Dear Rose, You are absolutely brilliant, your wit and style of writing surpasses! I am most grateful for your input, I thought I was out on a limb.
I really enjoyed your piece and had a hearty laugh, you should contribute more, you bring a breath of fresh air! On 14 May 2014 14:24, Melvyn Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear goanet readers > > Santosh Helekar is the person who deserves high praise, if he says Selma's > book is "well-researched and well written", one has to presume that he has > read it from cover to cover including all research documents, if I may be > so bold to ask him did he attend speed reading classes? Please could he > kindly share with us his secret of success? > > Most of us only received The Book at the event that Launched 100 copies > just over a week ago. So far I have enjoyed stories of a merry band of > Goykars, equivalent to the Oom-Pah-Pah band, who played in Zanzibar and > Casablanca style bars (Casablanca as in film not place, where one saw a bar > filled with smoke wafting to the ceiling and had that classic line "here's > looking at you, kid"). Just got to the exciting part where one of our > fellow Goykar's took out his gun and shot a charging lioness only to become > distracted by postings from fellow Goykars on goanet doing just that, > taking out blazing guns, this time to save a lioness. > > There is no point in me asking for advice on "speed reading" from Melvyn, > he's just got one line in his head "Goans don't tell the right story". > Have now come up with a novel way to gain more reading time - "ting" meals > (Ting is short for microwave). Managed to bag the last one from Marks and > Spencer supermarket under their Modern Indian Range NEW (in bold) "Goan > Chicken". Melvyn's eyes lit up, he thought I cooked him "Chicken Cafreal", > the instructions on the packet say microwave for 2 minutes not "tell your > husband" so I didn't. > > Normally at book launches there is plenty of champagne but all our Goykar > men appear to have drowned down barrels of 92 per cent proof contrabrands > and taken goanet to new dizzy heights. > > For the moment, at least until most of us have read The Book, let us > celebrate and be glad and grateful that with the help of a grant my best > friend, Selma bhai, through creative thinking and writing, has penned > pictures of our lives in East Africa without living there. After we have > read The Book those of us who have lived in East Africa may have comments > to make. > > As has been predicated in the future our community are in danger of > falling into a big drainhole and coming out the other side "beige". At > least our children's children, children, children 200 years from now will > know from The Book that there were once Goykars that roamed East Africa and > they were originally "brown". > > PS: The Book = A Railway Runs Through (just like life and our Mandovi > River). > > > Rose Fernandes > Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom > > 14 May 2014 > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
