Quickcomm Down Under
Posted by Deborah Hughes on Mon, Jan 18, 2010
Welcome to the first installment of Quickcomm in the land down under and of course a big welcome to 2010 (or as we are apparently supposed to call it Twenty Ten). The past couple of months have been hectic for the Quickcomm Team in Sydney, we have been visiting Quickcomm customers the length and breadth of this fabulous country of ours.
Our annual Quickcomm Client Christmas party at the ECQ Bar went exceedingly well and our customers tell us that they had a great time. The ECQ Bar overlooks Circular Quay and has a fantastic panorama of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Luna Park in the background.
For the Quickcomm 2009 Staff Christmas party we decided to try French last year, every year we try a different cuisine. The food was fantastic but very heavy duty. The only person game enough have a whole plate of snails was Jude, Amy was brave to try one of them but the look on her face ingesting it basically said it all and I stuck to the cheese soufflé. In my honest opinion I just don't think you should be eating pests that there are poisonous snail pellets to kill them.
At the moment we are still missing our weekly dose of Glee and have to wait another 4 months until we find out what happened between Will and Emma, also will Finn finally choose Rachel. The big question is what songs will they choose to sing on their way to Regional's and will I-tunes have them ready to download the following day....
Avatar still continues to soar at the box office in Australia but alas Amy hasn't been to visit the world of Pandora yet. We still think that Pandora cannot compare to the land of Narnia and it didn't have Aslan or Prince Caspian to welcome you into their world.
The weather is Sydney has been brought to us by Katy Perry - its hot and its cold, it up and its down. We don't know if we are Arthur or Martha, the other night it was sweltering hot and sleeping under the fans (some Sydney councils ban Air Conditioners after 10pm) and then the next day we had cold and drizzle. Our regular take away places such as Greasy Spoon, Crazy Ladies and Starvin Marvin don't know if they should be catering for Winter Soups or Summer Salads.
The highlight of Level 7 has been the purchase of a new microwave oven, our previous one finally had to be sent to the glue factory when the only button that worked on it was the Rice Cooker button. You could cook anything you liked as long as it needed to be in there for 10 minutes on 100%.
Maria is setting off again for New York in a week's time and we have provided our shopping lists to her. The main point of the visit (besides working) is to visit the Christmas Shop on Seventh Avenue. We like to collect the New York Christmas decorations with the year painted on them. Visitors get very impressed when they think you have been to New York every year and who am I to tell them otherwise.
Sadly Maria won't be here to enjoy Australia Day - this is the national holiday (besides the other 7 public holidays we get through the year - we do not celebrate Thanksgiving) celebrating the birth of our nation. This is a day when we go to the beach, throw some snags on the Barbie (not the doll), eat Lamingtons and knock back some cold ones. If you are lucky we may actually remember the words to the second verse to our National Anthem. (As I was reading this out to Amy and Maria, Amy really impressed us with her rendition of the second verse of Advance Australia Fair).
That's about it for our first blog, it's always hard to know what is suitable to put into something that isn't your own personal view of the world and is supposedly representing the company that you have worked for 9 years. We have some wonderful Quickcomm staff and customers and we are in a lot of respects like a tight knit family. Because let's face it we probably get to see more of each other than we do our own families and for some of us that is a good thing.
I will close on the statement that Amy is trying to do a musical interpretation of Elton John's Song for Guy and to be honest it's not bad but it's not good either! It was musical enough for us to pick out the tune being hummed but once identified she decided to bring it home and finish it off and that's where it really declined.
Bye for Now.
Debs