Nayar's Blog

It’s the first time i saw the bus “191 Express Curepipe” passing through The University of Mauritius at Reduit. I boarded the bus without knowing it’s route. It did the same route as “173 Curepipe” does till Pont Fer i.e. it passes at Ebene first.

I can’t tell exactly if the journey took less time. But it was definitely more comfortable

Since last week in Mauritus, SMS prices of Orange and Emtel has risen up to 70cents/- and for MTML 10cents/- i’ve heard. So, instead pf using SMS, why not make calls of 0.5-1 mins known as Do Tiny Calls . Call rate is 1.20/min.

Wanna have our National Holidays and special days get shown in your KDE calendar?

Here’s the way to get it:

You can checkout from SVN here or download the files here (might not be up to date):

svn checkout http://kde-for-mauritius.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ kde-for-mauritius-read-only

Copy the contents of “Holiday Files” to “/usr/share/kde4/apps/libkholidays/plan2″. You will need administrative permission to do so. Open the destination location with this command (kubuntu). Then you will be able to paste the files

sudo dolphin /usr/share/kde4/apps/libkholidays/plan2

Right click on the time widget in the lower-right section of your screen and select “Digital Clock Settings”

Now go to calendar, nect to Mauritius, select “Days Off”

U’r Done!

Notes:

1. This calendar is only valid for Year 2012 only. The following Holidays won’t appear in the following years:

Spring Festival
Thaipoosam Cavadee
Maha Shivratee
Ougadi
Assumption // This holiday did not appear in year 2011. I did not put it reccuring for this reason cause i’m not sure when they decide to put it
Ganesh Chaturthi
Divali

If you know in advance when the above events will occur, please let me know. Events like Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adhia are approximated yearly like this:

“Eid-Ul-Fitr” weekend on hijri 1 shawwal // weekend makes it appear as a Day off
“Eid-Ul-Adhia” on hijri 10 thualhijjah // this will appear in green in the calendar as it is not a holiday

2. Send me a list of cultural days which mauritian celebrate such as St. Valentine’s day, Father Laval day and birth of Sir Ramgoolam etc.

3. If you want to help, here’s my project page hosted on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/kde-for-mauritius

Next, i’ll be doing a calendar for the Major activities organised by The University of Mauritius. Stay tuned to the SVN

I visited Mare aux Vacoas reservoir few days ago. It is almost dry. Pics are worth >1000 words:-

Water was supposed cover all this:

Now we get down into the reservoir

The soil…

Impressive right?

The drying water…

My dad went to take his driving oral test today. He did the test but when the policemen were scanning the results, a crash occured to their servers. My dad told me that lots of experts tried to fix the problem. But it took them 4 hours to finally fix it. They said it was the first time something like this happened.

Moustique kumace fer bal, pa pe fouti dormi assoir. :@

Kan temperature baisser ek fini touy impe moustique, nu gagne someil. Mais ine fini gramatin tout aster. Bizin lever! pffffffff

I won’t make a long intro. Here’s my results:
Maths: B
Physics: A
Chemistry: B
General Paper: B
Biology: B

Note: I took tuitions only in GP

Tuitions are really out of the equation for success!

I thought my results would look the one in the picture since yesterday. I was even sure that i would fail in chemistry. I was worried as i thought i’ll have to redo my HSC. I was afraid to go to sleep.

When i woke up in the morning, i was soo happy to know that i didn’t had a nightmare

I was was very excited to go and fetch my results as it would be the first time i would ride my new bicycle. Cycling to school helped me a lot to manage the stress. If i’d be sitting idle in bus going to school, i’d have a nervous breakdown.

I was very happy when the teacher smiled at me and congratulated me.

I thought i could even fake smiles after this day. Finally, Aal iz Well!!!

Anyways, my friend told me this yesterday. Hope it’ll help you too

“whatever be the results just don’t loose faith in life”.

I end this blog post with few words for those who haven’t taken their HSC exams yet:
- Do not just study
- Do not only put nissa. LOL
- You must both enjoy yourselves and study. During class time, follow the class. During breaks and at home, do whatever you want. Save 30minutes for homeworks at home
- Tuition are NOT the way to success.

I took tuitions only in GP as i almost failed in the subject the previous year. Now, you might think that if i took tuitions in all subject, i would have A everywhere. Totally FALSE!!!

The reason for this result is that i never ever opened my book/copybooks at home. If i had done only 15 minutes of homework per day, I could have got A’s.

The real study task is done st school. Tuitions are really out of the equation for success!

Mauritians need to get this straight. This  tuition habits  needs to stop!

I wanted to share an extract from a post from another Mauritian Blogger about the introduction of creole at school. You can find the original post here: Who wants to learn creole?

This is how you would write an essay title “A Day at the Seaside”

“En zourner bord la mer.
Moi ek en de melar decide pou dessan bord la plaz pou kass en yen. Sa zour la soleil p crass difer mover kaliter. Mo pass bazar mo tap en dipain ek so gato pima pou nu manzer la zourner. La boisson mo camouad Zorz pou amener. Dresser partou.”

TVR (Trap Vente Riyer)
Our ministers and creole activists are really dumb to introduce creole at schools.

Creole is one step forward in ruining the country and two steps backwards in its development.

Zordi, c’est la grande rentrer scolaire dan moris. Banne zeleve finne bien prepare zotte davance pu sa zour la. Li possib ki zotte ine bliyer kit cahier ou bien plumier mais paker cart la zotte pan blier.

Ena 2 zouer ki zelev content zouer: TF(President) ek Satat. Mo koz lor Satat zordi.

Vre nom zwe la c’est “Sath Hath” i.e. “sept lamain” en Hindi. Dans kreole, nu dire simplement Satat

Sa zouer la deman impe strategie mais li simple. Procedure:
1.0 Fanne paker cart la.
2.0 Saken swazire ene cart.
3.0 Sakin gagne cart pli feb (A conte feb), li mem pu bizin swazir troupe.
4.0 Lequipe adversaire bat carte la ek donne 5 carte piti ki ti bizin swazir troupe la ek li swazir troupe la.
4.1. Si dan premier 5 carte la pena figure (K,Q,J), li kapav refer bat cart la.
4.2 Partage ban leresse cart la. Tout dimoune bizin gagne 13 cart.
5.0 Piti kin swazir troupe coumance match avek so ban cart pli fort.
5.1 e.g. Si li met ene coeur, zotte tout bizin met coeur. Lekip kinne met coeur fli fort gagner lamain la.
5.2 Si ene piti pena coeur, li kapav met ene troupe ek lamain la vinne pu li.
5.3 2 coeur pli fort dan zouer la. Zotte kapav met li quand zotte envi.
6.0 Lekip saki gagne 7 lamain en premier gagne match la.
6.1 Banla mem pu swazir troupe prochain match.

Cot:
Si ene lekip gagne 7 lamain ek lekip adversaire ena 0, lekip adversaire la bizin pay ene troupe saken prochain match.

Dans la realiter, tellement banla exciter, zotte blier deman zotte troupe avek banne perdants la. TVR

Cot 52:
Pareil cuma cot nek ki ene lekip gagne 7 lamain. Lerla lekip perdant pay 2 troupe saken. Exitation pli fort, ena pli sance ki blier deman troupe

Renonce:
Si couper lor ene sign ki li ena dan so la main ek li zouer sign la aprer, be lekip la bizin pay 2 troupe saken.

Partage cart ek direction zwe:
Monne tan dire ki Ena ene la lois ki bizin partage cart coter gauche ek zwe coter droit. Kiken kav confirm sa?

Amize zotte ban zen. Ek pa blier enpran ena prioriter. Zouer cart avek moderation