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Wow, that was fun but tiresome!

As every 3 months, DCDM Consulting organises a different Company Event for the staff, and this time, it was called “DCDMC Orienteering Challenge”, held at Domaine Anse Jonchee, near Ferney in the south-east.

Preparations have been going since long, with me sending mails to all staff to make them remember wats going to happen on this saturday 10th may 2008 and also remind them about practical things such as transport etc.

Each pick up point collected staff at 8am and all the vans reached the domaine at about 10hrs where 4×4 and jeeps took us to the Panoramour Restaurant.

Indeed warm welcome from Vertical World, which organised the logistics behind the challenge.

Oh yeah, i nearly forgot!
As a “mascotte” i had brought a Monkey Teddy, “Mr Zako”, those who ever travelled in my car surely knows Mr Zako, koz it hangs right behind the driver’s seat

Mr Zako, was quite a star on that day since no one thought of bringing anything + the teams names were different species of monkeys (picked from wikipedia).
Everyone was touching Mr Zako, admiring him (& his owner of course lol), even taking pics with him (not only me do! Zako la si ! haha!)

At one instance, i didnt realised that Mr Zako and my Cap fell somewhere
I had to go back and look for them, fortunately i remembered where i walked and found them somewhere near the first goyavas which i picked there to eat. Delicious!

Above the team No 01, Angwatibo!

At 1130hrs, the game started and each team was composed of 4-5 persons + had a map and other stuff to orientate ourself in the huge domaine and collect the maximum of beacons(flags) + solve riddles attached to each of them.

There were also 4 Red Challenges, in the “Fort Boyard” Style.
My team managed to win 2 of them

The above one was really tough and i managed to put down the guy! waaaaaaaa!

At the beginning of the game, my team members and myself had lost ourselfves but we managed to get onto the track and start collecting points.

Amazing things happened during the game, for example, deers running here and there, and quite close to us.

There was an open lunch from 12hrs to 1630 hrs and each of the teams had to organise themselved to be back to the restaurant to be able to take their lunch, at anytime they wished, or rather, at the time they managed to come back lol!

After the end of the challenge, there was a prize giving ceremony and beyond expectations, my team was ranked 6th lol, out of 14 teams. We really didnt expect that!

All of the teams received gifts ; those after the top 3, received, guess wat???
Banane! lol

and of course,the winning team:

After the prize giving, we had official photo sessions…
We were allowed to climb on the top of the jeeps to take pictures

We took really A LOTS OF PICTURES and that will take time to regroup all of them, but however, i have already uploaded pictures from my mobile and my 2nd camera.
More pictures to come in the near future on facebook and my web site photo gallery.

Click here for pictures taken using my mobile and camera

We really had a nice day,

• lots of fun, but tiresome
• lots of “boudouf” when we fell down here and there in the mud,
• lots of “hey kot nu eter la? check lo map!”
• “p gagne faim! kant nu pu ressi arrive enbas la?”

When’s the next???

While watching the news recently, the speakerine mentioned that the main reservoir of the island is only 60% of its capacity, while at this period of time, it should be around 84%. When interviewed, the chairman of the CWA commented that we did not receive enough rain to fill in the main reservoir. That is all bullshit!! How could we not receive enough rain when there were floods in certain places of the island?  In the meantime, some regions of the upper Plaine Wilhems are facing water cuts. When will Mauritius not face water shortages when paradoxically we are surrounded by water? Could we sustain the targeted 3 million tourists with our actual water network and other public networks? Talks are beautiful but concerted actions between the various ministries are better.

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The National Television is again in my post, they don’t even care for their image, be it in their home-made productions and even in their day to day broadcasts on the different channels.

They give the impression that there is no one who ensures a quality service or review what they put live.

A simple example, and repetitive one, is as shown below:

In the above picture, taken when one of the “preview” of a film was being broadcasted, you can cleary see that the film will be broadcasted on Sunday, at 21XXhrs, the XX mins display, being hidden by the LARGE mbc3 label.

Damn it! So, i will have to sit before the tv set from 2100hrs till 2159hrs to really know at what exact time it will start! This happens too often, too much!!!

hihi, and now 2 more pics…

Since 1 week, my sister and myself are alone at home since parents are not in Mauritius, so, everynight we either eat at my cousin’s place(next door) or like today and yesterday, we cooked ourselves at home.

Quite a disaster!

Yesterday, we planned to eat Chicken and at the end, we were left with a salty curry lol!

and more recent, some hours ago, we TRIED  to cook some pasta, mixed with a “rougaille saucisse” since we had nothing else to put in it.

While cooking, all the “rougaille” was evaporated LOL! and we were left with fried and “over-cooked” sausage. As for the pasta, it was ok but since the last mins, my belly is making “glou-glou” lol, and tomorrow, i have a company event to go to, at Domaines Anse Jonchee

we were not only the victims, since both Neha and Deepa(cousines next door) were fortunate(???) to have been invited for dinner at our place for the last 2 days

lol, 1 more week to go like this!
practice makes perfect, so lets hope in some years, i can cook a bit better!

I’ve upgraded my MacBook to Mac OS X 10.5 also known as Leopard. And I love it!

I have been using computers proficiently for, let’s see, around 20 years now and I am as excited with Leopard as when I first got my Commodore Amiga 500 around 1990 and I first discovered Linux around 2000. This has nothing to do with being an Apple fanboy or whatever. I am just an ecstatic geek.

Of course, I dislike the translucent menu bar and the new dock but I can confidently say that I am in awe at the 298 remaining enhancements. Funnily, I resisted upgrading to Leopard for weeks as I thought that Tiger was perfect. Now that I have been using Leopard for a few days, I can see how wrong I was…

Luckily, making the translucent menu bar opaque is easy as there is an option for that in the Desktop & Screen Saver system preference window. To have a saner dock, you only have to issue the following in a terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

and maybe install Quicksilver.

I did not come up with this terminal incantation by myself. Instead I got it in one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive reviews I’ve ever read in my life. It’s (of course) John Siracusa’s review of Leopard for Ars Technica. I spent hours reading this review today and ingesting and trying everything. I hope that one day I’ll manage to write something similar comparable.

I’ll finish with John’s conclusion:

The stage is set for Mac OS X 10.6 to triumph beyond the bounds of its ancestors. In the meantime, it’s the Mac development community’s opportunity to shine. Whether it reigns for two and a half years, like Tiger, or even longer, I’m looking forward to my time aboard starship Leopard.

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Menwar sera en concert ce samedi 10 mai à 20h30 à Montéal.

Billet: $20. Places limités. Gajack sur place.
Lieu: Station 21, 21, Chabanel ouest, Montréal.
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J’y serai.