Event date: 30 April 2022

Time has flown by and it's now that time of year, the 2022 4th Birthday Celebration and Awards Presentation Dinner for BMW Drivers Club Melbourne!!

This years awards night was a themed silver screen dress code for a bit of fun, which I'll admit, I'm not a fan of themed things, but our darling Vice President Jo mentioned "Tim, you can go as Odd Job from James Bond". My first thought was, oh boy what idea Jo giving me, but once I googled Odd Job, I thought that looks simple enough, I run with that. And I thought unlike my pityful attempt at dressing up as the alien creature from Men In Black during my time in Shanghai for a school performance, I wanted to make more of an effort as dressing up this time!

The location was perfect for me too; at the ParkRoyal Monash 15 minutes from home, so I was only too happy to attend (not like I ever wasn't going to be honest, regardless of the location).

Festivities kicked off with pre drinks in the hotel foyer before we all got seated, with about five to six people at each table. Our President Graeme Bell made a fantastic introduction followed by something different, a trivia. There were 3 rounds consisting of questions about movies, movies with a BMW element and lastly questions about members in the club. Our table scored 20/40, not bad considering some of the questions weren't easy!

We had a delicious 2 course meal alternating between Roasted chicken breast with baked potatoes or grass fed eye fillet steak and mash pototo. Dessert was either chocolate cake or lemon meringue tart. All very yummy.

A big part of the night is the awards and I was surprised to be awarded the 2022 Member of the Year award. What a pleasant surprise, as I wasn't expecting that at all!

Congratulations to Shannon Cooper, Shane McKenzie, Jess Bell and all the other award recipients as well!

Most importantly, Thank You to Graeme, Jo, Lawrence and Shaaron for organising and putting on another fantastic presentation night, it was a great evening. And also Thank You to all the sponsors of club for your generous donations for the raffle.

Tim Oh | Member #538
BMW Drivers Club Melbourne