Monday, September 01, 2008

Learning Dutch from Pieter

Pieter's blog: http://www.duivenkot.org/blog/

"annanas in u gat"

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Why don't you just scratch it?

Itchy travel feet again.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Sydney in August


I had meetings today in the city (not very surprising) but today was the first time that Sydney didn't seem that big (very surprising).
I do still take a map everywhere with me though.

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Clarity

In the wise words of Maxi Jazz:

'You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.'

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Last weekend.

I had such a great weekend last weekend. I was just able to sit and think. The following definately helped:

Green havianas and my hoodie.
A balcony.
Aniseed- flavoured shisha.
One x Moleskine diary and a great pen.
Tropicana orange nail polish.

This weekend is going to involve ferrets and Chinese bakery goods. I’ll update you later.

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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Honing that 'active learner' competency

’ve been out and about a lot the last week or so because I’ve been at a fair few events. I love that my job is to be an active learner.

Last week, I was at an event which aimed to “connect the next generation of leaders to the external environment”. I heard a speaker from DFAT talk about his role working for the Australian Embassy. He spoke on his role, which at a surface level is simply to keep tabs on the current political environment policy and to know where Australians are located. His work also extended to measuring the amount of floorspace in the embassy grounds, finding emergency shelter and food supplies and frequenting expatriate pubs.

He spoke that rather than raising our borders, we should be working proactively with other governments. We should stop being defensive and start being active. When there is a terrorist attack, we need to stop responding by stopping immigration, but by working with the local police force to address terrorism at a grassroots level.

I heard from the Department of Climate Change on their predictions of the ‘next’ Kyoto, to occur in 2009 in Copenhagen. He spoke that Kyoto was based on an individual countries capability to address the emissions problem that an individual country had created, rather than the level of responsibility it had. He predicted that Copenhagen would be based on responsibility. I wonder when we will be able to suck it up, ignore our country borders and face the problem for what it is; a global issue, not divided by our national picket fences.

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Monday, July 28, 2008

None the wiser.


I had my wisdom teeth out last week. I'm definately one of the lucky ones.

I was expecting:
- blinding pain
- frozen peas wrapped around my face
- to look like a chipmunk for three weeks

What I got:
- a really great drug-induced nap (with a 15 minute operation)
- a new toothbrush
- none of the previously mentioned expectations

Score. Either I have an awesomely high pain threshold (doubted) or snaps for medical advancement!

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