Lucky Lucy Gao, the Citigroup intern whose birthday party invite launched a thousand forwards, has now earned her own thread on the Oxford Gossip site. (Which we last visited during the bottled banker affair.) There’s the usual snide comments habitual to the Oxford gossipers but the real prize is a set of pictures supposedly taken at the birthday bash. Lucy looks to be having a lovely time so presumably everyone showed up at exactly the quarter hour assigned to them.
Lucy Gao thread [Oxford Gossip]
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This seems to have gotten lost in the mix:
http://www.oxfordgossip.co.uk/new/showpost.php?p=71970&postcount=26
From: Gao, Lucy [CIR]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:00 PM
To: *GCIB EU Summer Analyst Class
Subject: FROM the girl herself…
Hi Fellow Citigroup Interns,
Just to clear a few things up, now that it is seriously getting out of
control, it was suppose to be an internal joke between me and a couple
of my guests to my 21st Party. The actual party was great, and nothing
like it so please do not worry. I should not have used my Citigroup
email account in the first place so I apologise for that.
I am sorry if you found the content of the invitation details offensive
and I am glad to entertain. But please stop now because it is getting
really unprofessional and unnecessary, and a lot of you know me anyway
and have heard about this so I apologise for repeating this again, but
hopefully for the final time.
Cheers everyone and have a great time this evening.
See you soon.
Lucy
At first glance, this strikes me as post facto rationalizing. It’s what she would say after her original email. But we’re open to the possibility she did mean it all as a joke.
Ladies and Gentleman,
Welcome the new Ms. Peter Chung. Follow the Fight Club Rule. 1st Rule of being Analyst, Don’t talk about being an analyst. You just ruined an offer.
A JOKE? Lucy, i’m sorry, but you are full of shit. it’s going to take some serious convincing for me to believe that that was a joke. have your friends step up to bat for you, and i’ll reconsider.
honestly, even if you’re a control freak. nobody writes an invitation like that. it probably was just a joke gone horribly wrong.
this is a thank you note after the party, sent by Lucy. read this and tell me you STILL think she was just sarcastically f-ing around the whole time.
“Good morning,
“THANK YOU ALL so much for Friday night, it was absolutely phenomenon and it was – like I said – the best birthday I’ve ever had!
“I really hope you enjoyed the Ritz and then Pangaea, and I will get those fabulous photos to you ASAP – I’m so excited! :D
“Thanks for all your generous gifts – I had the most wonderful prolonged birthday experience when I returned to the Ritz on Sat to collect the bags full of presents and cards.
“Also, vielen dank Sophie for organising the magnificent cake – incredibly delicious. Thank you to my talented prime photographer Mandeep.
“Thank you Citi interns for your thoughtful gifts, champagne, and those beautiful flowers (et merci beaucoup Sophie!), and all your sweet comments on my card. I was truly touched.
“Thanks to my home and Oxford friends who have travelled very far to attend the joyful occasion. Much appreciated.
“And last but certainly not least, many thanks to my PA for the evening, Ms Gill, couldn’t have done it without you Sanami – should consider this as a profession! ;)
“I am so grateful to have friends like you and I truly hope we can all keep in touch in the future no matter where we end up.
“The very special 35 of you have made my 21st Birthday one of the most memorable evenings of my life and I hope you will also cherish the great times on Friday as much as I shall.
“Cheers to great memories!
“FRIENDS FOREVER
“Lucy
“x”
Her Pangaea party was run by http://www.AlphaParties.com there’s more photos there.