ITS Year End Party 2007

Last friday was my department's Year End Party, it was my first time attending one, being the 'newbie', held in our basement function room. It was a really simple affair but very well done considering the organising committee did not use any professionals for the gig, everything was inhouse from the design to the setup to the programme and to the entertainment. It was attended by about 100 to 150 staff, pretty decent turn out. They came from all the departments and even from our other main site at Tampines. Food was catered buffet style, the standard rice, noodles, veggies, fish, chicken, salad with the addition of sushi, crayfish and cereal prawns. Dessert of cakes and some mango pudding was served. Not too bad all food was halal so everyone could enjoy. Proper dinner tables you know those type found in hotels and seat 10 were setup, came with table cloth and even a centre piece. (below the food spread) In the course of the night, CIO and all the Heads did their Karaoke of some Mandarin, Hokkien songs. They did 3 numbers, some sound vaguely familiar but then I had no idea what they were singing about. I suspect half the room also would not be able to understand them. My fellow malay, indian, philipine and indonesian colleagues. I guess I'm the worst of the lot, a Chinese who has no understanding of Mandarin :) The Photo taken from my camera phone did not come out well with the low lighting and distance it was blurred, so nothing to put up. Or maybe their singing was so off key that the pictures just came out bad :) We also had a Band (below image) which was made up of ITS staff, all from the Philipines - 3 singers and 4 musicians for backup. Pretty good, actually damn good, well at least they sang in English so I guess everyone could understand :) They introduce themselves at the end and I only remember one name, which belongs to one of the lady vocalist - Tin Tin - you know from the comic book with the dog Snowy and Captain Haddock and the Thompson Twins -- what you don't remember ? no one read comics any more !! There were games galore, including a jigsaw puzzle game which our table won. A Simpsons Family game you can see from the images below, the type where you had to get the whole host of Simpsons characters from the house to the mall and there are conditions to be met like who can drive the car, who cannot stay with whom unless someone else is around etc. You can just make out Lisa, Maggie and Bart, can you see Barney and Officer Wiggum ? Homer's there as well (lazy as usual lying on the table) and Marge is there (under the right hand) The other guy is one of the Flander's kid but I can't remember the kids name currently. Anyways the winning table had to do the entire crossing on stage complete with Simpson Mobile. They also had the standard crowd favourite BINGO, and I actually won something. It was one of those desktop fan. Guess it will come in handy during those nights I need to do OT :)

The night closed with another crowd favourite the Lucky Draw. Sadly no one at my table collected any of the top 10 prizes. A few others got the other top 100 prizes. Overall a pretty fun and entertaining evening.

I'll see if I can get some pics from the official photographer or the videogapher to add to this lot.