Sep 30- GOA Day 4

So the ppl from Chennai reached the resort finally. We had only 4 bikes with us at that time. And now the total no of ppl turned out to be 11. Our resort was just a 10 min travel to baga beach. Now the Get together really started. Hugging ppl and exchanging greetings. The weather was cool with slight drizzles. But once these guys arrived, it started raining badly. Got into a sea face restaurant. Then the boozing session started. Meanwhile bala and stalin were on their way to Goa. The boozing+chatting+eating continued till 1 o clock. And the other 2 from banglore joined. They successfully reached Goa without any mishaps. Thanks to them. We were 14 of us from then on including KR who supposed to arrive the next day. Lots of Tuborg, Budweiser, KF, tequilas, and chicken, eggs, started flying across the tables. Ya , there were some veg Manchurian, mushroom Manchurian, panneer Manchurian ! Haha. Sad u veg guys ! . Stalin and Bala joined the dinner finally and ate the stuff we ordered for them and kept it safely in the vault. Then we rushed to the resort without getting drenched much.

Sep 30:

Now the fun starts.
Not everyone in our group knows hindi. And even whoever speaks hindi, struggle a lot in it. So during the whole dinner session, the ordering of food goes like this. Some one used to order the stuff to the person who knows hindi, and he in turn, places that order to the waiter. Lol. I had been to Goa couple of times and I know how the cops try to get money from ppl. I found they charged a person for drunk and drive. Come on.. Do they expect ppl come to goa for visiting temples !???. Sick!! Since we were 13 in number over there and we had only 5 bikes parked in the beach. We decided to take turns , dropping ppl at the resort and come back to beach to collect others. G.Rajesh Menon ( whom we call G, and will be called as G from now on in this blog ) took control of FZ. Bike riding is not a new thing to our fellas. These ppl were the one to get bikes during the college’s final year and thrashing and Vroooming all around the campus. So they just took control of each bike, saddled properly and ready to ride. After all, its Goa, wats the freaking use if u don’t ride a bike here.

Recap ...in Trichy:
Coming to the biking skills, we have a very very notorious person called Mr.Nattu (Nataraj). He is known for his story of getting caught by the traffic cops all the time during college days. We , sometimes call him ‘vibrator’ coz his whole body starts vibrating when he witness a cop even though he carries the driving license with him. Nattu, please don’t take hard huh ! ?.
I shal tell once incident about his brave endeavors. Once he was on the way to college and he was asked to pullover his bike by the cops near BHEL. Our lovable nattu didn carry his license with him and then he didn have cash also with him. The cops asked him to show the license and the other documents. Our hero is caught. But still as every1 does, he pretended to chk his purse and then the little pouch on the petrol tank. The cops knew this guy not carrying anything. But still they waited with a grim face so that they can get a lump sum from him. Suddenly Nattu drew a paper from that petrol tank pouch and showed it to the cop. It was nothing but the third cycle test paper having marks as ‘zero’ carved on it. The cop looked at him and showed that its Zero marks. LOL. Then nattu tried to persuade the cop but in vain. Finally the cop budged an inch from his stands and asked him..how much money he had. He opened his wallet and told “just 5 rupee”, showing a round 5 rupee coin. This made the cop piss off more. After a 15 mins of wait and showing all the seasons on his face (spring, autumn, winter, hot summer ) , the cop let him go. By the way, the cop managed to grab that five rupee also from him !!

The bike incident:

So lets come from trichy to Goa now. Yeah So we were going back to the resort. While on the go , I found traffic cops were on their midnight rounds . Natraj obviously forgot to take his license with him. G too didn carry his license. But still we didn show any sign of it and we moved peacefully, overtaking the cops' bike. But still to confirm whether everyone left without getting caught by the cops, me and G waited at baga circle to give a go ahead signal to our bikes following. We waved our hands to all saying ‘Everything is fine.. just go to the resort soon’ to the bikes followed us. The cops also went passing us. But we remained calm. Now the ultimate thing happened. Nattu and Kako ( Karthik mech) came in a pulsor. On seeing us, Nattu with an overwhelming joy…shouted “Hey guysssss… Why are u waiting… ?? come onnnnnnnnn !!!’ . Traffic cops saw this and they asked nattu to stop the bike. I asked G to leave this place immediately since he also didn carry a license and better not to get caught. I asked him to ride real fast and to handover the bike to me since I was carrying the license with me. Like a crew waiting for the command, G started the bike in full throttle and we were rushing on the empty road. Then I told him to stop and hand over the bike to me. Suddenly We saw a pulsor going damn fast not even caring about the road rumblers. G looked at that and told..’hey its nattu man!.. He didn stop when the cops asked to !’. LOL. Now the problem is really fishy. We followed nattu’s bike.

Nattu’s story angle: CRIME:What happened?
KUTTRAM: NADANTHATHU ENNA ?

After nattu screaming to us in the baga circle, the cops asked him to pull over the bike. Kako suddenly got an american accent and told nattu ' Hey cops da... Stop the bike !'. Then the vibrator started , but he immediately put his wagon on roll, out speeding the cops’ bike. He didn see us waiting for them . But G noticed him. Then he was just heading nowhere putting the bike in full speed. On the go , he saw a headlight in his rear mirror. Then he asked Kako to turn back to chk out who was following them. Now the first joke of the trip emerged. Kako at his best again. When nattu asked to chk who is following , Kako immediately , “ Hey, if I turn back , they will spot my face and they will track me , catch me and screw me !” . So funny. Poor nattu scolding kako , in his mind just didn have any option other than travel one more KM in full speed ?. The Headlight who followed their bike was none but me and G, trying to help them. We reached the resort and made a call to nattu. He finally came to the resort later after 10 mins. Then we started mocking Kako as usual. Nattu mocked at kako’s justification on not turning back and looking when he asked him to. Nattu told kako that the cops could easily track him using the sleeveless jockey he worn on that day .. Hahahah.. this kinda jokes happens only when we are in a group. Then we went to the beach again to collect the remaining ppl , shared the stories with them and then came back finally by 3 o clock. Transferred the photos taken to the laptop. Had chat session till 4 o clock.


Morning started at 11 o clock. Everyone was very eager to get into the beach. But there were restrictions everywhere and getting into water was prohibited due to the heavy rains. There were many red flags on the beach. Candolim beach is just 160 mtrs from the resort we stayed. So we made a plan to visit the beach after Brunch. After having food , and a 5 mins of walk from the resort, reached the beach. The beach looked so good and the waves were scaring too. The sea was totally rough and gave a ‘F*** OFF’ to all the water sports on the beach. Machan (Rajkumar) brought a football and Stalin took a Frisbee along with him. It was drizzling. We played some thing and it started to pour. Rain again !!. Ppl started accusing me , the official goa guide for the trip :P. Then we returned to the resort and got asylum to the swimming pool. Its just a 10 ft long pool. Having just 5 ft depth. But still , ppl on seeing it, started jumping in it and we took an yellow smiley ball and started to play. Now Mr. KR was on the way to Goa,. He made a call to Jack, the ripper (Senthil) and told that he was in Madgoan and asked us to tell the directions to reach the resort. Jack replied immediately, ‘Hey why u in Madgoan ?, come to goa and call us ‘. Lol. ! Amidst his urgency to get the directions , he made senthil to understand that madgaon is a part of Goa. Hahaha. We told many directions to him and also told him that we all in swimming pool now with beer in hands ?. KR asked us to remain there in the pool itself till he comes. But he arrived very late around 4 o clock. Me and bala went to pick him up and took him to the resort.

The Swimming pool :
The only entertainment in that rain. No rough waters. Nothing. Just get into it and have some swim like kid…coz its just 10ft long pool ?. Machan came with a silicon head cover …fully prepared. During the pool time, many funny things happened like switching between the sides like tennis match, Umpire crossing – G suddenly dives into the pool after having beer and do 2 laps ?. Lol. After around 3-4 hrs of so called swim in the pool, we saved our pool memories in the form of videos and photos. That was really a great day. We booked 5 rooms. Each shared by 3. But still the same Pearl hostel atmos was maintained. Suddenly 10 ppl barging into a single room and chat till 5 A.M. No one stayed alone in his room. Honestly I wud say..its really tough to organize and mobilze 14 ppl who got scattered across the country, rescheduling their leave plans , sacrificing diwali leaves etc…just for this get2gdr to happen successfully. Khudos to all the ppl.

KR , the last person to join. His story was very bad. He booked his ticket from telugu desam to goa couple of months back. It was on WL 1. And still, it remained WL 1 till the D-day . Hahaha. He managed to talk to TTR and got a berth in the SLEEPER and reached goa. Couple of my friends brought laptops and the internet USB tablets to do WFH. Sorry WFG . Work form Goa ?. Highly dedicated ppl .. hahaha.

The dinner session continues in the next blog...

Goa - Day1,2,3

Ok ppl... Yet another blogger.

I am not good in story telling.. but I shall try..

Please forgive me incase any errors in my English.

Ok here we go(a) !!.

Get together- Its really sweet to hear. Yes we had lotsa get togethers. Mostly in banglore. People who got scattered widely in different parts of india used to come to this place and have a 3 days of chilling time with friends. This time we planned it for a place which can be at the center point of india so that everyone can move their ass out and travel to reach. Several places came into mind as flashing images.. kulu manali, shimla, north east, himalyas..etc. Finally we ended up zeroing Goa. Since then we faced several problems till the D-day. Yeah..swine flu scare followed by intermittent rainfalls. Some booked the tickets already and they were so enthusiastic to head for the trip. And it started after many mail exchanges and conf calls . Thanks to sabsebolo.com :)

The Goa vacation plan is from Sep 27 - Oct 4. One whole week. Sounding crazy.. Isn't it?. For my friend bala it started on sep 25th night itself. He started to banglore riding his Thunderbird and from there he joined with Stalin and both them had a nice adventurous bike trip all the way to goa. Man ! these guys are insane !! . I landed in Goa on Sep 27th morning. Madgoan station. It was pricking hot and yeah...there were hot foreigners too :P. I was there in the station , getting my phone charged and waiting for delhi wallas - Cecil and Arun. Their flight supposed to be arriving at 2 o clock. Meanwhile chennai members reached banglore and started boozing session already. They had to reach Goa on tuesday evening accompanied by banglore guys. Goa is just 10 hrs from bombay. So i left on 26 th night itself....having in mind not to waste anymore hols.

So i waited till 3 'o clock. Those delhi wallas turned up . I bought a Goa map and was chking out the routes to all the places to be never missed at all. Our plan was to hire 2 bikes and cross the goa border and reach Jog falls monday morning. But to our dismay, we didn get any bike which can cross goa border. We roamed for one hour to get bikes. Our trip starts here it self. We went to benaulim beach , Colva beach , chking for bikes. Finally, with great dilemma , we ended up taking a car ( ZEN ESTILO ) and heading towards Palolem. We started in the late evening..

It was a 1:30 hrs car ride to reach palolem. Thanks to Cecil, who drove the car throughout.

As soon as we reached Palolem, we booked a room for accommodation and headed towards the beach. Palaolem is one of the beautiful beaches in Goa...yeah to the saying, it got lotsa foreigners too. They really outnumbered Indian tourists. We sat in a shack.. had our dinner and then sat along the beach for sometime and then left for the room.

Day 2:

The next day we went to the beach side for breakfast, then we completely dropped the plan of going to karnataka. We had a walk along the beach.So we headed towards a waterfall called DUDHSAGAR. I will say that South Goa seriously suck in directions. No sign board anywhere.. Getting routes from the localites and we moved on. Goan ppl are really warm and they helped us a lot. We reached a spot in the afternoon, where they told only bikes can use the mountain roads from there on. And moreover..no individual biking. So we 3 took 3 bikes with pilots in each. The ride was really scary. It took 1 hour to reach the base of the falls. Throughout the ride , there was no specific road all. We were riding on tyre sized footpath at the sides of the konkan railway track. Maximum speed is 10 Kmph. Only on first gear :P . Throughout the ride , the pilot was telling stories. And he also warned that if it starts raining ,the ride will become a mess and difficult to return. It was like getting into jurassic park forests. I was checking out for some wildlife or some ghosts on the way :). I saw a small watersnake going along a stream. Couldn find anything more.

Cecil asked his pilot reg the wildlife seen in the forest. He told wild animals like kangaroo, jackal comes here. Cecil was like WTF !!! . lolz. Then after reaching the base..we went by walk some 15 more mins..crossing high speed water streams holding on to rocks and catching hands to hands. The pilots were really cool and they described neatly about the waterfalls. When we reached the falls... OMG.. it was damn sexy and adrenalin rush too. It is listed as one of the beautiful waterfalls in the world, the one and only entry from India. As per the name, the water was so white and flowing down like milk. We took some dip in the waters and clicked some photographs for remembrance. The place where we took bath is more than 30 feet deep. The pilot told that they even took a toppled boogie from it once. People visiting by train will get a good view of it...So please visit this water falls. Jog might be mighty..but this one is beautiful :)

It was around 4 , we started to return. And it happened , Yea..it started raining... heavily..damn heavily. And its a forest , suddenly turned black, as if someone had switched off lights. It was raining heavily.. got completely drenched in rains..the pilot warned us to watch out for leeches at the sides. It was the scariest trip i ever had in my life. Literally there was no road, just a bike tyre mark and we have to travel on it , in that very heavy downpour. I took my spectacles off and started enjoying rain later. Nice to get completely drenched and feeling the rain water throughout the body. Its really impossible to get this even in the bathroom :). After an hour ride, we reached the starting point. We were still alive. Yippeee.. All our clothes were wet . Arun was wearing a towel only !! hahaha. So hilarious to see a person sitting next to the driver's seat in towel. It was like 'HANGOVER' effect !!

We headed towards Panaji, which is the central Goa. We stopped the car here and there for getting some junk food /cigar and for taking some photos also. It was really a nice trip , listening to all music ..ranging from rock, psychedelic, pop, hindi, tamil, old tamil also.. and singing some arbit songs.. :). This is where the goa theme song originated. Suryavamsam BGM. U can find this in one of the video in the picassa albums we posted. Cecil gets rejuvenated whenever he listens to 'Back in Black'. He asks it for one more time always.. But still i like to thank him for me being alive :) . hahahah. We reached Panaji.. It started raining. Booked a hotel room for acco and then went out for food. We went to Miramar beach for a walk and then to room and had a chat for some time and dozed off.

Day3:

The next day started at 10 o clock. Checked out the rooms and then moved towards Dona Paula beach. This beach has a yard like structure in the waters like the one comes in kaaka kaaka movie when surya accepts jo's proposal. So lovely for lovers to hang out. Sit on the stone benches for hours and chat sitting on the sea front. I just had a deep deep sigh inside :). And just imagined that i am with my lady love at that place. hahha. So sight seeing went for another 20 mins. Did some hat purchases, cowboy hat .. !! Then we went to colva beach to hand over the car and hire two bikes for next 5 days. Hired 2 pulsor 150 . Had proper konkan style sea food in colva beach. Really great food. There we saw a tiff between the hotel owner and some AP group!!. Arggghhh not again !! :) . The fight ended up in a bloodshed. We had nice food inspite of all this. I took the camera and went for clicking some postcard pics on the beach. We left for calangute where we had booked our resort for the next 5 days. It was a bike ride in rains from colva to calangute . Took nearly 1:30 hrs. But north goa is damn good in direction boards. The routes were great and its like neatly done for biking. Finally we reached our resort , Hired two more bikes ,Avenger and a Yamaha FZ , checked in the rooms and then left for baga beach for food !

Welcome to Baga !! The happening beaches of Goa. Calangute and baga always attract huge no of ppl making it lively all the time. There were limited no of shacks only compared to the last time i went. I love hanging out at baga beach. talking to the sea, eating some food and just talking to the sea. Wow... talking to the sea is really sweet . Please try it. Oh yeah.. this trip is mainly to ease out the office pressure, come out of the material world, go completely out of contact, out of reach like a gypsy. No computers, No internet..no deadlines...just to enjoy the innerself. I felt really happy to be with my friends again after 2 years. It was like getting back to Pearl Hostel of NIT Trichy. We reached baga beach, sat on the candle light sea face set up, on cane chairs and was enjoying looking at the crowd and the waves. Meanwhile all the people from banglore reached madgaon, hired a cab and reached the resort. They joined us for the dinner. It started raining and yeah the boozing session started. We got the 2 B's out of 3 one should get in Goa. Bikes and Booze ... and the other one.. will tell ya later. :P