Home sweet home!!
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Robert@PNG V4 is up and running…
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Here's an interesting email I received from a Papua New Guinean friend of mine a couple of weeks ago…Hi Rob,The 'trupela.com' blog fits perfectly with the kind of person you are. You would be surprised…
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And how I ended up with the “shits”…
I have been crook the past week. Diarrhoea (spelling?) and strong pains in the gut. It all started when I “pigged” out on some Marata last week…
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It is just now that I am starting to get on top of work. Work, meaning:
work-work (Hospital), emails, blogging etc… The laptop “crash”
combined with an almost obsession with Linux things got pushed back so
to speak.
Having…
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I have (re)started posting photos to the blog…Yes - it's certainly been a while! And there's quite a backlog. Will aim to post four a day for the next little while.The photos being posted at…
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Just back from the village…
A weekend in the village!
Left town with a head and a gut full of “stuff”,
And as the PMV began to career up the highway,
I could feel the weight slowly lift!
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Eli…Our next door neighbour Eli markets tirelessly. Most days and evenings there she is, out the front of her house - seeling betelnut, smokes and occasionally home made donuts and ice-blocks. When I head to…
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Eli wrote the following on rape which we have just emailed to both newspapers for possible publication.I would like to comment regarding the news story: “Gangsters abduct and rape girl”, in one of the local…
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(Story as it appeared on the front page of today's edition of The National)Power cut at Unitech
By PETER KORUGL
PNG…
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Like Sheep!!(Note that in PNG the political party with the highest number of MP's is invited to form government - with counting over - the race is on to woe newly elected MP's into one…
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The PNG extended family thing gets a bit too much for me at times. People in
and out of the house, the sleeping over and then of course there's the
communal meals. All too much for this…
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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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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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A point form post!
1) The Hospital has been a little “lazy” in the organizing of
permanent accommodation for us. For over a month now we have been lodging in
the Hospital’s Transit Lodge and as yet I…
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(wrote this ranting during the supervision of the IS326 exam)The Land of the Unexpected!Tribalism, magic and religion,churches, preachers and song,fresh food, buai and plenty of languages,corruption, violence and laughter.Papua New Guinea……expect the unexpected!PMV's, potholes and…
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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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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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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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