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you as individuals and to work out methods of how to achieve the objective.
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donations from our worldwide family and
accountability in GOA to identify and assist Good Causes.
Melvyn Fernandes
65 Windsor Road
Thornton Heath
Surrey England CR7 8HJ.
Lynette Dias
and her team run this home and school for mentally disabled children and
with your contribution ensure that they have the basic necessities of life.
Do visit when you are next in Goa
Tel 2464870
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Melvyn Fernandes
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on traditional
dishes and music before they die out there are plenty of issues that seek
soloutions perhaps through goanet postings as ever you may care to share.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornthon Heath
Surrey England
in spelling Melvyn Fernandes but had no
difficulty in spelling Martina Narvitoliova The next show is at Wyvern Theatre
Swindon on Sunday 6th September and at Wembley on Sunday 13 September -Copland
Community Centre. For Tickets contact Francis Dsilva on 07908591759 or Pilar
Fathers on 0208 6482101
that keeps us Goa-ing.
Melvyn Fernandes
London
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24 July 2011
Dear Selma
Reply to Message 3, Vol 6, Issue 703
Your Speech to the Global Goan Convention 2011- Preserving culture through the
arts
Thank you for sharing your uploaded speech at the Global Goan Convention 2001
at the Indian Gymkhana with us.
In your speech you said “How badly we treat our
have a mission from the Pilar Fathers with branches in France
and Germany. There may be others in Europe. Religion is an integral part of our
culture, did modern day festival organisers leave them out? Perhaps the public
relations officer for the festival may wish to comment.
Melvyn Fernandes
Dear Selma
Re: Global Goan Convention, London – “Congrats to Goans in London)
Response to message 9, volume 6, issue 704
I spend a lot of time reading your articles as they provide me with such
amusement that I haven’t got round to reading your book yet!
In your response to Armstrong re
I enjoyed reading the article written by Jason Keith Fernandes on Sneezing at
the Brahmanical Polemics at the Global Goan Convention.
In a letter I had published in the Goan Chaplaincy Contact magazine in London I
had written Caste, class or whatever other name you wish to use, may be
based
competition
of not more than three thousand words could be launched. I will be happy
to look at and co-ordinate ideas with those interested. Please send me
your ideas not later than 15 August 2011 by e-mail to
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com. This will be my bit for World Goa Day
Melvyn Fernandes
.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath
Surrey
31 July 2011
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
since 1974 I did not renew my membership in 2007 in disgust as I did not feel I
was belonging to a community organisation any more.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey
England
7 August 2011
melvynfernan...@virgnmedia.com
Office at Porvorim if all agree. The other issues our people face in
other parts of the world will be too long to fit in this note and perhaps could
be compiled by organisers of World Goa Day events.
Best regards.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
been held?
Melvyn Fernandes
Surrey, United Kingdom
31 August 2011 - official last day of summer in the UK
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
day.?
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
2 September 2011
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
Dear fellow readers
Together with Melvyn, I would like to say how happy we are Eugene Correia is
back on goanet and join others wishing him well. Laughter is the
best medicine and a simple matter of an esteemed authoress calling us all
lower than cows shouldn't hinder his full recovery
early and have a great day
out. Please book your tickets in advance.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 September 2911
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
, kiss kiss
and a handmaiden performing katti fugdi - the coconut dance
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
12 September 2011
Response to Message 9, Goanet Digest Vol 6, 869
Con Menezes wrote ... it was a discovery of a beautiful unspoilt
village, where I could easily settle and lead a peaceful existence.
Rose Fernandes's Response:
This island is also a perfect place for you to walk around it barefoot,
Dear fellow readers
This response is to Message 3 of Goanet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 874 written by
Carmen Miranda.
Carmen Miranda wrote:
Many of these people employed by mining are not Goans but this is besides the
point.
Melvyn Fernandes responds:
We are not an insular people, we live and work
or other articles she has
written are credible in this world of misinformation?
Please note that I have no grievance with or a black list on anyone but neither
will I be gagged.
Melvyn Fernandes (non graduate)
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
14 September 2011
melvynfernan
Dear goanet reader,
Did our esteemed authoress go across to this enchanting island by ferry or
was she taken by a fairy to sprinkle magical dust over it. She gave
us all an enjoyable and wonderful description of paradise and the fact that she
misquoted what her honourable host's job was should
you are also able to read and write.
Have a nice night till sunrise.
Very honourable goanet reader (not joking)
Melvyn Fernandes (famous non graduate - not intending to come of age ever)
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
15 September 2011
come early say 1pm meet and greet friends and family and have a
great day out. Tell Everyone Pre reserve your seat for ticketsTel Cornelius
Monteiro 0208 681 8716 Nina Pinto 0208 767 0663 Pilar Fathers 0208 648 2101
Melvyn Fernandes 07970 668879
Dear fellow goanet readers
It is indeed an excellent and noble gesture for any author or authoress to
donate unsold copies of his/her books to libraries or charities around the
world. In the case of
our esteemed authoress she would not have to suffer the pain of waiting, hoping
and praying
Dear goanet reader
Since her trip to an enchanted island, no-one can blame our esteemed authoress
from wanting to live in a by-gone age. Our community has moved on from
'Claudious'
to 'Claudia' and from a 'lion's den' to a 'tiger reserve'.
While watching a tigress teach her cub to research we
Roland writes (message 5, Vol 6, Issue 920)::
''What I would like to know is how Wendell Rodrigues got into a mining
discussion with Digamber Kamat on a public forum. Did Claude Alvares or Carmen
Miranda
decline?
Or in Goa is iron ore mining somehow equated with female fashion design.''
Rose
with Heraldo
and Navhind Times who may be able to assist you in this matter.
Maybe our people living in other countries can enlighten us of the work they
are also doing.
With Goa's increasing wealth, no one needs to starving there! No more sob
stories please.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath
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what a better place our Goa can be. For my
earlier
reference to Sorpotel see Goanet Digest Vol 6, Issue 823, Message 10 or email
me melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
10 November 2011
is recruiting 12 astronauts, Russian speakers will have an advantage.
Opportunities for frequent travel.
Those of our people interested need to check out the NASA urgently.
Regards.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
16 November 2011
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and Draftsmen,
p.m.
prompt.
Everyone is welcome to participate, meet and greet in the church hall after
mass. This mass is organised by Friends of Fr Agnelo working for the cause of
the
Beatification.
Regards.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
17 November 2011
for any of us to get concerned. With four weeks to go to Christmas, you will
find POSH will make a come back when one is holding a feni chaser with
Kingfisher at the tavernas in Goa and at our festive events around the world.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
21 November
In a book written on Francis Newton Souza, Geeta Kapur referred to the time
period when Newton returned to Bombay from
Goa to live with his mother, Lily Mary, after his recovery from small pox:
Quote: .. he returned to live in Bombay with his mother who had by now
set herself up as a
gadgets on the market.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
27 November 2011
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Dear fellow goanet readers
In the summer, seeing photographs of our NRI officials arriving for the Global
Goan Convention and Goan Festival in
London, United Kingdom with huge trunks on trolleys took me back to the days
when I was a child and travelled with my
family from Mombasa, Kenya to
Dear fellow goanet readers
A well known actor/comedian in the United Kingdom recently described London as
no longer English. On my way home
from work, as I travel by bus, observing fellow passengers around me, he was
quite right of course. However this bus
journey also brought home some
request the technical people at goanet to attach a St Francis Xavier's
hymn on the 3 December as Hymn for the Day
to be shared by all.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
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addressed the point I made about 'Sixth Night' and not
about the Goan Short Stories Competition
organised by the Goan Book Club for our young ones. Are you intimating that
there are lies in this part of my post as
well? Please let us all know.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United
Dear JC
Thank you for your note on goanet with regard to the above. Goanet is a Goan
internet newsletter. As a community we
have our turnip heads and potato heads. As such we are not vegetables in a
grocery shop to be called Goans in our own
newsletter and I hope our contributors will note
Dear JC
Thank you for your note on goanet with regard to the above. Goanet is a Goan
internet newsletter. As a community we
have our turnip heads and potato heads. As such we are not vegetables in a
grocery shop to be called Goans in our own
newsletter and I hope our contributors will note
and wish you well.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 December 2011
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from the store
room as a gift idea for a great read during Christmas and the Happy Holiday
period. For those interested this book is
available now on Amazon.
I trust discussion on this matter can now be concluded.
Best wishes.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3
JC
Is JR the Ewing from Dallas? Because my witness is X.
Having watched Dum Mara Dum, required viewing for every Goan family in Goa, the
current episode as above may be of
interest to Bollywood in time for the 2012 IFFI festival in Goa.
Best regards.
MF
of Goa Book Club I am now proudly aware of so many
unheard of authors and look forward to
reading some of these books in the future.
The challenge is not so much about lighting a flame for Goa products, more
about ensuring that once lit it is not continually
being blown out.
Melvyn Fernandes
as expected within the usual
application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a
new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher .
Best Regards (without prejudice)
Name withheld (Privacy Act).
Unquote
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
melvynfernan
, German, Portuguese, English, French and would like to
share these with you but do not have the
technical ability or video footage to upload these. Can I request, if possible,
our people upload the version of Happy Birthday
in the countries we live in globally and share these with us.
Melvyn
your name will not register.
Please follow carefully the instructions to sign . Please do check if your name
appears on the list If your name does not
appear on the list after following all instructions- CONTACT THE PETITION TEAM.)
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Tourist Hostel,
have a saying that when the population is healthy the
economy of the country follows likewise.
The civil authorities in Candolim must have made arrangements with the clear up
bill to the organisers or did they?
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 January 2012
melvynfernan
Bosco wrote: Absurd commentary and comes across as insensitive to Calangutekars
!! Especially from those that do not
reside in Calangute, for example. Seems to justify scoring a brownie point is
more important than the affected people at
Ground Zero!!
By all means, bring a million tourists to
Thanks to Frederick for a wonderful snapshot of the event and also to the
postings from other goanet readers who
attended.
Dan Driscoll's posting:
Poor overworked staff couldn't get my food order straight; I would have been
starving if not for fact that Tony Correia
Afonso got through to
to the petition team for this project.
Many hands make light work.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
6 January 2012
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Dear goanet readers
I am not sure how many of you will be aware that in early February last year in
the United Kingdom, a soup was brought out
by Convent Garden called Goa Carnival soup. This soup was in a colourful neat
tetra-pack, and on one side the story of
the Carnival in Goa was printed
Dear JC
Thank you for your posting which, as always, I enjoy. Given below are my
comments.
JC1: So, I have decided to pay my bribe to whoever will get my work done. I
will pay whatever i takes for me to open a
'Vada-pao' shop in Benalim. If necessary, I might also supply some G-chai to
Dear goanet reader,
Frederick wrote: I'd rather celebrate the achievements of the handful of Goans
who worshipped at the altar of social
justice, and took the huge risk kof supported the underdog... and the Black
African cause... when the wind was blowing in
the other direction.
Rose's
Dear goanet reader,
Here are my comments on Frederick's posting:
FN1: Rose, are you sure it's all that simple? Corrupt politicians versus the
guys who are supposedly going to lead us to a
Paradise on earth?
RF1: Watch U-Tube 30 minutes - Goa at Fifty. In it Remo says The Goan, I
think, is
Dear goanet reader,
As soon as Melvyn said Going to Goa need not be a ceremony I knew exactly
what he meant. We would soon be in the
throws of a ceremony to top all ceremonies?
Was I right! Our lounge is like a scene from Cadbury's Chocolate Town,
Christmas treats on one side and Easter
Dear Roland
Thanks for your post and acknowledging my spousal devotion which is to such an
extent that I volunteered to stay at home
to look after our pets.
On the subject of wifely duties, I am not sure if you have seen this book The
proper care and feeding of husbands by Dr
Laura
Dear goanet readers
Following my article a while back on goanet on Konkani amchi bhas, I am pleased
to hear more and more of it being spoken
over the last few weeks. Contact, the magazine of the Goan Chaplaincy in the
United Kingdom, published my article and
during the social, after Konkani
Dear Muriel Mario
I was delighted to hear through goanet of the operation plastic-free Saligao
taking place on 26 January. Hopefully, it was
an outstanding success bringing oxygen to the soil of the village. It will be
interesting to know how all this plastic/litter was
disposed off or
Dear Frederick,
I agree with you on this one. Outward migrants still continue to leave Goa
(brain drain) thus creating a vacuum filled in by
inward migrants not only to provide manpower in the rising tourist trade but in
other areas of work. These inward migrants
need to be housed and with
Dear goanet reader
My responses to Selma Carvalho's post:
SC1: The bulk of NRI Goans live in the Gulf. Many of them work for years and
generations away from Goa, and as a result
cannot show 25 years or even 5 years of continuous residency in Goa. During
their long tenure away, they squirrel
Dear Eddie
When I read point 2. in your posting As far as I am aware, no state in India
or country in the world has such a law I googled
non-occupancy tax and saw the following article by David Lev dated 11 October
2011: Absentee owner tax could slash
Jerusalem rent prices. Not sure if it has
beyond point 1, I am now in a State of Goan
confusion.
Rose Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
31 January 2012
Message Received: Jan 30 2012, 11:13 PM
From: Eddie Fernandes
To: 'Melvyn Fernandes'
Cc:
Subject: RE: NRI Goans
Dear Desmond,
When I read your article those who made Goa the laid back place it was have
vanished or are a dying breed, my mind was
taken back to my trip to Hawaii many years ago.
In Hawaii they have an island almost sorely inhabited by their native people,
it is referred to as the
different from the way we behaved and time will tell where this will
lead to.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
1 March 2012
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to the authorities.
A small sacrifice towards electing the right
candidates working for the development of Goa and its people. Politicians posts
are there to serve the people and not the
other way round.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
1 March 2012
melvynfernan
process. Is this part of the special status or
is it because we are considered slow? Either way, hopefully, we will know the
results fast, fast, latest 5 March 2012.
On that date, may be the best candidates take up office in Goa and give all
Goykars a brighter future.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton
ideas. Anybody and everybody between 13 and
18 years old can enter. All mavericks
welcome, Registration must be completed by 1 April - Hurry goto Google website
for details - Tell everybody including family
and friends.
Good Luck
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath Surrey
6th March 2012
Dear goanet readers
The following article was published on the BBC News website yesterday:
Quote:
Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more
people own a mobile phone, according to the
latest census data.
Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have
from time to time. These show
our people enjoying life to the full which is exactly what most of us did and
still do, where possible, to this very day.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
16 March 2012
.
Congratulations and best wishes to Mr Parrikar and the Government of Goa Team.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath
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Association (UK) clubhouse in Beckenham, Kent a few
years ago where he addressed a full house
on his visit to the United Kingdom.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
21 March 2012
Dear Mervyn
Thank you for sharing your experiences of your time in Kenya with us through a
link on goanet.
It has been some time since the phrase hell on earth has been heard by me. As
only one-tenth of Kenya is fertile, it
was indeed unfortunate that your work station happened to be in the
Dear Mervyn
Thank you for sharing the private message you received from an anonymous
correspondent from Tanzania following
your reply to me on the above. It would have been preferable if your friend had
posted this message himself so I could
reply directly to him but in the absence of this,
.
Gabe in your Song for the Day series could I request the song Circles by the
New Seekers.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
30 March 2012
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Dear goanet readers
Having just returned home from a weekend of wining, dining and champagne
sundowners, my weekend was extended to
another enjoyable day musing on goanet posts (over strong black coffee and a
slice of dodol) especially those on the
caste system.
When goanet postings
and that of their members.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
20th April 2012
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
cc: Royal College of Nursing
Lord Soley
Asian Voice UK
of Sixth Night hence I am not
surprised that the book is out of sight in Goa libraries as others may have had
the same experience of being blanked out.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
29 April 2012
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Dear goanet readers
Selma Carvalho (still in UK? I presume as the next Virgin Atlantic flight to
Mars is full) wrote:
Now coming to Melvyn Fernandes of UK. Here is a list of things he has accused
other people of:
- Silvano Barbarosa did not respond to his emails? about the book Sixth Night
Dear goanet readers
After another evening of fine wining and dining, my thanks go to Mr Eugene Dias
and his staff of Palms of Goa Restaurant, 160 New Cavendish Street, London
for the excellent food and hospitality extended to all of us. Anyone wishing to
feast at this restaurant can find
Dear goanet readers
Greetings to everyone who celebrated our Saligao Mae De Deus Feast in Goa and
worldwide last Sunday and also fellow Goykars who celebrated their
village feasts on the same day.
In London, United Kingdom, the Saligao Association UK management team excelled
themselves and
Dear goanet readers
Mervyn Lobo wrote:
A single bad harvest can bring financial ruin or increasing in India, suicide.
Rose Fernandes response:
Mervyn, despite a recent posting on goanet (Message 5 Vol 7 Issue 444) which
has said you have plenty of opinions with total disregard for the facts, I
in nearby branches.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
10 May 2012
melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com
to Goa,
it is no longer a poor torn vest relation as perceived by those who left the
state
during kerosene lamps and candlelight days – go and reclaim your heritage.
Organise and celebrate World Goa Day 19/20 August 2012.
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
21 May 2012
community have left their mark. We have not left the United Kingdom
yet and with the new arrivals from Goa, time will tell, whether this mark
will turn out to be a large stain?
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
23 May 2012
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Dear goanet readers
Not having walked around Kew Gardens for many years, the last sunny weekend,
Melvyn and I visited it not once but twice, on Saturday and on Sunday.
The reason on Saturday though was a sad one as the husband of one of my close
friends suddenly passed away and my friend had
the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
Melvyn Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 June 2012
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Frederick
Not sure if this by David Rumsey is of any interest to you?
www.davidrumsey.ch/goa_organs.pdf
Rose Fernandes
Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom
3 June 2012
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