Between the grand Arts House and the laid-back Timbre@Substation, I chose the latter for the networking session organised for graduating students from the 3 local unis. Timbre's a great chill-out place and presented a refreshing vibe for a corporate event.
"Oh wow! At Timbre? That's really cool!" some students exclaimed when I told them our session will be held at Timbre.
"Wow, I have great support from the officers for this event (20 signed up). I wonder if they're keen to engage young minds or...?" I wondered out loud to a colleague.
"Don't be naive! It's Timbre, that's why!" the colleague chided.
On the afternoon of the session, the sky was dark and it was threatening to rain. Pour, even. Extremely worried and uptight, I harassed everyone in sight and wailed that it was going to rain. Lynn called up the meteorological service, Lee Sar offered to pray to the Sun God, Becky and I discussed Plan B, and I freaked the Timbre lady out with Plan B - shifting the event back to EDB. :D
Miraculously, the clouds cleared, the drizzle stopped and by 5:15, we were down at Timbre preparing for the big night ahead.
Haven't you heard? Rubik's cubes are in again
The "early birds" - Chin Tan & Ih-Ming who came to "do some reading". huh?
The real early birds came at about 5:30pm. Lee Sar kept hounding us to let the guests in but Ming & I insisted on completing the setup first
(From left: Swan Gin, Angeline, Eugene, Gabriel & ??)
(From left:Me, Lynn, Becky & Ming)
(From left: Ling, Ih-Ming & Chin Tah)
(Center: Julian, who came just for the beer :D)
The Q&A Panel in which the ladies were obviously not paying attention to Swan Gin and busy posing for the camera...
Lee Sar (with her beer, of course!)
Evon and Chin Tah's table
Julian's table
Desmond's table
Gabriel's table
Ming!
Jonathan's table
Gerri's table
Jasvinder's table
Weixiang's table
Jon TZE :) and Tze Yang's table
Angeline & Eugene's table
The cute Ming & Lee Sar
A big THANK YOU to my team for all the help! Shirlyn & boss for handling the messy PO & PR nonsense; Boss, Lynn & Becky for tagging and twisting the heads off the little Trexis; Ming for being the photographer of the night.
And of course the wonderful officers & bosses who came down for the event and engaged the students - Thank you! Students went away with the conviction that we're fun, dynamic and exciting. :)
Cheers!
~ posted by Chee Huey
What's in the goodie pack
We each got a handmade lanyard (cute access card not included)
Ta da! We're all wearing the lanyards! :)
