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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
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
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!
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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?
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!
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!
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
Yep... Full contact, no holds barred, woman against woman !!...
The joy in giving!
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
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?
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...
