Sachin Brojmohun on Blogshot With Kurt

Today is a very special Blogshot with Kurt episode! On the “plato” to shoot tonight is Sachin Brojmohun from Web Design Bureau of Mauritius dot com! This Blogshot interview is going to be special and you will see why as you read. Is it a coincidence that Sachin is to be interviewed today? Not really and even he didn’t thought about it. So let’s get going!

Leave your risk of being left alone, get your cup of happiness and throw away that dirty sock of pain to be washed and it is time for a Blog Shot. That’s the injection to spread some smile on your face and today we’ll be having Sachin as I said. So Sachin is a blogger since.. I don’t really remember when but I think he was here even before I started blogging. Today is a special day for him! Why? That’s the nice scalable question but let’s skip this for now and get on with a brief usual introduction of our guest tonight.

• Name: Sachin Brojmohun
• Nickname: Sachindb
• Blogs: Web Design Bureau Mauritius – Wait For It
• Gender: Male Evolved 2.0 Version
• Trap Status: Trapped in a nest called Marriage for the best and the worst.
• Intel Data: Our mad agents who went to spy on him told us that he is probably a much wanted leader of the South Polar Mafia as a secret photo sent to us by the CIA shows four different version of his face. A master at face changing to evade the chicken in uniforms. See below!

Ok time to get the the Blogshot itself. So welcome Sachin and here we start. Some of the questions in this blogshot can lead Sachin to big bedroom trouble with his wife and I put my disclaimer here. I am not liable to any kick and hit with a pan that Sachin can get with his wife for whatever question in this Blogshot

1. Sachin can you please introduce yourself in less than 123 words?

I first thought that I had to introduce myself in 1 or 2 or 3 words… This is starting on the bad side. Among all Mauritians I’m the “proudest monkey”, born in Cottage, raised in the sugar cane fields but ended up spending several years abroad and now living in the North of France since March 2009. I’ve got a passion for music and guitars that seems to put me on the verge of clinical disorder and all my cultural background is fed with fantasy books, comics, mangas and Victorian plays and literature. As a matter of fact I started a Masters degree in English literature but ended up in the Web design industry and darn I love this. Here, have a picture of my desk and you’ll understand, the critters at the far end are from comics and mangas, got the double screen extended high performance laptop great for designing and the MP3 player.

2. I heard you got married about one month or two months ago. Does the married life suck?

Dude, if I knew that married life sucked I wouldn’t have tried it in the first place! No, I’m lucky to have a great wife and we’ve been together for nearly 6 years, engaged and PACSed (French type of social contract giving you practically the same status as married) for nearly 3 years. We’ve had a mixed Indian/French marriage and are living a dream. The great thing for me is that she is really into Mauritian culture. She even cooks better briani than me! Well, I’ve tried once and got it burned.

3. What will happen if your wife learn that you kissed that chick in the metro the other day?

How come I’m always the last one informed about these things ? I just hope that she was a nice chick because she won’t be anymore once my wife tears her face apart. Do you watch “How I Met Your Mother” ? I’ve got the “Bro Code” at home and one of the rules is: Never stop a chick fight! So I’ll have to sit down and watch. Anybody got an iPhone I can borrow to film this?

4. I heard you are an atheist. But assume Satan exists (the goddamn idiot). What do you think should have been his last name?

L’habite, that would certainly be his name! Let me explain. There’s a French macho joke that goes like this:

Q: Quelle est le point commun entre l’enfer et la femme?
A: Satan l’habite (ça tend la bite).

5. Do you think Barrack Obama is the guy behind that SCAM GET A WHITE TEETH ads appearing everywhere on the web?

You must be considering my article on those scams. Do you think that Barrack Obama would be using a soccer mom really? I mean, his smile is enough for the picture but we do not have photos of his teeth before some whitening job.

This has just got the bolts running in my mind… should we start some real site flipping or scam on Obama + White Teeth? This would be called the Mauritian Scam and we’d be as popular as the Nigerian Scam!

Kurt: Hahaha! That will be a nice idea but we’ll get the President’s special black guys on our trail

6. If you are to visit your country of origin, that is Mauritius, will you take an airplane or a ship and why?

I’m seeing you coming round with your airplane trick. Yes I would take the plane, its a real pain actually. Its something like 12 hours flight back to Mauritius and that’s really long so no way for me to take a ship. This said, I know that the underlying intention of this question is that I have some inside info concerning Mauritians and the A380 Airbus. Yes, a Mauritian managed the team that built the A400M Airbus wingbox, the same technology and team have been used for the A380.

7. Do you think Mauritian Chicks (girls) are too hot compared to French chicks?

Hey there are hot girls everywhere in the world. I don’t think that countries or regions are a major element in all this. What you would consider exotic is not always the best way to see things. I’ve read somewhere that many Polish guys didn’t think that their blond women were that sexy nor was their Polish accent sexy simply because for them, their women are not exotic enough.

Now, I think that as time goes by it really takes life experience to see that being hot bodied is not necessarily depending on being Mauritian or French. There are hot chicks in Mauritius but the main problem is that they are not the ones you see in Miss Mauritius pageant!

Anyway I’m closely following Tushal’s geeky love affair with a hot chick on the UOM bus everyday. Then we’ll see to it that he makes a Mauritian “Couma monn zouaine torma” TV series (Creole version of TV series How I Met Your Mother) on a local channel.

Kurt: ROFL!!!! That will be a famous TV show indeed Hope Tushal is reading it.

8. Do you consider eyebrows as facial hair? Then why don’t you shave it?

Above, have a picture of the Usual Suspect, thats me in 4 different years. See photo number 2, that was some 7 years ago. Would you sit next to me in the bus if I shaved the eyebrows along with the rest?

Kurt: I think I’ll first say to you “WTF is the FCKN problem with your shaving session?” lol.

9. What is that thing which we often say to others to say that they are coward and foolish but yet men like them so much as it sort of gives them a feeling of being in heaven?

Well, you should add “[that thing] about their mother”. Ok, don’t insult mothers! I would say mine Apollo. When you “gently” say that someone is a coward or foolish here, you call them “nouille”. And everytime I go to Carrefour, I buy my packs of mine Apollo (yes people, Mine Appollo FTW, is sold at Carrefour in France for 0.90€ a pack). Even my wife has been converted to them. Everytime I take them I remember that ad:
Kid : Maaanzer la paaa bon.
Mum : Kit foi to ler enn mine.
Kid : Oui enn mine.

And hell yeah I feel like being in heaven when I’ve got my belly full of mine Apollo.

Kurt Answer: Mine Apollo is the best!! Here is a video about the answer I was looking for by the way

10. First thing that comes to your mind when you hear Island Crisis?

I know all about the photos you publish !

Ok, that was a private joke. The real thing that comes to my mind when I think about IC is the constant crisis! The Defi Media episode was a real hot one, there has been some Jedi lightsabres drawn out these last weeks on some other topics and some people always seem to have some grudge about what you publish. Constant crisis I say!

11. You are a web designer. A professional one. But if I tell you that many of those pretend to be SEO guru and web designs companies in Mauritius sucks like whores and even rob lots of their clients with the worst websites ever designed. On a scale of 10, how much do you agree with me?

Wow, I’m putting my head at stake in answering this question. I would go for something like 7/10 because I know the reality of the job. The first reactions other web designers have when reading the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius is that they feel like Sachin “li grand noir parski li travay deor“. I can’t tell you the number of times I got insulted because I have a critical look on Mauritian Web design.

There is a reason why:

Methodology. Project management and methodology are missing on web projects in Mauritius which explains the poor quality of a lot of sites. Another thing is the gathering of information. To be the best in a field you need to read and read more on the subject, evaluate risks and test everything. This is where you can get into competitivity and over the top. Its when you master all the fields in a website (from project on paper to return on investment) that you can win and make your clients win and no one has ever reached that degree of perfection.

Some companies are completely oblivious of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and I even doubt the knowledge of accessibility for some of them let alone solutions like microformats, sitemap protocols, page loading enhancement techniques or server side SEO. Just for the note, before I started publishing on the Bureau, most Mauritian Web design companies called SEO “referencing”!

The 3/10 missing is for the capacity of Mauritians to evolve, learn and do. We have a real talent in learning and getting OUR web to the next frontier and my dream is to see Mauritian companies turn into world-leading Web companies but the road is long and thorny.

12. Please give me 3 websites made in Mauritius which are the shame of the web. That is cheap, bad and unprofessional design and services.

1. Government of Mauritius (this one is a an insult to the whole nation)
2. DCDM
3. Kirole

However, if you want an unbelievable experience you can just go here.

13. A list of 7 cool websites/blogs that you never miss and you recommend to others?

Can I put Google Analytics and Google homepage in the list? On a more unserious level, these are my daily drugs:

http://www.mostinspired.com

http://ffffound.com

http://www.behance.net

http://www.seochat.com

http://mauritiusbloglist.blogspot.com/ ++ the updated articles here and there

http://latong.com/

http://www.twitter.com via Twhirl/Seesmic/Hootsuite

14. Be honest! Have you done it without a condom before marriage? (Disclaimer: I accept no liability for any blue eyes or kicking you might get for this answer).

Do what? Web designing? I never knew you had to wear a condom before doing it? What are the risks? Unwanted baby websites? STDs (Seriously Tasteless Designs)? AH1N1 flu? I said that I got insulted for criticizing Mauritian companies but if they need to send people to smash me to pieces for not building websites with condoms then I’m not the only weirdo in my world

Kurt: The question was about…Huh you know what but your answer is pretty hot. This shall be a good befitting answer to “some concerned persons”.

15. Ok. You are free… say whatever you want, swear at whoever you want and shout as much as you want in less than 250 words. It can also be “Je Passe”.

Haven’t I said enough already? Actually I might have one more thing to say. I evolve in niche blogging with the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius and I would like to commend Bruno Lebon for his entering the niche blogging world with his Physics and Maths oriented site and blog.

Another thing, I would recommend one of the next Blogshots to be on Rabin as he has things to say and is also in constant crisis with a lot of people

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Thank you for the participation Sachin. So that was the master of WDBM here on Blogshot tonight and as I said previously, this Blogshot is a bit special in the way that…today is… Sachin’s birthday! Well a Blogshot gift on his birthday is to ask all of you to wish the birthday guy below in the comment. Happy Birthday Buddy!

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