Never underestimate your Clients' Complaint, no matter how funny it might
be!
This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors
and its cutomer-Care Executive.
A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:
This is the second time I have written to
this is the begining...
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'I HAD 5 CHANCES TO TOPPLE GOA GOVT': MALLYA: Janata
Party president Vijay
Mallya claims that he had five opportunities to
topple the present Bharatiya
Janata Party government but has refrained from doing
so due to his
commitment to the Goan
Goa, an anthropologist's dream
By Dr Robert S Newman
kachhua2 at hotmail.com
During my undergraduate years, I once read an anthropological study of a
small tribe of Indians who lived in the jungles of Bolivia. The
anthropologist concentrated on the effects of hunger on human behavior.
Goa, an anthropologist's dream
By Dr Robert S Newman
kachhua2 at hotmail.com
During my undergraduate years, I once read an anthropological study of a
small tribe of Indians who lived in the jungles of Bolivia. The
anthropologist concentrated on the effects of hunger on human behavior.
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
10 Dec 2003
EDC TO AUCTION EIGHT HOTELS: The Economic Development Corporation, which has
strengthened its recovery drive, has announced a public auction of eight
hotels with the motive of making good the long pending overdues. The eight
hotels are Diyana Holiday Homes,
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
10 Dec 2003
EDC TO AUCTION EIGHT HOTELS: The Economic Development Corporation, which has
strengthened its recovery drive, has announced a public auction of eight
hotels with the motive of making good the long pending overdues. The eight
hotels are Diyana Holiday Homes,
Hi Marlon
Do you realize what will happen when your septic tank starts
overflowing and if the non-goans are not around to clean it.? I hope you
will
do it yourself.
Simon
- Original Message -
From: Marlon Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 07,
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:39:27 -0800 (PST), Viet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Just came across your message on Gout.
My name is Viet and right now am in Kuwait. A couple of years back took some
high doses of chemo therapys for a Cancer which i have and due to this my uric
acid shot up and now it
On 9 Dec 2003 05:29:45 -, brian mark mendonca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PLEASE HELP /GOANET
Friends of mine (a couple) plan to be in Goa from 7-10 Jan 2004. They ar3e
looking for modest accommodation, preferably by the beach. CAn you help with
contacts and phone numbers SOON?
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:09:09 +0530, Adelina Alphonso [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear Daisy Lino Rodriques :
Cld u please send some latest receipes for Christmas season.
Tks
AA
##
# Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL
On 9 Dec 2003 13:20:56 -, brian mark mendonca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
KONKANIM XIKONNG ZAI, ULLONG ZAI - DELHIITES CELEBRATE FEAST OF ST. FRANCIS
XAVIER
--Dr Brian Mendonca, New Delhi
It was a sea of suits as Goans in Delhi turned up in full measure for the
festache
On 9 Dec 2003 18:46:54 -, Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Marlon,
This is in regards to youre the non goan threat to Goa, years ago when I was a
student of DMC college in Mapuca, my friends and myself were regular visitors to
Alankar theatre in Mapuca, saw a lot of English
On 9 Dec 2003 18:41:46 -, Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Three cheers to Domnic Lino Dourado, for sending so many articles in Konkani
to Goanet, amche maibashecho mogi, tumkam Chod ani chodd Dev borem korum, pois
ravon tumi amchea basheco itlo mog tumchea kalzant dovorla, ani to
On 9 Dec 2003 18:40:41 -, Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like we havent changed much at all, the title which is most appropriate
for us as SUSEGAD GOEMKAR is perfect fit, kam nam muntoch kam kortat munn
dakouea. Great Bosco, you are perfectly right in what you have written.
On 9 Dec 2003 18:39:02 -, Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Goa Netters,
Have any of you read the book HELLO GOODNIGHT by David Tomary? It a wonderful
history of Goa in full given in two parts, one part is OLD CONQUESTS having 12
chapters, and the other is NEW CONQUESTS having
On 9 Dec 2003 18:32:09 -, Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Mr. Vivek
You are right, its great when we Goans get united under some topic or another,
and some solution is reached. But when the question under discussion is not
fully known, or assumed to be correct and all
You may be of Goan origin, but if you do not hold an
Indian passport, or have a ration card, getting a
drivers license or registering a vehicle in Goa is a
nightmare. I personally jostled through the crowds
and stood in a queue 10 times, spending countless
hours to get a scooter registered at
It is true that there are lot of non-goans working and
occupying many high end positions in Goa. To that I
can only say, great! In fact, I would like to see even
more skilled non goans join the goan workforce. There
should not be any job quotas for people just because
they are goans or whatever,
Law and order is a key to the prosperity and well being of any society.
A small state like Goa can maintain its peace and tranquillity but the
ground realities are a matter of great concern. If no immediate corrective
steps are taken we may reach a point of no return.
The Government should
Thanks Miguel for raising the issue of Rain Water
Harvesting.
Although a scant couple of months have passed since
the monsoons ended, before too long, the scarcity of
water will hit many parts of Goa.
We must learn from our forefathers, who conserved
water in cisterns, in tolems by mean of
--- Marlon Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marlon wrote:
Preserving Goan Culture
===
What do your people mean to you?
You are born into your people, of a Goan mother.
Your
father is a Goan. And you belong to the Goan people
just as every part of your body belongs
Hello Domnic and friends,
I appreciate your Aichea disak chintop in Konkani. May I request you
to also give translation in English, if possible, so that those who wish
to learn Konkanin sayings may be encouraged to learn.
Mog assom di ani vadoom di. Dev borem korum.
With every good wish and prayer
Sorry folks but I have exhausted my comments. As everyone agrees, it would
be better to devote our energies to something more fruitful. I am currently
occupied in preparing profiles on two eminent UK Goans:
Joanne de Souza, ballet dancer - see:
SENHOR BAB EDDIE,
Sobit amchem goa sundor amchem goa, why go off very
far to london , wouldn't it be better for us to sort
this advert with the authorities so that they do not
repeat it again? Since you are based in London (if i
am not wrong to say it)who are the natives of london
and what is
Ubaldo,
As mentioned by you in your address below this road cannot be called
'Miramar - Dona Paula Seaside Road'.
It has to be 'Miramar - Caranzalem Seaside Road'. And if you ask for more...
This scenic road could be called the
GOA MARINE DRIVE instead of naming it after any (late)
Prof. Newman Fernandes, Principal
Xavier's College
WILLIAMS FUSION GROUP PROGRAMME
The Williams Fusion Group will present a programme at St. Xaviers
College for the College Fete in the evening on Wednesday, 10.12.2003.
Percussionist William DSouza has a verve for music and passion for
Paulo,
I suppose it depends on what you define as being native vs. foreigner.
According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary [http://www.m-w.com], the
word native includes the following definitions:
- belonging to a particular place by birth (eg: native to Wisconsin)
- belonging to or
I feel ashamed to say that I only have a smattering of our mother tongue but I love
trying to read aloud 'Adim ani Atam' and in the process also to see how much of the
konkani I do understand.
Could Domnic or somebody provide a translation as a follow-up so that I can check how
much I did
Till now the colleges had it upto their neck with NAAC grades as a Sword of
Damocles over their heads. Now schools in Goa will be hit by the
sack...oops!SAAC. The students can eat 5-star
chocolates[hopefully,without worms],while their institutions struggle for 3-
and 4-star rankings.
Miguel
Architects Rajesh Kenkre and Rohan Thimble and Conservation Engineer Ketak
Nachinolkar of ECHO are three young, energetic,and enthusiatic Nature lovers
that I would love to have in the Botanical Society of Goa.
Ketak photographed the denudation at Altinho hill behind 'Boca da Vaca
'[Mouth of the
It amuses me to think that while Goanetters are all flapping their wings and
bristling about insults to Goans they are
by- passing the very real threats to their heritage and property here in
Goa.
I went to our local Village Panchayat the other day, and met my neighbour
John D in search of
Dear Eddie,
Did you find a page with a foreigner in London and a label with the
words:
NATIVE OF LONDON
If yes, please send us the link and you won the challenge.
If not, and if you are referring to my email, please read it again and
reflect on what I have written. I even wrote about the
Corporator Milind Bharne
Corporator Deepak Mapshekar
do these corporators own any printing press or any
publication business ???
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Arjun Atwal qualifies for US PGA Tour
rediff.com Sportsdesk | December 09, 2003 12:19 IST
In what will definitely go down as a red-letter day in the history of
Indian golf, Arjun Atwal of Kolkata produced a sterling final round of
three-under 69 in the final stage of the US PGA Tour Qualifying
34 matches
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