John Jonas explains Monito Monita, a Filipino Christmas tradition where people draw names and secretly give small themed gifts before a party, then perform a playful, sung gift exchange at the event.
Welcome to the Secret Sauce of Outsourcing podcast that's dedicated to making you better at outsourcing to the Philippines. This is episode 230, the gift giving Tradition of Monito Monita. So if you have people in the Philippines that live close to each other, I'd be willing to bet this is something they would do as a team building activity if they're given the opportunity. So here's what Julia my OFS writes about Monito Monita the holidays are here. Now that the Philippines has reinstated face to face classes and work, Christmas party planning is back in full swing. In addition to family gifts, we exchange Christmas gifts with friends from work and school. We pick a name from a hat and get that person a gift. We always keep that name a secret until the Christmas party. But buying and getting presents isn't fun enough. To make the practice even more fun for parties, we need to add our spin. We call our gift giving practice Monito Monita. And just for you listening to this that is spelled M O N I T O or M O N I T A just so just to make it clear that you can understand what I'm saying, she continues. The word Monito or the feminine Monita refers to the person you have to buy a gift for. Monito Monita is that moment during the Christmas party when you finally exchange gifts. But you can't just approach your Monito Monita, give them their present. You can't exchange gifts at the same time. The gift exchange is done one person at a time while everybody sings a silly song. The song I'm most familiar with has these lyrics and I'm not going to say all this. This is me talking. I'm not going to read all of this because it's just a repetition. But she says I love my Monito or Monita. Yes I do. I love my Monito. And it's just repeated four or five times. But I won't tell you is the last line of it. The Monito Monita is the highlight of a Christmas party and is usually done just before the party ends. I've always found it odd that we have to sing this song when giving gifts because people will find out who my Monito Monita was anyway, even if I tell them anyway. To make Monito Monita more playful and have an excuse to buy and get more presents. Sometimes we would get several mini gifts during the week before the Christmas party and secretly give them to our Monito Monita. The mini gifts would have to be cheap and follow a silly theme like White Christmas or something green. It's like an Advent calendar that counts toward the Christmas party instead of Christmas. So I'm not a very good gift giver, but how about a gift for people listening to this or watching it if you're on YouTube? So I'm looking for video testimonials about Onlinejobs ph and I know a lot of you listening to this have used onlinejobs PH and you have OFS working for you and you're happy with it. And I know that because I get emails from you every single day and I would love to get a testimonial from you. It doesn't have to be something complicated. It can be you holding out your cell phone selfie style and just talking about how you use onlinejobs PH to hire someone and what they have done for you. What results has it accomplished for you. In return for this, I'm offering a free month of onlinejobs PH to any testimonial that's usable to me. So I probably won't give a free month to everybody that responds because I I'm likely to get a bunch of these, but I'll probably give it to as. But I will give it to as many as I possibly can because I would really love to use your testimonial. So if the testimonial is usable to me, it's not like I can't hear you or it's like super staticky or something. I don't know, like the very first video that I ever did, which was super dumb back in like 2006 or something. So in exchange for the testimonial, I'm giving a free month's access to OnlineJobs Phone whenever you want to use. It doesn't have to be used right now, it can be used at some point in the future when you're ready to hire someone. I'll give you one free month of access so you can hire someone in the future in exchange for this video testimonial. If you want to send it to me, that'd be awesome. Johnlinejobs ph Just send me an email and you can send me a link to where you uploaded your video. It could be on like Google Drive or you could attach it to the email if it fits, that'd be great. Or if you have questions, send an email to johnnlinejobs ph and I will answer your questions. And that actually comes to me. So yeah.
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