Ok let’s
take the good old German approach of sequencing and lining up the
news in a logical, structured and chronologically correct order. I'm
starting where my last newsletter ended. When
Australia
came out of the winter, last year, the days becoming longer, and the temperature levels going up the first major sports
events took place in
Melbourne
. To warm up we
had almost a full month of Horse Races, branded as the Spring
Carnival Races. Crazy after-parties, great people, great fun.
Also nice to see, coming back from a great night out on Friday were
the Tri-Athletes warming-up in front of my house in St.
Kilda. Each year there is a series of Triathlons taking place
each Octobre/ November/ December around the Port Philip Bay.
Illustration
1: the Gatorade Triathlon in front of
my house (1)
Illustration
2: the Gatorade Triathlon in front of
my house (2)
Illustration
3: Nawid and
I at the Horse Races. It was hot as hell (+30C)
Illustration
4: Check out this
horse's crazy muscles!
Illustration
5: Kfir, my
mate from
Israel
and myself at the Races. YEAHAA!
Illustration
6: The Caulfield Race Course
In mid-Octobre I was invited by SAP to attend a Consulting Skills workshop, which was very useful, learning
about workshop and interview skills and how to handle “bad situations”
at the customer. It was a great fresh-up and learning exercise taking
place in Healesville,
a bit over an hour in the directions of the Dandenong Mountains, east of Melbourne. My colleagues from SAP and I had great fun in a paradise like, idyllic scene next to a beautiful
golf course. Somehow though, and I can’t explain it, I couldn’t get
up at five in the morning to have a round of golf *hehe*.
Illustration
7: the nicest possible way to have a
workshop
Illustration
8: How good is that, compared to the normal office environment?
Illustration 9: Sonia and Mona J
Illustration 10: lots of blind colleagues
Illustration 11: that how Ralf looks like when he’s having fun
The next
picture is from our Business Consulting Golf Tournament taking place
under horrible conditions. Yes – it can rain heavily in
Australia
…
for those of you, who don’t believe me check out the picture below:
Illustration 12: Business Consulting Ambross Golf Event literally
drowned (first in Rain and later in Beer)
Now
the big news in regard to changes in my life: Remember my
last newsletter, when we my team in
Australia
met
up with the other Business Consulting team in the Asia-Pacific region
for a Boot Camp in Port
Douglas? Well, what I haven’t told you then is that I had the
best humanly possible job interview in the evening, walking the four
mile beach with my two managers, Marc-Alexander and Pierre-Francis.
Basically it was about extending my stay in the region and to start
working permanently with SAP.
Well, I thought about it for quite some time, like about two or maybe
three seconds (can’t remember exactly due to some drinks we had earlier)
and accepted the offer I received that night. Back then I only had
to complete my studies, which I officially did on the 29th of November 2005… can’t tell you how great it feels to have finished
studies (at least for now), have a great job in a great country, but
most importantly be part of the best team in the entire world (Greetings
Ladies and Gents!). On that note, it might be worthwhile to mention
that my team has received an award as one of the Field Services Fast
Impact Teams for 2005 (there was three teams receiving this award
in Asia-Pacific) – do you see now what I mean with best team? *YEAHAA!*
Illustration
13: Team: from left to right, bottom to
top: Poul (Danish), Pierre-Francis (French),
Mikael (Danish), Victor (German/ Polish),
Megan (Australian), Simon (Australian/ Polish),
Christoph (German), Tom (Hungarian), Permenthri (South African),
Dave (English), Paul (Scottish/ Australian)
Illustration
14: Business Consulting Australia/ New
Zealands' "Fast Impact" Team Award Trophy. AWESOME!
Oh but coming
back to some pictures and less boasting around ;). I actually went
to
Europe
in mid November and spend
Christmas and New Years’ there before I officially started working
as “Associate Business Consultant” on the 16th of January
2006. Here are some pictures from my trip:
Illustration 15: A Zakopane Ski Stock in
Poland
Illustration 16: Jasiu (left) and I enjoying Zakopane’s Hutt-Life
Illustration 17: Gosia, my friend from my studies in
Poland
.
We caught up twice in
Vienna
Illustration 18: the best Grandma in the world
Illustration 19: That’s my favorite Bro, Sascha
Illustration 20: The Boryczko Family together with my Mum,
Brother and
I
Illustration 21: Christmas in
Poland
– that’s my grandpa (right ;))
Illustration 22: I actually was thinking about no showing this photo, since we are
so extremely bad looking, drunk guys but anyways… that’s what you
look like
after a family reunion in Poland… not that I want to scare off anybody
to come and visit ;) haha…
Illustration 23: from left to right : Victor, Sascha and
our Mum - Liliana
Illustration 24: I met up with Olek (Szefolo),
one of my
best mates from my studies in
Poland
Illustration 25: Snow everywhere in
Poland
Illustration 26: All the Locations, which I visited in
Europe
…
Illustration 27: Trip to
Warsaw
– the old market
Illustration 28: Sylwia,
who is actually living in
Sydney
was
down in
Warsaw
,
so we met up and had some nice cocktails
Illustration 29: Sylvia one more time :)
Illustration 30: War Memorial in Warsaw
Illustration 31: I used to work for this company… was nice to
see their office in
Warsaw
(hi Fabi,
Karina, Matthias, Henriette,
Daniela and so many more)
Illustration 32: This is the choice of vodka you enjoy
in a regular
Polish Supermarket…
Illustration 33: Luke, one of my very best buddies
came down from
the States (Cincinnati)
Illustration 34: Mateusz,
he only lives between 6pm and 8am –
photo was taken at 12am (in the middle of his night)
Illustration 35: Gosia again, this time in
Poland -
she’s gonna kill me
for putting this photo online *lol*
Illustration 36: Bogusia and I
Illustration 37: Can you see the similarities between my bro and I??? haha
Before returning
to
Australia
and after
Poland
I went to
Germany
to catch up with my mum, friends (Chris, Konsi, Larissa and many more)
and former colleagues (Frank, Oli, Dietmar, and so many more). While
there I was lucky enough to get invited to the SAP Walldorf Christmas party, which took place
in the newly constructed SAP
Arena in
Mannheim
, not far from
Frankfurt
.
I also got invited to attend to an Accenture Assessment Centre which was a great experience for me and only confirmed
how much I like to work for SAP together with my Team – it’s just unbeatable. Please, for all of you,
I didn’t have time or resources to visit, accept my apologies. It
was really hard to visit just a few of you in the relative short timeframe.
We will see each other again!
Illustration 38: That is my friend, Frank, and former
supervisor from
SAP
Germany
Illustration 39: It looks like a fancy bar, but it is actually the foyer at
Accenture
Germany
*haha*
Illustration 40: that’s the famous SAP Christmas Party.
The
Arena was pumpin’
Illustration 41: X-Mas with
SAP: Queen Killers where playing LOUD Rock !
Illustration 42: Before I left
Germany
I had to have a cigar with
Nawid (German friend from
Australia
)
in
Mannheim
Friday,
the 13th of January I sat down in a plane in Vienna and took off to head back to Melbourne,
two days later I landed and believe it or not, not jet lag whatsoever. I figured that if i fly on Friday the 13th and nothing would happen I would never have to be concerned
about that date anymore... it worked :) Coming into Australia for
the second time i was happily using my electronic business visa sponsored
by my company. Now officially party time was over and my real adult
life began. The first three months of work went fairly relaxed as
you can see on the pictures below, usually the summer and beginning
of year is fairly laid-back in Oz - but now it's getting busier and
busier. The highlights during that quiet period were probably that
I met two beautiful polish sisters and had a trip to
Queensland
(
Couran
Cove
Island
to be exact), where our annual SAP Consulting Kick-Off took place. Also to mention are my trips to
Sydney
that had a full-blown party program attached.
Sydney
is a great place in the summer!
At the moment i'm
fully engaged with a mining company down in Perth, Western Australia.
Fortunately i'm able to fly back over the weekends and spent some
quality time here with my friends.
Following i wanted to share the pictures from Couran Cove as well
as from other occassions. Write me if you want to know more about
any of those :)
Illustration 43: Lusia and Ania from
England
(but Polish)
Illustration 44: Ania and I
Illustration 45: Erminio kissing foot, Ania (top-left), Clinton (top-right),
Lusia (being foot-kissed) and Victor in the middle
Illustration 46: the
Marina
in front of our Hotel at Kick-Off in Couran Cove
Illustration 47: I try to swim every day... even went
to the
Dorman Classic 3k-Ocean Swim this year...
Illustration 48: Couran
Cove Island Hotel on South Stradbroke Island, Gold Coast
Illustration 49: Watch out for those ones…
Illustration 50: Aren’t those ones sweet?
Illustration 51: How scenic is this? Awesome views…
Illustration 52: nice kangaroo
Illustration 53: From Ania and Lusias’
trip to
Kangaroo
Island
in
South Australia
(2)
Illustration 54: knock knock… who’s there?
Illustration 55: I love sailing… even though I can’t do it properly ;)
Illustration 56: A Cold Crown Lager… that’s it!
Illustration 57: Look at that smile! Mr. Tom in happy modus
Illustration 58: Tree-Top Bar on
Couran
Cove
Island
Illustration 59: after our Kick-Off we explored the
entire island
(almost) with our bikes
Illustration 60: We had our bikes and beers always with us…
Illustration 61: oh Baby, what a ride it is…
Illustration 62: Let’s Rock! 7:45am…
Illustration 63: Foreground: Tom and I Jet-Skiing; Background: Gold Coast
Illustration 67: Tom and I on
Stratford
Island
Illustration 68: puh… no
comment to that view… enjoy yourself
Illustration 69: Almost looks like in
France
,
doesn’t it?!
Illustration 70: Those views are just great…
Sydney
again…
Illustration 71: Simon, my work buddy, and very good friend and I
Illustration 72: I really like the choice you’re given in
Sydney
: Pool or open waters?
Illustration 73: Gee… what did I see?
Illustration 74: Mr. Bartek! My mate from my times at WSB-NLU, he now lives in
Sydney
Illustration 75: this is what "real" Business Consultants do…
Tom and Christoph at Olympic Dam in
South Australia
Illustration 76: my friends from WSB-NLU, all living and working and
having fun in
Australia
: Bartek, Michal,
and I
Illustration 77: I missed this event. My former Flatmate and
Friend, Karol,
has gotten married to Magda… Congratulations
Illustration 78: my friends from the Belgium Beer Café…
Guess who is the Polish, Dutch and Brazilian?
Illustration 79: my good friend Clinton. We were at the Horse Races (again!)
Illustration 80: in the Back you see the Melbourne Skyline and the Amphitheatre
Illustration 81: Sidney Myer’s Free Concerts with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Illustration 82: TwoTribes – Biggest Rave Party in
Melbourne
…
with Armin and Markus (good DJs)
Illustration 83: at the Telstra Dome. St Kilda playing against Collinwood –
view from the SAP Corporate Box
Illustration 84: I love weekends like this...
Bondi Beach, Sydney in the background
Illustration 85: Kamila and I
Illustration 86: Mr. Dave - having a break from Golfing
:)
Illustration 87: Mr. Mikael came to
Australia
to play more golf
Illustration 88: Always smile :)
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. In the next newsletter you will see pictures
from India, where I'm going to a wedding of one of my best friends
here in Australia - Anshul. That will be a great trip and a great
chance to learn about the Indian Culture first hand... :)
Have fun, enjoy life as much as you can and talk to you soon. By the
way if you are using Skype,
give me a call - my username is "vamplasma".
Find
my other details below (private and work)
Live
your dreams,
Victor
|
