Different from last year, the annual dinner cum retreat took place at Tambun resort, Ipoh this year.
As what I expected, I was chosen as one of the committee, representing for R&D/QA department.
To be honest, I didnt do much job as a committee mainly because the event was kinda being in charged by the resort, they said they would arrange most of the things, and our very "responsible" chairman kept telling us not to worried.
Hence, i was not really care about the event, especially 2 weeks before today, I was travelling in Korea.
It was until last week that I only found out a lots of things were not falling at the right place, everything were not organized correctly, and unfortunately the chairman was over-confident that everything would be fine.
I came quite early this morning, most of the staffs also arrived on time.
However, the bus was late, we departed 1 hour late in schedule.
We (the rest of committee) actually highlighted and reminded the chairman that the distance would be more than 3 hours especially it is a bus ride.
Nevertheless, the chairman still eagle to place the itinerary for the travel at 2.30 hours.
It was almost 11am when we stopped at the R&R for breakfast, we were 2 hours behind the schedule.
Then, the chairman did not worry about the affected schedule, yet did not think about calling the organizer at Tambun regarding our late arrival.
To be honest, I was really pissed today, I knew he is not reliable but still surprised he was such a loser.
What even shocking was after reaching Tambun around 12pm, the so called organizer did not have a microphone or speaker, she was yelling and shouting at 120 of us to tell us what to do, where to place our luggage.
It was a mess, a total mess. Yet, the chairman did not do anything. =/=
After sometime, we finally got to settle down our belongings at the ball room and gathered at the Tambun themepark for a group photo, then proceed to telematch session.
Another ridiculous thing happened here was the chairman was doing shopping when everyone walked to where the telematch took place.
The organizer was seeking for the chairman, and couldnt find one, Luckily the rest of committee were around, and could locate where to have lunch etc.
Chairman, the childish one who was happily shopping around, only present himself after 2 game sessions, @@
Back to the telematch, there were 4 games in total, some involved water, while some were perfect dry.
But i guess due to game, the staffs were high, they were having so much fun with the water and sand, lol.
There are 6 teams in total, I was in the red team.
I only participated in the last game, which is coconut bowling.
Actually i was also being hit by the coconut, such a pain, lol.
After the telematch, it was lunch time, the food was just ok.
I was busy composing the presentation slide for the dinner session, so i didnt border to play at the themepark, but most of the staffs including the irresponsible chairman were having fun with the water slide and so.
I thought it would be fine for the rest of the day but i was so wrong.
We could not get to check in to our room until 5.15pm! The worst was the registration for the annual dinner was set at 6pm! We were waiting very impatiently at the corridor of the ball room.
There's nothing we could do beside waiting.
After I got my key, I was rushing down my presentation slide, at the same time need to shower and put on make up.
This is how our room looks like (photo was captured the second day), I was sharing the room with Li Yin.
Honestly, I dont know how I managed to finish up everything, I just know when I reached the registration booth to prepare for the attendance list, my boss and the chairman were there arranging the masks for the night, with very smelly face.
I did not talk much, pass the labtop which containing the presentation slide to the chairman, and immediately sat at the booth and prepare to take attendance.
Most of the staffs had arrived, they actually have gotten their room keys way earlier than me.
Another shocking news was the ball room was not decorated as what the organizer claimed! The chairman was very dissapointed and he refused to enter the room when most of the staffs had registered and went inside the room.
I was not able to move myself because there are still some staffs havent turned up, and really mad at the chairman.
He was so childish and while he was not around at the ball room, our company driver who well known of alcoholic had a fight with the MC!
Luckily another committee was around to calm down them and the MC did not leave the event.
The night did carry out smoothly after that, but there was also mistake happened during the lucky draw sessions.
Due to the fight caused by the driver, he was not told to leave the dinner immediately, and our lovely GM refused to take part in the lucky draw.
Hence, 2 draws were missing, but we forgot to remove the draw from the lucky draw bowl ==
So there were no winner for the 2nd Prize and 3rd Prize. =S
Hopefully no one find out and further investigate it. ==
For the lucky draw, I only won a RM60 Aeon cash voucher, well, better than nothing.
After the lucky draw, mainly is photo sessions, the dancing session was very short only, felt like this year dinner was really bad.
Especially with my lovely GM, Tristan, joining the dinner for the last time. He will leave the position and back to NZ end of the year, really miss him!
The mask which was offered for the night, idea from the stupid chairman, actually broke easily. Guess what, he insist to make the night in masquerade theme in order to wear the stupid and loussy mask and spent RM600 for the bloody masks !
Asshole, i really couldnt forgive what he had done. Such an irresponsible and stupid jerk.
Regardless how bad was the night, we still had lots of fun.
The night ended around 10pm, which was very early. Liyin, Elsa and I were not satisfied with the limited beer, so we actually Uber to the nearest 7-11 and get some beer and extra snack.
Then, Poi Yee joined us in the late night at our room for girls talk.
I guess this maybe is the last time all of us gather around as Elsa is not going to be around after her internship ended, and Poi Yee would refuse to join us other time, but she was forced to this time as it was a company event.
Maybe just me and Li Yin then, lol.
