Pagsanjan Diary: Day 1: September 02, 2006

First of all thank you for giving time to read my adventures as well as my misadventures. This is a bit late since it happens 2 weeks ago and my original plan right then is to write this diary after we arrive from Laguna but due to some misfortune my father was brought to Philippine Heart Center’s ICU because of the heart attack. The story about my father’s fight to survive the 3rd attack will be on another post. This part is purely our Tier 2 Team Building at La Corona. So here we go…..

Day 1: September 02, 2006

Honestly speaking, I’m not excited with this team building for the reason I have not yet know why. Since we were the last team for the shift which will end at 8am the departure time was 9am. So right at the tick of 9am we bring down the stuff we need like foods, projector. Cams and BEERS (boxes of beers). When we hit the ground floor I see a nice big bus and I know it’s not ours since we are only 26 and I already expect a smaller vehicle for us. Yes I was right it’s a coaster. We put our things and choose our comfort seats and the bus roll even we have a little problem since one of our teammate is not yet around and we just wait for him for an hour.

Once the coaster started to roll its wheels we started to take pix, sing songs, crack some jokes but it was not too long since a lot of us is a bit sleepy so we just take a good nap right after we hit the SLEX road. When we are about to take an exit, one by one is starting to fire-up everyone is cracking jokes, its OKRAYAN time na. And pity to those people who we just pass by but for the benefit to be used for the subject matter in our okrayan J

I’m enjoying the coaster ride to “Pagsanjan”. I really like long travel and watch every scene that passes by specially those green and lushes fields as well as beautiful ladies of Laguna. I’m at the window of our van staring at every detail of our journey to the place we will spend our next 3 days.

It’s already noon when we arrived at La Corona the resort where we will have our team building activities. The place is pretty good clean and peaceful area. Once that we got the key of our room we put all our belongings there and after that we go back to the reception area to take our lunch. After our lunch we took a two hour rest in our room coz at 4pm we will start our activities. That is the first time I meet our facilitator. The first chant or dance that they teach us is the “Trend Micro number 1, I am number 1, you are number 1”. It is like a warm up for the next activities that we will do. Aside from the dance we also sing a “James Ingram” song entitled as “Whatever we Imagine” which I will to share to you the lyrics.

Don't be afraid

I can meet you halfway

We can't always know

where the road ends up

but with some luck I know we can go

Wherever we imagine

Why should we wait

later on may be too late'cause where can we run

when you see there's half a chance

that we might really become

whatever we imagine

And I imagine you and me

just taking shots at what we see

and if we fallwe'll shake away the dus

tand just outlast them all

You ought to see

all your heroes in me

but if we get wise

we can break the walls we make

and you can see in my eyes

whatever we imagine

And I imagine you and me

just taking shots at what we see

so let the walls go down

and we can try it again'cause nobody can stop us now

Don't be afraid'cause I'll meet you halfway

you're not far behindif we climb this hill

I know there's still a chance we can find

whatever we imagine

A nice song which I dance with a nice beat!!!! That’s the start of where they will feel my power :) :) :) after the activities the dinner is prepared outside the reception area and it is setup in the middle of the resort with a Videoke. This is the first time I sing a song using a videoke. It was the 6cycle Mind’s Sandalan

Sandalan:

Kanina pa kitang pinag mamasdan

Mukha mo'y di maipinta

Malungkot ka nanaman

Kanina pa kita Inaalok

ng kwentuhang masaya

Parang sayo'y balewala

Chorus:

Sige lang, sandala ka na

At wag mong pipigilan

Iiyak mo na ang lahat sa langit

Iiyak mo na ang lahat sa akin

2x

Andito lang naman ako Makikinig sayo

sa buong magdamag

Sakin di ka balewala

Repeat chorus

It‘s a great relief to sing a legitimate song and get a score of 96!!! Yipeeeee way to go to the new Videoke King J . I still join the group even though I’m not holding the mic but I was singing with them. To wrap up this day, I enjoy the first day activities and still looking for some more in the next two days. When the clock stike at 10pm I said its bed time. So I can be ready for the next day nerve wracking activities......