spring party, Mar. 17-18, 2007

I want to write a diary entry and some stuff about the weekend. Maybe it's a bit long-winded.

I took my dad, mom, sister and her boyfriend to our company outing, which is enough for an entire table. We woke up fairly early on Saturday to be able to arrive at the Grand Forward Hotel at 7:30AM. Actually we left so early because my dad is such an impatient person for anything and everything.

First up, let me tell you about the tour guy on the bus (team leader from 東南 travel agent). As we hit the road, she began to tell us the story of why Taiwan is called Taiwan. Her low-raspy voice made me sleepy. She was very different from the stereotypical tourguide.

Our first destination was 月眉 (Yamay) in Taichung County, which is an amusement park. We rode a few of rides. My mom and dad are not able to ride very high excitement rides, so we didn't stay there too long. The most amazing thing we saw was a circus show. I especially enjoyed watching and was even shocked at times how the rings of different sizes and different colors seemed to fly effortlessly around the dark room. I was thinking about how it was similar to the ambiance of playing lazer-tag. I am sure I would definitely like it too.

After Yamay Discovery World, we headed for the hotel "馬武督" to check in and rest for a while. Later, we had the spring party dinner with a drawing for prizes. The party was held by our sister company "亦益" and they hired a band, rather than inviting people to sing on stage. The lead singer was really cool and sang some popular songs, including Japanese songs, like "you are everything" that made many people, especially the Japanese dance like crazy. Near the end of the party, our agent forced me to dance in front of the stage. It was fairly fun then.

So, what kind of prizes did I draw? At the first round, I was quite disappointed to only get a 5,000 prize- only at very beginning second draw since the highest prize is $50,000. But the boss announced there was another round for total of $600,000-. This time I drew the lowest prize of 10,000-. So, the total is $15,000- that's higher than the lowest prizes of $13,000.- I dressed up and wore make-up, but this seemed not work too much. I was happy that my sister's boyfriend stayed with me until the end of the party and helped me to take pictures. It's nice that someone stayed with me for an entire party.

The next day on Sunday, we went to 綠世界 (Green World) , where you can discover the diversity of biological species. The place is enormous and so we just took a look at the birds garden. The most shocking thing I saw was the bird show. It might be fun for little kids to see them do tricks, but to me it looked so cruel, as I know those birds' wings were being cut for the sake of the show.

I almost forgot to say things on Sunday morning! Jimmy, Rolly, Henderson, Larry, Jerry, Jacket and me played basketball there and they nearly forgot I am a girl!!! It's a lot of fun!

The end!