Along with 1,000 others, I had a wonderful time last night at the Chevron Perth Xmas party in a fenced off area of the Supreme Court Gardens. The food, drink, acrobats, fire dancers, DJ and colleagues were all great. I met many new people from across Chevron’s organisations and functions and even had a brief conversation with Roy, the Managing Director.
I did a crazy thing on the weekend. In the space of 24 hours I cycled 90 km after having not ridden a bike for several years. Conclusions:
– The 53 km Great Perth Bike Ride from Langley Park in the CBD to Fremantle and back is a quite arduous 2 hour 33 minute and 51 second long journey
The 2009 AIESEC Alumni Global Conference (AAGC) in Kuala Lumpur was a wonderfully organised networking event.
Every delegate was asked to bring a bottle of hard liquor from their country
Traditional Malaysian dancing opened the conference
A panel discussion featuring the former Malaysian Government Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad (centre)
Prior to the Hall of Fame awards ceremony at the International Congress (IC) where friend David Bacon won a Young Alumni Contribution Award for his Carpets for Communities venture
Lauren (second from left) accepted the award on behalf of Dave
The fabulous Beach Party
Painting Shelter Home One, a refuge for abused and abandoned children
The Australian AAGC and IC contingents
I arrived back to a quiet and clean Perth on Monday evening.
Sadly, I will soon farewell a companion, one who has been literally very close to me for most of the past 10 years. From departing Australia for Turkey in June 2001 to arriving back to Perth Monday we have shared many experiences together including line-ups, waits, pat downs and interrogations. Frankly, without her I would have been stuck, not able to move around or see the world.
Yes, after 20+ countries, 20+ visas and 100+ stamps it is almost time to replace my second Australian passport.
Thanks to Singapore Air’s free Silver Kris wireless internet I can write this blog post.
This morning, after 2 hours sleep I caught a taxi to Perth International Airport. I’ve checked in, passed through customs, bought my Bundy (the KL conference requested a bottle of local spirits for their international night) and a 2GB SD card at duty free, paid $12.45 for a lukewarm single size pizza and bottle of “vitamin water” and am about to board my Air Asia flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
After almost 2 years I will finally be abroad again!
Dad, Mum, Ola and Bjoern at Rembrandt Polish Restaurant, Inglewood. My meal (foreground) was served in hollowed out bread.
The scampi, prawns, baby squid, scallops, fish, mussels, salad and chips of the grilled seafood platter from 2 from Ruocco’s, South Fremantle was plenty for the 3 of us.
Luscious tiramisu, coffee and limoncello followed the seafood.
I had to get this photo taken on the train from Fremantle to West Leederville.
The smiles tell it all – the end of a fabulous evening at Bjoern and Ola’s.
Upon returning from Port Hedland I found the following Redback spider relaxing in its web and guarding its new home, my Fila running shoes. Needless to write, this poisonous spider did not live much longer.
