Elvis

Just had a couple of days of training covering stuff like conflict resolution, learning styles etc etc.....useful, but all pretty standard corporate training stuff. More enjoyable was a staff karaoke night last night: I treated the crowd to some Dylan, a bit of Elvis, and got roped into a Sonny & Cher number. The power of my voice clearly shone through. That was the last time we'll booze for 10 weeks or so; which sounds like a long time (and a cold Tiger certainly is beautiful in this heat).

The participants finally arrive in the next few days which is a relief - 2 weeks of training and I'm looking forward to getting started. We take them off to jungle camp at first to teach them all the various skills we got taught. As a result, this will be the last time I can probably post to this blog for a while.

Before that however, I've blagged my way on to a trip tomorrow out to an island to build a basha for a project that's planned out there. It's only a 20 minute boat trip to get there, but it'll be a nice change of scenery before heading off to the jungle. We're going armed with parangs (machetes) to hack through the undergrowth. Looking forward to it, because flying into Kota Kinabalu you could see some of the islands offshore and they looked pretty stunning. Yeeha.

Dunno whether Google Earth or suchlike lets you find GPS refs, but if you're interested, here is the ref for my project site down near Kota Kinabatangan: N 05 25.252 E 117 56.48.