Tag: Goa

  • Goa

    is a state…
    of mind… :))))))

    until next time, < /vacation >

  • Bin Tere kya New Year plans?

    If you are planning to bring in the new year in Goa
    You might wanna think it over
    For Israel says Al Qaeda would also like to have a blast
    And if you go by stories from the past
    It aint exactly a champagne supernova

    until next time, whoa!!

  • Go Ah!!!

    Yup, thats exactly what you do when you are in Goa… after 4 long years, i finally made the trip.. to the place where i spent the 2 best years of my life… and i can safely say, discovered severals facets of myself… and so it was a trip i was looking forward to… not just for the sun and the sand and the way of life, but also a trip to my alma mater…… and discovered that things had changed, in Goa as well as at the insti.. the people, mercifully hadnt changed, still lazy as can humanly be, oh i love them for it… :).
    i saw an excellent campaign by a liquor brand -Arlem, i think the name was, which hit the nail on thehead. it said ‘Its Goa…chilled’ but some of the places had changed… Panjim, for example, had 2 Coffee Day outlets and an Inox… the time i left Goa, a Barista had opened in Panjim, but there is no trace of it now…
    and there had been 2 theatres in Panjim which were reasonable, Samrat & Ashok, i bet they must be having a tough time now…
    the ‘kingfisher’ neon that was a landmark is now joined by Airtel and RIM… there is a bridge to Arambol instead of the ferry, so yeah, things have indeed changed…
    All the students at the insti now have laptops and cellphones.. in the three batches that i have seen there (1 senior, ours and 1 junior) only one person had a laptop and a mobile phone (the first in our senior batch and the second in our batch).. so the students dont speak much to the faculty, they call them or mail them… and there are no messages on paper, they have (i guess)e-chits…the beaches are there, so are the firangs, and the view from Chapora, and Titos, and the Mandovi still flows silently..but like everything else everywhere, the winds of change keep blowing…and like all the other pieces in my memory, the one about Goa is also frozen at the time i loved it best..
    until next time, keep the change…

  • Hot and Happening

    A hiatus for a week.. from most of everything familiar and routine.. work, bangalore, blog, mobile and so on.. and while the first three happened by design, the last one was (i guess) His version of ‘Take 3 get one free’.. while i was crossing a little ford on palolem beach, i happened to forget that my mobile was in my pocket and that it was allergic to sea water..:) and thats how i got a hiatus from ringtones and messages…
    The ‘Hot’ comes from the fact that Goa was really hot… and the ‘Happening’ from life per se..a really happening week, the first two days were part of the first proper vacation i have taken in 3 years (no, going home is not exactly vacation), i took up a job offer in the middle of the week (again after 3 years) and shifted house (no surprises, again after 3 years) 🙂 And that, i guess, is why ‘The Byrds’ have sung
    For everything turn turn turn
    There is a season turn turn turn

    until next time, wonder whats around the next turn….

  • UnWind Biking

    Most of these posts are born when i am riding back home, its a good time to unwind… theres such a lot of ‘watchable’ things happening around – traffic snarls, people’s expressions, battles for the space ahead which finally become ego battles and possibly accidents, people trying to reach home as fast as they can..theres something about getting back home after work that makes the entire day worthwhile 🙂
    more often than not the ‘wind in the face’ feeling takes me back around a couple of years…. to Goa…. 2 years of business management and pleasure…hehe… we had a causeway near the insti (short for Goa Institute of Management 🙂 ), and almost every other day, we used to go for drives, to crib about classes and assignments and tests, to trade gossip, to check out the movies in Panjim, to visit Dona Paula, ‘the cross’ and ‘governor’s point’, to ogle the firangs, to plan weekend trips to colva, palolem, anjuna, calangute, baga, vagator (and the chapora fort, made famous in DCH?), arambol…to chaat near miramar, to chat about life after the insti and after Goa, but mostly to enjoy the ‘wind on the face ‘ feeling…
    but before the jpeg with the hunk on a chopper design bike, reality check says i fail on both counts..hehe, neither a hunk nor have a bike bike, its a kiney, which evaded police in goa for two years (i didnt have a license and it had a kerala registration, so the cops loved it..hehe)..oh no, the skeletons are tumbling out…so i’d better stop…but yeah, i have to write at least a couple of posts about those two years…there are tales and there are tales….for me, my life in goa is best captured by Floyd’s “high hopes”..
    unfortunately, have had to bunk all my alumni meets except one… something like lucky ali’s lyrics -“pehle fursat thi, ab hasrat hain samaakar, ek aisi uljhan hai meri……” 🙁
    meanwhile, these days, with the rains in bangalore, theres another kind of UnWind biking … if you have seen the bajaj ad – a fully dressed guy getting in the shower, getting out all wet, then riding on the bike, dripping all the while, and coz of the bike speed , the clothes are dry, except for the butt, coz its resting on the seat..they call it wind biking… now, because of the rains , while i ride back, all of me gets wet except for the butt, so i call it UnWind Biking !! …..
    and in
    manuscrypts trivia
    Just to prove that some things never work 100%.
    Go to language tools on google, type in “my mom is nice and cool.” and convert it from English to Spanish.
    Then copy & paste the answer into the translate box and convert from Spanish back to English.
    and seen outside a secondhand shop : WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING – BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?