On Tue, 3/17/15, Cecil Pinto wrote: Dear Mervyn, Your analysis of recent GoaNet posts is very interesting and insightful. But I do not know why you called Roland's post a bauble. Vivian lives many months of the year in Goa and the remaining months in various places in the USA including Baltimore. Even when in Goa Vivian travels around a lot and observes things and gets involved in real-life issues. What does Vivian know about cities and Baltimore and Panjim and Goa as compared to Roland Francis? After all Roland does more armchair research and analysis than any six overseas GoaNetters combined. ------------------------------------------------
Cecil, I can divide almost all the the people I know into two groups. Group Eh are those who keep an eye on the future and all its possibilities. Group A are those who only know what they know and spend most of their time reminiscing on the past. Vivian is in one group and Roland is in another. Come to think about it, Goanet itself seems to have morphed into a repository for things of the past. On a very good day, you may find one readable post of current affairs. Sadly, nearly all the people I have met here from Group Eh have gone. Some left with reluctance, others were forced out by common sense. Mervyn BTW, I too find it tough to read the opinion of anyone whose research concludes that there were man eating tigers in the Canadian wilds.
