ("GEP").
For those who want to participate in this elite, invite-only GEP, the rules are as follows:
- Each participant has to buy gifts for all OTHER participants in the GEP.
- For now, confirmed participants are the 6 attendees of the Iggy's dinner i.e.: ML, YY, YH, WK, YL, JL. However, non-attendees can also participate - they should email me back to confirm their participation by end today.
- Each gift must not cost more than S$20.
- The GEP has a minimum Item Quote Requirement ("IQ Requirement"), which all Gifts must fulfill:
- In buying a gift for another participant, you must buy them a gift that starts with the same letter as their name.
- This gift MUST have the Item Quote shown on its packaging. For example, if you buy Mary a jar of Marmalade, the jar must state "Marmalade" clearly on its packaging. i.e. you cannot buy a jar of Marmalade for Jean, and call it Jam, even when the jar clearly states Marmalade.
- The Item Quote MUST be a NOUN: i.e. you do not meet the minimum IQ Requirement if you buy Mary a box of Mattifying Powder (because in this case, Mattifying is an adjective, not NOUN).
- The GEP also allows you to earn Bonus Points:
- If you are able to buy a gift that is 'alliterated', you earn 1 Bonus Point for every alliteration.
- So to sum up, if you buy Mary the following:
- Mattifiying Powder => you do not meet the minimum IQ requirement
- Mattifying Mask => you earn 1 bonus point and have met the minimum IQ Requirement (assuming your Item shows "Mask" clearly on its packaging
- Moisturizing Mattifying Mask => you earn 2 bonus points and have met the minimum IQ Requirement (assuming your Item shows "Mask" clearly on its packaging
- Men's Moisturizing Mattifying Mask => you earn 3 bonus points and have met the minimum IQ Requirement (assuming your Item shows "Mask" clearly on its packaging
- Note that for Bonus Points to be earned, they need not be shown on the item's packaging.
GEP participants are highly encouraged to use their creativity to score Bonus Points, beyond fufilling the minimum IQ requirement.
The participant with the highest amount of Bonus Points wins a voucher at Iggy's (amount to be determined)
Please feel free to email me back if you have any queries / clarifications.
8 comments:
YL: The Es must get different gifts! cannot be the same one... or else only count as one point (cos only 1 idea!).... errr like scrabble where you can't count other pple's letters...
XL: Must the items be labelled? What if we buy "Earrings" for YL and "Flowers" for M - and they dont come with packaging - i.e. not labelled?
or what if we buy an "Elephant toy" - which noun counts - E or T or both?
er, I wont be here so won't join but I offer to help ML - she seemed very stuck on adjectives... I think its coz her english is better than ours...
YH: Eh the whole thing made lotsa GEP sense until the last part about how the bonus points alliteration don't have to be on the actual packaging. Which smelt of YY's doing leh..
Cos i can imagine getting a really ridiculously retarded-looking rose red roadside-stall raincoat!
What are the rules for the alliteration?? (Bonus-point hungry) and does it have to be relevant/in good taste? Or else Mary ends up with the men's moustache-enhancing mask how..
XL: Well what doesnt make sense to me is the pt system - ie that the one with most bonus pts regardless of how many gifts made the min iq requirement
What if you give 4 gifts and 3 of them fail the min IQ test but your last one has fantastic alliteration, and you end up having the most bonus pts?
We should give 10 pts for meeting the min IQ test....
And I really think that nothing has to be on the packaging lah...
XL: Haha! GEP is asking for homeruns and not consistency then. You get more pts if you can alliterate 5x on 1 pres and give up on the other 3 presents, then alliterating 1x on 4 presents. This system does smell of YY!
And i really thot earrings was a great idea...
YL: i'm laughing out loud at my workstation hahahahahaha
does that mean that as long as you can alliterate really well, you can argue a case for whatever 'alliterated description' for your gift? i think i agree with XL that it shouldn't have to be on the packaging IF the item is obvious... like earrings... cos it'd be silly to be limited to buy earrings with a box that says earrings.
i also agree that IQ requirement should have more than 1 pt, i.e. heavier weight than alliteration...
XL and i are so on the same page...
JL: Dear system
What if I bought a gift before the rules came out and there is no IQ on
the packaging? Do I get a refund?
Participant.
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