Banana Leaf Rice

Everyone at RedRibbon Days loves Banana Leaf Rice. We love it so much that we only employ people who enjoys banana leaf rice. Really, "Do you like Banana Leaf Rice?" is one of our RRD interview question.


To us - banana leaf rice equals celebration. We have banana leaf rice in the office for all of our birthdays. For New Year Eve celebration this year, we had banana leaf rice too!

Picture of our takeaway banana leaf rice (below):

Picture of my banana leaf rice (below)

Our takeaway banana leaf rice is not possible without our RedRibbon Days PTC Team Leader - Ramyah. I've accompanied her to take away and she can order the whole spread of dishes in 1 sentence. I can never do that. She can even get the waiter at Devi's corner to help us carry the food all the way to our car!!

Since I started talking about Ramyah, maybe I should continue blogging about her. A picture of Ramyah below:

For our RedRibbon Days' customers who have called us during lunch time, you will notice that there will definitely be someone that picks up your phone although it's Lunch time. Well I cant promise that the person's right hand is not be filled with curry (like the picture above).

And I cant promise if you provide your details to us during lunch time, we have no hands to write the details down (below):

Oh yes, other than having banana leaf rice for our team members' birthdays, each of us get a cake on our birthdays too.

I cant guarantee that your Team Leader does'nt do this (below) :

Because clearly, she really genuinely enjoys bullying people on their birthdays ;) (below)

Sherin's birthday Dinner 2013

This year we celebrated Sherin's birthday dinner with her friends at Redribbon Days's new partner's place - Hit and Mrs. 

We have an amazing team that is really good at organising events - Kids' birthday parties, team-events etc but I am not part of the amazing event team. And because I'm not part of the event team, I've never organised any events. My first event that I organised was this year - Sherin's birthday.

We did a pretty good job - Thanks to Sharmein that did most of the planning and execution with Ramyah's help.

The setting on the day (below)

More pictures below:

Sherin's Birthday Celebration 2013

At RedRibbon Days, we always have birthday lunch celebrations with the team. Previously, the birthday boy/girl gets to choose their favourite food so we can order and eat together. Sherin's favourite food is Nasi Padang so previous years we have been eating Nasi Padang together.

This year however, I changed the tradition. Everyone can order their favourite food on their birthday as long as it's Banana Leaf Rice! My favourite! So we had banana leaf rice for Sherin's birthday. It's really cool because we even take away the banana leaf back to the office.

Picture of Sherin eating banana leaf rice (below)

Oh i realised i didnt transfer the photo of Sherin with the banana leaf rice. If you want to see the amazing banana leaf rice, please check out my other blog (sorry i got to promote my other blog too. Haha! Here!)

A picture of Sherin with the team (below)

Sherin received a RedRibbon Days experience from the team and an amazing Andy Warhol picture of her.

Twenty One Kitchen and Bar

I rarely blog about my RedRibbon Days dining experience that I've tried but I was looking through my pictures and decided to blog anyway since I rarely take photos of food. OK, actually it's not true... I was looking through the food pics from Sherin's phone. I may be wrong but I always thought food is for eating and not for pictures. Haha!

We had the opportunity to experience Modern European with a Touch of Asian at Twentyone recently.  It was Sherin's November Birthday celebration so we celebrated with Sherin's family members who flew down from Singapore to celebrate with her.

The three course set menu allows us to choose our choice of starter, main and dessert.

I love the wild mushroom soup with truffle cream & cheese croutons. I didnt order this dish by the way. But i wished I ordered it. It tastes better than it looks (above)

 

 I ordered the caesar salad (above). It's not bad but I prefer the mushroom soup.

For mains, we had a choice of Sirloin Steak, Chicken Tikka Masala or Pan Fried Sea Bass but all of us ordered the steak (below)

The steak was okay but I couldnt finish it. The portion was too big for me.

And finally for dessert, my favourite lemon tart (trust me, tastes so much better than it looks) (below)

This experience does not include any alcohol beverages but if you are going for dinner, try to do an earlier dinner because their Happy Hours at Twenty One is really good value for money.

And after the filling dinner, guess what, we had to eat Sherin's Pavlova birthday cake! Now I know why I felt like exploding that evening.

Halloween at RedRibbon Days

We celebrated Halloween at our RedRibbon Days office this year - it's our first year that we ever celebrated halloween, thanks to our amazing team members that organised it.

I think it was either Ramyah, Nisha or Charlene that suggested to Sherin that they would like to organise Halloween at our office this year. Sorry guys, I cant remember who suggested but it's an excellent idea and Sherin loves it. The best thing about organising Halloween at our office is the effort where everyone put in effort to decorate the office (especially the meeting room) and dressed up for it. I think Charlene even brought props from her house to decorate the office. A for effort!

Ramyah (below)

Alvin (below)

Sharmein (below)

 Nisha (Below)

Charlene (below)

We had KFC for lunch - Sherin's favourite

and errr a leg. Hungry Ara eating the leg (below)

another picture of Ara (below)

When the Boss is not around...

Want to know what happens at RedRibbon Days when our Founder and CEO Sherin Wong is not around? Well the truth is, everyone is still productive at work - the only small difference is errr.. okay maybe putting up pictures is a better idea. After all pictures tell a thousand words.

We have a room at our office where we keep all our materials for Bespoke R.E.D Balloons.  This room is where we keep our helium gas tank too. We only come to this room when we prepare courier gift packs for delivery and most of the time, only our PTC that come into this room.

So when our Boss Sherin was not in the office recently, I found our corporate team members in our packaging room. Not sure what they were up to (below)

But they certainly looks happy that Boss was in that day.

 Ok now we know. They were having fun with our helium gas!! Not just Ara and Sharmein, Ramyah too! Haha (below)

We take Eating Seriously - Part 2

Most of us at RedRibbon Days take eating very seriously. When it comes to eating, we mean business.... Seriously.

Meet Ramyah - a serious eater. Dont mess with her especially when she's eating.

 Meet Sharmein, another serious eater.

 Meet Ara, another serious one when eating.

 Meet Nisha, ok she's not as serious as Ramyah, Sharmein and Ara.

 Meet Charlene,ok probably a wrong photo but usually she's quite serious when eating.

Eat, Sleep and Breathe RedRibbon Days

Did you know that our RedRibbon Days Head of Security Modjo is same age as RedRibbon Days? Time flies, this year is RedRibbon Days' 5th year since it was launched in June 2008. However, RedRibbon Days was founded end of year 2007 - our Founder and CEO Sherin Wong took few months to develop the website and get enough experiences on board before launching the website. So, technically, RedRibbon Days is 6 years old - same age as our Head of Security.

I still remember when we first started (before Modjo got promoted to Head of Security), we were all working from Sherin's home. Modjo at the time was still a little puppy and he was working as our RedRibbon Days Home Office greeter. He basically barks and gets excited when the door bell rings, when our phone rings or when the security guards at Sherin's apartment buzz us.

Few years ago, Modjo was promoted as the Head of Security of RedRibbon Days. We love the fact that he Eat, Sleep and Breathe RedRibbon Days.

A picture of our Head of Security below:

He will make sure all of us are proud of our company t-shirt and wear it whenever we can.

Background is a picture of our RedRibbon Days Tshirt - "Life is the sum of your Experiences"

Yup! He Eat, SLEEPS and Breathe RedRibbon Days (below)

Our very own Chocolate Spa

RedRibbon Days loves birthdays. I love birthdays because it's all about giving gifts and celebrating. We love celebrating our team member's birthdays as well.

I dont think I have blogged about any of our team member's birthday (although we celebrate all our birthdays with the team) except our Founder and CEO, Sherin Wong . This will be my first.

Please meet our RRD team member, Ramyah (below)

Smile Ramyah! (below) Haha! She actually has perfect set of teeth, I got her to take a photo with chocolates in her teeth

I think the team got Ramyah chocolate flavoured cake because she likes chocolates.

Her birthday surprise was when one of our team member, Ara decided to 'surprise' her with errr RRD special Chocolate Spa?  The pictures below sums it all:

and another (below)

The result - RedRibbon Days' very won Chocolate Facial (below)

Lucky Draw

Do you believe in lucky draws? Oh, let me rephrase my question, are you the type who always win lucky draws. I, however, have never won any lucky draws in my life. Whether it's raffle tickets or those competition where you drop your business card and win a meal/hotel stay.

Although I cant do much for raffle tickets, I believe the type of lucky draw that you drop your business card where you can win a meal or a hotel stay is based on how you drop your card. Trust me, because now I always win.

How? Like I say, it's how creative you can be when you drop your business card in the bowl. One good example was during an event that RedRibbon Days organised for a corporate client in a hotel.

Check the picture below: 

There was a bowl next to the sign but I chose not to drop my business card in the bowl. After all, the instruction didnt say, Drop your Business Card in the Bowl next to this sign, did it?