{"id":7881,"date":"2012-07-28T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T22:46:17","slug":"turning-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7881","title":{"rendered":"Turning 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For someone who gets a bit self conscious about birthdays, I’ve ended up having a pretty extravagant and prolonged 30th birthday celebration spanning three weekends.\u00a0 On the weekend of my actual birthday, Jen secretly arranged tickets for the two of us to fly to Melbourne.\u00a0 I was planning on spendying my 30th birthday working a regular day in the office.\u00a0 Instead I came home Thursday night and found a set of plane tickets and a packed bag waiting for me.<\/p>\n

The long weekend in Melbourne was terrific.There we treated ourselves to some lavish dinners at Vue De Monde and Rockpool, went to the Melbourne Cricket Ground where 85,000 people saw Hawthorn play Collingwood and spent a lazy Sunday exploring Melbourne’s museums and cafes.<\/p>\n

This weekend, I invited some friends to have a degustation dinner at Urbane.\u00a0 We had some pre-dinner beers, matching wines to go with the seven courses and some whisky at Malt Bar afterwards so it was pretty loose affair by the end of the night.\u00a0 But a lot of fun and worth every penny.\u00a0 You only turn thirty once, right?<\/p>\n

It feels like a big milestone but despite the rapid onset of grey hairs (!) and few extra wrinkles, I’m pretty happy with my lot.\u00a0 I have an amazing supportive wife, great friends and a simple (mostly) hassle free life.\u00a0 Looking at the decade ahead, its fun to think about what the future might hold.\u00a0 A mortgage, a nice car, maybe an Edo or Jenni Junior?\u00a0 I know we have our plans but if 2012 has taught me anything, its that things don’t always go down the way you would expect or might hope.\u00a0 For Jen and I, its been a rather tumultuous year for our professional careers and while I think we’ve weathered the storm, it certainly changed our plans on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens, I’d still like to experience or learn something new each year.\u00a0 Last year there was fishing.\u00a0 This year driving.\u00a0 In the coming months, I’d like to take up golf.\u00a0 I also hope that the next ten years treats the ol’ Brunei crew as generously as it has been to me.\u00a0 Whether you’re partying in London, exploring new pastures in Canada, holidaying in the Maldives or touring with your band in South East Asia, it pleases me greatly that everyone seems to be living it up.<\/p>\n

Here’s to the next decade being a good ‘un and whatever happens, I look forward to blogging about it on the 3D FatWeb Holodeck Blogbot 3000 and marvelling over how young we looked back then and laugh at the strangely outdated things we thought were cool in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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