About Me

Eat, Drink, Love is a blog that is primarily about food & craft beer in Sydney. I live in Sydney’s Inner West. I am working my way though everything the area has to offer, from training courses, to retail outlets, and definitive how-to guides I think you might be interested in. If a topic is related to food, beer, or love in any of its many forms, and I think it is important enough, I will eventually cover it here.

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May 2023 – current

Internet blogger

Currently blogging my experiences, specifically related to food & craft beer in Sydney’s Inner West.

January 2023 – current

Brewing

I am currently studying ‘Brewing (certificate III)’ at TAFE technical college in Sydney. This course is aimed at stimulating the craft beer scene in Australia.

July 2022 – December 2023

Retail Baking

I have a Certificate II in ‘Retail Baking’ from TAFE technical college in Sydney.

July 2021 – March 2023

Commercial Cookery

I am a qualified chef (the usual commercial chef’s qualification in Australia, which is primarily French influenced international cuisine).

January 2021 –

Asian Cookery

I have a seperate chef’s qualification in Asian Cookery. This is styled identically to ‘commercial cookery’, which is all about ‘Western food’, but this course is all about ‘Eastern food’.

February 2018

Australian Citizenship

I became an Australian Citizen in Feb 2018.

2017 – 2018

Sexual Health doctor

I worked for a year as a Sexual Health doctor at Parramatta Sexual Health Clinic.

2016 – 2017

HIV Medicine doctor

I worked for a year as a HIV Medicine doctor at the Albion Centre in Surry Hills (the largest HIV outpatient’s clinic in Australia). I went into HIV Medicine because I thought prior ‘crystal meth’ use would be an asset, rather than something people would look down on me for. I didn’t think I would like it. I ended up loving it, and wanted to spend the rest of my life working in this field.

1/1/2019

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2015 – 2016

Suspension from practice

The hate-crime group harassing me finally managed to have me suspended from practice in 2015 by mis-diagnosing me as schizophrenic for reporting my harassment to corrupt members of Newtown Police and NSW Health.

While not an achievement as such, I have incredible knowledge and experience from this part of my life regarding international hate-crime and the corruption within state-funded (and other) services that allow it to flourish.

2011 (ongoing)

Electronic Harassment Victim

Hate-criminals work in conjunction with corrupt members of the local police and military to victimise members of the community they deem ‘undesirable’. Corrupt police turn a blind eye and allow certain people to be victimised discreetly, allowing them to damage their health, reputation, and to get them to “go back to their own country“, and assist in giving them a false mental health diagnosis of schizophrenia if they complain about their persecution.

You can be targeted as a victim for many reasons, some are quite unexpected. The reasons for my victimisation are as follows:
– Immigrant (from England)
– Doctor
– Gay
– Crystal meth use (at the start)
– You can pay to have someone put on ‘the list’

2010 – 2014

Crystal Meth user

I first used crystal methamphetamine in 2010, becoming a daily user once I moved to Sydney in 2012. I stopped in 2014.

August 2011 – December 2014

General Practitioner

I worked for 3 years as an after-hours GP in both NSW (Sydney Medical Service, 1300 Home GP) and QLD (Medcall, Southport, Gold Coast). This was the first job in medicine I can honestly say I really enjoyed, and I wanted to keep doing it.

August 2011

Permanent Residency

I obtained my Permanent Residency in Australia in August 2011 so I could work as a GP.

2008 – 2011

Hospital Doctor (QLD)

I moved to Australia on a 456 (‘working’) visa. My sponsor was ‘Queensland Health’, which meant I had to work for them. For the next 3 years I worked for Queensland Health in: Emergency Medicine; Paediatrics; Psychiatry; Palliative Care.

September 2008

Move to Australia

After a prolonged period of working in I.T. I decided to move back to medicine and retrain as a GP. Without any ties to keep me in the UK I decided to move to Australia at the same time. Queensland Health agreed to sponsor me for a working visa for 4 years.

2003 – 2008

Managing Director

I left medicine in 2003 to do full-time research & development in Information Technology in Healthcare. I have experience in setting up and running my own company as part of this project.

2002 – 2003

University lecturer (Databases)

I worked as a database lecturer to Master’s students at the City University, London.

1999 – 2003

I.T. Masters degree

I studied for a postgraduate Masters degree in Information Technology part-time whilst working as a doctor in London.

1994 – 2003

ENT surgeon

I specialised in Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery, working exclusively in this speciality from 1994 to 2002.

1999

Surgical Fellowship

After various jobs as a junior doctor in surgical related specialities, I obtained my post-graduate surgical qualifications in 1992 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, graduating as a surgeon.

1996 – 1997

University lecturer (Anatomy)

I worked as an Anatomy Demonstrator & Lecturer o Medical & Dental students at Manchester University, UK.

1987 – 1992

Medical degree (MB ChB)

After growing up in Birmingham, UK, I moved to Manchester to train as a doctor at Manchester University. I qualified in 1992.