That
was a Saturday of January 23, 2011 where a special corporate event
was scheduled in honor of the top achievers of the company for 2010.
Our role – Augustine Music Ensemble was to provide special music to
highlight some parts of the corporate program prepared by Mr.
Bonifacio Isidro who organized the big affair where guests,
participants and awardees were gathered to join the festivities.
Our
call time was 11am and when we arrived almost all were gathered
familiarizing their parts and positioning themselves for the
presentation. We hardly squeezed ourselves to enter the grand
ballroom of Hotel Intercontinental. We knew that our parts were far
in between but that was their agenda of the day and abide by it. The
start of the big affair was scheduled for 12:30 pm and nobody was
allowed to enter yet except us who will prepare our instruments
because the first part of the program was the presentation of the
awardees marching on with our music. And there were many of them.
We
prepared five music scores fit for their march and before we played
we let the organizer approve them first to match his taste and he
liked them. Then the march began with our majestic music floating on
the hall matching the gallantry of their entrance. It took around 20
minutes before all the awardees were received.
Before
the meal was served, they did raffles with many prices at hand and
heard that the grand raffle prize was hundred thousand pesos – that
big. How we wished we were given raffle stabs but those were only for
guests, employees, markeeters and awardees. The raffle box was indeed
full with green stabs symbolizing prosperity which is the aim of the
company to provide the better things in life for those involve with
Philkraft.
As
they were having their sumptuous meal, Augustine Music provided
timeless classics to the ease of everybody. After 30 minutes of
playing the next segment was some words for executives of the company
in preparation for the diamond awards for deserving ones.
The
diamond awarding ceremony started with appropriate music, “Diamonds
Are Forever” playing it majestically with a touch of drama felt.
The music fantastically matched their theme and we were glad we did
our part by sharing the best we can for any affair called for.
Still,
that portion of the program was not the culmination of it all. They
had other activities lined up with a jazz band after us and a little
later at night they had dancing to their hearts' delight for it was a
GRAND AFFAIR for such a huge company like Philkraft.