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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi! My name is Cheryl , but explaining an email Id like Pcheryl would take us back to one of the hottest debates on Goa net. Please permit me to use your question to add to this debate !!! Regards Cheryl What's in a name ( formerly CHRISTIANs WITH HINDU NAMES ARE COWARDS) 15 years ago one Cheryl Desouza joined an organization called Stock Holding Corporation of Inida which had an 70% South India Hindu population and 28.5% other Hindu population . 1.5 % catholic population . Of this 1.5 % Catholics Goans consistited 25 % and I was the loan Goan woman in the operations side the rest were secretaries . It was but fair enough that I would often receive mail addressed C/O South Holding Corporation of Inida . Hence keeping in line with the great South India Tradition of having the husbands initial / family name before ones name , my email Id got created as pche...@stockholding .com But over the year I have noticed that as per my office records Cheryl Dsouza got changed to Cheryl Pereira and then unceremoniously to pcheryl which is totally harsh to the ear and sounds more like an illiterate . But I have not changed from being the Cheryl Desouza and still radiated the same aura ( if any ) invoke the same emotions / disgust among people I interact with . So as one of our friends has rightly said What's in a name???. My ancestors were Hindus , I am a Catholic ?? Why should I be ashamed of a Hindu name ??? By being ashamed of a Hindu name I am indirectly ashamed of ancestors ? Were they that lowly members of society that I should whant to deny their existence??? That amounts to self denial and insult to my self . I can change my name but not my Blood ! And certainly not history! Regarding your illiterate non Goan Sarpanch , I can very much guess she is a Marwadi. Last may I went to the north east for a holiday and I was stunned to see that most business ( Shops ) in Assam and Shillong were owned by Marwawadi's. The North East is a matriarch society where one goes by this mothers family name unlike the rest of India. And from the current state of affairs in the North East you may as well guess how very sentimental people are about their land and Culture . The Marwadi's out there have fond a novel way to get acceptance in a matriarch society. They have married local girls and have added their surnames to theirs . NE being a matriarch society they have managed to find acceptance among the locals and have made much more successful business men because of their Marwadi Genes. Now regarding you illiterate non Goan Sarpanch, ask yourselves who voted her to power ? has she done you any better than a Goan Sarpanch .? If yes , appreciate and Integrate , she cares for you much more than your own Goan Surpanch . If no just Boot ! You have the democratic power to do so! The choice is yours . Just crying fowl don?t help . Now if 1/3 rd of us can be bought for a peg of Fenny ! only vote and the remaining want to hold on to our Susegad philosophy ,we might as well as lay back ! try and enjoy it . After all each one of us has contributed to such a system and majority wins is the rule of any game! Alfred de Tavares <alfredtava...@hotmail.com> 10/08/2009 08:31 PM To GOANET Lists <goanet@lists.goanet.org>, Goa Net Organization <goa...@goanet.org>, <cheryl.pere...@stockholding.com> cc Subject RE: [Goanet] Indian colonialism Dear Pcheryl, Is the 'P', in your sweet name silent as in Psmith? Just pleasantly curious.... Alfred...nothing silent therein... > From:pcheryl cheryl.pere...@stockholding.com > To: goa...@goanet.org > Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:17:57 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Indian colonialism > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > * G * O * A * N * E * T **** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Planning to get married in Goa? > > www.weddingsetcgoa.com > > Making your 'dream wedding' possible > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi Bernado ! > > Its pleasant to find literary inclined Goans on the net. We can all help each other > through our learning and sharing . Literature is the product of a very intelligent / > powerful mind and always carries a hidden message which is hard to wisely > decipher. In fact the poetry you quoted was one of my favorite I studies during > high school . I can still remember teacher Melba explaining the meaning to us and > how her words shaped my life. Two other very inspirational poems I faintly recall > are 'IF' and another by D.H Lawrence which went on to explain ' Do not make > monkeys of men , by having men manning machines' . How much very true are all these > poems when they talk about life . You begin to realize life has not changed over the > centuries. Humans time and again has always had this feeing of helpless ness and no > time for theselves. , unable to break free from situations they consider as > detrimental and that's why we express ourselves through poetry and literature . > > The poem 'If ' goes on to explain human nature of always saying 'IF I had not > done this and if I only I had done that , then I could have got that' ..... Always > finding excuse for not having achieved what his neighbor has . As a poetically > inclined and talented person , please keep up your talent There may one day be a > dawn of realization that every thing in life has a time. Time for play & time for > work , time for joy and time for sorrow. Time to love and time to hate .Time to > praise God and time to say Why God? . > > What eventually would set one apart from rest of his fellow beings and makes him > feel contented is the feeling ' Yes , I have had my time, I have had it all but if > I have survived it all and have been victorious. My courage& fortitude made me > never give up when things went wrong ,dead wrong !? I have done it !' > > If we have rights we have duties too . Rest is my right as much as it is my right > to feed my self . Don't expect others to feed me , it is my duty to feed myself. > If I cannot feed myself, the world views me as a parasite and I find myself left > far behind while the world has gone ahead of me..........'Time and tide waits for no > man'................ ' Don't Curse the word then?' > > bye > Cheryl > > Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. =========================================================================================== Confidentiality Notice : "The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient , please notify the sender at SHCIL or postmas...@stockholding.com & immediately destroy all copies of this message." ===========================================================================================