Confession: Can I speak to Mr. Agy please ?
Before I go any further, please go through the list of common short names used in Goa etc. Please note these are only some of the many names listed. The List I prepared in alphabetical order for your easy reference: Agy/Aggie=Agnelo Agust=Augustinho Alfy=Alfred Anju=Anjelina Ansu=Anucessao Antu/Tony = Anthony Baltu=Baltazar/Baltimeu Belu=Belinda Bostu=Bostian Caitu/Cajie=Caitan/Cajetan Chris=Chirtopher Consu=Conceisao Di=Diana (UK) Dikie=Dickson Dumu=Dominic Eddie=Edwards Effy=Effifania Emil=Emilia Fanchu=Francis Fatu=Fatima Filu=Filomena Florry=Florinda Fred=Fredrick Gab/Gabru=Gabriel Gilu=Guilermina Glor=Gloria Ida/Idu=Idalina Ismen=Ismeralda Jery=Jeraldina Jess/Jessy=Jessica Joku=Joaquim Juli=Juliet Juju=Justinho Karu=Carolina Kev=Kevin Kistu=Custodio Leo=Leonildo Liby=Liberath/Liberamenta Lidy=Lydia Lisa/Liz=Elizabeth Lizy=Lizeth Luiz=Luizinha Lucy=Lucinda Magggie/Magdu=Margaret/Magdalena Manu=Manuel Metty=Mathew Minu=Minino Mike=Michael/Mical Naz=Nazareth Netty=Natalina/Natividade Niky=Nicolau/Nicole Paity/Pittu=Peter/Piedade Pandu=Pandurang/Pondolik Paru=Parvati Pasku=Pascoal Phil=Philipe Pidu=Piedade Raju=Rajesh Ramu=Ramesh Ravi=Ravindranath Remy=Remedious/Remedian Richie=Richards Ritu=Ritina Roby=Robert Rocky=Roque Rogu=Rogunath Roku=Rocozinh Rosa=Rosalina Sacru=Sacramenta Salu=Salvador/Saluzinho Santu=Santana Seby/Sabu=Sebastiao Soku=Socorina Steve=Stephen/Steven Tuku=Tukaram Tom=Tomaturgo Valu=Valerian Vicky=Victor Vincy=Vincent Vittu=Vittal Vitor=Vitorina Willy=William/Wilfred When I first arrived in UK (Some 13 years ago), like everybody else, I was so desperate for a job. Remember, I was all by myself (no family no friends, friends were there but they didnt want to know me see two links below, just in case you missed out my past posts) For Job hunting, I used to go to local Job Centre, refer ads on free newspapers etc. One day, as I was going through a newspaper, I saw an ad.. I said to my self, ah!, this is what I was looking for (Store Keeper), I immediately went out of the house (Rented room) to a nearby payphone. Can I speak to Mr. Agy please ? Who ? (was the answer from a lady) I repeated Agy please I dont know what you talking about, said she and put the phone down. (she was bit rude, after all, my accent was Asian) I was very disappointed but didnt give up. Decided to call back after sometime, hoping I would get a different person this time. But to my bad luck, the same lady picked up the phone and I promptly put my phone down. Next week, when we got another free paper (Free weekly papers are home delivered to each and every house in London and other parts of UK, some time one can get up to 3 different types of FREE papers There are daily FREE papers too, like Metro), there was another vacancy of the same nature but at different place. Strangely, the person to be contacted was the same name as before. I thought, in England, there might be many of the same name (Like Tony, Francis, Joe etc in Goa). I went out again, to phone but this time the lady was very polite she said Sorry, there is no one here named Agy I asked -Are you sure ?? and she said 100%. Very disappointed again, came home and straight went to bed. Few days later, on another newspaper, there were so many vacancies at different locations and by different employers. And I saw there, at least 3-4 of the ads had identical names of the contact persons i.e. Agy. Hang on a minute! There must be something fishy with the name Antam moji Tube light pettli re pettli Agy is not a short name (or short form) for Agnelo, as I always thought.. Agy is short for Agency (Recruiting Agency) where they sometimes indicate in the bracket (Agy) just after the contact No. e.g. 181 573 1234 (Agy) just to let us know the ad come from the agency and not from the employer/Company. What a fool JoeGoaUk !!!! Homework: Have you any confession to make ? please, please write back. If no confession to make, they will you please try to add one or two or more names to the above list ? From Archive.. (..to be alone in somebody else's country) http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/message/269 http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/message/535 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ Konkani Songs, Goan Photos, Tiatr/Film VCDs, Bank interest rates etc etc (for updates etc click below) http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/files/ ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
