Thursday, December 11, 2008

Friends are always HARD to find

Ruben (L) from the SHP and and Wickham (R) from Morobe are two of my best buddies here in the states. Both live in the state of 10,000 lakes. (If you don't know where that is, we'll check it out :)

Michael Tumba is a good friend of mine from Western Highlands Province. He studies at the University of the Nations in Hawaii, USA but currently he is doing his internship in Montana, USA. We converse alot which keeps PNG/Hagen closer to use especially when we're miles and miles away from 'home sweet home - PNG/Hagen"


John Piel is a good friend of mine from Hagen and works and lives with his family in Port Moresby. John conveys at times latest developments in POM, Hagen, and PNG at large. He is a good guy to talk to and get along. We'll that's his babe standing beside it.
After graduating from college in the winter of 2005; I, for the first time drove across interstate lines from Iowa to Indiana using that Ford. We'll during those days, that was my first car...oh well...I use to call in those days my 'experiment car to drive'. The bad news is, I sold that one for $100.

John Piel and his family breathing some fresh air on the porch outside their Port Moresby home

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Friends are always HARD to find

Ruben (L) from the SHP and and Wickham (R) from Morobe are two of my best buddies here in the states. Both live in the state of 10,000 lakes. (If you don't know where that is, we'll check it out :)

Michael Tumba is a good friend of mine from Western Highlands Province. He studies at the University of the Nations in Hawaii, USA but currently he is doing his internship in Montana, USA. We converse alot which keeps PNG/Hagen closer to use especially when we're miles and miles away from 'home sweet home - PNG/Hagen"


John Piel is a good friend of mine from Hagen and works and lives with his family in Port Moresby. John conveys at times latest developments in POM, Hagen, and PNG at large. He is a good guy to talk to and get along. We'll that's his babe standing beside it.
After graduating from college in the winter of 2005; I, for the first time drove across interstate lines from Iowa to Indiana using that Ford. We'll during those days, that was my first car...oh well...I use to call in those days my 'experiment car to drive'. The bad news is, I sold that one for $100.

John Piel and his family breathing some fresh air on the porch outside their Port Moresby home

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Friends are always HARD to find

Ruben (L) from the SHP and and Wickham (R) from Morobe are two of my best buddies here in the states. Both live in the state of 10,000 lakes. (If you don't know where that is, we'll check it out :)

Michael Tumba is a good friend of mine from Western Highlands Province. He studies at the University of the Nations in Hawaii, USA but currently he is doing his internship in Montana, USA. We converse alot which keeps PNG/Hagen closer to use especially when we're miles and miles away from 'home sweet home - PNG/Hagen"


John Piel is a good friend of mine from Hagen and works and lives with his family in Port Moresby. John conveys at times latest developments in POM, Hagen, and PNG at large. He is a good guy to talk to and get along. We'll that's his babe standing beside it.
After graduating from college in the winter of 2005; I, for the first time drove across interstate lines from Iowa to Indiana using that Ford. We'll during those days, that was my first car...oh well...I use to call in those days my 'experiment car to drive'. The bad news is, I sold that one for $100.

John Piel and his family breathing some fresh air on the porch outside their Port Moresby home

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PNG lacks leadership

REFER to University of Vudal Vice-Chancellor Prof Philip Siaguru’s comments about bureaucratic red-tape (The National, Dec 1). I agree with him. We are a rich nation getting poorer by the year. I put it down to two factors – leadership without vision and management without integrity. We have too many politicians but not many leaders. Not one MP has told us what his vision is for his electorate, province or country in the next 10 years. Many decisions are ad hoc and reactionary. They lead to poor management. That is why our public servants are inefficient and unproductive. They lack personal integrity. They know the laws and processes but are not willing to abide by them. Unless we get our leadership and management right, we will not progress. We can have the financial resources and good systems but, if the people in the system are dishonest and untrustworthy, we will end up wasting time and resources. It now boils down to individual Papua New Guineans to rise up and be counted.

– David Ulg Ketepa, Michigan, USA

(source: www.thenational.com.pg , editorial - 11/12/2008)

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PNG lacks leadership

REFER to University of Vudal Vice-Chancellor Prof Philip Siaguru’s comments about bureaucratic red-tape (The National, Dec 1). I agree with him. We are a rich nation getting poorer by the year. I put it down to two factors – leadership without vision and management without integrity. We have too many politicians but not many leaders. Not one MP has told us what his vision is for his electorate, province or country in the next 10 years. Many decisions are ad hoc and reactionary. They lead to poor management. That is why our public servants are inefficient and unproductive. They lack personal integrity. They know the laws and processes but are not willing to abide by them. Unless we get our leadership and management right, we will not progress. We can have the financial resources and good systems but, if the people in the system are dishonest and untrustworthy, we will end up wasting time and resources. It now boils down to individual Papua New Guineans to rise up and be counted.

– David Ulg Ketepa, Michigan, USA

(source: www.thenational.com.pg , editorial - 11/12/2008)

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PNG lacks leadership

REFER to University of Vudal Vice-Chancellor Prof Philip Siaguru’s comments about bureaucratic red-tape (The National, Dec 1). I agree with him. We are a rich nation getting poorer by the year. I put it down to two factors – leadership without vision and management without integrity. We have too many politicians but not many leaders. Not one MP has told us what his vision is for his electorate, province or country in the next 10 years. Many decisions are ad hoc and reactionary. They lead to poor management. That is why our public servants are inefficient and unproductive. They lack personal integrity. They know the laws and processes but are not willing to abide by them. Unless we get our leadership and management right, we will not progress. We can have the financial resources and good systems but, if the people in the system are dishonest and untrustworthy, we will end up wasting time and resources. It now boils down to individual Papua New Guineans to rise up and be counted.

– David Ulg Ketepa, Michigan, USA

(source: www.thenational.com.pg , editorial - 11/12/2008)

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