Its finally over! The project I've been working so hard on the past year and busting my chops from sacrificing weekends at work and 12hour days during the week has finally come to an exhausting anti-climax this Monday afternoon, during the last day of the Easter holiday long weekend.
The national managers came together for a conference call and came out announcing to everyone that the "go-live" decision was made, meaning that as of Tuesday morning we will be able to start billing Queensland customers. This would no doubt make Origin the 2nd biggest utilities company in Australia's contestable electricity market, since the Queensland electricity market got deregulated.
I need to get my life back to normal again. I woke up late Saturday morning and for a brief moment was confronted with a sudden feeling of unease, as if I had to do something or be somewhere. Force of habit; I thought to myself as I made breakfast and pondered what to do with the rest of my free day. For once, I didn't have to check my emails or run into work.
It was just nice to sit around the house all afternoon, potter around, watch a movie or two, go grocery shopping and then cook a late lunch.
In a random act of spontaneity, I signed up for an amateur salsa dance competition, held in 3 week's time at the Copacabana.
Jasmine, my salsa dance buddy at Thursday's class has agreed to partner up with me and train for the event.
We've booked in Liz, our salsa instructor for a private lesson next Saturday afternoon. So bring it on, oh yeah !
=)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
hotter and hotter
Jesus Christ!
What the hell is wrong with the weather in Melbourne the last few days!???
Thur - Warmish
Fri - Hot
Sat - Pretty hot
Sun - Pretty Fucking Hot
Mon - Still Pretty Fucking Hot
Its 11pm and the mercury reads 34 degrees Celsius, even the plastic on my keyboard feels hot to touch, everything is melting, including my brain.
Walking outside during lunch, my skin feels like its peeling off in the sun and I could see little pet dogs combusting into balls of charred furry flames as owners walked the poor creatures in the searing heat.
Our air conditioning at the Bellagio decided to kill itself.
The unit probably knew a heatwave was about to strike last weekend and thought to itself "Die now you bastards, I shall start spitting out warm air while you sit around sweating in your underpants!"
Ok, end of rant.
I'm going to sit in front of my fan and sweat in my shorts...
:(
What the hell is wrong with the weather in Melbourne the last few days!???
Thur - Warmish
Fri - Hot
Sat - Pretty hot
Sun - Pretty Fucking Hot
Mon - Still Pretty Fucking Hot
Its 11pm and the mercury reads 34 degrees Celsius, even the plastic on my keyboard feels hot to touch, everything is melting, including my brain.
Walking outside during lunch, my skin feels like its peeling off in the sun and I could see little pet dogs combusting into balls of charred furry flames as owners walked the poor creatures in the searing heat.
Our air conditioning at the Bellagio decided to kill itself.
The unit probably knew a heatwave was about to strike last weekend and thought to itself "Die now you bastards, I shall start spitting out warm air while you sit around sweating in your underpants!"
Ok, end of rant.
I'm going to sit in front of my fan and sweat in my shorts...
:(
Monday, February 25, 2008
Stuff White People Like
Oh my, this blog seriously had me laughing in stitches, only because it is so true.
In most situations, white people are very comforted by seeing their own kind. However, when they are eating at a new ethnic restaurant or traveling to a foreign nation, nothing spoils their fun more than seeing another white person.
Many white people will look into the window of an ethnic restaurant to see if there are other white people in there. It is determined to be an acceptable restaurant if the white people in there are accompanied by ethnic friends. But if there is a table occupied entirely by white people, it is deemed unacceptable.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Ameriquest
Youtube fridays!
I'm tired and too lazy to post this evening, but this caught my attention as a couple of very cleverly done ads.
I'm tired and too lazy to post this evening, but this caught my attention as a couple of very cleverly done ads.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Australia Day Weekend - Redux
Its rare that I get a quiet moment nowadays to write out my thoughts. Everything at work has been crashing down at once like a wobbly stack of cards built a little too high.
4 weeks before our project goes-live and honestly from my point of view I can see things going pear shaped. However, leadership are pretty good at showing powerpoint presentations to repackage the pear as an apple to the businesses.
Nonetheless, my whinging aside, life has been great of late. I did have an amazing Australia Day long weekend (yes, I know its been that long since I last posted).
My 72hrs of hedonistic pleasure started on Saturday evening where we packed ourselves picnic baskets loaded with food and bubbly, walked down the street to the Fitzroy gardens for a picnic in the park with the night's entertainment provided by 'The Soul Connection' a funk and soul band playing music from the 60s.
It was absolutely brilliant stuff, people old and young were running around barefoot on the grass and dancing in the twilight as the sunlight faded into the city skyline in the backdrop.
Sunday we celebrated Emily's 28th birthday during the afternoon at our apartment. Drinks and a BBQ were the order of the day and it stretched into the night when we all headed down to the Nightcat; a salsa club on Johnston street. A live latin band and couples showing off their slick dance moves on the floor.
A shot with Sam, Emily's cute friend from Sydney
After a rather interesting night out, the next day I went to the Alumbra on docklands. Miguel Migs and Julius Papp (Both whom I had the pleasure of catching in Singapore 2 weeks earlier) were playing, with live vocals by none other than Lisa Shaw!
The club is situated right in the middle of the pier and standing on the dance floor inside, I realised that the dance floor was made of glass and you can see the sea below your feet.
Me and Greg
Sam got persuaded heavily by me to come for the party, as no visit to Melbourne is complete without a party with class...
Enjoying the sunshine in the outdoor area
Marika dropped by late to the party, but in time for the main acts
The music was incredible, the crowd was great, this was one of those unexpected parties where everything was unplanned and you have one of the greatest nights of your life!
4 weeks before our project goes-live and honestly from my point of view I can see things going pear shaped. However, leadership are pretty good at showing powerpoint presentations to repackage the pear as an apple to the businesses.
Nonetheless, my whinging aside, life has been great of late. I did have an amazing Australia Day long weekend (yes, I know its been that long since I last posted).
My 72hrs of hedonistic pleasure started on Saturday evening where we packed ourselves picnic baskets loaded with food and bubbly, walked down the street to the Fitzroy gardens for a picnic in the park with the night's entertainment provided by 'The Soul Connection' a funk and soul band playing music from the 60s.
It was absolutely brilliant stuff, people old and young were running around barefoot on the grass and dancing in the twilight as the sunlight faded into the city skyline in the backdrop.
Sunday we celebrated Emily's 28th birthday during the afternoon at our apartment. Drinks and a BBQ were the order of the day and it stretched into the night when we all headed down to the Nightcat; a salsa club on Johnston street. A live latin band and couples showing off their slick dance moves on the floor.
A shot with Sam, Emily's cute friend from Sydney
After a rather interesting night out, the next day I went to the Alumbra on docklands. Miguel Migs and Julius Papp (Both whom I had the pleasure of catching in Singapore 2 weeks earlier) were playing, with live vocals by none other than Lisa Shaw!
The club is situated right in the middle of the pier and standing on the dance floor inside, I realised that the dance floor was made of glass and you can see the sea below your feet.
Me and Greg
Sam got persuaded heavily by me to come for the party, as no visit to Melbourne is complete without a party with class...
Enjoying the sunshine in the outdoor area
Marika dropped by late to the party, but in time for the main acts
The music was incredible, the crowd was great, this was one of those unexpected parties where everything was unplanned and you have one of the greatest nights of your life!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Dress Rehearsal 1
This will be my affirmation of the day: (borrowed from the Hay House Calender)
I am the perfect age right now. I have been younger and I will be older. I will never be this age again, so I make the most of this time and enjoy myself to the fullest.
This may sound cheesy to some, but somehow I find this line a source of great inspiration.
We need to live in the present.
Last night I was out at a singles event with Emily. This event was organized by dating website rsvp.
We had heaps of fun talking to random strangers, making some new friends and getting the odd number here and there.
There's a strange phenomenon I noticed that I like to call social proofing.
If a guy enters a singles bar by himself and stands in a corner nursing his drink in his hand while checking out the women in there, he does get noticed by the women. By the time he drinks enough dutch courage to approach a girl to say hello, they'll be less responsive as the women would have already noticed creepy fella standing by himself checking them out.
On the flip side. I walked into the venue, arm in arm with Emily in tow, we stood at the bar, got a drink and then proceeded to dance a few moves on the empty dancefloor while everyone else in the room looked on. After leaving the floor, I walked up to a bunch of girls and opened the set; launching into a conversation effortlessly because we've already established a few facts:
1) We were the most fun people in the room having a good time
2) Social dynamics will draw others to hang around fun people because they want to have a good time too
3) I wasn't behaving in a predatory fashion checking out targets from a corner before making my move, I was just there to have fun irregardless.
So there you go, social dynamics!
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In case you're thinking what is a "dress rehearsal" (the title of this post).
Well, sadly I'm at work this fine rainy saturday evening and am typing out this post while nobody's looking over my shoulder.
9 weeks to go on the project and we're having a trial run over the weekend working 24/7 in shifts as we run all our programs to migrate the 800,000 electricity customer and billing details over from Queensland.
Exciting times indeed.... although I'd rather watch paint dry if given a choice
So I'm was on call today and had to go into the office from 3pm till 6pm.
I finished up and just only got home when I got called back again at 8pm because something didn't load properly and had to be fixed.
Lets hope it doesn't pan out into a long night.
Good news is, one of our managers; Sarah is in charge of ordering dinner tonight.
We're having Thai... Yum !
I am the perfect age right now. I have been younger and I will be older. I will never be this age again, so I make the most of this time and enjoy myself to the fullest.
This may sound cheesy to some, but somehow I find this line a source of great inspiration.
We need to live in the present.
Last night I was out at a singles event with Emily. This event was organized by dating website rsvp.
We had heaps of fun talking to random strangers, making some new friends and getting the odd number here and there.
There's a strange phenomenon I noticed that I like to call social proofing.
If a guy enters a singles bar by himself and stands in a corner nursing his drink in his hand while checking out the women in there, he does get noticed by the women. By the time he drinks enough dutch courage to approach a girl to say hello, they'll be less responsive as the women would have already noticed creepy fella standing by himself checking them out.
On the flip side. I walked into the venue, arm in arm with Emily in tow, we stood at the bar, got a drink and then proceeded to dance a few moves on the empty dancefloor while everyone else in the room looked on. After leaving the floor, I walked up to a bunch of girls and opened the set; launching into a conversation effortlessly because we've already established a few facts:
1) We were the most fun people in the room having a good time
2) Social dynamics will draw others to hang around fun people because they want to have a good time too
3) I wasn't behaving in a predatory fashion checking out targets from a corner before making my move, I was just there to have fun irregardless.
So there you go, social dynamics!
----------------------
In case you're thinking what is a "dress rehearsal" (the title of this post).
Well, sadly I'm at work this fine rainy saturday evening and am typing out this post while nobody's looking over my shoulder.
9 weeks to go on the project and we're having a trial run over the weekend working 24/7 in shifts as we run all our programs to migrate the 800,000 electricity customer and billing details over from Queensland.
Exciting times indeed.... although I'd rather watch paint dry if given a choice
So I'm was on call today and had to go into the office from 3pm till 6pm.
I finished up and just only got home when I got called back again at 8pm because something didn't load properly and had to be fixed.
Lets hope it doesn't pan out into a long night.
Good news is, one of our managers; Sarah is in charge of ordering dinner tonight.
We're having Thai... Yum !
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Harder Better Faster Stronger
This is absolutely brilliant stuff !
Just wait till the lyrics start speeding up and realize how ingenious these girls are.
Just wait till the lyrics start speeding up and realize how ingenious these girls are.
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