Ah those benefits

Working through last weekend was awesome, not because I had to do it from my remote island but because I was then able to get nearly a 4 day weekend, starting today. It is time to once again work really hard on my ping-pong game and not to mention the extremely hard task of working on my tan (or lack thereof). With a little bit of shopping to do downtown, this is making for some really good time off.

“My master taught me that the shortest path to ruins was underestimating one’s opponent.”
– Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

“If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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And we missed the boat

Today I received an email that Arnaud is going to stay up north for another week or so but Richard was on his way back south when he missed the boat and got stranded somewhere in Savusavu. Not a matter though, more Fiji Time for me! Kava is taking a backseat for awhile because there has just been too much lately, so on to more important things like perfecting my ping-pong game!

“Home: it was a phrase one used to mean four walls behind which one slept. There had never been a home.”
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory

“…his heart moved painfully, as when a man in love hears a stranger name a flower which is also the name of his woman.”
– Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory

“But the people of the inn, in nine cases out of ten, show themselves friendly and  considerate. As soon as you cross the doors you cease to be a stranger; and although these peasantries are rude and forbidding on the highway, they show a tincture of kind breeding when you share their hearth.”
– R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

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On Fiji Time

What is “Fiji Time” exactly? Well, it is very complicated yet very simple. When you are in Fiji, it is a sure thing indeed that you will eventually experience Fiji Time. To sum it up it means the time to chill – don’t worry, take your time, relax, breathe, live and accept things as they are. When you are sitting staring into space and someone asks what you are doing that night – which staring into space is all you are doing, you say you are going to live on Fiji Time. When you go to catch a bus or even take a walk to the beach, you do it on Fiji Time. There are no schedules here, it just happens when people do it – on Fiji Time. When you sit in a circle and drink kava, you are doing it on Fiji Time. Even the crabs in your races run on Fiji Time. The ferry to another island also runs on Fiji Time – which is tricky when you are traveling with the English because then you have to calculate Fiji Time and add tea time to it. It can sometimes get complicated because your Fiji Time may be different from other people’s Fiji Time. But there are no worries on Fiji Time. You take it as it comes and deal with it as it happens, with openness and clarity, no matter how crazy it seems. For on Fiji Time, if you in fact do need a schedule, you will have to ask 10 people and take an average of the responses – that is Fiji Time. Nothing really matters and not many things are a bother, because in Fiji, it is exactly that – nothing really matters and not many things are a bother.

“Knowledge is not what costs. Wisdom does.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion

“Making things look easy is hard. Clarity requires depth.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion

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