It had been a really peak season for me, peaked with trips that are really tiring, argh! I had been to so many places in like 3 to 4 months, the pain of tiredness is killing me, feel so sleepy after came back from the company trip yesterday. But I just love travelling! xD

Due to the effect of economy downturn, my company has decided to make it a road trip to Penang. It is kind of disappointing but it is better than nothing, have to understand that with the economy condition now, many companies are having retrenchment by cutting down the unnecessary expenses, or employee's salary, or working days. So, we should appreciate the effort our country manager made in fighting for the annual trip for us.

It was a 3D2N trip to Batu Ferringhi Penang, and accommodated in Golden Sands Resort by Shangri-la. We gathered in KL Sentral in the morning, and then headed to Penang in few buses. There are about 200++ staff from the company joining the trip.

Gathered at KL Sentral

All those in Cadbury HR Online project were told to bring along the laptop to standby in case there is any urgent matters raised from the client. We prayed hard that we don't need to switch it on during the entire trip. xD

We were given meal allowance for our lunch during the trip. Arrived at the resort in the afternoon, registered ourselves and checked in.

Golden Sands Resort by Shangri-la

Resort in panorama view

Resort in morning view

Resort in night view

After that, we went to the beach for some beach games. I joined volley ball game at the beach with the team mates, while some other colleagues played beach soccer, parachute, jetsky, etc.

SSW in the house!

Water volleyball game

ATV

Banana boat

Annie & Elly getting ready to fly with parachute

Parachute

Horse Riding

Beach Soccer

In the night, we had our buffet dinner in the resort. After that, went to the nite market for window shopping, and also to buy some DVDs. In the late nite, our directors treated us for a party in a club nearby the resort. I was one of the early bird, by the time we reached there, there were only few person there. And out of a sudden, there were around 100++ people in the club! Haha, we surprised the servants there! Everybody enjoyed free flow of liquor. Now I see a lot of drunkards out there, when there is free liquor! A lots of people refused to turn up whenever we organise club niteout events. But when it comes to free one ar, everybody turned up! LMAO! Sad thing is that, none of them love dancing. I tried to pull them out to the dance pool but after a while everyone disappeared from the dance pool. Kind of boring, so I headed back to have rest.

The Ship Restaurant

Party @ Flair Club, Batu Ferringhi

Second day morning, we woke up for buffet breakfast in the resort, and then followed by the team building games on the beach. All of us had great fun in the games. And the best game is the volley ball game, where you have to place a balloon that is filled with water on the towel that is held by 2 people, swing it to your opponent's side, while they have to catch the ball in the towel, and vice versa, swing it back to your side.

Team building game

Team building game

Team building game

Team building game

Team building game

Team building game

My group in team building games

After the games, we went back to take shower and went back to the cafe in the resort for buffet lunch. And then, we took the bus to the town for sightseeing and shopping. Went back to the resort in the evening, took a shower and dressed ourselves up in hawaiian style, got ready for the hawaiian beach dinner!

Upon registration, each of us have to pick an envolope from a box. I picked the number 88, the number sounds cool to me. And then we got seated, ready for the dinner party. I have then opened up the envelope, "Aiks, what the hell is this? Why am I getting the bikini logo?", some of my colleagues are getting ice-cream logo, dancer logo, etc. I was worried that they want me to wear bikini on stage! Wanna know what's the bikini logo for? Read on and you'll know.

NGA Hawaiian Beach Party

SSW team again!

Committee members

The dinner is gonna start!

The food was so-so only. The best one was the BBQ lobsters! Haha, though it was no compete to the one I had in Australia, but still, it was ok-ok lar... Haha!

The chef

The food

The food

The people

The desserts

During the dinner, we had some performance by the new comers. One of them is damn funny lar, the Bruce Lee vs Baja Hitam vs Ryu vs Doraemon one. View the video clip below to believe.

Performance by the newbies

Performance by the newbies

Guess what, the bikini logo actually rewarded me a Sony Cybershot digital camera! Hohoho! Thanks to my beloved company, I love you so much, haha! But I'd really prefer to win the grand price, the MacBook Air! There are many other interesting prizes such as MacBook, 32"/27" LCD, WII, PS3, PSP, Digicam, Cash voucher, Ipod Touch, and the most common prize, Ipod Shuffle for everyone else who doesn't win any prize. Why don't they give everyone a Ipod Shuffle as door gift? I wish I could have one, simply because there is company logo printed on it, gonna be a good memory.

Guess what insider?

Wow, it's a Sony Cybershot T2!

Hohoho, it's time to snap some nice photo!

Shall I call it unlucky to those who got this? =P

Group Photo

After the dinner, the unofficial NGACC (NorthGateArinso Clubbing Community) members were lining up at the entrance of the resort, getting ready to party again! Haha... So again I was invited by Angie to join them up at the same club on our company treat again. Not much people joined for the outing, probably many of them were tired? We did not stay too long in the club, only for like, erm, 1 hour++. Went back and had a quick shower before I bumped into the blanket.

NGA Clubbing Community

The next morning, we woke up for packing and then followed by buffet breakfast in the same cafe in the resort. Right after that, check out and got into the bus, time to say goodbye to Batu Ferringhi! Stopped in the half way for lunch, before we arrived at KL in the late afternoon.

That's all about the company trip 2008/09. Love it, thanks for the Sony Cybershot T2! =)

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