Farewell @ Tao Cuisine

Last night, we had an official farewell for my manager, Andre, who is going back to his home country next week. A small group of us had have a mini farewell last month. This time, it was with a bigger crowd and included higher level bosses too. :D

We had the buffet at Tao Cuisine, E-Gate. The first session of the buffet start at 5.30pm till 8.15pm. Last call for order at 7.30pm. You can have 10% discount for this early bird session, it would be around RM50 per person.

sake bottle as decor

We passed by a long table, erm... bosses will be sitting there, skipped it. Me and the other 3 guys sat at the table for 4 persons. The waitress took our order at once: ordering, serving, eating. I lost count how many rounds we ordered. The most highly demanding food at my table were butter fish and scallop. hee.. oh ya, Vincent kept on asking for more wasabi. He took wasabi like dessert, the waitress gave him a scoop of wasabi in small bowl. ~~ wasabi == green tea ice-cream??!!!! hahaha..

the food.. drooling ;)

ehem.. what was the purpose of the dinner? oh ya.. the farewell. But the occasion did not really serve the purpose. Each gang having their dinner at each table, eating and chatting among themselves. Okie lo, should have a simple ceremony so that it's looks like a hearty farewell. Ding.. ding.. ding.. Speeches were given by VIPs, gave away the gift, a photo frame of group photo. There are some bigger gifts, which had been sent to his house.

Here is the photo taking session.

Andre been in Penang for 3 years. I was just joined the company at that time. It is a great pleasure to work with him. He is kind of an understanding manager, if compare with local manager. :P He would consider the constraints of the engineer and won't request something that exceed the limit. He is a knowledgeable manager and making a decisive conclusion, seldom have anyone that would challenge his decision. :D ~~ Adiós ~~

The night ended after the dinner?? Of course not!! :P Next round, the big bosses invited us for a drink at the pub. Unfortunately, only few of us joining. No one in the pub except us. It was too early, the music still soft. We ordered few jugs of beer, bluffing around.. Joe and his mysterious girl; guessing the salary of the managers; Talked about salary, someone did mention the salary not enough for engineers to buy car, house... haha.. really hope those managers can take this topic seriously, instead of treat it as a bluff. :D

The DJ of the pub played the loud music around 9.45pm, we can not chat anymore, going off by then. No no.. the night not end yet. The bosses were so energetic, they suggested to go other place to continue. :S I could not make it anymore, felt dizzy after the drink. Some of them went to Oasis for third round. Heard from TJ, the environment there not too bad. They have karaoke. Maybe next time can consider to hang out there. :)