Yashvin, pages of my life » APM http://www.yashvinblogs.com Its all about me and my life... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:59:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Price of Petrol (May 2010)http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-may-2010/ http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-may-2010/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 17:09:47 +0000 Yashvin http://www.yashvinblogs.com/?p=4760

Yes, it followed the “yoyo” trend, i.e. going up and down every month…

The price of petroleum products for the month of May 2010 are

L’essence :Rs 46.65/L -> Rs 43.15/L (-Rs3.50/L)

Diesel : Rs 34.40/L – Rs 36.95/L  (+Rs2.55/L)

The monthly review of prices has been carried out much later than usual because of the general elections held on the 5th May 2010.

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I thought that both prices will remain unchanged this month :(

L’essence : Rs 43.40/L ->Rs 46.65/L

Diesel : Rs 34.40/L – Unchanged

Here’s the graph from yashvinblogs :

I bet that the next review of prices on 2nd or 3rd May 2010 will be either a decrease or unchanged for both essence n diesel :-)

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petrol march 2010

Announced a few minutes ago :

L’essence : Rs 43.40/L – Unchanged!

Diesel : Rs 32.65/L – Increased to Rs34.40/L

Big thanks to Tushal (mentioned his name to get comments n give him credits) but also to l’express :P (yeah, they do publish true news too, mostly :P )

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prix

L’essence : Rs 40.40/L. Rs 43.40/L.
Diesel : Rs 32.65/L -  Unchanged

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Sorry for being late to post the first price update for the year 2010.

I just learnt that price of L’essence has dropped while that of diesel remained the same.

They are as follows :

L’essence : Rs 41.65/L – > Rs 40.40/L.
Diesel : Rs 32.65/L

Good nite everyone!

I will never be able to understand the logic used by the APM ;

While the price of petrol is on the rise worldwide, they are decreasing it in Mauritius. And its true the other way round too!

Enfin, pas p plaigner :P Just a small comment!

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petrol-dec-2009

The monthly “rendez vous” on yashvinblogs.com :

Essence : Rs 38.75/L to Rs41. 65/L
Diesel : Rs 35.25/L to Rs32.65/L

Mauriciens ine vine kouma dir YOYO dans sa pays la pfff!

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]]> http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-dec-2009/feed/ 6 Rise and fall in the Price of Petrol (Nov 2009)http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-november-2009/ http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-november-2009/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:28:22 +0000 Yashvin http://www.yashvinblogs.com/?p=3691

New prices of Petroleum Products :

Essence : Rs 41.85/L -> Rs 38.75/L ( – Rs3.10)
Diesel : Rs 35.25/L – Unchanged

Do you still remember this song of Craig David – “Rise and Fall” ?

rise and fall

That title can be used to describe the trend for the price of petrol in Mauritius.

But there is simply no logic in this monthly review of prices! Personally, I was awaiting a small increase since the trend since the last month was Rise – Fall – Rise – Fall….

Finally the head of the STC simply remains away from the media when he has to explain for the high price of Petroleum Products in the island compared to the worldwide price.

Anyway, I can’t complain about the decrease in the price of petrol (Essence) for this month but nothing is predictable with the State Trading Cooperation.

As I said on Twitter, there will definitely be an increase in the number of vehicles on our roads as from tomorrow…

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After the Rs3.15 increase in price of Petrol and Rs2.65 increase in that of Diesel for the month of September, the Automatic Pricing Mechanism has reviewed the price tonight, which are as follows :

Essence : Rs 41.85 (Rs-3.35 )
Diesel :  Rs 35.25  (Rs-2.85 )

Damn it! I have just half filled my car fuel tank this evening pfff!

And since a few weeks, I am now a regular customer at Total, mainly because of their new lottery ticket :P

Total Tap Plein!

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]]> http://www.yashvinblogs.com/price-of-petrol-october-2009/feed/ 9 G-Mauritius : 2 wonderful days with Google!http://www.yashvinblogs.com/g-mauritius/ http://www.yashvinblogs.com/g-mauritius/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:58:46 +0000 Yashvin http://www.yashvinblogs.com/?p=3279

First of all, mille excuses!

Unfortunately I have not been able to blog the monthly price update of the Petroleum products on the 2nd September 2009. I was surprised by the number of people who told me “To pane blog lo prix l’essence!”. I did not even know that some people did notice that missing post.

The main reason behind my absence in the blogosphere (though only a few days) was the lack of time because of work commitment. Today, after nearly 1 week, I ate dinner at home!

So, here’s the price update for the month of September 2009 :P

Essence : Rs42.05 to Rs 45.20 (+Rs 3.15)

Diesel : Rs 35.45 to Rs 38.10 (+Rs 2.65)

G-Mauritius Day 2009

Gmauritius

Let’s come to the live of the subject of today, which I am sure many are eagerly waiting to read my review.

As you (perhaps) already know, G-Mauritius Day 2009 was a 2 days event during which Google Engineers shared some of the invaluable knowledge to some 100 Mauritians. This initiative, a first in the African continent, was truly a success, and the Board of Investment can be really proud for making this a reality. Hats off to the whole team, you were wonderful!

The Google Mauritius family

The Google Mauritius family (Click to enlarge)

During the last 2 days, there was a wide exposure of Google products and technologies to the participants, including live demos. It was really nice to interact with the Google Team (Sasha, Ade, Julian, Chewy and Mary)  who work in Google offices located in different parts of the world.

Day 1 was mainly aimed to software developers, since most of it was technical. Google Maps, Google API, Google Web Toolkit were some of the topics. I even felt lost a few times!

Inside the Conference room

Shah did take nice shots with his camera. He is truly a twitter addict, and I experienced that live while sitting besides him on Day 1.

 

The first day ended with a very nice Cocktail Party at Four Points which started at about 7pm. What time it ended? I dont really know since I had to leave the party at 9pm to go to work (yeah!) but the BOI team left the hotel after midnight!

Google party

Wonderful shot on Fadilfr flickr.

 

BOI made a great surprise to the Google Team for the 11th Anniversary of Google (which falls today!)

Google Cutting Cake

Neodil was lucky to get such a nice picture of Mary (Google) cutting the birthday cake in the presence of the Finance Minister.

yashvin ashesh dilraj

Dilraj,me and Ashesh | Eating my Google Cake! | Google team

Day 2 was much lighter and allowed us to discover Google tools to improve your business online. Most of us were amazed by the wonderful tools (Google Analytics, Adwords, Google Webmaster Central among others) and their results!

Nevertheless, tweeps did catch someone sleeping today! lol

Conference room

Laptops were made available to all the participants.

Indeed, G-Mauritius is was a heaven for Twitter users and bloggers. The event gave the opportunity to the virtual friends to meet in real. It was really cool to meet and discover the people behind some blogs and twitter accounts.

Truly a small bloggers’ event : Ashesh, Ashvin, Avinash, Dilraj, Jevin, Kailash, Shah and Sou (Did I miss someone?). During these 2 days, Mauritian tweeps present at the event kept writing and discussing live during the presentation sessions.

Google gifts….

Google Tshirts, Google 2 GB Pendrive (Real pen + the  usb drive lol), nice Google File + the loads of cakes, snacks offered by BOI during tea and lunch breaks.

Gifts

Ahhhh! I can already feel that a few people are being jealous :P

What could have been done better?

Generally, there’s always some room for improvement, but I am sure most of the participants will agree:

  • A decent internet connectivity!However on hearing the provider’s name, I told to myself “La queue lichien pas cpv faire vine droite!”
  • haha, and another great party for the Day 2 lol ! :P

These 2 days were simply great and I feel really proud to say that I was at the G-Mauritius Day!

In a few words, I would describe it as an wonderful enriching knowledge sharing social event!

Were you there? Do you regret for not being there? Do discuss and Share!

Useful links :

Pictures available at

Other bloggers’ review :

It is exactly midnight, time to publish the article!

Have a nice Weekend Everyone!

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Perhaps you have already read it somewhere else, here are the latest prices for the month of August :

DIESEL : Rs38.30/L -> Rs35.45/L ( – Rs 2.85 )

ESSENCE : Rs 45.45/L -> Rs42.05/L ( – Rs3.40 )

Ouf…. imper soulagement pu poche…

Awaiting to hear that director of the STC to appraise himself and his team for the excellent job they have been doing and thus succeeding to bring down the price when petrol is being sold at higher prices around the world *cough* *cough*

The future?

I really think that it’s high time for us to start using these type of vehicles :

new vehicle

I have forgotten the name, but it starts with “S” I think. Can someone help please?

Its a Segway!

No Accidents, No Fuels, No Traffic jams… Only bigger belly for all of us :P

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