“I am who I am because of who we are”…
This may very well be the case,
obsession,
late nights,
more… more… more…
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Monthly Archive for November, 2007
I have finally managed to do a blog post from Linux.This has involved the following challenges:- Getting Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on my Laptop and working without decimating Windows XP.- Coming to terms with Grub…
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At the opening of the “Hut” at Waraguma during Mum's stay recently and during one of the formal “items” on the day's agenda - I was given clan name by two of the elders…Bolku Kessnah…
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Another box arrived a few weeks ago…
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That stands for ¨Institute of Medical Research¨.This is where I am at the moment (2:20pm) connected to their (almost) broadband ISP connection. I can get rather anal about having my personal laptop updated and patched…
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Eli wrote the following on rape which we have just emailed to both newspapers for possible publication.I would like to comment regarding the news story: “Gangsters abduct and rape girl”, in one of the local…
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We got back safely this afternoon from Madang after a 5 to 6 hour PMV ride.
It was a great weekend with our hosts - Nick, Bernadette and Valdek.
Nick came to PNG initially as a volunteer…
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And thanks to VoIP technology we were able to call her on Skype and wish her the best of bestest days. We even got to see her on video!Happy birthday Mum!!! (74 and still kicking!)Thank…
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Our next door neighbour Eli markets tirelessly. Most days and evenings there she is, out the front of her house - seeling betelnut, smokes and occasionally home made donuts and ice-blocks. When I head to work she is working her market and again when I head home - there she is sitting at her little market trying to make an extra few bucks. It’s the way of many PNG women - to try and make ends meet…
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Liva Lave or commonly known as Livex…
The local wine - this one happens to be “Wild Fruits”…
Packs quite a punch.
The locals mix it with lemonade or coke or sometimes even straight cordial.
I prefer it straight!
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I was just thinking of you…(And here you are all dapper…)Here you are back in the early 70's.How I miss you sometimes,to share some of the stories,from here in PNG.And as you lay there gasping…
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Been of the air for the past few days!
Mainly due to weekend’s battle with “public enemy #1″…
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Just back from the village…
A weekend in the village!
Left town with a head and a gut full of “stuff”,
And as the PMV began to career up the highway,
I could feel the weight slowly lift!
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Today was the busiest of days…Between work-work, Rotary and assisting the folks back in the village with the setting up of an association - I'm up to my neck in work. Tis 9:30pm and I'm…
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(as in sundry)- 8:20pm - a house half full of folks and here I am in the lounge room writing this post.- Life is good…- I've back of from the Linux obsession (for now).- Gelo…
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I have been running some IT Training courses here at Goroka General Hospital which all got of the ground about six weeks ago. “Introduction to Computers and OpenOffice” to be precise. Four groups have started…
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