One way women carry their babies around here in PNG is using a bilum. This photo was taken at the Baptist Church @ Tent Siti a few Saturday’s ago. In the distance you can see some of the women playing volleyball. I took a few photos of “The baby in the bilum” and these can be viewed in “PNG Kids” or “Baptist Church” photo albums…
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Monthly Archive for October, 2005
Or at least for my colleague Godfrey anyway…
The book “History of Western Philosophy” by Bertrand Russell was recently posted out from Sydney, Australia by my close friend Brett. The above photo was taken yesterday out the front of Business Studies and you can see me formally handing over the package to Godfrey…
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Meet Dietrich and Monica. Dietrich and Monica hail in from Toowoomba near Brisbane in QLD, Australia. They are both german and have lived and worked for many years all over Africa.
Dietrich started at UNITECH two weeks…
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Blog V2.0 is here !!!
No specific changes that make up version 2 but I was getting a little bored with V1 anyway. The last lot of changes that I put through included:
1) Formatting issues of the…
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The series of photos below show a very common site all over PNG. Due to the shortage of vehicles and the general distances that people need to travel you will see utilities and trucks packed to…
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A couple of Saturday's ago I headed down to Tent Siti with my friend Peter. There was going to be “boot” sale at the local Baptist church. The ”boot” sale was to raise monies for the church…
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A few weeks ago I happened to be passing through the main gate back into campus when a fight broke out at the bus stop.
I quickly pulled out my camera and started to click….
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The inevitable fate of this pig…
…and two other pigs, will be revealed over the next few days (with photos).
Poor little piggy !!!…
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I have added a link under the “I, me and mine…” section which I have called “XMAS 2005 Itinerary”. At this stage I am planning on heading back to Sydney for the xmas break. Information…
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I hear you asking : So what did happen to our little four legged friend?…
This little piggy…
ended up like this…
…in about 5 minutes flat.
Last saturday the local baptist church at Tent Siti put on a mumu…
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UNITECH Rugby Grand Finals were played over the weekend between Business Studies (DBS) and Civil Engineering (Civil). It is rare that I support a rugby team but this weekend just gone was an exception to the…
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I have posted the remainder of the Rugby Final photos to the following album.
Enjoy !!…
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I have created a couple of new photo albums specifically for class/student photos…
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We have reached the final teaching week for this 2nd semester on the academic calendar.
I have been lecturing now since mid April 2005 and have started to really enjoy the teaching experience. For many years there has been a lack of fulfilment in my working life and teaching has given me new sense of reward and job satisfaction…
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I had previously posted some photos of the preparation of a Mumu at the Baptist Church @ Tent Siti. The remainder of the photos have now been posted to the “Baptist Church” photo album.
The Mumu…
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The 45th annual MOROBE SHOW will be held in Lae over this coming weekend…
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Lectures and tutorials finish up this week, with a study week for the students scheduled for next week and exams the week after.
What does this mean? Lots of study for the students and even more marking…
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I left home this morning in the pouring rain. It has a habit of doing this in Lae. People with an aversion to wet weather would certainly find living in Lae a living hell. The…
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I recently received the following email:
Dear Robert,
Good morning and how are you?
I am an academic staff from Unitech currently doing my postdoctoral research in Japan. I have been reading your blog everyday to update myself…
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As the academic year draws to an end I took the opportunity last week to take some photos of the students in both my subjects.
(Above is a photo of the Manus island students in IS422)
For the record…
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After booking a bus and inviting some of my PNG friends along, we headed down to the “Morobe Show 2005″ last Saturday.
I have never been one for crowds. Since moving to PNG I have had to learn…
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I better get stuck into some marking…
No…. !!! No….!!! No….!!!
Yes !!!!!!…
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The following changes have been made:
1) Contact details have been updated to only show my email address. Postal and telephone information has been removed. The “Contact me” button is still located under the “I, me…
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To all my regular readers…
A quick post to thank you all for your continued interest in what I have to write and share during my two year assignment as a volunteer here in Lae, PNG.
When…
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“Tips” given to final year students in our last lecture…
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End of year exams for the students at UNITECH got under way today. Within academia, exams are a very busy time for both students and staff. A bit like the busy period experienced by companies at the end of…
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Today I posted the following notice on the Business Studies noticeboard:
DBS Students
With exams upon us and the end of the academic year just around the corner, I would like to take this opportunity to thank…
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This weekend has been particularly busy from a social perspective. Many of you have asked me over the past few months : What do you do for a social life?
In fact, do I have a social life at…
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Today Sunday, a mini cultural show is being held out the front of the campus main gate. Like with all PNG cultural shows, lots of sing sing, traditional dress and plenty of other activities (eg…
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If religion or christianity or the bible for that matter were the answer to PNG's woes : PNG would be a superpower!
If the loudest message was the truest : USA would be a promoter of…
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The following change has been made to the blog:
The blog search facility, located on the bottom left column of the main page has been updated to perform an “Enhanced Search”. This search facility can be…
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Question : Why is today's blog post the shortest ever ?
Answer 1 : Marking , marking and more marking !!!!
Answer 2 : Our internet connection - em bukerap tru…
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Every lunch time (well, almost every lunch time), out the front of Duncanson Hall, the lads from the Audio Visual Unit (AVU) are doing a “thriving” business selling popcorn.
For 80t (around 30c) you can purchase a…
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This story appeared in today's edition of The National:
By YEHIURA HRIEHWAZI and EVE TUMUL WURR
LAE is returning to its earlier reputation of being PNG’s “pothole city” with the business community describing the roads as “dreadful”.Most…
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This story appeared in today's edition of The National:
By PETER MIVATWO fights in two weeks without police intervention at the West Taraka suburb have irked community leaders who have questioned the role of police in…
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Yesterday a couple of packages arrived in the mail. One from Mum and another from “bro” John.
Mum's package contained the following items:
- 2x boxes of Tim Tam balls (gave one away and the other I “demolished”…
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Yesterday I posted a Thank You note for a couple of packages that Mum and bro John sent to me.
In yesterday’s entry I mentioned that I was still waiting for some DVD movies. Well… just received an email from bro John asking me if I had looked inside the PC magazines. Guess what? 5x movie DVD’s. Yeeeaaaaahhhhhh !!! Thanks bro John….
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A navigation bar has been added to the top of the Blog's Main page : “Previous n articles”. This option will allow the reader to navigate forward or backward through the posts.…
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This photo was taken from one of the buildings on campus called Union Hall. I was supervising an exam (IS422) Tuesday just gone and I saw this lone woman sitting under a tree. She appeared…
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Last week I caught my next door neighbour climbing a coconut tree, one of the many found on campus. I was lounging around at home one afternoon after work and heard a crashhhh….. a common sound in these parts when a coconut falls. I heard one crash and then a couple more and I thought : what’s going on here. I looked over and saw my neighbour up in the tree cutting down some fruits…
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With exams out of the way for UNITECH students and academic staff busy marking and preparing results, things are starting wind down.
The above photo shows students lining up at the Cashiers office last Friday to…
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Ol markim em pinis nau…
I have finally finshed all of my marking.
Yeeehaaaaah…..
One of those very intense activities in life…. but definitely not as “pleasurable” as some of those other intense activities in life !!!
It's 3pm…
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