Team Meeting and Social at Vanilla Networks

June 15, 2008

Today, I arrived late to our Team Meeting at Vanilla Networks, though 3 persons were not there, still the agenda of the meeting push through. We discuss about the company’s policy, attendance, dress code, and etc. After the meeting, we all went to Metro, Ayala to pass the time and took a break at Metro Cafe to chat and relax for awhile. The group decided to have an early dinner at Neo-Neo near Carmelite Monastery. We proceed at Gimik, Mango to sing karaoke and have fun. Sai, Marih, Niño, Rexy and Gail joined us late, enjoyed the company and had fun. I sang a few songs and danced, my stomach was hurting too much for laughing out loud because of my friends antics and jokes (especially Sky, Sen and Jecy). What an amazing night, just clean fun and singing all night and to let you know we took a lot of pictures (be it stolen shot or not). We all went home at 10:15 because some of us have to be on duty tomorrow morning. I went home satisfied and sated.

Dinner with Sykes Friends

June 14, 2008

I had dinner with my Sykes Friends at Padi’s Grill (i’m not sure of the spelling). Trish and I met at Jollibee, A.S. Fortuna and then went to Padi’s Grill, I was surprised to see a lot of new faces on Al’s Team, it’s been a long time I keep in contact with them. I don’t know how many years, it has been, but the person I keep in touch mostly were Trish, Malot and Liz. Of course, I keep myself updated with the news but it’s totally different when you are with them. Trish told me about Jerol and Ria, that they are going home to their respective hometowns, she also told me Beth is almost near her term and she (i’m referring to Trish) is also 5 months pregnant (yes, guilty as charge, Trish is the news updater or shall I say the informer of the news). The gathering was a close group, had dinner, swapped stories and jokes. Weng and Ran took a lot of pictures also, and I was like ok pictures, I should be on them, hahaha…join the fun. After dinner, went Karaoke, and people take turns getting on the stage to sing. I was thinking “OMG”, I can’t do that, I have a case of stage fright, yes guilty! I do have that, it’s okay for me if I sing with just close friends, but with people I don’t know, waaahhh! My knees would turn to jelly, butterflies on my stomach and hands sweating… (shucks!). After that, we went to Gimik, Mango Avenue but unfortunately they were fully book at the moment. So what we did, we went to this place which I don’t know where it was located (I forgot the name of the place also), we just gathered around the table and chat for awhile. I went home late and arrived at home around 1:00 in the morning. I had fun, enjoyed their company but apparently my body is not used to late evenings anymore (sign of old-age, hahahaha). So, I would like to give my gratitude to Al and everybody for having me at their Team Social Dinner, you have welcome and made me one of the Team. Thanks for everything.