Capella Singapore Staycation

Last weekend, I had a privilege to join Abbott IFO teambuilding event hosted at Capella Singapore.

GGH was the invited guest by the host (he is not part of Finance hence needs invitation), and every employee had a night stay at the luxury Capella. And thankfully, GGH invited me. hehhee.

 

Capella is unique in it's own ways - their buildings are curved and modern but with interaction of the colonial buildings too. Their theme (I presumed), should be modern but yet with lush greeneries for a relaxing stay.

 

Some of their rooms faces the South China Sea (Ocean view), is priced slightly higher than their premier rooms.

 

 

My favourite love with this hotel is the huge bathtub! Moreover, their bathtub has a great view of outside! Note: Each rooms have different layouts. But all are huge and luxurious!

 

Below was our room's bathtub.

 

A standalone make up section for Him + Her.

 

With a huge bed, it also has a long comfortable sofa that you can enjoy your readings facing the Sea.

Having our ocean view room, I watched sunset with the boy on the sofa and it was a wonderful moment. :)

 

They have 3 pools in all, so you need not worry about having too many in the pool. All of them are big enough.

 

What's so fantastic about this hotel is their services that comes with your stay:

1) A personal assistant to help you with everything and anything during your stay.

p/s: we requested ice for drinking, they gave a huge bucket for it! without asking!

2) FREE wifi all throughout the hotel!!!

3) In-Room refreshments like fruits basket and EVERYTHING in the mini-bar is FREE!!!!

4) Capella Library with free flow of drinks and pastries

 

 

Both days, we went to the Library because it was very relaxing, quiet and we could just spend our afternoon away sipping tea and chit chatting or even reading the variety of books. Excellent place to past time away.

 

My 1 night stay was totally relaxing and wonderful. We even went for a morning run at the beach.

The breakfast thereafter was fabulous too!

Wholesome and complete. :)

 

 

 

Sunset moments with you are precious. :)

Happening Youngsters @ Treetop Executive

The weekend before my last week, the finance youngsters went on a weekend staycation!

It was a Treetops Executive located at Orange Grove Road (opposite Shangrila). Thanks to chue chue, we managed to get a premium 2 bedroom for this event.

 

 

 

The entrance, where you see swimming pool. Without further ado, we quickly checked into our room! It was spacious!!!  The master bedroom can sleep 3 person!

 

Spacious living room

 

Kitchen with fully equiped hardwares!!!

 

 

Another room with twin bedding.

 

We started BBQ-ing early since we had spare time and the focus was night games. So cam whore abit while the guys start fire.

 

Food provided by my dad's workspace, BBQ wholesale.

 

And the night fun begins! We started with Twister as warm up... and the 2 guys demo-ed.

 

We went in rounds, and this picture is like punishment! 3 of us not wanting to step over each other's territory. haha.. But quite tiring leh. cause my tahan all the sorts of position...

 

Brendan, who used his weight and pushed us all out. lol.

 

The next game was the marble game. There's this empty container floating on top of a basin of water. Each can take turns to drop the marble. When the container sinks, you lose. Not very fun lah. The most exciting is the next one. hehe..

 

The egg game!!! Adapted from Running Man!!!

In case you haven watched Running Man = in a basket of eggs, there are a couple of eggs that are raw. So if you get raw ones, you're out.

Our improvised game includes choosing your own egg, but someone else from another team will have to smash you. It was SOOO FUN. But gross... ahahaha

Can you see the yolk flying?!!!!

Very wen rou...

The ultimate. Both smashed at the same time cause 1 of it is raw.

It's really great bonding time playing such games. :)

 

The happenign youngsters!!!!

 

Esther and Sylvia left, so the rest of us started playing drinking games.. and Brendan was the first to be down. Opps. and kanna drawn... haha...

 

The next morning, we finished up the leftovers from BBQ, and cooked up some breakfast for ourselves!! Don't look fantastic, but the mushroom was fab!!! By chef brendan! :)

 

It was a very fun weekend, and I had a great bonding session with all of them.

Defintely miss all of them. Great team!

Kick Off Meeting @ Resorts World

Even though we hit our Plan numbers, we weren't allowed to go overseas due to Area saying budget cut. So... We ended up at Resorts World Sentosa.

The kick off meeting was from 10-12 Jan 2014. Friday morning was our meeting before checking in in the afternoon. It was bad bad co-ordination. Not sure if was MCI problem or Festive problem. But I suspect it's Festive.

The thing is, we actually did indicate the number of people going (we could invite immediate family members to stay), but at the end, some of us didn't have extra bed.. like me. I had 3 person including me, but I had no bed. So, they switched me to another room. And the room was worst than this below.

This is apparently the newer one (at 8th floor) which is brighter and cleaner. But this room cannot add extra bed. WTF.

After a big whooha with several people who got affected, we finally settled down like at 5pm.

Festive Hotel review: 

Bad service. Some beds are not clean. Smell like Genting. Quality like Genting. No 5 star feel.

Breakfast was... UTTERLY BAD. Worst ever breakfast. No much spread and not nice at all. I think I cook nicer.  

Will not stay there again for such a price. I think it cost about $350++.

After playing awhile of blackjack, it was time to go for our dinner which is at Universal Studios Singapore!

They open just for us. :)

Love this board. Very nice.

The red carpet inviting us in.

There was a pre-cocktail event at the threatre before the actual dinner. And they hired sesame street to hang around just for our event. Family members were invited for the dinner as well, so that's why I think they hired them cause got alot of kids.

In addition, the also extended the spielberg show for us.

And the dinner begins! Right in the middle of USS!! It's amazing. hahaha...

Side tracking...  

I think they spent alot of this event since we couldn't go overseas. So comfort abit lah. haha.

Not only they spent alot on this dinner, we also did receive RWS dining vouchers for $100 per person you have. Which means, I registered for 2 person, I have a total of $300!!! Imagine we have about 100 employees for ANI, that's a whooping $30,000!!! Just on vouchers!

Also, all registered person have free entrance tickets to what you have previously chose on the activites for Saturday. There were USS tickets, Aquarium, Adventure Cove. Imagine those tickets mutliply by the numbers of employees + kids + spouse. *sweat*

Overall, dinner was slightly better than lunch at Festive. But still, not worth paying.

Had buffet and also Spot award and achievement presentation. Whole event ended at 11pm.

The Stage

                                           Sweet GGH gave me this in the middle of the dinner.

The next day, my brother and sis-in-law came for swimming with baby Velda before heading to USS. Yes, I brought them cause it's Velda's birthday, and my eldest bro recently also already went to RWS as well. And, I also gave them the USS tickets. haha... I nua-ed at the hotel, swimmed, gym-ed, and people watch at Starbucks. Good life. haha. And I gave half of my vouchers to them to spend!!!! There goes my $150 :(:(
But oh well, I think Velda had a great time there so it's okay! :)

Grumpy?

At night, we surprise Esther which happens to be on 12th Jan!!! She's leaving us this Feb... sobs...

She's my qing ai de in office. :)

That sums up my kickoff meeting :) Oh ya, we have officially moved to IFO - International Finance Organisation. We no longer belong to ANI already. hahaha. dunno good or bad.

Surprise surprise ...

One of my successful surprise! Glad this turned out well.
had a birthday party for my dear karin whose birthday falls on 16th Sept. So, I gathered a few of her good friends whom I've met and went out a couple of times, and decided to throw her a Staycation!
The Staycation was at Naumi Liora Keong Siak Road. We chose this cause it's one of the boutique hotels which all of us have not been to. Apparently, many of the girls went to many other boutique hotels and I haven been to yet!!
Naumi Liora is actually a sister of a more atas luxury hotel - Naumi Hotel which is located near City Hall i think. But it's closed for renovations till end of 2013.
So, I went to Spotlight after my gym to buy balloons and pump the helium. Spotlight provides such services, of course at a cost. I pumped 6 balloons and I took a cab because it was kinda embarrassing to carry it in the train myself. haha... maybe cause it's pink. And i'm not a very pink person. hurhur...
I went to check in around 3pm and was told the room wasn't ready. So I left my barangs, and went back to PS to get Rive cake. Rive cakes are always good :) One of my favourite place to buy birthday cakes.
After that, I headed back and was able to check in. Was a bit disappointed because the pictures on web looks big but it's not. But the porch is big. We booked the room with a porch. When they rest came, we started to plan out what to eat etc, went to buy famous Tong Yat Zi char. Honestly, I would definitely go back and eat again. Really nice!
So anyway, when we knew she was coming (we texted her bf), we hid outside the porch. I was very nervous standing by the door side just waiting for her to open the porch door. I could hear my heart pumping. haha.. think I very long didn't do such thing liao. #signsofaging
She sense something amiss... so she didn't went out to the porch.. then we decided to crash in! And she got shocked. haha... I thnk the good thing was she didn't expect which group of her girlfriends. Cause usually we go out in 4's. So I was glad I asked her other 4 good friends too!
So we have dinner together and took lots of photos before playing games and drinking. Played till 3/4am before going back home. Damn tired. I think I really cannot "ton" overnight liao... haha... ok, till then. Photo spam!