RAGGA MUFFIN

ok, i grew up with this sort of music...

With older siblings in the house, I had no say about what came out the sound box. So most of their music(UB40, The Wailers, maxi Priest) seeped into my subconcious and now I associate it with my childhood and my country.

Last time UB40 were here I didn't go.. but this time round I will be going even if its solo... (hopefully not solo though)...

Bring it on "...six hours of fantastic music..."

Check out whos coming to town

Healer1

Some more pics of Mother earth recovering after a bush fire....
I just had to share them

This girl can shine!!

w a i t i n g. . .

The most boering thing about catching birds is W A I T I N G. . . . after all birds cant be forced to fly into mist nets. common name New Holland Honey Eater



Quenda here knew when lunch was because that the only time he/she visited

Healer

Nature has a way of taking care of herself and coming out in her full glory.

One day earlier this month i spent a day in the (urban) bush as part of a field trip, looking at the recovery of the site after a bush fire went throught it last summer (jan 2007). Here you can see the promise of recovery, that she is truely healing.

Globalisation

Defined as:the growing interdependence of the worlds people through
" shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearing boarders "

O N E / F I F T H of the worlds population,
living in the highest income countries have
86% of world GDP (Gross Domestic product)
82% of world export markets
68% of foreign direct investment
74% telephone lines

B O T T O M
O N E / F I F T H
have 1% of each of the above category

Irony even with increased public awareness is that
consumption by people in the industrialized countries continues to grow and poverty in developing regions continues to worsen
source UNDP 99

the above is not hard to believe. Living in an industrialized country i experience consumerism everyday. Not that i buy a new pair of shoes or a top or make up product everyday. i see consumerism in the way i feel that i never have enough. Consumerism is when i see billboards at the bus stop advertising the latest release movie that i need to watch, TV guides that have a whole page advertisement to some sport shop telling me that if i bought these pair of sneakers they will make me run faster, TV advert during some girly program screaming(yes, adverts are always louder then the prog) at me to buy the latest foundation (make up) it will blend better with my skin tone and look more natural and I'll have that supermodel look (that I'm still dreaming about).
So all this consumerism is encouraged by advertism that encourages me and most people in the industrialised world, to feel, ugly, unsatisfied, needy, wanting, and just literally confuses our priorities so we still continue to consume that we dont need.

to hold you

to hold you and let you know that things will get better

to hold you so you can hear my heart beat

to hold you and feel your load get lighter

to hold you so you know i am your safeest place

to hold you and your tears flow

to hold you so your tears dry

to hold you and your pain flows out

to hold you so your strength renewd

to hold you only

Island Birth Country

Just over 32 years ago.. my island, birth country got its independence.

It was the 16th of September way back in 1 9 7 5.

I would just like to say that for all the negativity that is heard, read and watched, about my south sea island

I still would not want to be from any other island/continental country

I AM

Not My Beat

Well this afternoon I went to a place I didn't want to go to with you.. but a place where all roads lead to.

I thought I would be ready and I thought it wouldn't happen like this.

I found my self crossing that place and taking you on a dance.

Only the dance wasn't real and the music was not what I imagined I would play in the background,

Yet we moved so smoothly and effortlessly together.

I took lessons to teach you another dance, to a different beat and my instructor thought I was ready to corriograph this dance with you a while back....

But as with parts to a dance routine there is never one constant beat through out and I couldnt find my beat amongst it all.

The timing was always to fast, to slow but not at my feel,

But now I realise that I need to jump in and eventually the beat and I will meet....

Adrenaline < Job

Wise Man said I need another alternative part time job then the ones I have put forward so far. Jobs to keep me occupied during my semester beak. I got to remember that he not as dare deviling as me or adventurous and he doesn't like to experience as much of his adrenaline as me. So one morning this week while dreading to wake up, I got this idea to do this job, involves wearing a uniform, being on the road, and working flexible hours. I'm doing some investigating at the moment on what I have to do to meet the criteria... when I get the job then I'll let you all know what it is. I should know by christmas if I'm on the road, on the job or not. The job involves a little bit of adrenaline but not as much as the other jobs put forward to Wise Man.

I enjoy my current part time job, but I just want a change because I been doing this for to long now.

For all those who think I'm doing as Wise Man says, not true..

4 weeks

ok, so been back at uni vers ity all of 4 weeks and it going good, I'm copeing, lots of work but I'm copping, which is the best thing. 4 weeks has gone fast, between working and uni vers ity and late nights, I dont know where the time has gone...

Things I have enjoyed since been back at uni.
bush bashing on foot, on campus grounds was fun (outdoors) and tedius (measureing).
Completing my lab classes.
Learning a totally NEW subject that I have never ever considered studying befor. Now I'm gratefull I have been forced into learning it. Though I will never take the carrier path offered by this subject, but by learning it, has removed the foreignness of it.

Chain Letter Breaker

ok I recently (yesterday) got an email with some personal questions that had been answered by sender. It's like a forward only you erase your friends answers and put in yours and then forward to your friends and back to the sender and then they send it back with their answers and forward it onto their friends and so you get to know a little bit of information about your friends.... I'm sure you got the idea now or seen it... Sender wants to know why I don't respond here's why

Well

Really I hate filling out these things and passing on such forwards. I am always the one to break chain letters. When they say with a foot note that bad luck will come if you don't forward the message then I never forward..I wait for the bad luck... ..hahahaha. I don't believe my happiness is tied to a chain letter.
And also the ones that say IF YOU LOVE JC (Jesus Christ) you will forward this message to spread his love, I don't forward or if I do then I remove the IF YOU LOVE bit.... really people should forward JC attachments out of conscious and not by guilt. JC don't want us to be witnesses for him out of guilt, but rather with a conscious and a passion that comes from within.

well I did respond to that forward but only to the sender...

Not my own

....... we live only through other lives that touch us and that to live in this way at all requires more care then most people are preapared to give. For untimately there is nothing more astonishing, more fraught with mystery, then the mutual responses that occurs across so many obstacles of time, of place, of background, and of the events that form us. When I have experienced it, it has seemed like the only security I have known...... I have tried my hardest to resist change. I cannot move around the world on a string of acquaintances, and the something more that I need ties me more closely to the places and the people where I find it.
(THE HIGH VALLEY, Kenneth E. Read)
29/12/1917- 13/11/1995


The author was an anthropologist and the book is an autobiographicall account of 2 years spent living in Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s.
The quote is at the end of a chapter about him just witnessing the final act of a bride price exchange for a small girl not yet a woman and how he didnt realise how much impact that she had on him.

Jumper

OK so I have JUMPED! It was Bloody Fantastic. Feeling Free. Complete adrenalin rush. I wasn't nervous, ok maybe a little but not that much, was more looking forward... and 10,000ft is very high like 3,000m high, like 3km up in the air high. I didn't realise how high till the door opened and the wind, it actually is very windy 10,000ft up among the clouds even on a still day.

The best part was the Free Fall! falling with nothing between you and the earth and you both rushing towards each other. Spreading arms for wings, thought not as efficient with eyes open and the wind rearranging your face.....feeling the full force of gravity. Then suddenly your yanked back up for a bit... the parachute opens and slows your rush to touch terra firma. The parachute is good if you want time to enjoy the view but for the rush the free fall is the best.

oh I forgot to mention, that I am scared of hights.. standing 10m high hights then look straight down and I think I still am scarred..... though hopefully my next jump will be from 14,000ft.

10000

I have always liked to think of myself as a bit of a dare devil, a bit adventuress and a bit of a risk taker. Now for the first time in my life I am about to prove it to my self...

I am jumping out of a plane at 10 000ft then free falling for about 35sec before opening a parachute and landing on my feet, if you haven't worked it out yet, its called skydiving. I am doing this with my cousin who got the deal as a 21st birthday present last year. On sunday at our family dinner he asked me if I wanted to do it with him and I said sure and by thursday I had paid up. So as you see not a lot of thought went into it, but I didn't need time to think as this is on my list of one of the things I must do in life.. I am doing a tandem jump which means that I will be atttached to another who will be responsible for opening the parachute, hopefully he is close to 30 (preferably under but experienced) and good looking then I will want to hold onto him for dear life.....lol...hahaha.

Havin a go

Wellcome Friends

To me,

well I really shouldn't be here as me has a stack of work to do like text books to read, mental exercises to tackle, and an essay to write, but since me is new at all this, me a bit to excited so is doing her first entry.

I dont know who will read this and where you are when you read this. I dont know if anything I write will impact you in anyway and I dont know if you will come again. But since your here, I hope you are enjoying reading what is here. I am just greatful for you time.

I dont know how long this phase of writting a blog will last for me, as I never seem to keep to do one thing for to long. But I hope this continues for a while even if the blogs are not to regular... It will be interesting to read this in a year, or 2 or 5 or 10 ..... if I'm still around, please Lord let it be... I got so much to do and so much to give to society still....

This here is my fav photo, one of the first ones I took ever on my then brand spankin new digital camera.. just last year