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26 The SPiCE Magazine • January 2019
Saturday nights fever!
From sundown to midnight:
Havana-themed Year-end Party
lights up the Dumaguete sky
True to its reputation as a site bursting with youthful millennial
energy, the Dumaguete site once again showed the local
community that SPi Global is the “hip” place to be. The year-end
party, held last December 1st at the Angtay Golf and Country Club,
was the definition of “lit”, as Latin-inspired music blasted through
the open-spaced venue from late afternoon to midnight. Group 3 (Journals-Springer, Wiley, BMC,
and Hindawi) hyped it up to the modern
Employees bopped to tunes from local guests DJ Joeren and 6k tunes of Pitbull and Daddy Yankee, while
Band, and were entertained by the dance moves of SPi party-staple Group 4 (Books, Education, Business Sup-
Skip Dance Family and Royalty. port, and Operations Support) gyrated to
the sexy hits of Jennifer Lopez.
The program proper started off with a literal BANG! as fireworks
lit up the sky, and the various dance groups, along with Ratan, The People’s Choice Award went to Group
Prabhakar, and the rest of SPi’s top leaders, opened the party with 3, while Group 1 was announced as Grand
Winner. No surprises there, as CIS,
dazzling lights and confetti. Two thousand three hundred Conversion, and Customer Service had
twenty-six (2,326) employees (86% of the site’s population) consistently bested all other dance
gathered around the stage to cheer for their teammates in the contenders for the past couple of years.
ensuing dance battle royale, error, competition.
The after party was equally lit as
another set of fireworks heralded the
start of more dancing as the crowd
moved to stage front and grooved to
Bacolod-based DJ Leandro Zayco and the
Patiqueros.
Values 24/7 Heroes
of 2018 Awarding
(Profiles by DGTE ASPiRE)
Of course, a year-end party would not
be complete without recognizing the
individuals who have shown exemplary
contribution, character, and embod-
Four groups showcased their best interpretation and visualization iment of SPi’s core values. This year’s
of Latin-inspired music. Group 1 (CIS, Conversion, and Customer Dumaguete values heroes were chosen
Service) engaged the crowd with colorful costumes and amusing from 140 nominees.
surprises as they danced to the music of Gente de Zona, Gloria
Estefan, and the Gibson Brothers.
The second contender, Journals - Elsevier, LWW, and Pearson, went
dancin’ la vida loca to some of Ricky Martin’s greatest hits.
