Jonathan Biddle – Made in Taiwan

Month: April 2008

  • Bali Mountain Biking

    It’s been a while coming while I start work and get back into things, but I am finally sorting some photos from Bali. One of the highlights of the trip was three days mountain biking in the volcanoes in the centre of the island – an island that is much larger than I ever would have expected.


    Bikes locked and loaded.

    The guys at Bali Trailblazers had a pretty thorough set-up with good staff and equipment, in stark contrast to my adventures in Thailand where pretty much everything that could go wrong very much did so. The guide over the three days was Bali champion, and previous Indonesia #1, and boy did he give me a workout. Indeed, for the whole time I felt like he was in training, which may not have been too far away from the truth.


    Pointing towards volcanoes.


    Altitude.


    The green, green fields of home.


    Paddy’s Day


    Road to Dell


    Fields. No more comment.


    Looking pretty pleased with myself!


    Gratuitous bike photos at the end of the day.


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    And finally, a map of some of the riding and places that I was staying in on the island.

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  • My Birthday!

    I am 29 years old today … sipping watermelon juice and just returned from a scooter trip around the volcanoes of Bali.

    I'll be hooking up some mountain biking early next week, but before that there are some Bintang beers with my name on them.

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  • Victory Beer in Shanghai Airport

    After all my stress and anxiety and hard work and rushing around Asia and really feeling rather full up and not myself quite for the last few months, I feel like I am sitting on top of a mountain right now with everything happening down below me.

    …. I am now in Shanghai Airport having a beer with my boss Corrado, after finishing a large pan-Asian design strategy project – crucially having a good response and teeing up a second phase. The key difference with the second phase is that I will no longer be working for DEM, but instead working as Design Manager for Dell in Taipei from the end of the month. That’s worth another post.

    So…. what a way to finish my DEM experience – beer in hand and staring down the fresh-out-of-the-shrinkwrap Pudong Terminal 2. One day left in DEM, and then two weeks on beautiful Bali. Bloody well done me!


    Reflected in the the immense windows of the even more immense Shanghai Pudong Terminal 2 … spot Corrado on the phone behind the taxi.


    Say “ahhhhh”

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  • HK Work Mode

    I need to do some catching up on the old blog, but I always seem to
    find a few minutes to e-mail in a post while I am in HK airport
    (blessed by thy free wifi).

    This time I am sadly working through the wait do the plane, and
    arrival in “Asia’s World City” seems pretty pedestrian this time round.


    Yes, I finally get to ride the infamous Hello Kitty Eva Air Jet. Awesome.

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