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Me, Sean and Erika
Sean works as a Structual Engineer for the British Red Cross. And drags me round partys in the weekends. I'm in good (very bad) hands! Erika works for the IRC as Training, Systems and Admin Manager. ... [more]
• Seeing someone who briefly I’d met before, during the day on Saturday, who invited me to my own party! He’d been invited to the party by someone I worked with, but hadn’t realized that it was my party!
• Making fruit punch, out of mango, papaya, pineapple, lychee juice, lemongrass vodka. It was really good, so you couldn’t taste the alcohol. I thought that this was a problem, so was continuously topping it up. The results are evident from the photos.
• Dancing like an energizer bunny. I needed the release. Happy Place.
• The power cut for 5 minutes, which killed the stereo and prompted my boss to start singing.
• Mixing songs between an Ipod and a mini system.
• Having the party crashed by the UN.
• The party was talked about at the a WHO meeting my house mate went to on Monday!
• Having Banda Aceh run out of beer on the night of my birthday. WE DRANK THE CITY DRY!
• And much gratuitous chin touching.
Me and Atilio
Atilio is the Head of the Health program for IRC. He's a Doctor from Peru, who I'm lucky enough to share a house with!
Me, Oliver and Des
I met Oliver in New Zealand. He is here working in Microfinance. He gave me some of the inspiration for coming here (and faith that I could do it). Des is his friend, visiting from NZ.
Me, Alexandria and Remko
Alexandria works for the Red Cross. Remko is a Doctor who specialises in tropical diseases. I met him on Sabang
Me and Iskander
Iskander is one of our drivers. He was lucky enough to be on duty the night of the party.
Me, Stefan and a Random German
Stephan works as a Water Engineer for a German NGO. I have no idea who the other guy is, he came with Stefan and brought rum.
Nerys, Sean and Jo
Nerys is the Grants and Information Manager at the IRC. Sean is a bad person. Jo is the Information Manager at the IRC. Jo is not Nerys boss. They do actually have different jobs. Yes, Sean is s... [more]
A Chair
The only thing in the house not rocking. (OK, that was bad, terrible in fact, but I can offer no further explaination to why I took a photo of a chair)
The Auditors
IRC was currently getting audited by KPMG from India. So we invited them along showed them a good time. The audit went fine!
4 Comments - Add Public Comment or Send Private Message
December 13th 2005 - Hannah: Crazy Times
Thoroughly impressed you drank the town dry! Awesome selection of photos babe. I'm glad you celebrated your birthday in style once again.
December 13th 2005 - Tim G: The more things change...
the more they stay the same.
Good to see you working your magic still Mikey!
December 13th 2005 - Meg: Fab fotos
Loved the photos...specially when you got over your chin fetish! What's with it? It is not a flattering angle...for anyone!
December 20th 2005 - anonymous:
You sound like you are having a lot of fun. Will have to chat soon. Love Rowan
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