Illustration 1: Let's
remember Angie
As usual there
has been quite a few things to report since the last newsletter –
Btw thanks for the great feedback in regards to the amount of pictures
in the last newsletter. Hopefully this one will be as pleasurable
to read for you (there's almost 100 new pictures). Let's get going:
Simon, my colleague
and good friend from Sydney, has organised a beautiful hike at Mt.
Donna Buang, about 1,5 hours West of Melbourne.
Together with some of his buddies and friends we picked a very cold
day in May (that wasn't planned! ;)) to hike up the Mountain. It was
freezing cold, wet and muddy - but that was the fun. Returning back
to the bottom of the hill, one of the cars we drove up to the hiking
site was stolen! Can you believe it? Who would do that? Anyways, you
can imagine that we had to squeeze in ONE medium sized car - we managed
to get 6 big guys in one car! Until today the car has not been found...
here are some pictures from the hike:
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2: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - at the start (1)
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3: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - in the middle (2)
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4: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - half-way through (3)
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5: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - on the right track (4)
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6: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - at the Top of the Mountain
(5)
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7: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - it was freezing! (6)
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8: Hiking at Mt. Donna Buang - The View was worth it (7)
Another good event
organised by my friend Dave was a Go-Kart evening. I’m lucky my brother,
Sascha, wasn’t here; otherwise I would have never made the second
place. This result was probably made possibly due to the brutal and
painful training with one of my longest and best friends, Christian
from Bremen. BTW greets to Wolfi, Steffi, Benny and all the rest of
the Schau Family! Unfortunately I don't have made pictures from this
event... was too busy holding the kart in the right lane :)
After the semester
ended i went on a project to Perth for several weeks (that's how i
usually spent my vacation *hehe* - working). There, i was fortunate
to meet my old backpacker neighbors from good old Sydney: Steffi and
Sigrid from Germany (HI!). We had some good time visiting a Salsa
night club where an South American Latin Music band played (Salsa,
Mambo, Paso, etc..). I was also lucky the one of my university friend's
brother lives in Perth, Niyam (see picture below), who showed me around
the City during my first time over there.
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9: Perth - Sagar's brother Niyam showed me around the town
(1)
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10: Perth - there are Kangaroos downtown (2)
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11: Perth - my first day in Perth and I already found a friend
:)
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12: Perth - on my project i worked in the 2nd building from
the right
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13: Perth - Live Salsa Concert! Perth Rocks!
Together with
my friend Waldek, we visited several Polish parties in the Melbourne
area. It's quite nice to party the Polish way again, after such a
long time ;). On the last weekend in Perth i met up with Clinton "the
President" and Souleyman "The Soulman" (two of my work
colleagues) and we went on a weekend trip to Margaret
River. This beautiful small town is famous for its great wines
that are known all over Australia and abroad. We rented a cabin and
a car and took a ride through Western
Australia. We met a couple girls and ended up on a very interesting
"Hippy" party on Saturday night. The highlights of the night
were live "Fire-Dance" performances, as you can see them
in Thailand. Of course we also spent an entire day tasting all the
different wines in the area (maybe not all - there is over 20 vineyards).
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14: Margaret River - Clinton, I and Souleymane (from left
to right)
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15: Margaret River - that's what we were after ;)
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16: Margaret River - The West Coast
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17: Margaret River - Sunset at the Westcoast of Australia
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18: Margaret River - Sunset at the Westcoast of Australia
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19: Margaret River - Hippy Party I
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20: Margaret River - Hippy Party II
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21: Margaret River - at one of the beautiful Vineyards
In the beginning
of July I organised the first official Alumni Meeting of my Polish-American
University in Australia. We are currently 6 ex-WSB-NLU students that are studying/ living in Australia. The entire venture
took place one day after my Quarterly Team Meeting in Sydney. Thursday,
I arrived from Perth at around 7pm and met up with my colleagues in
a Japanese Restaurant for dinner, after which we went out for drinks
(Christoph, a colleague, had his birthday). Finishing up at around
midnight I decided that i have to see my friends from Poland,
which couldn't wait till the next day. Somewhere around 6.30am and
traditionally (quite) a bit of vodka i arrived at Jurek's house who
kindly invited me to stay with him during my time in Sydney. Around
three hours later the quarterly business consulting group meeting
began... you can image how i looked like ;). Nevertheless the big
party was just to begin in the evening. At around 9pm many of my friends
arrived and we started the official Alumni party as well as reunion
with my friends from Sydney.
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22: Sydney - Dinner with my work mates (Mikael!)
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23: Sydney - Christoph, Pierre-Francis,
Mikael and Max (from left to right)
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24: Sydney - Alumni Party: Kuba, Christian and Michal
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25: Sydney - Alumni Party: Magda and I
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26: Sydney - Alumni Party: Jurek, Marzena and Olaf are new
in this picture
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27: Sydney - Alumni Party: One Big Picture!
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28: Sydney - Alumni
Party: Simon, Nick, and some American :)
29: Sydney - All WSB-NLU Alumni: Agnieszka, I,
Magda, Rafal and Renata (from left to right)
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30: Sydney - Alumni Party: One more
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31: Sydney - Alumni Party: Monika and I
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32: Sydney - Alumni Partry: Agnieszka, I,
Jurek, Simon and Monika (from left to right)
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33: Sydney - Alumni Party: Dominik,
Marzena and Jurek (from left to right)
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34: Sydney - Alumni Party: Rachel and I
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35: Sydney - Alumni Party: Galina's Friend, Galina,
Marzena and Chris (from left to right)
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36: Sydney - ???, Agnieszka and Rafal (from left to right)
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37: Sydney - Alumni Party: Galina, Dominik, Marzena, I, Renata
and Kuba
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38: Sydney
- Alumni Party: Renata and Rafal
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39: Sydney - Galina and Sasza (Popov)
On Saturday Simon,
Monika and I went for a walk - and got completely soaked by some nasty
Rain.
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40: Saturday Walk - Simon and Monika
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41: Sydney Harbor from a different perspective
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42: Sydney in the Background :)
On my last day
in Sydney I met up with Chris and Malgorzata. Together we went to Watson
Bay to have Fish&Chips at a lovely, sunny and warm Sunday
afternoon.
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43: Watson Bay - Pier
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44: Watson Bay - Chris
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45: Sydney's Watson Bay & the Ocean
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46: Chris and I
Sometime in between
my very good friend Kfir had his birthday party. Look at those smiling
faces! Later on in the month another three good friends of mine Anshul,
Luk and Tiffany had their housewarming party. I used to live with
Anshul for a couple months when i came to Australia. He's an excellent
Indian Cuisine Cook.
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47: Sarah and Kfir at Kfir's Birthday Party
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48: Anshul's Housewarming Party (1) - Anshul's in the middle
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49: Housewarming Party (2)
- Luk in the Middle
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50: Anshul's Housewarming Party (3) - Tiffany
on the right
My ex-study buddy
Michal moved to Melbourne in the beginning of this year after spending
2 years in Shanghai, China. Ever since we meet regularly for all kind
of different events. The pictures below are from our trip to Bell's
Beach, one of Victoria's finest beaches. We went Boogie-Boarding:
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51: Belle's Beach in Victoria
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52: Belle's Beach in Victoria - a different perspective
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53: Michal and I (from right to left)
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54: Boogie Boarding I
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55: Boogie Boarding II
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56: Boogie Boarding III
To acculturate myself a bit more
I started going to Footy Matches (a form Football in Australia). Since
I live in St. Kilda i naturally support the St. Kilda Team - and btw
they ROCK this season! Tal, my Israeli friend, convinced me to go
for the first time...
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57: Australian Footy - Telstra Dome, Melbourne
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58: Australian Footy - St. Kilda is playing Collinwood
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59: Australian Footy - Tal and I
After I returned from my Summer-Internship at in Sydney I went back
to boss, Pierre-Francis, and asked him if there would be an opportunity
to keep on working for SAP Business Consulting from the Melbourne Office - and there was. In
the end of March I started again on a part-time basis doing 2,5 days
a week. I assumed a Business Analyst/ Associate Business Consulting
role in form of yet another internship which is still ongoing until
i finish my studies in Melbourne. My Knowledge Management role was
extended to the Regional (Asia-Pacific) Knowledge Management Coordinator
where I coordinate global initiatives with Europe and North America
and keep the Knowlege Management in our Asia-Pacific Practice up-and-running.
Further I started working on projects and project support - It's great
to grow professionally while studying. Additionally to my existing
roles i also took on the moderator role of the Business Consulting
Asia-Pacific Enterprise Portal section and provide administrative
assistance to the regional Business Consulting Management team whenever
i can.
In term of projects i helped developing a strategic benefits realization
framework for a SAP plant maintenance project at the biggest dairy
product producer in Australia. Another project was named "development
of a Cost-Tree-Driver Model" that would support the annual budgeting
process of the second largest mining company in the world through
the harmonization of different cost-driver models across the client's
Australian mining sites. But enough business talk for now. As part
of my administrative roles i helped organising the regional Business
Consulting Boot-Camp 2005 (a training conference), which took place
in Port Douglas, about 1hr north of Cairns in the the Tropic regions
of North-East Australia. We had colleagues coming from India, Singapore,
China, South Korea, Denmark and from all over Australia. Before the
Conference began, during and after we spent some time exploring the
surroundings of Port
Douglas and Cairns - mainly the Great
Barrier Reef. The views were just beautiful, enjoy:
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60: The Asia-Pacific Business Consulting Team!
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61: Port Douglas - Poul from Denmark
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62: Port Douglas - Anthony (Australia) and MoonSoo (Korea)
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63: Mikael from Australia (but he's Danish!)
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64: Pierre-Francis (ex-France) and Bin Shi (China)
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65: Eugene from Singapore - our newest team member
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66: Mukesh (India) and Ankur (Singapore)
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67: yet another boss of mine :) Marc-Alexander (German) from
Singapore
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68: Mikael and I on the way to the Great Barrier Reef! ;)
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69: Mukesh and I
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70: Ankur and I
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71: Christoph (German) and I
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72: Tom (he's Hungarian in Origin) and I
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73: Jenica (from Singapore) and MoonSoo
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74: Bin Shi and I
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75: Pierre-Francis and Megan (from Australia!)
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76: Simon (Polish Australian) and I
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77: Jenica and I
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78: Pierre-Francis and Poul under deck
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79: Max (also Australian) and Bin Shi ;)
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80: Tom likes to play Captain ;)
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81: Cairns is surprisingly hilly! keep in mind it's the middle
of the winter!
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82: Cairns: A public swimming pool in the middle of the town
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83: Cairns: at the Harbor
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84: Sunrise at the North East Cost of Australia
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85: the 4-Mile Beach next to our Resort
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86: In the evening we used to walk home along
the beach
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87: Great
Barrier Reef: MoonSoo
and the Island where we went snorkeling
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88: Great
Barrier Reef: Let's
go snorkeling
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89: Great
Barrier Reef: Simon
"the snorkler"
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90: Great
Barrier Reef: Tom
:)
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91: Great Barrier Reef: Some Corals :)
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92: Great Barrier Reef: The Diversity of fish was fascinating
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93: Great
Barrier Reef: Simon and Tom
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94: Great
Barrier Reef: Victor ;)
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95: Great
Barrier Reef: Guess who's that?! It's Mikael
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96: Great
Barrier Reef: Some more fish and Corals!
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97: Great
Barrier Reef: Vicix!
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98: Great
Barrier Reef: A Sea Turtle (I even saw a shark!)
So,
I believe that were the major events during the last couple of months
since the last newsletter. I hope you enjoyed reading. I hope to hear
from you soon and looking forward to seeing you again. As you might
be aware... my contact details have remained the same:
Live your
dreams,
Victor |
