when the team goes on building

i originally wanted to post these pictures in my multiply account but i figured it will be more relevant to tell the stories behind the images you will be seeing in this entry... :)

let's start off with the pre-trip giddiness:
you could smell the "petiks" aroma in the air... people were busy traveling to different cubicles... gathering whoever is at sight and snapping some shots... here are just some of the evidences:

----> with me are krissy (in blue), amiel (in red) and daycee (to amiel's right)... it is interesting to note that in a previous picture, i was cropped by none other than jan eric venus.... >:<








yup! you can feel davey's excitement just by looking at his pose... haha :p too bad he wasn't able to join... that freakin' a(h1n1) scare got all businessmen wetting their million-dollar pant suits... with us are candy, sheila, rooo and kris....

since we've been working our asses off, shutting down our pcs at exactly 12 noon was like giving lil kids christmas presents in may... and so we mad-dashed towards the elevator and and grabbed our seats in our van... of course, settling in won't stop us from taking shots... ;)

yes, as you can see in the above picture (left), mc is trying to cover my face but she only succeeded slightly... haha :)

once we were in island cove already, we had our first group shot!

whoever said team buildings need to be all serious and work-related all the time? the people behind motivating minds, our partner facilitators, prepared cool and crazy games for us so that we could bond more...












of course we had our jump shot... :)

















our previous shots all look silly because we could not time our jump properly... we had more than ten frames of us trying in vain to catch the right time to jump... it was fun looking at all the frames coz it captured just how happy we were at jumping again and again and again... haha :p



also, we had our night bonding where we got to learn a little something from each other... we started at around 11 pm and ended at 4 am... talk about bonding... haha :p


it started out as a girl's talk then turned into an elaborate game of around the world... at first i was clueless on how to play the game but as it progressed, i slowly got in on the game... it's very tricky but fun once you already know how to play it... hehe :) and then we went on again with our girl talk... it was a nice experience coz each got to share his/her story and we all got to learn from it... it felt good knowing that these people put their trust on me and shared with me their experiences...


finally, we had to say goodbye but it wasn't a sad one since we knew that we took more than we've expected from team building... ;)