A Disastrous Day

Well, it was one of those many occasions that I dread. Yes, Eda Ranu, the state-owned company that is responsible for the provision of water to the city has AGAIN closed the main taps feeding the city and once again we have no water to cook, shower and use the restroom. This time they advertised in the papers but it was a very small advert that many people can easily miss when reading the papers. In the advert it says that they will be shutting the valve at 8.00am and open the valve at 6pm. Well, guess what, they shut the thing down at 6am instead of 8 and water returned to the households at 11pm in the night.

The usual frustrations were that I didn't have a proper shower in the morning and in the night. Damn it! Now it makes me angrier everytime even at times I wish I could take that company to court for the distress they cause to the public. Have they ever thought of having reservoir tanks that would supply the city in the event of a major maintenance or pipe leakage? I wonder when PNG would start operating as a country!

Migration Overview presentation

I gave the first of the Migration Overview presentation yesterday to 13 immigration officers. This is the first of the core competency training modules. In fact i wasn't really satisfied with how I gave the presentation. Will improve on the style with more confidence in the next presentation to the directors

Well I was feeling really tired on Monday after spending the previous night at Cheng's haus krai. It wasn't a really good day for me. I finished at 5pm, caught the bus and went home. Spent the night at the haus krai. Saliau was there with his passport application forms. The folks from Tahira came and left their Suzuki at the house. Andrew Hamba came around as well.

Finally I found my password

Well, I haven't visited my blog for like 8/9 months. This was because I couldn't remember my password and finally on this day I managed to log in when I typed the correct password. Anyways, I hope from time to time I'll be writing again and contribute some new ideas instead of just journals.

Sept 19-21

A number of events occured over the weekend. Ezekiel and Ricky visited me at Gerehu on Saturday as Ezekiel wanted to do some work on my lap top. We had a bbq and some drinks and didn't really behave in our best that evening. I was really drunk and was shouting, Ezekiel and Ricky threatened Thompson, the guy who provided info on my stolen washing machine. Enid got really upset of the commotion we created.

Later that night we received the tragic news that Chengs (Vincent Hampalekie) passed away in Madang. Jack came down and was calling for me at the gate but I was dead asleep. Enid woke me and told me and the two of us went up to see Oliver/Elsie and the family.

That was one of the worst weekends of my life. Got drunk and stupid and received the tragic news of Cheng's passing. RIP Chengs, we will surely miss you and your lively and humourous character.