E9000 Batam Trip - Video Uploaded

Date: 19 Jul 08 to 20 Jul 08

Venue: Batam, Indonesia

Hotel of Residence: Holiday Inn, Batam

Places visited: Barelang Bridge, GTS Local Shop, Seafood Lunch at Golden Prawn 555/933 seafood restaurant, Bengkong Dry Market, Thoa Pek Kong Chinese Temple, Laughing Buddha Temple

Activites: Massage, Entertainment by locals, Paint (=pain) ball, Go-Kart, Wakeboarding, Banana Boating, Kayaking, Shopping

Attended by: the fun-loving E9-ners!!!!

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2008 *Updated with MORE PHOTOS!!

MORE PHOTOS ON OUR RUNNERS IN ACTION!!
(Can you spot them?)

*With thanks to Marathon-Photos.Com

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After months of training, the famous Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2008 was flagged off on 7 Dec 08. Traces of E9000 can be found in almost every races.

Our running Master Simon started off with the Full Marathon at 5.30am, where a total of 11030 runners participate.
Then the guys, Phang, Nick & Kengwee, headed by Martin, started the 10km (Men) Marathon at 7.30am, which has a total of 7669 runners.
Followed by the ladies, Liping, Joanna & Michelle, led by Wenfeng, began their 10km (Women) Marathon at 8.15am, which has a total of 7727 runners.

Below are the results of the E9000 runners:

Rank Name - Individual Timing
2291 Simon - 4:57:21

2458 Martin - 1:03:43
2935 Phang - 1:09:21
3017 Nicholas - 1:04:42
3624 Kengwee - 1:10:49

1861 Wenfeng - 1:18:17
2852 Liping - 1:24:00
4591 Joanna - 1:33:59
4596 Michelle - 1:34:01

The ranking only means the individual's position to reach the endpoint, and not the ranking in terms of timing, because the individual may start off later due to the massive number of participants in each race. That's why they call it "Running your own race".

In all, as commented by our personal instructor Simon," You guys got pretty good timing." I believe everyone had fun!

Unfortunately, Angie was unable to turn up as she had to be overseas. Nonetheless, there's always next year!

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009 - 21km (Men) & (Women). Any takers?

Before the race

Survived the Marathon!

Well done girls!

IES DnD 08 @ ShangriLa Hotel

This night, Night of the Stars.

With many thanks to the bosses, 23 of the E9-ners attended this Dinner and Dance by IES at the ShangriLa Hotel. Pretty ladies and smart gentlemen crowded E9 office this day. Yes, we all had ice-cream for our eyes.

Posh decorations, romantic ambience, quirky emcee, creative entertainment, nice music, wine, humour, the perfect night for a good classy chill-out after work for all of us. Not forgetting the inspriational talks by many reowned engineers, and the Minister of Health himself.

And mind you, we do get high on Yakult. Cheers!

Kent Ridge Walk

In a move to extend E9000's appreciation to numerous E9-ners for their contribution in overnight inspections some time back for 2 of the major projects, a sumptous dinner was held at the Japanese Restaurant @ Mount Faber Safra, where Certificates of Appreciation were issued to the various E9-ners.

However, having taken in consideration that this sumptous dinner may prove to be too 'sumptous' for some, a suitable amount of exercise have to be done in order to digest that extra calories.

As such, the whole E9000 were herded off to Kent Ridge Park right after work, where they shall begin a heritage walk passing the serene floral nursery, the fascinating beautiful HortPark, the Alexandra Arch and of course, the beloved Henderson Waves, all the way back to the Mount Faber Safra where the dinner was to be held.

And of course... the phrase "Walk one hour, eat THREE hours" still holds true.....

Bukit Timah Durian Expedition

On 21 August 08, Louis led a team of 10 E9-ners on an expedition to conquer the tallest mountain in Singapore: BUKIT TIMAH!!


Oh well.... maybe a hill then....

But the 10 brave E9-ners are: Madam Haw, Cynthia, Angie, Martin, Nicholas, Wenfeng, Lee Chen, Liping, Joanna & William!

Anyway, after going through the wilderness, we were joined by Mr Chong, Catherine and Boon Fei, and had dinner in a Korean restaurant opposite Beauty World. But the highlight of the night is actually the King Durians! Yummy yummy!! Go through the slideshow below for the events that happened that night!

Riding the Henderson Waves

Therefore, on 26 June 08 at 6pm sharp, all of us are geared up ready for the jog-cum-walk session! Look who went......?

Heading the whole lot is our instructor Simon, and the 1st disciple Wenfeng!

The last is Joanna.......

J: Oops! But why is Simon running back?

Running up the loooong ramp, which marks the beginning of our not-so-easy climb to the new Henderson Waves.

Jacq: Yes! Finally catching up with the 1st two!

Meanwhile... what are the other three doing???

BUSY TAKING PHOTOS!!!! :P

Time to CHIONG!!!

The first Pit Stop.

Wenfeng bio-ing a cute little kid while waiting for the rest. Simon keeps jogging to maintain his momentum......

The kid strolls away.......

Simon continues jogging......

Look at the long road ahead... and Simon is STILL jogging in circles!

WHERE are the rests?!

The rest are finally in sight and the whole lot climbs up again....

Yea! Achievement!

Tired!!

*busy catching their breaths*

That's it girls! I've rested enough. I'm going off again!

Spot Simon?

There's actually a toilet in the middle of the forest!?

Yes! We finally reach the Henderson Waves!

Can you find Blk 211?

Stopover on the Waves.....

Mission accomplished!!!

YAY! :D

Office Sweet Office!

See you every Thursday!!



**Watch out for the next article on our Company Trip!

E9 Weekly Walk cum Jog

SORE FROM SITTING IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER THE WHOLE DAY?



Bulging tummy or flabby arms from lack of exercise?



It’s time to get onto your feet and start moving!!!

Every Thursday 6pm
Headed by our very own jogging trainer SIMON
New routes every week


Be in for a surprise as you get healthier every week. You won’t even need an apple a day anymore!!


After a successful jogging session of 5km last week, the welfare committee is proud to present you a new route this week with more goodies!!!


And the best part of this week's highlight is..........


We will be visiting THIS place!!!!

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