Rugby, freedom
Mammoth task!
KNOWN as ‘The Bossman’, former Namosi rugby star and the man who sizzled his way to the try-line for the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua side, Vinaya Habosi, has a mammoth task on his plate as he battles Israel Folau, who is one of the deadliest and clinical finishers in world rugby, in Fiji’s PNC opener.
Habosi, who impressed rugby pundits in the Drua’s inaugural Super Rugby campaign, will make his debut for the Fiji side.
Fiji will be playing in front of some passionate fans so performance is expected to be top shelf.
Apart from Habosi, the likes of Hetet, Ikanivere, Saulo, Nasilasila, Ratuva, Kunavula, Nasove, Tuisue, Lomani, Tela, Ravouvou, Nayacalevu, Wainiqolo, Tuicuvu, Matavesi, Mawi, Tagi, Api, Kitione, Matawalu, Seta and Mataele will battle the fiery Ikale Tahi, who no doubt will be backed by their vocal supporters and with the likes of Folau, Fekitoa and Piutau, are expected to play their hearts out.
Yesterday’s front page captured Captain Wise Nayacalevu and the powerful words, ‘Pump it!’.
My message to our warriors is stick to the game plan, keep it simple and use our lethal backs.
Tovolea mada boys- pump it!
I thank Fiji’s sports and trusted brand- The Fiji Times for keeping readers abreast with developments in the PNC!
RAJNESH ISHWAR LINGAM Nadawa, Nasinu
Personal relationships
USUALLY, love and freedom present a conundrum in personal relationships.
It is quite a thing just to find ourselves in love with someone but quite another to be constrained by the same sentiment.
We need to adjust and change for our loved ones for a relationship to become intimate and lasting.
But for any relationship to work, there has to be a loss of personal autonomy only then it will be sustainable.
Humans are most free and alive in a relationship of love.
Unfortunately, when we oversimplify freedom and autonomy relationships suffer.
SACHIDA NATH
Nadi
Regaling tales
ON the verandah in the setting sun, the three old men reminisced,
Wof days long gone, lost in time and the mist.
They regaled t heir tales and stories, of past shining glories, and many hidden follies.
The stories more and more embellished, as each day it’s told, but they still avidly listened, to tales that never grow old. Then tears welled and glistened, as they remembered, their departed friends, as they whispered.
Silence again reigned, as they closed their eyes and remembered each of them. EDWARD BLAKELOCK
Pacific Harbour
IT’S too high. It’s going to affect us, the taxidrivers.
ANIL KUMAR Nausori