... and it's raining cats and dogs. With a lot of thunder and some
lightening. The monsoon's parting kick? The return monsoons?
The coconut trees (someone said a mature palm has an estimated 4000 to
7000 roots, well distributed in all directions. This accounts for its
resistance to high winds)
DAILY GROOK #520
JEALOUS FELLOWS
by Francis Rodrigues
any prisoner released
makes wardens envious,
they are not pleased
'cos they're jailers!
http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com
Going to GOA? GREATEST
--- On Sun, 9/20/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न
fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:
PS: If this does good to the collective billion-strong
Indian ego, can't we simply opt to believe in it (for convenience
sake), and term it as something of a mass placebo effect?
This statement
I've been compiling the databases of Konkani songs for
quite some time, so the figures are pretty accurate. As
far as Alfred Rose's songs go, I did make a physical count,
and as Eddie has now concurred, Konkani historian Isidor
Dantas too has confirmed my figure of Alfred's 5,000 songs.
For the
One year of saving lives?
- As if every one is saved.
- as if every one here brought dead
- as if everything goes well here
- as if everyone is saved without any third party intervention or influence
- as if medicine prescribed here is free of cost
Any way, best of luck
Paltadarcho munis had confused me.
Because I am a goan and anything in Konkani I must assimilate. But
Paltadarcho I couldn't.
Then came the word 'Poltodcho munis' And voila!.
My and my party's all the best to the director and affiliates who have made
this movie.
A proud to be a GOAN affair
The thousand crore surrealist sea link between Dona Paula and Marmagoa, it
it ever sees
light of the day, will be a feather in the cap of our ever pragmatic
Digambar-ji.
Being close to the naval aviation base at Dabolim, it will be , no doubt, a
prized target for
enemy's planes/rockets who has
VANXIM DIVAR CUP 2009 - DUBAI
Goan Inter Village Football
17 GOAN TEAMS PARTICIPATED IN THE EVENT
The grand finals will be held on 25th September 2009 Friday.
All the Goans will be at one place in Iranian club, football ground Dubai.
The first game will be played at 5 pm between St.Estavam v/s
2009/9/21 Francis Rodrigues fcarodrig...@hotmail.com:
For the 25,000 figure, what I had stressed was that there
were 25,000-plus songs extant i.e. we had approximately
Francis, could you give us names and song-titles, rather than figures?
Or is that too much that I ask for? Skeptically yours!
Lighten up, Science! Where's all the fun gone out of human
intellectual endeavour? How about accepting a mild, non-malicious
flame-bait when it comes your way? FN
PS: A line or two on what went wrong in the Louis Pasteur case (and
quackery) would be fine too :-)
2009/9/21 Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न
fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:
How about accepting a mild, non-malicious flame-bait when it comes your way?
FN
Flame baits are a violation of Goanet rules.
PS: A line or two on what went wrong in the Louis Pasteur
case (and
Dear Bernado,
And it looks like, in your exceptionally unexpressed (below) hate-India
sentiment,
you forgot some basic facts on the issues of out-migration and in-migration that
affected Portugal down history (hardly relevant to what I was talking about --
Goa.)
Albeit, if you would like me
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com
Akrit was tested on his visit to England, and whilst his scores placed
him well above average for general knowledge, he was below average in his
interpretive thinking.
***When I first read about Akrit Jaswalon the Internet, I really admired him
(with
While my pet pigling Catrina and aye were minding our own business
(see video), pondering new schemes in sunny Square All Mississauga
and thinking of all our top cyber contacts (really, cream of Goan
society): speedy Fred, cyber athlete Mario (tik-tok, tik-tok typing
koota), Velim maausi , the
2009/9/21 Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: Lighten up, Science! Where's
all the fun gone out of human intellectual endeavour? How about
accepting a mild, non-malicious flame-bait when it comes your way? FN
PS: A line or two on what went wrong in the Louis Pasteur case (and
quackery) would be fine
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You are way of from ground reality...
Neither enemy-planes nor -rockets nor any -enemy endevours will be
at all required to do the job you anticipate...
Our own planes tumbling faster than any ninepins will do the job far
more efficiently...
Failing that one of our drunken
Dear Goanet,
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From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com
Akrit was tested on his visit to England, and whilst his scores placed him
well above average for general
knowledge, he was below average in his interpretive thinking.
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:56:08 -0700
From: Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in
When
Domnic, Many thanks for your recipes. I'm also aware of Edwin
Saldanha's book, but was wondering if there are any more out there. Dr
John Carmo Rodrigues of Chinchinim is doing some interesting work in
this sphere too. So are Lumena Lobo of Siolim, and at least three
persons whom I ran into,
Friends of Goa !
The idea of WORLD GOA DAY would have died a natural death had it not been for
the Internet collaboration of many Goan Organizations /Associations and
individuals.
The Goan Associations fell in line with a call made in the year 2000, and
year by year their number
has
It affects around a fifth of people who live in the Western world. The main
risk factors are diet and body weight. It does not help if you have a family
history of the disorder. Most dont have symptoms, though some notice increased
fatigue and the 'pins and needles' of local areas of neuritis.
The word GoaNet has not been copyrighted and I doubt it can be as
both Goa and Net are generic terms and just putting them together does
not qualify as unique.
In time to come there will be other private and public entities named
GoaNet. How then do we identify which is the discussion group
2009/9/21 Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या
fredericknoro...@gmail.com
Domnic, Many thanks for your recipes. I'm also aware of Edwin
Saldanha's book, but was wondering if there are any more out there. Dr
John Carmo Rodrigues of Chinchinim is doing some interesting work in
this
Nice try Cecil, but I simply don't think it's true.
In my view, Goanet is part of everyone who posts to it, and who
contributes to it!
Of course, those who are seen as being more active contributors,
adding value to the list, would be seen as playing a slightly bigger
role. Which is why people
The Nehru/Mandovi Bridge that collapsed in 1986, was built by Pioneer -- not
sure if it was Pioneer Syndicate.
Gammon India, built the current Zuari Bridge, that is in bad shape.
Naguesh Bhatcar
sgbhat...@hotmail.com
From: alfredtava...@hotmail.com
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org;
That's right. The Pioneer Engineering Syndicate. An Andhra-based
company, if not mistaken. FN
2009/9/22 Naguesh Bhatcar sgbhat...@hotmail.com:
The Nehru/Mandovi Bridge that collapsed in 1986, was built by Pioneer -- not
sure if it was Pioneer Syndicate.
Gammon India, built the current Zuari
FN
Thanks for the info...
Myself and few of my friends are looking for more info on AIR FM.is it
the same Akashwani?
Also what are the Konkani songs programme they have on this chanel on daily
basis and time,
Are they playing the old songs from the Vinyl records..and what about the
Goemkars !
WORLD GOA DAY , is a day when Goans, Goan institutions and social
organizations all over the World plan activities that relate to their Goan
Cultural Heritage these celebrations are held
to reinvigorate in us, our families and our friends - our Cultural Heritage,
Eddie, AIR FM Rainbow plays a significant amount of Konkani music
(mostly cantaram). I'm not sure about the timings, but I think it's
between 1.30 pm and 2 pm, an evening slot possibly 9 and 9.30 pm (I
could be wrong) and for sometime in the mornings.
As you know, announcers in Konkani include
19-Sep-2009
Dear Friend,
God has created one world and wishes that all humankind live in unity.
Unfortunately, we human beings tend to divide and fragment our community
through our words and actions. We like to think of ourselves and our group as
the do-gooders and others are the evil and bad
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Irmao's at Santa Cruz (one of the three handcarts there opening in the
evenings):
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Prof Val,
I think you are off the tangent like amigo JC. The question here is does
a country have to be usurped by a migrant population just because their own
(not all) have left the soil? Goa is a free for all. It is better to understand
the situation now than later, when there will be no
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2009/9/22 Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk:
I think you are off the tangent like amigo JC.
The question here is does a country have to be
usurped by a migrant population just because
their own (not all) have left the soil?
Economics and labour-markets would play this role, specially when
Francis Rodrigues wrote:
I did not wish to expound on this further, as statistics begin
to overwhelm! The general premise here is that we're referring
to popular Konkani song - which itself is sub-divisible into
Goan and Mangalorean Konkani music. The Mangalorean Konkani
colossus Wilfy
FN,
I think the point Cecil is trying to make is that Goanet is a messy place today.
To give you an example, once upon a time, the moderators rejected posts
claiming some posts were only 'flame bait. Then flame bait became part and
parcel of Goanet. Now even the moderators admit that they are
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