It’s been a long time that I have not written something here. Well what happened during these blogging “holidays”?

I have changed house twice in a single month. I have gone from Camp Levieux Rose Hill to Stanley and now I am in Beau Bassin. Reason no water. It’s amazing how in Mauritius despite big amount of rain we still do not have water in some places. Even now I am living in a house where you need to have a pump to get water. I am fearing my electricity bills

I am going to Malaysia on the 17th of April. This has been my dream for a long time to attend the School of the prophets.

I will be back on the 6th of May. I was thinking of going through Emirates and thus have some holidays in Dubai but this has become a bit difficult with the hotels rate there. Anyway I will go later.

Enough of this now. I am off to get something to eat

I hate public holidays because I do not have anything to do on these days and to make matters worse all shops are closed. Even if it is the first day of the new year I do not care because I am always alone. All of my friends are either with their families, abroad or in hotels. This mean that I will have to stay at home with my mum and watch television.

Never mind my relatives-Do not have any or rather they do not want to relate with us. On one site there is the case that we have converted to christianity and some of my families do not accept this fact. Better then to avoid persecution not to relate with them.

On another side I have my father’s family that do not care about us since my father died. Result is that I have nothing to do on new year’s day. Just cannot wait for these festivities to be over so that life will resume as normal.

Sorry for those that are working and like to have some rest. This is just how I feel. Feel so much better now

It’s amazing as time sometimes go quickly. It’s already the third year that I am blogging on the 31st of December. Although I have not been blogging regularly this year I must confess that I love to write this last post every year. Well for this year as usual a lot of things have happened as usual: some expected and some unexpected.

Good things:

• Finished my degree and got some distinctions too
• Continued my part-time job as copywriter
• Bought my new PC

Bad things:

Cannot remember.

Yes the same old story of gossip and palabre that Mauritian are so fond of.

Now that I am writing this I realise that nothing that bad has happened to me this year.:s LOL Thanks God for this

So my objectives this year:

I am pretty much undecided. Whether to continue with my Masters or not.  What I know is that I should find a job within the next month or so.

• Go to Malaysia for the School of the Prophets
• Buy a new cellphone. The Lg Renoir or KC 910  is my first choice now
• Get that driving license
• To be continued…

For now its happy new year to all of you.

Do we have an anti-spam law in Mauritius?

Just got two emails from Planet Pub advertising products from Dulmar Furniture. Another one got lost in my bulk folder.
The thing is that the privacy policy (http://www.planetpub.mu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56 ) say that:

PlanetPub.mu is committed to respecting the privacy of its customers and the privacy of their e-zine subscribers. To this end, the following policy has been established:

PlanetPub.mu is a professional email list server that delivers email for thousands of confirmed opt-in mailing lists each day.

I have not subscribe to any list by Dulmar Furniture or any other company. Especially with my hotmail address. I have an email address that is especially dedicated to spammers like them.
If Planet Pub is not aware there is anti spam initiative in Mauritius and it will not be long before people start reacting to their campaign. Details available at: http://www.gov.mu/portal/sites/spamweb/initiative.htm
But is there a monitoring policy?

In the US and other countries you have a double opt-in meaning that I need to confirm my subscription to the list by confirming a link from my email address. This is how Aweber work. Bww aweber is the leader in auto responder and email marketing company in the world today. So where is this with Planet Pub?
The only way I think they got my email is by all the forwarded email that people send. This is great to collect emails.
Better still if you want to stop receiving emails you need to unsubscribe to a list that I haven’t sunscribe to…

If you are a subscriber to a list run by PlanetPub.mu, there are Unsubscribe directions at the bottom of each message. Or you can visit this page to get off any list run by PlanetPub.mu.

This is a collection of stupid things, quotes or decisions (in my opinion) happening in Mauritius.

• Block Facebook and blackpapers.info.

That’s it the great Mauritius Firewall will be back in business to filter Internet access. Not long ago I was laughing at China’s policy believing that in Mauriitus we are above such policies.

Il y a aussi la demande du ministère à l’ICTA pour voir s’il est possible de bannir l’accès aux sites Internet incriminés (facebook, blackpapers.info) de manière temporaire, soit le temps que durent les examens. A hier soir, l’ICTA ne semblait pas être en faveur de cette requête.

(http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article.php?news_id=117820)

• Stupid Job ad from myjob.mu courtesy of Gamma

To provide assistance to management Experience : HSC with excellent grades
Fresh Graduate from either Cambridge University, Oxford University, London School of Economics, Imperial College or any French Grande Ecole de Commerce or Engineering
Proactive with good interpersonal skills
Dynamic and Motivated Category: Manufacturing/Production

http://myjob.mu/vacancies_company.php?id=6310

As if students who have gone to these universities will be interested to work in Mauritius… So bad I will not be able to apply..Mo trop faye…

• Election and Election

A candidate whose election has been invalidated by the law has the stupidity to represent himself to an election.I would have been embarrassed in his place.But these things happened in Mauritius. Moreover the person who contested his election and won the case does not find it necessary to represent himself. Quelle farce!

At last my degree is over since yesterday with my last exams. Although the last paper was a bit tough there is nothing compared to the joy of finishing my courses. During the past week it has been so difficult with all the assignments and i had barely time for myself. But now it’s different..oK at least till December 1st when I’ll be starting my internship.

So far I still do not know where I will be going and CTI has told us to wait for their phone call. So till then it’s party time. Already started yesterday itself with a visit to Phoenix Les Halles especially the food court. For the future we will see how we are going to mange it but I know I’m going to enjoy it.