Ascott Centre for Excellence

Months of preparation for the big day - the grand opening of our global training centre, ACE. I was supposed to be "head" of the committee but I think I did nothing as much as AK and Pei. The usual small hiccups, squabbles and occasional "bitching" but it all turned out well on the BIG day. Such a relief it's over. The experience has brought some of us closer and at the same time, brought out the ugliest in some of our colleagues. Media coverage and general feedback was good, phew!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/355389/1/.html

Next BIG event - the grand opening of Ascott Singapore Raffles Place in October - watch this space :-)

The Marquee and garden on our basketball court and football field - yes I work here!

The event backdrop in the Marquee

The Happy Committee and ushers of the day!

Drowning

It's that sinking feeling of "when will I EVER finish my daily to-do list"! There's still so much to do... I've been in the office till nearly 9 the past 2 weeks. Last week I nearly dozed off at the wheel on my way home. Rena said, "Wind down the windows!!!" And that's what I did tonight. TGIF - tomorrow! Got to get back to work now on a speech that was due 4 hours ago :-(

Wii Time

Spent the evening at Angie's after a BBQ with Alvin & the family at SAFRA Resort. They have a Wii and after his short experience with the little white box at Belle's a few weeks ago, Gideon was all excited to try it out again. We had loads of fun bowling followed by boxing... Even I felt the "itch" to give it a shot! My hands went soft after just one round of boxing training! But it was really quite fun. Can't believe how silly I look and how badly the adults fared compared to Rus and Gid :-(

Pretty Song

Heard this over TVBS the other day from the bathroom and was surprised when I stepped out and realised this pretty song from Music & Lyrics (original version by Hugh Grant & Haley Bennett) has been re-rendered by 2 M'sian Chinese pop singers, Ping Guan and Fish Leong. And just a minute ago, as it played over the same channel, Terence commented "Nice song". Hmmm... so here it is, enjoy and fall Way Back Into Love just listening to this very pretty song, in 2 very different renditions :-)

A Chinese Performance

After nearly 10 weeks at Tien Hsia, Gideon managed his first end of term performance with his classmates. Much to our surprise, he put up a brave and rather "loud" performance. Tien Hsia has managed to encourage him to speak Mandarin but writing remains a huge problem... one step at a time, I suppose.

Check out "Mr Fox" (second from left). He's supposed to be a tadpole... ha ha!