23 Jul 2010
by bhootin Finance & Stocks, Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: bank, bank of mauritius, bullion, coin, dodo, gold, high, invest, investment, low risk, mauritius, or, risk, stable
Mauritians have access to investing in gold since over 20 years with the introduction of The Dodo coin in Rs 100, Rs 250, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 face values. It must have been in 1990′s, while a kid reading MCB Rupys magazine that I came to learn about it. The Dodo coins were a symbol of patriotism. A few years later, their prices has grown from Rs 1000 to Rs 8000… It came to my mind that hmm, gold prices have increased… Little did I guess that they’d keep on increasing. The Dodo gold coin prices grew an amazing 25%+ per annum* compound over the last five years! Or 14.5% p.a. for the last 10 years. More
21 Jun 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: anelka, cup, domenech, fifa, world, zidane
As surprising as it may seem, MBC commentators did not even once mention that Domenech might be the one to blame for this situation. Have they all forgotten the fate of France in the World Cup 2002? France went out before the round of 16… with a loss from a small team…
Well in 2002, there were still many remnants from the 1998 team. Big team players… the selection I remember and line up was uhuh… Canal+ criticised a lot if I remember well… Domenech was almost thrown out… How did he stay? And make such a comeback in 2006 (and the fall with Zidane)! It was a well motivated team…
Now he’s fallen again… You don’t put out a winning player in such a critical stage… Cause, like expected, it demotivated the team. It shows a lack of trust. Would Anelka just swear for no reason?!
Zidane agreed here:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-soc-wcup-zidane-france,0,2020632.story
11 Jun 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: 2010, cup, fifa, football, forecast, pronostic, ranking, soccer, south africa, world
FIFA has a global ranking of countries since many years, the list being updated on a monthly basis. I say it gives a good idea of their national teams performance. Can this be used to forecast results? But, this is football, other factors also need to be taken into account with this world cup: managers, South Africa’s playing home despite a ranking of 83 in May 2010 vs Brazil still No.1. Other factors would be current form, the team formation and strategy, team lineup, weather conditions, referee and the players spirit!
If you check the ranking for May 2010 from this site:
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html#confederation=0&rank=193
You’ll see that these top the list (rank, name, points)
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05 May 2010
by bhootin Cars - Automobile, Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: CVT, dsi, economy, efficiency, engine, fit, honda, idsi, march, micra, vitz, yaris
Honda L13A i-DSI engine
A friend was asking me the economy of the Honda Fit/Jazz. I remembered that I read about Fit being more economical than the March/Micra and Vitz despite having a bigger 1.3 engine. I decided to confirm it from their respective websites. More
23 Apr 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: csr, election, finance, general, leader, leadership, minister, politics, skill
I’m rather fed up of listening to the small parties leaders for the oncoming general election. I mean, I said, let’s check out if there’s some party worth voting apart from the 2 big alliances. FSM, MDN, MAM etc… There’s one thing I simply can’t digest is the lack of on-screen skills by their leaders. I mean come, on it’s not hard, you just need these:
- La gueule! basically, that’s the ability to talk good of your party and your values no matter. Leaders should be able to answer questions askd to them, comment on their feelings of the day, of their vision with absolute confidence. Stuttering is like saying, ‘don’t vote me, I’m not good enough’ More
20 Apr 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: 222, bus, nta, public, reduit, stop, transport
There are two bus stops at Reduit, buses divided according to the bus routes. How they allocated is mystery, some say it’ s based on the region… About a month ago, they switched the bus stop for 222 Rempart-Rose Hill.
One/two week after they changed it again. And then again. Why? What about speed limits where not needed, and no-entries where not needed? And now we hear that they’ re working half day in administration since they have to work for elections?
20 Apr 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: 2010, alliance, argument, avenir, baichoo, berenger, coeur, communal, election, general, inconsistent, jugnauth, mmm, msm, pmsd, ptr, sithanen, vote
There is a saying that I heard earlier, “A country has the government that it deserves.” Some people say that it’ s because of the attitude of the voters. I so far refused to agree with this. But today, I’ m not sure anymore. With the ousting of Rama Sithanen recently, I’m not sure which party to vote. After all, he was someone who worked well for the country. The common person will say ‘he was replaced by Pillay’ but that’s for an election. Such a communal answer… And yes, that seems to be the reality for many people here…
So we do work well together, no matter what the religion is. We live together, I have good friends from other religions. I understand the other communities pretty well I can say. Even the political parties have people from all communities (not to say religion!), so why are people not realising that they are after all promoting union when voting? More
17 Apr 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: 2010, education, election, general, party, politics, revolution, vote, young, youngsters
So many educated young people (I mean under 35) tell me that they don’t vote. The reasons they say is that politicians are all corrupt and useless to vote for any party. But I say isn’t it your duty to choose what politician the country will have? What if just 50,000 voting youngsters think that way?
How about focusing those youngsters into creating a new party, a youngsters party, all around Mauritius. Some people pose as independent candidates. It’s definitely not to win! You need to be in a group to make big changes to the country. Ignore the fact that our Asian culture trains us to think the old people make better leaders. If only one person gets voted in the fictitious ‘Youngsters Revolution’ party (lol), it’ll be a success, cause it’ll encourage more young people to vote, and do come out to do something. The point is that if all the non-voters vote for the same one new party, that party will gain some power in front of the other parties.
You’ll say politics are dirty… it’s just perception. To some politics is a business, mean power, mean social work and more. Who made politics dirty? Who said that the governing politicians are meant to be bad?!
There is a saying however, ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ And one from Spiderman, ‘with great power comes great responsibility.’
04 Apr 2010
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: fan, for, games, mod, most, need, nfs, pc, speed, wanted
I have been a long time Need for Speed fan since Need for Speed II in about 1998. I played all versions since then.. and loved the freedom in the city since NFS Underground. Recently there was a switchover from Arcade to Simulation with NFS Shift. It meant better different controls. You couldn’t just turn traction control off and behave like you did in the previous versions. But was absolutely gorgeous to look at, even at minimum settings… More
04 Apr 2010
by bhootin Cars - Automobile, Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: auto, better, car, CVT, eco, economical, honda, manual, mazda, myth, nissan, speed, toyota
People in Mauritius have for long said that automatic gearbox is slower, heavier and drinks a lot of fuel. This is changing now and people need to learn about the new types of automatics. For many girls, the comfort given by the automatic takes over the fact that they use more fuel but that’s changed now with more economical CVT gearbox – all hybrid vehicles have them, and you bet, they’re better than manual!
Let’s start by listing the different types of gearboxes available: More
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