Monthly Archives: May 2008

Dissolving

Posted on May 13, 2008 by | 1 Comment

I always hesitate a bit about writing about some of the things I think about – particularly now I know that people at JBS, family and friends read this blog. The annominity of my feelings is lost and thus so to the safety. This aside there is definitely something in just typing out the words that can make the feeling go away. So I suppose that is my warning to you the reader…..

It feels a bit like everything is dissolving at the moment, I feel engulfed and completely overwhelmed by uncertainty. It has been a while since I have felt this way.

I am sure that this sensation has got absolutely everything to do with being a single 30 something, not being sure about what to do next, not being sure that I can leap the chasm of others belief in me and that the adventures within the Cambridge MBA are coming to the end.

Some days I would give everything to have someones arms in which to dissolve into.

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MBAT: sporting weekend

Posted on May 11, 2008 by | Leave a comment

MBAT was a fairly odd experience, it would seem that each school came with different plans; some came with MBAT sporting domination in mind and others, like us, came without matching T-shirts and a desire to just have a go.

And we certainly did have a go. I played basketball on Saturday morning against the most enormous guys you have ever seen. The girls in our team, even at our tallest really only reached the navel of one particularly big one. But, and quite possibly, despite being whipped quite convincingly by them we had an absolute laugh……once we got our breath back anyway! Squash was a similar story but terrific fun.

Certainly the way teams approached MBAT reflected the culture of that school – I was super pleased to be in the slightly chaotic but constantly cheerful & optimistic school. There was one school who came to MBAT with their own doubler-decker London bus and more participants than there are in our whole year. This group had the biggest presence …… which frankly may not have been that wisely exercised.

However, one thing was clearly shared across all teams: it was the realisation that we are not as young as we think we are! My goodness at the final BBQ there were people in plaster, on crutches and others looked like they were stuck together by sporting tape. Quite a sight really! Not one person was leaping to their feet from the grass with nearly the speed of a few days earlier.

So I suspect today as the 2000 participants head back to their MBA classes around Europe they will be feeling the effects in their quads, gluts and hamstrings for a few days yet! `

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Are the 30′s better than the 20′s?

Posted on May 3, 2008 by | 2 Comments

So today I am well and truly into my 30′s and I have to say it may be shaping up to be my most exciting decade yet. I remember being in my early 20′s and thinking that really this was it. By the time I got to my thirties I would be serious, have all the answers, be married and quite likely to be living in Melbourne’s leafy suburbs.

Goodness…. how wrong could I be?

Since turning 30 I have moved to the other side of the world, taken up running (possibly not the best sport to choose), run a couple of 10km runs (who would have thought that were possible when I consider the horror that was school cross country), had some excellent jobs, have a few publications to my name, have the complete pleasure of being a God Mother to 3 gorgeous people, Aunty to two others and quit everything to do an MBA.

But possibly the most valuable thing I have achieved is friendships and relationship’s with family and with friends who are now consider to be my family! These people are a crucial part of my life. Although, sadly none of these people are quite close enough at the moment.

However, there are also new people who have become an important part of me in the last few years and most significantly in the last few months. I do so that they will continue to be there as I move through my 30′s (and horrifyingly into my 40′s) and at some point will also form part of my family.

Although thankfully that decade is still a few years away yet!

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Squash-tastic

Posted on May 1, 2008 by | Leave a comment

I ache more than just a little bit at the moment.

I mean cycling is tiring and Cambridge is not known for its hill but boy do I know it in my thighs, I am acutely aware of my triceps and gluts as well! Everything is groaning more than usual….

We have MBAT in a week and I seem to have found myself part of the squash team. Somehow I am also on the Basketball team and interestingly also the tug-of-war.

Squash has been the main focus and a friend and I have been trooping along to the Queens’ squash courts to try and prevent a complete thrashing. Rumour has it that some of the business schools have coaches and are doing all sorts of crazy training for the upcoming 4 day sports fiesta that is MBAT.

This is somewhat concern – as we do have to pause often to discuss whether we think that last play would count and in truth to catch our breath!

Ah well – it should be a bit of a laugh……..if I don’t break my body before hand.

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