Mark Simpson
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Taveuni and Nadi. Grower of yaqona, maker of web apps. Time Person of the Year (2006).
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Met my wife at school when I was 15 between the NHS hall and library. Asked her out the next day. This pic taken a few weeks later. It's been 20 years to the day, and we still here. Petrina, you're the centre of my earth. Always.
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@pseudofijian
Rabuka's coup was nearly 40yrs ago.
Rabuka proved over the past 30 years that he fully embraces democracy. Baiyaz showed over their 16yrs of tyrannical rule that they don't believe in democracy.
So this is a massive win for democracy in my book.
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Same car, same seat but the boy is all grown up.
Before and After. Main boy on his first (Drasa Avenue Scl) and last (Nadi Airport Schl) days of primary school. Let this be a warning to all new parents. Don't send your kids to school. They change.
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Australia and Fiji: "Don't worry, Solomon Islands, we're here to help!"
West Papua: "Am I a joke to you?"
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"Fijians are our servants according to our bible. They are not very smart. Their brains are not fast enough. We will conquer, govern, and rule."
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Last Saturday I was in Singapore and unable to watch the Tonga v Fiji game. Worse, I was out shopping and had no internet.
Was walking through the crowded aisles of Mustafa (IYKYK) when I heard "sa half time. E liu tiko o Viti". Bumped into random Fijians and it made my day
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1/x The news that there are plans to destroy a large swathe of forest across the interior of Viti Levu reminded me of something I saw on a recent hike in the Koroyanitu National Heritage Park .
A 🧵...
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Sis in law dropped off the goods. Like manna from heaven, it’s nama from Yasawa.
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Feeling depressed? Behold happiness. Photo by an unnamed Evening Post photographer in New Zealand in 1957. Fijian rugby players overjoyed at having being sent taro from home.
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@MartinXRugby
Fiji haven't learned how to flop around like fish out of water after being tackled. Acting classes needed.
/s
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"Ira ga na job vinaka e soli tu vei ira na $1000 qo... io vacava o keimami?... Sa sega tu qo na kakana, sa sogo tu vei keimami na gaunisala, sa sega tu na suka, sega na raisi, na falawa..."
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@Nadokoulu
Nice to see Fijian small businesses in the PR/Marketing industry getting supported. For over a decade they were sidelined while millions were sent overseas to Qorvis.
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Took me a while cos no 2 pieces from this pile of scrapwood are of the same dimensions but I finally made a thing. Biggest lesson I learned was to buy dressed timber…70% of the time was spent on planing and sanding 😓
Petrina’s happy with her console table, so I’m happy
#ShowOff
I just made an impulse buy and now I have to figure out wtf to do with this pile of low-grade timber. Petrina and Q think I’m just hoarding and don’t think I’ll make anything useful out of it. I said “worst case, we have firewood ready for the next few lovos”
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I asked the nurse if I could have one of the empty astrazeneca vials as a souvenir, but she said no 😞
We're fully vaccinated. Go get your yours.
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Can't really blame anyone at the airline for this. Let's stop pretending they ever had a real choice under the FijiFirst dictatorship. JVB and ASK did whatever the hell they wanted.
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Proud of my li'l sister Camilla Rigamoto who along with her team represented Fiji🇫🇯 at the Va'a World Distance Championships in Samoa today.
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I still believe we'll have a PAP/NFP government before Christmas.
I look forward to the new govt clawing back the taxpayer owned account
@AiyazSKFiji
(formerly FijiAG) that ASK cunningly rebranded and stole in anticipation of losing the elections.
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@fijirugby
🤦♂️ Way to slap fans in the face. Clarification is called for when there is confusion. In this case, the organising parties have neither claimed nor implied that they were fundraising in an official capacity. What's wrong with you? Step aside and let fans support their team.
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While I was looking for pics of the Ivi tree, I came across this photo by Charles Kerry of Pratt St, Suva, 1890. And it's got a streetlight!
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@Moce_Doce
I've been following Paul on Twitter for a long time and never seen him "talk shit" about anyone or anything. Also, please check your racism.
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It’s very hot in Fiji, but that’s forgotten for a short while as I’m freezing with my two favourite people. It’s my first time seeing snow! 🥶
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We had perfect weather in Nadi yesterday. Petrina, Q and I headed up to the Nausori Highlands at daybreak for some stunning views.
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Suva streetscapes, 1959.
#FijianHistory
Photos by Max Dupain.
© Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
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Ooops 🤣🤣🤣
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Incredible battle by
@fijirugby
. The men fought to the last second. Bad luck to get a shit ref. Vina'a va'a levu
@SimonRaiwalui
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Health authorities trying to convince people to get vaccinated, antivaxxers screeching from the sidelines.
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@Roshikadeo
Can I just point out that the burden of proof falls on the person making the accusation. You're asking the man to prove a negative. Can you, Roshika, prove that you were not involved in planning the coup?
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@pseudofijian
My 2c: No consultation needed before correcting the ageist forced early-retirement policy. Unemployed youth not a reason to create unemployed seniors. Youth need to attain skills that are needed, not train for no jobs and then create those jobs by firing skilled workers
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Possibly the worst thing the FF Baiyaz Regime did was fail to prevent the entry into Fiji of the Asian subterranean termite, and then fail to eradicate it in Lautoka before it spread. It’ll cost Fijians billions over the coming decades. I’ve been forced out of my home by them
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Can't believe this sonofabitch was in Fiji. Jerry Ross, maker of "Feel Free" drinks that are marketed as kava, but contain kratom, an addictive substance that is banned in many states. So many people have become addicted and had their lives ruined thinking they were drinking kava
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iTaukei culture has great tools, infrastructure and scaffolding for reconciliation and peace-making. Grog vendors will make some money, and PAP and SODELPA will settle their differences.
FF is history.
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I don't normally beg for likes, but
#teamFiji
and any other PI followers, could you please like my responses to this tweet by
@OxfordWords
. Trying to get their attention.
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Beautiful view, but also... never again should
#teamFiji
twitter say anything about Fiji deserving a leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series. Absolutely shameful turnout at the Oceania Sevens. In fact, take this tournament away too. Play it in Samoa or somewhere else more deserving
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My senijiale has been putting on a show this week. Can you smell this photo?
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@OxfordWords
Please consider updating your definition of kava as it is incorrect. You define "narcotic" as being addictive, which kava most certainly is not. "Narcotic" has severely negative connotations both in legal and layman's terms.
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I tried to tell them that they were all doomed unless they came to Fiji and accepted the Spirit of Truth Rev. Shin Ok-ju as their lord and savior, but their pride wouldn’t allow them to see the truth. No sweet and sour chicken for these lost souls
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Just found out about someone who birthed a child at home during the height of covid. This poor child doesn't exist in the system and the BDM Registry won't issue a birth certificate.
#teamFiji
, do any of you on here know what steps to take to register this baby?
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@PaulWelsh_UK
I don’t know but I am reading about shortages for people in Fiji ..blue ticks might be a luxury …I think I’d keep ones better fortune on the down low ..what do you think ?
Nice idea ..wrong time .
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Insanity! Hasmukh Patel has lost it. Replace him with someone who embraces solar. There's millions of dollars in climate finance and aid $ available to upgrade the grid to allow EFL to buy back power from private customers. Decades in the job and very little dev since Monasavu
#LOCALNEWS
| An increase in tariff will ensure Energy Fiji Ltd
#EFL
is protected from being exploited by the rooftop solar developers, stated EFL in its submission to the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission (FCCC).
#TimesNews
#FijiNews
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@stansimpsonfj
Stanley you may have to explain what a Cabinet meeting is. Young people who grew up under the Baiyaz Regime have never heard of a meeting between more than two govt Ministers other than that one Level 9 sleepover.
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@Fijian_Drua
I have no words.
Thank you thank you thank you for an incredible end to the season. Toto'a va'aoti!
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@koihinakoloni
Anything in 87 you assign to Rabuka is by extension also assigned to his men. One difference though... Rabuka did a 180 and apologised for his mistake, while Bainimarama was such a big fan of the coup that he repeated his treason in 2000 and 2006. A 4-time treasonist.
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Dropped off a package for a quarantined friend at Nasau Resort yesterday and took this photo a bit further up that road. The setting sun splashed some colour on the base of ominous clouds shrouding the Nadi hinterlands.
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@pseudofijian
And then when the case was dropped he promptly rubbed it in our faces by opening a cafe called SubZero (geddit?… as in ice!) at Denarau. The chief guest was FijiFirst Trade Minister Koya 🤨
With connections like that, it’s not hard to get rats to do your bidding
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It was photographed again two years later (by Charles Kerry) in 1890. Note that by this time a building has appeared on the reclaimed land. Notice horse-drawn carriage and canoes on the beach on left.
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Mum during her time at Air Pacific/
@FijiAirways
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L: Pulling a colleague into the raft during wet drills.
R: Presumably in Kiribati
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@TumeliTuqota
Magistrate Turaga does judging for 8 years. One day JVB issues nationwide curfew under Public Health Act.
3 fallahs breach the curfew.
Magistrate T acquits them, saying only Health Ministr, not PM, can issue curfew under the Act.
yada yada yada
Magistrate T's contract not renewed
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Just give the $200m to the 101 Rakiraki cane farmers and ask them to grow something else. Their children have no interest in planting cane and their cane cutters prefer to pick apples in NZ.
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The FOMO is strong with this animal. He insists on not being left on the ground when there’s excitement to be had on the roof
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The only 5 govt MPs who are publicly in favour of a ceasefire are on the receiving end of some horrible abuse by citizens who are in favour of a ceasefire.
I don't understand it.
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So apparently the Hibiscus Festival won't be held in August. As a farmer, I am deeply concerned about the impact this will have on my crops. It's a well known scientific fact that without this annual pagan festival, the august rains won't fall.
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@OxfordWords
Your definition is also incorrect in that kava drinking is not confined to Polynesia. It is also consumed in Melanesia (Vanuatu is the birthplace of kava) and Micronesia. Kava is something most Pacific Islanders have in common.
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Struggling through this Nadi heat and Petrina sends me these from Vancouver. The new
@FijiAirways
destination is real tempting right now.
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Petrina will be away on Sunday so I designated today Mother's Day and Q and I spent a few hours cooking.
Prawn curry, duruka vakalolo, lightly tavu'd baigan stuffed with kai then baked, chicken stroganoff, kokoda.
I love this woman.
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My li'l sister. She's a badass.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life".
#InternationalWomensDay2020
#EachforEqual
#FlyLikeAFijian
#Fiji
#AircraftEngineer
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After one of their biggest donors was identified as a drug trafficker,
@AiyazSKFiji
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@JVBainimaramafj
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@FJFirstOfficial
was funded by drug money.
NEW: The recent conviction in New Zealand of a Fijian businessman for importing at least $2.9 million of pseudoephedrine — a precursor for meth — reveals Fiji’s increasing role as an international trafficking hub. 👇
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Almost two centuries after they first showed up, misguided Christians are still destroying indigenous culture in Fiji
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Very sad to hear today of the passing of Ben Ryan, my aunt's cat. A ginger, Ben was born in 2013 on the day
@benjaminryan
arrived in Fiji.
He lived a good life, and will be missed.
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@angry_kpra
"My biggest achievement here at FRU was that I found the Lord".
The man clearly didn't understand the assignment.
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Met an Alaskan Malamute in a hardware store today. A very good boy.
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Civic duty done. No queue at all at Nadi Airport School. Get out and vote.
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