Mid-week thrills... yipppeee!
"smart casual"?! wahaha. So happy."no signboard seafood"?! *smiles even wider*
This is the mega-saga e2e kick-off conference held in Le Meridien. Forget about the fact that we were there to discuss the possibility of creating a regional working platform for the unsecured lending business, forget about the fact that we were supposed to be let off at 5pm but in the end turned out to be 7pm, forget about the fact that i was supposed to present my slides today but ended up having it postponed to next day 8.30am cos' there were too many hardworking souls who read too much between the lines and presented every ton of work they had prepared (mine's only 5 slides okie!), it was still quite a pleasant day.
Colorful personalities I have met in 7 hours: from messy spunky afro-hair to chirpy humorous souls, it was a congregation of 16 Hongkongers & 20 over Singaporeans. Almost undoubtedly, I appeared to be the youngest (and one in the lowest echelon) amongst the group of high-fliers with more than half wearing the ranks of Assistant Vice-Presidents and above. Stress.. Stress...
Anyway, the main cast of the story is (what else, but) the seafood! 9 dishes we were being told. 30mins must have passed before the cold dish was being brought out. Another 30 mins before the 2nd dish. Ya, a good old 30 mins again before the 3rd. THEN, they decided to exceed customers' expectations by serving not 2 or 3, but 4 dishes all at one go! And it was not just the chilli crabs (and fried buns) that were served, the white pepper crabs also came along! *yums* Couldn't rem. when the remaining 2 dishes were placed on the table, who cares when the main characters are out?
Amazingly, I had managed to eat two halves of the body parts with just a pair of chopsticks and a porcelain spoon! I reckoned it could have tasted better if I can taste the mixture of the chilli crab sauce with the dirt on my fingernails, hee. Next time, I shall do just that!
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I got to reach home earlier than I thought cos' the vehicle was taking the ECP instead of the usual turning-here-turning-there bus routes of no. 36 or worse no. 16. No crowd. No irritating noises. Best, no tapping of ezlink card!
It was definitely a rewarding & wonderful evening! And I meant not the food ;-)
posted by slingwoof @ 11/09/2005 11:50:00 PM
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