Teambuilding Session

Went for my office teambuilding session held at Hotel Nikko this afternoon and found it interesting. As usual, colleagues in the same department tend to sit together but the organiser split us and requested us to move to another table that we won't know most of the people. He did notice those who continued to stick together even after moving tables.....haha.

It started with some simple introduction by different companies/departments. Then moved on to some questionnaire session and then followed by some games. Few were on IQ questions, really tested our brains. Can't guess the answers at all.......hehe

Another teambuilding game was to build a free standing tower (however you want to call it). My table was given only 125 A4 size papers, 100 staple bullets with a stapler and 6 inches of cellophane tape. Given 40 minutes to build/construct a paper tower. My team has 2 engineers and we waited for them to do some calculations with the materials that we have......see how serious these engineers were.

We started rolling the papers, stapled it on one side, put 6 rolled papers at the bottom to begin with. Just when it reach about 6 feet, it dropped all the way down. We still have 15 minutes and rebuilt it with a bigger base this time. What was the outcome?


This was my team's tower but we didn't win. Lost to another team's so-called Kuala Lumpur Eiffel Tower (yeah, the shape of the eiffel tower). After the tower building, it was hi-tea time, my favourite. Good selection of food and after consuming, I think it was a bit too much as I was going to have dinner to celebrate my sister's birthday at night......oops!

Never mind, left around 7.45pm and dropped by at a restaurant and ate a simple Singaporean Fried Mee Hoon just to fill my stomach, in case it goes hungry during midnight time, like right now.
Tags: Teambuilding, Hotel Nikko, Free Standing Tower, Singapore Fried Mee Hoon