Gift Horses and Free Training!

Written by Seuamuli Des Bentin
Monday, 08 October 2007
My three children Dylan, Damian and Andrea arrived from the Hawkes Bay last Monday bearing gifts. Any parallels with another story of three wise guys from the East bearing gifts is pure coincidence and would probably only cross the minds of those who are of a certain religious persuasion. They came for a two week holiday to make sure the Meauli connections were intact and would remain intact, and assured me that they would not be offering any government departments and organizations any free seminars or training courses on Life Amongst The Vineyards or Rugby World Cup Disaster Management although as New Zealanders they would be more than qualified to do so after five consecutive failures including this morning’s irrefutable proof that no matter how good your fifteen-man rugby team is, you cannot expect to play eighteen and win. The three match officials were awesome for the French! Things can and do go awfully wrong at times and being the inexplicably obtuse cretin that I am, I am now stuck with a years supply of Jockeys underwear my children brought for me, which I have lost any inclination to check out how “contoured to your body” they were now that the All Blacks are out of the Rugby World Cup. For those who do not see the connection, Dan Carter of the All Blacks supposedly zaps around the rugby field and over New Zealand billboards in Jockeys underpants for a large sum of money. I know that my reaction would probably sound incomprehensible to some who see rugby as just a game and Jockeys as a vital component of the trendsetting father’s wardrobe, but incomprehensible things also happen. When I was looking through the events of the week just past, checking each one out for its “giggle value”, Disaster Management training by a Church group was as unbeatable as an eighteen man French rugby team. How does one latch on to a Church group offering free training in Disaster Management? I thought I would let Pio Sioa and the real journos do the research and ask the hard questions while I would do my usual and guess. And my guess is that you would probably receive a letter out of the blue from someone saying that they are a Church with Ministers who are experts in a million different fields of ‘knowledge understanding’ including free Disaster Management training and the next thing you know you’re sending out invitations and drafting a keynote speech! So did anyone ask the New Zealand or Australian Civil Defense, Army or Red Cross, who I am willing to bet would be a lot more experienced in natural or man-made disaster and survival management training, if they included that magic word “free” in their training programs and seminars? It might be a bit foolhardy to say that we do not want anything to do with those guys anymore based on the fact that they did not help us build world class sports facilities and a million other things. Cheque book diplomacy and “free” assistance from mates being neighborly and buddies further a-field is the same cat skinned from different angles. The difference is that no one has organized a protest march against assistance from these governments yet. There are rumblings of discontent at times but we always take their largesse firm in the belief that no one can buy our country or that we will not allow that to happen. It does sound a bit far fetched does it not? But there is nothing far fetched about my decision to bench my Jockeys for the next four years. It is far too hot for them anyway! Have a nice one folks! Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment Name Email Title Comment

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