MAYBANK Brunei...in CNY Traditions.

The Arab-families were invited at the MayBank Brunei,

Chinese New Year Celebrations today,

at a leading Halal Chinese Restaurant in the capital....today.

MayBank hosted this exclusive Chinese New Year dinner,

for its valued customers and staff members.

Present as the Guest of Honour was the High Commissioner of Malaysia to Brunei,

Dato Ku Jaafar Ku Shaari.

Invited guests were treated to a Chinese New Year special tradition,

when the PDS lion dance troup performed

remarkable shows during the opening ceremony.

Spearheading the event was Mr.Geofery Lim,

Country Head and General Manager of MayBank Brunei.

Arab-families were greeted by the MayBank Country Manager and their managment staff... Mr. Geoffrey Lim with CEO of Serikandi Group

everyone listening to the wellcoming speech from Mr. Geoffrey Lim.
Mr. Jackie Chan of Brunei.....were here also.....he.hee.....

The Maybank Country Manager deliver his speech...

as he is new here in Brunei only eight months......

"May the year of the rat bring all of you good luck, good health, prosperity and all that you want."

Arab-families with the MayBank staff at the CNY event.

The Chinese Lion Dance tradition goes back to some one thousand years and is usually performed during Chinese festivals.
To open the ceremony and welcoming

the "Year of the Rat" a special presentation of lion dance..

By PDS School students....

Guest of Honour watching the Lion Dance presentations....

Special Lion dance presentation by PDS school.

To highlighted the specialty of the night, was the "Yee Sang" dish.

"The purpose of the dish is to toss the Yee Sang as high as possible to attract greater prosperity and more fortune for business"

higher and higher and make a wish.......and say Yee Sang!!!

Yee Sang......Yee Sang.....

Toss it... higher and higher.......and make a wish........

Yee Sang!!!

Princess Rara with Puan Umi Hjh.Sharifah owner of NLP Schools.

( She is also from an Arab-families )

Princess Rara what are you having?

woo....nice food.....

makan time....
Princess Rara and Mdm.Tiff......

The Big Makan time......


The drummers.....

The Guest of Honour and the MayBank Country Manager were invited onstage to demonstrate a drum perfomance.

The Chinese believe in CNY.........that

"the harder and the more you beat the more hong (luck) you will come!!!"
Perfomance by PDS School...... childrens

Owner of R & T Company,...he looks like Jackie Chan of Brunei.....
The VIP guests........

More power to MayBank and more business to come in 2008....
good bye and thanks for inviting the arab-families...........
arab-families were invited to beat the drums
time to show our skills....
Next year we can open our own "the Lion Dance group"...he..he..he...

The MayBank team.....
Don't forget tio invite us again next CNY year.....thank you!!!