This year Long Service Awards (LSA) would includes those who had worked for 10 - 14 years as well for 15, 20, 25 and 30 years ranges. The final round of karaoke contest for selection of winner to represent Malaysia will be made during this event. It was held at Pearl International Hotel, Jalan Klang Lama on 16 Aug 2008 on level 5.
For year 2008, the Finance staff who are eligible to attend are Kamarul Othman, Azzemi, Umayal, Yanty, Azizah, Noorhayati, Lee Yong and Masliza. However Azzemi, Yanty, Noorhayati and Azizah were unable to attend. Dress code for male black shirt and white pant, and for female is white dress and black skirt.
At the reception, the guests queued for the registration and goodie bag. The welcome drinks were served at the balcony by the swimming pool. The open air balcony at level 5 was nice and it was rather breezy evening.
The ceremony started with opening speeches fom Mer Ted and a doa, before break for prayers. The dinner started at 07.30 pm. The dinner course were Chinese style with 7 courses starting the normal shark fin soup, then fried rice, fried seabass with sweet sour sauce, veg in fried basket, desert were cooled longan and biscuit. Rather bland.
The singing contest started at 08:00 PM for 12 contestants from 6 regions. They came fully dressed to the occassion. There were 3 professional judges invited to select the winners. After it had ended, Mr Ted was proud to announce that he will bring not only winner but the 2nd and 3rd places also to perform at the Regional Meeting planned in Penang. The winner won RM 1,000.00 and the trip to Asia Pacific Singing Contest, the 2nd place won RM 500.00 and 3rd place was RM 250.00.
Next was showing of photos of all the recipients of the awards. It does bring back memories to those days and some were totally different from what we looked like now. It went on for 30 miniutes non-stop. The last photos En Lope Abd Rahman who had been with the company for 40 years. Among the ones who had worked for 35 years were Pushparani (CPC) and Rajagopal Sockalingam (Guardings).
There were 3 lucky draws for 2days and 1 night stay and 2 buffet dinners given by the hotel and I cannot recall who won what. There were best dress prizes as well: ladies Umayal and Wan Faridah, male: Siva Shanker, a guards and me. So we had to parade ourselves over the stages. The winners were Umayal and Siva Shanker ( Each gets cash RM100 and a hamper).
When the main event started it was a bit confusing but total number of recipients were 315 people. Every participant was given a number and to queue up as their number was called. My number was 236 so I had to wait until most the crowd getting their awards before getting mine. The last recipient was En Lope Abd Rahman for 40 years service.
The winners for singing contest were announced last with pop and glitters. And the night closed with photography session. Mohd Faizal (ATM PJ) won 1st place, Nazri Omar (ISO JB) at 2nd and 3rd place was Dego bin Dail (Kota Kinabalu).
I had shook the hands of Mr Ted and Mr Siva thanking them before thanking Mr Eugene and the organising committee team members. I know how hard it is to organise an event such as this as I was involved on organising a few events previously. You will not satisfy everyone but I think this team scored 90%.
Schedule for other regions:
East Coast - 13 to 14 Jun 2008
Southern - 21 Jun 2008
Sabah - 28 to 29 June 2008
Northern - 19 Jul 2008
Perak - 9 to 10 Aug 2008
