My thank you message to my supporters

WELL, I DID NOT HAVE A FORMAL announcement about the outcome of my application. Unfortunately, I was not fortunate to be selected for the 50 candidates being shortlisted by Tourism Queensland. I will take this opportunity to thanks everyone who initially voted for my video application. Being unsuccessful in my quest, there were positive things happened during my campaign which opened new opportunities and rekindle friendships.

As I mentioned in my blog banner, I will still maintain this site as part of my travelling experience. Rest assured that, when the time comes that I will visit the Great Barrier Reef, I will post here my experiences while visiting the world heritage site, including my trips to Queensland as a whole. There is a big chance that I will be back to Brissy to attend my UQ's (Uni of Qld) formal graduation in the near future.

Again, thank you and Im looking forward to seeing Hamilton Island!

My Slumjob Islandcaretakers Playlist

As the voting closed 4 days ago, Im posting my own top 7 video applications for the next stage of the job search - islandcaretaker in one of the islands of GBR. Good luck and please dont forget to send us postcards from Queensland.


For the results, visit this link:IslandReefJob

My Personal Endorsement - Anny Chih (Canada)

THIS IS MY PERSONAL endorsement to one of the top 50 shortlisted candidates for the best job in the world - the island caretaker of one of the islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Anny's video clip will show why she is capable for the position! You can vote everyday (every 24 hours) using your email addresses!

You can visit her blogsite as well at: Anny Chih

My fifth batch of the fav video applications

This is my personal selection of the top ten favourite candidates for the best job in the world. This is the last part of my playlist of candidates to complete my TOP 50 that I personally thought that have the qualification and personality as the island caretaker. I will be happy to accept their invitations to join them in the Great Barrier Reef. Good luck. Rey (digitalenvironmentalist)



Again, this is my own choice of clips and I know you have your own list of potentials. Thanks for James shorlist application link and Hailey's discussion on 50 hopefulls which provided me easy way to find some of them and watched their videos.

Watch out for the second to the last batch of my ten top video application playlist. Keep watching... who knows you are in my list. For updates and detailed selection of my playlist, visit my my youtube channel, Worldbestjob2009.

If you havent seen the first three batches, watch the playlists here: My top ten fav vid playlist part 1, My top ten fav vid playlist part 2 , My top ten fav playlist part 3 and My top ten fav playlist 4. Dont miss my finale batch of hopefulls, "Slumdog Playlist" which gives more surprises, fun and entertainment for everyone!

Note: For easy viewing, just click the solid "arrow" at the middle of the screen or at both sides which will directly go to the next video without really opening the youtube link. You can watch the videos simultaneously without clicking the arrows as well, otherwise you want to skip from one to the other.

My fourth batch of the best video applications

This is my personal selection of the top ten favourite candidates for the best job in the world. This is the fourth part of my playlist of candidates that I personally thought that have the qualification and personality as the island caretaker. I will be happy to accept their invitations to join them in the Great Barrier Reef. Good luck. Rey (digitalenvironmentalist)



Again, this is my own choice of clips and I know you have your own list of potentials. Thanks for James shorlist application link and Hailey's discussion on 50 hopefulls which provided me easy way to find some of them and watched their videos.

Watch out for the second to the last batch of my ten top video application playlist. Keep watching... who knows you are in my list. For updates and detailed selection of my playlist, visit my my youtube channel, Worldbestjob2009.

If you havent seen the first three batches, watch the playlists here: My top ten fav vid playlist part 1 and My top ten fav vid playlist part 2 and My top ten fav playlist part 3. Dont miss my finale batch of hopefulls, "Slumdog Playlist" which gives more surprises, fun and entertainment for everyone!

Note: For easy viewing, just click the solid "arrow" at the middle of the screen or at both sides which will directly go to the next video without really opening the youtube link. You can watch the videos simultaneously without clicking the arrows as well, otherwise you want to skip from one to the other.

My third fav video playlist applications

This is my personal selection of the top ten favourite candidates for the best job in the world. This is the fourth part of my playlist of candidates that I personally thought that have the qualification and personality as the island caretaker. I will be happy to accept their invitations to join them in the Great Barrier Reef. Good luck. Rey (digitalenvironmentalist)



Again, this is my own choice of clips and I know you have your own list of potentials. Thanks for James shorlist application link and Hailey's discussion on 50 hopefulls which provided me easy way to find some of them and watched their videos.

Watch out for the second to the last batch of my ten top video application playlist. Keep watching... who knows you are in my list. For updates and detailed selection of my playlist, visit my my youtube channel, Worldbestjob2009.

If you havent seen the first three batches, watch the playlists here: My top ten fav vid playlist part 1 and My top ten fav vid playlist part 2 and My top ten fav playlist part 3. Dont miss my finale batch of hopefulls, "Slumdog Playlist" which gives more surprises, fun and entertainment for everyone!

Note: For easy viewing, just click the solid "arrow" at the middle of the screen or at both sides which will directly go to the next video without really opening the youtube link. You can watch the videos simultaneously without clicking the arrows as well, otherwise you want to skip from one to the other.

My officially approved application for the job

FINALLY, MY SIMPLE CLIP for the best job in the world is officially approved by Queensland Tourism. Im happy to receive your comments and dont forget to vote and please visit my travel sites and blogs as well for updates of my application.

INSTRUCTION: PLEASE CLICK HERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE.

THANKS ALOT FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

My second playlist for the top video applications

This is my personal selection of the top ten favourite candidates for the best job in the world. This is the second part of my playlist of candidates that I personally thought that have the qualification and personality as the island caretaker. I will be happy to accept their invitations to join them in the Great Barrier Reef.



Again, this is my own choice of clips and I know you have your own list of potentials. Thanks for James shorlist application link and Hailey's discussion on 50 hopefulls which provided me easy way to find some of them and watched their videos.

Watch out for the third batch of my ten top video application playlist. Keep watching... who knows you are in my list. For updates and detailed selection of my playlist, visit my my youtube channel, Worldbestjob2009.

If you havent seen my first batch, watch the playlist here: My top ten fav vid playlist part 1

Note: For easy viewing, just click the solid "arrow" at the middle of the screen or at both sides which will directly go to the next video without really opening the youtube link. You can watch the videos simultaneously without clicking the arrows as well, otherwise you want to skip from one to the other.

My first playlist for the top fav video applications

This is my personal selection for my top ten favourite candidates for the best job in the world. This is my first part of my playlist of candidates that I personally thought that have the qualification and personality as the island caretaker. I will be happy to accept their invitations to join them in the Great Barrier Reef.

Again, this is my own choice of clips and I know you have your own list of potentials. Thanks for James shorlist application link and Hailey's discussion on 50 hopefulls which provided me easy way to find some of them and watched their videos.

Watch out for the second batch of my ten top video application playlist. Keep watching... who knows you are in my list. For updates and detailed selection of my playlist, visit my my youtube channel, Worldbestjob2009.

Note: For easy viewing, just click the solid "arrow" at the middle of the screen or at both sides which will directly go to the next video without really opening the youtube link. You can watch the videos simultaneously without clicking the arrows as well, otherwise you want to skip from one to the other.

My message to Tourism Queensland

TODAY IS THE LAST SUBMISSION for the best job application - the island caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef GBR), Australia. Im very serious with my application but at the same time, I have fun doing it; thus, it is the main reason why Im blogging this to tell the whole world that Im the best person to do the job. As I mentioned in my previous post that my video application is not impressive as people commented BUT my message to Tourism Queensland is that "an ordinary person even someone who works in a food chain has a dream to get the best job in the world; and finally I have my 'green agenda' to help manage this world heritage site sustainably". Why a KFC part-time staff is determined to get the job? Does he has the whole package for the job? Well, read more about me in My world is getting smaller every day and Digitalenvironmentalist.

Ive already watched more than 600 videos by random selection from the list of the applicants who applied in the job, and it is a tough job for Tourism Queensland to decide in the next stage of the competition - who will be lucky enough to be included in the top 50 spots.

It is a time consuming activity for having my own favourites which Tourism Queensland doesnt pay me for doing this, but it is a learning process to learn more about people and GBR. By doing this, I could generate my own top 50 applicants for the job (not to mention myself) and hoping that I will not miss some of the interesting clips that might captivate my imagination and cretivity. And of course, if Tourism Queensland found my top selection, then it will help them narrow down their own selection. I dont have the persuasion to do that, but again it is my wishful thinking that my selection is truly enough represents TQ's objective to get the right person for the job!

To my friends in Ning community, good luck and watch out for my top fav video playlist to be revealed on or before March 1, 2009, prior to Tourism Queesland announcement of its own top 50. This will be posted in WorldBestJob2009 youtube channel. By the way, Im also using James' shortlist application link to facilitate my selection from youtube channels where all the video application are currently active for viewing and voting.

Overall, doing this application is a wonderful experience that I will not forget as long as I live. Even if I will not be selected, I will continue supporting those lucky ones to achieve their ultimate dream and my blogsite will also serve my travel diary in pursuit of my own dream to visit the Great Barrier Reef, maybe not the island caretaker but a "visitor" or a "researcher"... Im not conceding my application but whatever happens, there is always a good reason for every thing and I accept the final verdict on March 2, 2009... Good luck to the rest of the applicants...

UPDATES: According to Craig and Linda of Indietravelpodcast, the PR team of Tourism Queensland announced that the total applications received - 34,684 from over 200 countries; over 7,500 on the weekend; US topped the highest number of applicants with 11,565, from Canada with 2791, UK with 2,262 and finally Australia with 2,064.