The Birmingham Airport Exhibition Stand, China

Despite the traumas of the Chinese customs computer system breaking down, thus delaying our equipment delivery until 12hrs before the event, The Birmingham Airport exhibition stand was built and ready to go on schedule.

A busy two days of networking and meeting new contacts on their 5mx5m stand meant our crew had time to sample the sights and sounds of Chengdu. The highlights of which were a panda sanctuary with both the common or garden panda bear and the much smaller red panda. and the wenshu monastery, a haven of calm in a bustling city.

There was the usual excitements of travelling in a foreign country, one where the chaos theory seemed to rule the roads, everyone driving just as bad as everyone else but not causing accidents, and asian diet - noodles and huge buffet's ruled our mealtimes.

Another happy client, and two crew, happy to be returning home after a successful week away.

Chengdu PandaBreeding and Research Center

not your average conference chicken...

Chengdu PandaBreeding and Research Center

ChengduWenshu Monastery, Wenshu Yuan, Sichuan

By Ron Gilmour
Special Projects Director

Easter Egg Competition, it's Egg-tastic!

It's Easter Egg time in the office this week.

Originally the plan was to just paint a few eggs to show our creative flare. However the more competative amongst us decided it would be more fun turning it into a competition and a prize: "otherwise what's the point, there is no fun if not" said by one of my colleages.

So unbeknown to most of us, the person who asked for it be a competition had already been preparing props for their eggs over night and had done alot of research into what design they were going to recreate. So the bar was raised and everyone else basically 'poohed themselves' becasue we hadn't been taking it that seriously or put much thought into it.

We all took it in shifts to decorate our eggs and was only given half an hour. As you can see by the results, there is alot of creative flare in the building, from some surprising sources.

We asked an external adjudicator (Pete from Phoenix Ice Hockey) to judge our eggs: "it was a tough decision, i was accepting bribes but no-one offered me anything, they were obviously confident in their abilities"

The winners were: 3rd place - Helen Ford from media with her bumble bee, 2nd place - Helen Ridgeway from media with her Kiss members and 1st place - Alice Marshall from project management with her amazing bunny rabbit.

As you can see by the photos the standard was very high all around, and everyone deserves a pat on the back for their efforts.

So until next year... have an egg-citing Easter from us all at Comtec Presentations.

By Kellie Keith