why is kaz waiting for so long?

In response to Kaz's "what is waz waiting for?",

Question: Why is Kaz waiting for so long?
Answer: He uses his mobile too much!

Scientific Rationale: Mobile Phones Linked to Lazy Sperm
(read before linkZzz die as a result of archiving)

This has been blogged only in the spirit of jest...no offence meant!

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Time to think...

pic source: here

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'

Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

sharing some more linkz

For those of us who are into youtube but still wants some variety:

Daily Motion



FLURL



Google Video Beta

Putfile









Zippy Video












IMPORTANT:
Unless I'm wrong, only youtube restricts the upload of videos with adult content! So BE WARY of the keywords you are using or the linkz you r hopping to!!!

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Edit (12/11/06)

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Une boisson qui au moins fait de l'effet!

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mo creole

In response to Kaz's Creole - Our Mauritian Language,

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It'll not be surprising to find creole morisien being taught at school.

After all, our island is known to engender a good amount of wackos who shine in their ignorance and narrow mindedness as to believe that they can impose their way of life on about everybody. For instance, some random dude has been responsible for the creation of the "risse-moboule-aah" political party together with its assassination squad and covert training ground. Then, we have had to put up with the angst of another who has lost so much faith in the educational system that he has had to stand up against the catholic church and what has been its rightly due for generations, i.e. that its secondary institutions reserve a given percentage of admission to catholics only. The latter has even moved heaven and earth so that the language of its ethnic community is credited in the final year exam. With all this in consideration, i.e. that many of us will strive for the benefit of only those of similar ethnicity and not that of the general good, the likelihood that we do function as a nation is obviously questionable.

However, despite all these childish backstabbing, blatant protectionism, idiotic racial prejudice and "rancid stereotypes", there is that one thing that do unite us all. This is our creole. Though, birds of the same feathers do tend to flock together, fortunately for us lot, we have our creole with which some sort of bonding can be secured. Contrary to some other multicultural countries, all of us in Mru (whatever our ethnicity) can speak the local language (i.e. creole) in the most flamboyant of ways. Communication is thus not a problem for we are all indeed pure-homegrown morisien mwa! Creole, amongst other things, is what defines us all.

I'm thus proud of it but I have to admit that having creole taught is pushing it way too far. It's not as if we are facing its imminent extinction, right!?! Unlike some indigenous tribes who have suffered under the hand of the then colonial powers and have lost part of their cultural heritage and language, we have been lucky enough not to have experienced such abhorrent cleansing procedures. So, why the fuss? How will a pass or an A+ in my creole studies embellish my resume? Will I even get a job or a good pay? Or, is it simply some kind of a devious political scheme to earn a few more votes for the bonanza that is being an MP?

As Kaz has mentioned, there are so many ways of expressing one thing that standardizing the language will, in the end, be self-defeating and may be the cause of its own death. It is its free-spirited nature that after all, has enabled it to grow and flourish to such elaborate complexity and intricate nuances. Also,

The resistance to Kreol can be traced to three causes:

First, it is still widely regarded as "the poor cousin of French", as an impoverished, shallow and context-dependent idiom.

Secondly, its wider use at the expense of French and English might strengthen Mauritius’ isolation, since it is only spoken in Mauritius and the Seychelles.

Thirdly, Kreol is still vaguely associated with the Creole ethnic group and/or creolisation as it is understood locally, and Kreol thus has some connotations in identity politics. Interestingly, few of the activists who have struggled for recognition of Kreol are Creoles in ethnic terms; they must nevertheless be seen as creoles in analytical terms -- like in the European left, some are in favour of strong versions of multiculturalism, while others reject cultural tradition altogether as a source of personal identity.

source: The Mauritian creole and
the concept of creolization

Finally, if you are a passionate, then please indulge yourself in these 100% pure creole entries:
- Boukie Banane
- Boukie Banane 3


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trivial reference:
- Mauritian Creole (wikipedia)
- Creole Language (wikipedia)
- Lingua Franca (wikipedia)
- pidgin (wikipedia)
- Tu dimunn pu vini kreol: The Mauritian creole and the concept of creolization (a Lecture presented at the University of Oxford by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. It's not related but I have found it fascinating. So why not share, huh!?!)
- kreol Morisien (I think it's mostly targeted at travelers)
- Mauritian Creole Swear Words (at Insult Monger; it's really surprising the things one can find on a search engine!)


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