Celebrating 45th Year of Independence In Papua New Guinea

Looking back at my first entry for this blog, it feels like I'm getting old already. It's been 6 years since I wrote my first post "My Humble Beginning in PNG" and I must admit that I barely noticed how fast the years had gone by. I came here in 2008, went back home after a few months and came back again in 2011. And today, is my 9th year in this country that I consider my second home. 

I only started blogging about Papua New Guinea in 2014, and I wish I could have done earlier. But I have no regrets anyway. I think I've given my fair share of contributions to the blogosphere. Also, I'm under the notion that blogs are increasingly getting less popular than vlogs nowadays. And judging from the number of hits that this humble blog gets every now and then, I suppose that blogging, particularly my blogging, has seen its golden days. 

But I'm also a firm believer of this one verse in the Bible that says "That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away."  It basically implies that some things which have seen glories in the past might find their seats again in the arena of the future, especially, if those "things" had been of something great in the past. 

I guess if I were to predict which of the things from the past could make a comeback, I would say it was Blogging.

By the way, two days from now, the People of Papua New Guinea will be celebrating their motherland's 45th year of independence. I hope that we, despite the hardship and the current marginal lifestyle with which all of us are going through right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, can still find a way to smile and celebrate this once-in-a-year chance to cherish the birth of this nation in our own style. 

Keep safe everyone. Until next post!