Shanghai Triad VS Italian Mafia Night

Date: 18th April 08

Venue: Conrad Centennial Hotel

Theme: Shanghai Triad VS Italia Mafia

My Choice: Shanghai


I took the cab down to the hotel and reached there at 5pm promptly. Thank God that $19.40 is claimable. and Thank God 3 other regular members were there already.


Wow the place is HUGE. Ceiling not as high as Grand Copthorne's but just nicely so. The Cocktail Area is vast too.... and guess what? They have 3 Grand pianos!!! Sheesh! Not surprised if they have another 2 hidden out of my sight that night!


We went about setting up the registration table. We had poker cards for pple to write down their names and HP no to get to the Lucky Draw. I was in charge of the VIP registration, while there were "Shanghai" and "Italian" tables.It was 6pm already but not many pple have come yet, so we are encouraged to use the 3 pre-dinner activities before the crowd hit us.


There were: Body & Face Painting, Instant Tattoos and Instant Glamour Shot.


I wanted to do the Body & Face Painting but it will stick for 3 days so i hafta choose the location carefully ie not the body parts for ablution. But then there were more and more guys walking about so i had to abandon my plan.


Aah .. instant tattoos... They were nice but i wasn't able to figure out how to apply them stickers!


Of course then, i went for the Glamour Shot. I was their first customer! For the Whole night, i only took one shot. Don't know with who else to take since my dept pple havent arrived yet.

That's a Cheongsam i'm wearing. But can't see clearly lah. My head looks like a turtle's peering out of its shell!! LOL. Most of the Mafia gang were wearing black and they said the black background didn't do justice on their outfits! True.

Manning the VIP registration table has its hazards. I drank almost 3 glasses of COLD Drink and ate LOTSA peanuts. LOL! 2 years in the company, but still can't quite remember the faces of certain internal VIPs, Don't even know a single external ones.

That's our stage

Our host was Adam. The events company we hired is great. Well they HAD to be considering we spent almost 6k on them! Dinner per table is priced at SGD 600+ for 10 pax. Oh and this year, they actually serve individually so the Muslims or vegetarian and sit anywhere as long as there are 10 of the regular meal-ers on the table. And so i took the opportunity to sit with my RecClub members.

Food is soooooooooo fantabulous!!!! That's the first course of finger food: chicken satay, samosa and prawn + mango salad. DIVINE!

Then there was the soup course. Thank god it wasn't mutton soup! It was some shark fin soup with Scallop! Vege course: stir fried broccoli with scallop again. There were Fish, prawn kebab, Chicken in Lemak gravy and finally bee hoon goreng. Oh not to forget this curious dessert with aloe vera, jelly and the biji selasih otherwise known as tadpoles! (LOL) It was the first time i ventured to tasting something as exotic as aloe vera. haha yeah that's my exotic level of gastronomical taste.

The Dinner was sprinkled with lotsa games! No point writing them down specifically. But the theme for the whole night was to see who's the better team: Shanghai or Italians! Even our two bosses picked a side!

There was a Face Changer performance all the way from China. But his masks were so scary i didn't dare to look right at his face. But not wanting to attract attention by not watching him, i resorted to looking at his robe. *shudder*

Then there was the Best Dressed Gang (read: Table) award. 4 tables were nominated 2 from Shanghai, 2 from Italian. They hafta perform a short skit or something and the rest of us shall vote with loudest cheers.

That's my Dept table, all dressed up with Cheongsams doing their Chicky Dance. So funny, the song was so long and they had to do it again and again but they endured it all. And to a great end too. I shrieked so loud for them lah! And it felt good too to let out all those negative energies! Haha but afterwards, i felt dizzy and HOT (prolly blushing cos so crazy).

The D&D finished by 30min later every year! 2006 finished at 11, 2007 11:30pm and last fri it finished at 12midnight! No it wasn't even finished yet. That's just when the Bonus prize was drawn. The emcee wanted us to "dance" first. Yeah yeah whatever. All my fellow kakak2 (sisters usually referring to Malay/Muslims sisters) went back already.

Now about the Lucky Draw. 7 pple were picked from the bowl of poker cards compiled earlier. And they had to play a game. They hafta count 1, 2, 3 and so on one after the other. The catch is, You can't say numbers that are multiplication of 7 (ie 7, 14, 21 etc...) not numbers with 7 in them (ie 17, 27, etc...) Instead you hafta replace with AXA. So the first person who got it wrong will be eliminated and given the 7th prize and so on.

It was fun lah... but i wasn't picked... :(

1st Prize - $1,088 CASH

2nd Prize - $1,000 travel Voucher

3rd Prize - $800 travel Voucher

4th Prize - Star Cruice Voucher

5th Prize - Nintendo Wii!!!!

6th Prize - $600 CASh

7th Prize - 2N Stay at Orchard Scotts Residence

BONUS PRIZE....................

A Rolex Oyster - Unisex watch. *faint*

The CEO picked one card and Leng2 called the HP no on the card. Well... it was NOT me. haha

Its ok... everybody will get a prize. AT LEAST $50 voucher. That's something aye.