April 2010 Blog Posts (5)

This is the twentieth column in a serialization of PACIFIC FLASH: A Year in FIJI by Gerry Takano. Copies will be available April 1, 2010. Stay tuned for more information.

Throughout my stay comparing Fiji with the drastic social, cultural and political scenes in places like contemporary Hawaii was taboo. It was best not to discuss, in any analytical and potentially cynical detail, my own biases and…

This is the nineteenth column in a serialization of PACIFIC FLASH: A Year in FIJI by Gerry Takano. Copies will be available later this year. Stay tuned for more information.

Expatriate dependency on technology was rampant even in rural Fiji. Willingly, we abandoned some conveniences -- cold showers, television, cell phones, the New York Times or CNN -- but not the laptop computer. The true test was when…

This is the eighteenth column in a serialization of PACIFIC FLASH: A Year in FIJI by Gerry Takano. Copies will be available later this year. Stay tuned for more information.

Once again the return to Suva was appreciated no matter how calming the Levuka routines had become. My visits were filled with must dos -- must buy screw-on light bulbs, oranges, must check into Polaris Edge, Suva's answer to Golds gym.…

This is the seventeenth column in a serialization of PACIFIC FLASH: A Year in FIJI by Gerry Takano. Copies will be available later this year. Stay tuned for more information.

Fiji was, and shall always be, first across the International Dateline -- one step closer to the next millennium. Four Los Angeles public relations marketing experts descended…