... MEA Christmas Dinner at the Opera House. Coogee. Red Head... What a way to start the weekend. On Friday night I was taken out for MEA's Christmas dinner at Bennelong, the restaurant at the Sydney Opera House. Considering I'm only temping I felt very privileged to have been included. The meal was exceptional and the company was brilliant, making it a wonderful and funny experience. The whole setting was fabulous with the high sail like ceilings of the iconi...

... Cultural encounters & differences. Getting into a Sydney lifestyle. Twilight Zone... I've now started to get myself involved in the daily lifestyle and culture of Sydney. When you're living and working somewhere you can really start to acclimatise to the culture and get under the surface of it all. You get a chance to become absorbed into the way of life over here and view it from more than the outsider's eyes of a tourist. And although they speak the sa...

...Spontaneous fireworks at Opera House. Centennial Park. Sydney Shop... I have just seen the most amazing pyrotechnics display at the Opera House all because I've taken a whole new random spontaneous approach to my life. One of the reasons I came travelling was to get away from the old organised me and it seems to be having its benefits. The whole weekend has been a bit ad hoc with a chain of random events all leading up to this evening. I'd only met Nicki l...

...MEA mid-week drinks. Fighting fit... Drinking on a school night is just a recipe for disaster! Today has been seriously long but last night was such a laugh. One of our corporate alcohol clients had an annual event that we supplied promotional staff for. Wanting to help support the event some of us in the office thought that we'd go check it out, do some team bonding and enjoy the free alcohol on offer. The beach theme at the Slip Inn was quite funny as the...

...Drinking. Swimming. Drinking. Beach. More drinking... The weekend has been scorching and I've done my best to make the most of it by getting outside, being active and doing a spot of sunbaking. Headed down to Coogee Beach today to take in the sights and sounds of the seaside and had a wonderful day doing nothing recovering from the exploits of the weekend. After a long week in the office some of my work mates and me hit a couple of bars in the CBD. We start...