Team Building

End of last month, I had a department team building (I can't explain the delinquency of this blog other than blame it to my laziness :p). Part of the program is where our whole team is sent out to Frederickberg Have (Frederickberg garden) with some of the products that we produce & trying to experience them as end user.

When I was in home town, the team building mode that I'm familiar with is where everyone will stay over-night at a hotel & usually a team building training company will be engaged for activities planning. Even though I don't see how going to a park & do some testing will enhanced team spirit but it was really fun being out of the office on a working day ;)

The weather was lovely (we're really lucky) and the park is absolutely gorgeous in autumn time. Pictures say a thousand words. See below.


I've always seen my colleagues in the office but apparently they can 'disguise' as other professions pretty well outside of office with their attire. Potential target occupation to be considered: police, reporters / paparazzis, police man (El Pacino & Robert De Niro type, age wise :p) and also spy o.o


We were walking for about an hour in the park where mild wnd gently blowed and the weather was just beautiful. Well, no group picture before we go off (not like we often have chance to gather everyone) so we took like n-th tries to take a good one. This is by far the best of all I've got & the camera is challengingly placed on a rock ;)

The subsequent activity is -- bowling! I asked my boss if he's good at bowling, he said 'no'; but when it comes to the bowling activity, he scored an average of 143 for 3 games. I wouldn't call that 'no good' so I interrogated him. It was funny to hear him said that he didn't even know he's good at bowling until then, lol...

Another female colleague has a very special way of bowling. She'd walk to the front, put one foot on the fowl line, squart a little bit down & start swinging the ball to the front and back. After 2 cycles of swinging, she then released the ball. I was almost laughing rolling on the floor when I see this. At one point, I thought she'd be furious when I laughed at her but she took it well.

The team 'spy' actually took a video of both me & her bowling but I haven't got hold of the video yet. If I ever get it (he's saying he wants to make it a Christmas present by posting it to YouTube because I was pretty embarrassing too), then I'll upload it to share.

After 3 games, the last activity is dinner :). Due to budget constraint, we can only go for 2 course dinner (starter + main course). When main course was finished, one of the colleague turned to me and tell me: 'You can bring out the dessert now. What type of cake did you bake this time?' I almost fainted on the spot. Of course he's pulling my leg but I think I may have pampered them too much with my cake.

Anyway, it was a nice day out with the whole group. Some colleagues whom we seldom spoke felt closer after the day. The only downside is, due to my childish behaviour in the park & bowling center, they now treat me like a little girl & named me 'the department pet' :s