Baking Britain

What with the bombs and olympic games, life's been pretty hectic. Stuff's been happening but I haven't had the time to update this blog due to work commitments... so I've decided to do a batch update stretching back 3 weeks.

Anyway, summer months are made for BBQs. Went to a manager's BBQ last weekend, tomorrow I'm going to a partner's BBQ. I've learned that partner interaction is very very rare thing for first year's... but on this client, I've been getting a LOT of exposure to them, which is supposed to be a good thing. Heck, I've even been doing work FOR them.

Anyway, this partner lives in some mansion just outside London, so I'll report on my experiences tomorrow.

Golf and Interns

Went to the driving range a couple days back... haven't been since I was what, 12? Good fun though, my colleague was impressed by my apparently "natural" swing, though the damned balls weren't going anywhere near where I wanted them to go. This looks to be something that'll stick going forward.

Wahey, we have a summer intern assigned to our job... and she's quite pretty too! Er, that wasn't very professional... but heck, I'm a man first, professional second! Our intern's quite interesting: she's a Cambridge University student, rowing aficionado, kick boxing enthusiast, really easy to talk to and from a low income background to boot, making her achievements even more impressive. I was assigned to coach her through her 2 days at our job... it was a great learning experience for me, not so sure if it was the same for her. Too bad she's going to another job next week...

Man, I can't believe I've been working in the company for 10 months already! There'll be much more of this coaching once September comes along and we get a fresh batch of grads... I remember the day I joined...

Holland (3 weeks ago)

I came back from a two week work excursion from Holland about a week before the bombs went off. Trip was good, weather was great, and it was a fantastic learning opportunity. I went to a little known part of Holland called Venray, chilled out with our local staff in a couple nearby towns. I've been to Amsterdam before, so sampling an "authentic" Dutch lifestyle was more appealing than visiting the more obvious attractions at good ol' Amsterdam.

Staff at our client's were quite nice too, despite the fact that we, the UK team, couldn't speak (nor read) Dutch. They were all well versed in English so work got done.

London Bombed

I was about an hour away, but still as shocked the rest of the population. Not surprised. It could have been worse... it could have hit Live 8. Damn these terrorists... why hit now? The G8 are trying to resolve African poverty... I guess they don't really care. Bastards.