Hi Goanetters!
Ok coming back after a long time again on this auspicious day.
Zaitea tempan eilear mog assta mhonttat. Mog aslear Ghanttar than evunk
zata!
Congratulations Herman! Living up to your name, Carneiro, you have been
truly a humble sheep. Thanks to all your hard work in initiating this net
concept on the Goan forum and enabling us to read about Goa and Goans and
what happens there by the minute.
Also thanks to the hard-working volunteer team of Frederick Noronha,Viviana
Coelho, Bosco DMello, Daisy Rodrigues, Michelle DSouza, Christina Pinto
and Vincente Fernandes, who keep sanity on this forum and get rid of the
hate-mail and stuff that would hurt the majority of our conscientious
Goanetters.
Also thanks to various personalities on this group who post from their heads
and from their hearts and who give us a chance to smile and admire their
courage, knowledge and wit. At the same I wish the minority of posters who
make some of our lives miserable would stay away and prevent us from hitting
the delete button. Just because this forum is free to express anyones
opinion doesnt mean it is a free for all. Think about your readers and how
they will feel about your post and its consequences. A good discussion is
always a fodder to the brain with its pros and cons.
At least I come here for quality, not quantity. But then these personalities
represent our everyday Goan in them: smart, intelligent, jealous, angry,
impatient, social, anti-social, conservative, nut-pisso, auto, ishtupid,
proud, bhitorle-moticho, pikar-korpi, mangar-korpi, dolldiro,
kam-na-bekar-lowddy, shempddo, mogall, apurbayecho, Niz Goenkar, humble,
shapodkar, nostalgic, Konknnivadis, racist, casteist, fundamentalist,
mental, freeloader, downloader, etc. just like in our neighbourhood in Goa.
Wherever we are, you cant take that goanness from us.
After all, when we open up our goanet posts, dont we all say Oh no, not
him again(and skip) , Avois , ho ailo, Ai Saiba , ho ek assa, Aha I
have to read this guy, Ok lets click on this interesting post, Oh no
Aiz kaim na mure, Arre hi ladainh mure, konnak time assa? Arre this guy
has come after a long time, Avois one more cut-n-paste mure, Ho polle
English-Goan ailo. Ho kitem Konkani boroita re, no masculine-feminine kaim
kollona (Enough of zupatti here?)
I am glad I can come on this forum and mostly feel good about it.
What have the Chowgules, Dhempos and Salgaonkars and other crore-potis in
Goa done for am Goans? I dont know, may be some charitable trusts, etc.
But goanet, whatever you have done for the community sounds good to me. The
latest news reports from Goa, deaths, incidents, accidents, crimes,
political musical chairs, latest news keep us up-to-date on the day-to-day
affairs in Goa.
For us goanet is akin to Google or Yahoo and goanet does not make any
money. Talk about no free lunch. If this is not free lunch what is it?
Goenchi Pez with miskut/lonchem?
Of course the high tech helped a lot. Otherwise, can you imagine in olden
days you needed to do typing, re-typing, typesetting, editing, printing, and
putting it all together and mailing it. You get here all the news from Goa
faster than Goas Antonette on the internet.
Today you just just hit the keyboard and upload/download. Pure and simple,
except the checking of posts by the volunteer team, thats hard. I am sure
there are other things involved, which we, the readers dont know about.
And its all free!
Thanks lastly to all members of goanet. Without you there would be no
goanet.
And what personality do I belong to? The long Ladainh Konkanivadi type? Ok
so fu cares?
Silviano
Check my website:
http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
