Vadish was packing his things for a short unexpected trip to… Goa. He received a call from his friend Mahanth if he could come to Goa for the weekend. Although Vadish was excited about the trip, there was a little nagging thought in his mind about the third person who is joining them… Sadvita, she was a good friend to both of them. But Mahanth and Sadvita had huge crush on each other and Vadish didn’t want to be the loner in the group! At last, vadish made up his mind ‘it was Goa’ and he wasn’t going to miss out on this! Vadish started his journey to Goa, it was Vadish’s second time. Right from college days Vadish dreamed of visiting Goa, every time friends talk about tour, Goa would be on top of the list. And every time it failed miserably! But at last he did make it to Goa two years back with his colleagues and it was dream come true. About 2 million people visit Goa every year! Vadish felt, Goa was somehow was a different tourist spot from others. In Goa one feels disconnected from his routine world, he couldn’t put a finger on the reason… may be it is the location.. or might be the girls… or might be the booze… but all these you get in other tourist spots too.. Single or married, Goa trip is always special!
Vadish started reasoning to himself about Goa: First the clothes, what ever season it might be in Goa, clothes are always less! Vadish did make a self note on his previous Goa trip “the girl you see in Goa is not the same girl you see outside Goa!”, at times it holds good for men too! Next, People don’t accusingly stare at a person with a booze in their hand, how many places in India does this happen? maybe the mind set of people totally changes once they enter Goa! In short Goa becomes synonym for ‘party hard’! Vadish drifter into sleep with these thoughts.
Next morning, Mahanth, who was a localite of Goa, picked him up and drove to his home. They met after a long time and had many things to catch up on their ride home.
Vadish: “Listen dude! I have been to Goa before, I came here again having only one thing in mind, I wanna party hard! Its better if we rent a room, it would be awkward to return to your home late night!”
Mahanth: “Mannn!! My parents are cool, you don’t need to worry about a thing! They won’t mind these stuffs!”
Vadish: “oh!!”
Mahanth: “I know you don’t believe me but see it your self when you get there!”
Vadish": “Has Sadvita reached?”
Mahanth: “Yeah! she is at my home!”
Vadish had a impish smile! Mahanth: “I know what you are thinking!! she is not my girl friend! Just a good friend!”
Vadish: “Hey I didn’t say anything!! She is my friend too… I am happy that she has already met her mother-in-law!! haa haa!!”
Mahanth: “Oh!! Please!!”
Sadvita greeted them both when they reached home. Vadish said to sadvita: “so how are your in-laws?!” and he was replied with a kick on his leg!
Vadish met Mahath’s parents, they were totally cool people! Mahath’s dad offered his car to them. It was sadvita’s first time to Goa so obviously she wanted to visit all the places!
Vadish: “Mahanth I don’t mind visiting places but end of the day you know where I wanna end up!”
Mahanth: “I know… wasted!”
Sadvita: “Let me tell you what vadish, I’ll have a bet with you tonight! I’ll have what ever you have!”
They started the trip with visit to “Chapora Fort” aka “Dil chahta hai fort” then to Anjuna beach and then to Sinquerim beach! Goa was all about beaches and the break taking views.
Fort Aguada is in Sinquerim beach, on the edge of the fort and one can watch waves splash into the fort walls!
Vadish went up to the edge of the wall and stood there, it was a romantic location, he looked around and noticed he alone didn’t have a pair. Mahanth and Sadvita were walking together to the edge, not hand in hand but together! Vadish couldn’t stop smiling but Mahanth and Sadvita took their positions on either side of him! They waves kept splashing into the walls drenching them with water. Vadish noticed Mahanth looking at Sadvita, purposely vadish moved to block mahanth’s view, smiled and raised his eyebrow as if questioning Mahanth. Mahanth looked back to the sea as if nothing happened. Three of them were totally drenched, they dried themselves on the sun. Sadvita was seated on the opposite side whereas Vadish and Mahanth where on one side but seated at a distance. This time around vadish caught Sadvita looking at Mahanth,the look was different, it was a gaze into his relaxed eyes and both of them reflecting the most contented smile. Vadish smiled to himself and said “Lets go people!” and started walking back, mahanth went ahead to get the car.
Vadish: “Ahh.. It is such a romantic spot…! May be I should come with a girl next time!! And I said the same when I was here the last time!”
Sadvita with a sarcastic look: “You are with a girl. remember?”
Vadish replied with a sarcastic smile: “I meant with a girl who loves me and not the one who secretly wants me to ‘get lost’ in a romantic spot!”
Sadvita slapped him on the arm and said : “Shut up! I didn’t want you to ‘get lost’!”
Vadish winked at her and said: “Hey! I didn’t mean you!!”, sadvita cheeks turned pink for few seconds.
The three stopped for lunch in a hotel, it is a strange thing in Goa they don’t serve water in hotel, they won’t even keep glass for courtesy sake. One has to buy mineral water or get the other water! Every shop in Goa sold the ‘other water’ and for the price of mineral water one can easily get the ‘other water’ in Goa!! After lunch they visited more beaches and by evening they went for the ferry ride. Again intentionally Vadish left the two to sit next to each other on the ride, though the idea was silly vadish enjoyed making fun of them! After the ferry ride they went to the BAGA beach for dinner, the beach is so narrow that on high tide the water covers up the entire sand! They had their dinner in one of the beach side restaurant, there were many couples dancing crazily in discotheque! Another striking feature of Goa is the amount of TATTOO shops! Every one gets tattooed as if it is a custom!
Sadvita: “So what you gonna drink?!”
Vadish: “Are you serious?”
Sadvita: “I said I’ll drink what ever you drink!!”
What followed was an eventful night, except Mahanth both of them got wasted and they reached home late night! Mahanth’s parents had already slept, three of them shared a bed in Mahanth’s room. The bed was big enough for three of them. Mahanth noticed Vadish had a smile on his face, “I know why you are smiling, you are sleeping in the middle and we both will sleep either side of you!”
Sadvita was already half asleep: “Vadish, enough of your stupid jokes! I am really really sleepy now!” and crashed into one side of the bed!
Mahanth: “Dude! I didn’t get wasted today cause I had to drive the car, so you have to give company now!!”
Vadish: “what now?!!”
Mahanth brought in half bottle of ‘other water’ and the night re-started itself, they started talking about all the things in the world.
Mahanth: “Man…! How do you know when you are in love?!”
Vadish looked at his glass and then back to Mahanth and thought to himself, why me? why? why? and love?
Vadish: “Out of my vast experience in the field of love, I’ll tell you one thing, when people say, when you are in love: a bulb will glow, girls will dance, you will hear birds singing! that’s total crap! I don’t believe in those things, when you are in love you don’t know it, you only feel it! do you understand?”
Mahanth: “I am not sure man… what is difference between know and feel?”
Vadish again looked at his glass and back to Mahanth, “So he is not planning to give up! Help me GOD!!”
Vadish smiled and said: “That my friend you will know when you are in LOVE!”
Mahanth: “Nooooo!! you tell… you tell the difference now!”
Vadish looked at the almost empty bottle and thought, may be if I push for few more minutes the bottle will be finished and I can sleep.
Vadish: “See you know I am sitting here but do you feel I am sitting here?!”
Mahanth: “huh? what?”
Vadish: “Wait… I’ll give you another example… You know how a cloud in the sky looks, but do you know how it feels to be in middle of the clouds?”
Mahanth: “Ohhhh… I understand what you mean…!”
Vadish looked at his glass again it was empty but Mahanth’s glass was only half empty! “Dude…! I feels great to be in the middle of clouds but imagine what happens when you fall from a cloud… that my friend is painful side of love… finish your glass I’ll tell you more about love!”
Vadish empting the bottle into their glasses: “You like sadvita, don’t you?”
Mahanth just nodded his head… Vadish: “I think she likes you too… but think practically if this will work out or not, both your parents must agree and relatives must agree…! but if you truly love her then go for it man!”
Mahanth: “dude… I don’t know… I am not sure yet…!”
Vadish: “That’s ok! lets finish this and go to sleep!”
Next morning, Vadish was the last to wake up, Mahanth was already in the shower and Sadvita brought Vadish tea.
Sadvita: “Good morning!!”
Vadish: “Morning! you are up early!!”
Sadvita: “Yeah! couldn’t sleep much…! Can I ask you something?”
Vadish sipped his tea and nodded, Sadvita: “What were you guys talking yesterday night?”
Vadish almost choked: “What? we were just talking things…! why? what happened?”
Sadvita: “Oh nothing… I just heard bits and pieces of it…!”
Vadish avoided looking at her and kept sipping his tea. Soon, they started their day with Calangute beach then to Panjim and Mapusa. By late evening they went to Tito’s, this was one of the famous spots in Goa. This time Sadvita opted to drive back home, so Vadish and Mahanth had a great time! The place was so full of people Vadish and Mahanth kept turning their heads in every angle so that they don’t miss even a single girl in there! At last they reached home, Vadish had to catch flight in the morning, he crept into one side of the bed and dozed off.
Vadish woke up in the morning and packed up things in a hurry, said Good bye to everyone, Mahanth drove him to the airport.
Vadish: “I noticed something today morning, when I woke up I wasn’t on the middle of the bed!” and started smiling.
Mahanth: “We still have time to reach the airport so no worries!”
Vadish: “Answer me dude!!”
Mahanth stopped the car: “That’s cause you slept on one side of the bed yesterday night! Remember?”
Vadish: “oh did I???”
Vadish smiling impishly: “So…?”
Mahanth: “I have to talk to you before you leave… and I think Sadvita will also call you later!”
Vadish smiled faded: “What happened?”
Mahanth: “ After you slept we both were talking for a while and then I proposed her… It was stupid I know… may be it was the booze… but it was… She didn’t say anything at first… it seems she heard bits and pieces of talks we had the night before… especially the part about family situation and how relatives would react and stuff…!”
Vadish : “Dude… I am really sorry I didn’t really mean those things… I was wasted and you were not finishing your rounds soon enough! I’ll talk to Sadvita that it was my mistake! I’ll call her right now!”
Mahanth: “No! Don’t! She heard only bits and pieces of our talk… but…”
Vadish: “Dude.. I am really sorry I screwed this… Goa trip was supposed to be full of great memories… I didn’t expect this really!”
Mahanth: “And I told her what you told me…!”
Vadish: “I am stupid man! I shouldn’t given you advice when I was wasted!”
Mahanth: “I told her .. ‘In my life I have know only how the cloud looks like but when I am with her I feel like I am in the middle of clouds…You are very special to me’ !”
Vadish look shell shocked, he couldn’t find the exact words to describe how he royally messed up his friends love life with his advice!
Mahanth: “She kept looking at me for a while… as if I spoke something which was off limits… and then she kissed me!”
Vadish: “She what?!”
Mahanth was beaming and blushing, his face was red: “she kissed me and said… she was sorry, she felt the same way and she shouldn’t have listened to your words, family will always understand, she had seen my parents and was confident that her parents will approve our love!”
Vadish looked confused, Mahanth: “what? what’s with the confused look?”
Vadish: “So I was just sleeping on the same bed where all this happened?!”
Mahanth laughed out loud: “Yes… you were sleeping on the same bed where all this happened!”
Vadish: “Dude first of all congrats…! I am really really happy for you both but this is the most happiest and awkward news I have heard in my life at the same time! God!! I shouldn’t have slept!”
Mahanth: “Hey! if you hadn’t slept then I would never be this happy.. and… don’t mention to sadvita that cloud dialogue was yours!” , vadish smiled and nodded, they started to airport.
Vadish had given love advices to many, but a statement half consciously said turned the love life of a person. The flight was gaining altitude, Vadish saw the beautiful view of Goa and thought, or maybe it was just the magic of Goa that made people fall in love with each other.
Vadish started reasoning to himself about Goa: First the clothes, what ever season it might be in Goa, clothes are always less! Vadish did make a self note on his previous Goa trip “the girl you see in Goa is not the same girl you see outside Goa!”, at times it holds good for men too! Next, People don’t accusingly stare at a person with a booze in their hand, how many places in India does this happen? maybe the mind set of people totally changes once they enter Goa! In short Goa becomes synonym for ‘party hard’! Vadish drifter into sleep with these thoughts.
Next morning, Mahanth, who was a localite of Goa, picked him up and drove to his home. They met after a long time and had many things to catch up on their ride home.
Vadish: “Listen dude! I have been to Goa before, I came here again having only one thing in mind, I wanna party hard! Its better if we rent a room, it would be awkward to return to your home late night!”
Mahanth: “Mannn!! My parents are cool, you don’t need to worry about a thing! They won’t mind these stuffs!”
Vadish: “oh!!”
Mahanth: “I know you don’t believe me but see it your self when you get there!”
Vadish": “Has Sadvita reached?”
Mahanth: “Yeah! she is at my home!”
Vadish had a impish smile! Mahanth: “I know what you are thinking!! she is not my girl friend! Just a good friend!”
Vadish: “Hey I didn’t say anything!! She is my friend too… I am happy that she has already met her mother-in-law!! haa haa!!”
Mahanth: “Oh!! Please!!”
Sadvita greeted them both when they reached home. Vadish said to sadvita: “so how are your in-laws?!” and he was replied with a kick on his leg!
Vadish met Mahath’s parents, they were totally cool people! Mahath’s dad offered his car to them. It was sadvita’s first time to Goa so obviously she wanted to visit all the places!
Vadish: “Mahanth I don’t mind visiting places but end of the day you know where I wanna end up!”
Mahanth: “I know… wasted!”
Sadvita: “Let me tell you what vadish, I’ll have a bet with you tonight! I’ll have what ever you have!”
They started the trip with visit to “Chapora Fort” aka “Dil chahta hai fort” then to Anjuna beach and then to Sinquerim beach! Goa was all about beaches and the break taking views.
Fort Aguada is in Sinquerim beach, on the edge of the fort and one can watch waves splash into the fort walls!
Vadish went up to the edge of the wall and stood there, it was a romantic location, he looked around and noticed he alone didn’t have a pair. Mahanth and Sadvita were walking together to the edge, not hand in hand but together! Vadish couldn’t stop smiling but Mahanth and Sadvita took their positions on either side of him! They waves kept splashing into the walls drenching them with water. Vadish noticed Mahanth looking at Sadvita, purposely vadish moved to block mahanth’s view, smiled and raised his eyebrow as if questioning Mahanth. Mahanth looked back to the sea as if nothing happened. Three of them were totally drenched, they dried themselves on the sun. Sadvita was seated on the opposite side whereas Vadish and Mahanth where on one side but seated at a distance. This time around vadish caught Sadvita looking at Mahanth,the look was different, it was a gaze into his relaxed eyes and both of them reflecting the most contented smile. Vadish smiled to himself and said “Lets go people!” and started walking back, mahanth went ahead to get the car.
Vadish: “Ahh.. It is such a romantic spot…! May be I should come with a girl next time!! And I said the same when I was here the last time!”
Sadvita with a sarcastic look: “You are with a girl. remember?”
Vadish replied with a sarcastic smile: “I meant with a girl who loves me and not the one who secretly wants me to ‘get lost’ in a romantic spot!”
Sadvita slapped him on the arm and said : “Shut up! I didn’t want you to ‘get lost’!”
Vadish winked at her and said: “Hey! I didn’t mean you!!”, sadvita cheeks turned pink for few seconds.
The three stopped for lunch in a hotel, it is a strange thing in Goa they don’t serve water in hotel, they won’t even keep glass for courtesy sake. One has to buy mineral water or get the other water! Every shop in Goa sold the ‘other water’ and for the price of mineral water one can easily get the ‘other water’ in Goa!! After lunch they visited more beaches and by evening they went for the ferry ride. Again intentionally Vadish left the two to sit next to each other on the ride, though the idea was silly vadish enjoyed making fun of them! After the ferry ride they went to the BAGA beach for dinner, the beach is so narrow that on high tide the water covers up the entire sand! They had their dinner in one of the beach side restaurant, there were many couples dancing crazily in discotheque! Another striking feature of Goa is the amount of TATTOO shops! Every one gets tattooed as if it is a custom!
Sadvita: “So what you gonna drink?!”
Vadish: “Are you serious?”
Sadvita: “I said I’ll drink what ever you drink!!”
What followed was an eventful night, except Mahanth both of them got wasted and they reached home late night! Mahanth’s parents had already slept, three of them shared a bed in Mahanth’s room. The bed was big enough for three of them. Mahanth noticed Vadish had a smile on his face, “I know why you are smiling, you are sleeping in the middle and we both will sleep either side of you!”
Sadvita was already half asleep: “Vadish, enough of your stupid jokes! I am really really sleepy now!” and crashed into one side of the bed!
Mahanth: “Dude! I didn’t get wasted today cause I had to drive the car, so you have to give company now!!”
Vadish: “what now?!!”
Mahanth brought in half bottle of ‘other water’ and the night re-started itself, they started talking about all the things in the world.
Mahanth: “Man…! How do you know when you are in love?!”
Vadish looked at his glass and then back to Mahanth and thought to himself, why me? why? why? and love?
Vadish: “Out of my vast experience in the field of love, I’ll tell you one thing, when people say, when you are in love: a bulb will glow, girls will dance, you will hear birds singing! that’s total crap! I don’t believe in those things, when you are in love you don’t know it, you only feel it! do you understand?”
Mahanth: “I am not sure man… what is difference between know and feel?”
Vadish again looked at his glass and back to Mahanth, “So he is not planning to give up! Help me GOD!!”
Vadish smiled and said: “That my friend you will know when you are in LOVE!”
Mahanth: “Nooooo!! you tell… you tell the difference now!”
Vadish looked at the almost empty bottle and thought, may be if I push for few more minutes the bottle will be finished and I can sleep.
Vadish: “See you know I am sitting here but do you feel I am sitting here?!”
Mahanth: “huh? what?”
Vadish: “Wait… I’ll give you another example… You know how a cloud in the sky looks, but do you know how it feels to be in middle of the clouds?”
Mahanth: “Ohhhh… I understand what you mean…!”
Vadish looked at his glass again it was empty but Mahanth’s glass was only half empty! “Dude…! I feels great to be in the middle of clouds but imagine what happens when you fall from a cloud… that my friend is painful side of love… finish your glass I’ll tell you more about love!”
Vadish empting the bottle into their glasses: “You like sadvita, don’t you?”
Mahanth just nodded his head… Vadish: “I think she likes you too… but think practically if this will work out or not, both your parents must agree and relatives must agree…! but if you truly love her then go for it man!”
Mahanth: “dude… I don’t know… I am not sure yet…!”
Vadish: “That’s ok! lets finish this and go to sleep!”
Next morning, Vadish was the last to wake up, Mahanth was already in the shower and Sadvita brought Vadish tea.
Sadvita: “Good morning!!”
Vadish: “Morning! you are up early!!”
Sadvita: “Yeah! couldn’t sleep much…! Can I ask you something?”
Vadish sipped his tea and nodded, Sadvita: “What were you guys talking yesterday night?”
Vadish almost choked: “What? we were just talking things…! why? what happened?”
Sadvita: “Oh nothing… I just heard bits and pieces of it…!”
Vadish avoided looking at her and kept sipping his tea. Soon, they started their day with Calangute beach then to Panjim and Mapusa. By late evening they went to Tito’s, this was one of the famous spots in Goa. This time Sadvita opted to drive back home, so Vadish and Mahanth had a great time! The place was so full of people Vadish and Mahanth kept turning their heads in every angle so that they don’t miss even a single girl in there! At last they reached home, Vadish had to catch flight in the morning, he crept into one side of the bed and dozed off.
Vadish woke up in the morning and packed up things in a hurry, said Good bye to everyone, Mahanth drove him to the airport.
Vadish: “I noticed something today morning, when I woke up I wasn’t on the middle of the bed!” and started smiling.
Mahanth: “We still have time to reach the airport so no worries!”
Vadish: “Answer me dude!!”
Mahanth stopped the car: “That’s cause you slept on one side of the bed yesterday night! Remember?”
Vadish: “oh did I???”
Vadish smiling impishly: “So…?”
Mahanth: “I have to talk to you before you leave… and I think Sadvita will also call you later!”
Vadish smiled faded: “What happened?”
Mahanth: “ After you slept we both were talking for a while and then I proposed her… It was stupid I know… may be it was the booze… but it was… She didn’t say anything at first… it seems she heard bits and pieces of talks we had the night before… especially the part about family situation and how relatives would react and stuff…!”
Vadish : “Dude… I am really sorry I didn’t really mean those things… I was wasted and you were not finishing your rounds soon enough! I’ll talk to Sadvita that it was my mistake! I’ll call her right now!”
Mahanth: “No! Don’t! She heard only bits and pieces of our talk… but…”
Vadish: “Dude.. I am really sorry I screwed this… Goa trip was supposed to be full of great memories… I didn’t expect this really!”
Mahanth: “And I told her what you told me…!”
Vadish: “I am stupid man! I shouldn’t given you advice when I was wasted!”
Mahanth: “I told her .. ‘In my life I have know only how the cloud looks like but when I am with her I feel like I am in the middle of clouds…You are very special to me’ !”
Vadish look shell shocked, he couldn’t find the exact words to describe how he royally messed up his friends love life with his advice!
Mahanth: “She kept looking at me for a while… as if I spoke something which was off limits… and then she kissed me!”
Vadish: “She what?!”
Mahanth was beaming and blushing, his face was red: “she kissed me and said… she was sorry, she felt the same way and she shouldn’t have listened to your words, family will always understand, she had seen my parents and was confident that her parents will approve our love!”
Vadish looked confused, Mahanth: “what? what’s with the confused look?”
Vadish: “So I was just sleeping on the same bed where all this happened?!”
Mahanth laughed out loud: “Yes… you were sleeping on the same bed where all this happened!”
Vadish: “Dude first of all congrats…! I am really really happy for you both but this is the most happiest and awkward news I have heard in my life at the same time! God!! I shouldn’t have slept!”
Mahanth: “Hey! if you hadn’t slept then I would never be this happy.. and… don’t mention to sadvita that cloud dialogue was yours!” , vadish smiled and nodded, they started to airport.
Vadish had given love advices to many, but a statement half consciously said turned the love life of a person. The flight was gaining altitude, Vadish saw the beautiful view of Goa and thought, or maybe it was just the magic of Goa that made people fall in love with each other.
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Another masterpiece!!
Though d post starts with goa.. d story line gradually focusses on these three thereby sidelining goa :-) I liked tht transition..
:) :) :)
avid follower of ur blogs whether I comment or read every single one or not... this one is definitely not your best.. but had some creative moments..
but ya whilst thinking 'wisdom drops' reading thru.. i was also thinking.. the booze friend who had a 'cloud' dialogue is so lacking in life!.. and not to mention the gal.. :0
@Kailash and Subbu: thanks :)
@unknown: thanks for your comments and for being an avid follower! :)
Nice post da:). An interesting read:).
Vadish become a catalyst to the
love of Mahanth. Author has beautifully described the nature of Goa out his experience.In case of love....
Dude... this time from the title of the blog I was expecting something more of Goa experience and the exclusive craziness associated with it... but later it turned into a love story which could have taken place anywhere in the world.
Well written ... but in comparison to your previous posts, this lacks class and creativity. Descriptions about Goa just felt like fillers for the post.
You write very well...write well :)
Cheers
Arun.
@appa: thank you :)
@Abhishek: I get the point! May be yes i should have just stuck with goa alone :)
@Arun Athimber: :) I'll try to keep it going! Thank you!
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