Re: [Goanet] Olympic Games -- corrections

2012-08-22 Thread Eugene Correia
At the outset let me say that I do admit when I make mistakes and I try to correct them. Anything wrong with such a practice? As for Merwyn's point, my saying that South Africa has taken to hockey recently is in regard to India. India's has a glorious history in the Olympics compared to South

Re: [Goanet] Your help is requested!!!

2012-08-22 Thread floriano
The lady couldn't have known that GOANS, being excellent socialites, will never come together on an ISSUE even if their collective life depended on it, that they will drift apart on the basis of Religion and Caste. Cheers floriano - Original Message - From: Jean Marcos Catao

[Goanet] Song for the day....

2012-08-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
Manuel The Music of the Mountains - I Talk To The Trees [1967] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y46aOLydFzU g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Creepy Times Large scaled shieldtail

2012-08-22 Thread Rahul Alvares
Large-scaled Shieldtail ‘Hey look it’s a snake eating another snake!’ exclaimed Glen a client of mine. It was about eight in the morning and Glen was sitting on one side of a veranda wall sipping his coffee while his wife tried to coax his two children to finish their breakfast. The kids

[Goanet] Dubai's rude taxi drivers

2012-08-22 Thread Eugene Correia
Home News Emirates Government Region World Crime Entertainment Bollywood Lifestyle Offbeat Sports Business Property Given below is something I came across something similar to The Goan's report on Goa taxi gangs in Dubai.

Re: [Goanet] Two questions about fridges

2012-08-22 Thread Tony de Sa
For me it is Samsung all the way. I have used fridges made by Indian manufacturers like Allwyn. Lasted around ten years till rust started eating it away. Since then I have been using Samsung - fridges, TV, mobile, washing machine, etc. Koreans score in product quality, finish and durability. --

Re: [Goanet] Olympic Games -- corrections

2012-08-22 Thread Jose Colaco
Pardon any Typos. This IPad does some curious auto- corrections On Aug 22, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Eugene Correia eugene.corr...@gmail.com wrote: At the outset let me say that I do admit when I make mistakes and I try to correct them. Anything wrong with such a practice? As for Merwyn's point,

Re: [Goanet] Your help is requested!!!

2012-08-22 Thread Jose Colaco
Dear Marcos, My experience exactly. My personal belief is that a certain amount of 'equalisation' is occurring. Those educated in good schools (many of them Catholic) all over India are now less distinguishable (socially) from well spoken Goans. On the other hand, near-binge drinking,

Re: [Goanet] Your help is requested!!!

2012-08-22 Thread Roland Francis
Good schools including Christian ones in India always existed and non-Goans passing through their portals is no recent phenomenon. The difference is that while being westernized in their social skills, in that age they (the non Goans) remained Indian in outlook and culture. Now, thanks to

Re: [Goanet] Powerpoint nonsense (aka Goa Vision 2035 Document)

2012-08-22 Thread floriano
Dear Rajan, Thank you for this treat. I went through Yatin G. Kakodkar's counter and it is true what he says. The population (people as well as vehicles) has not been taken into account for 2035. I don't want to sound like a peacock, which is repeatedly sighted in a field at Guirim and

[Goanet] Sir Bernard Lovell - Science and Open-Mindedness

2012-08-22 Thread Roland Francis
Founder of Britain's Jodrell Bank radio telescope died on August 6, aged 98. Quote He was open-minded on - and drawn to - questions of science and faith. More a churchgoer than a Christian, he played the organ in his local parish church for 40 years and attended evensong. On the deepest

[Goanet] Newly Emerged H3N8 Seal Flu Virus Touted as Next 'Pandemic'

2012-08-22 Thread Con Menezes
http://naturalsociety.com/h3n8-seal-flu-virus-next-pandemic/

[Goanet] How to Deal With Premature Gray Hair | eHow.com

2012-08-22 Thread Con Menezes
Prematurely going gray?this article might give you an answer. http://www.ehow.com/how_2189593_deal-premature-gray-hair.html

Re: [Goanet] Olympic Games -- corrections

2012-08-22 Thread J. Colaco jc
On 22 August 2012 03:55, Frederick FN Noronha wrote: Eugene, I was just envying our doctor friends who simply bury their mistakes. Ours are online and in print, they stay there and come back to haunt us. Mogal FN, Ai saiba bhogos! One of these days, I will put together a generic post

Re: [Goanet] CYPRIAN'S RANT!

2012-08-22 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Dear Cyprian, What is your agenda? Selma Carvalho had a column in Goan Voice UK with an avid readership. She has written an excellent, critically acclaimed book on the Goan diaspora. She has, against the odds, secured funding for an oral history project involving East African Goans. She

[Goanet] Goa news for August 23, 2012

2012-08-22 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Sesa Goa completes pig iron plant expansion - The Hindu BipimpjYQ_uEA

[Goanet] Khandi Khuris Feast at Maina Curtorim - An unique Celebaration

2012-08-22 Thread JoeGoaUk
I bet many of you never seen like this before.. Khandi Furis Feast, Maina Curtorim I too was not aware of such an unique celebrations of the road side Holy Cross. On our annual Holy Cross Feast day, we see around 100 including friends and family But this one we are talking in thousands, say  

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Parra

2012-08-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Parra' A spin through my ancestral village. Parra in the Bardez taluka of Goa is my ancestral village and the source of my last name. My father, Motilal Parrikar, was born here 91 years ago in a house that now lies in ruins. Next to it is the

[Goanet] The Bollywood Goan

2012-08-22 Thread Roland Francis
Why do we constantly rail about Bollywood's caricature of Goans when a visible Goan professional active in cyberspace thinks so too. Here was I thinking that critically looking at our own community in my Sunday Columns was some kind of sick trait I had picked up somewhere as conveyed to me not

[Goanet] Tribute to my Class Teacher who is no more.

2012-08-22 Thread Bernado Colaco
 My sympathies to Miguel Bragança.   BC Gracinda Braganza ( written Ce' Cidilla Ah' for za) Was my class teacher in St. Xavier's High School, Moira,  pre so called liberation of Goa circa 1959-60 when I was in the Eight Standard.. Needless to say that we all loved her friendly and motherly