Personal adventures in the Land of the Unexpected
Site counter changed from “Freelogs” to “Sitemeter”. Counter component also moved from top left corner of the blog to top of the right hand column. If you hold your mouse over the sitemeter counter and clink on the link you will be able to see a whole range of stats on my blog.
Blog header is now left justified rather than centered.…
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Meet my friend Nelson. I have known Nelson for the past couple of months. I met him through Goasa (my office mate). Nelson’s mum lives on campus and works in the library…
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Have standardised blog headers across the different categories. I have also re-arranged parts of “Photo Albums”. Baptist Church album has been moved under/to the Lae Album. I have also created a new album called “PNG Villages”, watch out for photos from my recent trip to Wagang village which is located about 2 hours drive up the coast from Lae. A couple fo the albums have also been moved under/to the…
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Well it finally happened !! This weekend I had an opportunity to visit my 1st PNG village. An extraodinary experience. The photos from my weekend away can be viewed in the following photo album Wagang visit 5/8/05 + 6/8/05
I came to PNG with the hope of experiencing at some stage life in a village. This weekend I immersed myself in the village life of Wagang. A small village of around 300…
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After breakfast the men loaded up the tractor with locally grown produce. Mainly yams and bananas but also some shell fish from the local river. Most of the food was carried in these baskets which were made from leaves and stems the night before. The tractor headed off with it's “cargo” to the center of the village in preparation for an “exchange” festival with some catholics from Lae town. While…
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My visit to Wagang was well timed. As it turned out there was an exchange “festival” organised for the Saturday. From what I understood this is an event which takes place every month. A group of catholics come up from Lae and exchange gifts with the local lutherans from Wagang.
This exchange thing was explained to me earlier in the morning but I never really understood what they meant at…
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I have introduced a wishlist. The wishlist is located at the top of the right hand column.…
In my last story on Wagang village I forgot to mention the drive up to Wagang on the back of a truck. I have previously written about the local PMV bus system and it’s obvious shortcomings. Now, travelling on the back of a truck is, as I discovered last Friday, a new level of experience in “extreme” travel…
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I have introduced a wishlist. The items that I intend to add over time to this wishlist are not for myself but for people that I have met here in PNG. Many things are easy to come by and others not. An example of items that are scarce are books. The 1st entry on my wishlist is a book which I am trying to locate for my colleague and friend…
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This past Friday the students were involved in a good old fashioned stone fight and released some tension in the process. As I left work I noticed some commotion near the main entrance of UNITECH (commonly known as UNIGATE). As I got closer I realised that the students were involved in a stone fight with some of the local lads from Taraka.
How did it start? What I heard was…
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Have added a new Photo Album : “PNG Fun Stuff”. Check it out !…
For those of you wandering if I have lost any weight since arriving in PNG. Please refer to the following photo which was taken last Saturday :
Note the Birkenstocks if you don't really believe this is me !! …
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Periodically I attend the Baptist Church at Tent City. Tent City is a settlement / suburb of Lae and is situated about 8 mins drive from UNITECH away from Lae.
Last Sunday I attended the Sunday morning service and took a whole bunch of photos. Peter asked me to take some photos for one of his daughters who is in the middle of preparing a Powerpoint presentation for a church…
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Recently updated albums in the root of Photo Albums now displays 2 rows per album. Also, within each album I now display 5 columns of thumbnails across the page rather than 4. …
The blog now has a Frequently Asked Questions section or FAQ for short. Any questions posted through the “Comments” section will be answered and posted to the FAQ. I have added the FAQ link to the “Main Page” menu (top left).
Fire away !!…
1) Click on :
http://www.trupela.com/2005/08/15/from-one-of-the-local-churches/
2) Click on the photo itself
3) If you hold your mouse pointer over the agenda itself a “Zoom” icon will appear…
…if you now click on the zoom icon you will be presented with a very large image of the agenda. Click on the zoom icon again to reduce the size.
NB: If you still can’t reade it after following the above instructions, please book in for a checkup…
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No book has been mailed out yet. About four people have offered to send over a copy. As soon as a book arrives or someone indicates that they are about to send the book, I will post a message on my blog letting you all know. In the meantime, search those 2nd hand book stores as my friend Godfrey, the book worm that he is, is starting to salivate at the…
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Some of you are still asking me about the Username and Password prompt on my blog…
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Have added a category called : “The Bent Files”. I intend to post articles and photos here not for general reading or viewing. You will basically have to create a Username and Password to access this part of the blog…
Marking assignments and exams is a pain in the butt. I have a whole lot of stuff I needed to start marking early last week and guess what. I have'nt started yet. You know how sometimes you need to start something and you just can't. Procrastination and digressions keep getting in the way. Marking, marking… marking. How do I digress ? I'll do some blogging or write some emails. Have…
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PNG is described as the Land of the Unexpected. But what about those times between the unexpected? What about those times when nothing much is happening and things are quiet? What then?
Well, what can I say? At times nothing much happens and it gets pretty boring. No car, no friends, no family, no good coffee shops, no cinemas and no “lose” women (working on this one). I have dreaded boredom as far back as…
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The gathering will be held at Godfery’s place and I will chip in for some sausages, bread and tomato sauce.
Aussie… aussie… aussie… oy… oy… oy…
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You have'nt experienced rain until you have experienced the rain in Lae. (I hear that Lae gets between 6 and 7 meters of rain a year).
It has been raining solidly now for days and does not look like letting up anytime soon. I heard that some schools cancelled their classes today as there could be a problem getting the kids home at the end of the day. The ground seems to…
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Good question !
Godfrey and myself are getting together at 10am to make a decision.
I really must start that marking !!…
Have made the following changes:
1) Introduced a component that lists some basic blog stats. Have located this info at the top of the left column.
2) The Login button has been moved from the top of the left column to the bottom of the right column.…
The residential section of the UNITECH campus is divided up into a number of distinct housing areas. The section where I live for example is known as Area 3. Towards the far end of campus, in direction of the Telikom College you will find what is known as Area 5. Close to Area 5 you…
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