Sanna and I rode to Sydney Olympic park today from ours in the city. It was a 22km ride and actually pretty easy, took just an hour.

Riding across Iron cove bridge our west.

At the top of Olympic park, all the stadiums built for the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the background.

We took the easy way back on the ferry 🙂

Cold windy winters night in Sydney but we went out with our queensland friends from Brisbane to a whisky bar. I drank $120 of whisky which was only 5 glasses surprisingly! Graham was celebrating because he flew down to Sydney to buy a boat and has promised to take us out on it spear fishing.

Dinner was an American style with great sticky pork ribs, they were delicious.

I was playing around on the weekend chopping up some favorite songs, some old some new, and made them into ringtones for your phone, you may like some of these for your own phone.

I wouldn’t have a clue how to get these onto your iPhone, maybe through iTunes I guess, but on any Android phone just drop them into the folder called ‘Ringtones’

Blue Boy – Remember Me

Download .ogg file here > Blue Boy – Remember Me

 

Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (intro)

Download .ogg file here > Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (intro)

 

Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (chorus1)

Download .ogg file here > Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (chorus1)

 

Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (chorus2)

Download .ogg file here > Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (chorus2)

 

Rasmus faber – Leave me alone

Download .ogg file here > Rasmus faber – Leave me alone

 

Rasmus faber – Leave me alone (vocal breakdown)

Download .ogg file here > Rasmus faber – Leave me alone (vocal breakdown)

 

Something good – Wannabe

Download .ogg file here > Something good – Wannabe

 

Spiritchaser – Yesterdays Gone

Download .ogg file here > Spiritchaser – Yesterdays Gone

 

Spiritchaser – Yesterdays Gone2

Download .ogg file here > Spiritchaser – Yesterdays Gone2

 

Ultra Nate – Free (intro)

Download .ogg file here > Ultra Nate – Free (intro)

 

Ultra Nate – Free (chorus)

Download .ogg file here > Ultra Nate – Free (chorus)

 

Young Disciples – Apparently Nothin

Download .ogg file here > Young Disciples – Apparently Nothin

It was my last day working for Vodafone Australia (known as VHA) yesterday. I was there for 7 months as a Infrastructure Architect in a large team of mostly Indians who were outsourced and us Architects designing and managing them. The project was not very well run from a project management perspective but the project was a success from such a large team and how many extra hours everybody put in. We built 2 datacentres for Vodafone’s future IT infrastructure to be hosted in, in just 7 months. It was one of the better project teams I’ve worked in with some real fun characters in there that I will miss working with.

This was my direct team who worked for me, I called them the ‘VMware team’, Gopal, Me, Sandeep and Kishore.

Cheeky funny man Bruce saying he was going to pop the cork and spray the office.

Amar our leader and DCT Program Director (my overall boss) and cheeky Bruce.

Leaving dinner at ‘The Cut’ steak restaurant in the Rocks, last week

Graham ‘The Oracle’ leaving drinks at the ‘Chelsea bar’ 2 weeks ago.

Woke up to this beautiful sky this morning, you know the saying “Red sky in the morning, Shepards warning”.

At Jade and John’s  Skypeing to Tan in Japan to arrange our trip to Japan in a couple of months.

A mind boggling trip already:

Fri 8th – Mark & Sann arrive
Sat 9th PM – Jade & Jon arrive (Jade, CONVINCE JON!!!!!). Hit up some weird & wacky bars in Tokyo.
Sun 10th PM – Explore Tokyo (Shibuya, Harajuku, Shinjuku, etc etc). More delish food & weird & wacky bars!
Mon 11th – AM Tskuji Fish Markets, then head to Mt Fuji 5th Station. Climb to summit and stay overnight.
Tues 12th – Descend Mt Fuji and leisurely make way back to Kobe.. Relax around Kobe.
Wed 13th – Explore Kobe, could take a trip to Osaka to visit Castle.
Thurs 14th – Kyoto sightseeing – Stay Overnight
Fri 15th – Kyoto sightseeing contd, incl. markets, Gion District etc
Sat 16th – Kobe – Bar crawl / Karaoke / Pachinko
Sun 17th – Kobe – Maybe Kobe Beef Steak for our Last Supper? 🙂
Mon 18th – Jade & Jon / Sann & Mark fly out

Sanna and I went ice skating in the middle of Sydney last night. They’ve setup a temporary ice skate ring in Darling Harbour.

We havnt ice skated for many years but after 20 minutes we were going quite fast so quickly. I think its because its the same motion as pushing along a flat bit in skiing.

Afterwards we had hot gluwein and German sausages with sauerkraut in a bun. Not bad for $40 each! Sydney 2nd most expensive city in the world now!