Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Visit of national ballet and StarCity


Tatlong Kuwento Ni Lola Basyang - still do not know what exactly the title of the ballet means, but this ballet was something amazing. 3 different stories as performance of members of Filipino national ballet group.

3 main different things comparing to Europe ballet.
1. Dressing up - We, trainees, came dress up (as standards in Europe are dictating), but here, people just simply enjoy, do not bother too much with dressing up for ballet.

2. National anthem - sung prior to start...(together with listing all the sponsors of the event)

3. Story teller - "lola" - the old lady before every "ballet story" was explaining to the audience what is the next part going to be about. So people can really relax and not to think about what actaully was the story ballet was supposed to express...(on the another site people are not force to think so much and coming up with phantasy:). We actually could train our brains and think because stories were told in tagalog :).



StarCity
As actually the 4th different thing was all the attendees of ballet got free ticket to StarCity - place full of attractions, scare houses and shops with items for 10 PhP (= 1/4 of USD ;)).

Usually I love these kind of places - go and tickle your adrenalin...but StarCity was even more adventurous! As EU is not having its long hands in this country with all the restrictions and rules, the security standards, how to describe that, "are tickeling your adrenalin even more than needed". Basic chain and thats it...even 2 more guys would fit to one sit with me and there would be still some space to easily fall out! However amazing place to come...what was also funny about this place where in most cases "people do not feel so well after few rounds" - food stands! As Philippines are really "food adicted nation" I would honestly proclaim, imagine yourself on one of the "secure" attractions and smell all the food around...one would p... //--\\


Monday, December 15, 2008

Headway Yearend Party



Last Saturday, December 13 we had our Headway Yearend Party. That event was to summarize whole year, thank to employee for they contribution and of course to spend time together and enjoy. The event started around 7 pm when all of the guests gathered in Café Attivo, small restaurant near our office. We started with delicious dinner and even more delicious desert :) after making our stomachs full we started the program. Hosts of the evening were: Michelle (Accounting Assistance from HBS) and Justin (Business Consultant from HPL). On the beginning we had speeches of Mike and Flo, our Headquarter, later Noli, Tim and Akie (managers of Headway companies) shared their thoughts and gave wishes for next year.
After the official part we started games :)we had both team and individual games. I have to admit that I had a great fun to see all the people completing tasks and doing different funny things :) one of the games was: How good do you know your Manager?. Both managers and employees were asked few questions; the task was to answer in the same way without communication. HDI (Headway Dynamics) team become the winner, they know each other very well :) rest of the teams should spend more time with each other and get to know, integration meetings are recommended :P . We also had time to exchange gifts and we choose Best Look Girl and Boy of the evening, our winners were Flo and Jewel but she left earlier so we decided to give award to Ate Elsa :) Whole evening finished at 1 am and till the end we enjoy time together had a lot of nice moments and laugh. I think that idea of organizing such events is a great. We had chance to gather all employees and show how thankful we are that they are with us.


We as a Headway would like to wish you Happy Holidays and All the best for New Year!