[Goanet] Who are we waiting for?...Another take
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten --- Greetings Goanetters It is very quiet where I live, and the ground is covered with snow; yet, there is a very subtle change in the light, God's promise of Spring. And so it is with this movement to save Goa, Are you aware of the change in the momentum? Many of you have contributed with your writings, to raise the awareness on corruption, greed, waste, crimes involving sex and power, environmental destruction and lack of visionary planning be it in governance,legal systems or academia. It is a huge and overwhelming list to tackle, but we have role models who have walked these paths. Mohandas Ghandi and his era of freedom fighters, and the freedom fighters who formed the United States of America. One of the Goa Ministers once told me that talk was cheap, and that it was individuals like him who stayed in India and fought and worked within the system, that mattered. When I expressed my dismay on the many things that were done wrong, he asked me how i would like it if someone who was a non physician told me how to practice medicine. I shall not even bother to comment on the fallacy of such thinking, besides stating that I hope I am humble enough to admit my mistakes and to learn from anyone.In any case, it is time to prove him and people who think like him wrong. Thanks to modern technology, physical distances no longer matter. It occurs to me , as it must to you, that we are a very diverse group with different and significant gifts that could be used in the service of Goa.It takes a power to bring down a power, and this is a critical time for Goa if a change is needed and desired . The question is , obviously, on how to accomplish this. The answer is equally obvious , in that we must join together, not to form another impotent organization, but with the aim of bringing all such organizations under one umbrella. How simplistic you will say, but all great movements start with a very simple and clear goal. I think I have said enoughjust one more question...Can one access everyones credentials on Goanet? ...we know one another by names on goanet, but we have no idea of the person's background. Blessings for the New Year Celina Pereira
Re: [Goanet] Who are we waiting for?...Another take
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten --- Dear Celina, It is many moons since the first 'Citizens' [of Goa] Initiative' at Menezes Braganca Hall in Panjim that we interact. It just came to my mind that your response to this great philosopher 'politician' whom you talked to should have been. No, because I have to entrust my life to the doctor even if he is a 'quack', because I don't know anything about medicine. But I know what I want from doctors in general, that is to save me from being laid into a coffin before my time. But for others such as politicians, engineers, architects etc including taxi drivers, I know what I want from them because I am paying them for their expertise. And if I don't get what I want, I give a kick on their backsides with both my feet' BTW Celina, any duffer can be a politician All he has to have is a keen interest to serve the people ( with a sense of self-sacrifice and zero ego) who elect him and strictly follow the mandate given to him by the people and not to fill-up his own pockets and those of his/her kin to the brim and overflowing. Don't tell me that this politician to whom you spoke is the same politician who told Patricia Pinto (when she questioned him over the massacre of Panjim's storm water drains of ages for a silly and superficial face lift) that she would not understand these things because she was not an engineer. He never realized that she is well qualified in 'plumbing' and that the plumbing sense w.r.t. the storm water drains was more important than being a civil engineer or even an IIT. :-)) Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org PS: Goa badly needs people like you for overhauling Goa's education system and most every other department and politicians who have sensitive ears to listen, not big mouths to YAP :-)) PPS: Goa's Need of the Hour... What's Zat??? . All expat'ize to descend on Goa and take her to the heights never imagined before - Original Message - From: celinap celi...@mail.uri.edu To: Goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:05 AM Subject: [Goanet] Who are we waiting for?...Another take When I expressed my dismay on the many things that were done wrong, he asked me how i would like it if someone who was a non physician told me how to practice medicine
