2008 Technical Symposium

February 22, Friday, I attended the Technical Symposium at The Bellevue Manila, at Alabang. My husband is not invited to the event so I ask one of my co-engineer (and Friend) to pick me up at Dasmariñas Town proper. At the town proper we saw Genesis (Godfather of Adrian) is already there waiting for Alain. After knowing that I already had a companion; my husband left me there with Genesis (he still has to meet his friend at Makati). After few minutes, Alain arrived. We decided took the shortcut road to Alabang, because it is already 7:00am. We are already in the bridge when we stopped, we thought that is just ordinary stop, but when we saw cars (actually we saw the car of a co-employee) in front of us taking a u-turn; that’s when we think that there might be an incident or something (then we saw a sign that the road ahead is under repair). We arrived exactly at the hotel; the program has not yet started. That morning five out of eleven presenters are from our group (Equipment Engineering). They will present their technical paper and will bid for the technical paper of the year and cash prize worth forty thousand pesos. Last year our group won the second place; we are hoping to get the first place this year. The program is not only purely technical; to make it lighter some intermission numbers were inserted to the program. The much awaited was announced at around 5:00pm. Third place was from our group, the second place is also fro our group, unfortunately; the first place was awarded to another group. We may not get the first place, but we had the third and second place. We are about to go; when our manger approach us (he was in China the whole week for a meeting) that he will treat us at the near restaurant. We are not expecting him to attend; because he just arrived from the airport. At the end, we are still happy event we have not bagged the first place. Next year, we are hoping that we can get it.