Me and Luca (friend visiting from Italy)

Rip Curl Pro surfing championship

Rip Curl Pro surfing championship - puny waves

Rip Curl Pro surfing championship

Rip Curl Pro surfing championship - about to get nailed from the guy's board

Rip Curl Pro surfing championship: on the podium! short lived though...

Rip Curl Pro - surfing championship at Bells Beach (no waves unfortunately...)

My next car: Hummer

Formula One, Melbourne: the winner! (Ferrari, not me..)

Formula One, Melbourne

Formula One, Melbourne

Formula One, Melbourne - driver parade (not sure who the driver is...)

Formula One, Melbourne - airshow

Formula One, Melbourne- with some friends, and the driver of the racecar - no clue who he is

Formula One - Melbourne

On board the Sydney harbour cruise - at the bar

Sydney harbour cruise - work colleagues and customers

Took a cruise of Sydney harbour on this boat - was a work "thing" :-)

FINA World Swimming Championships - this was the open water part of the event, in front of my apartment

Visitors from Holland - Pim and Martijn. Took a few shots to get them to react to the camera...haha!

The latest news...been real busy with work, too busy in fact.

Major upcoming trip, all booked and ready to go:

• June 27-July 1, Noordwijk The Netherlands (alrighty everyone, Awakenings Festival!)
• July 1-10, Rhodos Greece, kitesurf vacation with my parents, staying at the Hilton in the northern part of the island (next door to all the action)
• July 10-12, Amsterdam or Noordwijk
• July 12, return to Melbourne

Have a bunch of pics I need to upload, including Formula 1 GP here in Melbourne, might take a few weeks till I upload (waiting for my laptop to be repaired).

Can't make it to uni reunion in Miami this month (sorry guys...), too busy with work to take a week off. And looks like I may not need to go to Miami in May for business, which is a good thing because I don't feel like it at all.

Moving on...

Rosebud area, about an hour south of Melbourne - really nice place, pic says it all

St Kilda Festival view from my apartment

One of the bands playing at the festival - Airborne. They're supposed to be the new AC/DC, I thought they were damn good.

Brazilian drum band - pretty cool, somehow, someway, reminded me of the dutch techno parties...

St Kilda festival - Ackland street

Cool shot - the guy landed badly and had to be carried away in a stretcher.

Hanging out at the festival

Reverse bungy - didn't do it, looked a bit on the boring side actually.

St Kilda Festival, right in front of my house - a music, sports, and activities thing. Was pretty cool - lot of drunken people, bands, so-called extreme sports, etc. Too bad they had to cancel the kitesurfing, freestyle MX, and wakeboarding because of the....too strong wind!!

Altona - pretty cool freestyle spot, 20 mins from home

The happy couple at it again - getting ready to rock

Coffee-time in St Kilda

Len10 recovering from a hard day's work. But actually this is somewhere in the middle of the afternoon!

The Happy Couple - Ruben and Susi

Ruben killing it - kiteloop over St Kilda harbour

Pretty cool sunset over St Kilda - once again

Lookin pretty cool yeah

Ruben gearing up - getting the camera ready (for me obviously)

Slingshot peanut gallery lol!

Jeff Tobias (Slingshot) in the background, Ruben front. "Team-mates" :-)

Cleaning time once again

Ruben...and house chores...so eager to do it too :-)

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Arrival at the downwind race, st kilda beach

Victoria state kiteboard race, got 4th place (me in the back of pic) out of 60 kiters - 12 km downwind race. Pretty exhausting, and the 3rd place guy just nipped inside at the last second, that's him on the red kite.

At home, St Kilda view from the balcony

Night out - Ruben, Ash, me

Hmmm...where's that "other" pic hahaa! (inside joke sorry)

Mr. "Clearly Fragile"