PNG more photos to upload!

Nothing much to do before i turn to bed so maybe i would post some more pictures?

This is the work space we got for ourselves. Notice the blue bag behind the blue chair, that where i hide the wireless router. Tactical huh. :)

Here is the shower as requested. :P Notice nobody is showering. lol. Anyway the glass door was initially clear so u can actually see another's naked body if u walk pass, but they have since painted it till head level. Not that shabby expect that there is not cold water and they tends to have lotsa flys and bugs and moth flying around, especially near the lights. Notice the small small black dots are actually some bugs.

This is the toilet, er... and the urinal. lol. Though the cubicle looks nice n RED. But there will be a rather big opening between the door and the side walls. and the cubicle happen to face the door... So u can actually peep out to see who is coming, and at the same time, people coming in can see u la...

 

The wash basin is actually pretty nice, but because not many use it ba. I thinkmost would rather use their basin in their room ba...

 

This is the other camp, which supposely everyone will move across when its completed.

Notice the black spots on the floor. They are actually dead flys, moths ans stuffs. I really dun know why this particular area is filled with dead bugs. People dun clear them or jus many is dead overnight? Probably attracted by the big light. 

After 7 days of waiting, finally, a sign of the tug and barge coming. Even though the cargo on board is not concern to my job, but to see some "Action" finally is such a relief! I am on my way home!!! Even though its another 10-14 days more... 

Tug and barge closing into the jetty.

So much for work, below are some other picture that took while around the camp. Bored la...

This boat was previously a hugh tree sia! Look at the length of the log!

One of those stupid bug/bettle that end up on my blanket!!! Irritating...

Praying Mantis! I have nvr seen a praying mantis this close before! Cool!

This was my dinner today. One of the best i had since. The roast pork was soft and er... salty... lol Roast potatos can nvr go wrong, even its not my fav. On top u will see the fried pork skin. Salty n pretty nice. Today we also had melow and pears (sour ones) :( and beef soup. All in all, i think its about the best they can make so far!

That's about all for today!

More Pics of the camp~ and others from my iPhone~

The Accomodation area, the office area is where my back is facing.

The walkway to my "bunk".

The room. Opps a bit messy la, the "housekeeping" haben come in yet. lol

The table, i shift the table a bit to accomodate the power supply and the lights.


The sink in the room.

Some other pictures that was taken using my iPhone before i reach KOPI.

Crap my face look sooooo round.... T_T

The view of the harbour from my dispatch vehicle.

 

The mountainous PNG.

More mountains.

There is the prawn bisque that i mentioned before.

And this is the steak. :) Did i mentioned there was 5 knives for me to select? lol

The price of the steak in Kinas.

The super long name of the soup.

The name of the restuarant. At this point of timem, i was told that the Crown Plaza was not the best hotel in the area. Probably i should fine out wats the other hotel they are talking about. lol Probably even better food.

Two cannibals greeting the front entrance of the Crown Plaza...

As if a statement that if u step out of the hotel, these cannibalslook-alike will eat u up! Grrr...

Supposely to be able to see all the trees down below... Its trees and trees and trees! A massive forest man!

The airtracks is not even tarred!

Luckily touchdown side got some cement one... lol

The Dash 8S that we took to MORO Camp.

This is the outside of my room in MORO.

The double bed that i mentioned... Oh the "squeeky" one...

Aircon right above my head. Even though we are 800m high, i still keep the aircon blowing coz i couldnt sleep if i am going to be sweating away... Plus the immobility... I rather freeze n keep still. lol

The cardboard that i nvr use. The brown door is actually the shared toilet n shower. Not so bad considering that u can shower within ur room. My current one, have to walk about 100meters loh...

At least got TV, with sports channel. We were watching aussie football that night. Titan vs Roosters. My bunkmate watch until fall asleep, snoring away. He has the remote, so if i want to switch off the tv, i will have to climb down, which will cause quite a stir... So i rather continue watching, since i cant sleep. lol

Got its own basin too.



Managed to take a photo of the dinner i had the other day. This is the good food from the better camp. Imgaine the food i am having... I think i will not have chance to take a photo...

Thats about it. Hopefully i will have more photos to share the next time.

KOPI… the worst is yet to come…

On arrival, i realised why the camp is much detest as the MORO camp was much cleaner as compared to this. Camp facilities were pretty much used and left over from the previous project group.

But at least i was assigned a decent room, where i am typing this away at 2145LT. This is the second night here.

On the first day (Sat), there was orientation and induction, we were walking up and down the camp site. Its not that big, but there were sure signs of wear and tear around. We didn't do much here, since we understand that the vessel was delayed as the local authorities found some life insects in the containers to be loaded to our camp. It turns out to be a big issue, cause the government is very particular about foreign insects, plants, animal  breading in the country and changing the natural habitat of the country. So its more delays until Monday where we will know how long the delay is…

Food in the camp is much lower quality then up there. Meal times is strictly 0500-0600, 1200-1300 and 1800-1900. “Full stop. End of story” No tea breaks in between, no other food sold… No snacks… T_T We had to queue to enter the mess and queue to grab our food. There will always be two choices of meat each meal. but mixed vegs seems to be the staple… There is nothing much to talk about the food there… Oh, yes there is. My dinner tonight was lamb chops n rice. I was greedy as i wanted more sauce to go with the rice. Turn out… The sauce was disgusting!!! Only then i notice nobody takes the sauces… I had to try my best to swallow the food, esp the rice, else i will go hungry at night… Sad…

I did had a chance to go out of camp for a tour coz one Aussie friend that i know when i was in Batam doing the loadout was tagging along another environmental fellow out for inspection. Since i had nothing to do, i wont mind spending some time outside and catching a glimpse of the “outside world”. The client didn't want to follow, simply because in the meeting earlier, we were informed that there was a case of the local people carrying M16s and attacked a group of people carrying camp equipment to another camp. It was calculated almost 0.5 million worth of equipment were destroyed but none was injured. I guess that really scares him a bit since it quite surprising to know that the local people actually managed to get such sophisticated weapons…

Well, with that behind my head, i hopped on to the landrover out of the camp. I wouldn't want to missed my only chance out of the camp! Who knows, i might catch a glimpse of some hard to find birds like the birds of paradise. :P

In the vehicle, i managed to know that the driver is actually a local villager and offered to bring us around his village after the inspection. Yippee~ The road was long,  almost 1 hour of driving, and bumpy. Imagine 1 hr of bumper cars rides with constant “bumping” not fun…

So out in the forest, we were inspecting this…


It notice the big opening, that is where the forest was tore down, to make space for the pipe laying… Impressive right? Oh, i didn't mentioned before that PNG has the second largest rainforest in the world! While driving, it trees n trees and more trees!!!

This is where the tree cutters sleep in. All local people. Now i begin to appreciate my camp…

After which we went to the nearby town to have a look.

This is the police station. Not so bad huh?


We are standing on a airstrip that was used in WWII!!!


After that we went to the jetty to have a look.


Look at the endless forest and the long rivers.


Notice that the boat is actually a “dug out” from a long log!!!


Something like this!


We went to a local shop.


This is how it look like inside. They sell almost everything!!!

More surprisingly is, the stall owner is actually Chinese!!! They are from Guangzhou and has been here for more then 10 years!!! They are so nice that they didn't want to charge me for the titbits and drinks that we wanna buy! “Tong xiang” they were saying… lol.


After dinner, i smuggled this from the mess. U all know what is it???


Call me "Swa Ku" but i nvr seen this fruit before! Mostly in photos and pictures but i nvr know they look like this. It Passion Fruit!

That pretty ends my first 4 days in PNG. Very much more to come, though they will be boring since i wont have much chance to step out of the camp… Machiam prison loh… Sigh… Some more no hardship compensation doing this job… Sad…

More to come! “I hope” *Crossfingers*