All Souls Day (Dia De Finados)

All Souls Day (Dia De Finados in Potuguese) which is related to the Halloween Day in America or Dia Dos Mortos in Mexico is celebrated all over Goa on Nov 2nd. It follows the All Saints day feast held on Nov 1st. People across Goa hold masses for their loved ones and others, praying safe passage to the eternal life in heaven. It is followed by the Alemacea Jevon.This practice is very similar to te one in Mexico and Brazil. In America it has evolved into what is now known has "Haloween" (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints' Day and the night before it called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween). No matter what is is called across the world, it brings people together. Alemachea festa porbi soglenk !.............

Please click on picture below to see pictures from across the world in celebration of this day

Californiangoans Vs Mexico Game III

The third game between the Californiangoans and Mexico ended up with Mexico winning the Game 2-1 .Gracian scored the goal for Califoriangoans.

Californiangoans Vs Mexico (Game II)

Game II between the Californiangoans and Mexico was held on Sept 28th.The game ended up in a tie, thanks to the equalizer goal by our star Graciano. The final score was Californiangoans 1-1 Mexico.

Californiangoans Vs Mexico

Californiangoans played Mexico on 7th Sept at the Rengstroff Park in Mountain View.
The game ended up in a tie, with Ruie scoring 2 goals for the Californiangoans. Hopefully with a little more practice we will beat them at the upcoming game.
Thanks to Franky Monteiro for making the game happen.

Californiangoans Harvest Festival And Sports Day 2009

Our First ever Harvest Festival & Sports Day was a huge success

Following are the winners of the different sports meets:

100 meters (Boys)

First Place-Selwyn

Second Place-Orlando

100 meters (Girls)

First Place-Rachel

Second Place-Sharon

300 meters relay (Team event)

Winners-Orlando/Frazier/Clifford

Needle and Thread

Winners-Joe/Clifford

3-Legged Race

Winners-Vincy/Franky

Housie (Bingo)

Jaldi 5-Siddhu

Horizontal line-Janice

Full House-Manuel

Volleyball

Winners-Carmo/Joe/Larry/Eusebio

Football

Winners-Joe/Pelsi/Caitano

Penalty

Winners-Carmo/Joe

Joe was awarded the Californiangoans Sportsman of the Year 2009 award.

Thanks to everyone who participated and all the people who were involved in making it a great event. Especially: For the delicious Patoyos by Maria M, Sharon and Janice. Thanks to George and gang, Carmo, Alldrin,Maria R, Maria M, Sharon, Janice for all the food . A big thanks to Savio for his help capturing the memories through his photography and thanks to Ruie and Firmino For being the MC's for thr event.

HARVEST FESTIVAL AND SPORTS DAY 2009

The Californiangoans Harvest festival and sports day will be held on August 17th at Rengstroff Park, Mountain View, Ca from 10am-8pm.

Most of the team events will be played in league format and will start 2 weeks before and the finals will be held on August 17th. Please register your team asap. Entry fee will be charged for only team events.

For details and to register call:

Joseph-5108255567

Carmo-5103007799

Ruie-5103005104

Savio-6507933224

Jose-4158190906

Phillip-5102091210

Franky-5108251883

Californiangoans San Joao 2009

San Joao Party 2009

The San Joao party held at Almaden Lake park turned out to be a huge success. Thanks to all the people who helped get the party together and to all who attended. With support like this, our parties will only get better!

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The day started with passing around of the San Joao crown followed by some tasty beef and fish appetizers cooked by chef Carmo Martin. Joseph Lourenco welcomed everyone before announcing the events of the day. Mr Savio Rodrigues read us a letter from Fr Daniel Pereira. Fr, Pereira helped us organize a mass in Konkani earlier in the year. Savio also brought life to the party by singing a few San Joao songs. He was joined by Johnny, Janice Lopes, Maria and Franky Monteiro, and Gracian and Sharron Esteves. Fnally a San Joao toast was made with Goan Feni and the party really kicked off.
Mr Firmino then took over to start the events for the day.

The first event for the day was a tug of war between the Bachelors and the Married Men. The Bachelors triumphed!

Mrs Harriette Pinto, Mr Sabino Colaco and Mr George Pires helped to judge our cooking contest which was next. The choice were difficult to make but we finally had our winners:

1st place- Maria Montiero( sorpotal)

2nd place- Maria Rodrigues(Shrimp caldin)

The next event for the evening was penalty kicks in which George Godinho and Rafael were the winners. George was also the first to score as well as the highest scorer.

The next event was one we all remembered, Needle and Thread, won by Franky Montiero and sharron Esteves
A round of housie provided with the following winners

Jaldi 5- Pelsi

Any line- Ligor

Full House-George

The main event for the evening, and the one we were all waiting for, was the Raffle! The winner were:
1st prize-Jaime Gomez(Raffle #0872) -42 inch LCD TV

2nd prize-Jackson D'souza (Raffle #0885) -Bose Home theatre system

3rd prize-Santosh walker (Raffle #0797) -Hp Laptop

4th prize-George Pinto (Raffle # 0145) -Sony Camcorder

Consolation 1-Janice Frois (Raffle #0862) -Digital Camera

Consolation 2-Jackson D'souza (Raffle #0952) -Ipod

Consolation 3-Phillip Lopes (Raffle #0491) - Tom Tom Navigator

Special thanks to:-

Firmino-for sponsoring raffle prizes

Franky & Maria montiero- For sponsoring cash prizes
George pinto- For the feni( What would San Joao be without the feni)

Harriette Pinto- For assisting in the judging
George Pires- For assisting in the judging.

Sabino - for making the San Joao crown and for assisting in the judging
Anoopam Bhatia- For Sponsoring drinks

Alldrin D'souza and Jimmy- For selling 14 and 11 raffle books each

Konkani Mass Held At Mountain View

A big thanks from the Californiangoans to Fr Daniel Pereira and everyone involved in organising a konkani mass at the Roman Catholic church in Mountain View, California.

SAN JOAO 2009

The Californiangoans 3rd annual "San Joao" party will be held on 24th June 2009 at the Almaden Lake Park, San Jose, Ca.
Event Timing:
11.00am-Late night

Event Highlights:
Raffle ticket Draw-
$10 per ticket
1st prize: 42inch flat screen tv
2nd prize: Bose home entertaiment system
3rd prize: Hp laptop
4th prize: Sony camcorder
Consolation prizes: Ipod, Camera, Tom Tom etc

Cooking competition-
One category (Main course )
No limit to number of entries
$10 entry for each dish
prizes for first and second place
Food will be judged on taste and authenticity
Final day to sign up and pay for your entry is June 15th

Tug of war-Five participants per team (Ladies encouraged to participate)
$10 entry per team($2 per head)

Threading the needle- Something for the ladies

Housie(Bingo)- Housie(Bingo) tickets will be sold at venue