FreeWheel Beijing 2010 Annual Party
Just when I thought the last annual party was an unmatchable one, I was blown away by how much fun we had this year...
We held the party at 后海5号 last night, the venue was great, it looked crowded, we packed close to 90 people with friends and families of FreeWheelers there.
Alex and Ray attended the party representing US offices, ask them for untold fun stories 
Andrea asked all teams to creatively come up with programs on their own. I worried that it would be boring, made sure the venue had in house band in place to help warming the stage. It turned out the band was the most boring part of the night
We kicked off the party with a birthday cake to celebrate the Feb birthdays and the spring festival
There are many fun moments that any words would pale in comparison, you really have to be there to count them all...I am noting a few funnest moments that I so vividly remember and still can not help laughing when I think about them...
UI team opened up with the famously popular "Nobody" dance
I vote it "the most professional looking dance", youtube video of the dance was uploaded real time and immediately shared to all worldwide and drew a lot of "WOW"s. Great job for a few hours rehearsal at lunch time!
Core team's short play about our adservers selecting pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll during commercial breaks filled the room with unstopped laughs and I even forgot taking my pictures. The audience were shouting for more commercials as the short play releasing one joke after another about FreeWheel Adservers working with 3rd parties, competitors, selecting the best performing ads, sponsorships, companions for video owner...
I vote it "the most creatively designed and executed short play", it was brilliant! This was a true surprise, I didn't even know how they prepared it completely without me noticing in the same room...
And the funnest game of the night...The creative stylist, with Jack, Free, Kevin, Di as the models and female members of their teams as their stylists. The "Hello Kitty" design was the unanimous winner...Guess who won the game
The song touched me the most is "I believe" from Snow, he rewrote the lyrics based on FreeWheel moments and created an MV himself using FreeWheelers' photos...I was so touched, forgot to record it, if anybody has it, please send to me...Many many thanks! (updated with YouKu link to the video)
Finally, "the cutest performance" goes to the "hello kitty" sang by Yuantao and his GF.
With so much laugh and love, no wonder we all found the professional band were boring!
I am still touched and felt the excitement when I review those pictures now, hence selecting a few to share my excitement...Thank you, from my heart, thank you all for a great night, for your participation, for supports from your families and friends, for your talent and creativity, for the love and care you shown, and, most importantly, for the laugh and fun you brought...I LOVE YOU ALL! THANK YOU!
We held the party at 后海5号 last night, the venue was great, it looked crowded, we packed close to 90 people with friends and families of FreeWheelers there.
Andrea asked all teams to creatively come up with programs on their own. I worried that it would be boring, made sure the venue had in house band in place to help warming the stage. It turned out the band was the most boring part of the night
We kicked off the party with a birthday cake to celebrate the Feb birthdays and the spring festival
There are many fun moments that any words would pale in comparison, you really have to be there to count them all...I am noting a few funnest moments that I so vividly remember and still can not help laughing when I think about them...
UI team opened up with the famously popular "Nobody" dance
I vote it "the most professional looking dance", youtube video of the dance was uploaded real time and immediately shared to all worldwide and drew a lot of "WOW"s. Great job for a few hours rehearsal at lunch time!
Core team's short play about our adservers selecting pre-roll, mid-roll, post-roll during commercial breaks filled the room with unstopped laughs and I even forgot taking my pictures. The audience were shouting for more commercials as the short play releasing one joke after another about FreeWheel Adservers working with 3rd parties, competitors, selecting the best performing ads, sponsorships, companions for video owner...
I vote it "the most creatively designed and executed short play", it was brilliant! This was a true surprise, I didn't even know how they prepared it completely without me noticing in the same room...
And the funnest game of the night...The creative stylist, with Jack, Free, Kevin, Di as the models and female members of their teams as their stylists. The "Hello Kitty" design was the unanimous winner...Guess who won the game
The song touched me the most is "I believe" from Snow, he rewrote the lyrics based on FreeWheel moments and created an MV himself using FreeWheelers' photos...I was so touched, forgot to record it, if anybody has it, please send to me...Many many thanks! (updated with YouKu link to the video)
Finally, "the cutest performance" goes to the "hello kitty" sang by Yuantao and his GF.
With so much laugh and love, no wonder we all found the professional band were boring!
I am still touched and felt the excitement when I review those pictures now, hence selecting a few to share my excitement...Thank you, from my heart, thank you all for a great night, for your participation, for supports from your families and friends, for your talent and creativity, for the love and care you shown, and, most importantly, for the laugh and fun you brought...I LOVE YOU ALL! THANK YOU!
One of the things missing this year is that we didn't see Diane dancing as last year!
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Ha ha, thank you! I feel much better today. Laughters are good healer for cold
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Wow!! I got to see the rehearsals but very sorry I missed the main event (though happy I did not get hello kitty 'styled'
See you all soon in 1 month
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ah...i see myself...eating...
and i've got a lot of pictures of the fashion 4...just hesitating whether to sharing with the company...
now i think i will...hahahah
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Good article...I will use some of these pictures myself...more great info please...
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Congrats freewheeler's family. I found some of the post here in Diane's blog. I also watch the video of the most professional looking dance. That was an awesome choreography of "Nobody", nice one!
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