ECQ D & D 2005

How time flies, this is already the 2nd D & D for me at ECQ... and this year, the event was held at Zes Disco Pub in The Chevrons on 23 December 2005... As members of the ESC, CK, S, XY and me went to the venue earlier to setup the place... Reached the place at around 445pm and started unloading all the prizes for the lucky draw, and moving them all into the pub... then the technician at the pub teaches us, or me specifically, how to operate the sound and karaoke system, as I was supposed to take charge... We also tried to rehearse a bit on the games and items to be shown on the projector...

Our CEO, CFO, Sea Lin and Linda were the first to arrive at around 6+ or so... while the rest of the colleague arrived in a big group near to 7pm... Upon arrival, everyone had to surrender their gift and pass a name card for the lucky draw... The gifts were tagged for the gift exchange later on in the evening... And I've noticed that the gift that I bought for last year's D & D 're-appeared' as a gift this year (at least the wrapper was new, lol)... the recipient (not mentioning names here) said he had not used it and had no time to shop for gift...

As usual our CFO made an opening speech regarding how the company has done over the last year followed by the CEO... MK got the early bird prize, which was an air purifier... Then the dinner commences, which was buffet-style, by the time I went to grab the food, the turkey was gone (with only bones left), food was ok but not outstanding... then we (ESC members) tried to encourage the people to sing... Ser Wah started the ball rolling, and soon more people joined in...

In between, played some games (trivia, guessing the person from pics and pictionary), gift exchange and then the lucky draw was made... I got an electric toothbrush early on (think was the 2nd name to be called), but was quite 'sad' that my chance for the top prize was gone... hehe... On the hindsight though, it was better than nothing I guess, at least it was something practical that I could use... In the end the top prize, which was an IPod Video, went to JZ (oh lucky man... )

The whole thing ended at around 10pm and some of the people like HL, V, YP etc stayed on for more karaoke... We opened up the sparkling juice (brought by the CEO, but was forgotten during the D & D) and toast to each other... Had to leave by 11pm, the time at which the venue was booked until, and went home to prepare for the Cameron Trip the next day...