Living on the other side of the planet with my three boys: BJTC Yearly party

Friday, January 9, 2009

BJTC Yearly party - 2009

Today was the P&G Beijing yearly event. We started by the traditional business review and different results in the afternoon, then had a cultural fair with booths from different countries followed by dinner and the party. While the afternoon was pretty much predictable the 2nd part of the event was more surprising. At 6pm dinner was served and right before that everyone changed from Business casual to their party outfit. Some people (especially the girls) went into a lot of effort by renting costumes or wearing their red carpet outfit. It was sometimes difficult to recognize your colleagues. At 7pm the red carpet ceremony started, everyone entered the room walking on a red carpet where you would pose for the photographs. Given the demographics on the site, men at to go 2-3 times to make sure each girl would have en escort. 1 hour later (that’s the time needed when 500 people are attending your event) the Show started. I won’t elaborate too much about the show and will let you judge on the pictures (quite a lot I have to admit). It was a talent show i.e. each team had to come up with 2 talent shows : singing, dancing, acting, etc. covering the theme Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. As you can see people went really for it and gave their best. Some performances were amazing, some were good, some were hilarious, some we still haven’t understood the storyline, some could have been spared. It lasted almost 3 hours (way too long but everyone should be given the chance to perform on stage). The most important is that we all had a lot of fun. The only regret is that when you spend 3 hours watching a show you don’t really get a chance to mingle.

The organizing committee:

Traditional dancing with fans:

Children in the audience:

A robot from the future:

A peacock:

A dandy:

Snow White was there with 2 dwarfs?

A magician:

A team of school girls:

Kung Fu Panda:

A Chinese pop star:

Belly dancers:

Harry Potter joined as well

Traditional Chinese dance

A Chinese boys band:

Special apparition of James Bond

and Zorro:

Even Elvis granted us a visit:

No ice in Beijing yet but Titanic was around

No show could be complete without the Village people (believe it or not some Chines people did not know them... and had to learn the choreography of YMCA)