22/10/2023
Blessed weekend all. I posted this on my personal profile but decided to re-post here because I think here is where this commentary should be and discussed.
I’d like to share some scenes that bring us to reality what is the real on ground situation with our every day, ordinary citizens. I’m not so sure we are in touch with them!!
After reading the different scenes, we should ask ourselves some fundamental questions.
What does these scenarios mean? Are they emerging signs or trends to a disaster in the horizon? What does this mean for me and my family, my children's future? Whats does this mean for me and my family's every day safety? Does my government really articulate my simple every days needs and working towards catering for them? Is the government in touch with reality on ground and understand the ply of the ordinary PNGeans?
I will expand on my views in a followup later. I'll allow you to read and have think first.
Scene1. At one of those street selling spots at rainbow village, one lady seller A asked another seller B to be loaned k100. Lady B said no, she doesn’t have k100. Lady A then says “ givim mi K50”. Lady B still says no. She has only K5 for her sons tomorrow school lunch. Lady A still persists saying “orait givim mi disla k5, yu go painim lunch money blo pikinini lo haus”.
Scene 2. A middled aged, obviously sick looking, lady with a walking stick, sores all over a light skinned tone, walks straight up to one lady cloth seller and says up front “ pren, mi save baim klos blo yu ya, tingim, plis nau yu baim bilum blo mi” and she offers old dirty hand bilum to the other. The other lady looks around her in wonderment, to make sure this was talking to her, then says “ pren yu toktok lo mi aa. Sori mi nogat moni lo baim bilum o”.
Scene 3. A drunken stumbles thru the street seller tuff, nearing stepping on some buai. He regretted doing that. He was belted good and proper. He would have been killed him if it was not in broad day light. During the course of these hammerings, you hear them saying,”ol police kam bagarapim yumi, na nau yu tu la bagarapim yumi aa. Yu ting mipla wanem. Sampla samting nating o animol o.”
Scene 4. One guy just jumps at Waigani onto a Route 9 bus for Gerehu and pays the ‘boss crew’ a k1. The boss crew asks this man immediately saying“ oi yu bai go we?’ …upon which the man turns around, looks at the crew and retorts ‘MASKI LO ASKIM!!’ The way he said that sent chills down the spin of all who were on board, including the boss crew who decided wisely, not to pursue the matter.
Scene 5. A buai chewer buys a buai for a ‘washer’, checks the buai by breaking the skin and finds out the buai was watery or ‘klau’ and was about to say something but something stopped him. The buai seller, a male, who was watching him all this time, looks him straight in the eye and says “ yu kailai tasol! Yu laik senisim, go lukim ol policeman. Sun kukim mi na mi stap ya, yu wanem. Kailai tasol o baim Narapla.”. The way he said it left no doubt it’s not worth pursuing.
