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Hello and Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2010 / Internal Communications Starwood

Hello and Happy Earth Day!

We want to spread some inspiration, share some news, and maybe put a smile on your face on this 40th anniversary of Earth Day!

We look forward to sharing additional information in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, enjoy and have a spectacular day!

Wonderful Birthday-- Aalim!

WOW Congratulations Haleem!

WOW Congratulation Haleem, wish you all the best towards your career and future.

Coffee with GM @ Gaathafushi

Coffee with GM event at gaathafushi, how great is it to have a trip like this away from work and especially not talking anything about work.

Wonderful Birthday-- Liru!

Stars of the month dinner with GM at Fire

Our Fabulous Stars - Dinner with GM and HR director at Fire Restaurant

W Hotels & Resorts Names Coetzer Deysel General Manager of W Retreat - Koh Samui

First W Retreat in Southeast Asia to Open Summer 2010

W Hotels & Resorts is pleased to announce the appointment of Coetzer Deysel as general manager of W Retreat - Koh Samui. The first W Retreat in Southeast Asia, W Retreat - Koh Samui is scheduled to open in summer 2010. An all-villa beachfront resort set on the north shore of Thailand’s famed Samui island, W Retreat - Koh Samui brings an alluring new dimension of cutting-edge design, contemporary lifestyle and exhilarating experiences to Thailand.

Deysel’s brings more than a decade of experience in the hospitality industry to his new position, most recently serving as hotel manager of W Retreat & Spa - Maldives. Deysel’s prior positions include managerships at Madikwe River Lodge in South Africa; Shibula Lodge & Bush Spa in South Africa; Exeter Game Lodges in South Africa, and Chapungu Tented Camp in South Africa. A passionate advocate of conservation and wildlife, Deysel is an active member of the Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA), which provides educational opportunities to promote the conservation and rehabilitation of the cultural and natural heritage of Southern Africa.

read full article, click below link
http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article.asp?id=68095&nav=28

Wonderful Birthday - Amit & Ragendra!

New recruitments for LBC

Little Billionaiers Club signed 3 new Talents recently. And the shocking news is They have also signed the CEO of Big Brothers to LBC now.

Pride Project under construction

Pride Project! Ring any bell, Remember anything about Pride Project from sometimes ago? Well its back on again. Thanks to Big Brothers for the master mind behind this project. Let me tell you about the pride projects, its all about creating space for Talents to hang around with their fellow in Escape Area. From the pictures you can see, there are 2 huts under construction. These 2 huts will be soon redesigned in a way we all can use to chill out.

Big Brothers Cinema online network

Wassup movie lovers here is your collection for you!

Whats Happening: Big Brothers Cinema is on a network via Time Capsule. Its a huge collection of Movies and music just one click away for you. New release will be always added from time to time when DVDRIP's are available. Remember, its a working progress we are in the process of updating our movie collection to the server and you may find errors which we have to troubleshoot.

How Its Use: Well as most of you know how Time Capsule works and its area range, If you must know more details of apple Time Capsule and its function click here. Its a wireless network of its very own kind which can be used to share files as well as a local network area. Steve Job describes Time Capsule as "The ultimate wireless base station"

Step 1 - Mac users: Go to airport finder and if you are in the range you will see "Big Brothers Cinema" select and connect to this network (Remember when you connect to this network you cannot access to internet at the same time), PC users: Select the same wifi from your computer. Wifi connection password is "public123"

Step 2 - Mac users: Open finder, check your Shared from sidebar. You will find Big Brothers Cinema Time Capsule. Select and connect to this. You will find movie library. Enjoy!

PC Users: Open your network area to see this. The easiest way is click Start, Run, type IP address 10.0.1.1 and hit Enter. You will be asked, user name: Big Brothers Cinema, Password: public

Try and let us know if you have any problem with connection, c/mon its not rocket science!

Once you are connected you can sit back and enjoy playing your choice of movie from our library. Also you can make a copy to your computer. We have tested our connection strength and it works fine up to S Deck, Casino, HayaiKuda. We suggest in front of S Block for the best connection speed.

Friday Friendly Football match - Club Little Billionaires Won

Little Billionaires 5 - All Stars 4

Little Billionaires Club won today's friendly football match against W All Stars Team. LBC took the lead with a very promising score line from Captain Munnawar where he scored a Hat trick shocking All Star team in the first half. Coming from behind All Star team reorganized their team and made the score line 3 goals to 1 when referee Yasir ended first half of the game. All stars score their 2nd goal in the first few minutes of second half but they simply couldn't control LBC forward line where Waseem scored 2 goals. Final score of the match is 5 goals to 4 with a superb victory for LBC against All Stars. Match official had to use few yellow and red cards to control the last few minutes of the match. It was somewhat a very challenging game with high tempo from both teams. "guys it's just a game and play your game fair, have we forgotten Discipline Pride & Passion DPP"

Fifa Fair play concept is "The generic concept of fair play is a fundamental part of the game of football. It represents the positive benefits of playing by the rules, using common sense and respecting fellow players, referees, opponents and fans. "

W Care our house reef

Great initiate by Touch Club. W-inner request all the other clubs and Talents who can join for this great event. Because we care and WoW our environment.

Maldives Tourism updates: Maldives Ranked 4 of new 7 wonders

click here/image to vote
Maldives – Ranked No. 4 amongst the 28 finalists of “New 7 Wonders of Nature”
Posted: 14 Apr 2010 09:39 PM PDT

With an increase of 99.32% Maldives is ranked as no.4 amongst the 28 finalists of New 7 Wonders of Nature. The ranking for this week is based on according to the number of votes received in the past four weeks from outside the country as well as local nationals. The Official New7Wonders of Nature is a worldwide campaign, and finalists have to achieve a minimum of 90% of international votes

Wonderful Birthday-- Billy!

Wonderful Birthday-- Sanah!

AKON CONCERT ON 23RD APRIL

Well hello there friends! i guess i don't have to tell you more about AKON

This is one time opportunity to visit such a even and first time ever superstar LIVE performance in Maldives soil. if you don't wanna miss this event you better be hurry and grab your ticket now. We' W-inner is trying to organize a speedboat to go Male' on the event night for those who are not on duty or off. but please make sure you have your ticket before they sold out.

If you want w-inner to help you on booking your ticket and speebaot please contact NAADHU or LIRAR.

* we need minimum 15 and maximum 20 pax *

Wonderful Birthday-- Zabeeh!

OUR MAYOR OF MALE!!

WOW congratulation Nua for the well deserved promotion!

New name for new supply boat

W Talents, what name you like to give our new boat?

Names we have received so far:

Whats up Dock, Why Knot, Knot a Clue, Wishful Thinking, Waste Knot, Wishes Granted, W Escapadees, W Xpress, W Bond, Wedi, W odi, W the cargo, W Loudey, W boos, W Fesdu, Anastasia, W The Cruisader, W Cruiser, W Liner, W Cargo Cruiser, W Carrier, W Cargo Express, W The Sail, W Sailor

Wonderful Birthday-- Lany!

Wonderful Birthday-- Rachelle!

W vs Halaveli Battle

W Talents, Lets play volleyball against Halaveli. W Talents, lets cheer our team on match day.

CONGRATULATIONS RIIN MERI

Riin awarded Best Financial Controller of 2009 from Starwood India, Bangladesh, Maldives - IBM

Wonderful Birthdays to Thoha, Sandeep, and Saamy!

Happy Birthday Thoha, Happy Birthday Sandeep, Happy Birthday Saamy

Are you ready to take part of FUN?

Are you ready to take part of Fun? Wanna join W-INNER?
W-INNER is in the process of restructuring with new members and it is open to all talents. Since 2008 w-inner is officially active with nominated members from each department and an elected organizing body. Now its your chance to join w-inner and organize things with your creativity. Why not grab a form from HR and apply with the nomination of your department?

How it works: Each department should nominate maximum 3 Talents to represent their department in w-inner. When a department nominate a Talent he/she becomes a member of w-inner automatically. After that among all, they will vote to elect the organizing body of W-INNER.

BEACH Oasis 2 - 2 OCEAN Oasis

W-inner have just been informed by one of the Style talent that this afternoon there will be a football match between STYLE talents. Todays match will be played Beach Oasis Stylists vs. Ocean Oasis Stylists. this is rally a great idea as we see more and more matches coming up lately to strengthen the team work within the department as well as other departments. So the supportes out there' today we will see what is your favourite room category, but for sure both catogories have their own plunge pool to cool down the heat on the pitch. ALERT !! Engineering please fix the AC if there is any pending' we gonna have a problem here :-)

UPDATE @ 1800hrs: Final Score Beach Oasis 2 - 2 Ocean Oasis it was a beautiful game with passion and love of the fair play. WELL DONE STYLE DEPARTMENT.

Star Talents for Jan, Feb, March 2010

January Stars

Nooh - Care For Guests / Sanah - Care for Talents

February Stars

Anastasia - Care For Guests / Hamdhee - Care for Talents

March Stars

Nenita - Care For Guests / Samrath - Care For Talents

Who's New

Samy is back and Ali is here too! Welcome back Samy and well hello there Ali.

All Talent Meeting

All Talent Meeting was held on 30th March and our General Manager adressed to all talents explaining about key factors and upcoming events. The main event of the meeting was awards for Stars of the month for Jan, Feb & March 2010.

Wonderful Birthday--- Haleem!

I am proud because I have fun, Today is Sunday

I am Proud Because I have Fun, Today Is Sunday! W Talent, How much fun you had today?

Wonderful Birthdays-- 4 Talents on 4th April!

Wonderful Birthday-- Mamun!

FIFA World Cup 2010

The next big thing! Fifa World Cup South Africa 2010.

69 Days away from the biggest soccer festival and first time in African continent is getting ready to host the World Cup. Whenever there is a big event W Talents always participate in style. Oh yeah Soccer being the favorite game among all of us we will enjoy fully by participating our way to enjoy world cup fever. W-INNER along with all the clubs are organizing an amazing world cup package for June. You may think why would we join a separate package when we can enjoy the ball game in my room relaxing!! Oh boy, if you love the game and support with spirit you are wrong. We do things differently even in this we are trying to make it different. Its your wish to join and share the fun among the rest of your fellow talents but trust me, World Cup will never be fun to watch alone in one corner. That's why we are introducing an interesting package for the season. Click the picture to see details and why don't you add your comments to make it perfect.

We are hoping A block attic (15Above cafe) will be running by that time with fully equipped high definition quality projector along with digital Bose sound system and a cafe with coffee machine, popcorn machine. Tell me whats going in your mind when you hear something like this in our Wonderland? For me its simply superb and world class to have this kind of facilities for us.

During the next few days we will promote world cup package by explaining you all how it works and how super it would be, I know in W we have never failed to have fun. In summary, this package is simply to enjoy the world cup season on A Attic cafe screen with a cup of coffee. To add more details, it comes with a specially designed W style world cup T-Shirt, to give you opportunity to reserve your seat and to bet the tournament with your favorite team. When i say bet the game it simply means you bet and if you win you take all the winning money too. Participating form will be published here very soon once we finalize everything.