Back when the coup in Fiji was still fresh in our minds early 2007, I wrote this post about my friends’ hilarious description of a paradise in trouble. However, when the Interim government went on a witch hunt for anti-government bloggers, I decided that my post might attract the attention of said witch hunters and decided to put it aside till the excitement has died down.

Well, a year later, things have quieted down on the local blogging scene (I hope ><) and so, blowing dust off the top of this post, I present you with “Fiji is a warzone!”

(Image courtesy of that lovely, friendly website Encyclopedia Dramatica)

While playing World of Warcraft, one of my buddies Lawrence got a private chat message from one of his gaming friends.

Friend: Hey man I heard about the recent coup in your country. How you doing so far?

Lawrence: Oh everything is kinda ok for now…things have…quietened down around my area…

Friend: what? quietened down? what do you mean?

Lawrence: oh well the army drives around the place and patrols the neighbourhood since its usually lights out after ten o’clock.

Friend: Really? Damn!

Lawrence: Yeah…I’m currently playing from the basement of my house so that the patrols don’t see the light coming from my PC, and I’m using a really small generator.

At this moment Lawrence’s net connection fails, a problem he’s been having during the weekend. Probably something to do with the reception playing up. Anyways, after 5 minutes of reconnecting, he’s finally back online.

His friend immediately messages him as soon as he logs back into the game…

Friend: What happened? You logged off suddenly!

Lawrence: Oh that…yeah…I had to switch off my PC because the patrol had just passed my house and some light from the PC still shows through the windows upstairs so I had to play it safe.

Friend: …

man thats fucked up…

Lawrence: Tell me about it…

When I heard this, I burst out laughing, and wasn’t so sure who to kill, the overseas media, for portraying Fiji in the throes of a Militaristic, Dictatorship Rule with Army Patrols and Guns galore (the only guns I’ve seen so far were the ones held by the road block guards, and they’re not even loaded XD), or Lawrence, for spinning a yarn that seemed to just about confirm it all…

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