Cyclone Gula : A danger for mauritius ? (UPDATED: 31 JAN 2008,9:05am,Local time)

Update 8 (31 jan, 9:05am) Several radios are saying that there is no cyclone warning in force in mauritius. Primary and secondary students won’t have any classes. Only the staff should go. As for tertiary students…nothing heard yet. Meteorological station of vacoas has still not updated its website…still indicating class 3…

“Malheureusement” cyclone Gula died all of a sudden, catching the local meteo by surprise…so sad…

Update 7 (31 jan, 8:5am) A cyclone warning class three still in force in mauritius. Fifth cyclone bulletin confirms that Gula is dangerously approaching mauritius. There are currently rumours that all cyclone classes have been removed and people should go to work…no confirmation yet. Even the meteorological site has a class three warning as at 8:55am.

Update 6 (31 jan, 5:40am) A cyclone warning class three is now in force in mauritius. At 4am this morning, the meteorological station of Vacoas finally deemed Gula as a direct threat to Mauritius as it changed its direction from south to south-east. Read the bulletin here: Cyclone Bulletin
Therefore, there won’t be any classes for primary, secondary and tertiary institution.

A communiqué from Air Mauritius informs us that there flight operations have been disrupted due to Gula. More information will be provided soon. Source : Air Mauritius Website

Update 5 (30 jan, 10:10pm) A cyclone warning class two remains in force in mauritius. Latest cyclone bulletin issued at 10pm local time: class two warning remains unchanged. Next bulletin will be issued at 4am tomorrow 31 January.

Update 4 (30 jan, 5:40 pm) A cyclone warning class two became in force in mauritius as from 3:30 pm…(they were waiting for schools to end).

Update 3 (30 jan, 12:20 pm): A cyclone warning class one is in force in mauritius.
Full news bulletin can be read here: Cyclone Bulletin

Update 2 (30 jan, 7:10am) : Still no warning class in force in Mauritius. According to the local meteorological station, the cyclone is stationary. And they are waiting it to move to decide what to do…So students, get ready for school!

According to Meteo France’s prediction on January 28, 2008, tropical storm Gula will be at its nearest to Mauritius on early morning ,Thursday 31 January 2008.

Let’s just hope it brings us rain…we badly need it!

More information can be obtained from Here

Update 1:

Occasional rain today in mauritius. And some wind gusts already being experienced in different regions. Right now, I’m in the south-east and it’s cloudy with some rain from time to time (but not much).

According to Tropical Risk Storm’s website, Gula will now go straight through mauritius. (Earlier predictions indicated a near miss on the north-western coast of the island)

Source of picture: http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/

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Oh friends, we care for you!

It has already been 1 week since university lectures resumed. And during some free time which we got in between lectures, we usually meet and chat with classmates and other students on the campus. It was during one of these time slots that I met an old friend, whom I had lost contact for some time.

She had just joined university last semester and was quite the kind of humble, not-so-talkative girl (from a stranger’s perspective). From the look, she was definitely not Miss Universe; nevertheless, I’ll say she was much better than the Miss Mauritius contestants. But she definitely had a big heart with enough space for all her friends, this I am sure! For the sake of her privacy, I’ll refer to her as Shreya.

While catching up for the time we have not been in contact, the topic turned into some kind of not-so-happy moments that she is currently going through. And it all revolved around friendship. Shreya’s parents, as most others, wanted their daughter to achieve big in life through the best possible education they could afford for her. And as a result, every weekday after college classes, she had countless private tuition; the weekends were full day tuition days. Therefore, the only time she could use to make new friends was during tuition, of course, without her parents being aware of it, their belief being that friends are there to move your focus from studies.

Call it coincidence if you want, there was a guy who was in almost the same situation as Shreya and both teenagers were taking tuitions the same places and time for almost 75% of the time. And naturally they became not just friends, but the best friends in the world. We’ll call the boy, Jimmy.

They started to use all the time they had left to talk and talk…talks that usually revolved around their dreams of their future life. Shreya wanted to become a lawyer while Jimmy wanted to be a doctor. And then one afternoon, Jimmy was not to be seen at tuition; he was someone who was rarely late and Shreya got really worried, something must have happened to him, something bad…and the girl prayed, she could not follow the tuition at all; her eyes were both filled with tears. And her teacher, who considered her as one of his best student noticed that something was wrong with her. He asked whether she was alright, Shreya could not even speak…she just nodded her head affirmatively. And that evening, she didn’t shut her eyes the whole night. It’s going to be only the next afternoon that she will get the opportunity to meet Jimmy again to know what happened. Until then, all bad things went through her mind; what could have happened to her best friend…

And that afternoon, came Jimmy with a beaming smile and Shreya felt immediate relief, he was fine, thank god! And before she even had the opportunity to ask what happened, Jimmy had already felt the question coming and happily told her about the amazing day he had the day before; some classmates and him skipped college classes and went to play at a nearby ‘LAN’ (where gamers usually play in teams on computers connected through a local network). And they stopped playing at around 5pm…too late for tuitions, that’s why he didn’t come to tuition the previous day.

Shreya just could not believe it, Jimmy skipped a class…Knowing her rather well, Jimmy knew that Shreya was not pleased at all with what he did and he told her that was the first and last time. But the gaming taste was too good for Jimmy to stop it just for the sake of pleasing a friend. Nevertheless, he promised to himself that he won’t go to play on LAN again. But the gaming urge was still there…and Jimmy borrowed the games on CDs from his friends and started playing on his home computer.

Little by little, he became so entrenched in his games that everything else had lost their importance. Shreya became just ‘a friend’ just like the dozens of friends he had. For him, his ‘best’ friends were now unknown people thousands of kilometers away, playing with him through the internet. Even his family was no more important; he has no time to talk to his dad, mum or brothers and sisters; as soon as he reaches home, he goes straight into her room, his parents believing that their son is studying hard. He would play during the whole of the nights, and naturally felt sleepy at college.

And he distanced himself from Shreya. The latter desperately wanted her best friend back, but an invisible barrier prevented that to happen. And Jimmy’s academic performance had drastically fallen but he just didn’t care. And when Shreya tried to talk to her, he had the pre-recorded answers: “it’s my life, not yours”, “none of your business, I do whatever I want”. But these few words were enough to break Shreya; she could see the friendship she valued so much being torn apart by the very person that she trusted more than herself. And this time she could not stop her tears…she cried…and when she was telling me what happened, I could clearly see tears in her eyes, more than one year had already gone by when she ‘lost’ her best friend, and she was still crying for him, and praying that he becomes the doctor he used to cherished in his dreams.

Oh friends, we suffer and cry for you.

Please don’t be so selfish towards us…

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Happy birthdayyy dear blog ;)

Yep, today is exactly 1 year since this blog has been created (january
21st, 2007). And as birthday gift: A brand new domain name

www.roushdat.com

Gifted by Vicks and company

And also, today is the first day of the 2nd semester at UOM (3 months
to go before reaching exams)

Won’t talk much about the success (or failures of this blog), i’ll let
you readers comment about it rather And feel free to voice out your
critics…

Let’s have a look at some statistics of this blog, which my friend
Ravi was interested in :p

Seems the blog’s views have stabilize and may soon start a decline if actions are not taken very soon. But don’t worry, great surprises to come for this promising year

>31 thousand views,encouraging i’ll say But not enough

And now ladies and gentlemen, THE Star! The post having the lengthiest lifespan till today…(almost everyday, it has readers )

And that’s : Don’t mail me your password plz :p

This post is about a phishing tutorial for grabbing hi5 passwords.

Below is the daily hit rates the post receives (it’s not much, but for a small blog like mine, it does mean a lot to me !)

And once again, happy birthday to this 1 year old, little blog

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Tomorrow will be THE day…

[no special effects added...picture taken with a digital camera having no optical zoom,improvised with a pair of cheap binoculars]

French fries :p

Most of us enjoy eating french fries, commonly known in Mauritius as “chips”. These ‘croustillant’ sticks made from potato sold by KFC and McDonalds….well they are not the same when home-made

There are several reasons why you want to make them at home instead of buying them…among which are the prices (damn hot for some fried potatoes) and the distance…(i live at lescalier in the south, and the nearest kfc is at mahebourg i think…30mins by car).

But recently, i made a search online for recipes about making french fries at home :p And…now ladies and gentle, the secret of french fries, revealed :

In order to have that ‘croustillant’ outer layer and the soft part inside, the trick is to double fry your fries

• To begin with, prepare your potato (peel and slice into sticks)
• A very important step now, is to put the sticks in cold water (use some ice cubes). Let them soak for about 15minutes.
• Drain out the water and put the sticks in pre-heated hot oil(i wont give uou the oil temperature, cause i’ve not seen anyone till now checking oil temperature)…allow to fry for a few minutes. Make sure you don’t fry them completely, let’s say fry them mid-way.
• Remove your fries, and let them cool down on some kitchen paper, draining out the oil. [if you are in a hurry...like i am usually, you can use cold water to instantaneously cool down everything :p].
• Add some salt (according to taste) to the moist fries.
• Now, the second frying session, to make the croustillant part Put your french fries in hot oil, this time allow to fry the whole way till you start seeing brownish edges and corners.
• Remove your fries, drain out the oil and serve hot

My mum really enjoyed it when i tried this method of making fries…and asked me for more Let’s see if same happen at your place Let us know if you try this

These are not the usual french fries, these are breadfruit fries which I’ve tried today (chips fruit a pain).Deliiicious The recipe will come next time
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Google, the next microsoft?

I have a fear…justified or not, but it’s there…Microsoft is dying and another monster is already there waiting impatiently to grab that big piece of technological and IT meat…that’s google!

Just like microsoft, google is there to make maximum profits! And it is making sure to overshadow all the groups that helped give Microsoft deadly blows.

One of the most evident sign of google’s devilishness can be seen in Knol…designed to kill wikipedia (our beloved wikipedia!).

I think it is now high time to start becoming anti-google!

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Cool birthday party @ Jumbo

Hello all Today i had my birthday party at Jumbo Phoenix :p Well, I were supposed to reach there at 11 am…And I planned to reach even earlier…(10:30am). Unfortunately I missed my 9:30am bus…and waiting for 1 hour on the bus stop…

When I told Selven about the big delay…but he said it’s normal…presidents normally don’t come on time :p (don’t worry….I’m not like most presidents :p, delays will be rare)…And yeah, I think i should say sorry to all my friends who were waiting for me there for my lateness

Ok, let’s have a look of those who came

From the left, with the mobile, thats Vicky(Vicks), then

Sleep? Day or night?

I was thinking…why do most of us think that people normally sleep at night and work during the day? Is it because long ago people had no lights at night? But now we have na? But then…why do we contibue with that habit (bad?) of sleeping at night?

Personally, i would have preferred sleeping during the day and work at night! Temperature is cooler!

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A nice and short clip about young IT companies!

And it says blog about it…so thats wat i do

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Hectic day!

Wooooooo…..damn tired today.My day started at 7:30am, I don’t know who are those people, but they really enjoy calling at home And  my sleep was ruined by one of those phone calls…Nevertheless, i managed to sleep again.But not for long…8:30am dad called my on mob this time and the vibrations vibrated my pillow along with my head (a little exaggeration here…). Dad says its time to wake up now…got loads of stuff to do!

Actually there was some kind of prayer at home and there was dinner for all the guests ( a good briani deg ). I had to buy chicken, takeaways, plastic bags(environment-friendly), prepare salads, pack laddoo…etc

And almost all my day was  spent like that…till 9:30pm Right now, am having pains all over my body…and i remembered my blog

C u tomorrow guyz

And yeah…briani ti top!

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