We stayed at Fatao village in the Eastern Highland’s over the weekend, the birthplace of
Eli’s Mum and home of her clan. About an hour’s PMV ride from Goroka headed up
the Highland’s
Highway and then about a…
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Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Of sorting and cataloguing all of my
photos, a whole 5000 plus worth!
I have chosen to use Adobe Photoshop
Elements as the Photo Album software. A rather cool software application that
has a heap of features for doing…
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Does have its advantages!
No house work!
Kind of suits me really. No cooking,
washing clothes, housecleaning, washing up or gardening! All choirs are taken
care of by the resident women folk. A man could sure get lazy around…
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I own an I-Mate, it’s a Pocket PC or
handheld type device, a lucky door prize I won at a breakfast meeting late
2004. This would be my 3rd or 4th handheld device that I
have owned.
The I-Mate…
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I let “loose” for the 1st time
in three months since arriving in Goroka. Eli went to Kaubasis yesterday to
take some food and nails to the folk in the village building our “hut”. Her
plan was to…
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There is no time like election time in Papua New Guinea!
Literally. Papua New Guineans and especially the Highlanders take their
elections very seriously. Fortunately, it’s an event that only comes around
every five years. Political parties in…
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Hazed,Dazed,Confused,Still searching.
Self…Fighting,Scrambling,Conniving.
Always self,No escape,Struggle,And more struggle.
Will it ever end?This suffering,This battle,This fight.
Freedom…Where is freedom?How is freedom?When is freedom?
All words,All self,All struggle,All suffering.
For I am human…
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Our home phone is now connected: +675 73236811) Don't all call at once!!2) I now have internet at home - God have mercy on me!My current contact details are now as follows:Postal (Australia):
Att: Robert Schilt25…
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The following story appeared in Tuesday's edition of The National newspaper (8/5/07). Jeffery, who was shot dead by Lae Police this week was a friend of Eli's…
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The “Hut” is starting to take shape…Today I visited Kaubasis to check out the “Hut” and it was the 1st time I travelled to the village on my lonesome. Our “dream” home is definitely starting…
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I have posted all the photos of the “hut” and building “crew” I took yesterday out at the village. These can be found in the “The “Hut” @ Waraguma (Kaubasis)” photo album.The almost full-time “crew”…
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There are many times when I read any one of the PNG national newspapers and get angry as hell. An article in todays “The National” was one such instance. The skaliwag and thug type behaviour…
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First bunch of photos of our home at Gonix in Goroka. We both love it here, the space, the gardens and mostly quiet neighbours. The vegetable patches, flower gardens and general landscaping had obvioulsy been…
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“Gelo” our dog…Has just destroyed another pair of Eli's shoes.Purchased at 5:30pm this afternoon.This takes the total count of eaten shoes to four!And every time Eli has her shoes destroyed she belts the dog.Yet “Gelo”…
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Have finally managed to make contact with the local Rotary Club and
have attended meetings over the past month. The Club is currently busy
organising the “Tru-Kai” fun run. This run takes place every year in
different towns…
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Eli has been working a little market of late, ice blocks mainly but occasionally some buai too. The ice blocks Eli sells are the best in the business, sweeter, colder and juicier than the competition…
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Last night we ate like kings! “Mamboo” is a style of PNG cuisine that basically involves stuffing a piece of bamboo with goodies and then throwing it on to the fire for an hour or…
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Until the wee hours !!
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Is slow and expensive!
I have been signed up with Datec; one of the four local ISP's offering
dialup services, for a couple of months. And just to give you an idea of the
cost involved.
I'm on what…
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Is the sound of domestic violence.A couple of nights ago we could here the next door neighbours go off. A long drinking session, lots of singing and laughing. Then a lull and some quiet. The…
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The intensity
builds…Sing-sing,bilas,and gatherings.
Yes – plenty of
gatherings,Street corners,Homes,And campaign houses.
All hope,All trust,All wish,For better
leadership. Trucks and busesFilled to the brim,Pumping out messages,Candidates desperate for a vote.
Cash hand outs,And promises.More cash,And of course – more promises.
PNG Elections,Once every…
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At its best (or perhaps at its worst)…PNG politicians that participate in corruption do so openly and without shame. The sad and angry part of it all is that the system appears helpless and fails…
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We left home at around 8:30am this morning and were planning to catch a PMV
from the main markets and head out to the village at Kaubasis. We had
arranged to meet Uncle Joel at the “Hut”…
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Yesterday whilst doing pizza and coffee at The Bird, a PNG male yells out to
us from one of the other tables, it sounded like: “I'm not a priest, I'm not
a priest”. He was with a…
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When there's nothing much to write…and little to say.When I feel the need to post…and share my day.I sit here blank,pressured,to post anyway.Four lines to a verse,or three lines.Who cares?Lets do it now…Lets make this…
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Last month I visited Eli's village in Simbu and our visit coincided with the 2007 Kaubasis School Fete. We stayed a night and it rained and it rained - the ground everywhere was slippery, wet…
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The following story appeared in last weeks edition of The National newspaper. The story centers around a current dispute in Eli's village over the ownership of a lot of land that has communications tower on…
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Is evolving!Unwilling to say anymore at this point in time.To the three people (out of 6 billion possible) that read my blog on a regular basis… more will be revealed…
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