As the serving of hot delicious Chinese New Year dishes continued, we knew that we had to get ourselves ready for the next award giving ceremony as well as more fun and exciting games – musical chairs and balloon stomp.

While all attendees were making noise chatting and mingling around, our emcee of the day Sau Hun interrupted by announcing the next program – Award Giving Ceremony for Employee of the Month (EOTM) 2012 as well as 5-Year and 10-Year Service Awards.

Going to the stage one by one, our 12 EOTM received their certificates and cash from CEO Chan, for their outstanding performance which raised the benchmark for all Exabees.

Following this was an even more prestigious award, Exabytes 5-Year and 10-Year Service Award!

Congratulations to Kevin Ooi and Chia Ying for grabbing the 5-Year Service Award, as well as KY Chan (Office Manager) and PY Ooi (Business Development Manager, Malaysia division) for grabbing the 10-Year Service Award!

We at Exabytes salute you for your immense dedication to the company.

Next, it’s the game that we had been waiting for, musical chairs. Around 10 chairs were arranged in a circle; Exabees walking around the chairs must race to sit down in one of them when the music stopped.

A simple game as it sounds, it was able create many fun and memorable moments for us to cherish.

While emotion was running high, the emcee introduced another game to further boost the atmosphere. Balloon stomp, a game that required each participant to tie an inflated balloon to one ankle was about to start.

To win, participants were to burst other participants’ balloons while keeping theirs intact when the signal to start was given. The person with the last intact balloon will be the winner!

To reward the person with the best ‘quickstep dance skills’, our 3 winners (the champion, first runner-up, second runner-up) would receive attractive prizes including vouchers, cash and backpacks.

Next, it’s time to for us to decide who dressed up the best for the night. Our Best Dressed Male and Best Dressed Female would both be rewarded with an iPad mini.

But in order to get nominated for this award, the person had to really stand out from the crowd in the costumes he or she wore!

Clement and Jerrick were proudly nominated for the male category, and Annie Ong and Candice for the female category. Check out their costumes!

Clement C (left), one of our nominees for Best Dressed Male

Jerrick Yeoh, one of our nominees for Best Dressed Male

Since there were two nominees for each category, both of them must ‘battle’ by dancing on the stage to win the heart of the audience.

Clement took a softer approach by doing his own old school dancing while Jerrick was more aggressive in his moves. Soon Annie and Candice took over the stage and entertained us with their slow but graceful dancing.

Showing off their dancing skills

Candice, one of our nominees for Best Dressed Female

Annie Ong, one of our nominees for Best Dressed Female

Best Dressed Male and Best Dressed Female

Congratulations to Clement and Candice, our Best Dressed Male and Best Dressed Female of the night for bringing home an iPad mini!

It was around 10.15 pm and the event had nearly come to a close. However, none of us was willing to leave our seats and say goodbye to each other, yet.

This was because the final round of lucky draw was about to begin! In this round, huge prizes such as two units of 42” Smart TVs, a Nikon camera, an EOS camera, a Dell laptop, an iPad, cash, etc were up for grabs!

Congratulations to all the winners for their extraordinary luck!

Finally, the clock struck 11! Before bidding farewell to each other, we definitely didn’t want to miss the chance to capture the beautiful night.

After posing for the group photos, many lucky winners brought their prizes home which marked the beginning of auspiciousness in the year of the Snake!

Exabees wish to extend a special thanks to our organizing committee for making this event such a memorable and enjoyable one!

Date: January 19, 2013
Time: 6.30 pm – 11.00 pm
Venue: Hydro Hotel Penang

If you happen to step into Carnation room at Hydro Hotel Penang on last Saturday after 6.30 pm, you might feel like you’ve gone back in time to the 1980s as celebrities and stars like The Beatles, Chan Poh Chu and Xiu Fong Fong were all seen having a gathering dinner together.

Explosion hairstyle, old-fashioned sunglasses and hair bands, huge earrings were spotted everywhere; but if you looked closely, you’d soon discover that these old-school fashion wannabes were no other than Exabees who were celebrating their 11^th annual dinner with great fun and excitements.

The fantastic prizes which were up for grabs on the night included:

• 42″ Smart TV x2
• Ipad x1
• Ipad Mini x4
• Ipod Nano
• Dell Laptop  x 1
• EOS Camera x1
• Nikon Camera x1
• Backup HDD   x1
• External HDD x 2
• Steamer  x3
• Luggage  x1
• Business Bag
• Portable Speaker x3
• Hamper x5
• RM200 + 200 Voucher + Backpack x 2
• RM100 + 100 Voucher x 2
• Dining Voucher x3
• Ang Pow x6

A total of 12 tables were set up for over 120 participants, which included Exabees and their spouses as well as the family members of Exabytes shareholders.

The wonderful night started with CEO Chan and Dato Tan giving their speeches at the very beginning to kick-start the annual dinner. Bringing us back to our 11 exciting years was a video that played on the projector.

Reminiscing the sweet memories, we were startled by our emcee of the day, Sau Hun when she announced that the first lucky draw (for early birds only) was about to begin. An iPad mini was about to be given away!

Congratulations to Fifi, the first lucky winner of the day for arriving early and grabbing the ‘first’ prize!

At around 7.20 pm, the first course of meal was ready to be served. This was no ordinary course though; every Exabees would be tossing everything served on the plate before tucking in. Yes, you’ve guessed it right!

It is the very popular ‘yee sang’ (a Chinese New Year dish)! At the same time, the toss is auspiciously called ‘lou sang’ or prosperity toss, a very popular tradition for Malaysian businessmen.

Soon the second course ensued, and we were ready to move it and have some fun being a limbo dancer! ^-^

After several intense rounds, Ku emerged as the champion of this challenging feat, and was crowned as the man who has the most ‘bendable’ torso!

Next, it’s Lucky Draw Round 2! In this round, attractive prizes such as an iPod Nano, external hard disks, backup hard disks, hampers, portable speakers, dining vouchers, etc were to be given away.

Congratulations to all the winners and we hope that this winning marks the beginning of auspiciousness in the year of the Snake!

Subsequently, Exabees are going to play some jovial and amusing games such as musical chairs. Some were lucky enough to win Grand Prizes such as 42” Smart TVs, an iPad and a Dell laptop.

Stay tuned to the upcoming post!

Click here to view all the photos in our Facebook Album!

(to be continued)