tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913684115664739812024-03-05T14:23:06.486-08:00HerRoyal BanoA collection of my thoughts, spoken word pieces, vlogs, reviews and youth involvement. A little bit of (almost) everything that is me.
Go to the tab(s) and click on the links to be redirected to the post. :-)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-27343168275584213882017-07-13T14:15:00.001-07:002017-07-13T14:17:41.590-07:00One thing of One thing (by Daniel David Wallace)Some time ago I came across <a href="https://danieldavidwallace.com/" target="_blank">Daniel David Wallace</a> in my attempt to write better. I found his work great so subscribed to receiving emails from him. This week he shared the write up below and I thought to share this with you all.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you are anything like me, you are very busy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it's natural, when one is very busy, to want to get more done in a day. That's why I often find myself reading books -- and listening to podcasts -- about productivity, about ways to become more efficient and focused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After all, if you now produce, say, "100" units of effort every day, wouldn't it be amazing if you could, through some weird trick, produce "110" units of effort, or even "120"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, the trouble seems to be that "productivity," as people generally understand it, is basically nonsense. There is no secret, because there is nothing to discover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, I can easily imagine situations where help with "productivity" would genuinely help a person: if that person was struggling with poverty, or with depression, or with raising a child alone. In those situations, yes, I can imagine interventions that would boost a person's ability to do more creative, artistic, entreprenuerial work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, if you are a vaguely professional person, or a more or less functioning grad student -- a person with a relatively normal capacity to produce -- <em>you are probably already at your limit.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In K. Anders Ericsson's seminal study, <em>The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</em>, his team found that the "star" students of Berlin Music Academy practised the violin for basically the same number of hours each day as the "pretty good" students. <strong>There was no extra supply of practice hours that the stars had through their genius unlocked.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was no augmented, leveled-up willpower that allowed the best musicians to stay in the practice room longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Similarly: Anthony Trollope is one of the most prolific novelists who ever lived. Over his life, <em>in addition to working full-time at the Post Office</em>, he wrote 47 novels (as well as several travel books, an artistic memoir, and collections of short stories). But despite this absurdly high output, Trollope stated very clearly that neither he, nor any other author in Victorian London, was able to write new fiction for more than a three-hour stretch each day. After this stretch of hard work, the creative mind was spent until the next morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's just accept that this is true: you are already at your maximum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I still have some advice for you, however.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From all my reading, it seems like the key to getting more done is to do fewer things overall.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It really seems that key to getting more done lies in what you do <strong>not</strong> do, not what you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason why you aren't producing as much as that annoyingly "productive" person in your field is that you are likely filling your day, and your mind, with stuff you shouldn't be doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here, I mean work that you have decided <em>you</em> <em>have to</em> do, seemingly important work that takes you away from your most crucial vocation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think that all of us creative people somehow accumulate a vast array of responsibilities and onerous side-projects. We may consider these tasks to be vital, even virtuous, but often, the people around us have no idea we are doing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>Can you practise a little shamelessness for the next week or two?</strong> Try to see how many "important" aspects of your job you can simply not do, or do only when directly asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Try to see how many non-delightful social events you can simply skip. Don't be pompous about it: simply don't show up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of course, you shouldn't be reckless. If you try to back out of a work responsibility, and the rest of the office screams at you, well, don't persist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I think such moments will be rarer than you think. In past jobs, I have actually seen the very colleague who never did *that one allegedly crucial thing* actually get awards and commendations for their performance of that one thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's my other tip. Outside of your must-do responsibilities, I suggest you focus on one thing, and one thing alone, to make progress on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Decide on that one thing. And then go one more step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now focus on one aspect of that one thing.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This rule is simply called: "one thing of one thing."</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's about setting singular objectives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because it's not enough to say, "I will finish my novel this year," or "I will become a professional blogger in fifteen months." Both those goals are potentially infinite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You could go mad trying to write the perfect novel chapter, or the most ideally conversion-optimised blog post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead, choose a goal, a focus, and then choose one singular standard or metric to guide you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nothing limitless, like "Finish my novel this year." That's impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rather set yourself a goal like <em>"Write 1,000 words of my novel every day."</em></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trying to meet that one goal will clarify all your other life decisions.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em>"Build a professional blog by adding 12 new email subscribers every day."</em> If you pick this goal, then everything else -- traffic numbers, likes and comments, the "respect" of your peers -- has to be essentially <strong>irrelevant</strong>. Just get those twelve each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's only by settling on a clear, definite, singular target that you can get good feedback on your progress. The target tells you when to try something new, and when to stay on track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It also tells you what not to worry about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em>"Is my novel any good? Well, I don't know yet, but I'm writing 1,000 words of it every single day until this draft is over. </em>Then<em> I'll worry about quality."</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I come across other interesting work he shares with me I will share with you all :-) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Until next blog...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Elisha Bano.</i></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-22633017074570695612017-04-26T17:26:00.000-07:002017-04-26T17:26:37.464-07:00FjFW 2016 (Day 1)<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Fiji Fashion Week 2016</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Resort Wear Show</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>8 Sept 2016</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Vodafone Arena</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Suva</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Fiji</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now<i> </i>I am no fashion blogger but I love to watch the Fashion Show. As a consumer of the Fashion industry and a lover of creativity and art I too have my 2 cent when I watch the show. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This post is not about individual designer breakdown, rather, it gives my 2cent on how youth are involved in the Fiji Fashion Week. I have been working with the photography team during this annual event and this year I thought to take a different approach. I must say I was impressed with the amount of Youth involved in putting the show together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The theme of the evening event was R<i>esort Wear </i>so naturally the colours showcased tonight were bright and fabrics seemed cool. Overall - I loved the show!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1. 8 year old designer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The show feature Mariah Alone, 8 year who designed a swimwear line with the help from her mother and family. This, I must say is truly inspiring and a great example of Innovation, Support, Creativity and Opportunity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is extremely important for parents to support their children so they can live out their dreams. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2. Models</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Majority of the models are youth and while some have full time jobs and walk the runway for hobby others are considering this a future career and some using this platform to boost their confidence, network and have a feel of the fashion industry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3. Volunteers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The volunteers have been doing a lot of the behind the scene work and it can't be easy pulling together a Fashion show without the help of the volunteers. I spoke to some volunteers who have been at FjFW for a number of years now while it was a first time experience for some. Youth volunteerism is huge across the world and I am glad that our local youth get to learn a thing or two about fashion from Local as well International personals at this annual event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this point I think I would like to highlight that The Fiji Fashion Week event engages numerous youth in this annual event. When we look at the Sustainable Development Goals and key points such as; Economic growth, Innovation, Employment, Education, International/Global partnership and Equal opportunities I think the fashion industry does tie into a lot of these. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>The Fashion industry is thriving across the globe and it is contributing towards our Economic growth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>The various styles displayed showcased the innovation by various designers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>The fashion industry is a form of employment of many present at the event and others who contribute externally, example seamstress, graphic designers, printers and pattern makers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>The workshops conducted by FjFW and courses offered by FNU & APTC are contributing towards the fashion education needed by the designers and others in the industry. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>International Designers and companies showcasing their produce at FjFW or coming here looking to partner with locals it shows a good link towards Global partnerships. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">>This annual opportunities is being utilized by local and International designers to showcase their work, generate interest and create discussion about what fashion means to us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And there is my brief take on tonight's show. It was a pleasure watching and chatting with the various people involved in the industry. </span><br />
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<i>Until next blog... </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-54493414722794999432017-02-21T15:18:00.002-08:002017-02-21T15:18:45.500-08:00Say it like it is <div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 4.5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SEX</b> – now
that I have your attention let’s talk about some Vocabulation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is now 2017 and there some
important vocabularies that we still discuss in the darkness of the night, with
whispers and code-words like if we said it out loud a nuclear explosion will
take place or the aliens will invade OR it will be the end of humanity as we
know it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight’s performance is brought to
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">V – for Vagina<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M – for menstruation <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P – for pads<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very everyday words<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very real words<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very <i>taboo </i>words<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very hush hush – paint it with
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A vagina is a vagina – say it like
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, say it with me – VAGINA. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know from Basic Science
class that girls go through their menstrual cycles every month. It is a natural
occurrence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no need to quarantine us
from the rest of the class. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet, we call it: that time of the
month, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Auntie is visiting – hey! My aunt
brings me very awesome gifts when she comes. She doesn’t bring me stomach
churning cramps. She brings me chocolates and clothes and shoes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menstruation's</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> are a living
nightmare. Sometimes the cramps are so bad you crawl from your bed to bathroom.
So no! That is no aunt visiting. That is a nightmare. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menstruation's are not happy, daisy,
rosy, red flag, aunt visiting. They are what they are – say it with me:
MENSTRUATION. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And with menstruation comes the joy
of buying sanitary pads. So what I don’t understand is; what’s the big secret
surrounding pad? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we go to buy that one packet
of pad why must we buy hundreds of extra, unnecessary things to cover up the
sole thing we came to buy? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Here go buy one packet Libra good
nights – okkkkaaaay. </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goes into supermarket and buys one
4 corn flakes, 5 Weet-bix, 5 packets of chocolates, 2 bags of rice etc etc.
Just so that no one see’s you are buying ONE PACKET of PAD. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because we all know that if anyone
see’s you buy a packet of pad they will know you are fully functioning woman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because they will know you are
menstruating. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because they will know your bodily
secret. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But wait- it doesn’t stop there.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why must the cashier wrap the
packet of pads in a thousand newspapers and put it inside a plastic bag?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is this a vault? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please enter password. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a packet of pad. PAD. PAD. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now say it with me – PAD. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are in 2017! Cutting edge technology available. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Progressive societies and we still hush these words. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why? I don’t know about you but I find that when I say these
words as they are I feel more empowered. So I urge all my ladies out there and
men too – say it like it is! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>VAGINA – MENSTRUATION – PAD.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-83813908088399406632016-11-24T20:04:00.000-08:002016-11-24T20:04:16.088-08:00Commonwealth Youth worker award 2016<b><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Commonwealth Youth Worker Award 2016</span></u></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_XOqy-Ytpkh0AsepLewj3H1NkXPGqVwV3b8Kq3up4nUIRKJUzrfjXgNDaLKNShun95ykm7C8ZfC1bfn-n2elglyl62iojz0nffDhdJA0UJZIH007qeHrxtaZP6mV6kj_GusFhp_jJrHo/s1600/IMG_2089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_XOqy-Ytpkh0AsepLewj3H1NkXPGqVwV3b8Kq3up4nUIRKJUzrfjXgNDaLKNShun95ykm7C8ZfC1bfn-n2elglyl62iojz0nffDhdJA0UJZIH007qeHrxtaZP6mV6kj_GusFhp_jJrHo/s200/IMG_2089.jpg" width="176" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Youth work is something I am passionate about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So imagine my excitement when I was told that I am one of the four finalists in the Pacific Region for the Commonwealth Youth Worker award 2016 (theme: Sports and arts). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You know that feeling like you are on Cloud 9! Yes, that was me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love engaging in Creative Arts spaces and to be told that I am a finalist for just that was beyond what words can express. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am extremely thankful for the love, support and guidance I have received through my loving family and friends. They have helped me get to where I am. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3ievbjBdeK-ZjdULF3hNL_PdCbHT-udPRpKmbqGJxqNDOrCycZ4K84tejk5byMWd0Pc6h-Hyg9_m9iaORJKbhz3rYVhiQQttS0QpEv1tY7cDzd8_zXaAF0NZjrNy4Uzky-mJrB7Vi4-O/s1600/IMG_2087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3ievbjBdeK-ZjdULF3hNL_PdCbHT-udPRpKmbqGJxqNDOrCycZ4K84tejk5byMWd0Pc6h-Hyg9_m9iaORJKbhz3rYVhiQQttS0QpEv1tY7cDzd8_zXaAF0NZjrNy4Uzky-mJrB7Vi4-O/s200/IMG_2087.jpg" width="111" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A huge vinaka vakalevu (thank you very much) for the nomination and while I didn't take home the PACIFIC region award I am sure as hell grateful to be listed as a finalist. To be able to call myself the Fiji representative and to be placed among the great youth workers in the Pacific. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We may be a dot on the map but we strive to excel and I hope this award encourages my fellow youth workers to continue doing their best! </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>About ACT </b>(Advocacy through Creative Techniques):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://actfiji.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">ACT</a> is a creative arts youth group. We formed in 2014 and engage with youth to address social issues using creative arts. Our most recent project is to inform and educate communities about the <a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/" target="_blank">SDG</a> - Sustainable Development Goals. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Until next blog...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-56188412470432055722016-11-01T02:48:00.002-07:002016-11-01T02:48:23.253-07:00One step at a time<div class="MsoNormal">
Alone I can’t achieve much together we can try<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s take the first step and see what we find. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Social media platforms are an easy reach<o:p></o:p></div>
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Post it up today and millions you can teach. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Images<o:p></o:p></div>
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Videos<o:p></o:p></div>
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Write ups too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Song<o:p></o:p></div>
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Music <o:p></o:p></div>
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Talanoa will do. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Storytelling<o:p></o:p></div>
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Books<o:p></o:p></div>
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Drawing as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of the mediums to show and tell. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Keep the information simple<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not too much jargons. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Reach down to the grassroots <o:p></o:p></div>
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And not just the urbans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Utilize the youths<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mobilize them further <o:p></o:p></div>
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Use existing networks<o:p></o:p></div>
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Strength the connections. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Research your statistics<o:p></o:p></div>
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Partner with donors<o:p></o:p></div>
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Breakdown the chunks and<o:p></o:p></div>
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Share this wider. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The first step is simple<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gather the data<o:p></o:p></div>
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Share the information<o:p></o:p></div>
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And work together to make things better. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-37651812606620243732016-11-01T02:47:00.005-07:002016-11-01T02:47:59.781-07:00Big Brother SDG<div class="MsoNormal">
Joint efforts made by world leaders<o:p></o:p></div>
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After research and consultation they bring these to us<o:p></o:p></div>
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17 goals <o:p></o:p></div>
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Each with its own targets<o:p></o:p></div>
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15 years to meet them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Poverty, hunger, education & employment<o:p></o:p></div>
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Equality, gender, health & development<o:p></o:p></div>
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Infrastructure, land, sea & climate<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peace, justice and global partners <o:p></o:p></div>
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15 years will pass<o:p></o:p></div>
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We don’t want a repeat<o:p></o:p></div>
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Information<o:p></o:p></div>
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Education <o:p></o:p></div>
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And consultation is necessary<o:p></o:p></div>
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Teach one another what each goal means<o:p></o:p></div>
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Work together with government, community and groups to
achieve these <o:p></o:p></div>
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Progress should marked and reports made public<o:p></o:p></div>
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Include children, grassroots and the elderly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nothing on culture, tradition and history<o:p></o:p></div>
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No mention of preserving these as a necessity. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is a start so let’s work together<o:p></o:p></div>
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Step 1 is key<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t delay this any further. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-45528812295270862032016-11-01T02:47:00.002-07:002016-11-01T02:47:25.137-07:00It starts with MDG<div class="MsoNormal">
Health<o:p></o:p></div>
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Equality<o:p></o:p></div>
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Employment<o:p></o:p></div>
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Education<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sustainability <o:p></o:p></div>
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Partnership <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of the components that drove the predecessor <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Millennium Development Goals<o:p></o:p></div>
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The beginning of the joint forces<o:p></o:p></div>
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The start to get countries to look at the status<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first step to helping the poor<o:p></o:p></div>
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The light of hope to the under-developeds prayer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2015 came, the goals ended. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2015 came, reports made clear. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2015 came and half the population didn’t even care. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pacific reports shocked many<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pacific stats were unimpressive<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pacific communities didn’t understand many of this <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pacific youths started voicing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Governments<o:p></o:p></div>
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Agencies<o:p></o:p></div>
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Organizations <o:p></o:p></div>
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Groups<o:p></o:p></div>
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Many started to lobby. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Some took actions that didn’t exactly benefit<o:p></o:p></div>
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But they met the quota and we had something to show for it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Where did these goals come from?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where do the reports go?<o:p></o:p></div>
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How will the stats benefit us?<o:p></o:p></div>
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What are the recommendations for us to know?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Read the reports<o:p></o:p></div>
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Join social causes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Develop a social consciousness<o:p></o:p></div>
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Help the community grow. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Last year (2011) I was selected to represent FIJI under the 17<sup>th</sup> Know India Program. Three weeks. Three states. 24 participants from 7 different countries. It was pure awesomeness! We learnt so much.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">As we celebrated International Women’s Day this month (March) I thought it was appropriate to share this experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">We visited the Delhi Metro and met with the executives who shared with us how economical and environment friendly their metros were. I wanted to know how many women actually worked as train operators and I was told some ten women who graduated with engineering degrees worked with – hands on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">In Punjab we visited the rail coach factory and it was so empowering to note that women worked in the factory as electricians, upholstery workers and joiners. There were women driving through the busy streets on their scooters and motorbikes wearing salwar kamiz. I have only seen that in movies before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Two days before our program ended we visited the Parliament house, New Delhi and were told we will be meeting the President, Her Excellency, Mrs. Pratibha Patil. She is the first female President of India (the largest democracy in the world). If that is not empowering I don’t know what is. I was fortunate enough to be granted the opportunity to address Her Excellency in a speech, stating how my trip to India had been. I wrote a tiny speech on a paper but was not allowed to take it inside with me. So I improvised and jot down points on a tissue paper (make wise use of resources).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">First and foremost I acknowledged how empowering it was to be in the same room as Her Excellency and I shared with her how impressed I was with the level of empowerment women have received in India (women employed in some male dominated fields), secondly I mentioned the quality of education offered in India and how impressive it was that people from all over the world came to study in India. Finally, I acknowledged the rich art and culture present in India.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">She thanked us for our attendance and shared some of her own comments. Such a powerful lady – is all I could think of. But something she said in that room is stuck in my head.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">“In places like Rajhestan – women are in law enforcement fields. Women who once needed protection are now protecting others”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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At the Rastapati Bhawan, India. May 2011.<br /><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;">For me (personally) this has got to be the most POWERFUL and the most EMPOWERING woman I have met so far!!! She leads the largest democracy in the World and she does it so Simply!! </span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #741b47;">Until next blog...</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Morning, </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">So last week (April 2011) four of us young ladies were told that we are going to India for three weeks to represent FIJI under the 17th Know India Program. Yes such an honor for the four of us.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">This was the first time for a full <em>female </em>team to represent Fiji for the Know India Program <we thought it was real cool that this lucky opportunity was granted to us></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">We were up around 5am, 25/04/2011. Got to the Nadi International Airport at 6am for check in and waited for our 8.30am flight to HongKong. This trip was very exciting for Parishka as it was her first time on a plane =)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;"> It took us ten hours to reach HKG and I was just not sleepy at all. I can't say the same for my fellow friends . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;"> . . Yeah they slept most of the time <some people> but they were up when it was time to eat.</span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">We flew over.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Manilla, Phillipines.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Next stop Hong Kong. . . </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">(Photos from the hongKong airport are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plain.flawa#!/media/set/?set=a.10150580383835693.672742.642120692&type=3" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a> )</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">We departed from HongKong airport at 7.30pm (Hongkong time) and had a 5 hour flight to New Delhi, India. It was probably the longest 5 hours of my life. The passengers on the flight were just impossible. I felt so sorry for the flight attendents, they had to reason and explain some very basic things. <em>Things like what </em>you may ask.</span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Things like: <em>Sir, please sit down, the pilot has turned on the 'seat belt' sign. </em>This passenger did not want to sit down. The pilot commented twice that we were about to land but the runway was not clear so we still circling over the airport. But this grown man did not want to listen. He wanted to walk in the flight. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Anyway, we finally landed at the Indira Gandhi Airport. By the time we collected our bags and got throught customs it was 1am 26/04/2011 (India time - 7.30am Fiji Time) and all this time I had not slept. I did have a half hour nap on the way from Hongkong to India.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Mr. Vandan Sharma from the tracel company picked us up from the airport and at this point we did not know that we will be looked after by him through out the three weeks. </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">As soon as we stepped out of the airport a gust of heat slapped us on the face <being tired and sleepy made it feel worse than what it was). I saw a real neat Billboard on a building across from the airport. It was the billboard for a cell phone with lights and all <I wish my sister was here to see this - she is a Graphic desinger and works for a prominent advertising company back home></span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">The drive from the airport to the hotel was long (Mostly because we were tired). </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">On the way we saw: </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">1) People working at construction sight (reminder: this is around 1am!!)</span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">2) Families sleeping on the side walk with little children.</span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">3) People sitting around and chatting.</span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">4) Passengers travelling to and from the airport.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Finally at 1.45am we reached the hotel. we were greeted with refreshing cold drinks and friendly smiles of the staff :) our rooms were assigned <Parishka and I were going to be roomies, while Dipika and Kormal would be roomies> </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">After they took our bags up to the room and we set for a little, Mr. Sharma came up to us and said<em><strong>Ladies, I will see you tomorrow. Call the staff here if you need anything. PLEASE do not leave the hotel! <</strong>hearing this we could have had heart attacks. you see we arrived two days before the program starts<strong>> </strong></em></span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">We went up to our rooms and decided we will follow the rules. Time to get some sleep... </span><br /><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">HOTEL ARREST who would have thought . . . </span></em><br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial;">I set by the window for a little while, watching the traffic flow... Finally we are in India. This is something I wanted to do for a very long time. Visit INDIA. :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>26 April 2011 - Tuesday</strong></span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">Waking up in Room 228, Hotel Rockland Inn, CR Park, New Delhi - next to me is Parishka Sharma. Time on my watch is 9.30am (India Time) <span style="color: #134f5c;"><em>Gosh! That means I only slept for some six hours. </em></span>Walked over to the window and stared out. The hotel signage was blocking most of my view of the road but I could still see partially. People driving like mad. People crossing anyhow. Some selling goodies to passer bys. Some yarning by the roadside.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">By the time a freshened up the other two girls were awake and came over to our room. We made our way down to the lobby only to find out that breakfast ends at 10am! <em>HAH!! We missed breakfast. We can't go out of the hotel. What will we do? </em></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">The very nice lady at the counter came to us and told us we can go and breakfast =) <em>Phew. That was such a relief. </em>So we went and had breakfast. Enjoyed out first meal in India. It was similar to that back home :)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">The chef came and met us - he was really nice - and told us to make our way back to the dinning area at 1pm for nice Lunch. So after our wonderful breakfast we made our way up to room 228 and watched TV. So many channels to flip through so we did not mind staying in doors. Plus this was a bonding moment for us as well. We all got to know each other a little better and this was time well spent.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">at 1pm we went down for lunch - very yummy Pasta and salad and we also had delicious Butter Chicken and Naan :) And for dessert we had strawberry Ice cream :D</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">After lunch we returned to the room and watched TV and told jokes and stories =) It was fun.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">For dinner we had pasta, aloo (<em>Potato) </em>curry and a very nice noodle dish. Mr. Sharma came to visit us and complimented on us being well behaved (a very LOL moment). it is very exciting that more participants will be coming down tomorrow :) <em> </em></span><br /><em><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">can't wait :D</span></em></div>
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Day 2 of Hotel Arrest =( well it is not that bad but of course being in India and staying in doors is not much fun. we would rather be out doors and exploring this amazing city!!<br />
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The first KIPLET that we met was PRIYA RAVEL from USA. very nice young lady. BONUS it is her birthday today. how exciting!!<br />
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Slowly other participants started coming in.<br />
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9 participants from South Africa.<br />
5 from TnT.<br />
2 form Suriname.<br />
1 from France<br />
1 from Peru.<br />
2 from USA. And of course us<br />
4 from Fiji.<br />
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Over dinner we got meet each other (others were still jet legged - poor people).<br />
I remember while we set for dinner Mr. France (Ranjit) came in and mumbled something. I just got ..... Ranjit Singh from Fronce (yeah that is how you pronounced it Ranjit) and than he mumbled something off after and set to eat.<br />
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It was an eventful evening - Pratima (the other care taker who we had. She was LOVELY) got a cake for Priya and we all sang Happy Birthday for her. Pratima also smashed some cake on Priya's face (AWESOME).<br />
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From tomorrow the main purpose of this travel begins... the 17th Know India Program (April - May 2011)... <i>Chalo Delhi :)</i></div>
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Day 5: 17th KIP A.I.R/JNU</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2nd May 2011, May.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1st </b>we visited the <b>All India Radio (AIR)</b>. Each day my excitement just grows so much more. We received a tour of the grand radio station. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fiji is a very small place compared to India and so our radio stations in Fiji are on very small premises. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were welcomed into the conference room with roses (one for each one of us) and sweets. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And these were very delicious sweets. nomnom!!</i> We were briefed on what AIR is and what they do. So some information I noted were:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">AIR is the only radio station that has a Youth Channel where they discuss Youth issues.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They do not have a specific English station but allocate slots where they play English music.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They have 7 channels: 1) Main AM frequency 2) Rajdhany (alternative channel) 3)Urvanu Channel- exclusive for Youth. 4) Vivid Bharit- commercial 5) FM Rainbow 6) FM Gold 7) DTS- connecting other district stations. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The panel from the radio station engaged us in question and answers. they asked us about media in our respective countries and we asked them more questions about theirs. It was a constructive session and a good learning experience for us. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2nd </b>we visited <a href="http://www.jnu.ac.in/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The KIP members attended a short lecture on the programs and courses offered by the University and the opportunities it offers for International students. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After that we were given a tour of the University- the very large library and the small book shop stalls. I got very excited by the range of books offered there. Bought 2 Psych books and one on gender and community all for $40FJD (Equivalent to about $20USD). </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The University halls had a great deal of Advocacy posters on the halls and important notices everywhere. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Another great day well spent. </i></span></div>
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Day 4: 17th KIP Kingdom of dreams</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1st May, 2011 | Sunday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all the partying last night we were a little worried about waking up today and gearing up for more visits BUT once again we were so lucky. Our Sunday was treated well because we went to visit the <a href="http://www.kingdomofdreams.in/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kingdom of dreams, Gurgao, Haryana.</a> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a great experience for all of us. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was food from the different corners of India under one roof and we had a feast =) *Buffet much*</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152140378390693&set=a.10152051635965693.898383.642120692&type=3&theater" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pani puri</a> we ate was mouth watering. And since it is my favourite thing in the world wide world I was super excited!!! We managed to get our hands on some Kurta's (indian long tops) and bangles. A few of the participants got clay/pottery made for them or friends. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late afternoon when we returned to the hotel we had so much energy left. And we were super lucky because the Chef decided to treat us to a roof top dinner (SCORE!!) He made pasta and some Indian food for all of us. We mingled with the chef and his other staff and had a good laugh among us as well. Im not sure who brought out the cards but we played that for a while as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is this sweet rice dish called KHEER and the chef made that for us. It is also one of the many things I love so of course I was super happy.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall today has been a lot of feasting and having some of my favourite food there made the day even more special. </span></div>
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Day 3: 17th KIP Mall/temple/disco</h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: medium;">30th April 2011 | Saturday</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we had a day off (probably because it is a Saturday) and so we went to visit <b>Select City Walk Mall</b> in Delhi. It was a very huge mall (since the only mall I had visited in Fiji is just 3 floors and can be covered in less than an hour). This one was huge and we only checked out one Wing!! </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later in the afternoon we visited the <b>Akshardham </b>temple. It was a such a wonderful temple to visit. we were not allowed to take cameras and cell fones inside the temple so could not take pictures there. And it was one of those places where I wish I could take pictures with my Eyes. <i>Sigh. . . </i>I learnt a little about the <b>vedics </b> and there way of life. We took a short boat ride inside a very well structured building. It was a tour of how the vedics were the first gurus and how medicine, astrology, physics, wars and settlements came about in India. We stayed at the temple till the evening and saw a light show there as well. </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got back to the hotel we were all very tired. But we all turned into energetic monkeys once we were told that a <i>'disco evening' </i>had been arranged for us. A dinning room was set out as a disco floor with a DJ and disco lights. The food was yum! and the music was awesome. </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At midnight we celebrated my favorite Peruvians birthday. Aarti's first birthday away from home and I am glad we made it a memorable one for her. Cake. Candles. Birthday song - the works. </span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a great day :-)</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Day 2: Gandhi Smriti (Delhi)</h3>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29th April _ Day 2 of 17th KIP, 2011</span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today we visited the Gandhi Smriti in Delhi and visited the Delhi Metro.</span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Gandhi Smriti has been converted into a little museum which retells the life story of Gandhi's life. This is the place where he lived the last days of his life and was shot at the back yard of this very place. We were allowed to see the place where the great man himself was killed. I found it very interesting to walk around and read the things about Gandhi's life. there is a small room which has walls covered with details of the LAST DAY of his LIFE. Also amazing was the technology used to making information easily accessible to visitors. </span><br /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Delhi Metro one of its kind in Delhi. This was my first trip on a metro (as Fiji has none) and I am sure my trip to Australia did not include a ride on a Metro. We were told that the Metro is environmentally friendly and very economical as well as efficient. (I am no expert in these things so I will take their word for it). During Question and Answer session I asked if women were employed as Train operator or was it just men? And I was told that some 25 young women are train operators and these young women have engineering degrees :-) Power to Women. </span><br /><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A wonderful day. We had lunch at McDonalds in Janpat - and managed to get some Cotton tops because it is extremely hot in Delhi at the moment. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are bonding well with the others on the trip :-)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">28th April | Day 1 of 17th KIP Program.</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial;">India's Institute for Public Administration _ for Orientation.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial;">After we had breakfast at the Rocklan Inn Hotel (where we are staying) we took a bus ride to <strong>IIPA.</strong>Most of us were just very excited to be out of the hotel :-) We have a very bright Orange Bus ...</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial;">We also had the film crew with us from today ;-) Aditi Dave, Nikhil and others :-)<br />As we stepped off the bus they were ready with their cameras, mics and whatnots :P</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The food was pretty good and some of the sights we saw on our way to and from IIPA were pretty awesome. The first thing that caught my eye was the emence traffic!!! Fiji is a very small place we usually have 2 lanes of traffic BUT here they have 3 lane traffics (for the one way) and at least 4 cars have squeezed into that space. </em>Do not want to be a driver here!!</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-14055315331921453912016-10-11T19:42:00.003-07:002016-10-11T19:42:51.520-07:00Tutor Bano <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">Having studied at the prestigious regional university the Pacific has to offer, I only dreamed that one day I would work for the University. And here I am today - Foundation, BA competed and a Post Graduate almost competed. Here I stand today as I have taught my 1st tutorial class at the University of the South Pacific :-) (USP)</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">This semester I will be teaching <strong>Psychology </strong>PS102 [Human development] on Fridays and I have 2 tutorial groups with more than 20 students in each class. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">Both the set of students are very dynamic in nature and seemed to have a great sense of humor (YAY for me!!) I am so looking forward to other sessions with them... :-) </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">Cheers to a wonderful Opportunity!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana;">Till next blog. . .</span><br /><br /></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-64193824292758970582016-10-11T19:37:00.000-07:002016-10-11T19:37:03.142-07:00DAY 1: Food for Thot _ Mobile App Development.<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27/11/2012 </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 2 of the Mobile App Development workshop at the <a href="http://youthtechcamp.brightpathfoundation.org/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Youth Tech Camp</a> carries on at <a href="http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-6990-novotel-suva-lami-bay/index.shtml" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Novotel, Lami</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrightPathFoundation" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bright Path Foundation</a> members are facilitating this workshop and they are doing a great job!! :-) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday we pitched ideas for Mobile App's that can be developed. I had pitched two ideas.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1) Food for thot: Save your time. Enjoy your food.</b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This app would allow you to check if there are seats available at your choice of restaurant (if they are registered with the app). Above is a sample of the Logo we created. It was actually the original work of one of our group member: Micheal Irava. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This app will benefit consumers (local and tourists) and it will also benefit the Restaurant owners. How? </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consumers: You get to check if there is a table available at the restaurant and it shows the rating given by other customers. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eg: </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The restaurant layout will indicate which/how many tables are available. A red table means NOT Available while a green table indicates Available. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Food:</b> 3 Stars <b>Service:</b> 2 stars <b>Space:</b> 2 stars - So this means the food is great but service is not - so Take away your food. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what it will look like in the initial stages. You would click companies and it will take you to the next screen and list the companies that are registered with the app. They will be classified into categories like the second row of icons showing [Curry][Chinese][Oriental]<i>and more categories can be added as the companies register themselves.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you click on the category it will shoe which restaurants are listed under that category. You can click on a restaurant of your choice (listed with the app) and it will take you to the seating available (or not) in that particular restaurant. At the bottom will be 3 stars which you can use to rate the food and the service offered. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reason for three stars: You either Like the Food or you Dont!! But we went with the traffic light concept that indicates: RED: Eww [food was bad] EMBER: Digestible [It was so-so] GREEN: Yum [food was great].</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once more companies register than there can be two choices on the homepage: <b>Dinning | Review. </b>If you click on dinning it would show what restaurants are available on our search and if you click review it will the review by customers for restaurants that are in our database. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We thought of starting the idea small and keeping it open to recommendations and comments, depending on resources available we can make changes. The changes would also depend on our taste as the developers for the app. :-)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This segment of learning has been 'information overload' But I am glad I have been able to input up to this wireframe segment. I feel more tech savy than I ever did before :-) </span><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Untill next blog . . . </i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-45365924238570525962016-10-11T19:34:00.003-07:002016-10-11T19:34:59.194-07:00Day 3: Youth Tech Camp | Mobile App Development<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><u>28/11/12</u></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Day 3: Youth Tech Camp | Mobile App Development</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And today the good people of Bright Path Foundation announced which six app's we will actually design and launch on Friday. And <b>Food for thot </b>is one of the six apps to be developed. This is a very exciting achievement for me personally and the rest of the team was overwhelmed as well. A slight moment of sadness for the team because we have been divided into different groups now - Developers, Designers and content. Shareen has joined forces with the Development elite :-) While Micheal is drawing with his design team. I felt stranded and a little alien because I was in the content team with 8 new people. At first I thought the idea I had is going to be bulldozed but the members of the group were very helpful. They worked together with me and shared useful feedback. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went into the City after lunch and divided ourselves into pairs. We covered four categories of restaurants: Local/Fijian, Indian, Oriental and Fast Food.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We approached approximately 15 restaurant owners and received positive response from 12.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At present our database has:<br />1) Natural Blends (MHCC)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2) JJ's Takeaway (At the market)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3) Maya Dhaba (Victoria Parade and MHCC)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4) Curry Hosue (Waimanu Road)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">5) Ashiyana (Victoria Parade)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">6) Vine Yard Palace (Victoria Parade)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">7) Korea House (Waimanu Road)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">8) Tui B. (At the Market)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">9) Chopsticks (Renwick Road)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">10) Jodys (Central Suva)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">11) McDonalds (Central Suva)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">12) Chicken Express (Mid City Mall)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">13) Wishbone and Pizza King (Central Suva and Sports City)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It has been a great experience collecting the content and tabulating it but it has been tiring as well. We have slotted the Restaurants into the different categories. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For homework we have to follow up with a few more restaurants and also put all these information into tables. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some changes were required for the wire frame since the app will not do what we initially pitched :-) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So it has been a very productive day for the team.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Until next blog. . .</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-59224919449726702522016-10-11T19:32:00.004-07:002016-10-11T19:32:56.025-07:00Panel Discussion: The role of women in ICT <b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><u>28/11/12</u></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Changing the game: The role girls and women play in domestic internet economy.</i></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After the full day of gathering content for our app "Food for thot" we were all invited to stay back for the Panel discussion on Women in ICT. While helping set the place up for the evening function I was notified that I will be one of the four panelists. The other three are also young women participants from this Forum.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Key Note speaker was Mrs. Stephanie Danclair (Chief Operations Officer of Bright Path Foundation) and remarks were given by Katalaini Duaibe (from United Nations Women department).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I do not consider myself in the ICT sector so I was extremely nervous about being on the panel. But it was not that bad.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The first question was:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What do think about the development in Fiji and what role do you play in this? </i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The developments taking place locally are escalating at different wavelengths and Youth development is huge. Young people are developing in all spheres of life. They are excelling in Education (experimenting with different types of careers, doing volunteer works, going abroad for studies and also engaging in vocational studies), Sports and Advocacy work as well. The Youth community uses the Internet for communicating and searching for information daily and they too become part of the ICT network in doing so.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What is my role in this? </i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I thought that all this time I am not a part of the ICT world. But my blogs are also a big part of the ICT world. The blogs I write are also a big part of this ICT World. It is helping me connect the information I have to people in the wider community and most importantly with my Internet family.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The second question was:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What challenges do you face in your professional work and what are the solutions?</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Challenges we face are one too many.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1) Time: Timing of events are usually in the evenings and many young women face difficulties in attending forums in the evening. One reason is because they have home commitments and the second reason being many of them do not feel safe to travel in the evening.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2) Being taken seriously is an issue. Just because we are 'youth' we do not have enough experience to make decisions - is a common myth!! Youth also have experience (even though it is not much) even if it experience of a few weeks, months or years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3) As a tutor a challenge I have faced is the two set of students I have. The fresh out of high school students know more about ICT than I do, while the matured students face more difficulties. So I have to learn from the students on one end of the wavelength and try my level best to impart that information to the students on the other end of the wavelength.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4) Commitment - Not everyone shows the same level of commitment as you would want them to. This I have noticed in Youth groups and in Students. Weather it is doing community outreach or completing assignments some youth are very reluctant and leave things to be done last minute. A better time management system needs to utilized for effective results and for us to be taken seriously in the community.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There is a grave need to change the mindset of people regarding Youth and ICT and most importantly towards women in ICT.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Till bad internet connection do us part . . .</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><i>:-) </i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-15546605260657720262016-08-24T20:53:00.001-07:002017-04-26T17:23:50.653-07:00What I stitched & wore (QYL: 2016)<i>What I stitched & wore?</i><br />
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Attending something as amazing as the Queen's Young Leaders Residential Week requires dress codes for various events and functions.<br />
Lucky for us the QYL team are super awesome and provided us with itineraries that indicated the dress codes for the various events. This really did make everything easy. And being a little over prepared in nature for most things I got down to planning out what I will wear for each of the events (Thanks to le sister for helping out here and being my Fashion Police). We had it all down in a spreadsheet and saved on my phone as well as a printed copy that went in my schedule file.<br />
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Now, I love sewing and I got a little over excited and decided that I wanted to sew as many of my clothes as possible for the residential week. And I thought of making mostly dresses as they could be pulled off as formal and casual.<br />
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Monday: I wore the blue dress with red roses. YES it has pockets (as most of my stitching does). Simple dress with pockets and I wore my jacket over because it was super cold.<br />
Tuesday: Casual day at Cambridge so I wore skirt and cardigan (not pictured).<br />
Wednesday: The paisley dress. Again simple dress (no pockets - that's another story for another time).<br />
THURSDAY: Award evening! I sewed this black dress and my wonderful brother-in-law printed the veil for me. The award outfit had a lot of thinking and contemplating AND effort I must say. I mean what do you wear to go see Her Majesty, the Queen!!.<br />
Friday: Double trouble. TGIF! Friday was special as it featured two outfits. The first was THE BLUE DRESS which I had stitched last year to wear to the award ceremony. It has Pacific prints and has stick figures which I thought depicted the Pacific well. Plus it was BLUE! Nobel banner blue :-) [FYI: Fiji's flag is blue and the anthem has line "Nobel banner blue"] The evening we were hosted to dinner at THE SHARD so I wore the CROWN dress. The prints on the dress are all crowns. Apt for ROYAL BANO no :-)<br />
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There you have it. <i>What I wore during the 2016 QYL residential week. :-) </i><br />
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<i>Hello London!!! And welcome to the QYL residential week 2016. </i> <br />
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The first official session for the 2016 QYL residential week was <b>MEDIA TRAINING </b>followed by visits to some top <b>UK Charities</b>. </div>
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The first official session we had during the Residential week was Media training with Media Trust. The session included how to deal with Media and how a good interview can go bad with our answers.</div>
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Some tips for media interviews:<br />
1. Know your message.<br />
2. Have at least 3 important things about your group/project/event and keep driving these points. The more your audience hears these points the more they will remember it.<br />
3. If the question has a negative word don't repeat that in your answer. Turn back into positive.<br />
4. The beauty with our SOCIAL ISSUE causes is that we are the good guys so keep bringing the focus back to the issues and the key messages.<br />
5. Keep your cool.<br />
6. Know what you are talking about. Be clear with what you want to say.<br />
7. Practice your key messages every now and again. Practice with your group members and practice in front of the mirror. Practice in front of the camera. Get comfortable and ask your group for honest criticism- this will help you and your project.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">UpRising: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is a charity organization in the UK. Their team came to run a session with a small group of us and the session was game based. "CRISIS" we were given a scenario where the corrupt PM had been forced to resign and protesters are making certain demands. The group (us) could choose to be in;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Naturally I picked Protesters. It was simple: 20mins equals a day; certain instructions were given for the day and basically our actions and decisions drove how the day went. I liked how there was no end outcome. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It was interesting how we strategise and decided who we wanted to form alliance with. There was a Google Doc we used to update "tweets" and this gave us a chance to put our voice out but also see what the others were saying. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The media played a crucial role in all this. When the protesters tried to meet and negotiate with Government and media was not allowed. The media played this to their advantage. It was funny to us how our friends in the media were making it look like some secret society meeting. But it made us realise the media has so much power. Our group didn't meet with business so I can't say much there but I do wonder how things would turn out if we did meet business. Our meeting with opposition was interesting. I felt like they wanted to get in power so they tried to turn the protectors against the government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First I must say that it took a lot of energy to mentally, psychologically and physically prepare for this trip. There were a lot of mixed emotions and I tried to keep my excitement on a low. If you wondering why, you read about it <a href="http://royalbano.blogspot.com/2015/07/update-on-bad-service-from-fiji-airways.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday: 14th June. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since it is the holy month of Ramadan I woke up around 4am for Suhur and later went into work.I spent the day at work making sure I had handed over documents to my team and set up my vacation notice. I came home for Iftari and got busy with my final assignment for the semester. I thought if I was tired enough I could sleep on the flights (I just cant sleep on the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday 15th June.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5.15am - We left Suva for Nadi. 4 hours later we were in Nadi and I slept for an hour in the car. We stopped over for breakfast and headed down to the airport. Check in time started at 11am and after checking in I waited for Luisa (QYL 2016). We ate at the airport and went on inside before boarding time. The flight left around 2pm and we were headed for NZ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5pm we arrived in NZ and went looking for the emirates counter to get our boarding passes. Lucky for airport WiFi we also contacted the QYL's from NZ and Tonga and met up with them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Next leg was from NZ - Dubai. Luisa and I had seats together and believe when I say I never want to fly this route ever again in my life. 18 hours!!! 18 hours has a few hours to many to be on a flight. The food on emirates was great! Lucky once again. but sitting there for so long and it was a night flight so most of the people are sleeping and I felt bad turning on the little lights and doing some reading/writing. I tried really hard to sleep. When I woke up I thought at least 3 hours would have passed - behold - I was asleep for 45mins. I attempted this maybe 3 or 4 times and each time I woke up in less then one hour. After that I gave up and watched the TV Show <i>Blackish. </i>Hilarious show by the way. There is only so much walking around you can do on the flight so it was a very tiring flight indeed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">FINALLY we were in Dubai. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we headed to our gate we met with QYL from Australia, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. We had a little QYL Pacific family. And this felt great. Before you know it we had to board our flight to London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only another 8 hours and we would be in London. Once again I tried to sleep but had very little luck so I carried on watching movies in flight. It amazed me that the flight had WiFi. Thank you Emirates! You are the best airline so far.<br /><br />And finally we touched down at Heathrow airport in London. FINALLY we were here. I know all the QYL's were excited to be here - but I almost cried. After last year I wasn't sure if I would make it, but I did. The boarder security lines were long but the staff was nice and we were out in LONDON. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday 16th June 12.45pm we are in LONDON. This was Thursday 11.45pm back in Fiji. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The QYL volunteers greeted us at arrival and we headed to Goodenough College on a big blue coach (double deck) bus. YUP!! This was my first time on a double deck bus. The The Pacific Islanders were already chatting and laughing. This was a great sign to the beginning of a new friendship. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He said he loves me and asked me to marry him. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He said he loves my smile and asked me to marry him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He said he loved my jokes<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and</span> asked me to marry him. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He said I had a wonderful personality<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> and</span> asked me to marry him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I loved his smile. I said I will marry you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I loved how he was around kids. I said I will marry you. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I loved how passionate he was about his job. I said I will marry you. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I loved how he cared for his parents. I said I will marry you. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He bought me flowers and chocolates after work. I thought I was lucky.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He gifted me jewelry for no occasion. I thought I was lucky. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He remembered birthdays, anniversaries and other dates. I thought I was <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">lucky.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He took me traveling and sightseeing. I thought I was<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span>lucky. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I cooked his favourite meals. He said I was the best. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I mended his clothes before he could ask me. He said I was the best. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I had his dinner ready before he got home from work. He said I was the best. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I took photos of us during out trips. He said I was the best. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I always kissed him bye before he left for work<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. H</span>e said I was the best. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started working late. I thought it happens. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started eating out. I thought it happens. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started to sleep early. I thought it happens.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started drinking a lot I thought it happens. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started to distance himself. I thought happens. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He started leaving for work early. I thought it happens. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to doubt my logic. How could this be? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to check his phone log. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How could this be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to see a pattern. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How could this be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to put together the pieces. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How could this be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to take notes. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How could this be?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I started to draw the conclusion. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">How could this be?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I packed his belonging in a suitcase. I'm not standing for this </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I put his belongings at the gate. I'm not standing for this.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I changed the locks to our home. I'm not standing for this.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I went for a little vacation. He can sort out his shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01045770334786504718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-791368411566473981.post-81634425307654111912016-07-03T19:42:00.002-07:002016-07-07T20:50:17.702-07:00I met the QUEEN<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 2016 I traveled up to the UK for the Queens Young Leaders residential week and award programme. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The entire week was AMAZING but the highlight of the week was meeting her majesty the Queen. It is not everyday we wake up thinking - </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I will go meet the Queen today. </i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The winners from the Queens Young Leaders programme are indeed privileged to be among the those selected individuals who have the honour of meeting her majesty. And it was worth the wait. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She is such a sweet lady! She spoke to each and everyone of us when we walked up to receive our awards and this is a moment we will cherish for the rest of our lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At 90 she is still walking around on her and took out the time to speak to each and everyone of us for a few minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am now among the 120 Youth from across the Commonwealth who have received their medals from her majesty, in recognition for the youth work we do in our respective communities. I cant think of a better way to leave behind a legacy then by investing in the youth to carry forward the leadership and social causes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Earlier that day Jacob and I were asked how we were feeling about meeting Her Majesty that evening. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is what we had to<u> </u></span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><a href="https://twitter.com/QueensLeaders/status/745966232470437888" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank">say</a> </span>:-)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And later that day we had one hour to get dressed so I tried to motivate my fellow QYLs through this <span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><a href="https://twitter.com/HerRoyalBano/status/745962314810167296" target="_blank">video</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>About the outfit: </i>I stitched my outfit to wear for awards function :-) Kept it simple but put in a little bit of thought into it. So the salwar kamiz highlights my Indo heritage (ancestors from India) and the woven shoes represent my Fijian heritage (Fijian - Nationality). Woven mats are symbolic to Fiji and the Pacific communities. My brother-in-law printed a Samoan design on my veil so I could also share my extended family heritage. I was very happy to receive compliments from so many people on the outfit. I must add - all the QYL's looked amazing in their respective outfits. JOB WELL DONE guys!!! </span>
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I hope your packing is coming along fine, or at least that you have made a list of things that you need to pack?? Among all the packing excitement don't forget to make arrangements for things back at home.<br />
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1. Are your assignments/reports done? Are they due during the residential week? Are they due immediately after the residential week? Have you notified your teacher/lecture that you will be away. Be sure to inform the relevant authorities that you will be away and be sure to submit the relevant reports before your departure.<br />
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2. For the working bees - have you reminded your boss/manager/team that you will be away? You should. Also, handover the relevant files/documents to the person who will be checking up on things in your absence. Sometimes our managers and team forget who is going on leave, so just out of courtesy- give them a reminder.<br />
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3. Will someone be house sitting for you? Will someone be coming over to check up on your pet(s)/ plants/ flat in general??? If you need someone to do these ask them now, don't leave it to the last minute, because the others might have plans too.<br />
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4. Rent? Bills? if these are due during residential week make an effort to pay for them before your departure or have a trusted friend make the payment on your behalf, OR inform the relevant person that your payment will be coming in a little this time around. My personal choice is number 1: Make the payments before I depart.<br />
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Happy check-listing :-)<br />
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