VSM Annual Dinner & Dance 2010 - Olympic Night

After much toiling in the production floor, reaping "output", it's that special time again for the staff to kick back and relax during our Annual Dinner and Dance!

Backdrop for the night. Real fire not allowed, so those torches are as close as we got to the real deal! :)

This year, our theme was "Olympic Night". Of course, 2010 is right between the last and upcoming Olympic games (for those who don't know it yet, the Olympic games are only held in the year which can be divided by 4 with no balance, ie, 2008, 2012). However, World Cup Night was deemed too restrictive on costume variety (not everyone lives, breathes and eats football). So, the scope was widened to encompass all sports in general.

The advantages of the Olympic Night Theme:-

• You'd probably have already a costume fitting the theme, sitting somewhere in your wardrobe (unless you don't play any sports)
• If you really had to buy something for the night, you'd be buying something you can wear casually to work or outside without attracting undue attention (in contrast to, say, Cowboy night or Halloween night)

The dinner was held at the Grand Ballroom of the Equatorial Hotel, Melaka. For entertainment, as usual, the resident band performed during the 8 course dinner. We had also engaged the services of Kenny Lee, a local known for his spot-on Sudirman impersonation. For the record, he's really good, though a bit heavier compared to the real (late) Sudirman in his heydays.

Not to be left out, we were also entertained by our very own shift performances (3 shifts, plus Office Hours). The quality of their presentations was improving with each passing year, which was a good thing as it really raises the bar and expectations for the follow year.

As this was the first dinner to be held in two years (last year's dinner got differed, in light of economic down turn), coupled with the fact that there were many new staff who had never attended any of our annual dinners before, this year's attendance peaked as the highest ever yet!

As for me, this year, my duties as photographer were supplemented by the efforts of Lew Wei Keat and Tee Sie Yen, so less running around taking pictures as before.

Well, from the response, it looks like "we've still got it". I'm sure everyone was happy to attend this year, and look forward to an even more encouraging turn out in 2011!

Link to a small photo gallery on my Multiply site : http://mcwk.multiply.com/photos/album/86/VSM_Annual_Dinner_2010_-_Olympic_Night

No, before you start applying for jobs here, this is not one of our staff, but a member of the EQ resident band.

Local talent Kenny Lee a.k.a. Melaka's Sudirman.

Members of the organizing committee taking a shot together.