The most read article for the month of September, 2006 was :On snakes, pigs and babies…
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Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Apart from lectures resuming today - after a one week student strike and
various other disruptions - I headed out to West Taraka early in the
morning for a meeting with the parents of students…
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Last week…I was inducted into the Rotary Club of Lae by the District Governor. The club meets every Tuesday evening at the Lae International Hotel and I plan to attend the weekly meetings from now…
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Article as it appeared in today’s The National …
Threat of ethnic war brings city to standstill !!
PNG’s second city,
Lae, was thrown into chaos yesterday amid fears of yet another ethnic war
between people from two Highlands…
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The news stories recently might suggest that PNG is a very violent
place. Guess what? The news stories are correct. PNG is a violent place.
Everyday the media reports on violent crimes such as…
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Regarding what would appear to be an “oversupply” of violent crimes in
PNG, one needs to consider the fact that most crimes are for a reason.
The random and opportunistic crimes such as hold-ups, muggings…
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Nice things do happen !Between the violence, nepotism, incompetent management and frustrations that go hand in hand living and working in Papua New Guinea, from time to time and more aften than not, happy stories…
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There's a local boy that hangs out the front of Foodmart in Lae top town. His name is Sunny, he is crippled, very crippled. From the waist up he seems physically quite normal but from…
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Eli has scored a golden opportunity!
Eli heads out to a village in the Markham Valley for the next four weeks
with a lady by the name of Jessica whom is currently conducting research
towards her…
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The following holds true:1) I appear to have contracted the big “M” once again. 3rd time lucky! Hit myself last night with a superdose of Lariam (Mefloquin) - this has worked in the past -…
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Everyday…
I get to checkout the local potholes,
worse by the day,
an incredible collection of potholes,
by far.
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I had the fortune of attending a presentation on : “OPTIONS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA” by the Honourable Jamie Maxtone-Graham MBE, MP and Member for Anglimp South Waghi.The presentation took place in…
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Story as it appeared in The National newspaper yesterday…
A PMV bus owner showing two of the many rocks that were hurled into his
bus from all sides smashing windscreens and causing thousands of kina
in damages. He…
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The following updates has gone through:
1) I have added a new category called “Most read stories” to the blog. This category contains stories that I have posted over time that receive the most hits.
2) I…
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On its way…(Tomorrow)…
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I just had 30 mins. with the pigs. It's 9pm'ish, one of the local
churches disrespectfully blares in the background, other Melanesian
sounds of the night also abound. The crickets and frogs, other insect
life…
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It was my brother's birthday yesterday and with a spare K20 phone card
in my wallet I decided to splurge on a telephone call. It was 10:10pm in
the evening and I had just returned…
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The Department of Business Studies representative Rugby team is once again playing the inter-departmental grand finals this weekend.As Patron and supporter of the team I forwarded the following email this morning to my colleagues…
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Read on…
- Got this thing happening with the two pigs : “Prof” and “Princess”. Learning about their differences, their quirks and their individual idyosyncrocies. “Princess” the girl is the loudest and a born trouble maker…
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The following email was recently sent out by the Australian DFAT via
the High Commission in Port Moresby with an updated travel advice for
PNG…
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Department of Business Studies (DBS) representative Rugby League team won the grand finals yesterday against the Architecture and Building (ArchBuild) team. Don’t ask me what the final score was but it was certianly an action packed game and both sides played some marvellous rugby…
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Twice shy !!
I ducked into Eriku last Friday to do a quick shop and I got pulled up
again by the Council Ranger. Not for spitting buai this time but for
throwing a cigarette butt…
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This week is the last week of teaching here at UNITECH. Next week the
students have a study week followed by a week of exams. Two weeks will
follow with marking and departmental meetings to…
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All the photos from the “Kaubasis” visit back in July have now been
posted. Some great shots of village life and some of the people I met
during my five day stay in Simbu.
Check out…
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I was walking home from the office after catching up on some email, some
blogging etc… and I bumped into about eight lads, they were walking
towards me and as we approached each other -…
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The above photo was taken aas we were leaving “Kaubasis” village in Simbu. After I took this photo I turned around and did not look back. The memory of the experience behind this photo will…
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A fun picture that I come across recently…
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It's something else !!
The internet is working fine this afternoon. There is one slight hiccup
though and that is my blog site is down!!
If it's not one thing it's definitely something else !!
May as well head…
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Now being posted…To the Rugby Final 2006 photo albumDBS were the champions on the day !!…
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An elderly woman walked into the Bank of Canada one morning with a purse
full of money. She wanted to open a savings account and insisted on
talking to the president of the Bank…
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And more photos !!I have been posting the following photos:1) Class photos:IS326 - 2006 Sem #2 photo album (IS326 - Project Management)IS422 - 2006 Sem #2 photo album (IS422 - Management Information Systems)2) UNITECH 2006…
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