Date: 30 November 2007 Venue: Ritz-Carlton Milllenia
In conjunction with this Annual Dinner and Dance, office closed at 4pm for us to prepare for the night. Sadly to say, this early release might not mean anything to some of us cos there were ppl who went directly from client's place, in working dress.
There was this "best dressed table" contest where the winning teams can walk away with attractive cash prizes:
1st Prize - $2,500 per team
2nd Prize - $1,500 per team
3rd Prize - $1,000 per team
This money comes so easy. But for ppl like us who did not form the table earlier will be sharing with some ppl that we don't know. Thus, the chances of winning the prizes is equivalent to zero. So, forget about the dressing then. Who cares to wear to the theme? Only the organisers of the event - the Recreation Club.
The ball room was nicely decorated, the VJ was great but the food was so-so. I wonder why the 2 newly joined Bangla who sat beside me was having food so different from us. Say for example, we're having small bowl of lotus leaf rice while they're having a big plate of spaghetti. While we're having plain salad with only one prawn and one scallop, theirs were spring roll with the same salad on side. Why huh? They are also staffs, same level as us.
The whole night featured heavy traffic congestion. Let me tell you why.
Ritz-Carlton is actually very near to our office. It will only take us at most 15mins to get there. It took us more than 15 mins to get a cab (JC called till his battery went flat). Traffic started to congest at Robinson road and all the way to Ritz-Carlton. Was it because the Singapore Radio Award 2007 which was held at Suntec on the same night? I don't know. The journey took us about 45 mins. We're 45 mins late for the registration.
Because we all wanted to go back JB so we said to take earlier leave at 10pm. The event was so draggy to the extent that only 3 courses of meal was served by 10pm. So we waited till 10:30pm but our stomach was not filled with food still. Ya, we should have eaten something before we went. I think it's only us who was mumbling hungry during annual dinner. Haa.
Got on the cab and went office to take our laptops and headed straight to Woodlands. On CTE, heavy traffic jam! By time we reached Woodlands checkpoint, it was already 11:45pm.
Taking 170 bus was dreadful but not the worst. We met Alan at the checkpoint. He took MRT and came out later than us can also reach checkpoint at the same time. Gosh. Checkpoint was still crowded with ppl and it's already 12am! As the bus came ppl started to lose control....
番外 - 争先恐后挤巴士
真的是不明白为什么要争先恐后的你挤我，我挤你的上巴士。比较有趣是吗？还是怕巴士跑掉？还是想趁机揩油？为了避免不必要的争执，也不想迟暗亏，我只好把laptop 抱在胸前。我几乎也是被别人推着上车的。尤其到了车门口要跨上车的那一刻最危险。后面的人还在推，还在抢着上车的那种。拜托啦，就只差那几步就可以上车了，紧张什么？？？？巴士又不会跑掉。我跨上车了，还以为安全了，谁知道。。 我的鞋！！！！ 我的鞋掉在地上啦！！ 人不断的上来，又没办法拿。呆站在那里5秒，然后就指着地上说：My shoes.... 望一下要上来的人，大家突然很有默契的全部停下动作，等我捡回我的鞋。回想这一幕虽然有点搞笑，可是挤巴士挤到掉鞋还真的是夸张。Alan 还说这只是小儿科，morning bus 更夸张。天啊。。 我还是去 second link 好了。至少不会有这样的事发生。
Back to the topic. HL wanted to go back Batu Pahat and her friend was waiting her at the Mcdonald along the Jln Skudai. It's on my way home so I sent her there. Reaching Angsana....
JAM AGAIN !!!!
From Tampoi to Perling, such a short distance, we're caught in the jam for an hour! By the time I reached home it was already 1:30am (and HL reached home at 3am). Story didn't end it there.... The whole residential area...
BLACK OUT !!!
Traffic congestion on the road, returned home no current. What a good day!
4 comments:
U v cute. those people have diet restriction. not like us we eat lousy chinese food. they eat halal food. i must agree their food is soooooo much better than yours
aiyah... i should tell HR i eat halal food. haha. their food looks better, indeed. At first i tot they're VIP or something like that so they have the privileges. cheh... diet restriction only.
i was jammed from tampoi till perling on saturday nite too! reach home nearly 2am!! SAI !!!
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