1. Chief Executive Officer of Symphony Suites Hotel, Mr. Lee Chee Ming, delivers his welcome speech

It was party time last evening at Symphony Suites as the hotel celebrated its first anniversary. It was just like yesterday that I attended its official launch exactly a year ago.

2. cake-cutting and singing the Happy Birthday song by hotel co-owners (L-R) – Mr. Lee Chee Ming, Mrs. Marc Koo and Dato’ Seri Richard Tan with General Manager David Tsen and emcee KT Pillai

3. live band performance by The Trio Express led by vocalist AG

According to Chief Executive Officer Mr. Lee Chee Ming, the past year had not been short on challenges. In his welcome speech, he said, “To be honest, we haven’t quite achieved the targets that we had earlier set in terms of revenue, room occupancy rate and profitability.”

4. illusionist Mahdi Moudini performs a close up magic trick for Mr. & Mrs. Lee Chee Ming

5. illusionist Mahdi Moudini begins his stage performance

However, at the first anniversary celebration, it was not time to think about work. Instead, it was an opportunity for the staff to let their hair down, and only continue striving to be one of the better hotels in Ipoh on the following day.

6. best male masked models strut their stuff on stage

7. best female masked models take their turn on stage

The dinner, with a masquerade theme, was to thank staff members of all levels, as well as partners, suppliers and valued guests.

8. a token of appreciation from the hotel to valued customer and supplier

9. random dancing by Ryan Lim and Litsa Francis, both from YOU Wings

Expertly emceed by KT Pillai, the highlight of the evening, I would say, was a stage performance by award-winning, world-renowned illusionist Mahdi Moudini who kept the guests fascinated for half an hour.

10. Vicky Lee receives her prize from hotel co-owner Dato’ Seri Richard Tan for winning Best Female Mask Catwalk

11. Master Tan receives the lucky draw Grand Prize of a pair of return flight tickets from Ipoh to Medan from sponsor YOU Wings

Other programmes lined up were live band performance by The Trio Express, Best Mask Catwalk for Male & Female and quizzes.

Plenty of prizes from F&B vouchers to complimentary hotel stays were given away but the icing on the cake was the Grand Prize of a pair of return flight tickets from Ipoh to Medan sponsored by YOU Wings. Suffice to say that it was not won by me!

Anyway, congratulations to Symphony Suites Hotel! May we celebrate many more anniversaries together.

Event: Symphony Suites Hotel 1st Anniversary Celebration
Venue: Symphony Suites Hotel, Ipoh
Date: 29th Oct, 2014
Time: 8pm

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