Starting the day the Mauritian way! 🥖 What better way to start a Friday than with a dipin diber, gato pima, samoussa ek enn bon dite soso? This morning, the 🎉 Party Planning Committee brought a taste of Mauritius to the Mess Room with a traditional Mauritian breakfast just for you! Laughter 😄, local treats 🍽️, and good vibes; it's all about kicking off the day the island way 🌞. | | 🎳👑 *King of the Alleys Strikes Again!* 🎯🏆 A massive congratulations to Ashive from the ITLians Bowling Club for finishing 1st place at the Silver Knock Out Tournament held at Strike City, Bagatelle! 🥇🎳🔥 Amid fierce competition from clubs across the island, Ashive showed incredible skill, focus, and precision—earning a well-deserved win and making us all proud! 💪🎉👏 After a solid qualification round of 4 games, Ashive powered through 3 intense knock-out matches to claim the title - proving yet again why he is a true champion on the lanes! 🎯💪 Huge thanks to the rest of the team - Yogesh, Rahul, Hemnish, Avneesh, and Ashive - for representing ITLians with passion and unity. 🙌🧡🎳 Thank you, Ashive, for making the club shine 🌟 and reminding everyone why we’re a force on the lanes! Let’s keep those strikes coming! 🎳💥🥇 | | | The CASS Team recently held a heartfelt tea time 🍵💛 to bid goodbye 👋 to three of their valued team members. It was a warm and memorable gathering ✨, filled with appreciation 🙏, shared memories 📸 and well wishes 🌟 for their future endeavours. | | | | 🎯 The following job openings are currently available at ITL. If you would like to apply or refer someone, please email hr@intercontinentaltrust.com. Compliance Executive Assistant Corporate Administrator Senior Corporate Administrator Business Development Officer
| | | The fear of Friday the 13th is officially known as paraskevidekatriaphobia (Try saying that without tripping! 😅). It is a mix of Greek words that literally mean “Friday,” “thirteen,” and “fear.” This superstition is believed to have roots in both Norse mythology and Christian tradition, where 13 guests at a table - like at the Last Supper - is seen as a bad omen.
Every year has at least one Friday the 13th, and the most you can get is three (next triple threat: 2026!). 🗓️
Whenever a month starts on a Sunday, a Friday the 13th is guaranteed. Yes, you can predict spookiness with simple arithmetic. ➕➖ Superstitious spending is real. Economists estimate that global business loses up to US $800 million each Friday the 13th because people postpone major purchases and travel. 💸 Yet 13 is lucky elsewhere. In Italy it symbolises prosperity, and in France a baker’s “baker’s dozen” (13) was once seen as customer-friendly generosity. 🥐🍀 The “Thirteen Club” (1880s New York): Members staged dinners for 13, walked under ladders and broke mirrors — all to prove luck is what you make it. 🎩🥂# NASA's Apollo 13 mission launched at 13:13 on April 11, 1970 (which adds up to 13), and had to abort after an onboard explosion? 🚀We all know how that turned out — “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” 🚀 Alfred Hitchcock was born on Friday the 13th in 1899. Suspense was literally in his stars. 🎬 Taylor Swift considers 13 her power number - she writes it on her hand before each show. 🎤 Finland uses every Friday the 13th as “National Accident Day,” running campaigns on road and workplace safety instead of doom-and-gloom. 🚗🦺 | | | BIRTHDAYS/NEWCOMERS/LEAVERS |
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