United we stand, divided we rock. :)) #NuffieChallenge
Excuse my overuse of the word crazy, but really, everyone around me is crazy nowadays. But if you make me put them all in ranking, Nuffies would most definitely top the list.
What I love about this group is how everybody just seems to be competitive (in a healthy way of course). Put anything at stake, and we'd all run our asses off putting our most gorgeous game faces on and rock it. So of course, our managers took advantage of that and grouped us into three in our year-end team building and strat planning.
Team Black aka "TEAM E-TEAM"
Leader: Same
Driver: Thei
Members: Thei, Denise, Mar, Thine
Team Blue aka "TEAM BLUE JOBBERS" (Yeah, uhm, not v wholesome eh? LOL)
Leader: Anne
Driver: Trixie
Members: Toni, Trixie, AJ, Yen
Team White aka "LIKE A V"
Leader: Ria (It was supposed to be me. But after being MIA during group planning and even sleeping in the car, I was ousted. HAHAHAHA)
Driver: Rendy
Members: Jel, Rendy, Maris, Ms Remy
One letter-sized plastic envelope w/ four small envelopes inside
One envelope - w/ the travel fund
Three remaining envelopes - w/ instructions to open after a certain station.
Every station, you oughtta:
Check in via Foursquare (I had to make a Foursquare account for this cos I'm not really a fan of this)
Post a picture via Twitter and Instagram
All with the hashtag #NuffieChallenge
And though I was on a Twitter hiatus, I had to just get back on with it for the sake of this race.
I won't post all our pictures below, as that may cause a big photo overload. But I'll just put some per station. :)
All the rest of them just took a drive thru in McDonalds and tried to satisfy themselves with burger take-outs but we, on the other hand, were unable to resist a comfortable lunch with pasta or chicken with rice. :)) Not a race can ruin our lunch moment yo! :))
STOP 3: Enchanted Kingdom (and "take a photo of the tallest man-made structure in the site")
So E-TEAM, yan talaga largest manmade structure?? HAHAHA (THEY LOST A POINT COS OF THIS LOL)
STOP 4: Starbucks, Nuvali
BONUS POINT: The Water Taxi
STOP 5: Tagatay Public Market + Manganese
Living up to team name. :)) (Girl, di naman kailangan ng proof pa kasi. Oo na blue jobbers na. HAHAHA.)
STOP 7: Picnic Grove + Photo with a horse (BONUS POINT: Zipline)
STOP 8: Five brochures from different hotels in Tagaytay
STOP 9: "Time ends when the team is in the pool."
Swimsuits as undergarments. So all else are off for the jump! :)
After the big pool jump, we just forgot about the whole amazing race theme and decided to have our long-awaited RnR. That night we also had a sort of Fear Factor where we were made to eat whatever dish was on the plate. But on my account was balot so fear factor my ass! I CAN EAT TEN OF THAT. Hahaha! :))
And it just got better with the one above. :)) Crazy planning with the crazy essentials and the crazy people. OOOHLALA!
Next day was stat planning proper. :) All with refreshed minds from the previous day. Of course, we put our game faces here on as well. :)
Team E-TEAM won with 34 points.
TEAM LIKE A V WITH 32 POINTS
And the losers in denial... TEAM B JOBBERS WITH 28 POINTS.
As usual, nothing beats an out of town with these people. Kahit Tagaytay lang. And get ready with bragging rights yo. That thing that we fought for. Bragging rights is actually quite big in the office. LOL. :)) ALL HAIL TO TEAM E-TEAM.