Roberto Live!

No, this isn’t an X-rated post, I’m not in that business (yet). It is, for you less illustrated people, the Roman numeral for 30. Yes, it was my birthday last Saturday, 30 years, how awesome is that? Yesterday walking around the city just started thinking about what I’ve done in the last 10 years and it’s really something to talk about. The little secret has been a combination of planning, self-confidence (or having the biggest ego in the world!), minimum but effective effort (my friends know is true!) and well, I have to accept it, lots of luck. I’ve achieved things in the last minute many times, more than most of the people think.

But above all, I’m seeing how lucky I’ve been for having a so nice and supportive family, and also incredible friends around the world. Really, in 30 years, I’ve been truly lucky for being surrounded with so many smart and extraordinary people.

So the question are, what’s for the next 10 years? Settling down maybe? Doing more incredible trips? Conquering the world? Well I can tell you that there’s a moving plan for the following 18 months and that’s where the things are getting really interesting… and I accept suggestions.

After an incredible long flight from Villahermosa, I landed in Singapore a couple of weeks ago. As incredible as it sounds I got a place to live and a job everything within a week! Yeah, a hit of luck. I mean luck combined with some strategy, in total I applied to around 28 jobs, although at the end I still had the luxury of decide between two job offers. The job I chose is with an online company called Orsiso, with big plans in social networking for 2010. Check out the website and download the client, is built on Adobe Air so it means it works in many operating systems.

The other incredible thing is that I found a place to live in exactly the same complex and the same floor than my friend from Mexico is living in. Actually I can see her kitchen! Thanks Majo for everything.

I know you’re wondering where are the pictures, well I’m still organising that, keep tuned.

Well 2010 seems like an exciting year and many big plans are going to take shape. The immediate plan is working in Singapore. I’m already getting excited about living and working in there. Still looking for a job over there although I’ve already got a couple of replies which is good. Keep tuned and wish me luck, things are going to start changing very very quick.

And the pictures of Houston are now online. Texas was quite an adventure, and the bus from Dallas to Houston was less intimidating than expected

If you haven’t checked out my flicker, I have pictures of Dallas.  I’ll post later the pictures of Houston.

All my best wishes to Heidi and Tony my ex-housemates because his little boy, Nick,  arrived to the world (and 4 hours after he was born his picture is already on Internet, that’s speed)! I wish to be in there with them but that’s an unfortunate side-effect of being traveling around the world. Now I need to go back to Australia sooner Congratulations guys!

Alright, I’m on the Northern (read “normal”) hemisphere again. After Australia I went to the US. First to Dallas where I met Kim after a couple of years, and that was awesome, even when it was quite cold. Then I went to Houston which is a cool city but probably the most exciting things over there are the shops and the Space Centre. I’ll put pictures (and videos) of NASA later, it was absolute awesome. I think I liked Dallas a bit more anyway.

Now I’m in Mexico, for the following 30 days. The plan at the moment is to get a job in Singapore in these 4 weeks. I might move to the UK in mid-2010 and then maybe trying Denmark. Ultimately, I want to come back to Australia in a not too distant future.

Bye-bye Australia (at least for now), I’m heading to Dallas, then Houston, the Villahermosa then Singapore for work. It was such a good journey in here, I met incredible people and the future seems exciting. I’ll miss everybody in Australia!! And like the dolphins said: “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”