On 26 August 2012 10:19, Melvyn Fernandes <mel...@orange.net> wrote: > Dear fellow goanet readers > > I take this opportunity of wishing the Goanet team and community a very > happy 18th birthday with many more to come. I know that goanet holds a > premier > position, an assumption which is based on my recent request to readers to > view U-tube Bugs Bunny Conducting the Marriage of Figaro watching hand, eye > and ear movements as this is the makeup of our community, The viewing for > this started a couple of months ago at 74,474 today it is 97,108 an > increase in hits > of 22,634. > > > > > The ingredients of a good festival is community participation and mutual > goodwill by the organisers and those attending. The 2012 Goan Festival UK, > promoting > the Union Jack colours, under the banner of GOA UK gave punters a pre-paid > raffle ticket included in the entrance charge where the top prize was an > Air India > airline ticket. As this was a public event, I understand the sound system > was not audible during the Holy Mass, could it be that when the raffle > prize numbers > were announced, these were equally not heard, hence the need for them to > be published in the GOAUK.COM website,without the serial numbers, with a > deadline > date to claim prizes of 31 August 2012. Unless all the chorizkars were > busy eating their chouriz-paus, taking no notice of important > announcements? What will > be happening to those prizes that remain unclaimed after 31 August 2012? > Perhaps our clubs across the globe can share ideas on what they do in such > circumstances. > > Not having the resources, I again ask, through the good offices of goanet, > for Eddie Fernandes Editor of Goan Voice UK and Menino Fernandes Editor of > Niz > Goenkar who attended this once great Goan event to assist in publishing > the names next to the winning prizes in their respective publications, if > possible with a > photograph of the sponsors handing over the prizes. >
RESPONSE: Melvyn, I think for the sake of expediency persons were given a ticket - no names taken. So in all likelyhood, the ticket has been lost, or the winner is unaware - no everybody has access to the Internet. > > I ask this as a fella of no importance but under the banner of "one who > cares" not as one who gives a hoot. As with the NRI convention last year in > the London, > England, I would still like to see how the funds of GBP 8,000 sent by the > Goa taxpayer, through the NRI office, was spent. > RESPONSE: I think the total outlay by the Goan taxpayer for the convention was double the amount that you mention. > > Now it is over to all of you as time is running out - check your tickets > and claim your prizes? I wonder if these prizes will be claimed by the > kitchen circle, the > inner circle, the punters or has everyone been chorized? Once again, I > recommend Bugs Bunny Conducting the Marriage of Figaro, in this instance > see minute > 3.32 where the q is broken, you should gather what I mean? > > > Melvyn Fernandes > Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom > > 26 August 2012 > > melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com > > > > > -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.