Did you vote for this man?Friday, June 23, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Apologies for the below post sittting there rather cryptically for the past few weeks. My boss at my new workplace was the owner of that particular quote. Considering we work for a rather well known firm, and he is in charge of around 100 odd people, I thought it worth remembering.
I expected the high-flying world of English finance to be a pretty fast-moving, hard-working place. So far, I've seen a lot of people down at the pub at lunchtime, a fair few people checking out page 3 every day, and a hell of a lot of slack days. I have a feeling its partially due to my department being sold off to another group fairly soon, but its still been quite a big change compared to Macquarie back home.
Aside from the very dull job, everything else here has been going well. Managed to get 120 people through the house the weekend before last for one of my housemates birthdays. Excellent party, a few too many South African accents from what I remember, but all in all quite good. Suffered massive memory loss, but apparently some point in the morning was found trying to crawl into the barbecue to go to sleep. Don't remember it but found my shoes down there the next day.
Last weekend headed to Hyde Park to enjoy the sunshine. The parks here are fantastic when the weather is fine, simply because they are so well-used. As soon as the sun even hints that it might be up behind the clouds the English get out there. Shirts come off, bikinis come on, beers come out and everyone has a jolly good time. I even managed to do a bit of rowing on Hyde Park Lake and felt very English indeed.
Obviously the huge event over here at the moment is the world cup. We might all think of Americans as the biggest flag wavers around but the English certainly give them a run for their money come world cup...cars, windows, shirts, papers, ads...St George crosses everywhere. Happily I'm currently winning the tipping competition at work. All my free time has given me plenty of chances to study up on teams. Also managed to develop a minor gambling habit but haven't picked any winners yet. Hoping to see Argentina win it as I put a few quid on them early on. And have tipped Australia to qualify for the second round so will be down at the pub watching them beat Croatia tomorrow night.
I expected the high-flying world of English finance to be a pretty fast-moving, hard-working place. So far, I've seen a lot of people down at the pub at lunchtime, a fair few people checking out page 3 every day, and a hell of a lot of slack days. I have a feeling its partially due to my department being sold off to another group fairly soon, but its still been quite a big change compared to Macquarie back home.
Aside from the very dull job, everything else here has been going well. Managed to get 120 people through the house the weekend before last for one of my housemates birthdays. Excellent party, a few too many South African accents from what I remember, but all in all quite good. Suffered massive memory loss, but apparently some point in the morning was found trying to crawl into the barbecue to go to sleep. Don't remember it but found my shoes down there the next day.
Last weekend headed to Hyde Park to enjoy the sunshine. The parks here are fantastic when the weather is fine, simply because they are so well-used. As soon as the sun even hints that it might be up behind the clouds the English get out there. Shirts come off, bikinis come on, beers come out and everyone has a jolly good time. I even managed to do a bit of rowing on Hyde Park Lake and felt very English indeed.
Obviously the huge event over here at the moment is the world cup. We might all think of Americans as the biggest flag wavers around but the English certainly give them a run for their money come world cup...cars, windows, shirts, papers, ads...St George crosses everywhere. Happily I'm currently winning the tipping competition at work. All my free time has given me plenty of chances to study up on teams. Also managed to develop a minor gambling habit but haven't picked any winners yet. Hoping to see Argentina win it as I put a few quid on them early on. And have tipped Australia to qualify for the second round so will be down at the pub watching them beat Croatia tomorrow night.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
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