Wokbung Wantaim

"the beautiful soul mate" you may not see it but you can feel it you may not touch it but you can sense it you may not hear it all but you can understand it you can not smell it but you would know it you can not taste it yet but you are confident your beautiful soul mate feels you senses you understands you knows you and confidently will stand by you discover yours find completeness it has to be found it is trapped within it has to nourished it has to be empowered to be what it was destined to be your compliment your happiness by warime guti / 26-07-2019 photo: tupela kokonas blilong Madang long dispela naispela morning

Individualism has been forced on us whether we realize it on not. Once upon a time every member of our Melanesian communities were very community conscious. Sadly, Not today. Today, many of us think more for our own than for the communal values. Ask the critical questions. Think outside the box. How did we come this way? Was it a plot forced upon us by those who push for the very systems that govern us, the system that educate us, the system that support our physical (health), social well being? Have we already been set in play? To be ruled, rather then to rule ? ~ Warime Guti ~

1943 - The remains of the Sattelberg Church, Finschhafen This is a painting by Nora Heysen that shows the remains of the Church at Sattelberg after the 8 days of heavy bombing by the Allied troops attacking the Japanese stronghold on Sattelberg. Finally on 24th November 1943 the Japanese had to flee Satelberg the night before and the Allied force completely secure the hilltop of Satelberg. The caption of the painting reads "The timber remains of the church at Sattelberg Mission; only the cross and the pulpit are left standing" And further abstract from a news article found on the National Library of Australia online database reads "REMAINS OF CHURCH - A heap of timber, a few curiously carved figures, and a sturdy cross still standing and still undamaged was once the mission church. The wooden figures with brilliant robes and deep brown faces were the native artists' conception of the Saints. Lying among the timber was a gaudy pulpit carved from t

Do you know that a former Royal Australian Navy boat given as a gift to the PNGDF Navy in 1987 was named after Dregerhafen in Finschhafen, Morobe Province? Oct 2013 - HMPNGS Dreger entering Sydney Harbour Before we jump to that, lets go back... First of all, where does the name of the place Dregerhafen come from? Dregerhafen is infact two words, Dreger and Hafen. Just like Finschhafen, Finsch and Hafen. Finsch named after Otto Finsch the German explorer who explored most of the North Western part of the island of New Guinea. The Finschhafen proper is the habour in which Maneba wharf sits formed by the Nugidu Peninsula (point). Hafen in German means Harbour so it is Finsch-Harbour. Now back to Dregerhafen. Further south of Finschhafen is Dregerhafen. The place is named after Captain Martin Dreger, another German but this time he was the captain of the 1884 expedition on the sailing ship named "Samoa" that took Otto Finsch around the Pacific laying claim