:: mundane ::

Had the best gig over the past two months building the global product intranet strategy and with management sign off I will get to roll it out over the next six months, really cool stuff.

Today however I am cutting and pasting product manager interview responses - I hate formatting. I have a job where one day I am doing things that not many people my age get to do - and then the next day am doing mundane stuff. Can’t wait till I have my own secretary.

Been a bit slack on the blogging front of late. Drinks last night with Bertrand and Linda in a cool funky bar in town - although the lounge music they normally play turned into some bad country soulless Suisse tunes - the barman could not have looked less interested if he tried - I miss my bar days, the best fun I ever had working was behind the bar at Metro City. Will attempt snowboarding again this weekend - hoping to spend a bit more time standing, less time on my arse.

Beck is brilliant. He honestly has a song for whatever mood you are in. Can’t wait to get the new album, but until then, Sea Change fills the void and guess i'm doing fine expresses my mood better than i can.

GUESS I'M DOING FINE
There's a blue bird at my window ¦ I can't hear the songs he sings ¦ All the jewels in heaven ¦ They don't look the same to me ¦ I just wade the tides that turned ¦ Till I learn to leave the past behind ¦ It's only lies that I'm living ¦ It's only tears that I'm crying ¦ It's only you that I'm losing ¦ Guess I'm doing fine ¦ All the battlements are empty ¦ And the moon is laying low ¦ Yellow roses in the graveyard ¦ Got no time to watch them grow ¦ Now I bade a friend farewell ¦ I can do whatever pleases me ¦ It's only lies that I'm living ¦ It's only tears that I'm crying ¦ It's only you that I'm losing ¦ Guess I'm doing fine ¦ Press my face up to the window ¦ To see how warm it is inside ¦ See the things that I've been missing ¦ Missing all this time ¦ It's only lies that I'm living ¦ It's only tears that I'm crying ¦ It's only you that I'm losing ¦ Guess I'm doing fine ¦

:: syngenta life ::

flat out at work finishing my product intranet strategy - hopefully gets the thumbs up next week and can start implementing - work will get exciting then...laura left on the 26 feb - it sucks so much not being with her, i won't begin to try and emote it all here...

new tv in the house has been a blessing and a curse...life has fallen into a routine for the immediate future..i get up before 7, get to work around 8, get home around 6, dinner and mtv take me thru till about 1am and then i start again...its good to have tv company, but you realise that its in your life too much when you are actually curious who will be the next boring british family to be relocated and start their new life in y foreign country...i am such a sad case right now...

that old adage you don't know what your missing - i was a tv raised kid - the sesame street was my hood and big bird my pimp and mentor...the formative years didn't really matter what it was, i watched it all - infact i became the molly meldrum of crap tv trivia (obscure reference, sorry - Australia camp guy who hosted our version of top of the pops in the 80's - Countdown; he knew his bad music and I knew my bad tv)..anyways i digress...one day i just stopped and left my beloved television behind...i just severed the umbilical and went about my business...

some years later with more free time induced by wanting to save some pennies for summer shananigans travels and more free time at home (weather is too shite to do anything after work most days - there is only so many times you can go to the pub...

i have realised that part of my life is gone for good...my happy days spent watching bad tv and enjoying it are over...television has really turned to crap...now being located in switzerland and with an array of channels that are in german, french and sometimes even turkish perhaps i am not privvy to all of the magic that the box can offer - BBC is shit house...so farkin boring and so many different versions of the same antiques in the attic, or on the road or wherever - who gives a flying f*** well this has turned into quite a rant..apologies just total tanget...

mtv is only friend on suisse tv - and i will come out and freely admit that i love pimp my ride - does that make me a bad person?

two weeks since the last post and all i can do is rabbit on about television - damn...heading out for another attempt at snowboarding on the weekend and having beers with a colleague tonite, i am afraid that i will be spending just a little bit more time with Jaunty than I actually want to.