EITA Sports Club 2014-2015

EITA 18th Annual Dinner (24th Jan 2015)

On Saturday, 24th Jan 2015, EITA held its 18th annual

dinner at Pullman Hotel, Bangsar. Circus Carnival Night

theme was chosen this year promising a colorful and fun

event for the night!

Selangor EITA Sports Club had started to prepare few

months back, work around the clock and prepared many

pre-event activities that leads to the success of 18th

annual dinner:

Invitation to our honored VIPs and guests. We

have exceeded our initial estimate for the

number of attendees and in the end, 36 tables

were booked.

Sponsorship campaign to our sponsors. A very

big Gratitude to our generous sponsors!

Preparation for the door gifts, awards and

presenter’s gifts.

Planning fun and exciting program flow for

the night, ensuring the momentum keeps

flowing.

Preparation for one of the most epic Staff performance!

Getting all the food and beverages in order.

Briefing, guidance for the ushers and reception committee.

A lot more other tasks to take care of

which no one will ever notice! Such as decorations

placement, organize lucky draw prizes…

Surprisingly EITA staff started to arrive as early as

530 pm even before the committees managed to

take a short break. They were lead to registration,

followed up by a lucky draw at the well-organized

prize redemption counter, hassle and queue free.

The staff prizes range from generous amount of

cash vouchers to electrical appliances and hampers. This

year pre-lucky draw was the first time where no staff

walks away empty handed, every staff stand a chance to

win thanks to the generous sponsors. Even after they did

not win a prize at this pre-lucky draw, they were still

entitled to take part in the subsequent Grand Lucky Draws

later that evening. Of course, the Grand Lucky Draws’

prizes were much higher in value with the top prize being

the 50inch LCD television!

This year the photo wall was one of its kind, featuring

actual snakes in which guests and staff can hold and

pose, clown wigs and nose for taking memorable shots.

The photographers who stationed here would take a

photo and print it immediately to hand it to the guests.

A big shoutout to all staffs for making the extra effort

to dress up in accordance to the Carnival Circus theme,

they even have face painted and mini magical hats.

Some of the outstanding costumes include mimes, clowns, animal outfits, magician, and definiitely

the most eye catching of them all, the ring masters!

This 18th Annual Dinner’s programme was packed with not

only lots of suprising exciting performances, but engages the

crowd to participate and interact, creating a huge fun crowd.

It started with a VIP Red-Carpet walk-in with their names

being announced ushered by staffs who were dressed in

Circus costumes, shortly after, it proceeded to the Opening

Gambit with a performance by our beloved MC. Next, there

were the speeches by the Organizing Chairman, Mr. MK Tan

and Group Managing Director, Mr. Fu Wing Hoong, followed

by Choy Sun Yeh (God of Prosperity). The Choy Sun Yeh were handing out Ang Pows (containing Big

Sweep lottery ticket) to distribute to everyone who was present.

Dinner was then presented by the hotel which

started with the traditional Yee Sang. The special 9

course Chinese Menu was prepared for the night.

The MC did an amazing job in bringing out the fun

and exciting atmosphere throughout of the night.

She engages the crowd to swing their napkins when a

music plays out, to distribute winning tickets which

can later be redeemed for a surprise gift, everyone

went wild when the music plays out. She even sang

multi language songs, and duet with one of our

guests from France with one of the most well known french classic –“La Vien en Rose”, and even a

chinese song “Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin” with one of the

staffs. The night was continued with belly dance performance,

followed up by best belly dancer by the guests and staff. Not

to mention, guys had their own “sexy guys” performance too

where staffs and guests voluntary participate. They need to

show off their manliness and mimic a dance by the performers.

All the guests and staff who participates wallks away with

appreciations gifts. It doesn’t end just there, guests and staffs

were amazed with the transformation of belly dancers into fire eaters!

Long Service Awards were presented to 13 staffs (5 staffs received 4 years Long Service Award and 9

staffs received 10 years Long Service Award) and each received a gold pendant as an appreciaition

for their hardwork.

The fun of the night doesn’t just stop there, best dressed man and woman were chosen from the

guest and staff. They were then called up on to stage, each given their space and time to showoff,

gaining the crowd’s support to win. All participants were

given prizes regardless of their placing.

The highlight of the night wasn’t there not until the grand

finale, the staff performance. The staffs had prepare 2

months prior to the night, enhancing the circus carnival

mood by first performing a musical circus perfomance, in

which the ring leader brings in the animals, followed by

clowns

and hula

girls. The performance then changed into a short

dance. The circus night was then eneded by a

surprise flash mob from the rest of the staffs,

which had been secretly training few months ago

too. Guests later join in the fun as they wanted to

be part of the great night!