Latitudes...and attitudes

Postcards from the Pacific

A Dunedin postcard in spring , or the corner of the postcard that has you walking through the University campus, feels like walking through a Harry Potter movie. But ah, spring is in the air -- a change in environmental mood that has definitely lifted my own. All through winter rain, fog, closed down airports and cancelled flights waiting to leave the winter rain and fog, rewashed laundry and soggy not quite dry clothes, coughing kids and midnight shivers, snowy mountains and close to zero days, my mantra has been: winter is a blessing cos it makes you appreciate the sun when it does come! SO hem nao, bring on the sun I say, bring it on! I don't give a toss about the kilos I piled on when it comes to losing all the layers of clothing and wondering where the extra tires came from. I have watched enough Oprah and Dr Phil to give me enough self-realisation that I am more than the sum on the scales.
Well...maybe when I am having a fit over all the clothes I can NO LONGER fit at the Warehouse summer sales -- but hey, thats a few months away; and by the time I rev up into a state that gets my arse out the door...well, it will be winter again, won't it?!

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Pacific musings...

RIP: Note for Bob (Robert Worthington)

Your leaving
rippling on ocean surfaces
my sadness
cresting each tiny wave
dreaming its way to distant shores

Your leaving
revives my story
and this memory links us:
I anchored my inexperienced vaka
to your ocean voyaging Hokule'a

aimed for stars, dared to vision
rode through storms, this time
of my own choosing.
you gifted me
these things

Your leaving
reminding me
of other voyagers
yet to find their way
Your wave
of aroa still finding shore after shore after shore.

Media notes

2007: the year of the blog

I jumped at the chance to take up an Online course on ICTs Journalism with PenPlusBytes, and join an international classroom of mainly African journalists, earlier this year. I haven't stopped jumping since. The content has been great, there's never been a dull moment and the research is all at your fingertips. Google has definitely moved from a noun to a verb in my lifetime....and Im convinced more Pacific Islanders need to get into online publishing and voices via the WWW.

Of course, what I've learnt so far is just chicken scratching the surface of this global information world.

Media convergence, blogging and podcasting, spaces such as wiki's and wikipedia, ICts assisted journalism and the growth of that fuzzy area between citizen-journalists vs newsroom hacks like me, added to the new knowledge management and Web 2.0 debates....eeks. The possibilities are endless. And I even found out how to clean up my email inbox more efficiently!

A friend of mine helped me set up this blog more than a year ago. Thanks to the ICT Journalism class of 2007 that Im now a part of, it's up to me to bring it to life. Thanks PenPlusBytes...and onwards.

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