Finance's Annual Bowling Championship 2011

Venue: U-Bowl, One Utama

Date: 02 July 2011

Time: 10:00 AM to 14:00 PM

The Finance Department had recently organised a bowling tournament. There were 8 teams consisting of 4 bowlers per team playing 3 games each. Together from donations by generous contributors with the entrance fees, we had managed to plan and organise a good overall tournament.

The organising committee arriving at venue as early as 08:30 AM to make some preparation before the start of the registration. The participants registered and were given pre-packed paper bag with drink, cake and souvenir gifts. All partcipants autographed a black poster designed for the event.

After a few minutes of bowlers to warm-up, we had our CFO, Bernie, to roll the first bowl to start the tournament. So the games began, and there seemed the players were competing hard against each other. The team members were selected randomly by pulling out lots, so the teams' strength were relatively unknown. The players whom had realised this would stride to achieve the best invididu score which in turn would helped the team's overall score.

The CEO, Mr Siva, made a rare appearance during the first game. After signing the poster, he had mingled around with the teams and players. He did not stayed long since he would be driving down to JB for Long Service Award event.

We had lucky draws for some lucky bowlers. There were also special awards for best dressed team (won by the team Ultras Bowls with their Bermuda's shirt) and the lowest score bowler (won by Norshafina at 169 pins) to spice up the tournament. We ended the tournament with lunch for all bowlers and guests.

Thank you guys for making the tournament a good, fun and enjoyable memory for all...............

The winners were:
1st place team winner: Team Rajawali (Kamarul, Bernie, Azura and Nor Jannah) with score of 1279 pins,
1st runner-up team: Team Ultras Bowls (Yuhairie, Shafiq, Norhana, Aqila) with score of 1207 pins,
2nd runner-up team: Team Super Natural (Suhaimi, Maxine, Farrezatun, Sallehuddin) with score of 1121 pins.

Individual winner were:
Men: Nizam (405), Suhaimi (389) and Yuhairie (372)
Women: Bernie (381), Nor Jannah (340), Faridah (328)

Bowling Championship 2010 - Central Region

Venue: Cosmic Bowl, Mid Valley
Date: 20 June 2010
Time: 09:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

The venue changed this year to Mid Valley. The teams includeed the one team from Shah Alam and one team from Melaka. Everybody was eager to start the game, most players were there since 8:00 AM. The organiser were there at 07:30 AM.

Finance Dept had sent 3 teams. Most teams finished their games in 2 hours except those teams with faulty mechanical pin-setters. After luncheon, the lucky draw prizes were give out, and immediately the prizes to the winners.

It was well organised by the HR Team. Kudos to them.............

Finance Bowling 2010

Venue: Ampang Superbowl, Summit USJ
Date: 15 May 2010
Time: 02:30 PM to 06:00 PM

The Finance Department had organised a bowling tournament recently. There were 10 teams consisting of 4 players per team.

The winners were:
1st place team winner: Team Hardcore (Rehmy, Saiful, Azni and Sabariah) with score of 1451 pins,
1st runner-up team: Team Strike (Yuhairie, Suhaimi, Norazlina, Norhana) with score of 1394 pins,
2nd runner-up team: Team Hot Oven (Azhar, Noraffandi, Suzana, Azizah) with score of 1316 pins,
3rd runner-up team: Team Spare (Faridah, Yanty, Kamarul, Firdaus) with score of 1309 pins,

Individual winner were:
Men: Yuhairie (434), Saiful (422), Suhaimi (415) and Zaidi (397)
Women: Azni (365), Faridah (364), Suzana (337) and Balqis (328)

Bowling 2009-HQ

Date: 14 Jun 2009
Venue: U Bowl, 1 Utama, Bandar Utama.

There were 35 teams playing today with 4 team members. On Friday, Azni had picked up the game t'shirt from the organiser for each team member.

My team, 4Pins, consist of Azni, Grace, Fun and msyelf. Fun drove me and Grace to 1 Utama, which she picked me up in front of office at 8:46 AM and then picked up Grace at her home. It was bright and sunny day. Along the way, we knew who will be going to the game by the t'shirt they wore.

It took us 20 minutes to reach the venue and finding a parking lot was easy as it was still too early in the morning that the shopping mall was not crowded yet. We registered ourselves and waited for Azni who was still at Shah Alam. We picked up one bowling ball each but since there a lot staff already there, most bowls had been picked up already. And we took one for Azni, just in case there shortage of bowls as she will reached here very late.

Azni reached there at about 10:00 AM, just before the start of the game. If not we should had been disqualified. The organiser delayed the start for some other late comers as well. The first game, we had scored nicely at 393 points. But looking at the scores from the lanes next to us, I knew we had to work hard. But the score the 2nd game was bad and the third one also was bad as well.

We knew that we were not expecting to win anything, but we looked foreward to the lucky draw. I looked at the place where the prizes were kept and there 5-6 hampers, so there might be some outside chance of getting the lucky drw prize. We ate lunch after we ended our games. the food was good and provided by the organiser. After that the result annouced, we knew that the winner were the strong teams from previous year, scoring over 1600 and over 1800. After that it was the lucky draw for 3 lucky staff only.

Before the end, our team had left the venue feeling tired. Grace and Fun went shopping at the mall, whilst Azni dropped me off at Kelana Jaya.

Overall, the games was well organised. The venue was not the best --- most probably the organiser were trying out a new place. Anyhow, the food was good. A major failing was that the organiser did not gave any cup or medal to the winners, nor gave out any door gift as a momento of the event. The winners did get some cash reward as well as the hamper.

Pertandingan Bowling Terbuka Operasi 2008

Venue: Ampang Superbowl at IOI Mall, Puchong
Date: 15 Jun 2008
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

The competition was arranged by Operations Department for all departments. There were 24 teams allowed to enter subject to limitation of lanes at the venue. On top of the collection received, a sponsorship from was request to top up any shortfall. The event will be featured in publication of Buletin SSSB for period July - Sept 2008.

A team was selected to represent Finance Department with each member paying RM40.00 for games, t-shirt and lunch. They were Suzana, Azhar, Kamarul and Azizah. The recent bowling games among the Finance staff at Sunway Pyramid had allowed the members to assess themselves and gauge the expectation.

Amiera had joint Team Wacha!!!! to play with Azhar, Fendi and Rahmy.

Schedule:
10:30 am registration
11:30 am games start
14:30 pm prizes giving ceremony
15:00 pm lunch
15:30 pm End

There were technical problems at the start - 2 lanes not functional at all and the 2 teams were absorbed into 8 other groups. This had caused delay for 1/2 hour. There were limited selection of shoes due torn and damaged, and the numbers balls available were limited making it hard to find suitable ball. During the game, the lanes we were in kept giving trouble making it hard to maintain any rythm at all.
Unluckily, the Finance Team did not get any prizes at all. The scoring were averaged and none really shine out. It was not good enough to earn any prizes. Nevertheless, we gave our best.

Azizah was lucky to get a prize from the lucky draw. So all went home empty hand.

Kamarul and Suzana were called in to assist in the drawing the lots and handing out the prizes to winners. Overall we had enjoyed the food and the games. It was good opportunity to mingle out with staff from other units in the company.

The black t-shirt with logo of the company and the game was nice to wear and we can see the guys and gals wearing black t-shirt in the bowling areas, and we know they are from Safeguards Securicor. With any outing, there those who bring along their children out to the game.

It was very eventful and very pleasing seeing all coming out to enjoy the games. Thank you to Operations Department for a job well done. We hope that the next game will be organised better and prepared well.

Finance Bowling Games 2008

Venue: Sunway Pyramid, Subang Jaya
Date: 10 May 2008
Time: 12:00 noon to 2:30 pm

After two quiet and peaceful years, the staff of Finance Department had arranged for bowling games between its staffs. 20 people had entered under 5 teams:

1. Redah je.. - Siti Bazura, Rosli, Amiera, Sharudin; Colour: Green

2. Okay Lah Tu - Faridah, Azhar, Yanty, Azizah; Colour: Red

3. Meletup! - Zaidi, Rahmy, Sabariah, Gomathi was absent and replaced by Mira (daughter of Faridah); Colour: Pink 4. sUre wiN - Anjoe, Azni, Grace, Kamarul; Colour: Black5. Super Power - Suzana, Affandi, Nor Jannah, Maria; Colour: White

Teams had gathered and arrived as planned. Some staff brought along their family along to the game. After a brief explanation from the organiser, the game started at 12:00 noon. There are some technical problems (the addition on points earned need be done manually) but the games continued smoothly to the end. We all played for three games. Some participants took the chance to snap away a few photos and taking the opportunity of capturing those joyous moments of spending time together.

At 1:55pm the 3 games had ended. While the judges completed the counting of points, there was a lucky draw being organised. Winner name was pulled out from a bowl and called out to collect the prize. The winner then helped to pull the next winning name and so on. The prizes were contributed by individuals and from sponsorships.
Finally the result was announced, and that all the teams received their prizes according to ranking. The 4th and the 5th places shared the same total points. During and after prize giving ceremony, there was a photo session for the winning teams and the whole participants. The game was closed after taking pre-arranged luncheon at the venue.
The organisation committee thanked all sponsors for making the games better and more memorable. Furthermore, the committee thanked all participants for making the commitment and dedication in making the game very colourful and successful.


Results:
Team:
The winner is Okay La Tu with 1278 points.
The 1st runner-up is Super Power team with 1144 points.
The 2nd runner-up is Meletup! team with total 1057 points
Fourth and fifth places are Redah Je team and sUre wiN team with 1002 points.
Individual:
The Highest point for Male is Azhar Bin Abd Majid for getting 372 points
The Highest point for Female is Suzana Binti Abdul Rahman for getting 380 points.