A night with the past and the present

A few weeks ago, when our boss asked us to plan an alumni dinner for our department, let’s just say we weren’t exactly jumping up and down in joy. We were already neck deep in work, and we still have to plan a dinner party?

My first reaction was, erm, there’s a reason why people leave in the first place you know!! Why would they want to come back and have dinner!! But hey, if there’s one thing I’ve learnt about working live, it would be NOT to question your boss’s ideas. So like they say, if you can’t beat them, join them. I made up my mind to make it work. So after many heated discussions, plans, constant change of plans, many phone calls later, the night of dinner finally came.

The turn-out wasn’t 100%, but I’m glad that the pantry gang made it. UJ, Dragonfly, Char and even Issac came along. Two other ex-staff came too, I don’t know them, but the more senior staff seemed so happy seeing them, they must be the pantry gang of their time. They seemed like very nice ladies! I think if they were still around the department must be very chatty and lively.

Anyway, almost everybody was on-time last evening. We gathered outside the Warung Lele Indonesian restaurant at China Square Central. It was so nice seeing everybody together again!

While waiting for some late comers, we played some ice-breaker games to introduce ourselves, but we were so hungry that when the food arrived, all was forgotten as we devoured all the delicious dishes served before us.

The food was delicious! It was an ala carte buffet, so there were a great variety of dishes. But I really love their beef rendang, the bbq sotong, the satay, the prawns, and the chicken. It’s all good!!!

While eating, there was also alot of catching up between friends. Can tell that they were really happy meeting up again after so long. For some of them, our company was actually their first job! So it was quite memorable for them.

So there was alot activities happening. Eating, talking, laughing, taking pictures, passing food around and of course, ordering more food, hahaha... Some of them finished eating first, so they went ahead with the desserts first.

Marl and LY were sharing a chendol but the spoons were so small that they just asked for some straws and started slurping up all the goodness instead! Haha... So romantic right? I also want! I was really looking forward to some chendol and onde onde, but the lady boss told us that they were all sold out!

SO DISSAPPOINTING!!!!

So I just watched the others ate some crappy jackfruit dessert. I hate jackfruit! But other than the lack of desserts, it’s obvious that everybody had a great time that night.

After everybody left we stayed back to take some pictures. Char wanted to take with Issac but he managed to run away in time! Haha...

Took a few photos before we all go our seperate ways again...

Who would have thought that the outing that started with so much protest would have ended so well? Haha... I guess that’s life. Don’t make a judgement too early; you may miss out a great opportunity to have a good time.