Team building trip

My company recently sent us on a 2-day team building trip to Kuching, Sarawak. Actually I just came back from it yesterday. We skipped one working day (Friday) to go on this trip. And even though it was exhausting (since I haven't had any proper exercise in years), it was a lot of fun! As team building trips usually are. Yeah, they had the usual activities like wall-climbing, rappeling, obstacle course, raft-building, kayaking, etc. And yeah, we had to spend the night in a cabin in the middle of the rainforest, with all those creepy crawlies. But the one thing that I noticed about my company was that every single employee's personality "matched" one another's. Meaning that, even though our personalities differ in some way, we were all able to mix with each other well, even if there wasn't a team building trip going on. It was like a revelation. And I wasn't the only one who noticed it either. My cabin mates did too. I was very impressed with the selection process that our HR carries out, because they do this personality test thing to see if the personality of potential candidates match the "company's personality" (if you could actually call it that), and it works. Surprisingly.

The other surprising discovery during the trip was that Kuching really does have a lot of cats. (For those non-Malaysian readers out there, "Kuching", the name of the city that I visited in Sarawak for my team building trip literally means "Cat" in Malay.) At the camp, which is situated in a rainforest by the beach, there were many cats walking around all over the place. It was as if that jungle was their natural habitat. They didn't even bother us humans. It was just an amusing observation.

Anyway, I'm supposed to rest in bed today, to nurse my aching body. I have a bad knee since my ligaments are torn (since the age of 15), and of course a bad knee means I can't balance. So you can imagine all the torture I had to go through during the obstacle course... all those "balance beam" activities. Eesh. My boss had to hold my hand while I did it. Muahaha. And I fell down hard like 3 times. And what was worse my boss made me the team leader, so like I felt obligated to always volunteer myself to be the first girl to do everything. Sheesh man, talk about leading by example. And I can't swim, but I did the kayaking anyway. And by the end of the first day, because I had no idea how hot it would be like in a rainforest by the beach (with the glare of the ocean), I had heatstroke, was very dizzy, and had a terrible migraine. And no, I didn't bring any dehydration tablets, so I was very dehydrated, and found myself panting all the time. But they had a natural "jungle pool" with natural mountain spring water, and it was great to take a dip in after a long hot day to cool your body down. That was neat.

And later on tonight, me and my best buds are going to celebrate me and my bf's birthdays at one of our fave restaurants. So... I'd say this was a pretty good weekend.