My first ever AGM~

Got to get away from the office for the entire afternoon on 18 May 2010, to do some very fun stuff which was not exactly part of my job scope as well~~ :) After having an early McValue Meal Lunch, 7 of us (i was the only one from my group who got to go, yay~) got into our company's Toyota Innova and were driven to Equatorial Hotel in town for Pacificmas Berhad's Annual General Meeting..

In the car with 2 senior managers from another group~ Cameraman's hand shaking as usual :p

The reason i had to go was because our Share Registrar dept was shorthanded that day cos of the meeting season (not mating, mind you :P) So extra hands were needed to help with the registration.. The previous day, we were already briefed on how to use the special software..


In charge of one of the counters registering proxies and shareholders~ Now very canggih, just key in the identity card number and the status of the person and no. of shares held will appear on the screen, the procedure was to print out the polling form, check the name on the form, make sure the shareholder/ proxy signed the attendance list and then hand back everything together with a sticker to enter the refreshments area~ sounds simple, but when there are many uncles and aunties queuing up waiting for you, there's still a chance to be kelam-kabut at times... :S

Another registration area for Directors, Press members and other guests~

Peeking through the door~

Lots of senior citizens, the youngest person i registered was born in 1970 (also qualifies as an uncle dy) and the oldest registered was born in 1919 @.@~ and as it is with uncles and aunties, there were many weird situations as well, e.g. a uncle refusing to hand over his IC to prevent it from getting dirty, but insisting on giving us his driving license.. my colleague then said afterwards, "wonder how dirty is the driving license, wonder if it will dirty my hand instead?!" and another auntie, coming to register after the AGM started, then announced to us that she would not be going in cos its a waste of time, then promptly plopped onto a sofa to wait for the refreshments to be served O.o....

Luckily no door gifts this time round, cos our seniors told us that all sorts of stuff will happen, cos ppl will go to great lengths when there are door gifts, forged ICs and identities are the norm.. Got to go in and listen while the resolutions were being passed, we'd expected it to end in at least one and a half hours like it did in previous years, but this year was quite fast, everything finished within 40 minutes, then it was refreshments time!

They only had the usual fried rice, meehoon, sandwiches, pastries, spring rolls, fruit cake, etc (which finished in record time)... didnt see anyone bringing out containers to pack food home tho~

Empty rows of seats before the meeting at 3pm~

Nice experience attending the 48th AGM:)

got back to the office by 5pm.. I'd hoped that it could last longer then could go straight home, too bad :( anyways, i think im crazy but i really enjoyed this special task! hope i'll get to go again next time.. (heard some hotels serve really interesting and nice food :P)