Personal adventures in the Land of the Unexpected
Due to lack of interest the following facilities have been removed from the blog:
1) User registration and subscription.
2) User login
3) RSS feed : “Not the news”
Also…
4) The “Blogrolls” component has been moved from the right hand…
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With lectures, exams and marking now behind us and the 2006 academic not due to start until late February / early March - some of you I'm sure are asking:
What is Rob going to be doing for…
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Let me share with you a classic example of pure and utter ineffciency. I am talking about the system used at UNITECH to record student results. The procedures and systems used by the university has…
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The following changes have been made:
1) I have created a custom “Month Archive” component that displays all previous months postings rather than just the last 5 months that the standard component is able to display.
2)…
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I am currently reading the following book:
A great read for those of you that are regular practitioners of “Mindfulness” or “Vipassana”, a very powerful buddhist spiritual practice.
The back cover says it all:
Just in case you are…
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The latest issue of “The Reporter” (issue #1582) is now available…
…or access the Reporter via the UNITECH website homepage under NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS.
 …
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I have included a new section labelled : “Most read articles…”, located just below “This blog has…” in the left hand column up top.
The most read articles are based on stats supplied by my blog…
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Last night three of us went out for dinner. There was Peter (my PNG friend) and Geoffrey (a new arrival in Lae from AVI). Peter picked both of us up from my place and we headed into town…
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Tis Saturday afternoon around 3pm and I am not in any mood whatsoever for blogging. Now that I am in the habit of posting something every day, those days that I have'nt got much - if…
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RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society…
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A common sound heard on campus around dinner time is the scraping of
coconuts. Coconut is part of the staple diet of the PNG people together
Sweat Yams, Tapiok and a number of fruits such as paw…
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Before coming to PNG earlier this year I had never owned a camera (digital nor analogue) and never really appreciated the art and timing involved in capturing that “special” moment.Now that I own a digital…
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One of the many things I like about living in PNG is that in this place
one exists very much on the “edge”. The “edge” of what? The “edge” of
safety, the “edge” of health and the…
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XMAS 2005 Itinerary
Tickets for the
return trip back to Sydney over the xmas break have been purchased.
Departure and arrival dates have now been confirmed.
Yeeehaaaa…. !!
Itinerary is as follows:
Leave Lae and arrive in Cairns : 11/12/05
(Cheap…
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The poet within me has finally emerged !!
A have added a new category called : “Rantings of a madman” and as I
share my thoughts in verse form these will be posted into this folder.
I have…
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Evening,
tropical shower, it comes down in buckets.
The sound of the falling water is music to my ears,
I’m half deaf - pleasing nevertheless.
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XMAS 2005 Itinerary
Tickets for the
return trip back to Sydney over the xmas break have been purchased.
Departure and arrival dates have now been confirmed.
Yeeehaaaa…. !!
Itinerary is as follows:
Lae to Port Moresby to Cairns / Air…
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Last Wednesday evening the staff from the Department of Business Studies ventured out for a dinner at the local Aviat club. As well as celebrating the end of another academic there was a formal handover…
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Meet my friend Eli…
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Itinerary
Lae to Port Moresby to Cairns / Air Nuigini / arrive in Cairns : 11/12/05 @ 10:55am
Cairns to Sydney / Virgin Blue DJ396 / arrive Sydney : 11/12/05 @ 10:05pm (T2)
Leave Sydney and return to…
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Almost finished today’s crossword, coconut scraping in the background as people prepare their evening meals…
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First curiosity,
followed by yearning…
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Itinerary
Lae to Port Moresby to Cairns / Air Nuigini / arrive in Cairns : 11/12/05 @ 10:55amCairns to Sydney / Virgin Blue DJ396 / arrive Sydney : 11/12/05 @ 10:05pm (T2)
Leave Sydney and return to…
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Meet my friend “Hae”…”Hae” (pronounced “Hi”) is a village boy from the Kerema district in the Gulf Province. Hae is 19 and the name of his actual village is Ihu. About 6 weeks ago he…
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I head off shortly (in about 30mins) to “Wagang” village for a couple of days. This will be my 2nd visit to “Wagang” and I am very excited. The 1st time I went it was…
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I have finally returned and have many stories to tell. I now need to head into town for a doctors appointment. More will be revealed.I hope you are all well.Rob…
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