This particular Sunday special of mine has been prompted by Aurelio Viegas'
' NEVER BE LATE'
From: "aurelio viegas" <[email protected]>
To: "goa internet" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 3:27 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Never Be Late
There are two particular instances that I had the occasion to visit in the
very recent past combined with the above master piece from Aurelio Viegas
which makes my fingers fly on the keyboard.
One was the National Geographic TV Channel's televised item on the
ingeniousness of the UP's ( read Uttar Pradesh - India) fishermen putting
sea otters to work to increase their fish-yield. These little one's are
tamed and trained to work under-water into driving the fish into the waiting
nets from the boats. But the little otters ( with all their stiff whiskers
and hair spilling out of their ears) are roped with a collar noose and let
go to complete the job. The similarity of these little otters to the '
WINING OTTER ' that I know of, is the reason for this national geographic
special.
With regard to the Mapusa Municipal Elections, where the voters of Mapusa
must be forming large lines to vote at this very moment when I am busy
hitting the keyboard, has a role to play in this story. I as the member of
the Mapusa Nagrikancho Ekvott [MNE] have been in charge of facilitating
its 5 candidates with matters relating to the Electioneering because of my
vast experience with elections. And among all 5 candidates, MNE has a STAR
candidate in Jeanette Gomes, a 63 year old die-hard who has vowed to defeat
the WINNING OTTER who is her only long standing opponent ( or rather this
otter's wife when the eligibility is changed from men to women) of Ward No.
4. It is the decision of MNE to field this star candidate in Ward NO. 4 that
all other opposition has melted-down to see that the 'WINNING OTTER' gets
no fish for breakfast lunch and dinner even if he is ready to shell out Rs.
3000/- per fish ( which I believe is the market rate as of last night). And
we must realize that the fisherfolks in Goa are on fishing strike, thanks to
Matanhy Saldanha.
The second thing that happened is that our star candidate's brother-in-law
passed away and the funeral service was held yesterday (Saturday) evening at
the Mapusa Church. I had to be there, not to shed tears, but to see if the
WINNING OTTERS were attending or not, the death being that of the
long-standing voter of the OTTERS who unfortunately would have voted
otherwise this Sunday if he didn't say 'good-bye'. And as I entered the
Church, rather late, Fr. Braz Faleiro was dishing out his wonderful sermon.
The good father was talking about how politicians are paying money for votes
et al and asking the pertinent question if these were Christians at all etc.
However, what Fr. Faleiro did not realize is that our long standing
politicians or WINNING OTTERS will starve if they do not pay for the fish
which they are not able to catch.
Later, whilst walking in the procession towards the cemetery, I inched
myself close to my very old acquaintance, Fr. Faleiro, in the guise of
helping his difficult walk with a cane and whispered my congratulations to
him on his excellent and most relevant sermon. He smiled, thanked me and
said " But I do hope that what I have said will penetrate the right ears".
And I instantly knew which right ears he was talking about --- that of the
'Otters' and that of the trainer of the 'Otters' who was also present and
who is the person who handles the nooses of the ropes in these otter's
necks -- the incomparable MLA of the BJP kind of Mapusa.
"Fr.", I said, " with due respect to you, how can anything at all
penetrate the ears especially when the ears of the OTTERS are blocked
completely by a jungle of hair grown from the ears?". The good father had
tough time controlling his burst of laughter and I had to do a double time
to prevent him from tripping. The good Fr. must be laughing still, if I know
him well.
And during the burial, I was purposely standing in close proximity of the
'OTTERS' so that I could smell the defeat. It was indeed over-powering.
And when my turn came to condole our star candidate, being a relict of the
deceased, I said to her " Jeanette dear- brighten up ---will ya? -- I can
already smell your victory".
Victory or not - since MNE does not put stress on VICTORIES but SINCERE HARD
WORK instead, our consolation is that we did make the ' OTTERS' come to
reality of the hard fasting days with no fish around unless prepared to pay
exorbitant prices.
Cheers
floriano
GSRP/GEAG/PPS/MNE
www.goasu-raj.org
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It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizen voters elect good, honest
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GOA urgently needs 'GOOD, HONEST, DISCIPLINED SYSTEM of GOVERNANCE'.
Wherein, even a dishonest person is forced to be good, honest n disciplined,
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