CR Christmas Party – Filipino Style
This past weekend Robbie and I joined Matt at CR’s “2012 Year End Party”. In the Philippines things are done a little differently, and it really is “More Fun In The Philippines!” All employees of the CR Manila Shared Service Center, know as MSSC, were invited to attend (which means 1,000+ people were there). They rented out a huge convention type room at the Manila Hotel (former residence of General MacArthur) and we were there from 4:30pm – 12:30am!
The winner of a year long competition was announced between Finance, IT, HR & Downstream at the Year End Celebration
A ginger bread house inside the Manila Hotel lobby…yes real ginger bread and candy. It smelt good enough to eat, and Robbie was hungry!
“Jack Frost” met us at the door
The theme of the party “Mystique Madness”
Before the party really got started, CR MSSC employees were playing live music. Apparently they have a CR “club” for music/band in the Philippines
CR Manila’s “GLEE” club performed
CR MSSC dance club also performed
There were about a dozen caricature artists onsite…a little souvenir of the night. (Tia and Robbie)
Fortune Tellers were also available
Photo booth souvenirs from the evening.
Filipino magician Jeffrey Tam (who won “Close-up Magic 2 years in a row) performed for us and was a judge of the End of Year Performances
Matt was on the “Yellow Team” (I.T.) participating in their performance
Yellow Team was the “First Runner Up” for the year long competition and got 2nd place on their performance in the points department. They did WIN “Best Mystique Story” and “Best Performance of the Night”
There was a live (CR employee) DJ who had some great music playing after the performances and awards
Matt and Robbie held their own on the dance floor
We all had a really fun evening
For those who care to watch Matt’s performance here is a link…WARNING: It is 20 minutes long; Matt has 3 separate parts, one in the beginning, middle, and end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08TaR13V4vE
More photos of MSSC Christmas party here.
totally made my week!
Hey! I’m the fortune-teller in the picture. I came across it in a site called adobonetwork.com. I was wondering if they asked permission to use that picture you took. It’ll be really awesome if you got back to me on that. 🙂 it was a nice surprise seeing that picture.:)
Just in case you need proof that this is indeed me, here’s a pic my colleague and I took on that same day:
http://instagram.com/p/S9_JktJ2Bv/