On 12/12/2007, Quentin Coelho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not know the Goa you come from, but I am ashamed to say in the Goa I > come from the vast majority of us are crabs. We pull down anyone who tries > to do something constructive. Alan, like me I think we left India to enjoy > the fruit of others labour. What have we done to support the likes of Mario, > Muriel, Nicholas, FN, Dean and all the others striving for another and > better Goa ? > The crabs far out do the cons in Goa, that is why it is an uphill battle > for those who dare to do some good. >
Me? Striving for a better Goa? What crap, Quentin. I'm just staying in a place I like, doing what I can do without overstretching myself too much (I've felt like just another digit in a big city whenever I lived in one!) ... and having fun while doing it. More than support, what we need is dialogue and communication, so that we can understand all sides of the issue. This reminds me of the "seven-tiles" games that Quentin, Alan's brother Nobby and the rest of us used to share in the 'seventies near the Saligao Institute. What better than a good controversy to rake up some life on Saligaonet! Keven, if it had not been for you, we would have never got Alan and Quentin to post. Give us a shout from your part of .Ca Quentin. Hope all's well with you. Christi (Mariano's, Muriel's and Sr Goretti's brother) is down, and he told me a secret -- he's going to be 50 soon! The St Xavier's reunion is on coming Sunday. Goanetters meet in Goa on Dec 27 (at Miramar). Our publicity-shy Saligaokarn Yvonne Vaz Ezdani (Shannon's and Rachel's mum) releases her first book called The Songs of the Survivors (about Goans in Burma, and the 1942 Japanese occupation) on Dec 29 at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research. She'll tell you more about it. I got a sneak preview and know it's interesting (and features many names you might know). This much for now... what could we turn into a controversy next? Do you think the Saligao Institute was right in sending out a notice saying "Santa Clause will give away the parents brought by the parents of those children participating in the Christmas Tree"? Riza is nine, has three years to go before officially being excluded from the Christmas Tree, and now has to live with the reality that, yes, adults do tell untrue stories to their kids :-) Okay, I'm just joking here. Don't take me very seriously. I've been working too hard at home, trying to study Free Software/Open Source issues in Thailand and Vietnam, while sitting here in Saligao. All this stuff must be affecting my mind :-) Take care, and keep posting! Let's out-Annette Annette. FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 12000+ downloadable, sharable hi-res photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/
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