2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/dmwil6/rss.xml Hello!! Last year was a year in Sydney as Company Director of the Australian office of AIESEC, the international platform young people to discover and develop their potential. It was very nice, I lived in Sydney, travelled to Adelaide and Perth each quarter and also had trips to Rotterdam (and Amsterdam) and Kiev <p></p> <p></p> But it was only the sample of what is to come! I'm leaving Melbourne again to work in Switzerland for 6 months working for IMD, one of the world's best business schools! While I am in Europe I think I will make the most of it and explore it in its entirety. =) <p></p> <p></p> So my family bought me a little laughing kookaburra for my birthday and my travels. They'd like me to take it with me everywhere and take photos of it in all the cities I am in. It's my own travel-burra! http://www.getjealous.com/dmwil6 http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=634902&go=dmwil6 Another memorable weekend. I spent the entire time in front of the computer. Windows stopped starting up, I had to reformat the whole thing. Then I had to reinstall all my programs. That took until Sunday afternoon and I was satisfied in the end, especially since I had been backing up everything regularly. Except I never expected to have a faulty backup program. Most files were restored. But... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=634902&go=dmwil6 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628263&go=dmwil6 Just got back last night from London, which was another great visit.A long challenging public transport journey to Uxbridge where our lovely gracious host David met us and made us feel right at home. Friday took us around the city streets of London shopping, then to Tate Modern where we met Amy and her sister. Together we saw the permanent collection of the famous modern art gallery. The highli... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628263&go=dmwil6 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628252&go=dmwil6 Following some great facilitated discussions by the Global Humanitarian Youth Forum, I have started G-1 Billion, a project I will be working on in my spare time. G-1 Billion is a multilingual blog where young people report on the other side of COP-15, the aspects of COP-15 that will not get coverage from the mainstream media: the activities, events and festivals outside the negotiations. It will... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628252&go=dmwil6 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628257&go=dmwil6 Sorry for taking so long to write this posting!PARIS is amazing. After a nice TGV train ride (it's one of the best things about France, their brilliant fast-train network) we arrived in Paris and went to our hostel near the Sacre-Cour. The next day was an extremely early morning start as Mum and I went to Cafe Oz to see the AFL Grand Final. GOOOOOOOOOO CATS!! It was a legendary game and I'm so ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628257&go=dmwil6 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628258&go=dmwil6 It was a lovely time to host my parents here in Lausanne. They brought so much food, which I have since had mixed reactions towards: Tim Tams and Milo were both demoralised within the week, but the Vegemite will be extremely difficult to get through. Thank you so much for coming it was really lovely. Ina loves you guys too.Their activities: * As a belated birthday present we organised an Amaz... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628258&go=dmwil6 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628261&go=dmwil6 There were a couple meetings in this period with the GHF figuring out how we were to get to COP-15 as a group. We had ideas for a "Youth Awards" project and then one for a "grassroots news agency". The former, the Youth Awards, is going to be at a Road to Copenhagen event on the 7th or 8th of December. The latter, is something I am now spearheading, called G-1 Billion. =) A... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=628261&go=dmwil6 Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=623119&go=dmwil6 Always great to catch up with you Albert!... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=623119&go=dmwil6 Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=623118&go=dmwil6 In short...The high level segment was a bunch of speeches by government representatives to state how they feel about the climate framework and climate change in general. It was mostly the same old same old thing. We made it fun though as youth delegates. A couple of us were mistakenly given badges that granted us access into the official delegation plenaries. I first sat as India. Later, join... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=623118&go=dmwil6 Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=616471&go=dmwil6 The World Climate Conference was a fantastic experience for me. It enabled me to understand another issue in climate change, the issue of climate information. Climate information is the forecasts, predictions, and data in relation to climate. The issues around climate information include:Great difficulty in making climate information useful for end users or decision makers. Scientists need to ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=616471&go=dmwil6 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=616468&go=dmwil6 Saturday morning was an early start, heading to the Global Humanitarian Forum for a preparation meeting for the World Climate Conference. It was a great meeting in which, through a deep discussion, we were brought into the mindset of the conference. In essence, the challenges of delivering climate information and research findings from scientists to end users and the public.Afterwards, Tiago and... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=616468&go=dmwil6 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT