Dhaneesha’s Diary

24/7 @ Quatre Bornes …on 5th of March till 7th of March 2010

3 days of fun…3 days of shopping…3 days of shows…3 days of transport facilities till MIDNITE!

 

 

I was so keen to see the 24/7 in QB as last time we have celebrated 24/7 in Port Louis and Rose Hill, I had not been able to go because of parking prob in the first case and secondly because I didn’t want to go

So qb was enlightened with bright decorations, loud music in each and every shops, orchard centre was full of poeple, on both sides of the roads near the municipality  there were merchants shouting so that their voice can be heard over the loud music. Things like paintings, shoes, bags, toys, books, clothes, cds,hmm, lol, I remember only because I was interested in only these things

So Mum and myself, we left for qb on Saturday 6th March 2010 at around 19:30hr, and ya, we did get BUS!which is really strange as rarely we get bus in palma at that particular time. We got down near orchard centre and started walking…wow, so many people..more than I expected.

Children were running here and there, crying for toys or for cakes…so much noise, but still it was really good to be part of this special occasion.

We walked around for 1 hour and finally reached the municipality where “Trioco” was already busy entertaining loads of people. Heard that some people who were in front of the croud were offered FREE BRIANI!

We sat there for some 30 mins and then started walking again…the main road was blocked due to the  merchants on both side of the road.

Fast foods like Kebab, well known boulette and mine bouille, briani, chips, roti were sold on the road.

While walking on the road near KFC, we heard loud music again, this time not from the radio but a band. At first I thought it was the police band lol…no infact it was a group huh don’t remember its name, but it was really NICE! TOO GOOD!SO LIVELY!Poeple started dancing and it was so much fun!

 

 

Then on the other side, there was the dragon dance! In the municipality itself, where TRICO was performing, there were different Mauritian singers singing the “SEGA”!

In the middle of the streets, another group was busy doing taicondo! In each and every corner of the main road in qb, there was something special going on.

 
I don’t know how it was in Port Louis or in Rose Hill, but truely speaking, I found the 24/7 in qb a very interesting activity which has been very well organised.

Finally I returned home around 11 pm with 3 paintings, children books & toys for my brother’s son, a dress and a half eaten “pain kebab” lol
To see our streets so lively, so well decorated, and the most important thing, we were so secured with policemen in each corner, was a true pleasure.

Sorry for the pics as I have used my mob to take out those photos.
Have you been to the 24/7? What do you think about the 24/7?

As usual, I get nice surprises !

I was informed that I will have to go to Madagascar for 1 week to work at Air Madagascar, a travel agency there. So we, my manager and myself, took the air madagascar plane on Monday 08.02.2010 at 11 am. I have never been to any other country before, apart from Rodrigues …

So everything went so well on the first day. We had been offered a nice hotel, the palm hotel to stay. It was well equiped, clean and the people there were really nice. For breakfast, lunch and dinner, we had to search for food in restaurants. Hopefully, my manager already knew the best restaurants there as he had been to mad for more than 10 times for work. Our office was 2 mins far from the hotel and this reduced the amount of time we had to spend in travelling.

My hotel : the PALM HOTEL

The office at air madagascar, in TANA, where we worked:

Life is really hard there for eveyone, no food, money, health…it took me some time to adjust there. Even they are poor, the people in mad are really nice.  We normally started working at 08:00 am and finished at around 06 – 07 pm, getting 1 – 2 hours of lunch as this is the rule there.

After work, we went directly to the hotel and get ready for dinner. The first day, I went to a restaurant named Piment Rouge. The food was delicious, took chicken in a sauce i don’t remember and some vegetables. We had the occasion also to go to some of their nice restos : “Chez Sucette”, “La Boussole”, “Hotel du Louvre”, ice cream at “Blance Neige”, pizza at “Gastro pizza” (after eating it, I felt ill :S, but my manager didn’t get any health complications).

The worst thing that happened to me, was on my second day in Madagascar,  I almost fell down and had a severe ankle sprain! fufff….. had a real pain for 3 days…until friday, my last day in Mad :s. So didn’t get the courage to go out for shopping or visit the country. On my last day, meaning friday 12/02/2010, felt like going out. So I asked my manager to take me to the “Bazar”, market where I could get some cute decorations and gifts.

On that particular day, I discovered something very interesting, “Chateau de La Reine“…

The story behind this palace was that  there were 4 queens, but the first one was the worst! People hated her as whenever she felt like having sexual relationship with a man, she did so and after that, she just killed him. She did that to many people. When justice had to be done, she had a particular place infront of the palace, known as ” Palais de Justice” where the culprits had their head cut off infront of all people.

Palais de Justice :

As soon as we reached the ” Chateau de la reine”, a guide came voluntarily to us to show us the place all around. He even tried to charge us a lot of money lol , but my manager was already aware of that action and gave the guide some money only to pay him for his effort.

One last thing about Mad, there are lots of children who are uneducated and live in the streets, begging every single minute, many prostitutes, many people eating things that you won’t dare eat :S …all these due to poverty!

I will like to thank Mr Thierry Ramiandrasoa for all his help and patience, and all users at Air Madagascar, Tana, for their politeness and generosity.

It was my first outdoor job, but had a superb experience! Learnt how to live without my mum , without my love, yashvin and my whole family and friends!

Wow…1st November 2009, again our anniversary..so quick… but we have learnt loads of things, have known each other so well…and without forgetting, the rate of fights also has increased a lot lol….agree yash? …

Where to start…hmmm, ok..Let’s start, I won’t be long this time.I sms Yashvin at Midnite to wish him , but Mr Dooshiant was already asleep …

He came at my place at around 11 Hr yesterday morning and we went to Flic En Flac to celebrate our second anniversary. I baked a small chocolate cake(as shown in the pic above ), prepare salads, fried rice (non veg of course) and 2L fanta …Oh god, it was raining heavily there, so hot ..and we had to stay in car for lunch :S … but still romance was in the air lol…

Yashvin gave me a so beautiful rose and an IRiver music player as gifts…thanks dou…this action of urs, specially giving me a rose on our anniversary has really touched my heart… love u dou

Then after lunch, meaning after having eaten large pieces of the cake and loads of fried rice, Yash decided to drink something “fort”…so…there we go…at Blacksteers in Flic en Flac, where Yash ordered a choco mousse for me and something…huh..I don’t know exactly what was its name for himself to drink. Maybe those who usually go at Blacksteers will know what he was drinking in the pic below lol… Rain had already stopped at that time and the weather at Flic was so cool

 

There are loads to say about a relationship…but what we have experienced for these 2 years are not enough…we are still knowing each other, still fighting, still loving each other more and more, and without forgetting, Yashvin has become more romantic … I don’t regret about my past now…as god has given me such a caring life partner who loves me so much. I do hope that we’ll stay together all the time, apart in the toilet lol. Even if there are so many ups and down in our life, we will remain faithful to each other and will not fight for silly things as we usually do.

Yash dropped me at home at around 19hr, tried the gift I gave him and went home after having eaten another plate of fried rice… lol

Special Note : Varsha, Neha and Deepa …hope you had liked the cake

Special thanks to my mum  who had helped me a lot in preparing our anniversary…her ideas, her fried rice ….for everything..love u mum…

Happy anniversary again dou… love u…

Again after some months, I finally got an article on which to write

This morning, I was coming at work in my uncle’s car, and was listening to Radio – Plus. There were some planters busy discussing about bats in Mauritius, meaning, the impact these animals have on our cultivations and economy, mainly in Summer ( including the mangoes and letchis seasons which are for soon )

Some seemed so worried as the bats were destroying their fruits at night and thus, they were not expecting much profit this year. They had asked the Ministry of Agriculture to do the necessary.

But as we all know, bats are protected animals in our country because they are unique and, can’t be harmed at all.

The use of nets

The planters had then been proposed to use nets to cover their plants….but what about the big trees? Will the nets be able to cover such plants? how much will this cost?

The discussion was then left pending as some of the planters did not agree at all to use such method of protection even if nets were given to them as gifts.

Other practices.

Another practice in Mauritius involves lighting the trees with bulbs so as to discourage the bats from coming closes. Some planters do not hesitate to make use of poison.

Aren’t they cute? lol

To be short, what do you think is the best solution to this problem?

By the way, HAPPY DIVALI, MANZ GATO BIENNNNNNNNN

Port Louis, which is the Capital of Mauritius, consists of many buildings, people, vehicles, hawkers, shops, rats, broken pavements, restaurants, traffic, pigeons, crows…etc wow so many things.

But do we see dustbins in the streets of Port Louis?????

Today, Yashvin and I, were walking from Kaddy + (La Poudriere Street) to DCDM near Champ de Mars with 1 delight yoghurt in yash’s hand and 1 chocolate Flan in mine. After having eaten our desserts, we started looking for a dustbin.

Alas, we searched everywhere but instead of dustbins, there were only FLOWER POTS everywhere on the street!

Believe me, it is not the first time that we have been searching for dustbins in Port Louis and, I think you will all agree with me.

Hopefully, near Alpha College, there were 3 dustbins!

Atleast some educational institutions are giving good examples by providing their own dustbins. This is only one example that I have stated, meaning La Poudriere Street, but there are many streets like this, without dustbins and waste can be found everywhere on those streets.
Very disgusting!
Another good example is the Caudan Waterfront.

We do have dustbins there but for what?

Only for publishing advertisements on them to beautify the environment and to make money out of them!

I do hope that actions are taken soon to place small dustbins everywhere to facilitate disposal of wastes and, to keep the environment clean instead of decorating our streets with flower pots !

Walking miles to see any such dustbins have become irritating and this is one of the main reasons why people throw plastic bags, papers, food …etc everywhere on the streets of Port Louis.
Almost every one of us says that Port Louis is always in a mess, but why is it in this state!

I do hope that actions are taken soon to place small dustbins everywhere to facilitate disposal of wastes and to keep the environment clean instead of decorating our streets with flower pots !

lol, finally found something to blog

Yesterday, while going back home, I was listening to top fm in a colleague’s car and heard that many road accidents occur due to people who don’t understand road signs lol..

For example, some accidents occur when pedestrians are crossing roads and cars continue accelerating or don’t stop to give way even after having seen the Pedestrian Cross Here sign.

In some cases, it’s true that pedestrians just cross roads carelessly (Observed mainly in Port Louis).

Another example is, despite a no entry sign, people don’t pay attention and drive through not even thinking of the possible outcome.

So dear friends, my post today is based upon the road signs . No no, I’m not going to teach you about road signs tvr

So my question is

Do you think that drivers should go through another driving test after some 5 or 10years?

Nice weekend to all of u

Hi guys, been so long since I last posted an article on my blog, was a bit dormant as yash said lol.

In fact, one saturday when yashvin was dropping me home, he just asked me where normally I take bus to go to Palma after work.

Later, he asked me an interesting question : ” Combien payer from this bus stop to palma?” meaning how much I pay from this bus stop to my destination!

The answer was ” Rs 14″.

A bit further he saw the bus stop at La Louise near the Taxi stand, which is not far from the Paloma Bus stop,hmmm, maybe 5 mins la marche or moins!

Yash asked me again ” Kifer to pa pran bus ici?”

The reason was due to the large number of passengers waiting and secondly because, I don’t like to stand in buses specially if I have laptop or anything else in hand. TVR, he again asked me how much it costs to take bus from la louise to palma?

The answer was Rs 8.

He was shocked..lol.

Y this Rs6 difference between these 2 bus stops?

Ok, you will say that the Bus stop at Paloma is in quatre bornes and zat of la louise bus stop is in palma road.

Nops, not really! Paloma and La louise is not far from each ozer, so y should we pay more?

Another example is, when u take bus to go qb and the same bus to go la louise…here the bus fare is the same..meaning Rs 24 in CNT buses and Rs29 in blue lines.

I just can’t understand the logic behind this!

Do you also face such cases in your locality? Or is this only in Qb?

Palma Humps back on the road again

Another news concerning the road going to Flic en Flac beach…meaning palma road to Flic, is that all the humps which were removed during the arrival of the chinese president were not replaced..meaning  only a few of them were found until now…

so aret plaigner now ki ena bocu obstacles dan chemin palma lol…specially twa yash

That’s all for today..back to work now

Thanks yash for z road map.

btw, the Mauritian population is still waiting for the bus fares to drop down… months since price of Diesel is going down!

Hope to see some bloggers tomorrow at Mac Do..cheerz !

Nice weekend to all of u

My first post on my new blog …yupieeeee( Merci yash for the domain name…)

Saturday 24 January 2009

First time I participated in a Job Fair, representing DCDM Consulting Ltd.

I was accompanied by the one and only Yashvin as nu ti mank un peu role lol kidding. So as planned, Yash had to pick me up at home (Palma) at 9hr so as to reach UOM at 9:30. Marvin, our Marketing Manager, was already zer, alone (truver combien dimun ti interesser ale represent dcdmc lol) sitting and ti p manz ongles

Yash n I  went roaming around to see which companies came for the fair. There were Orange, Accenture (which was beside us), TNT and many ozers. At 9:45 we started our journey and Marvin went home. At first there were no1 interested ki ti normal, but at 10:15, wow, zer was no fresh air for poor angels like yash n myself to breath. So many questions about qualifications required, salaries, interviews, the different platforms we use, the different job opportunities, hmmm, wat more….if trainees were allowed to work zer,enfin it was really nice to answer all zos questions (lerla mone realiser ki mo cone dcdm bien lol)

But what really annoyed both yashvin and myself was the fact that DCDM Consulting is a company managed by Accenture, and was just beside them for the job fair, people were thinking that we are actually “Accenture” people. Example, people who were interested to work at Accenture had to fill in a form and  Yashvin was given that opportunity to collect the papers lol… enfin, they thought that we were together and  were even filling the forms on our table At first it was funny, but then we were really annoyed.

But we were happy to meet our blogger “Chaya“…she recognised us at first sight..mai pa mwa n yash..she said she was chaya, but due to noise, we heard jaya lol

At noon, feeling hungry, we called another friend,  Shalini to confirm if she was coming to take over the presentation. fuf, hopefully, her husband, her sis in law and herself came and yashvin n myself got the opportunity to have lunch. aster pli comic, pena manzer dan cafetaria uom bizin marcher ale MIE ..finally we got pasta(spaghetti) which was miam miam…

We left UOM at 13hr and yash came at home for a lemon juice and “piment farci”

zats all, zistoire fini..ale dormi

wow what a horrendous crime…

A doctor being “egorge” , meaning has his throat cut off…in his own medical cabinet at Rose Hill…Dr I.A Bahemia, aged 72 ans. It was noticed only when a patient went inside the cabinet and saw the doctor dead….”dokter in tomb en long dan so biro!!! ” with blood stains everywhere…as mentioned in the newspaper “Le Mauricien”.
Police is investigating and they have already identified 1 suspect of 30 years old.

Now …tell me what do you think about security and crime in Mauritius?Share your point of views, as I think we are more exposed to criminality nowadays.

Do you think that the government should introduce capital punishment for such offences?