Not so techy

I compelled myself to stay awake the whole night Sunday to accomplish two things: first, to prepare myself as I will go the night shift schedule on Monday (November 05) and second, to finish printing our Christmas Party invites which are set to be distributed soon so our target guests would be able to block their schedules. It’s somehow unpopular as our Christmas Party this year will be held on a Sunday, and that is December 09. As to why we chose a Sunday, please do not blame me or any of my team members. Due to my lackadaisical attitude (I started scouting for venues only mid-August), our dream venues like One Esplanade and Le Pavilion were all booked since June for all Saturdays of December. Tsk tsk! It slipped my mind and didn’t realize that December’s really a peak season for Christmas Parties and weddings. So when I was already half-hearted to make a reservation with a bar somewhere in the Fort Bonifacio area, my team member Gerry chanced upon this elegant venue in the web. And so we did an ocular inspection and alas, right there and then made a deal! We will have our 2007 Christmas Party in the The Blue Leaf Events Pavilion! (http://www.theblueleaf.com.ph)

Next thing to scout… the caterer! Blue Leaf has its accredited caterers and so we’re obliged to get one from this list. I first met with two reps from a well-known catering company to government offices and was almost final with our deal. But somewhere along the negotiation, we were not able to agree on the price (and since my friend Ryan Salamat) told me the caterer’s isn’t really good, I chose the other famous (and yes, better!) caterer. Thanks to the good feedback I heard from Tintin Bersola (nah, we’re not that close!), to the good selling spiels of their Marketing Person Rod Ocampo and to the mouth-watering food they served us during the food tasting, we finally chose Josiah’s Catering. And yes, I highly recommend them! Check their website (http://josiahcatering.com/new/modules/content/index.php?id=1) for further info.

Almost done… and now some dirty jobs. I immediately met my Great Place to Work Council members to inform them about the details of the party (the date, the venue and the caterer) and of course to get their thoughts as to what gimmickry we will stage on this exciting event. My proposal of a Chorale Singing Contest was unanimously accepted. Thanks to Queenie and Pong for backing me up! I made up committees and assigned its members and told everybody that once and for all, I wanna experience the party and really enjoy. (Nothing in the past three Christmas Parties I had with Project Black Pearl I enjoyed fully as I am always part of the Organizing Committee, if you can call our former People Matters Trio a committee at all!). They all agreed and so I was relieved. Abby and Ever will order the Christmas GCs; Migs, Pong and Mar to host the event; Gerry to coordinate with Blue Leaf and Josiah for final details; Queenie, Wang, Francesca and Marky to handle the program; Iche to draft the teaser and the invites; and the rest of the GP2WC members to man the registration table and be the ushers and usherettes. Hmmm, I can smell a relaxing evening for me!

And so all things are plan and settled and we’re now just waiting for the night! And since my printer isn’t done yet printing the 350 pieces of invites, I decided to tick the keyboards once more to write something. But actually, I didn’t have a good start; I forgot how to replace the ink cartridge… hmp! Blame it to my ignorance to technical stuffs… and my impatience to read manuals… But I finally learned it through making “kalikot”. Gosh!!! During these times, I wish have my techy friend with me. He who knows everything about computers. He who knows how to troubleshoot almost everything. And he knows how to bear with my ignorance on these technical things. I really hate it… and I can almost hear my friend laughing on me!!! Keber ko, mas matalino naman ako sa iyo wahaha!!!