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Too loud
Five weeks from Yuletide and the shops are making the most of it. Music so loud (sounds like someone singing carols but you just cannot tell) that you need ear plugs, and price tags claiming prices are now lower than last week’s. Yeah right. Pull the other leg!
Great feat
Despite losing 10-30 to the Kangaroos in the Rugby League World Cup, Samoans around the world continue to celebrate their national team reaching the final. A feat in itself!
Thanks Samoa
Thank you Samoa for showing the world that small island nations can mix it with the big guns in any sport. You fell just one step short. Manuia fa’afeta.
Focus on winning
Losers focus on winners. Winners focus on winning.
No entry
After a fight near Gordon Market two weeks ago, the entrance to Cobon Street for vehicles coming down from Erima remains closed. It does not serve any other purpose but to cause an unnecessary traffic jam near the Unagi Oval roundabout. Someone is sleeping on the job, surely.
Marching together
When leaders use the “leave no one behind” phrase, they need to come off their high horses and look at the flagrant level of poverty around them. Are not these citizens being left behind? Fancy words they know are not true.
Less following
A men’s team and a women’s team playing what looks like rugby sevens in Brisbane last weekend. Not much interest though compared to rugby league.
Food for thought
Sometimes, I feel like giving up. Then I remember I have a lot of people to prove wrong.
Top quote
“PNG is the heavy weight in our cluster of Pacific islands. Our voice and aspirations in APEC are shared by our sister island nations. In addition to the free flow of trade, the impact of climate change on our economies is real and present. Trade and climate change are seriously intertwined.” – PM James Marape.

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