The annual dinner!

STAR CRUISES ANNUAL DINNER 2008 AT SHERATON HOTEL SUBANG JAYA

OSCAR NITE!

Picture 1: Dave, Adrian (back), Gerrad

Picture 2: Adrian, Gerrad, David

Picture 3: Jesse Wong & David Geh

Picture 4: Ting Shin, David & Susan

After working here for more than 7 months, I finally got a chance to attend the company's annual dinner, after they have put of off once in November 07 because of Uncle Lim's sudden demise. The dinner was held at Sheraton Hotel Subang Jaya's Grand Ballroom.

The theme of the night was the 'Oscar Nite'. Come to think of it, these people in charge of organizing annual dinners must have shared the same the same party planning handbook or Annual Dinner for dummies handbook, cos as far as I can remember, I've been to so many 'Oscar Nites' already.

I think what I could say about the entire nite was, the buffet style food was nice. The main spread had a mix of western and some asian delights. The pasta 'station' was something different. I mistook it for an omelette station, I didn't really go near the salad and fruits station cos me and my fellow drinking kaki colleagues were busy down at the beer 'station' helping ourselves to watered down carlsberg.

After 3 drinks we still found ourselves sober with a sickening aftertaste of watered down beer and lots of water. Reminded me of ribena with too much water in it.

The show lined up for the evening was great, especially with Colin Kerr, the Cruise Director for the SC fleet as the MC. The 'showgirls' performances especially the belly dance one was extremely entertaining. It got people running from one end of the ballroom to the other end to avoid being chased by the transvestite belly dancer. The scene could be described as altogether hilarious, chaotic and enjoyable.

All that aside, I guess the highlight of the evening was the lucky draw event. There was like 2 dozen digital cameras up for grabs, home theater systems, plasma and lcd televisions, handphones, overseas trips and the grand prize was a Dell Latitude notebook. What I got? An electrolux electric toaster! I still wished it was a 32" plasma telly.

Personally I think that the highlight of the evening for most of us (guys) was the very very rare chance to see their fellow (female) colleagues dress to kill for the evening. Some were even hardly recognisable in their make up, hairdos, glitter and bling. It was a truly great evening.