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
24 Jun 2010
by bhootin Rants, Software Tags: antivirus, autorun, autorun.inf, avast, avg, ckvo, clean, comodo, drive, firewall, internet, mauritius, mcafee, my computer, norton, office, pen, remove, rule, safety, school, simple, slow, steps, university, usb, virus, windows
I have seen to many people ignorant of the fact that their pen-drives (usb key, usb disk) have been contaminated by viruses that have been copied by them unknowingly! How? And why didn’t their antivirus detect them? Some do not even know until their computers start becoming slow and more… Let me explain easy ways to detect and protect yourself…
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11 Jun 2010
by bhootin Finance & Stocks, Rants Tags: 2010, crise, crisis, effect, euro, mauritius, recession, resilient, semdex, stock, stock analysis
The effects of the last 2008 recession was felt a bit late in the Mauritian stock exchange: the lowest point came about Feb-March 2009. Now we hear of the recent Euro Crisis and the market went down a bit last week… already? More
05 Apr 2010
by bhootin Finance & Stocks Tags: crash, demand, effect, invest, march, market, mauritius, nav, portfolio, semdex, stock
Most companies have recovered from the crash that the local market following recession. The SEMDEX reached its minimum last year in March 2009, some companies falling as low as their nominal values! But since there, the market has roared. If I had put my money then, I’d be happy with a 25-100% profit… Demand kept rising until recently… More
01 Mar 2009
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: accelerator, adsl, booster, broadband, cost, dial up, emtel, internet, lower, mauritius, myt, new tariff, orange, orange.mu
I have to say that at first, I was quite disappointed when the MBC Journal said that they 128K ADSL is now being offered at 256K but with a 3GB cap (and extra transfer at Rs0.57/MB) at only Rs 499… But then I looked at Orange.mu news section. The old 128K unlimited is also available as ADSL 512 with a Fair Usage Policy at Rs 863 (inc vat). That’s good… but MBC didn’t say about MyT? That got me worried… but MyT has also went down… from MyT 256 at Rs 750+VAT to MyT 512 at Rs 869+VAT (LOL, no, it didn’t go up!).
I decided to have a few speed test to verify if Orange people would really be working on a Sunday to do the switching to faster speed…It’s Sunday 1 March… 15h00 let’s go on http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ one of the reliable speed tests out there, and make a few tests. I made 4-5 tests which gave me over 500kbps almost every time. And 370kbps 1 time. That’s pretty good… But I still have to test on Rapidshare and see what it gives.
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04 Feb 2009
by bhootin Cars - Automobile, Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: better, bigger, CVT, economy, fuel, gearbox, march, mauritius, nissan, power, size, successor, sunny, tiida
I feel like taking it all out whenever I see someone still buying a N17 Nissan Sunny VIP. It’s ugly (to me), DISCONTINUED in Japan and SMALL INTERIOR for it’s exterior size. It is an improvement over the past Sunny in terms of space use, and it remains an economical engine to run and service (lower second price about Rs 100k less). But can’t you see that the Nissan March is BIGGER THAN the Sunny interior? More
30 Jan 2009
by bhootin Lallmatie & Mauritius Tags: 3 hr, 3 pm, 3hr, blog, college, lallmatie, lalmatie, maurice, mauritius, rant, time, traffic problem, views
Times and again, someone has to know what’s happening in some places around Lallmatie… Or that I should give my opinion on the problems in Mauritius. I’m not yet writing articles for a newspaper, but a blog is a very good start!
So often, I get ideas of what I can write, or what should be said (like many people had predicted today’s traffic problems with the 3 pm ending time for colleges – it’s another thing that it might be solved today… we said it before… much before…). So from now on, I’ll write on… Show the world, you, and expect comments, critics, etc… Spam? Except Spam…
Speaking of the traffic problem, if ‘they’ really want to keep the 3 pm, why not increase the working time for government agencies to 4.30 pm? Anyway, they’re already getting more pay since this year’s PRB – and we’re still working harder, and for longer hours in the private sector, and still running the economy…
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