genasirus

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:28:28 GMT

Fiji, Savu Savu, Taveuni

Photography by Philip Bateman.

Landed in Nadi (Nahn-dee [d is nd]) and went to Lautoca. Hired a car the first day, drove 500 km round trip to Rakiraki via the Fiji water factory (paradise? you tell me :p). Partied that night and met some people, had a beach party the next night for a birthday then drove to Suva (4 hrs) in a different car, went training with the CityStorm rugby league team on Wednesday for a bit as we knew the manager.

Took the ferry to Taveuni via Savu Savu, got another car and drove 3km up a mountain three times to various locations, as well as to the rainforest and both tips of the road.

Flew back to Nausori, stayed overnight in Suva, 'return cabbed' ($80FJ for 3.5 hr trip) to Nadi and flew back to Melbourne.

10 days = Fiji School.

Location: Fiji, Pacific Islands

Taveuni

Visiting native beaches and high springs throughout the island. From the port east, to west, then up again.

Most images taken touring the Nacogai (Na-thon-guy) Estate with the elder of Vunidawa (Vun-in-dow-ah), Mosese Babacale ('Mo).

Official name is Natuva Naba Rua (Natuva number 2 [Natuva 1 is Moseses mothers village])

God bless the Hilux.

Location: Nacogai (Na-thon-guy) Estate, Taveuni, Fiji

Taveuni part 2

Mainly Nacogai (Na-thon-guy) Estate and Taveuni road, Fiji

Please forward this to any friends, family or colleagues you think may be interested.

Cheers

Philip Bateman
www.bravocharlie.com.au

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:54:35 GMT

9.5 out of 10 for our groups MEI Opportunity Evaluation report.

Ha.

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:42:41 GMT

New house - http://realestateview.com.au/cgi-bin/view.pl?OID=1145841&tp=2lease

Moving in next Wednesday, hopefully I get let out of the Nicholson street property ha.

I'll put up something about a house warming over the next few months.

Regarding 2 am lock.

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:34:42 GMT

Sent to the editor:

I spend my week as a hard working contributor to the growth and prosperity of our business community, and have also been a reviewer of Melbournes party and music scene for the last 8 years.

The vibrancy of Melbourne at 3 or 4 am, walking safely between international performers who time and again state this city as one of the best places in the world to perform in is hard to explain.

Sidewalks breathe with a life of their own, the city hardly sleeps and the myriad of entertainment options cement Melbourne as a jewel in the global entertainment crowd.

BUT NO MORE.

Touring between E55, FFour, Tony Starrs, The Gin Palace, Lilly Blacks, Madame Brussels.. our entire deck of secrets..

NO MORE.

Three, maybe four fights, 2 of them in the Chapel st precint witnessed in my time.. minor scuffles and the like as well, but contained by professional security.

In eight years. Not bad.

How many punters? Thousands. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands - all having the time of their lives, living, breathing and dancing Melbourne.. from all corners of the globe.

Past 2 am? NO MORE.

I accept violent drunken behaviour is a problem.

BUT

The government has no right to black list hard working Australians from enjoying the love of music and entertainment our hospitality and performance industry strives to produce.

I am a free citizen..

..existing 24 hours a day, not 19.

I am awake, I walk, I dance after 2 am.. I don't even get to some performances before 4 am because my associates are playing at 5..

So I stay at home studying, drinking coffee, eating something until 3.. then I go out.

Now I must ensure I get to a venue (with enough time to line up, lest 2 am hits and I'm refused entry regardless of how long I have been waiting) by 2 am..

.. and sit for 3 hours. Unable to leave for any reason.

Hospitality workers, DJ's, performers.. what of them? Late night workers, couples meeting to go to a new place.. What of them?

Turned out on the streets. With no public transport.

GET UPSET ABOUT THIS PEOPLE - RALLY YOUR CONTACTS AND EXPRESS THAT WE DO NOT TOLERATE A POLICE STATE FOR OURSELVES OR OUR CHILDREN

Contact Mr Brumby via premier@dpe.vic.gov.au

You are being locked out of all venues in the inner-city after 2 am. Yes. YES YOU ARE.

Sun, 04 May 2008 09:20:31 GMT

I don't believe it. I used to give people in Ballarat shit about being locked out on the streets at 3 am and now they are DOING IT TO US AT 2!!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23631525-661,00.html

Coming Soon to your computer!

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:06:44 GMT

Oh yeah baby, you be usin` the puter, wtchn sum funny vdeos and then WHAM. Something jumps through the Flash player without you knowing and *destroys* your computer, regardless of platform or operating system.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/-Dangerous-Flash-exploit-can-infect-by-stealth/0,130061744,339288283,00.htm

Abscess makes the fart go Honda (and my new baby)

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:18:44 GMT

Helluva week.

Ran on at work to 8:40 Tuesday, missed Uni group (7-9), supported one of our Business Mastery Programs (between 10 and 30 people attend every Wed / Sat) until about 7 Wednesday, drove to Port Melbourne for our group assignment and worked till around 11 with a class mate, came home, stayed up till 4:30 in the morning with Tibor working through strategic business orientation to enhance an EBIT multiplier (figure that one out and you will see what accountants and banks at large are doing without telling you, also you will double, triple or quadruple the value of any business that is incorrectly positioned).. at work for 9 am Thursday, two meetings (a meeting for me is a 1 on 1 session limited to 2 hours with a business owner), spontaneously left the meeting and started throwing up for 10 minutes in the toilet holding my tie out of the way, stumbled and fell over in the toilet for a bit and then went back into the meeting.

Headed to Uni afterwards for more group work, worked 7 pm till 9:45 at Uni, recovered from looking like a corpse around 8 pm, came home and worked through till 2 am on our presentation which was due in 10 hours (first thing in class Friday). I set the alarm for 6:15 am, got up to write my Case Study (also due 9 am) and realised my course book was at work.

Le sigh.

Couldn't get to work, one guy had a hardcopy printout at Uni, I got into the library and started typing at 8:26, 470 words by 9:02 and handed it into class, at 11 am led our group (5 people) presentation supported by a course mate.

I had consistently said to the group we needed to present outcome based statements on our slides, and that realistically no one cared about our research. Group consensus had me present on the basis of "Hi everyone, we are going to take you through our external analysis data and give you outcome based statements around it".

The lecturer slaughtered for this, gave all 3 groups an hour for lunch and said we were presenting again after the break.

Hilarity. No food (which I was kinda looking forward) but we piled into a library room, read each slide out loud, agreed on the outcome based statement and put that as the content. Went back into class, did a great presentation, had a scotch, came home and got a bit hyper excited about a national roll out of an information capture task we are doing for truck drivers (the core of our Opportunity Evaluation assignment is sales of a exclusively licensed Canadian 'live bottom' trailer technology), so wrote two pieces of copy and then collapsed when a friend turned up after karaoke. Job well done Phil ha :)

DOCTORRRR told me this morning I have an abscess (trust me I could fkn tell as it hurts like hell and is huuuuge on my left upper thigh) so on anti biotics now. I tried to Macgyver its ass last night with a pin at first and then a bottle of scotch (for me) and a kitchen knife. Didn't work, hurt like hell. At least I know I can handle getting pierced without batting an eye lid (long as its on the top of my thigh :p)

I've got 4 meetings a day each day next week alongside our CFO. Best I set a goal of converting 100% as I wouldn't mind being on $500 an hour ha.

My new baby arrives on Monday;

Fujitsu Lifebook 'transcend' T201OU - 9 hours of battery, 1.5 kgs, 12.1" 1280 x 800 wxga (NB: Fujitsu invented plasma technology) 4gb ram, 1gb Robertson Turbo memory (whatever the hell that is), core 2 duo 1.2 or 1.7, embedded 3.5g modem (already on NextG), 160 gig hd.

Best of all? Open the lid, flip the screen around, close it again and markup to the screen because its a tablet, also flip the stylus pen around and it works as a digital eraser.

Go rock your ass off folks, the only thing between you and whatever you want is your own perception that you can't achieve it.

Cheers

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:26:16 GMT

I am very proud to say that I now handle sales for 8Global, working alongside the Chief Financial Director, Robert Catania.

Our expanding team of 25 superb and proven consultants cover the business knowledge landscape, utilising entrepreneurial and innovation strategists within the framework to provide inspired business growth coaching.

In house call centre, training facilities and all day parking support the 8global headquarters, 12 minutes North of Melbourne.

I would appreciate that if you know a friend, colleague or relative that owns a small to medium enterprise and may be interested in things such as:

* Creating more time for themselves in the business
* Identifying and building on profit centres
* Turning problems such as staffing, finance or marketing into strengths
* Realising a highly profitable, strategically sold exit strategy
* Achieving their vision

..please pass them my details.

Philip Bateman
8Global Sales Manager
1300 881 226

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:04:29 GMT

w00t. Superw00t. Shit just got officially super. I shall mark this day and have an anniversary celebration I reckon.

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:23:49 GMT

http://www.vibewire.net/efestival/welcome-to-the-e-festival-of-ideas/view

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:50:27 GMT

http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:49:36 GMT

*yawns, stretches and rolls around a bit*

Who's at work? Not me.

*r0ars and pads around, settling back into the couch*
.. maybe I should.. get a job ha.

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:36:54 GMT

NB: Anth just listening to didge on PBS, totally rocks -

"PRESS RELEASE :

Wild Marmalade are a high energy dance music Duo from Byron Bay, Australia.
They use all natural instruments to create totally live organic dance music.
Wild Marmalade blend the ancient sounds of the didjeridu with modern techno rhythms to create fresh innovative dance music.

Their sound is a meeting of Didge Si's rhythmic didjeridu playing, combined with the explosive grooves of Matt Goodwin on kit and log drums.

They produce a musical intensity usually only heard from computers and synthesizers.
The incredible music and sounds Wild Marmalade create is organic and live - without any effects, sequences or samples. Every sound you hear is created by the musicians.

Drawing on rhythms from all over the world and inspired by both indigenous sounds and the grooves of the present, Wild Marmalade's high energy shows uplift audiences with their display of powerful, joyous and infectiously danceable music."

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:57:18 GMT

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:18:03 GMT

Woooo writing case studies at 3 am for 9 am class at uni weeeeeeeeee (beep).

I'm having a ball mind you. Op Eval for teh win.

For any research fans PEST, Porters 5 Forces, SWOT / TOWS and Lifecyle analysis.

1. PEST

Political
Economic
Social
Technological

PESTEL

Ecological
Legal

2. PORTERS

Supplier Power
Buyer Power
Barriers to Entry
Threats of Substitution
Degree of Rivalry

3. SWOT (TOWS)

Strength (Internal)
Weaknesses (Internal)
Opportunities (External)
Threats (External)

Life's hee-larious. More next week.

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:54:49 GMT

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

itsssss backkkkkkk

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:15:55 GMT

Wednesday Feb 27 10 pm - NEWSTOPIAAAAAAA

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:01:23 GMT

Take a look at http://www.alexandertechnique.com - I've just come back from an evening class (split over a 7 week course) and simply from two sentences in relation to head position and movement I've released a heap of tension in my system.

It's an amazing thing to pay close attention to your biomechanical system, combining this with the series of reading I've been doing feels like I'm aligning the physical with the mental.

Also I'm officially a Uni student. Friday is the first day of part-time / block learning for the MEI (Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation), I've signed on for the grad. certificate which is 4 units comprising Opportunity Evaluation, New Venture Leadership, New Venture Marketing and New Venture Finance.

Timecapsule Cinema

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:58:19 GMT

A friend operates cinema screenings in a large warehouse with full bar run by a mob of Serbian blokes who love to paint (and surround the warehouse with work).

Gold coin donation and tonight is birthday drinks for the organiser, screening at 8:45 pm.

Tonight: Boom! (Joseph Losey / 1968)

ABC GALLERY
127 Campbell Street
Collingwood 3066

http://timecapsules.wordpress.com
"FOR some people, films are about seeing the latest blockbuster and eating super-sized buckets of popcorn at the multiplex. For serious film buffs, however, the pleasure is in obscure flicks seen in unusual places, ideally somewhere they can kick back with a drink and discuss that amazing tracking shot or the director's first film... << The Age

http://www.theage.com.au/news/film/for-the-connoisseurs/2008/01/24/1201025068373.html

DS art stylez

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:28:25 GMT

The designers here have gone a bit Nintendo DS crazy, that said, they are producing some pretty cool images and more so - you can watch the entire construction play back from a blank page at various speeds.

Top ranked images + playback at the bottom of the page can be found here:

http://colors.brombra.net/ranking.php?page=1

**dont Check this out.

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:25:06 GMT

Subvert and Profit - they reckon it's the quickest way to get to the front of Youtube, Digg or StumbleUpon, and you can make pretty damn simple cash

No scam, take a look its the schnitz.******
LIES! It's paid audience judgement, thanks to Travola for the heads up.

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:14:39 GMT

Google on your phone? Google on my Blackberry with a keyboard.

Fuckin aye.

***Update. Meh, like using a 56k modem to read plain text emails that are obliterated by inline tags.

Maybe I just need to do some berry training :p

Fkn telco

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:33:51 GMT

Three have advised there is no way they can release the number to a different carrier without charging me half a grand in cancellation fees, and they cannot change the number on the phone and *then* release my number without cancelling the contract - the system 'doesn’t work like that', once changed it goes into 'quarantine' for release to a new customer.

Anyone know if this is just the first level of helpdesk I'm hitting and this is a possible thing? Probably not.. meh.. I've had my number for like 7 years :(

Hardware headz

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:54:43 GMT

I was just rolling into the whole 'so whats a good notebook to buy' and came across the MacBook Air.

I struggle to find any reasoning as to why another laptop should be purchased?

**Update: they got a Dell a month ago, relatively same specs, but whereas this fits inside an a4 envelope, the Dell might fit inside an elephant, maybe, if it lifts its trunk and its tail. But then they just turned around and said I don't need a car at work I can PT everywhere.. ooo greener I guess.

Back into the machine we go

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:10:18 GMT

After leaving my last position at the end of September, it's been a fun time sleeping on the couch in front of the TV, smoking, drinking coffee and going to the gym for err.. 3 months +, but I have a job again and start on February 4.

I'll be managing the client base of www.fabricgroup.com.au in a general solution consultant fashion, the job description is all kinds of fun. They are a mid-market to enterprise digital media company so yeah, super happy working on the cnr of Kings way / Albert rd next to Albert park.

Now I can pay the rent!!! SQUEE.

The Centrelink experience has been great, go the community services and the Jobsstatewide intensive training.

*whirr whirr*