10: Wonderful Memories

            "We song many sangs", these were the words spoken out by an excited Nandhan as we were on the way back to Bangalore. The spoonerism exhibited by Nandhan was just an example to illustrate how excited we were on the trip.

            Joey surely did have an unforgettable experience. We kept pulling his leg all throughout for the act of his. Feel sorry for him at times, but whatever, we had fun.

            We had a dinner at a famous restaurant back in Goa. Some choose to sit at the section where they serve meat while the rest along with me and Joey where seated at the vegetarian section. Joey is a tall and a thin guy with very sharp features. Even a hot model would get jealous of his outstanding figure :). He weighed a mere 111 pounds. So the obvious thing was, we would advise him to eat lot of food and not to starve. Joey always retaliated saying he had a better appetite then most of us. I don't think he had it, but he kept talking about it and until proven we could neither deny nor accept it. So we would just smile off and listen to him. But that night things changed. Each of us ordered a meal. Joey looked like he was enjoying the food. It was really delicious.

            As were walking out of the hotel,

Joey asked, "Isn't the food tasty?"

I replied, "Yes, it is awesome"

Joey: "Oh Shit! Hold on, I have to puke".

            Joey rushed into the restroom and puked the entire meal out. I was worried. He seemed fine. I assumed it was food poisoning or if there was something in the meal that put him off. After he recovered, I asked him what he thought was the cause of vomiting. He replied, “I think I ate more than what I could”.

            We didn't care if it was offensive towards Joey, but from that day whenever we offered food to Joey our next statement would be, you should have guessed by now, "Make sure you don't eat much or else you will vomit." I pulled his leg throughout the journey and I guess even to this day we do it. He keeps arguing that it was a one off incident and nothing much should be derived out of it. And what do we do? just ignore him and continue pulling his leg :).

            So this way the puking act of Joey, the embarrassment Arjun faced at the hands of the Eunuchs, Chetan's legendary dialogue, "I swear, I will kill that boy", the uncontrollable excitement exhibited by Nandhan, the hilarious game of Rammi, all gave us lot of moments which will be cherished forever.

            The trip of Goa was one of the first trips I took with my friends. It was filled with lot of wonderful and golden moments which are etched in my mind forever. No matter where I or my friends end up, when we look back at the trip, we sure will have a smile on our face.

9: Who was she staring at?

"She is staring at me", Abishek said

"Nin mukha ge, ashtondu scene illa", Arjun replied.

(Literal translation: Your face, not that much scene :). The meaning: She can do much better than your face.)

            Nandhan interfered and said, "Dude, I think she is staring at me". Chetan and I burst out of laughing. This was the condition the guys were in.

            Out of all the beautiful damsels, one of them seemed like she was staring at one of the guys from our group. The argument, “whom was she staring at?” We still do not know the answer to that question even to this day. Everyone felt like she was staring at them, it was not like they would go and ask her out. None of them had the guts to do it, but some sort of childish satisfaction that a hot chick is staring at them. We argued on and on for the next couple of hours. At the end of the argument, each one believed that she was staring at him. That made all of us happy, so we stuck to that thought.

            That night we ended up coming home tired and hungry. We quickly gobbled up some food and were all ready for a game of cards. We played the 13 card game also known as "Rammi". The concept of the game is that, one needs to make sure that all the 13 cards given to him are in a set. A set consists of minimum 3 cards. Two kinds of sets are compulsory, a sequence where one needs to have a minimum of 3 consecutive rank cards with the same suit and a triplet which consists of at least three same rank cards with unique suit on each of them. The player had the freedom to arrange the remaining 7 cards either as a triplet or as a sequence. In order to view the joker which is chosen randomly for each game, a player needs to show a legal sequence to other players thus giving him the right to view the joker. Without this sequence a player cannot proceed to make the other sets.

            There are always some characters in a group to whom you narrate an entire story and they bamboozle with you with such dumb and basic questions that you feel like just landing a punch on them. It’s like you narrate the entire Trojan war at the end of which he/she asks you questions like, who is Achilles? Or who is Helen?

            As I was aware of the game rules, I explained it to all the guys who didn't know the rules of the game. All the guys listened to all the rules with a lot of concentration and we began the game. We were 5 minutes into the game and Abishek with a certain assertiveness said, "I wish to see the joker!" I was impressed as it was his first game and he got the hang of it real soon. So I asked him to flash the cards to cross check if it was a legal set. When he flashed the cards, I was dumbfounded and perplexed. I came out of it only when Nandhan spit out the water from his mouth unable to control the hilariousness of the moment. :) :).

            Abishek flashed a "hybrid" of sets, a sequence and triplet. Instead of flashing three consecutive ranks with the same suits, he ended up with three consecutive ranks with all different suits. We were all rolling on the floor laughing at this unique set created by Abishek and took quite some time to recover from it. Abishek was quite embarrassed  but he was a real good sport. He just laughed it away and gave us 10 minutes of rib ticking laughter by the act of his.

8: Arrival at Goa

I received a good morning message from Aksha at 6 AM in the morning. I had been messaging Aksha throughout the journey ignoring the fact that SMS in roaming cost me a fortune. But at that point of time, I was in "love" and love has no barriers my friend. I just kept messaging on and on ignoring the factor called money. In middle of exchanging the good morning kisses, we reached Goa. Woke up everyone and we quickly packed up our things and got down from the train. Joe's father came to pick us up. All the guys could not fit in the car, so his dad had to make two trips to the railway station.

            We were very excited to be at Goa, the idea of beach filled our minds with excitement. I was expecting a beach as soon as I arrived at the station, how foolish of me! We all freshened up at Joe's place, nothing better than a hot cup of Boost :) in the morning. We were all set to hit the beach, but we had no idea how. So we set up a package tour for the first few days so that, we get an idea of the entire city. Our idea was then to pick out the best places and head there by ourselves. We traveled the entire city in a mini bus, accompanied by few more people in the mini bus. 

            The weather at Goa was very humid, it was a rude change in the weather for us when compared to Bangalore, and so we were profusely sweating. In spite of that we visited couple of beaches, the famous Anjana beach and the Calingut beach. These were the beaches where most of the holiday crowd flocked to. Apart from the beaches, we visited couple of holy places. You must be wondering, what the hell are these guys doing? Holy places in the city, which is full of beaches and semi naked chicks, not to mention the amazing sea food!! I don't know, even to this day I don't get it, why did we go to holy places?

            Our first lunch at Goa was just simply outstanding. The spicy shrimp tasted just perfect. The thought of the food makes my mouth waster even to this day. The guide in the tour explained to us the prominence of the places in Goa. It was interesting in the beginning, but became a drag later on. Adding to that, there was some really stupid song playing in the background.. Goa..Goa..Margoa..some shit like that. It was really bad and to top that the same song was played again and again!!

            The first couple of days were interesting, we had covered a lot of places and got a feel of the Goa city. One fine evening, we headed off for a cruise. It was my first time on a cruise, so didn't know what to expect. There was some sort of a dance show on the cruise, where a lot of beautiful damsels danced to the local tunes, these tunes didn't sound as bad as that Goa song, as my eyes were fixed on their beauty. After the dance show they invited the audience to join them for a dance. Abishek was quite upbeat about it, after a little push from us, Abishek and Nandhan joined them on the stage for a couple of nice dance moves. By the way I am a terrible dancer, I am better off dancing when I am drunk, as my stupid moves can be attributed to my drunken state rather than the fact that I dance horrible.