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Melbourne This entry shold be titled “Murphy’s Law Case Study: Stand Up For Your Rights”. As I said many times to the crew during the course of the day, the alignment of the planets just wasn’t quite right this year. Many many many things went horribly wrong. I suppose the challenge of event management...
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Road Day 1 Australian nationals, or “nationals” as they shall be referred to from this point forth, began today on an initially forboding morning characterised by cold temperatures and long warm ups. Long enough, in fact, to allow for your eternally absent-minded man-on-the-ground, moi, to forget his victorian skinsuit but still have time to...
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Wednesday 1st September Sitting in the lounge at Changi (Singapore’s International Airport). While, being a Hong Kong person, I have never been a big fan of Singapore, more for political reasons than anything else, I must say that Changi is a very nice airport. Obviously, its not as nice as Hong Kong’s Chek Lap...
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Hong Kong I step out of the car. I am instantly shrink-wrapped in the oppressive heat and humidity of the hot summer day. As I close the door I catch the announcement on the radio – just as I feared, this is the hottest July 1st on record. Brilliant. I turn and make my...
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Melbourne It’s election time once again here at Melbourne University and I’ve become increasingly disillusioned by the whole process. Student politics is a mucky business these days, especially since the young Liberals (the conservative party here in Australia) took control of the student union and basically melted it. What’s left is basically a joke,...
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