Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

  “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions” Albert Einstein Among UPNG JCU Twinning Project Team 2017@ Cairns  I share some of my success principles I learned through reading different motivational books. Many of the books I read on personal development and motivation have brought success in my life. Through the lessons gained from these books I made many important improvements in my life. I also used the principles I learned from books to make radical difference in my personal life. Some of my successes are the direct application of some of the principles I learnt from reading motivational and personal development books. In sharing these ideas I want to show how they helped me shape the kind of person I am now and how I got here from back there when I was illiterate about personal development or motivational ideas. The book that had motivated me more than any other book is Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer’s T...

Writer My late Kandre, Vincent Warakai, a robust scholar and intellectual, left a lasting impression on me as a Papua New Guinean with this poem “Dancing Yet to the Dim Dim’s Beat”, which was first published in Ondobondo , a literary magazine of the Literature Department of UPNG in the 1980s, when I studied Literature as a degree program. The poem was later republished in Albert Wendt’s Nuanua: pacific writing in English since 1980s , making it one of the most powerful pieces to have been written by a Papua New Guinean since Independence.  Below is the poem: Dancing Yet to the Dim Dim’s Beat We have been dancing Yes, our anklets and Amulets now are Yes, grinding into our skin No longer are they a décor Yes, they are our chains We have been dancing Yes, but the euphoria has died It is now the dull drumming Yes, of the flat drums Thud dada thud da thud dada thud Yes, it is signaling, not the bliss But the impending crisis. It i...