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Saturday 30 January 2010

Lockington's Everyday Fiji ... Life Goes On


Allen Lockington is a self-employed customs agent and business consultant who has regular articles published in Connect.  I thank Allen and Connect for permission to reprint some of them in this political blog. They remind us that life goes on, whatever the political situation. And it's good to know that.

 Laidback Lifestyle

A friend of mine spent some time recently in the Lau group and was amused by the fact that women were always busy preparing meals, cleaning clothes, etc while men were enjoying a much more relaxed lifestyle which doesn’t need to be described. A group of young lasses not even 10 years old sent to the bushes by their parents to collect coconuts told him that “men have lazy bones” which apparently suggest that even the young ones understand very quickly the rules of life.

In a recent article (Fiji Times 20 January) about the rocket stove, we read things “Women can easily do whatever other household chores they may have and men are now assisting the women with their cooking because the stove is very easy to use”. It seems that the traditional culture is the best way to ensure that women will migrate to the city (no wonder there is such an imbalance between young men and women in the countryside) and the failure of the leaders of those communities to adapt to modernity will assure the short and irremediable death of the maritime province in a near future.

9 comments:

qanibulu said...
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Crosbie Walsh said...

Sorry, Qanibulu and Vale ni kana. Your comments are out of order. Amusing maybe, but many readers would find them offensive.

Die laughing said...

Oh, come on Croz. It's the weekend. And we all need a bit of light relief now that we face life imprisonment for saying anything here. Loosen up.

qanibulu said...

Aw shucks Croz, Lockington's article was so banal it needed some spicing up.

Anyways let me elucidate on this revolutionary rocket stove. Rumour has it that testosterone-charged young men have been so captivated by this kitchen gizmo they are spending most of their time cooking and cleaning and preparing meals for their families.

The women now liberated from their mundane kitchen chores are now engaging in other more mentally challenging and menaingful work like mowing the lawns, mixing the grog, washing the cars and cutting their husband's toenails.

We need to get Lockington to confirm this sudden dramatic shift in local domestic culture, the result of this controversial rocket stove. The growing numbers of liberated women with time on their hands could have far reaching effects on Fiji's birth rate and economy.

Crosbie Walsh said...

Die laughing. Sorry to disappoint you. There's no way anyone will get life imprisonment speaking against the regime. This is a fabrication of Coup4.5. The new Criminal Procedure Decree says nothing of the sort, and for most part is an update of the old penal code. I'll be writing a fuller piece about this soon. Enjoy Sunday. Croz

Anonymous said...

@ Croz Walsh said:

But it is revealing that people would say 'life imprisonment for speaking against the regime", isn't it? They have no evidence, have made wrong assumptions purely to deceive. So what does that tell us about them? They are practised. They have been doing this for years.

Crosbie Walsh said...

Anonymous. All comments must use real names or pseudonyms. Please copy and paste this as a new comment.Then I'll delete this one. Croz

Anonymous said...

thank u Mr Lokington

the accountant said...

I think what the present government has done by taking away the silver spoon will make the fijian people wake up!!