I'm back after a refreshing weekend at my parents' house in Aldona. Away from Computers Internet, Pseudo Animal Activists and Environmentalists.
My impromptu GoaNet FAQ seems to have met with a mixed response. I would like to clarify a few points here. 1) Ema Souza-Colaco questioned my 'description' of Viviana Coelho. Let me state that I have exchanged personal e-mail with Mrs. Coelho since many months back. We have had a lot of disagreements on matters and managed to sort things out. I have nothing but the HIGHEST regard for Mrs. Coelho, especially her light handed arbitration on posting matters. When she and her husband Ariosto came down to Goa in January I had the pleasure of speaking to them on the phone. Mrs. Coelho struck me as a wonderfully delightful person. And she speaks even better than she writes. I even invited them over for drinks and dinner in Panjim which they refused. So, unforunately, we never actually met. At Easter time I sent a photo (JPG -attachment) of myself, my wife Beatrice and our two year old son Desmond to Mrs. Coelho. I asked her to send one of herself, and family, back. Helps to put a face to a name. She refused and so I have only HER OWN description of herself to use as a reference. Below are some quotes from Mrs. Coelho's e-mails to me. Unlike Fred I do not regularly forward PERSONAL e-mail to GoaNet but I am doing so 'selectively' now just to justify my description of Mrs. Coelho. I hope Ema Souza-Colaco, and whoever else took offense, will understand. I am sure Mrs. Coelho too will vouch for me. In fact she used my 'description' of her recently while debating with George Pinto. If anyone out there has a recent photograph of Mrs. Coelho please send it to me so that I can make the required changes to her description in my FAQ. -------Mrs. Viviana Coelho describing herself ---------- 19th Jan 2002 "I look like my grandmother" 29th Jan 2002 *"You know the type, short, fat, round, smiling face, etc." 1st Feb 2002 "I'm first generation (immigrant), not second generation." 23rd March "I'm a GRANDMOTHERLY TYPE" 4th April 2002 "and I'm short, fat and ugly" ----------------- Point proven. I hope! 2) Fred gets his panties in a knot over my 'bigoted' description of Tariq Siddiqui. I have never spoken or met Mr. Siddiqui. We have exchanged personal e-mail just once when he appreciated a humour piece I had posted. He comes across as a most straightforward and knowledgeable person with an ability to also laugh at himself. Being a pretty good judge of character I can say that Mr. Siddiqui is somewhere having a hearty chuckle at my description of him. Whereas our friend the righteous Fred has taken the higher ground of political correctness. Fred hands out a kerchief to Mr. Siddiqui to cry on. A kerchief which was not asked for. Fred this posturising of your's does not fool anyone. You think that by making a show of support to Mr. Siddiqui you could scrore some brownie points with your 'mentors' and attract some criticism of myself. Bah! Mr. Siddiqui knows how to laugh at himself. But he is enjoying an even heartier laugh at your fake concern for his NAME and the prejudices your 'politically correct' imagination assume accompanies it. Years of living on that 'holier than thou' pedestal you have built for yourself, Fred, has obviously pickled your brains and eyesight into seeing 'insults' and 'bigots' which do not exist. Take a break, Fred. Go to Kathmandu. Live a poltically incorrect life for a few weeks. Get all the knots out of your system. Come back refreshed. Enough said! Cecil ======= Greet your loved ones in Goa with flowers! http://www.goa-world.net/expressions/ EXPRESSIONS - The Flower Shop World famous all over Goa! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
