August!

Hello all

Happy 08/08/08 to you all. As we all know the world is set to celebrate the Olympics hosted by Beijing this month, however over the past weekend we had our own reasons for celebration.

Lani's 35th birthday bash, and what an event it was!

The evening started with a VIP dinner for our local dignitaries. This was also our team member's first try at catering services. I'm happy to report that our team of miss matched members did very well and got some valuable experience out of it.

The dinner was a buffet of local delicacies prepared by our new chef who started cooking at 10 pm the night before! (The cooking finished 5 minutes before the gates opened) Amongst the delicious dishes, there were 6 whole roasted pigs! Needless to say there was plenty of left overs, which I'm sure our team were quite happy about.

Following the dining, the party shifted to our new utility hut for a disco. As part of our phase two construction, six new guest chalets are going up as well as a central bar/reception and restaurant. The past two weeks we have accelerated the progress of this structure so that we could use it for this disco.

What made this disco even more special was that we had hired the services of a professional radio DJ to DJ at little old Sun Xi Resort. The jockey was "James Spider Kaka" from ABS-CBN network radio: MOR 97.1FM.

It's great to be able to say Sun Xi Resort helped put Lepanto/Alegria on the radar by bringing in professional "celebs."

There was lots of dancing and it goes without saying a lot of drinking, and in the end I feel it was a good night for both guests and team members of the Sun Xi Resort.

However, the celebrations were not over. We were awoken at about 3am to a choir who sang their hymns and expressed their birthday wishes in song.

The following day, we managed to tear down the rig of the disco, as well as clean up in time to host some local sporting events in that same utility hut. This saw hundreds more people turn up to enjoy the activities as well as the beautiful weather up at Sun Xi.

So , all in all, not a bad shindig in my opinion. Nothing like turning 35 and having a whole village celebrate it I guess haha!

Pictures on the way soon and HAPPY BIRTHDAY LANI

Tim