http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , East Timor , Dili en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 18:28:33 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:28:33 +0000 Final Fantasy VII is by far the most effective and most popular game within the Final Fantasy series. This roleplaying game RPG can be a mix of scifi and fantasy that has been developed by Square Enix and authored by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the seventh from the series which was released in 1997 to the Sony PlayStation and appeared readily available for MS Windowsbased PCs in 1998 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-755456.html We have arrived back from our four day jaunt out to the majestic Jaco Island and Tutualu Beach both refreshed from daily life at the clinic and exhausted from the trip. A long journey on pothole laden poorly paved Timorese roads is quite a bumpy adventure. We left early Friday morning stopping to pick up Jake the American premed from Brandeis and a 24case of Huda beer 12 Danish beer that t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-727429.html Like my first weekend in East Timor this weekend was filled with plenty of activity. After taking a half day of work on Saturday me and Josh went to the biggest farmers market in Dili where we hunted for ingredients to cook dinner with on Sunday night for our home stay family. The public market appears small at first but as you begin to wonder through a maze of stalls you get a feel for truly http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-726470.html Today we took a couple hours off in the afternoon to accompany Dr. Robin to the Chega exhibit. Chega is a Portuguese word meaning stop no more enough. The exhibit is placed in an old Portuguese prison that was used by Fretilin a Timorese group fighting against the Indonesian occupation as well as the Indonesians themselves. In these walls countless human rights violations took place an http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-725936.html Now that I39ve been in East Timor for almost a week Josh and I have gotten into a routine. As many of you know we have been doing a home stay with the Lopez Family a Timorese family that lives a short walk away from the clinic. I39ve been quickly getting to know them day by day. As I learned during my home stay in South Africa the experience is so much able when you are able to find comm http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-724934.html After the usual breakfast we jumped into the car for Dili via Dare. The fog shrouded the mountains on our way out and the drizzle and cool air meant that we left Maubisse in jumpers. The drizzle was soon behind us though as we lost altitude and by 1030 the sun was blaring hot and we swapped the thermals for sunscreen. The memorialmuseumcafeltspangtltspangtat Dare was not as impressive a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-724892.html WARNING If you support PETA or avidly disapprove of Micahel Vick then you should probably just not read this post so you don39t think less of us as people. I know cock fighting is wrong but they39re just chickens it39s a major aspect of Timorese culture and an opportunity not to be passed up while visiting this country. Furthermore I strongly advocate the death of all roosters who c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-724477.html We decided over dinner that the 3 of us would spend the day exploring Dili. After breakfast we headed out to the Christ statue at the far east of greater Dili. You can see it from the waterfront anywhere in Dili. To get there we hopped in a mikrolet a micro sized minibus with a bench seat on either side. East Timorese are not big people and you never see a fat one and even they are cramped in ou http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-723695.html Visas. One of the fundamentals of travel had been carefully worked out and timings carefully scheduled. We even thought of whether we39d need them for transit countries or so we thought... Then we got to Wellington airport and nearly didn39t go anywhere. We were flying via Sydney to Darwin where we were overnighting before hopping over to Dili the capital of East Timor. Its only Oz and we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-722993.html What can you do to make sure a steady stream of qualified job candidates You will discover a variety of inventive recruitment strategies that smaller enterprises have discovered profitable from job fairs to employee referral bonuses to inventive public relations which have been low costno price and effortless to implement. Right here are 12 Tips for Inventive Recruiting.1 Employee referrals http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-718660.html It would seem that there are many of you family and friends who are under the impression we are on some sort of glorified extended holiday.ltspangtltspangt We are NOT on a holidayltspangt Riding a bike from London to Sydney is more like unpaid work really.ltspangt Expensive unpaid work at that.ltspangt For example we are very busy every day with planning routes finding fo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-718166.html To take pleasure from m4v to dvdon our iPhone we will have to rip DVD with the formats backed by iPhone first exactly M4V. Obtain that M4V could be highly compatible format may be played on all Apple stuffs like iPhone iPhone 4 included iPad iPod and Apple TV apps on Mac also on MacBook Mac mini MacBook Pro iMac like iTunes and iMovie. Enabling you to convert dvd to m4v for storage an http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-710513.html Its early Saturday morning and Ive been in Dili East Timor since late on Monday. Once again Im travelling with a group from work to train some local people in the use of some software that has been developed at work and to also run a workshop on climate and climate change for a larger group of people.We had to travel from Melbourne last Monday because we could not arrange flights from http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-651744.html I never managed to venture out of Dili the whole time Ive been in East Timor which is not my usual way of travel and Im excited to be moving on tomorrow. I had to be back in Dili this afternoon so it wasnt really long enough to go east or south to Mt Ramelau and see more of the country but a little too long to stay entertained in Dili. I was going to go out to Atauro Island but by the tim http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-580759.html Had a slower day looking at potential clinic sites in Dili. We targeted some of the poorer areas that likely do not have access to health care. What an awakening Several area with no access to water and no sewer systems. Open sewage systems were common. One empty building at a school we surveyed isnt usable because it being used as a toilet. We meet with the Japanese contingency today who will http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-560709.html Another warm and humid day in Dili. Spent most of day meeting with local agencies and NGO's. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/East-Timor/Dili/blog-559788.html