PwC 1st Experience @ Avilion, Port Dickson

On the 2nd day of 2008, I resumed my life chapter with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, one of the big four firms (don't understand my French? in simple words, it's one of the big big multinational companies *ehem ehem*). Previously I did my internship with PwC in year 2006. So here I am, back again.

As fresh graduates, PwC sent me along with 3 buses of new joiners for an off site training in Avilion, Port Dickson. Avilion is well known for it's romantic and cozy water chalets. Too bad I'm not sharing such a 'romantic getaway' trip with someone special T_T


But I'm so happy to meet my SHU mates!! Kenneth, Jessie, Celine, Lip Sy, Pao Phing, June Ann and Poh Ying, hambalang were there!!

Upon arriving PD, we were given a set of training kits. Mostly are coloured in orange, including our T-Shirts, pencil case, etc. Coincidently, my handphone ornament (hanging from my pocket) and my W800i handphone also orange coloured. Damn matching right?


New found friends : Gerald and Imran. They were seated in our dinner table in Admiral Marina & Leisure Club.

After a long day of indoor and outdoor induction with team building activities, we were rewarded with a special dinner treat. We did not dine in Avillion ladies and gentlemen. We were 'chauffeured' to Admiral Marina & Leisure Club to have our dinner. The food was deliciously and yummily served. We had a wide array of barbeque buffet choices, exotic local Malaysian food and delights, as well as a whole lot of delicately prepared Western desserts. The theme of the dinner venue was once again, romantic. It was an open dinning area located next to a marina port with soothing sea ambience, dim lighting, plus some 'matching' music playing at the background. Why PwC 1st Experience want us to feel so romantic wan?


More new found friends : Ivan and Vincent.

After a hearty and awesome dinner, we started to feel bored and decided to do rooms hopping. I was allocated to stay in Garden Villa. Noticed the ambience of the pictures? Yeap, it is romantically themed as well (gee, maybe PwC wants to boost up our sense of romance to prepare for work?)



In Water Villa (Jessie's room). Met Jessie's roommate Jia Wen and her friends. The Water Villa is lagi romantic than Garden Villa. The bathroom itself is spacious and the shower area is open aired!

So how was the training overall? Other than a tad too romantically themed (unintentionally of course), the induction was pretty good. Two thumbs up to the organiser!!

Go Kart @ Shah Alam

During the X'mas gathering in my uncle's place, my cousin, Terence, suddenly popped up with an idea...... "Why don't we go play Go Kart now? There is a new go kart arena near our house. It opens until 10pm." It was 9pm. Without second thought, we all said HELL YEAH!!

Come to think of it, it's been many years since I played go kart. The last time that I went for go karting was during a BMW 3 series launch exhibition in Sepang F1 Circuit... it was like probably 10 years ago!!

The Go Kart in Shah Alam (forgot the name of the place already) was 15 minutes drive from my uncle's place. The go kart track was fairly big, measured about 1.1 km and the difficulty of the track can be compared to a sized down version F1 track. There are several challenging turnings and also 2 hair pins junction in the track itself (cannot understand?? shesh... I should take a snap shot of the track layout...)
Before taking off for the 10 minutes ride!!

Noticed the white thingey on our head...?? the go kart facilitator provides each of us a disposable hair net for hygiene purposes. I did not know that hair net also comes in disposable type!! I was so sampat to bring back one as souvenir *sweat* The Go karters Ultraman pipipipiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....

Ted on the GO!! (why the photographer not taking pictures of me T_T)

Never underestimate the speed of the small kart!! We were actually driving up to 60-70 km/hr on the track itself. It was definitely 1000000000000000000 zillion times faster than the Genting Go Kart!! It's fast enough to put ourself into self spins if we lost maneuver of the karts (shamed to say that I actually went into a wild spin on track, as I was too excited and lost control after taking over Alyson on the track! Syoknyaaaaaa)

After one session, we decided to go for another round. It was really exhilirating and addictive I must say. But only five of us continued to race in the following session. The girls and Calvin stay behind to watch us. So they were kinda bored while waiting and decided to ride on the facilitator's motorbike!! Wonder why Alyson so happy on the bike (no motorbike in Australia? =_=")


Oh yeah, did I mention that two rounds of Go Karts only cost us RM65?

Definitely will be back for more *smile*