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A blog about my personal adventures and experiences working and living as an australian volunteer in Goroka, the Eastern Highland's of Papua New Guinea, a country many folks refer to as the Land of the Unexpected. I am married to a women that maintai

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• Goroka General Hospital website a first for PNG

  Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 17:00 in articles, forum, fun, goroka, goroka general hospital, highlands, hinari, home, hospital, internet, joomla, national

  The following article written was written by Malum Nalu and will hopefully be published in The National later next week. In more ways than one the timing of this article could not have been better. Wi...

• More on the herbs of Papua New Guinea

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 17:00 in articles, cooking, fun, healing, Herbs, hut, kaubasis, papua new guinea, png, roads, simbu, village

  In an effort to try and get some of the Papua New Guinea village herbs documented and researched with the view to finding out what they are and whether they might have any farming or export value, Unc...

• A News Aggregator is a must!

  Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 17:00 in articles, bilum, dog, escape, fear, friends, fun, internet, market, national, office, open source

  Ever heard of a News Aggregator or RSS? If you visit multiple websites on a regular basis to catch up on their latest stories, news or articles then I highly recommend the use of what is called a News...

• No offense Mr Kapis

  Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 17:00 in apologies, articles, beer, escape, family, fun, goroka, hospital, madang, mum, national, pain

  William Kapis has received much media attention of late. His name has been linked with two bank robberies, namely the BSP Bank Branch in Kerema and more recently the BSP Branch in Madang. The case is ...

• Bungy Rookies Rugby Union Club

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 17:00 in articles, coffee, community, family, frustration, fun, home, papua new guinea, park, poetry, rantings, rugby

  Recently a group of young men from the neighbourhood got together to form a new Rugby Union Club. These lads all live in our street or not too far away. In my opinion an excellent idea! So many of the...

• Do you have any idea who I am?

  Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 17:00 in fly, fun, fun stuff

  An award should go to the Air Niugini Airlines desk attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly...

• Do you have any idea who I am?

  Posted on Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 17:00 in fly, fun, fun stuff

  An award should go to the Air Niugini Airlines desk attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly...

• Headlines from the year 2029

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 17:00 in fly, fun, fun stuff, hut, killing

  Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California. White minorities still trying to have English recognized as M...

• Headlines from the year 2029

  Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 17:00 in fly, fun, fun stuff, hut, killing

  Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California. White minorities still trying to have English recognized as M...

• Goroka reflections and how time flies

  Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 05:00 in 10 things, articles, beer, coffee, comedy, fun, goroka, hell, highlands, hospital, png, port moresby

  At times it only seems like yesterday when I desperately wanted to grow up (different to those other times when I wander when the hell am I going to grow up!)......

• Goroka reflections and how time flies

  Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 05:00 in 10 things, articles, beer, coffee, comedy, fun, goroka, hell, highlands, hospital, png, port moresby

  At times it only seems like yesterday when I desperately wanted to grow up (different to those other times when I wander when the hell am I going to grow up!)...ShareThis...

• Papua New Guineans have a great sense of humour

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 05:14 in articles, bilum, clan, crook, dog, family, friends, fun, give away, highlands, home, joke

  One of the special traits about melanesian culture is the element of human interaction. Also, if one is lucky enough to have a house in a town somewhere - as we do - there will never be a shortage of ...

• Wordpress Plugins Rock!

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 05:03 in articles, blogging, community, coppermine, custom, fire, fun, home, map, market, mum, photos

  I've been meaning to share with you for a while now exactly what I run under the hood (so to speak) as far as Wordpress plugins - which ones and and why I have these installed......

• PNG Village generosity

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 05:00 in articles, clan, cooking, death, family, frustration, fun, goroka, goroka general hospital, highlands, home, hospital

  I stayed home today to be with Eli and to make sure that she's OK - she's just had an operation and was discharged over the weekend from Goroka General Hospital after being there for five days....

• PNG Bloggers that I follow

  Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 20:27 in apologies, articles, community, fun, home, hospital, madang, papua new guinea, photos, ples, png, telikom

  As we come to the end of yet another week I would like to take a few moments to reflect on and acknowledge a few PNG bloggers and their blogs - ones that I regularly follow, read and if inspired drop ...

• How flash can wordpress get?

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 05:00 in articles, custom, fun, plugins, wordpress

  One of the advantages of a self hosted wordpress blog is the ability to tailor the structure, layout and functionality. I might have compared it once to owning an older model british motorcycle. The p...

• Goroka General Hospital website gets a facelift!

  Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 05:00 in articles, forum, fun, goroka, goroka general hospital, highlands, home, hospital, joomla, open source, papua new guinea, png

  After only one month of going live with a new website we have ditched what we had and have replaced it with something totally different......

• Melanesian quirks!

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 05:00 in coffee, drunk, fight, fun, fun stuff, home, sing sing, village, wantok

  I first came across this list mid 2005 and have since seen it circulated making reference to Papua New Guineans, Solomon Islanders and various other pacific folks. It's probably reasonable to suggest...

• Eastern Highlands Women’s Rugby Union

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 05:00 in articles, fun, goroka, highlands, lae, national, png, port moresby, rain, rugby, trupela, unitech

  Yep... Full contact, no holds barred, woman against woman !!...

• The joy in giving!

  Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 05:00 in Adventure, articles, Cash, email, friends, fun, give away, man, mum, papua new guinea, photo, png

  The act of giving creates an incredible feeling of reward and connection with other humans. The saying: "Give and you shall receive" could not be further from the truth. To give is to receive!...

• The impact of Tribal Warfare

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 05:00 in anger, articles, Cash, clan, community, death, drunk, elections, enemy, fear, fight, fun

  There was a time and it wasn't that long ago when I felt drawn to the romance of tribal warfare. It might have been the fighting thing or perhaps how the free expression of anger towards an enemy is c...

• How much Spam do you receive?

  Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 05:00 in articles, avi, banks, custom, email, forum, fun, man, most read stories, national, office, rain

  I don't know about you but my "inbox" ends up with at least a few dozen spam emails a day and I'm positive that if it wasn't for the filtering software there would literally be hundreds if not thousan...