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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details
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Yes, good time had by all. Just goes to show that one does not have to
gravitate to the five-star resorts for good fun. Correia-Afonso is a gem.
Dear Germana so often referred to his S.J. brothers. How interesting the
genetic system is; he looks for all the world like his renowned Architect
cousin.
It was great fun, but just a little hectic. 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 them for his platter of good fish &
chips---so I ate up half his stuff.
Next time it is done I recommend *Horseshoe* (near Avanti on Ourem Creek
road. We get that genial Angolan chef-proprietor to open up at noon and do
a simple buffet of greens/soups/cheese, etc. @ abt 200 'rip-offs' (my slang
translation for 'rupee') per person. It might be a titch 'old colonial',
but we must not stand on conventions of nationalist patriotic
sentiment---when there's really good food to be had!
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *
فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> **** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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> Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
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> Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
>
> Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact
> details
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> Just to say a thank you to everyone who showed up at today's Goanet
> get-together at the Panjim Residency (former Tourist Hotel), which was
> both well-attended and lively. Thanks to Tony de Sa for his idea of
> having a lunch-time meeting (instead of a tea-time one, as we usually
> do) and for suggesting a more-central Panjim venue. This was perhaps
> one of our best-attended meetings ever.
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> I think everyone met (almost) everyone else, and despite the lack of a
> formal agenda we did enjoy getting to meet one another. (My complaint:
> I already know almost everyone!)
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> A special surprise was having Tony Correia-Afonso, one of our very
> earliest members (he's been there before me) at the meet. We will miss
> the kind, generous and knowledgeable Dan Driscoll if he keeps to his
> threat of quitting Goa this year! We did miss some of those who
> already left Goa (including Victor Carneiro of the US, Menin Rodrigues
> the amazing networker of Karachi and others), but this was in part
> made up for by the lesser pressures on everyone with the festivities
> now behind us.
>
> If 2010 was a Pakistani Goanetters special, this year it was an
> ex-Kenya and Portugal Goanetters meet up! Waiting for the others
> present to send in their comments and reports... FN
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