The weekend away is over and I am back “safely” in Lae. Today is Wednesday and I am busy getting ready for next week start of lectures but…
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Monthly Archive for July, 2005
It is 1:00pm Friday afternoon and I haven’t really got much to write. I have been busy getting ready for next semester which incidentally starts next week. The campus is a hive of activity at the moment with students sitting for “repeat” exams, other students going through the registration process and staff busy preparing for the start of classes Monday next week…
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Last friday night I had the opportunity to play some didjeridoo with some musicians from Manus. Manus is an island of the north coast of PNG and is on my list of places to visit…
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Meet one of my new friends ! This little girl is the grand daughter of Rondi. Rondi comes over to my place twice a week and helps me out with house work. What is her…
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Classes here at UNITECH resumed Monday this week. I have been busy preparing for 2x subjects that I am presenting. “Project Management” to 3rd year students and “Management Information Systems” to 4th year students. As there was minimal prepared material I have had to “throw” a structure together. This has been a lot of work but has also given me free license to put together teaching material of my choosing….
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· the universe was formed ~14 billion years ago
· the earth was formed ~4½ billion years ago
· hominids evolved ~4½ million years ago
· homo sapiens emerged ~70,000 years ago through a series
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Last Monday night a few of us went out for dinner to the Lae International Hotel. Quite a “ritzy” hotel by any standards. Also a nice place to go for dinner with friends…
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I stumbled across a website the other day that caught my attention. The website address is : www.wilderdom.com and I recommend having a “squizz”. Of particular interest is the link on the home page to The Institute of Unlearning…
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Have made the following changes…
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Well it is Friday afternoon around 4pm and another week has passed by… just like that…
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Believe it or not but I get called “Sir” by many of the students. When walking around campus I get called “Sir” all the time. I keep telling my students not to call me “Sir”, I tell them that as yet I have not been knighted by the Queen !!
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Monday’s is lecturing day for me. A two hour lecture in the morning and then a one hour lecture in the afternoon. The morning’s lecture is on “Project Management” and the afternoon’s lecture is on “Management Information Systems”.
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Which do you want first? The “bad” news? OK…. I seem to be spending a great deal of time at home of an evening. More time than ever before. The “bad” news is that I have thinking about getting a TV!!!
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Have posted some Photos to the “Lae” Album. These photos were taken the day I arrived in Lae (airport) and then the day after I arrived, from the restaurant at the Lae Yacht Club. There is also a photo I took a few weeks back on a Saturday at the main markets in Lae town…
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I wanted to write a few words about the dogs that live on campus. Let me start by saying that there are many dogs and few cats, very few cats. The dogs here on campus are the scrawniest, malnourished and most flea riddled dogs I have ever come across in my life. The dogs on campus are foreever barking or scratching themselves. If they aren't doing either of these “dog”…
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Check out the following website : http://earth.google.com/. It's awesome !!!
Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get…
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Another visit to a local dentist !! But lucky me, to a private dentist this time. Two previous vists to the dental clinic at the local public hospital was enough. 140,000 people living in Lae and only 1x private dentist !!! Something I don't understand…. I have asked many PNG adults : When was the last time you went to the dentist ? And guess what ? I haven't met…
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The latest and best of blogging !!! I have updated my blog yet again. This time you will notice the following extras on the Main page:
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Monday morning, 8:00am. Just as difficult getting out of bed on a Monday morning here in PNG as what it was getting out of bed back in Sydney. I could have done with at least one more day off.
Isn't this what makes a person strong ? To push on regardless ! To get up out of bed, even if one doesn't feel like getting out of bed. To go…
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Had to show you this one. The above photo was taken in the men's toilet of Business Studies (about 5 minutes ago). The tap has basically been leaking since I started here in April! The problem was reported to Maintenance some time ago but as yet they still haven't got around to fixing it.
Let's do some basic calculations on how much water is lost just from this one tap. Conservatively…
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Anyone wanting to have a look at some old photos of Lae taken back in the 50’s and 60’s please refer to website: http://www.pngbd.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=77…
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A quick post to let you all know that the leaking tap, in the Business Studies men's toilet I mentioned yesterday, has been fixed.
One of two things must have happened:
1) The maintenance people just happened to turn up to fix the tap one day after I posted my article.
2) Someone able to “pull strings” read my blog post and made a phone call to “push” things along.
Who cares whether it was…
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People are always talking about corruption in PNG. In fact, talking about corruption and issues of mis-management seems to be a bit of a local pass-time. Newspapers always carry a story or two on the subject, politicians accusing other politicians, members of the public accusing politicians, etc, etc….
In PNG and in my opinion, corruption, wantokism, mis-management and nepotism are all connected. They are all related and run very deep in the…
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