After 20 odd phone calls and 4 days of being a pain in ther arse, I now have voicemail activated on my PNG mobile #.I posted an article a couple of days ago about what really pisses me off living in PNG. Well, trying to get the local Mobile provider : Pacific Communications to setup voicemail was certainly a job and a half and a classic example of how one…
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Monthly Archive for February, 2006
My brother John and his wife Therese have been kind enough to gather some 2nd hand kids clothes, throw them into a box and send them over.See! That's how easy it is : throw some clothes or toys or whatever into a box and just send them over! See Wishlist Information for further details on what you can send and where to.I dare you !!!…
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Here we come !!Early tomorrow I will be leaving Lae and heading up to Goroka for the weekend. This will be my 2nd visit to this Eastern Highlands town and on this occasion I will be travelling with Eli. I am certainly looking forward to a couple of days away from campus and immersing myself with the locals and also the cooler climate.A couple of previous blog postings from the…
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Dobbed in !!I was contacted this morning by the producer of a ABC Radio program called - “Meet the expats”. They would like to interview at some stage. Via an email - they suggested early tomorrow morning (Friday) - 4:50am !! (PNG time), my response to them (via email) suggested that I would be happy to help them out but would need to speak with them 1st. So far I…
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Have added an RSS feed to Geoff A's Blog : “outback to Jungle”. Geoff is a fellow AVI volunteer residing on campus and works with the Distance Learning Department. Geoff's blog address is : http://cleanacleo.blogspot.com/…
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I have updated and restructured the Wishlist thing. An introduction or overview on the Wishlist “thing” can be found at Wishlist Information, which is located at the top right hand corner of the blog's main page.The updated information is as follows:
Why?
Because in most cases - PNG people do not have two spare coins to scratch together.
What?Example of some items that are needed by the locals:- 2nd…
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I have posted additional photos from a couple of the giveaways…
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The following are my current contact details:
Postal:
PNG UNiversity of
Technology
Department of Business
StudiesPrivate Mail Bag
Lae, Morobe Province
Papua New Guinea
Telephone:+675 4734414 (Business)
+675
6823935 (Mobile)
Email:rschilt@hotmail.com (Private)rschilt@dbs.unitech.ac.pg (Business)Internet + Blog:www.schilt.info…
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This Wednesday (8th of February) I will be interviewed “live” by 702 ABC Radio…
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I made it back to Lae safely yesterday early afternoon. Unlike my 1st trip to Goroka - I did manage to take take quite a few photos this trip and I have started posting these…
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Up at the crack of dawn. Eli had organised a PMV to pick us up from home at 7:00am. Dawn to 7:00am gave us enough time to shower, pack, have some breakfast and for me to sit down and have a 30min meditation…
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“Article of the Month” has been changed to “Article of the Week”. Reason? A month seemed a bit long to wait. How is article of the week determined? My blogging software allows me to select the most read article in the past 7 days - so there you go!…
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My 10 mins of fame now over…
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…there are 3 types of people that come to live and work in PNG:1) Missionaries2) Mercenaries3) MisfitsIf you are a person working and living in PNG - which one are you?I'm a proud “misfit” and have all but lost respect for “1″ and “2″ - in fact nowadays I have as little as possible to do with these types.In my opinion:”1″ 's - fail to see the truth, power and…
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The Post Cosmos setting has been enabled which defines whether each post to the blog will be linked to Technorati's search engine.I have also “claimed” my blog on Technorati and setup a profile. A component has been added to the bottom right hand column of my blog which links to Technorati's blog resources and search facilities…
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After a sleep-in and a cup of hotel room coffee, Eli and myself left the hotel and started heading towards the Main Markets…
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…with camera in hand !!I was on my way into town today with Eli and a fight broke out at the bus stop just outside the main gate of campus. A PMV driver bought a ciggie from one of the street sellers and refused to pay the lousy 40t (18c). I could tell the smoke seller was not very happy after he hit one of the PMV windows as it…
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Markets in PNG are a hub of activity and gathering, all sorts of fresh produce can be purchased here, as well as animals, clothes, plus an assortment of variousother items…
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'Horrible a bloke's got to die like that'A story that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald…February 13, 2006 - 3:43PM
The Northcott units in Surry Hills.
A man who found a skeleton left to decompose for up to six
months in a Sydney housing commission apartment is shocked no-one
noticed the smell.
And after the gruesome discoverey, NSW Premier Morris Iemma
urged people to keep an eye on elderly neighbours.
“It is a lesson for us all…
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Up at 6am, checked out the hotel by 7am and on the road in PMV at 7:05am. While I was settling the account at hotel reception, Eli went to wait outside the hotel, by the time I had come outside, Eli had already hailed a PMV headed in Lae direction…
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FINALLY the rational moderates are making themselves heard on an international
stage…MALAYSIA :'Muslims Angry at War on Terror, Not Cartoons'Baradan
KuppusamyKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 (IPS) - Delegates at an international
conference here entitled 'Who Speaks for Islam? Who speaks for the West',
were inclined to blame the ferocity of reactions against the cartoon
controversy, which gripped the world this past week, on the 'war on terror'
in Iraq and Afghanistan.The…
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The most read blog article for the past week was: Authentic PNG Cuisine…
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Currently staying in “Massey” - a village just outside Goroka in the Eastern Highlands. Stay tuned to the space for stories and photos…
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Currently staying in “Massey” - a village just outside Goroka in the
Eastern Highlands. Stay tuned to the space for stories and photos…
Currently staying in “Massey” - a village just outside Goroka in the
Eastern Highlands. Stay tuned to the space for stories and photos…
Currently staying in “Massey” - a village just outside Goroka in the
Eastern Highlands. Stay tuned to the space for stories and photos…
The roosters wake me up,
the village stirs,
fires are lit,
and breakfast is prepared…
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No blog entry today !!I got into work at around 9:00am this morning and no power !!At around 2:00pm the power was still out - so I went home for a nap.When I woke up at around 5:00pm the power was back on but the water was out.At around 10:00pm we had both power and water.That's PNG for you !!…
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This past weekend I headed up to Goroka for a total of 4x days. This was my 3rd trip up to the Eastern Highlands town and was to be a little different to the previous two as I was travelling with Eli and staying with some of her relatives in a small village just outside of Goroka called “Massey”…
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The journey up the highlands highway included the mandatory stopover at 40 Mile Market. This particular market is smack bang in the middle of the Markham Valley and its main produce being buai. People travelling back and forth between the Highlands and coastal areas always pickup some buai at these markets to take home or back to their villages. The place is filthy and there is never a shortage of street sellers and people trying to hitch a free ride up or down the highway…
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Check out the inside of my “cave” !! A couple of weeks ago I took a few photos of the inside of my home on campus. I have posted these photos to the Home sweet home photo album for your perusal.My home is my “cave” and thank god for the lock on the front gate. Since coming to PNG I have learnt how to spend many a evening at home…
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More photos have been posted to the Goroka Trip (17/2/06) photo album. Each photo has a caption and if you go to the photo album (by clicking the above link) you will notice a flow and a story to the photo sequence. FYI… this is how most of my photo albums have been layed out…
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I have recently discovered a whole “genre” of people that work the streets of Lae. The local shoemakers! I noticed these men when I 1st arrived 10 months ago but in the past few weeks I seem to see them everywhere around town. There are known places where these men work and there are normally a few of them together. They sit on the ground with their needles and leathers…
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All of the remaining photos from our trip to Goroka weekend before last have been posted to the Goroka Trip (17/2/06)
photo album. Each photo has a caption and if you go to the photo album
(by clicking the above link) you will notice a flow and a story to the
photo sequence. FYI… this is how most of my photo albums have been
layed out.If you haven't already why not check out the…
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A box full of “goodies” arrived this morning courtesy John and Therese. Thanks a million! As photos from previous give-aways suggest the 2nd hand clothes and toys that people are sending over are making many kids (and parents too of course) happy as a pig in you know what.In Lae it can be quite overwhelming to see the number of children that are not properly dressed. You know why? Because…
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On arriving in Goroka town, the three of us (Eli and her uncle Joel) walked across to the main town park to sit and rest for a while. The PMV ride up the Highlands highway can be and is rather tiresome. The first item on the agenda was to go and get some food, I was starving as I had skipped breakfast in the morning due to the PMV arriving at home to pick us up 45 mins early. A couple of rice balls and some cold coke later got me thinking about that pot of fresh coffee at the Bird…
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