It's my birthday - buy me lunch!

So today is one of the partner's birthday, the one that gets up everybody's nose. Official invite to join her for lunch, sounds too good to be true. It is!

Everybody attending is expected to contribute the cost, based on seniority. So, I don't like the restaurant or its food, I'm going to be the only gweilo there (again) and I have to contribute to her free lunch and subsidise the junior staff. Stuff it - Lan Kwai Fong beckons.

Seems I'm the only one not to go, apart from some local partners who hate her and are either on sick leave or an "urgent conference call".