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Merry Christmas Everybody!

Christmas for the Inoue family is a big deal.  Anyone who’s seen the holiday blogs from past years will know that Jen’s family go a little nuts at Christmas time and lay on an amazing spread of food, put up a ton of decorations and generally get into the festive spirit as good as any family I know.  It’s nice ...

I spent the last week hanging out with my brother Stu and his family.  Its been too long since I’ve seen Stu and Cherie but the catch up was especially overdue because I was yet to meet his beautiful baby daughter Abby. Abby is a fantastic kid.  She’s fearless, curious, eats anything and is super sociable.  We had a ball ...

Don turned 70 on Sunday.  He’s a pretty cool dude in my eyes.  He celebrated with a week long party in Brunei and ran two hashes. Happy Birthday Dad!

I don’t mind telling you, it’s been a hell of a year.  Both Jen and I have survived a rather challenging twelve months in our careers and we will gladly see the back of 2012.  We’ve both had it pretty good up to now and have stayed at our respective companies for fourteen years combined.  But this year, for whatever ...

It was only last night when we said farewell to Jen’s parents as they flew out to China did it really feel like the closing chapter to a four week winter holiday.  It all started in mid-July when we had relatives arrive from around the world – visiting from Scotland, China and America.  Six in total.  Plus all of Jen’s ...

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 ...

We had a rather low-key family affair for Christmas this year in the Inoue household.  The poor weather we’ve been having meant we didn’t really get to venture outdoors and we didnt have plans to travel anywhere.  So we spent the day at home with Karen, Dom and Matt chowing down on a giant seafood feast.  Having said that, nobody ...

I’ve been flat out in the past couple of weeks.  There have been a ton of rellies passing through Brisbane which is awesome.  Also, we had our office Christmas party.  Here are a buncha photos from the past fortnight.