Entries Tagged 'Mauritius' ↓

Nous est proposée ce matin la lecture de St.Paul aux Corinthiens à la messe.

Citation

1 Co 3,18-23.

Que personne ne s’y trompe : si quelqu’un parmi vous pense être un sage à la manière d’ici-bas, qu’il devienne fou pour devenir sage.

Car la sagesse de ce monde est folie devant Dieu. L’Écriture le dit : C’est lui qui prend les sages au piège de leur propre habileté.

Elle dit encore : Le Seigneur connaît les raisonnements des sages : ce n’est que du vent !

Ainsi, il ne faut pas mettre son orgueil en des hommes dont on se réclame. Car tout vous appartient,

Paul et Apollos et Pierre, le monde et la vie et la mort, le présent et l’avenir : tout est à vous,

mais vous, vous êtes au Christ, et le Christ est à Dieu.

Fin de citation.

Et nous qui sommes en quête de sagesse sur terre, recherchons plutôt l’essence de vie. Pour moi chrétien, je suis au Christ.

Voila que mon cher ami Cyril, qui m’envoie ce jour par email, une histoire qui se résume ainsi : un homme demande à son Seigneur, en cadeau une fleur et un papillon. Triste il était, en recevant du Seigneur des épines et un ver rampant. Sagement, il accueille le cadeau en se disant qu’IL avait d’autre voie pour lui. Peu de temps après, l’amas d’épines, un cactus, donnait une fleur d’une beauté extraordinaire et le ver se transformait en un papillon.

Oui, La sagesse de ce monde est folie devant Dieu….

Mind mapping

Work smarter not harder? How can one be more creative? How can one have a focus vision whilst keeping track of the overall view?

I have been mind mapping for donkey years. Some time ago, whilst chatting to an old friend, Andre, he told me since he was a school kid; he always had some sort of drawings to map out his thoughts. That would suggest that mind mapping is natural form of thinking process. Indeed, a recent study on the working of the human brain confirms that human thoughts could well take the forms of mind maps. The brain links different “objects” to make up a thoughtful idea.

Tony Buzan has spent years teaching the world to use mind maps. I have gained a lot using his techniques. Today, there is a number of Mind mapping soft wares available. I currently have been using Mind Jet since version 1 some 8 or 9 years now.

I have taught a number of persons to use the techniques and they have found great productivity gain. Recently I brought in my friend, Victor to give a series of lectures on the subject to some CEO’s in Mauritius. They were thrilled.

I would have wished that all the students Mauritius be taught the use of mindmaps.

What about you, the entrepreneurs? Do you want to become more effective and creative?

I had a wonderful morning today. My cousins came to visit me. Nothing extraordinary you may think to have your relatives to visit you? Not so true, because first of all, of the cousins two of them came from far distant Canada and I have not met them for a while to talk about our common interests.

Serge Trudeau, married to my cousin, is unique, as most of us are any way, had prepared this morning’s visit by sending me an advance email to list out the subjects of common interests he would like us to talk about. We talk about NLP, a subject which has been common to us for a number of years. I recalled that in the frequent travels when I went for training in the US, I used to stop over in Montreal and to share with Serge my interests and learning thereon. Serge later, modeling me, followed me in attending an NLP training. Since, we had not met.

I enjoyed exchanging with Serge. In spite of his present eyes health conditions, he carries on studying, reading in Braille and reflecting on topics, we commonly share and which are viewed from a different perspective because of our different life experiences. These meetings expand our vision of the world. Is not it so wonderful? My present health condition also directs me to study, read and reflect. So you must imagine the excitement of this morning tea gathering!

“De fil en auguille”, Serge, Quebecois pur sang, shared with me a website of telequebec TV giving the interviews of great achievers and their deeds. Jacques Attali was one of them. I am so fond of him and enjoy seeing him on TV shows and rank him second to Michel Serres as a thinker, and parts of the great minds of today. I had not met Jacques Attali but I had conversed at length with his twin brother some years back at Chateau Bel ombre. On the other hand, I spent a weekend at Anse la Raie with Michel Serres, a couple of years ago, listening to his vision of the world.

Biting through life with eagerness could bring to you the juice of a new life of bliss and joy.Merci cousin Serge.

Hier soir à notre télévision nationale, était annoncé la sortie prochaine d’un rapport sur la Pisciculture. Rapport commandité par la Societé Idée sur le potentiel et développement des produits de la mer.

Et voila que ce matin, apres les informations, sur la chaine MBC 1, je savourais avec grand plaisir une émission de « Savoir plus Sciences » de FR 2 du mois de Mai2006, qui traite du même sujet.

Question posée et répondue :

Surpêche : pourrons-nous continuer à manger du poisson ?
Techniques de pêches de plus en plus sophistiquées, forte demande des consommateurs, les stocks de poissons de mer semblent aujourd’hui diminuer de plus en plus. Les scientifiques multiplient les campagnes pour évaluer l’état des réserves, et dans les ports, les pêcheurs tentent de développer des pratiques pour limiter les prises. Malgré cela, certaines espèces sont en danger. Pourrons-nous continuer à manger du poisson et lesquels ?

Pisciculture : le poisson d’élevage pourra-t-il remplacer les poissons sauvages ? Pour pallier le manque de poissons sauvages, on se tourne aujourd’hui de plus en plus vers la pisciculture. Mais, ces poissons d’élevage ont-ils les mêmes qualités que les poissons de mer ? Peut-on élever toutes les espèces de poissons ? Vincent Chastelain est allé enquêter du côté des bassins du Sud de la France.

La Réponse : En Europe le poisson d’élevage représente aujourd’hui 25% du marché grande surface et passera en peu de temps à 50%. La CEE diminuerait le quota de la pêche au fur et à mesure que la pisciculture arrivera à fournir la demande.

Maurice est déjà bien positionnée avec La Ferme Marine de Mahébourg et autres initiatives de pisciculture en marche. Préservons notre avance en produisant de la qualité. Faisons de notre zone océanographique un havre de développement durable, écologique, modèle du monde.

China Today

By my origin, as you may know, coming from a Chinese origin family, of parents born in Maurituis, I have the privilege of being a Mauritius citizen born in China.CBC (China born Chinese) as opposed to my MBC parents! A proud Mauritian, I am. To live on our Island and be exposed to the diversity of cultures at close range, I bet, is not usual. Then to be conscious of it and to take benefit of the unique situation would be wise and clever. This presents an advantage over most men of the world. We, Mauritian should be more aware of our unique heritage laid down for us and be avid to reap the fruit of these assets.I trust you enjoyed my recent blog taking you to India and the Elephanta caves for the feast of Lord Ganesh.

I have a foible for China. The obvious case may be because of my family back ground but the stronger case element is “what China presents in population size and what China will command in the future as an Economic power house”. To that matter, every single soul in the world has a stake to watch out China.

I read through a paper presented by Prof. LI Hongtu at a ENS conference in Lyons in 2004 which is still relevant & pertinent.

Reading similar documents nurtures my quest for understanding, learning and expanding my perspectives. I pray that they do the same to you. Bonne Lecture.( our frenchie touch yet another gift bestowed upon us) Enjoy…

In almost all work situations, there are some office politics. When there are humans involved there is politics. This happens even in families. The game of influencing, threatening, pressuring, convincing, and yielding or complying be it soft or hard are always present in human interactions. Some years ago, I had the chance of attending an enlightening lecture by a Belgian author, Jean Jacques Creve Coeur who wrote “Relations & jeux de pouvoir”.

I have traveled fairly well in this path in my work career. As a junior, I yielded more easily, sometimes I gave in unconsciously. At the start, I was often a door mat: I would not react either out of fear or timidity or out of not wanting to create waves. As I grew older and when I acquired more experience and responsibilities in the working environment, my level of awareness of “office politics” also increased. I have learned how to discern the office politics and how to be saved from situation before it gets out of hand.

In the nutshell, I learned when and how to play with the sharks without being eaten by them. I practiced the art of turning an unavoidable evil into a source of information for better understanding and better informed actions. Just like rumors, one needs to know which part of it is false (intoxication) and which part has a base of truth. Who are the guys spreading the rumors and for what purpose is the propaganda? Who are the initiators, designers and who are the unconscious carriers of the rumors?

I always thought that if I was made aware of the intricacies of “office politics” well ahead, I would have acted in some cases better. “Un homme avisé en vaut deux”. Can one attend a seminar on the subject?

As a matter of interest, at least those who might be swimming with some sharks now, I like to share with you a power point presentation on the theme. May the PowerPoint get you to think and be warned ahead?

Not long ago, there was on the 17 July 2006 a symposium for the Mauritian Diaspora: « Pa Bliye nou Rasinn ». I am presently viewing the DVD of the event which I could not attend. The DVD is on sale @ Capav Production Tel. 230 4672911.

The present government, through the measures expressed in the budget seems to encouraging our Diaspora to invest in our country. Indeed maintaining the bond of Mauritian worldwide is essential. Portals, websites and blogs are excellent vehicles to achieve the communications interchange.

I have to cite & congratulate Madeleine & Clancy Philippe for the good work to have created and for maintaining a portal for the Mauritius – Australia link. I would like to see more similar initiatives. Radio Moris is yet another commendable action.

We need the Diaspora as much as they need us. We all share the same root “meme rassinn” and have so much in common. To see that Mauritius is doing well is in itself a source of pride for the overseas Mauritian.

As is the case with all Diasporas, the bonds remain lasting for generations. Israel has always survived with the support of its overseas Jews. India recently has amended its law to give special consideration to its large Diaspora. China for that matter had always had a ministry of overseas Chinese to serve the vast number of overseas Chinese. Rightly, China experienced that by far the largest investment in China since its open policy, originated from overseas Chinese.

Could Mauritius, like India and China give a special status to the members of the Diaspora?

As most of you who live in Mauritius, you would have enjoyed a Holyday today: The Feast of the lord Ganesh, the god of wisdom. I flashed back to the days ,when I used to frequently visit Bombay and attended the feast at Elephanta caves,an island across The Gate of India in Colaba. The eve of the festival day now gave me the opportunity to sleep late so that I could enjoy the late morning wake up.The wake time was spent refreshing my old notes and browsing the web on the new developments thereon.

You will recall that at age 48, I decided to reequip myself with new competencies to further my active life. Indeed, one of the subjects I studied was NLP. You will find at least 2 links to NLP institutions which will explain to you what it is all about and how NLP could help you in your life. These life skills, to which I have been initiated to, worked wonders for me. I now realized how these skills transformed my outlook in life and how the acquired skills were of the greatest help to me during the rough time I traveled the recent years.

Would you like to be more in control of your behavior? Would you like to be more conscious of your moods and act more calmly in a way to achieve what you really want? Would you like to have better communications skills to understand others and be able to influence them? Would you like to be more creative and happier? What about learning to learn?

NLP incorporates a number of techniques and more importantly integrates the latest discoveries in the functioning of the Brain.

This morning when I lazily got out of my bed, I thought that I might have acquired more wisdom: Thanks to NLP

From what I gathered, whilst on the one hand, we want the fish hub to be one of the pillars of our new economic development, our civil service, on the other, is lagging behind to providing the minimum requirements for the entry of our products to the targeted market: the European Market.

Not only do we have to produce the right product at the right price and at the right time, the exporter must ensure that the products are certified for the importing country. Has the authorities done there job properly? How do we stop irresponsible parties to mar our destiny?

This reminds me of an experience, which occurred many many years ago. After grueling rounds of interviews, this Youngman full of hope and high spirited, got a letter confirming to him that he had been selected out of some twenty candidates and was awarded a scholarship under the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme. He was asked to call in the Ministry of Education to pursue the formalities and to complete the Common Wealth applications.

There I was, aged 20, happily registering myself to a Canadian institution to study Heating & Refrigeration at a tertiary level at College in Canada. There were then 2 other awardees. The first was awarded a bursary to study music and the second fellow a similar scholarship in Aeronautics. I had even got the acceptance from the College which was in Laval Quebec.

Came September which was the moment to finalize the departure, the government officer, Mr. Telescourt told me that there was a problem. What turned out was: the Ministry through of an over sight did not file in the document in time for our applications to the Common Wealth secretariat to process the requests. After much exchanged of telexes (in those days) The Commonwealth secretariat conceded only the Aeronautics study as the funds were reallotted to countries that requested more scholarships and were on time.

This is the story of how an administrative mistake crushed all the hope and tomorrow of an enterprising budding yougman. Let us hope that the administrative shortcomings of the authorities will not in turn crush the tomorrow of our budding Fish hub.

Pourquoi cette Fête ?

Déjà depuis de siècles L’Eglise a toujours honoré notre Sainte Vierge, Mère de Jésus. Je vous recommande la lecture de la Préface proclamée pour cette fête. Elle est la première bénie de Dieu, car elle a été choisie pour être l’instrument de l’Incarnation de Dieu. En terme contemporain, le mot « Lauréat » me vient à l’esprit. Ne fêtons nous pas toujours nos Lauréats pour être les premiers et surtout pour être des modèles à suivre ?

Saint Jean de Damas (vers 675-749), moine, théologien, docteur de l’Eglise
Homélie 1 sur la Dormition, 11-14 (trad. SC 80, p. 111s)

La Vierge Marie « image de l’Eglise à venir…qui guide et soutient l’espérance de ton peuple » (Préface)

Ô Mère de Dieu, toujours vierge, ton saint départ de ce monde est vraiment un passage, une entrée dans la demeure de Dieu. Sortant de ce monde matériel, tu entres dans « une patrie meilleure » (He 11,16). Le ciel a accueilli avec joie ton âme : « Quelle est celle-là qui monte dans tout son éclat comme l’aurore, belle comme la lune, resplendissante comme le soleil ? » (Ct 8,5;6,10)… « Le roi t’a introduite dans ses appartements » (Ct 1,4) et les anges glorifient celle qui est la mère de leur propre maître, par nature et en vérité selon le plan de Dieu…

Les apôtres ont porté ton corps sans tache, toi l’arche d’alliance véritable, et l’ont déposé à son saint tombeau. Et là, comme par un autre Jourdain, tu es parvenue à la vraie Terre promise, je veux dire à la « Jérusalem d’en haut », mère de tous les croyants (Ga 4,26), dont Dieu est l’architecte et le constructeur. Car ton âme assurément « n’est pas descendue dans le séjour des morts, bien plus ta chair elle-même n’a pas connu la corruption » (Ps 15,10;Ac 2,31). Ton corps très pur, sans souillure, n’a pas été abandonné à la terre, mais tu as été emportée aux demeures du Royaume des Cieux, toi la reine, la souveraine, la dame, la Mère de Dieu, la véritable Theotokos…

Aujourd’hui nous nous approchons de toi, notre reine, Mère de Dieu et Vierge ; nous tournons nos âmes vers l’espérance que tu es pour nous… Nous voulons t’honorer par « des psaumes, des hymnes, des cantiques inspirés » (Ep 5,19). En honorant la servante, nous disons notre attachement à notre propre Maître commun… Jette tes yeux sur nous, ô reine, mère de notre bon Souverain ; guide notre route jusqu’au port sans orages du bon désir de Dieu.

Que veut dire « Assomption » ?

J’ai retrouvé dans l’encyclopédie catholique des pistes de réflexion intéressantes. Ce qui m’interpelle, c’est cette supposition que notre Sainte Vierge Marie, par sa pureté, n’a pas été soumise à la corruption de la chair. Ce qui me donne à penser que notre résurrection se fera corps et âme.

Nous fêtons Quoi aujourd’hui ?

Nous fêtons bien notre lauréate qui entre dans la gloire de Dieu. Les réjouissances seront démunies de sens si nous ne profitons pas de l’occasion pour mieux comprendre l’événement et d’en tirer des leçons. Immaculée Conception est elle possible ? Enfanter tout en étant Vierge est un non sens à la compréhension humaine ! Ce n’est que dans la foi et à travers l’acceptation de la venue de Jésus que je m’explique ses faits.

Merci Marie

A travers de ta fête, tu m’as donné l’occasion de méditer sur ton parcours exemplaire sur terre. Que tu sois mon modèle. Mieux encore, là où tu es, intercèdes pour moi. Mère nourricière de Jésus, vivant en servante que pour Lui, tu as accepté ton rôle avec humilité et détachement dans une espérance sans limite. Sous ton regard bienveillant,j’ai eu l’honneur d’etudier au college St. Mary’s. O Marie prie pour nous.