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Friday, March 31, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Cyprian Fernandes: The Seraphino Antao family album, great pix
I am indebted to Joe and Rosario Antao for allowing me the use of these very special and rare photographs from the Seraphino Antao (Kenya's -- and Goa's -- great sprint champion, Commonwealth Games double sprint Gold Medallist) family album.
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Mombasa, Kenya: arguably three of the finest sprinters of all timehttps://1drv.ms/f/s!Ap1-nmy2_AnLlx62ZphvPrykqyndhighlight all and right click open link |
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Cyprian Fernandes an interview on journalism
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Cyprian Fernandes: Philip De Souza, Mr Music, any time, any where
Philip De Souza
Lead Guitarist

With the late Ramos Mascarenhas

With the late Ramos Mascarenhas

The String Beats with Henry Braganza

The String Beats Philip, Ramos and Peter Santimano

The String Beats with Henry Braganza

The String Beats Philip, Ramos and Peter Santimano
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Cyprian Fernandes: 100,000 hits on my blog: Thanks for keeping me a little sane!
100,000 hits on my blog
In my wildest dreams, I
could not have imagined that the readers of my blog would take to the high
peaks of a 100,000 hits. In fact, when I started the blog that was the furthest
thing on my mind. I would have been happy if one or two friends had read it and
joined me on my therapeutic journey.
I am very grateful and
humbled at the same time. As I said, I did not have any lofty ideas for the
blog. The years after 2007 had been pretty rough, only I did not know it. When my
GP told me I was depressed I almost fell out of my chair. I thought he was
joking … but no, he insisted I go and visit a psychologist and a psychiatrist.
I could not understand it, so I went to try and find some answers.
After my first visit to the
psychologist, I hit the research button on Google and spent quite a lot of time
understand anxiety and depression. One of the things I learned was that my
downside could as a result of negative thoughts and concerns swimming in my
head (I am not being clinically correct here) and I had develop positive
drivers to chase the bad thoughts away.
At the end of my first visit
to the psychiatrist, he asked me what I liked doing best: Writing, I told him.
So start writing, he said. Hence, the birth of the blog which eventually led to
the publication of my debut novel Yesterday in Paradise.
So you can see that many of
you have had a very positive role to play in my life. Thank you. Once I finish
the East African musicians series, I guess it will be time to slow down a bit.
Don’t know, let’s see what tomorrow brings.
God bless.
PS: Fortunately, I only
needed three weeks each with the psychologist and psychiatrist.
Cyprian Fernandes: Richard Rattos: The Drifters
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Michael Rattos, Clifton Carrasco, Richard Rattos, Magnus Fernandes, later Eddie Rattos took over the drums |
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