HAPPY 41ST INDEPENDENCE TO YOU ALL…PAPUA NEW GUINEANS

by GRACELYN K. KAULGA

HAPPY Independence Anniversary to you & your Family!!!
Please celebrate in style and in the true PNG way ...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A PAPUA NEW GUINEAN WHEN

• You can have cordial 4 breakfast.
• You have buai and smoke for lunch.
• You still live with your parents even though you're 30
• U bring your boyfriend/girlfriend to the house and everyone's concluded that you are married!
• You wear board shorts to cruz in town even though u r not going 4 a swim
• You share one cigarette with five other people
• Your mother gives your father 'black eyes'
• You have about 3 families living in one house
• Still keep drinking even though you can barely talk and walk
• At any major function, instead of a plate, your food comes in a plastic container
• You run into a mountain of slippers blocking the front door.
• Your staple diet is rice and tin fish or Ox & Palm.
• You have a huge gap between your first two toes, (excessive thong wear...)
• Swimming pool is filled with people wearing t-shirts (Females)
• You can sprint barefoot on sharp stones and rocks.
• You wake up and go straight to work or classes
• At crossings, you're supposed 2 wait 4 the car to stop b4 crossing, not the other way around.
• Your first and last names are the same. (Vagi Vagi)
• You have a perpetually drunkard uncle who starts fights at every family gathering
• You call a friend - (squad)
• Every time you greet someone he says "YOU"?
• You have sat in a 4-seater car with up to 8 other people.
• You can speak with your face - eg. Twitch like a rabbit to ask, Where you going?"
• Your grandmother thinks Vicks Vapour-Rub is the miracle cure for everything (including broken bones...)
• You're getting a hiding and your parents yell at you as to,"Why you are crying for?" ("you karai lo wanem ah ......")
• You've been shamed and belted up by your mother in front of schoolmates at the supermarket.
• You're a tycoon on your payday by shouting everyone and scab money off people till the next fortnight.
• You invite people over for dinner and your family all of a sudden says the grace.
• You've had an Afro at some stage in your life (boys AND girls) and thought you looked cool.
• You're at your aunties and see your 6 year old cousin doing household chores.
• Your aunty visits and she's talking to you at the same time as looking in your pots for food...
• You think PMV bus door can hold nearly 10 people
• You go to your village rich and come back poor.
• If you cannot recall peoples names you call them ‘raitmen’ or ‘raitmeri’
• You have lap laps for curtains in your house.
• You empty your pay packet on Friday & over the weekend, by Monday you go looking for Dinau Moni (credit)

Hahahaha......Too good to be a Papua New Guinean.

GOD BLESS PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

Gracelyn K Kaulga