A regal champion night

For this particular year, we fell back on the old faithful corporate theme. The stage had great colours and my partner and I did our best to match with our outfits. Have you noticed that his bowtie matches my dress? Coordination is key in every respect for a successful awards night.

Been around the world and aye yai yai...

Swing Out Sisters famous song would have made a good theme song for this night where we were taking all awardees for a spin around the globe. We had such a fantastic time playing dress-up with different costumes from all over the world. Frankly, I did not know which country I was going to come from until that very night. Our costumers thought I might do Egyptian, but then decided at the last minute that since they had this great blonde wig, they might as well make me up to be a Flamenco dancer from Spain. I loved it! My friends were calling me "ang-mo porh" (you'll have to know some Chinese to understand that phrase). At least I know now what I would look like blonde.

Annual dinner Under The Sea

This was such a great event. I love hosting the annual staff dinner and dance. Because I worked in the company, I could really personalise the event, picking out names and characters everyone could identify with. Better yet, I could pronounce all the names correctly, which is a huge boost to anyone's self-esteem when they hear their name being called out correctly.

This theme was absolutely amazing and the event company outdid themselves in dressing up the venue, I really felt I was on the set of the Little Mermaid. Really, if you have a watery theme, it can feel so dreamy. The icing on the cake was that we had such fantastic staff performances that night, we could have been on "Malaysia Has Talent". I feel every staff annual dinner should have staff performances, it is such a showcase for staff to let loose and release all that creative energy. Plus it provides such a great laugh to all attending, and best of all, everyone can identify with the people on stage which gives the whole evening a warm, fuzzy feeling all over.

Celebrating a glass house

With the opening of our new head office in Europe and rebranding from old to new owners, we felt it was fitting to showcase the beautiful glass house in the motherland of this company. Those who visited and returned to tell the tale, it was said to be an amazing sight. So honouring the new head office meant going with the corporate theme of Orange. That was a tremendous feat the event company got up to, putting together a replica of the glass house. And 3 dimensional too, so that awardees could walk out of it to great effect.

Annual dinner Living La Vida Loca

It was the year that Ricky Martin was all the rage. Such a great song and theme for a lively staff annual dinner. We had such a great time with staff performances, fantastic generous lucky draw prizes, and hilarious games. Even though I was emcee, I simply couldn't resist participating. Had to run a great distance in my heels to make it up on stage into that chair.

A visit to the land of waltz and violins

What a beautiful theme! This year the agency trip incentive was to visit Vienna, Austria and the stage set was gorgeous. Could have done with a little more colour lights, but it was magical nonetheless. We had a little trap door from which emerged one of our country's famed violinist, and just look at the outfit. I've never worn a dress so regal in my life! I was so lucky to have found this positively electric blue and I daresay the colour suits me well.

Annual dinner lost in space

Unfortunately, I never got the photographs for this year's staff annual dinner. I think we had a replacement photographer that year and he wasn't too proud of his pictures. But if I do get hold of them, I'll certainly post them to complete the set.