Floriano, You are a gentleman and a scholar. > Mario. --- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Mario, > > Thank you for opening a larger view-window to life. > I am a trained ex-merchant marine officer where > discipline is grilled in > one's bones. And my view of the world is always > tinted with the hue that > discipline displays. > > I grew up in pre-liberation Portuguese Goa where I > am proud to have > willingly sold home-grown vegetables in the > Aldona/Mapusa markets to make > ends meet while in school and even headed a heavy > vegetable basket on > Fridays to reach my mother to the taxi-stand on the > way to school (SSC), > without foot wear (as t he same was a tradition for > all, then). > > And I have grown up liking two things: (1) > Discipline and (2) Dignity of > labour.