Day (-1) : Ready to Go !

" Hello guys, I need a Cantonese lesson on greeting words?"

We smiled as our tall lanky brother walked into the room with food in his hands. His eyes all fired up, ready to pick up a language which he will be using very soon. You cannot but admire Jeeb for his gung-ho spirit of wanting to learn Cantonese to connect with the audience.

A quick glance around the room, one would see that this is no ordinary meeting. Flip charts detailing the various LC terms with their traditional Chinese characters equivalent,schedule plans, laptops, webcams, chinese dictionaries, Lonely Planet Hong Kong Guide & HK Education Bureau annual reports are spewned all over the table.

Welcome to our Hong Kong LC Planning Session. This is one of the numerous sessions that the team has in preparation for the coming trip. When the order to go was given by DD in February, the team quickly convened & brainstormed on how we could deliver quality training to our customers. Bearing in mind DD's message on the importance of details, the team looked into every aspect of the preparation. These included everything from bi-lingualising the slides to doing research on the Hong Kong Educational System to designing A3 bi-lingual publicity materials to market TN's services & programmes.

" Ok Jeeb .Let's start" . The ever affable Tommy took a piece of paper and started to write down some romanized English words..." Dai Ga Hou, Lei Hou Ma... Ngo Ai Na Kei Ah Sin"
(Hello everybody, how are you? My name is Najeeb Assan)

" One more.. when you see pretty ladies, say...." Lei Hou Lang" (You are beautiful), added Denise.

After a short lesson, the team begins to do a final inspection on the logisitics :

"LCB & booster slides "bi-lingualised" & sent over to Peter for printing?" Done.

" Name tags & designations in traditional chinese characters printed?" Done.

"Baroque music to be used during activity time loaded into laptop?" Yes.

"A3 posters on TN's vision, mission, services & programmes printed & laminated?" Done.

"50 copies of Intro to Singapore Education System brochures from CCD collected" Yes.

"A3 posters on Intro to Singapore Education System printed & laminated? Done.

"MOE corporate video, LCB & Booster videos,videos introducing Singapore such as NDP MTVs all loaded into laptop? Yes.

"Ok guys, well done". Team Leader, Jeeb added. "One last thing before we end.. Tommy will go through with us the pre-departure information on HK which covers the HK educational system, admin & safety briefings.Also what's the expected weather forecast for the next 7 days in Hong Kong?"

" Next 7 days mostly cloudy. Typoon threat zero at the moment."

" Great, let's proceed with the briefing, we will meet at the airport on Sunday at 0645 hrs.

香港, 我們來了！