Three Japanese tourists came unstuck on their planned Australian holiday on Thursday when they abandoned their hire car in Moreton Bay after they tried to "drive" to North Stradbroke Island.
Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and "it told us we could drive down there".
"It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck . . . there's lots of mud."
Yuzu and and her travel friends Tomonari Saeki, 22, and Keita Osada, 21, were all looking forward to a day trip to the island, but headed back to the Gold Coast courtesy of a lift from the RACQ tow truck driver who was called to the stranded car.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Be careful, dear tourists!
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Do you underperform?
Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell wrote about the "new neurological phenomenon" in Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform, for Harvard Business Review:
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"Marked by distractibility, inner frenzy, and impatience, ADT prevents managers from clarifying priorities, making smart decisions and managing their time. This insidious condition turns otherwise talented performers into harried underachievers. And it's reaching epidemic proportions.
How very true, I think, in particular for small business owner. We have thousands things to complete, only 24 hours and mostly one or two staff.
Read more from Sydney Morning Hearld.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Settling in Australia
We've just conducted a Settling in Australia workshop for a client who have some South American executives coming to work in Australia.
The workshop was conducted in English, Portuguese and Spanish, a wonderful mix of languages. We talked about the basics like taxation, health, education, leisure, sport, safety, work culture and other interesting facts about Australia such as slang.
Both federal and state governments are doing a great job by providing much useful information in foreign languages, thus allowing new temporary workers and their families to integrate into Australia.
Well, we particularly had a good discussion of the spiders found in Australia. I'm scared of them but we can't avoid them, unfortunately.
Photo source: csiro.au
The workshop was conducted in English, Portuguese and Spanish, a wonderful mix of languages. We talked about the basics like taxation, health, education, leisure, sport, safety, work culture and other interesting facts about Australia such as slang.
Both federal and state governments are doing a great job by providing much useful information in foreign languages, thus allowing new temporary workers and their families to integrate into Australia.
Well, we particularly had a good discussion of the spiders found in Australia. I'm scared of them but we can't avoid them, unfortunately.
Photo source: csiro.au
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