Team-Building
Everyone woke up early to have some light breakfast before going to beachside for the teambuilding games. Earlier, we were broken up into 4 balanced teams before the trip. It cut down so much time needed to reorganize everyone under the burning sun.
- Hey! I know you!
The first game: Face-off against each other to …. name your opponent! The rule is simple. Just name the person of the opposing team according to his/her passport (full name). Moral of the game: Take an effort to know everyone from your company. It is hilarious to see people trying to figure out the Chinese name, when we use to call each other in English names and even worst still, trying to say out a full Indian name.
The second game: Move across the finishing line with all team members staying within the space provided (Newspaper). It is kind of hard when you have 10 members trying to squeeze to constrain within piece of newspaper.
- Bonding Constraining Moving
- Lynette Preparing the Number Boxes
The third game: A game of math and organization. The game master will shout out a number and the teams would need to add up to the amount. The rules are that you are restricted to the number of your teammates (10 person) and each person must be in any of the numbers. The other groups had an accountant each in their group but so what? My group has two programmers! LOL. Calculations settled easily.
The fourth game: A combination of ‘Fill water into the bottle’ and ‘Pass the message’. It’s a challenging game where you need to gather enough water as well as remember the message to pass to your team mate.
- Pictionary on Sand
The final game: Pictionary on the Sand. Each team would select 3 members to draw a item for the rest of the team to guest. There were four rounds of items to draw, so we would need to rotate our roles and have each members given a chance to participate. It is no sweat for each team as there is a whole pool of artists (and those who think that they are artist) among us.
When all the games were completed, the game masters gathered to tally up the scores. I reckon my team did quite well and would be at least 2nd place. True enough the game masters announced the score and there was a tie with another group at first place! So we are down to the final death match of … Name Your Opponent again!
Sadly, my team lost … but Congrats to the other team.
- Team-building Game a Success!
Nasi Padang
For lunch, we went to try out the local food called Nasi Padang. It’s like a small buffet with small servings of various dishes which I cannot name. The favourite phrase at lunchtime was “Please pass me the … whatever that yellow thingy is”
- Nasi Padang Row
- Pura Tanah Lot
Pura Tanah Lot
Pura Tanah Lot is a temple which sits on an offshore rock formation. It has a mythological background in which the temple was build to worship the Bali Sea God. At its base, it is the home of poisonous sea snakes, the holy guardians of the temple.
This temple is one of the seven important sea shrines in Bali which are actually within eyesight of one another to form a mythical ‘protection chain’ to safeguard Bali. Read more about Tanah Lot Here.
- Grand Temple Entrance
Pura Taman Ayun
Pura Taman Ayun (Garden Water Temple) is one of six royal temples in Bali. It was the royal temple for the Mengwi Dynasty in the 17th Century. According to our tour guide, this temple was always packed with worshipers in its high time.
It was actually built on an ‘island’ in a river and the main temple buildings are surrounded by a moat. When we first reach the temple, we saw some villagers fishing along the river banks. We cannot go into the main structure but can only walk around the moat and take pictures of the temple from the outside.
- Going Around Taman Ayun
- Hu
Hu’u Bar
Dinner on this night was at a fancy fine-dining restaurant called Hu’u Bar. We were required to dress up nicely for this occasion. The food was … let just say it’s fine dining. It is nice but in portion half the size you would pay for it.
I actually found out from the site that Hu’u Bar is part of a boutique package created to provide an entire Bali sensation to its customers, ranging from food, art, architecture, music, wedding service and surf. Not bad of an Idea …
- Restaurant Ambience
Party @ Kuta
Here comes the much awaited MFX Party! At first we wanted to go to this famous Club 66. What is so exciting about this Club you might ask … This club has it’s own bungee jump.
It was a short five minutes walk from the main road as the bus was unable to go through the small lane. For some reason, the Club was without activity on that night, so we went to another club instead, which so happened has an owner who knew Moon! And so we partied here instead!
So what’s great about partying with your boss? You don’t have to pay for it!
Read more about the Bali Trip Here:
