Went through Bengaluru and had a weird wait in the airport as I was working even there through Wi-fi... Grrrr... But it was definitely fun thanks to Vijay Mallya. But then, I met Raghu (my childhood pal) and dragged him along to Goa as well...
Landed in Goa and decided one thing. Our Govt does not know how to cash in on assets. Goa is almost like the tourist capital and the airport is a sad excuse for even a shack. All flights converge into that small place and dont even get me started on the baggage claim. "My bag finds me.... Finds me not.... finds me... finds me not..." (literally guys - so many baggages and only 1 belt)
From there, took a taxi ride to Dona Paula (a 40 minute journey) and saw BITS (Restecp... \m/) on the way. Got to the place and stayed at a bungalow (thats my future business plan - build bungalows in Goa and put em out for rent... 5 becomes 10... then 25... then 100 and then WORLD DOMINATION !!!) ahem.... um... where was I...?
Settled down with some Kingfishers and officially started my vacation (cant believe its already over.... Booo Hooo). By the time I was back in my senses, it was dinnertime. Went to Cid... Ceda... Dic... uuuuuggggghhhhhh CIDADE DEGOA...finally ! (Really Guys - thats really the name of the hotel). Had an 'awesome' dinner that was totally (not) worth the penny. Came back walking all the way (Burrrrrrppppppppp.... Oops excuse me !) and settled down with my beers again. Hehehe...
Next morning, me and Raghu rented an avenger (from which we literally squeezed every ounce of petrol... broke down soooo many times...) and went to BITS (freaking 30 kms in a place we dont know the head or tail of). Pretty much like an adventure. Went to drop off a laptop of a friend and boy was I choking on nostalgia. Damn College days - Zombie walk... Crap food... almost LIVING at the Department for Festival prep.... sober weekdays and drunk weekends... Gone are those days... Came back to the room and played Texas Holdem poker... Made a good win and then decided to watch (for the millionth time) Harold & Kumar (whitecastle)... Legend.....Dary !!!
Next morning, went for a ride on the 'Sea Princess'... Dont get too many ideas... It was a cruise...
Dolphin chasing... fishing... (actually caught a Dracula Fish...) Snorkelling... and finally goin crazy on the beach... while 'Bird watchin' (for all those people who think of the wrong definition, I aint responsible for your mistakes')
Got back and heard the news of (Boom Boom) Afridi trying to satisfy his insatiable hunger with the cricket ball. Yes... He tried to eat it...ALIVE !!! Lol... What have the days come to in PCB... They arent taking care of the players enough and so the players start eating cricket kits. Shame on ya guyz... Laughed my arse off till it literally hurt and I fell off the chair...
Caught the early morning (8 30 is early man.... Yaaaawwwnnnnnn) AIR INDIA flight (blessed with the last row seat) and now back at work (as they say... back to square A)...
All in all, a nice time-off from work and a good chance to catch up with friends... Now lemme get back to work and then criticize PCB and the Pak team more... MUAHAHAHAHAHA !!!
P.S. Photos will be up soon !
