Artwork Planner BBQ Gathering

As mentioned in my previous entry, there will be an Artwork Planner (ie, my current role) BBQ gathering yesterday which i was part of organising. For those who know me, i am normally not that interested in participating in activities from my company but this is different as this gathering is only meant for people in my roles and so we shared the same views of our jobs. Furthermore, these are the peoples that i can click more in my work.

After the month's long preparation for the BBQ, we are finally there! Our moods for the whole BBQ gathering is like a roller coaster ride and you will know why below....

We went into some hippcups in the planning portion...like should we prepare the food outside? What's going to be the participation rate? Then when we finally decided then people start backing out and we have to recount the food and amount to be split. So it was a lot of to and fro calculation and planning.

But we overcome the odds and order all the required stuff from BBQ wholesale website. The presentation for the food is good and most importantly no one has any major complaints on the taste. Hence, it is a good choice if you have a big group of people and really save us a lot of hassels. However, i have a small complaint for them is they don't have a fixed timing for the delivery so the committee members like myself was at East Coast from 4pm.

When we finally got the food at 5:30pm, we proceed to start the fire and being all first timers we got the fire going on our first try...Pretty well-done, right? But then the weather decided to pull a trick on us and start raining cats and dogs. The lucky thing was that our pit was near a shelter so the 4 of us start to shift all the foods into the shelter.

With such a weather change, our mood went right down the hill as all the participants started to contact us asking about the weather. Hence, the thoughts that came into our minds were: Will they be coming? When will the rain stop? How are we going to deal with all the food that we order? etc, etc. Though we have umbrellas with us, it still didn't protect us against the rain so we were practically soak to the skin.

How did our long waited gathering end up to be so 狼狈?

Conclusion 1: No matter how much u plan, you can't plan for the unforeseen.

So we decided to start eating the cooked food so in case the rain didn't stop and we can't BBQ, we don't have to carry back too many food. But who will know that the rain stop around 8pm and we went back to start fight on an aluminum foil container since the pit is already floated. When the fire started again the rain came back so this time we carried our own portable pit back to the shelter and again all our food.

Conclusion 2: Don't have to book for a pit. Just get some aluminmum container and you have a ready pit that can be used even under harsh weather conditions.

side note: wasted $16 on the pit for nothing. :-(

However, our mood start picking up as everyone (including the kids) start strolling in to our shelter despite the rain. Hooray! so all our hard work wasn't wasted at all.

Below are the pictures that we took:

Presenting you the committee members:

The Artwork Planners:

The PPMS:

And finally, the group pictures:

It was indeed a happy gatherings with a roller coaster mood.