2015 Annual Team Building at Palm Beach Resort, Laiya Batangas!

Our annual company team building was held last week on the day of "Araw ng Kagitingan" Thursday April 9 to 10. Last year we went to Baguio City of Pines for our team outing but this time the management decided to conduct the event on Palm Beach Resort Laiya Batangas! I am very excited since it was my first time to go to the place and I also missed the beach. It’s been a decade since I had a chance to see an ocean.

We left in Makati exactly 7 in the morning and it took us roughly 4 hours to get to our destination. Good thing the bus has videoke to kill time while we're on the road. We arrived early on the resort and grab the chance to roam around the vicinity for couple of minutes before the activity starts. We use that free time to shot the place, selfies and group pictures!

Palm Beach Reception Area

I took this photo while I am at the veranda of Casa Alexandra. I hope I can have this awesome view every morning!

Thanks for James for taking this photo of one of the two infinity pool at the resort

Photo Credit to J. Caspellan

Photo Credit to J. Caspellan

Photo Credit to J. Caspellan

Photo Credit to J. Caspellan

We are divided into three teams: blue, red and yellow which consists of 6 members per each. 

Red Team from L-R: Maricris, Tin, Sylvia, Joselito, Mark & Ron

I'm part of the yellow team and we call our group as "SuperYellowFragilisticExpialidocious" I don't know if my spelling is correct. I can't even pronounce our group name with out twisting my tongue because it's too long. LOL.

Yellow Team from L-R: Jerwin, James, Gian, Me, Apple & Grapes. Look how fresh and giddy we are here.

Blue Team L-R: Teresa, Paulo, Christine, Jean, Donn, Karlo. The winning team!

To cut the story short we end up on second place and we grabbed the team spirit award! Woot, woot. Here's the picture of our team during the awarding:

We looked very haggard here but we have fun!

After the exciting games ended it's now time for us to enjoy the whole amenities of the resort such as the 2 infinite pools, swim in the beach or just stroll the place. We ate lunch, dinner and breakfast there and I can say that the food was great! Kudos to the chef on the kitchen. I also like how attentive all the employees of Palm beach on serving new food on the buffet table for us hungry tourists. The majority of the dishes served are Filipino delicacies. Here are some dishes that my co-workmate shot during our lunch.

Beef Sinigang Meet

A bowl of salted egg and onions

Sinukmani which is comparable to rice cake/biko but this one is tastier because it has ground nuts and I can taste the langka (jack fruit). This dessert is super delicious!

I really enjoyed our team building this year compared last year. The place is awesome, the activities are fun and the food are delicious! What about you? Do you enjoyed your company's outing? Do you have an awesome summer? Why not share your experience in the comment section below.

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Baguio Part 4 - Grumpy Joe

Our final day here in Baguio, we leave the place Saturday afternoon. It is a bit sad to leave the beautiful city of pines but we have to. On the other hand I really miss Manila. We're coming home finally! Gah, I do miss the noise of the busy streets of the metro.

We chance to had our lunch at Grumpy Joe. The restaurant is a bit small but they serve fantastic food. Their serving is HUGE too! I ordered their cheese burger and it taste good. I didn't finish my meal because we order and share other dishes.

I heard that their 5 cheese pizza is their specialty there that's why I and my office mates are eager to try it. Without further ado here are the pictures of our lunch at the Grumpy Joe.

5 cheese pizza which is super delicious. 100% cheesy

Sea food pasta which is good for 3 people to share

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Baguio Part 3 - Tam-Awan Village, Route 55, Mines View Park & Good Taste

I mentioned on my previous post about our 1st stop on Strawberry farm which you can read it on Baguio Part 2. After the strawberry farm we headed to our next destination which is Tam-Awan Village. At first I thought we will just walking or strolling the place but we end up trekking because it is like a mini-mountain with cliffs and muddy soil.This is also the time that my phone battery drained out. A boo boo for a newbie blogger like me. Luckily I have friends that I can resort to when I run out of photo to use in this blog. I just grabbed these pictures on their Facebook accounts! Yayy.

This banner greeted us when we entered the vicinity

We pay 50 pesos for the entrance fee which is on our part the company shouldered for us. Hehe. The advantage of team building. Hahaha.

Entrance Fee: Children 20 pesos, Student & Senior 30 pesos & Adult 50 pesos

Embossed art of a giant lizard beside the stairs.

I really don't know what is the purpose of this one but it caught my eye and find this cool

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Baguio Part 2 - Strawberry Farm

The next day we woke up early to get ready for a long day list of activities that we scheduled to do in Baguio. If ever you missed reading my blog entry just click the link Baguio Part 1. Our first stop is the Strawberry Farm.

At the farm they also plant lettuces, tomatoes and other leafy veggies that is unfamiliar to me. Maybe I haven't eaten those vegetables at home that's why I can't recognize them. Okay, that's only my excuse. LOL.

Strawberries

Strawberry fruits ready to harvest

We don't grab the opportunity to harvest strawberries because it is too expensive. You have to pay about 300 pesos and they will give you a mini basket to store the fruits. We just took a picture of strawberries, the farm, the muddy soil and the flying bees. Haha.

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Baguio Part 1 - Road Trip

Sorry if I've been missing in action for a while due to our company's team building trip to the City of Pines - Baguio City! We stayed there for 3 days. The trip is super fun though when we went back to Manila we experienced having a flat tire in the middle of the road somewhere TPLEX exit and the bus driver that we hire was rude. There are so much drama on our trip that I don't want to write it here because it is too much of negativity. Of course we don't let those things stop us to enjoy our team building. No, no, no!

I still can say that we had a blast strolling Baguio City from their strawberry farm, Tam-Awan Village, Mines View Park to their wet market. We also eat out on some famous restaurants that serves delicious Chinese dishes, burgers, pizza and pasta. I also had a chance to try their strawberry ice-cream which is super delicious and comparable to gelatto but forgot to try strawberry taho. Huhu. I'm such a loser like that. Okay, this post is super long that I plan to divide it into 3-4 blog entries.

If you will go to Baguio expect a very long trip. It took us approximately 6-7.5 hours going to Baguio from Manila. My advise is to bring something that will entertain you on the trip such as PSP, watch movies, play games on your mobile phone, listen to music or the best activity to do at the bus is to sleep. We left at the office Thursday morning and had our lunch on one of the restaurant we saw on the road.

The view on our way to Baguio. You will see tons of this view during the whole road trip. Farm, cows, mango trees and local people and repeat this scene again. LOL.

We arrived in Baguio at 6 in the afternoon. A perfect time to had our dinner there at our rented rest house. Actually we planned to go night swimming but the activity didn't push through because we are so tired after we had our dinner. Haha.

The rest house that we stayed for 2 days in Baguio. Super duper cute and very homey!

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Baguio Get away!

I will be away for a while because I will be going to Baguio for 3 days for our company's team building. Yay!

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I'm super duper excited because it is my first time there. Haha. Yeah, yeah. I'm such a boring gal like that who likes to stay at home rather than strolling around Metro Manila and spending out of town trips. Anyway, I will be blogging about it soon on this page. So stay tune guys.

On the other hand my mood right now is quite happy because of EARLY PAYDAY. I put emphasis on that because it rarely happen until today. LOL. More money to spend on my Baguio get away! Love, love, love. Insert happy dance here:

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