Okay Everyone
The first informal MEET, GREET, CONNECT is on Saturday January 9, 2010 between 9am and 3pm. ELA BEACH, POM
We will be having a small sausage sizzle fundraising and would like to invite you all in POM to come down and chat, have some BBQ stuff and lets connect. We already have skeleton plans for next year so we need your help.
Just so you know PPNG is going to be launching and running a nationwide campaign for attitude change and patriotism. It’s called simply: the CHANGE CAMPAIGN (aka OPERATION SENISIM PASIN).
Here what can be done at the MGC ss:
- Meet up with us
- Find out more about PPNG
- Ask questions (explore answers wit us)
- Sign up as an official PPNG member
- Enlist as a volunteer to help plan and organise the CHANGE CAMPAIGN
- Or just chill with us!
- We’ll probably be near the B/ball courts so we could probably play some ball too!
Well put it on your calendar and do get involved.
From our previous message bout meet and greet some of you responded well even with great suggestions. As I said then you all have something that is valuable to PPNG and subsequently to PNG so please come along and contribute ideas bout how we can change this country thru PATRIOT PNG INC.
God Bless as you celebrate His Coming into the World...
PPNG
Thoughts and Ideas for and regarding Papua New Guinea, the country I love.
16 December 2009
09 December 2009
WHAT IS THERE TO BE PATRIOTIC ABOUT IN PNG??
Hi Patriots,
Sorry this week’s message bit late.
A friend asked another: “What is there to be patriotic about in PNG?”...He thought good question and answered with another: “Would you like your children to grow up saying the same thing? Or would you want to make a difference so that maybe they can have a bit more to be proud of than we do?”
Someone once said: “Patriotism is your belief that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it!”. Patriotism is not about loving your country only when it is doing something for you. But loving it despite the negatives and willing to make it better no matter what. Giving our children a better future should drive us to becoming better patriots who seek the good of this country rather than back away because we don’t see what it is doing for us.
In fact if we really consider all things our country does give us much. Consider these: How did you acquire education? Even in a private school its the State that allowed that school to be set up.. If you flew to another country, what country is stamped on your passport, giving you an identity thereby making it possible to fly away? The job you have, even in private, wouldn’t be possible if the State didn’t allow it? The car you drive, how did it get here ‘cause we surely didn’t make it in our villages? The fuel in it? The phones, the internet, the PMV, the electricity, the water supply, the freedom, the information, entertainment, the sports,....and on and on and....THE IDENTITY: WHAT WOULD YOU CALL YOURSELF IF NOT FOR THE COUNTRY??
ITS TIME WE SEE OUR GLASS AS HALF FULL RATHER THAN HALF EMPTY.
God Bless Papua Niugini!!
Heavenise Week!
Sorry this week’s message bit late.
A friend asked another: “What is there to be patriotic about in PNG?”...He thought good question and answered with another: “Would you like your children to grow up saying the same thing? Or would you want to make a difference so that maybe they can have a bit more to be proud of than we do?”
Someone once said: “Patriotism is your belief that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it!”. Patriotism is not about loving your country only when it is doing something for you. But loving it despite the negatives and willing to make it better no matter what. Giving our children a better future should drive us to becoming better patriots who seek the good of this country rather than back away because we don’t see what it is doing for us.
In fact if we really consider all things our country does give us much. Consider these: How did you acquire education? Even in a private school its the State that allowed that school to be set up.. If you flew to another country, what country is stamped on your passport, giving you an identity thereby making it possible to fly away? The job you have, even in private, wouldn’t be possible if the State didn’t allow it? The car you drive, how did it get here ‘cause we surely didn’t make it in our villages? The fuel in it? The phones, the internet, the PMV, the electricity, the water supply, the freedom, the information, entertainment, the sports,....and on and on and....THE IDENTITY: WHAT WOULD YOU CALL YOURSELF IF NOT FOR THE COUNTRY??
ITS TIME WE SEE OUR GLASS AS HALF FULL RATHER THAN HALF EMPTY.
God Bless Papua Niugini!!
Heavenise Week!
30 November 2009
MEET,GREET & CONNECT
Dear Patriots,
PPNG is gearing up for some major events next year. They include major ‘MEET, GREET & CONNECT’ event, launch/fundraising events. The major event will be a young leaders’ leadership forum towards the end of 2010(as details are still vague we cannot give you more info). Once we finalise some dates/venues etc, we will create events on fb and send out invitations to you all. We anticipate that we will be fully incorporated as an association by January 2010.
But first things first: we need a good number of volunteers to help plan and organise the events. We will be asking as many of you as possible to enlist as volunteers. You will soon appreciate the magnitude of the events we are cooking up once we send further details to you. Hence the “meet,greet&connect” event coming up soon. Many of you have ideas, skills etc that we do not and we would love to have your input as this is all about changing our great nation.
Many have written in or posted asking how you can be involved in Patriots PNG. This is an excellent opportunity for you to become involved. If you would like more information or make a general commitment please email us at patriotspng@yahoo.com.
There has been much interest also in signing up as official members and some have emailed in asking for registration forms. The major obstacle to this has been the opening of accounts at one of our major commercial banks. However we have got one step closer and anticipate that the account will be open by December/January. We will advice those interested of account details so that rego fees can be paid.
At the moment we are making headway in networking and arousing interest with major sponsors and stakeholders.
We are grateful for and welcome ideas and contributions as to how we can carry PPNG’s message out wider and more effectively. You are already a part of the process and we welcome your input. We also acknowledge your patience and tolerance in receiving and reading our weekly messages aimed at provoking patriotism and progressive change.
Thanks and God Bless Papua Niugini!
Heavenise week.
PPNG
PPNG is gearing up for some major events next year. They include major ‘MEET, GREET & CONNECT’ event, launch/fundraising events. The major event will be a young leaders’ leadership forum towards the end of 2010(as details are still vague we cannot give you more info). Once we finalise some dates/venues etc, we will create events on fb and send out invitations to you all. We anticipate that we will be fully incorporated as an association by January 2010.
But first things first: we need a good number of volunteers to help plan and organise the events. We will be asking as many of you as possible to enlist as volunteers. You will soon appreciate the magnitude of the events we are cooking up once we send further details to you. Hence the “meet,greet&connect” event coming up soon. Many of you have ideas, skills etc that we do not and we would love to have your input as this is all about changing our great nation.
Many have written in or posted asking how you can be involved in Patriots PNG. This is an excellent opportunity for you to become involved. If you would like more information or make a general commitment please email us at patriotspng@yahoo.com.
There has been much interest also in signing up as official members and some have emailed in asking for registration forms. The major obstacle to this has been the opening of accounts at one of our major commercial banks. However we have got one step closer and anticipate that the account will be open by December/January. We will advice those interested of account details so that rego fees can be paid.
At the moment we are making headway in networking and arousing interest with major sponsors and stakeholders.
We are grateful for and welcome ideas and contributions as to how we can carry PPNG’s message out wider and more effectively. You are already a part of the process and we welcome your input. We also acknowledge your patience and tolerance in receiving and reading our weekly messages aimed at provoking patriotism and progressive change.
Thanks and God Bless Papua Niugini!
Heavenise week.
PPNG
23 November 2009
CAN MORE MONEY SAVE US??
Last week we shared views on the LNG. The main issue was whether we could really handle such a mammoth project and make it work for us. Many agreed that it couldn’t because we are not prepared (attitude and mindset-wise).
Today Post Courier has highlighted that the government is on its way to purchasing a private jet worth over K120m: rumour or not it is a frightful reminder of the short-sightedness of our current national leaders. How a government could spend unnecessary monies on that which do not benefit the country as a whole is baffling.
My nephew died over the weekend simply because PomGH did not have the capacity to properly and quickly diagnose and treat him for his curable illness. Injustices are everywhere, experienced by you either directly or indirectly. I refuse to accept the dim-witted excuse that we do not have the money to do it! We simply lack the passion and the attitude to make things right in our country! People have described our country as a ‘island of gold floating on a sea of oil’. Yet here we are. Begging, jobless, less-educated, scavenging, frustrated....unhappy.
And now we think the LNG is the Saviour! ‘It will create the truckloads of wealth, and save us from all the injustices in the country and change this country’. We have always had the potential to be a booming economy. But we have been killing ourselves in greed and hate and disunity and negative attitude for progress. Forgive me if you find this negative but I believe in accurately diagnosing a problem before curing it reinforced by my nephew's situation...and we (PPNG) do have a proposed solution up our sleeves).
The redemption of this country lies not in its resources and in massive project but in its people; in the rising of real patriots who love this country to death...and hate injustice/corruption likewise. In patriotic leaders who love the people enough to die for them. Like the Spartan King Leonides tells Xerxes (who will kill his own men for victory), “...I will gladly die for mine” (in 300).
Is there a patriot reading this who has the heart for this country? How much are you willing to give for this country and its people? Consider yourself now in training. It’s the little battles that give you the courage and strength to fight bigger tougher battles. A challenge no more real to you than it is to me...
God Bless Papua Niugini and its people!
Tokaut Tokstret
Today Post Courier has highlighted that the government is on its way to purchasing a private jet worth over K120m: rumour or not it is a frightful reminder of the short-sightedness of our current national leaders. How a government could spend unnecessary monies on that which do not benefit the country as a whole is baffling.
My nephew died over the weekend simply because PomGH did not have the capacity to properly and quickly diagnose and treat him for his curable illness. Injustices are everywhere, experienced by you either directly or indirectly. I refuse to accept the dim-witted excuse that we do not have the money to do it! We simply lack the passion and the attitude to make things right in our country! People have described our country as a ‘island of gold floating on a sea of oil’. Yet here we are. Begging, jobless, less-educated, scavenging, frustrated....unhappy.
And now we think the LNG is the Saviour! ‘It will create the truckloads of wealth, and save us from all the injustices in the country and change this country’. We have always had the potential to be a booming economy. But we have been killing ourselves in greed and hate and disunity and negative attitude for progress. Forgive me if you find this negative but I believe in accurately diagnosing a problem before curing it reinforced by my nephew's situation...and we (PPNG) do have a proposed solution up our sleeves).
The redemption of this country lies not in its resources and in massive project but in its people; in the rising of real patriots who love this country to death...and hate injustice/corruption likewise. In patriotic leaders who love the people enough to die for them. Like the Spartan King Leonides tells Xerxes (who will kill his own men for victory), “...I will gladly die for mine” (in 300).
Is there a patriot reading this who has the heart for this country? How much are you willing to give for this country and its people? Consider yourself now in training. It’s the little battles that give you the courage and strength to fight bigger tougher battles. A challenge no more real to you than it is to me...
God Bless Papua Niugini and its people!
Tokaut Tokstret
16 November 2009
WE’RE NOT READY FOR LNG!
Many of us are excited about the LNG. The main motive for such excitement is the potential for more money and an illusion of a better lifestyle or standard of living. I am terrified of what the LNG would do against us....
We PNGeans (politicians, leaders, landowners, the savvy, the students, the grassroots) unfortunately do not know how to handle money and wealth. Current standard of stewardship of such a tool is little over zero. With the various projects we currently have that boasts billions in income, we see very little development and manifestation of it. We still drive in potholes, our schools lack proper facilities, hospitals (even in the city) have no medicine etc etc.
Too much money in the hands of immature people is dangerous. Take what happened in my home province when vanilla was like legal tender. Everyone walked around literally wit backpacks full of money. Yet today there is not much to show for it. Not much development or improvement in lifestyle/standard of living. The myth the world runs on is that more money will improve the standard of living. But it does the opposite when bad stewards have control over it..and we are not yet good stewards. Other resource-rich areas have nothing to show for it. Many live the same level as their domesticated animals while their landowner chairmen eat and drink in hotel rooms in the city with every conceivable vice and their own real estate empires.
We are not ready for LNG for another generation. We need a complete change of mindset and attitude before we can handle such a mammoth of a project. Otherwise we’ll effectively be choking ourselves to death.
God Help us...to help ourselves...
Heavenise week...
Tokaut Tokstret
We PNGeans (politicians, leaders, landowners, the savvy, the students, the grassroots) unfortunately do not know how to handle money and wealth. Current standard of stewardship of such a tool is little over zero. With the various projects we currently have that boasts billions in income, we see very little development and manifestation of it. We still drive in potholes, our schools lack proper facilities, hospitals (even in the city) have no medicine etc etc.
Too much money in the hands of immature people is dangerous. Take what happened in my home province when vanilla was like legal tender. Everyone walked around literally wit backpacks full of money. Yet today there is not much to show for it. Not much development or improvement in lifestyle/standard of living. The myth the world runs on is that more money will improve the standard of living. But it does the opposite when bad stewards have control over it..and we are not yet good stewards. Other resource-rich areas have nothing to show for it. Many live the same level as their domesticated animals while their landowner chairmen eat and drink in hotel rooms in the city with every conceivable vice and their own real estate empires.
We are not ready for LNG for another generation. We need a complete change of mindset and attitude before we can handle such a mammoth of a project. Otherwise we’ll effectively be choking ourselves to death.
God Help us...to help ourselves...
Heavenise week...
Tokaut Tokstret
12 November 2009
Patriotism vs Apathy
Dear Patriots,
Thank you for being interested in improving our great country.
Unfortunately a majority of people in our country a not interested in the improvement of our country. Apathy, I think, is a worse epidemic than the corruption in our country. Many of us do not really care that our country’s not being lead well or that change is needed. We seem content just to build our own empires, and live our lives.
When someone asked me why I care so much about a country that seems to care so little about its people, I say apart from my strong patriotism (and the love for mankind that God placed in us) I do have a somewhat ‘selfish’ motive. And that is that I want my children to come into, grow up and live in a better place than I currently live in. In a country where people respect each other and everyone is looking out for each other (not just wantoks), and there’s unity, and progress, and less crime, and more justice and so on...
There is a lot to be done. But people need to do it. Money and resources are tools. People decide whether they are constructive or destructive tools. And the more good people decide not to step up and use those tools constructively, the more destructive those tools become at the hands of wicked people. Corruption is a killer. But not having a care to me like a slow painful death. Apathy to me is like a doctor unwilling to treat his patient even though he has the means and ability to help...and allows that patient to die a slow painful death....
Paulo Freire said “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
I truly hope you will not wash your hands from the problems of PNG and do what you can to add value to it.
Thank you and God Bless Papua Niugini.
Heavenise week
Thank you for being interested in improving our great country.
Unfortunately a majority of people in our country a not interested in the improvement of our country. Apathy, I think, is a worse epidemic than the corruption in our country. Many of us do not really care that our country’s not being lead well or that change is needed. We seem content just to build our own empires, and live our lives.
When someone asked me why I care so much about a country that seems to care so little about its people, I say apart from my strong patriotism (and the love for mankind that God placed in us) I do have a somewhat ‘selfish’ motive. And that is that I want my children to come into, grow up and live in a better place than I currently live in. In a country where people respect each other and everyone is looking out for each other (not just wantoks), and there’s unity, and progress, and less crime, and more justice and so on...
There is a lot to be done. But people need to do it. Money and resources are tools. People decide whether they are constructive or destructive tools. And the more good people decide not to step up and use those tools constructively, the more destructive those tools become at the hands of wicked people. Corruption is a killer. But not having a care to me like a slow painful death. Apathy to me is like a doctor unwilling to treat his patient even though he has the means and ability to help...and allows that patient to die a slow painful death....
Paulo Freire said “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
I truly hope you will not wash your hands from the problems of PNG and do what you can to add value to it.
Thank you and God Bless Papua Niugini.
Heavenise week
11 November 2009
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