GX Instructors Night Out @ Shogun

What a night!!! On the 27th of October 2007, more than 20 GX instructors from True Fitness gathered at Shogun Restaurant, 1 Utama. For exact number of attendees, count yourself from the pic above ... hahaha. Anyways, a few early birds arrived on the dot at 6:30pm. As time pass, more and more streamed in. Those who came in attacked the buffet line immediately. Choices and food variety were aplenty and our seatings were rather good too thanks to our organizers, Alex and Su. The theme for the night was PURPLE coz it's TF's colour ma. Most of us came in the right colour code though Alexander still insist that his 'blue' Giordano t-shirt is indeed purple. Hmmmmph ...

I tell you ... instructors eat like there's no tomorrow. We ate and we binged and we walloped so much. Too much in fact that it's bordering a level of obscenity. And the noise we generated ... hahaha, we simply brought the house down especially during the 'Unlucky draw'. Everyone else were staring at us but who cares ... we had loads of fun and that;s what matters. In fact, Eng Guan & Co managed to scare away the table beside them with all those 'dirty talk' going on. Haha. BTW, Eng Guan, if you ever decide to quit your job from Alliance, stand up comedy is so your thing. :) Go for it and spread some cheer to the rest of the world.

The highlight was definitely the Unlucky Draw as they called it. But before the draw, two announcements were made. Firstly, that Eng Guan was inducted into TF's family of GXI and secondly, Jack shall head TF's latest branch in Pavillion as the GXC. Many congrats and we're really glad for you guys. :D You peeps deserved it.

Back to the draw, each of us were given a number and the first draw was done by Eng Guan. His mouth memang celupar ... he said he might draw out his own number and abracadabra ... he actually did it. Unbelievable. He got himself a cute tiny Nike water bottle and his expression in the pic below shows it all. Haha. Janet got the other similar prize. Next item out for grabs is a soft and lush Nike towel. Baba Barney got it and it was presented by Alexander. Up next were four Nike Bags, two in pink and two in black. Winners include Lorraine, Azmy, Brian and myself. Woo Hoo!!! Since Azmy and mself got the black one, poor Brian had no option but to take the pink one ... hehe ... we poked fun at him the whole night. Reminded me of the song, Pink by Aerosmith. Two big Nike water bottles were next on the list and the recipients were Julian and Jack. Jack is depending on it for his upcoming RPM training. Go Jack go!!! The following winner was Emma and she got herself a RM100 voucher from TF's spa. Lucky lady huh. Brandon won himself a Nike bagpack and finally the grand prize for the night. It's Nike digital watch *drumroll* and the winner is ... Jun Yin!!! We still think that the watch is too small for his big wrist ... it should be worn by someone with a smaller hand like ermmm ... *cough cough* me *cough cough* Haha. And that was it and btw, the prizes were fully sponsored by our generous TF boss ya. Thanks chief.

After the draw, we lingered around ... more eating, more drinking, more chatting and a lot more laughing. :) By 10:30pm, we dragged our overfilled bellies out of the restaurant. We bade goodbyes to most of the group while eight of us stayed back. We (namely Alex, Su, Jun Yin, Emma, Alexander, Brian, Julian and myself) decided to catch a late movie. We got tickets for 30 Days of Night. A vampire horror flick set in the Alaskan scene where for 30 days in a year, a sleepy town called Borrow will experience no sunlight and this is when a group of vicious, butt ugly, blood thirsty vampires (who can't speak English ... I mean you would think that after roaming the Earth for several centuries, they should have picked up the language no?) emerge and terrorize the townfolks. Josh Harnett is the main lead and overall, I thought it was rather ok. Some of them didn't agree though. (Met Alexander the next day and he mentioned that he still felt very much disturbed by that movie ... keke).

We had some time to kill before the movie, so on the agenda was bowling. Two games each and we split ourselves into two separate groups. Team A vs Team B. End of the day, Jun Yin, Alexander, Emma and Su creamed Brian, Alex, Juls and myself but who's keeping score anyway. :p It's not whether you win or lose ... it's how you play the game ... hahaha. (Loser talking here).

The movie credits came out after 2:30am and hence we exchanged goodbyes and headed our separate ways home. All in all, it was an excellent outing. Good food and good company ... a combo few would disagree on. So let's hope we can all have this again in the future ... till then, KIA KAHA!!!.