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FULL
HOUSE AT TEGSA'S MEGA WHIST DRIVE /BINGO &
DINNER.......DESPITE MEGA RAIN!
By: Uvy Lopes
The best entertainment bargain in town had to be the TEGSA
Mega Whist Drive/Bingo/Dinner, held on May llth, 2006 at the
Commander Hall. Where else can one get a Meal to suit the Goan
palate, play Bingo and free Whist Drive with prizes, all for
$5.00! To top it all, every lady in the
hall received a free bingo ticket in honour of Mothers Day.
While raindrops were falling in buckets outside, a full
capacity crowd of approximately 150 members and guests filled
the hall much to the delight of the organizers. At 6:30,
Committee members and volunteers, served dinner followed by
Tea/Coffee.
BINGO! Definitely a "Seniors Favourite" 5 prizes of $20 each
for horizontal lines and $50.00 for Full House. Finally ? the
Mega Whist Drive ? and "mega" it was! With 120 participants
ranging from the sophisticated to the rookie card player.
TEGSA?s Joe Lobo and his team were able to ensure that every
player understood how the game was played. From the feedback
it appeared that all met the objective of this Whist Drive,
which was to provide a fun evening . TEGSA thanks Joe for his
contribution, time and effort.
Three prizes donated by Members were presented to the winning
competitors The top prize was claimed by John Baretto, with
the 2nd and 3rd going to Cynthia Fernandes and Tony Fernandes
respectively. Consolation prizes also known as "booby prizes"
went to Nick Fernandes and Laura Martins. Zena Vaz, Cultural
Secretary & coordinator for this event, did a terrific job in
organizing this event. As in the past, the Executive
Committee, their spouses and the volunteers, worked
relentlessly to ensure that members had a fun-filled evening
and got a bang for their buck. It was the all-to-get-her
participation of TEGSA members and their guests that really
made it a TRULY GREAT evening! |
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Bipasha Basu's Goan Sojourn
By: Upala KBR
May 15, 2006
http://ww1.mid-day.com/hitlist/2006/may/137297.htm
A couple of weeks ago, Bipasha
Basu decided to take a holiday. She took her entire family
along — mom, dad, older sister Bidisha (with son, Anitesh) and
younger sister, Bijoyeta — to Goa.
In an exclusive chat with HiTLIST she
talks about her short break.
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Goan
holiday
There was hardly any time to take
a long holiday, as I had to come back and start dubbing for
Corporate, and wrap up shooting for Vishal Bharadwaj’s film.
Mom and dad came down from Kolkata; Bidisha and my
four-year-old nephew were here for summer vacations. I love
Goa and it’s beaches, so we decided to go there. It’s the
first holiday that we have taken as a family in 10 years. I
want to plan more holidays like this with them.
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Time
for prawns
We stayed in a south Goa hotel, as
the area is more peaceful and less crowded. I ate so much — I
lived on prawns and lobsters! I am sure all the prawns in the
ocean must have run away after seeing me every time I came near
the beach. I would go swimming with Anitesh and float in the
pool.
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Parents had a blast
My parents are very much in love,
even today. My mom looks like Zeenat Aman, and when she wears a
short kurti, she looks really great.
I was worrying about what they would do in Goa, and hoped they
wouldn’t get bored, but nothing of the sort happened. We would
be sleeping and lazing around, while they would be as fresh as
daisies at 8 am, waking us all up.
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Shopping
We went shopping at the Tibetan
flea market, where I bought lots of bracelets and silver
stuff, and some skirts from the roadside.
But after coming back from that lovely holiday, I got a cold
and a bad cough. It was stress and over-exhaustion, I guess,
as I was shooting or dubbing throughout the day.
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Whiteman
by Tony D'Souza
(Cote D'Ivoire 2000-02, Madagascar 2002-03)
Harcourt April 2006 288 pages $22.00
http://www.tonydsouza.com/index.htm
About Tony
Tony D'Souza was born and raised in Chicago. He earned Masters
degrees in writing from Hollins University and the University
of Notre Dame, and served three years in the Peace Corps in
West Africa, where he was a rural AIDS educator.
Tony’s internationally award winning fiction has appeared in
magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Tin
House, Stand, The Literary Review, The Black Warrior Review,
Iron Horse, and many others, and is forthcoming in
McSweeney's and Subtropics. In 2000, he was chosen by
Writers of the Americas as one of seven young fiction writers
to represent the United States at the first US-Cuban writers’
conference since the Revolution, held in Havana. The National
Endowment for the Arts named Tony as a 2006 literature fellow
in prose. His first novel, Whiteman, chronicles the daily
struggles of an African village during a time of war, as well
as the increasing psychic and cultural isolation of the lone
foreign relief worker who lives in it. The Wall Street Journal
and Vanity Fair heralded Whiteman as one of the most
anticipated novels of the year, Nerve Magazine nominated it
for Best Sex Scene of the Year, and it has debuted to
widespread critical acclaim.
Tony lives in Sarasota, Florida. |
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Nelson Abreu set to
present on the controversial out-of-body experience
"Nelson Abreu"
<patagao@hotmail.com>
 MIAMI, JUNE 8,
2006. A Goan
engineering student at Florida International University is set
to present on the controversial out-of-body experience at the
25th Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration at Utah
Valley State College.
Nelson Abreu is clearly not a typical electrical engineering
student. Outside formal university pursuits, he has been
researching the out-of-body experience (OBE) and other
phenomena that cross traditional academic boundaries since
high school.
Abreu, a Miami Herald Silver Knight award recipient in 2000,
is attempting to bring the scientific rigor and technical
prowess of engineering to questions usually relegated to the
clergy, mystics, or New Age aficionados.
"I cannot mock people who think their Near-Death Experiences (NDE's)
and Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE's) are real, because I have
experienced the OBE myself. This experience feels as real as
the normal waking state." However, the Princeton Engineering
Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory intern is the first to
concede that it takes much more than that to prove the
experience is not merely a vivid mental construct of
physiological origin.
Anthropologists recognize that nearly all cultures mention
extracorporeal experiences. Historians can find references to
the OBE everywhere from Vedic science to writings of the Greek
scholars Plato and Herodotus. The Ancient Egyptians used the
term "Ka" for what is popularly known today as astral body.
The universality of this experience, reported in surveys by
over 10% of individuals, is intriguing.
Since 1998, Abreu and a few hundred colleagues throughout the
world have been studying and developing techniques to
"project," as they call it, by will. The objective is to
develop a way for scientists to have many of these experiences
themselves." Science can only begin to understand the OBE when
researchers are able to repeatedly study the occurrence first
hand."
At the 25th Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration
in Orem, Utah, the young investigator will present his
Punctuated Relaxation Technique and discuss how developments
such as this one may help advance a science of subjective
phenomena that is not constrained by physical limits. Abreu
speculates that the out-of-body experience allows us to
glimpse into the multidimensional universe akin to predictions
of modern physical theories like string theory. Investigators
like Nelson Abreu think the out-of-body experience is at least
as revolutionary as the telescope. Through personal
experiences, he predicts scientists will be able to understand
phenomena that are now considered “paranormal” and the
millennial question of survival of the consciousness after
death.
Such futuristic experiments are already underway. Take the
Image Target experiments of Rodrigo Medeiros - another
electrical engineer - and Patricia Sousa, an international
lecturer on the NDE. Participants are asked to describe a
picture randomly selected by a computer locked away at the
offices of the International Academy of Consciousness in South
Miami. "Though participants rarely make it to the target
location, the observations we get can be uncanny,” says
Medeiros, “down to photographic precision."
Clearly, these experiments are not going to satisfy the
editors of major scientific journals. "As scientists, we don't
need you to believe anything." Abreu insists that those who
sincerely want to know need to verify the results for
themselves. “That, however, takes a little effort and courage
on your part. Have your own OBE's!" |
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