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It’s Sales Conference time! We had our annual sales conference at the Darling Harbour convention centre in Sydney, as has become the tradition.  It comes off the back of a rather brutal year for the company – we’re very happy to see the back of 2011!  It was a slightly scaled back event this year.  It wasn’t quite the celebrity-stacked ...

I made a short year-in-review video for my team at work.  I have no idea if this of any interest to anyone on here but you can see my facial hair and my work colleagues.

I haven’t really done much by the way of producing any new video content for The FAT Website this year.  No real reason.  Just haven’t had the time or the energy to do it.  Having said that, my brother-in-law recently brought it to my attention that a group of his friends on Facebook were reposting and discussing the ol’ Growing ...

A couple of weekends ago, we had a friendly game of football between my department at work (Lead Gen) and our rival sales team. I nominated myself to play in the centre of defence, as the all-important central pillar that the team could build their strategy around.  I explained to everyone that in Brunei people would call me The Rock ...

I don’t mind telling you that last year we had an awful Christmas party.  For a company that has a reputation for throwing some solid parties (Formula One Night in Melbourne, Cloudland Farewell Party), the 2010 Christmas party was inexplicably bad.  It was at a venue for hire which they decked out in a jungle theme to which no one ...

On Friday I took my team out for an offsite to a high-ropes obstacle course at Mount Tamborine, followed by a BBQ and some beers at a friends place.  It was nice to get out of the office on a Friday and enjoy the sunny weather and good company.  The day reminded me of how lucky I am to work ...

I’ve worked at the same company for seven years now and one of the things that never gets old is the occasional opportunity that pops up to do something out of the ordinary.  I’ve been set on fire at a stunt school, had a chance to mingle with Formula One drivers, worked out with a trainer from The Biggest Loser ...

Strange text message I received this morning from one of my staff:

One of my favourite aspects of trying out a restaurant’s degustation is the social experience that comes with the evening.  By my reckoning, if you’re trying out a multi-course tasting menu, you’re usually eating and drinking with your friends for about four or five hours.  Over the course of that time, everyone is going through a world class culinary journey ...

I just came back from a ridiculously great weekend trip down in Melbourne.  It was arranged through a sales competition at work which my brother-in-law Dom won by a handy margin.  The prize was an all expenses paid trip to Melbourne which included an invite to the McLaren F1 VIP party.  Dom very kindly agreed to take me along. I ...