Happy New Year 2010
31 December 20092009 is over and now is the time to take new resolutions for 2010. Concerning 2009 it has been a year where a lot of things have happened in my life. Some of my objectives have been accomplished while others not.
Objectives achieved:
- Gone to SOP in Muar in April-May
- Got a new house (rent)
Failed to do:
Still no driving license and still no new phone.
Concerning bad things nothing bad except that today on the 31st of December I went to the hairdresser only to have a hair-cut accident. Line rase mo la tete ene boute!!!. Now I need to wear a cap 
So what do I expect from 2010? A lot of things.
- Buy my own house or at least by a plot of land
- Set up my own business
- Get this driving license
- Get a new mobile phone
- Go to Malaysia once again
- Still undecided whether to do my Masters part-time
- Blog more often :p
Hope that I will be able to accomplish at least half of those objectives. For now it is Happy New Year 2010.
Do you suffer from Affluenza?
12 April 2009Ok for some this disease should not be familiar. To make it simple I will say Influenza + Affluence. This ring a bell?
To make life simpler let’s take the definition from Wikipedia
- affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf [1])
- affluenza, n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by the pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth. (PBS [1])
In short it is the endless pursuit of riches and material things that people (including me) want to have. Even if we have a mobile phone that is in good condition we are always looking for the most sophisiticated one even it is to the detriment of our resources and environment.
It is not totally wrong when Yoon Jeung-Hyun ( the Minister of Strategy and Finance of South Korea) say that:
I believe that this crisis has been caused by an unlimited level of human greed say that the current crisis has been caused by human greed.
The credit crunch has its origins in greedy hedge funds and traders that were more concerned with profit than the economic well-being of society.
The problem is that often we do not care about it and we are more interested in our own life. That is why it is very difficult to find a solution to the current financial crisis.
Check out this slide to learn more on our greedy nature:
It’s been a long time
6 April 2009It’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
2 January 2009I 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 
Happy New Year 2009
31 December 2008It’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.
Planet Pub spamming people
8 December 2008Do 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…
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Stupid things in our paradise island of Mauritius
16 November 2008
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!