500 People Strong

Just last year our company was celebrating being 200 people strong, so we had a pizza party and went out for drinks whilst the US teams got a great big party to celebrate.

This week, we are celebrating being 500 people strong, and as the US planned another party, we thought it was time to push the boat out a little further for our celebrations, and so we took a cheeky little half day yesterday, and we went on an adventure!

            Bang on noon I told everyone to shut down their computers and get out of the office, because we were going to spend the rest of the day playing at Universal Studios on Sentosa. After a quick taxi ride over to the park we settled in for a dirty lunch of cheapo burgers before spending the next six hours working our way around all the best rides at the park.

Even though it was a Thursday, the place was rammed! There were queues for over an hour and a half for some of the rides, but luckily we planned most of our day well and only got stuck with a really bad queue for the final ride of the day.

            There were water rides, rollercoasters, movie screenings with interactive seating and an amazing 4D transformers ride which, if we had time, I would happily have gone on again and again!

            Once we had made the most of all the rides we could handle, we re-grouped and headed back over to the mainland for a relaxed dinner at  British style pub before calling it a day. Our adventures are never quite on a par with the US team (they had a casino themed evening which featured a lot of cocktails and wine), but ours was great fun for our little team of seven, and it means that I get to tick Universal Studios off my list without having to pay for it myself which can only be a good thing!