oldmatebrendo.com » australia http://oldmatebrendo.com the incoherent ramblings of brendo Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Why I’m glad I grew up in Australia http://oldmatebrendo.com/2009/09/why-im-glad-i-grew-up-in-australia/ http://oldmatebrendo.com/2009/09/why-im-glad-i-grew-up-in-australia/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:02:58 +0000 brendo http://oldmatebrendo.com/?p=66 In my project management tutorial at uni yesterday, the task was to get into groups and firstly write the tasks you think you would need to plan a party, then create a work breakdown structure and see if you missed any.

I got together with my group. Being the only non-asian in the entire subject my group was me and 4 asians, Chinese to be more precise.

Me: So first thing we do… buy beer, work out the rest later?

Chinese Student 1: Shouldn’t we first ask the government if we can have a party.

I paused to see if it was a joke, it wasn’t – he was deadly serious and argued the point that we should ask government.

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