Patriots
This morning on way to work a young man among the crowd was suspected of picking a pocket and was beat up. People hurled verbal abuses on him, cursing his very existence and condemning him to hell. I struggled to let out similar words as I remembered my own failures: my own robbing of others and violation of the law. Here we were condemning a young man for doing what most of us were practically doing.. Are we really any better than him?! We put on our fancy clothes; go to our fancy jobs and in the evening we lie on comfortable beds after a hearty meal.
Along the way we’d chew our buai and colour the pavement up a bit. We’d pay half the required bus-fare, then in a bus or in private cars we’d run the red light 10 seconds after it’d turned; we get paid a full day’s pay for a 2-hour presence, we’d cut some cues to be served ahead of others, we’d litter on the streets, smoke in busses whilst sitting next to mother and baby; and not being guilty of the above, we remain silent against those who are...
We hurl our criticism on a government lacking in patriotism, at the Kumuls n Pepes for a lacklustre performance, at our disciplined forces for human rights violations and ill-discipline, at the petty criminal for being a nuisance to society...
But are we so INNOCENT? Are the wrongs WE commit against country and countrymen so insignificant? Do we not affect others by our thoughts, words and deeds? Can we not see beyond the blue smoke of our cigarettes; of the buai spittle once it leaves our mouths? Do we not realise our duty towards one another and towards our country? We’re all endowed with an inalienable duty.
A duty to BETTER OUR NATION...A duty to BE BETTER PEOPLE....
COME...............LET US CHANGE.....
G
PATRIOTS PNG INC.
“CHANGE STARTS WITH ME”
Thoughts and Ideas for and regarding Papua New Guinea, the country I love.
01 November 2010
12 October 2010
PNG Growing Up...
Patriots,
In light of the recent tribal and ethnic fights (& killings) around the country, I just thought I’d share a thought. The problem of regionalism is not the only reason for the violence going on. But the major challenge in us Papua New Guineans is our EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY.
Unfortunately in PNG very little or no progress is made in the emotional growth of the majority. From my (unscientific) assessment I think most PNGeans have emotional levels equal to that of toddlers. That’s why we react more with how we feel rather than logic and reason. That’s why the educated elite still fight in towns like their brethren in the village. We throw tamper tantrums, feats, sulk, seek revenge foolishly and basically do WHATEVER WE FEEL AT ANY MOMENT without consideration of others—of course with the adult twist!
This may be a tough assessment of ourselves but I think we must confront such problems in ourselves in order to advance our attitudes.
Next time you’re faced with a choice. STOP AND THINK. Are you reacting according to your feeling or responding according to reason and logic? The sooner we shift the basis of our decisions from FEELINGS to REASON then the sooner we’ll establish peace between our tribes, provinces and regions. And give UNITY a chance…
EMOTIONAL MATURITY is being in charge of your emotions rather than the other way around.
Heavenise Week!
Ganjiki
PPNG
“Inspiring Change”
In light of the recent tribal and ethnic fights (& killings) around the country, I just thought I’d share a thought. The problem of regionalism is not the only reason for the violence going on. But the major challenge in us Papua New Guineans is our EMOTIONAL IMMATURITY.
Unfortunately in PNG very little or no progress is made in the emotional growth of the majority. From my (unscientific) assessment I think most PNGeans have emotional levels equal to that of toddlers. That’s why we react more with how we feel rather than logic and reason. That’s why the educated elite still fight in towns like their brethren in the village. We throw tamper tantrums, feats, sulk, seek revenge foolishly and basically do WHATEVER WE FEEL AT ANY MOMENT without consideration of others—of course with the adult twist!
This may be a tough assessment of ourselves but I think we must confront such problems in ourselves in order to advance our attitudes.
Next time you’re faced with a choice. STOP AND THINK. Are you reacting according to your feeling or responding according to reason and logic? The sooner we shift the basis of our decisions from FEELINGS to REASON then the sooner we’ll establish peace between our tribes, provinces and regions. And give UNITY a chance…
EMOTIONAL MATURITY is being in charge of your emotions rather than the other way around.
Heavenise Week!
Ganjiki
PPNG
“Inspiring Change”
15 September 2010
PATRIOTISM BEYOND SEPTEMBER 16
Dear Patriots
As we move into Celebration mode marking our Nation’s 35th Independent Anniversary, I would like to make an appeal I guess I will make every Independence Day.
Our celebrations and donning of our beautiful colours is all very good. During this period we are awakened to the reality of the greatness and beauty of our nation. We are proud and united and loyal and will defend this nation with our lives on…really??
I repeat a challenge that I posed last year: Consider young lady looking squarely into the eyes of her excited and anticipating lover. She asks him this one thing: “WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME IN THE MORNING??”
Imagine a nation so longing for the love of its people to be demonstrated not just on the date of its birth but on every other day. Longing for a real dedication that goes beyond the colouring and the singing. In the analogy of the lover many PNGeans, come September 16, are only lusty lovers looking to satisfy our own selfish desires to party and simply have a good time. But at the end of the day or the morning after we go on living our selfish lives contributing very little or nothing good to our country. We spit on her, litter on her, steal from her purse; blatantly ignoring her plea for us to remain in a mode where our attention is genuinely dedicated to her. She longs for the steady and simple acts of love from her people every day and not just one big POP! per year. A steady and tranquil patriotism expressed in good citizenship…
When you celebrate the EXISTENCE of this Nation ask yourself “WHY??” “Why am I celebrating?” “Why do I care that on this date my nation was born??”
Remind yourself that come September 17, “I will still be a true and constant patriot”. I hope that like me you will make an Independence Day Resolution that “FOR MY COUNTRY’S SAKE I WILL BE A BETTER CITIZEN TODAY MORE THAN YESTERDAY”…and repeat that resolution every other day the rest of the year…maybe the rest of YOUR years??
I love this country. My love for this country demands that I call up more patriots who will truly love this country beyond September 16.
Happy Independence and God Bless Papua New Guinea.
Ganjiki D Wayne
Patriots PNG Inc.
“CHANGE STARTS WITH ME”
As we move into Celebration mode marking our Nation’s 35th Independent Anniversary, I would like to make an appeal I guess I will make every Independence Day.
Our celebrations and donning of our beautiful colours is all very good. During this period we are awakened to the reality of the greatness and beauty of our nation. We are proud and united and loyal and will defend this nation with our lives on…really??
I repeat a challenge that I posed last year: Consider young lady looking squarely into the eyes of her excited and anticipating lover. She asks him this one thing: “WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME IN THE MORNING??”
Imagine a nation so longing for the love of its people to be demonstrated not just on the date of its birth but on every other day. Longing for a real dedication that goes beyond the colouring and the singing. In the analogy of the lover many PNGeans, come September 16, are only lusty lovers looking to satisfy our own selfish desires to party and simply have a good time. But at the end of the day or the morning after we go on living our selfish lives contributing very little or nothing good to our country. We spit on her, litter on her, steal from her purse; blatantly ignoring her plea for us to remain in a mode where our attention is genuinely dedicated to her. She longs for the steady and simple acts of love from her people every day and not just one big POP! per year. A steady and tranquil patriotism expressed in good citizenship…
When you celebrate the EXISTENCE of this Nation ask yourself “WHY??” “Why am I celebrating?” “Why do I care that on this date my nation was born??”
Remind yourself that come September 17, “I will still be a true and constant patriot”. I hope that like me you will make an Independence Day Resolution that “FOR MY COUNTRY’S SAKE I WILL BE A BETTER CITIZEN TODAY MORE THAN YESTERDAY”…and repeat that resolution every other day the rest of the year…maybe the rest of YOUR years??
I love this country. My love for this country demands that I call up more patriots who will truly love this country beyond September 16.
Happy Independence and God Bless Papua New Guinea.
Ganjiki D Wayne
Patriots PNG Inc.
“CHANGE STARTS WITH ME”
21 August 2010
Change is in our hands
When I was in college I witnessed many a good expression of concern bout the country from the ‘elites’. Expressions of anger and disgust at the blatant corruption in our government came from many lips. When we had the two unrests of our time patriotic outburst proceeded in our gatherings. Orators were always available to stir the hearts and minds of other students to rise to stand against an “injustice”.
From those same lips on other days I heard loud cursing and profanity. I watched the unbridled chewing and spitting of beetlenut all over the campus pavements and the busstop…from those same lips. Those same hands lifted up against a macro-injustice would vandalise property, toss rubbish cans, paint aliases on toilet walls, litter freely. Drunk and disorderly, ethnic differences and poor sportsmanship on weekends resulted in ethnic wars--from the ‘cream of the crop’ in a place that literally meant ‘unity in diversity’. I watched the abuse of women by this nation’s elites and wondered if our college education ever helped us appreciate the value and dignity of women.
Our definition of corruption extended to everything apart from ourselves. It rested on the bureaucracy and the politician but not on who you and I are. We seemed immune and yet there were not more darker hearts and minds than those supposedly more “enlightened”. We were hypocrites. And we still are (yes me too!). With our left hand we wish for change and progress. With our right we destroy it. Obviously one hand is more powerful.
MJ’s “Man in the Mirror” sums it up in our contemporary language. But throughout eternity the ever-applicable formula for change of any society first came from the SOURCE Himself in Whom no hypocrisy is found:
“YOU HYPOCRITE, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” ~Jesus
Senisim Pasin, Senisim PNG!
God Bless Papua New Guinea
Ganjiki
From those same lips on other days I heard loud cursing and profanity. I watched the unbridled chewing and spitting of beetlenut all over the campus pavements and the busstop…from those same lips. Those same hands lifted up against a macro-injustice would vandalise property, toss rubbish cans, paint aliases on toilet walls, litter freely. Drunk and disorderly, ethnic differences and poor sportsmanship on weekends resulted in ethnic wars--from the ‘cream of the crop’ in a place that literally meant ‘unity in diversity’. I watched the abuse of women by this nation’s elites and wondered if our college education ever helped us appreciate the value and dignity of women.
Our definition of corruption extended to everything apart from ourselves. It rested on the bureaucracy and the politician but not on who you and I are. We seemed immune and yet there were not more darker hearts and minds than those supposedly more “enlightened”. We were hypocrites. And we still are (yes me too!). With our left hand we wish for change and progress. With our right we destroy it. Obviously one hand is more powerful.
MJ’s “Man in the Mirror” sums it up in our contemporary language. But throughout eternity the ever-applicable formula for change of any society first came from the SOURCE Himself in Whom no hypocrisy is found:
“YOU HYPOCRITE, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” ~Jesus
Senisim Pasin, Senisim PNG!
God Bless Papua New Guinea
Ganjiki
20 August 2010
YUMI YET YUMI PNG!!
Dia Patriots!
Mi ting olsem bai mi raitim dis'la toksave lo tokpisin. Mi save olsem yupla olgeta save lo tokspisin so em bai orait…
Lo makim maus blo President Henry Osembo na ol narap'la lidaman na meri blo Patriots PNG mi laik tok bikpela tenkyu lo yupla ol memba na u husait sa’ salim tok hamamas na sapot lo wok blo PPNG. Dis'la grup em no wanpla fb grup nating. Em trutru Asosiasen o grup i wok long mekim trutru wok i go het long kamapim senis lo PNG (ino lo intanet tasol). As tingting blo grup em long helpim yumi yet ol pipol blo PNG lo laikim kantri blo yumi trutru long bel na tingting na ino lo maus o bilas tasol. Na long helpim yumi long sensim pasin. Sapos yumi senisim pasin bai kantri blo yumi senis trutru.
Dis'la no wanpla isi wok. Bel na tingting blo man em yu yet gat pawa long senisim (yu yet wantaim God). Wok blo PPNG em long soim (1) sampla asua blo yumi oslem pipol blo PNG, (2) sampla as blo senis na (3) sampl rot o wei we yumi ken senis. Em ken soim ol disla samting tasol sait blo senis trutru em stap lo yumi wanwan. Sapos yu no lukim nid lo senis bai yu les lo wokim wanpla senis. Olsem na mipla laik kamapim sampla wei lo soim yumi olgeta PNG manmeri long ol dis'la nid blo senis.
Planti grup ol wokim planti gutpla wok long PNG lo senisim kantri blo yumi. Tasol lo sait blo strongim toktok blo senisim pasin em nogat planti grup i stap. Patriots PNG em kamap long dispela wanpela as tasol. Yumi no politikol ektivist, or charity grup. As tingting blo PPNG em lo bungim ol yumi pipol blo PNG long lukluk lo senisim pasin.
Lo pinis mi tok tenkyu gen lo sapot blo yupla ol fb memba blo PPNG. Sapot blo yupla i save helpim mipla bikpla stret lo go mo long disla wokabaut.
Tenk yu na God i ken Blesim Papua Niugini!
Laikim
Ganjiki
Mi ting olsem bai mi raitim dis'la toksave lo tokpisin. Mi save olsem yupla olgeta save lo tokspisin so em bai orait…
Lo makim maus blo President Henry Osembo na ol narap'la lidaman na meri blo Patriots PNG mi laik tok bikpela tenkyu lo yupla ol memba na u husait sa’ salim tok hamamas na sapot lo wok blo PPNG. Dis'la grup em no wanpla fb grup nating. Em trutru Asosiasen o grup i wok long mekim trutru wok i go het long kamapim senis lo PNG (ino lo intanet tasol). As tingting blo grup em long helpim yumi yet ol pipol blo PNG lo laikim kantri blo yumi trutru long bel na tingting na ino lo maus o bilas tasol. Na long helpim yumi long sensim pasin. Sapos yumi senisim pasin bai kantri blo yumi senis trutru.
Dis'la no wanpla isi wok. Bel na tingting blo man em yu yet gat pawa long senisim (yu yet wantaim God). Wok blo PPNG em long soim (1) sampla asua blo yumi oslem pipol blo PNG, (2) sampla as blo senis na (3) sampl rot o wei we yumi ken senis. Em ken soim ol disla samting tasol sait blo senis trutru em stap lo yumi wanwan. Sapos yu no lukim nid lo senis bai yu les lo wokim wanpla senis. Olsem na mipla laik kamapim sampla wei lo soim yumi olgeta PNG manmeri long ol dis'la nid blo senis.
Planti grup ol wokim planti gutpla wok long PNG lo senisim kantri blo yumi. Tasol lo sait blo strongim toktok blo senisim pasin em nogat planti grup i stap. Patriots PNG em kamap long dispela wanpela as tasol. Yumi no politikol ektivist, or charity grup. As tingting blo PPNG em lo bungim ol yumi pipol blo PNG long lukluk lo senisim pasin.
Lo pinis mi tok tenkyu gen lo sapot blo yupla ol fb memba blo PPNG. Sapot blo yupla i save helpim mipla bikpla stret lo go mo long disla wokabaut.
Tenk yu na God i ken Blesim Papua Niugini!
Laikim
Ganjiki
13 August 2010
WE THE PEOPLE!!
Hi Patriots!
Max De Pree writes in his book LEADERSHIP IS AN ART, these words: "The corporation can never be something we are not".
Its true for the nation as well. Our Nation can never be something we the people are not. We cannot demand that our nation be progressive, and less corrupt if we are not willing to take step in that direction. (Of course it takes leadership to get the people to move in that direction but that’s something for another post)
Our Constitution opens with the words "WE THE PEOPLE". Not only does that phrase provide the basis for our democracy and the power of governance; in my view it prophetically puts down RESPONSIBILITY on the shoulder of WE THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Ultimately WE THE PEOPLE are responsible for either the demise or the prosperity of our country. No matter how much we yell and scream that some foreign power, people or element is driving us into the ground, it is Us, you and me, that really stand in the way of this country's greatness.
You may not identify with that unless you appreciate that you and I, carry the weight as integral parts of "WE THE PEOPLE".
Effectively what this all means is YOU and I, since we are the Obstacles to this country's progress, are the most potent SOLUTION for its progress. Only when we accept that We are the Problem, can we move on and BECOME the Solution. Without knowing this truth the majority of us automatically remain national liabilities.
Take some time to think bout how your actions or inaction affect the progress of our country. A politician may toss a million bucks in a year down the drain. But if 6 million people each toss a kina a day...?
Who really HAS THE POWER? WHO REALLY ABUSES THAT POWER AND WHO REALLY HAS THIS NATION IN A NOOSE??
WE THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.............................CHANGE STARTS WITH US!
God Bless PNG!
Max De Pree writes in his book LEADERSHIP IS AN ART, these words: "The corporation can never be something we are not".
Its true for the nation as well. Our Nation can never be something we the people are not. We cannot demand that our nation be progressive, and less corrupt if we are not willing to take step in that direction. (Of course it takes leadership to get the people to move in that direction but that’s something for another post)
Our Constitution opens with the words "WE THE PEOPLE". Not only does that phrase provide the basis for our democracy and the power of governance; in my view it prophetically puts down RESPONSIBILITY on the shoulder of WE THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Ultimately WE THE PEOPLE are responsible for either the demise or the prosperity of our country. No matter how much we yell and scream that some foreign power, people or element is driving us into the ground, it is Us, you and me, that really stand in the way of this country's greatness.
You may not identify with that unless you appreciate that you and I, carry the weight as integral parts of "WE THE PEOPLE".
Effectively what this all means is YOU and I, since we are the Obstacles to this country's progress, are the most potent SOLUTION for its progress. Only when we accept that We are the Problem, can we move on and BECOME the Solution. Without knowing this truth the majority of us automatically remain national liabilities.
Take some time to think bout how your actions or inaction affect the progress of our country. A politician may toss a million bucks in a year down the drain. But if 6 million people each toss a kina a day...?
Who really HAS THE POWER? WHO REALLY ABUSES THAT POWER AND WHO REALLY HAS THIS NATION IN A NOOSE??
WE THE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA.............................CHANGE STARTS WITH US!
God Bless PNG!
02 August 2010
Sensual Pictures on our dailies do not help our Moral Landscape
Here's a copy of a letter I sent to the two dailies and a weekly. I dont know if they'll publish it. Anyway...
To Post Courier,
I'm disappointed at your recent front/back-page pictures, latest being Friday 30/07/10, in which you clearly subscribe to the Western marketing philosophy of ‘sex-sells’. Both dailies are guilty of this but more so the Post Courier.
Its quite clear now that the dailies not intend to protect this country but to exploit it. How? By providing news that ride on the emotions of the people (and in fact you super-size it!) so that we buy your paper. Then you show pictures of half-naked women so that all the men would buy it and expand our imaginations (and your sales). What’s with the topless Tapioca dancers, the netball players' bare thighs and now the Brazillian bare-bottoms? I cannot think of anything more hypocritical than your current methods of selling papers. You speak against crime and corruption yet you show complete lack of understanding (or maybe you do but deliberately ignore it) of where all these evils start: THE MIND. And the door to the mind is the eye. You provide an initial source of filth, lust and greed and unbridled passion. When we act on it by raping, stealling, killing, rioting you make a report of it and sell even more papers. Free speech; free expression; free press? These are concepts you exploit to facilitate your market.
WE are an ancient people of decency, respect, dignity and communal harmony. The West has slowly moved into our country through the media. It has caused us to change our values. From self-respect, dignity and true love for family and community to materialism and selfish pursuit of pleasure. Look to the West and see the filth and immorality. Do we want that for our beloved Papua New Guinea? Corruption starts with little gradual steps. First a bare knee and a tight skirt; then a bare thigh and some bellybutton. Now you have Brazilians with tiny garments barely covering the essentials. Knowing the way men are wired we soon want fewer garments on the women. Porn is born. We let the mind loose; becoming less satisfied with our wives or impatient because we don’t have one yet. Promiscuity increase as well as AIDS and sexual crimes. Yes of course we should have self-control. But just because we should does not give you the right to bombard us with filth that pushes our control to the limits.
If the dailies want to change this country? Then encourage proper standards of morality and decency. Or the least you could do is NOT contribute to the decay with your sensual publications. If you cannot, do not speak against corruption; for you are becoming the fountain of it.
Ganjiki
To Post Courier,
I'm disappointed at your recent front/back-page pictures, latest being Friday 30/07/10, in which you clearly subscribe to the Western marketing philosophy of ‘sex-sells’. Both dailies are guilty of this but more so the Post Courier.
Its quite clear now that the dailies not intend to protect this country but to exploit it. How? By providing news that ride on the emotions of the people (and in fact you super-size it!) so that we buy your paper. Then you show pictures of half-naked women so that all the men would buy it and expand our imaginations (and your sales). What’s with the topless Tapioca dancers, the netball players' bare thighs and now the Brazillian bare-bottoms? I cannot think of anything more hypocritical than your current methods of selling papers. You speak against crime and corruption yet you show complete lack of understanding (or maybe you do but deliberately ignore it) of where all these evils start: THE MIND. And the door to the mind is the eye. You provide an initial source of filth, lust and greed and unbridled passion. When we act on it by raping, stealling, killing, rioting you make a report of it and sell even more papers. Free speech; free expression; free press? These are concepts you exploit to facilitate your market.
WE are an ancient people of decency, respect, dignity and communal harmony. The West has slowly moved into our country through the media. It has caused us to change our values. From self-respect, dignity and true love for family and community to materialism and selfish pursuit of pleasure. Look to the West and see the filth and immorality. Do we want that for our beloved Papua New Guinea? Corruption starts with little gradual steps. First a bare knee and a tight skirt; then a bare thigh and some bellybutton. Now you have Brazilians with tiny garments barely covering the essentials. Knowing the way men are wired we soon want fewer garments on the women. Porn is born. We let the mind loose; becoming less satisfied with our wives or impatient because we don’t have one yet. Promiscuity increase as well as AIDS and sexual crimes. Yes of course we should have self-control. But just because we should does not give you the right to bombard us with filth that pushes our control to the limits.
If the dailies want to change this country? Then encourage proper standards of morality and decency. Or the least you could do is NOT contribute to the decay with your sensual publications. If you cannot, do not speak against corruption; for you are becoming the fountain of it.
Ganjiki
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