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Not often I post on something somewhat work-related, but you'll see why inna bit.
Holcim Cement Corporation hosted a dealers rewards night in at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City, not to be confused, said the tour guide, w/ the Waterfront Hotel in neighboring Mactan. Being my first time here, that was unlikely to happen.
The night's theme was Dynamic Duos (e.g. Holcim and it's Dealers), w/c somehow transformed into superhero cosplay night. Some attendees went as Batman or Catwoman (no-one dared put on Robin tights), but paired w/ their Batwoman wife or... another Catwoman. Non-superhero costumed duos included Woody and Jesse from Toy Story, Mario and Luigi, (but in Holcim cement bag color schemes), Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and an Australian wearing a toga.
No, I didn't get it, either.
Our head honcho Roland Van Wijnen (pronounced "Y-Nen") and his family dressed up as The Flintstones, while Holcim officers wore both X-Men and Star Trek-themed costumes, w/ the former sporting black w/ silver-painted whatever-the-hells and the latter wearing black and blue shirts, aka JJ Abrams' costumes for Kirk and Spock. (Ok, geek fart over.) Their spokesmodels came in pairs of Wonder Women, Darnas and Storms, although their "Ororos" lacked proper X-Accessories (cape/lightning bolt) and just ended up looking like leather biker chicks w/ platinum blonde wigs. Not that we're complaining...
While the food was nothing to write home about and we won none of the raffles, our company was fortunate enough to bag a Silver award, w/c entitled us to a trip for two to any Asian destination (that Holcim provided choices for). This time it was Korea. Thing is, we'd be travelling w/ other Silver awardees, so it'll be more like a group tour and a couple's vacation.
I also met two cool chicks; sisters Theresa and Cathy Ong help run the family hardware and auto parts biz and on the side Theresa (seated left) decided to get into cement dealing. This was their first Dealers Awards night. We met at hotel registration, then afterwards they hung out w/ me and the 'Rents for the majority of the day, w/ Ma and Pa giving them pointers and telling them what to expect in future dealings.
As for the entertainment, while Cebu had talented dancers up the wazoo, the acrobatic and magic acts made me wince (never put lanky-costumed Superman and Batman on unicycles ever again). It didn't help that since they had a superhero theme, they background music played during the award ceremonies was the opening theme of Justice League running in a loop, while the aforementioned acrobats "performed" to the opening theme of every DC or Marvel cartoon from the 90s and beyond that the sound mixer could swipe from Youtube, then turn into a really annoying mixtape.
Thank god for professionals. I liked Kaye Brosas' musical funny act. It reminded me of AiAi delas Alas' concert, but Kaye definitely had better singing skills. The highlight of her performance was impressions of contemporary "divas" like ZsaZsa, Jaya, Jessica Zaragoza and Mariah Carey. And even Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, w/c leads me to believe these singers have even less range than I thought.
But just as --in typical Pinoy fashion-- the awarding ceremonies to boredom and smattered, unenthusiastic applause, out came Side A. Okay, some audience members were still bored (it was close to midnight as this point, and the party stared at 5PM, with dinner 2 hours after), but once the band started playing 80s ballads they perked up. When lead vocalist Joey Generoso sang a duet w/ Kaye Broses they went nuts. When they started playing 80's dance tunes (predictably Footloose was on the playlist) the audience finally went onstage and busted moves (while having their pictures taken w/ band members.)
The evening ended past 1 in the morning; I went to bed 40 minutes after (give or take), but woke up 5 hours later to use the hotel pool for some laps. I would've loved to use the gym for free as well but limited time would't allow it. So long, Waterfront Hotel Gym boxing ring.
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