On 30 March 2012 18:42, floriano <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Roland, > > My response to your post is not because you have mentioned my name. > It is because of the sincerity in which it is written. > > Matanhy Saldanha and I were colleagues, though I started much much later > than he, he being a year younger to me. > And I have criticized him more than I have appreciated him while he was > living. This was never because I was jealous of him. It was because he > didn't do more and what was actually required to be done by personalities > like him being in the lime-light. > > It is there on the net for everyone to see. > > However, let me quote the famous Goan adage: > 'Melele Mosik Bara Xher dud" > > Having said that, I have prepared for my eventual death much much in > advance and my dear 'wife' and/or my son/daughter have been instructed > accordingly thus: > > To allow each and every one who would want to say a few words (eulogize) > over my dead body to say them without let or hindrance. > To offer flowers to those criticizing my work or me openly. ( worst > criticism to get more flowers). Because what they will have said would be > absolutely true and coming directly from their hearts. > To write off those who praised me in death, or my work after I was dead. > Because these will have been utter hypocrites. Because those who would want > to praise me would have done so when I was living and facing me, eye to > eye. {for I have always culled a hypocrite from and friend] > To refuse state funeral for husband/dad even if he was the CM of Goa. [No > such illusions, though. The way I am going, it will be a wonder if I get > past 1000 votes forget about winning and election. Because winning > elections one has to lick arses. And floriano has never done that] In fact > to instruct the State authorities to use the money on things worthwhile, > especially catering to SENIOR CITIZENS IN OLD AGED HOMES. > > Thank you for being straight forward, aka, not being a hypocrite. > > Cheers > floriano > goasuraj > 9890470896 > www.goasu-raj.org > www.gragoa.com
Roland, you are not alone, here is a link to a blog site, a person who used to post on this forum in bygone times. Telling it as it is w.r.t. his own experience..... http://goa-kranti.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/mathanay-saldanha-that-i-know.html > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
