Monthly Archive for June, 2006

On my way to work this morning…

I was wandering into work this morning and saw a driver of a car coming from the opposite direction throw en empy coke can out of his window. I was annoyed. One of the things…
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What am I hiding ?

A “certain” item came into my possession yesterday.  The above photo was taken this morning (at home) and at this stage I am unwilling to reveal what lies under the cover. (That's my tea towel…
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The past few days…

Have been a little on the hectic side:Saturday:- Had a sleep in.- Caught up with Peter P. at his office- Went to town for a shop- Partied till late with some of the other vollies…
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The truth about…

…why I haven't been blogging much the past few days.Up until recently the speed of the internet link here at UNITECH was bearable. But only if one got on before 8:30am and after 5:00pm. Recently…
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Goasa leaves for Taiwan

My office mate Goasa left campus this morning for a 5 week study trip to Taiwan. The above photo of Goasa and Anthony (fellow AVIer) was taken last night at home after Goasa popped in…
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University - a sheltered workshop ?

Shortly after arriving at UNITECH in April 2005, I met an australian architect who was visiting campus to facilitate a one week workshop within the School of Building and Architecture. One day we met at…
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A visit to the local Salvation Army.

Today I had the opportunity to visit the local Salvation Army Headquarters here in Lae. In blog post dated 31st of May : “Lae Rotary”, I wrote about a young boy called ” Lucky” whom…
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Salamoa !

(A traditional home on the beach at Salamoa)Today I had the opportunity to visit Salamoa, a village about two hours by boat south of Lae. In it's heyday - Salamoa was a center for colonial…
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Goasa's "Taiwan" report #1

Goasa (above photo) has arrived safely in Taiwan. He will be spending the next five weeks in Taipei doing a “Multimedia” course (I think). As I hear from him or receive email or maybe some…
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Blog Update V2.9.1…

Have added an RSS feed to a blog called : “Living in the South Pacific”
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What's that you had for dessert last night?

Just in case you can't tell by the photo - the above dish (polished it off last night whilst watching the movie : “Educating Rita”) - contains: vanilla ice-cream (heaps of), milo and a little…
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Christianity or fanaticism ?

The following email was circulated yesterday afternoon:(Note how they forgot to mention where!!)
A KIND APPEAL TO ALL.
God bless you to discover THE HEART OF THE LORD'S PRAYER to make a DIFFERENCE IN YOUR
LIFE.
 
The Lord's…
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Linux can go break…

…someone elses balls !!Had a win with Linux this morning. Have been trying to get an internet connection through the campus network from a PC and a Laptop that I have installed with Suse Linux…
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How tight…

…can a tight arse get?That is the question !!
When the lord made man all the parts of the body argued who would be boss.
The brain explained that since he controlled all the parts of the…
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Some photos from Eriku

The above image is from an old Lae UBD Directory. The red dot that you can see is the corner of Cassia and Casuarina. Why the interest in this particular address in Eriku? A few…
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Blog Update V3.0…

The blog comments facility has been re-enabled. This feature was disabled some time ago after some “dickhead” posted around 1000 pornographic comments against one of my posts. Since - the blog service provider (Domain Direct)…
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Thanks to the generosity of CCK Academy in Sydney…

The local Lae Kickboxing clubs will be now able to purchase four pairs of boxing gloves. CCK Academy have kindly donated $100 to the Lae clubs for the purpose of purchasing this training equipment. Currently…
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Jerry's son…

Jerry's son (above photo) passed away recently and was our reason for travelling by boat to Bamata (near Finschafen). I travelled there with Jerry and his father and although I was only gone for one…
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Blog Update V3.1…

Sorted out a problem with one of the RSS Feeds (Outback to Jungle) and also reorganised the order in which RSS Feeds are displayed on the blog's Main Page…
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Not much of a blog entry today…

Why not?Na… na….  na…  na…  na… !!…
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Onya Socceroos !!

Australia 2 - Croatia 2 !!4am rise for a 4:30am start.Was well worth the effort to watch the aussies make soccer history.Just quickly on another note…   a couple of problems affecting my ability to post…
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Meet the students from IS215…

I grabbed the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to snap a few photos of my IS215 class (Accounting Information Systems). There were a couple of students missing on the day but most of the…
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Blog Update V3.2…

Have done away with the RSS feeds on main blog page due to problems of linking and have replaced these with just plain old links to “Blogs that I read…”…
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Sunday !

A few thoughts in point form follow:- Sunday's are tops! Cooked banana and pineapple panckaes this morning for breakfast after sleeping in till about 9:30am. The pancakes were delicious.- Have done away with MS Outlook…
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Goasa emails me some more photos.

Goasa has emailed some more photos from Taiwan. I have placed these photos in the Goasa's trip to Taiwan (2006) photo album. Looks like he is having a grand old time - he does mention…
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An exchange !

Four pairs of boxing gloves for a hand-made bilum !In a recent post (Thanks to the generosity of CCK Academy in Sydney…) - I wrote about the recent donation by CCK Academy (Sydney) to the…
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Blog Update V3.3…

You might have noticed a small “button” at the bottom left column of the blog’ s main page…
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More photos from my visit to Finschafen…

A few more photos and a “liklik” story…I have posted some more photos from my visit to “Bamata”, a small village not far from Finschafen (3 hour boat ride north of Lae). I had the…
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Marking…

…marking and more marking !!!And that's all there is to it…
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