Hi Carmo, Kitem munta rre? Saiba bogos! Poster Boy for ABC?
>From your resume, it appears "I snapped a Marlin" as they say in Indian Harbour Beach, FL. When can I come to take a picture of myself with the Khoro Nitz Goenkar himself? Not to commit the same mistake, I will leave your post untouched. And I will psyche myself to bear the abuses from some Goenkars who will surely complain that "I am wasting bandwidth." I am glad I could convince you and others about placing role-models in front of our youth. As far as names, there are plenty around- unless you are implying there are no truly smart Goans. We need more posts from you! Kind Regards, GL ---- CARMO DCRUZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= Hi Gilbert, Thanks for your message - but I was really disappointed about where you truncated my email and made me appear like the poster-boy of the proud Cooks n Butlers tradition of our beloved Goa ! Despite my IIT background, which may disqualify me from being emulated by a majority of our Christao Goan youth these days because of the former CM who has been castigated, and because I do not really have the anti-Nehru "Aao Portuguese" pride in me, you may note that I played a lot of national level hockey in India, tried out for Team USA, thus keeping up our traditional Goan position as a "hockey goalie". Like my fellow Velkar international hockey players John Correia (who went on to complete his MA and rise to become an executive at Central Bank) and Dr. Vece Paes the medical doctor who won the Bronze medal at the Munich olympics and the silver in the 1971 World Cup, I too was coached by the great 3-time Olympic gold medallist, the great Balbir Singh Sr. of Punjab Police - he instilled in us the drive for excellence in hockey and academics - and we lived up to it. There are many other Goan hockey players who have been inspired and trained by Balbir and others - but most of our "Bonka Bhot" Goans would have the irreverant "Tho Kon Re Sikro" attitude towards Balbir Sr. these days. These attitudes and excuses about favoritism, unfounded fears of the saffronization of Goa, divisive Devnagiri vs Roman script debates, etc will only divert and hamper the excellence of Goan youth despite our minority status...Its about time that Goan youth realize that they are Indians and not Portuguese-Indians, and be proud of it !!! I am inviting Balbir to Goa in December to inspire our Goan Youth ! Hows taht for role models ? Best Regards, Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, Indian Harbour Beach, FL
