Another one of my karnaama.....well i shouldnt take the whole credit here....it equally goes to my dearest friends - Aman and Animesh.
How it started:
I was getting bored at office with no work....yeah...there were such times too in the office. :)
So i just checked the flight fares to Goa and was pretty happy to see a couple of good deals. It wasnt difficult for me to spread the word to the two champs since one used to sit to my left and the other...where else..but to my right. Immediate reaction from all three of us.... "Let's go!!"
The Planning phase:
It was practically impossible that our Manager (Anant) would grant leave to all three of us on the same day. But we had to get at least one day so that we can combine it with a weekend to have at least three days.
1. Aman - The peace loving creature: Aman applied for a leave for that friday a month before the trip with an excuse of "ghar pe imp kaam hai". Pretty smooth transaction. No issues at all.
How it started:
I was getting bored at office with no work....yeah...there were such times too in the office. :)
So i just checked the flight fares to Goa and was pretty happy to see a couple of good deals. It wasnt difficult for me to spread the word to the two champs since one used to sit to my left and the other...where else..but to my right. Immediate reaction from all three of us.... "Let's go!!"
The Planning phase:
It was practically impossible that our Manager (Anant) would grant leave to all three of us on the same day. But we had to get at least one day so that we can combine it with a weekend to have at least three days.
1. Aman - The peace loving creature: Aman applied for a leave for that friday a month before the trip with an excuse of "ghar pe imp kaam hai". Pretty smooth transaction. No issues at all.
2. Myself - The adveture loving creature: asked my manager for leave for Thursday as well as Friday for my VISA interview. Here's the excerpt from our conversation.
Me: Sir i wont be able to come on this Thursday and Friday. I need to go for my VISA interview.
Anant (with a highly suspicious right eye-brow): VISA interview to ek din me ho jayega. What do you need two days for.
Me (with utmost innocence and detemination to convince him): are Sir dekho...ek din me mai apne saare documents ikkathe karunga...college transcripts, bank statements, sponsorships, etc. etc. etc. or second day interview hai. to 2 din to chahiye na sir.
Anant (right brow becomes normal, tones goes low with a sigh): Achha...chalo thik hai.
3. Animesh - The bomb blasting creature
(On Friday morning 8.30am, the day of take off. Animesh calls up Anant)
Anant: Hello
Animesh: Sir meri tabiyat bohot kharab hai. I wont be able to come to office today.
Anant (about to faint): WHATTT? Kya ho gaya tumhe?
Animesh: Sir fever hai. Pet me bhi dard hai.
Anant: Yaar Aman or Tarun bhi nai hain aaj to.
Animesh: Sir batao mai kya karu. Aa sakta to pakka aa jata.
Anant: Achha....dekho at least phone par to available rehna.
Animesh: ok sir. (hangs up)
(In HCL sector-57 office, ODC-6)
Big crowd outside Anant's cubicle as Anant lies down on the floor with Akhilesh (the PL) asking everyone to get ready for a morning meeting to discuss this problem.
Hotel Reservations:
None of us had any clues about what hotels are there. Aman and I set up a time about 2 weeks before the trip to sit and find a hotel to stay at. Secret Meeting fixed at 4.00pm at the base camp (HCL, Sec-57, meeting room – ODC-5).
Big task on hand. No clues where to start from. Tarun tries his best googling skills and comes up with a good list of hotels to work upon. We start making calls. One great thing discovered about Aman that day….he’s an awesome bargainer…Manisha (Aman’s wife) is a lucky girl I tell you. Some good proposals come on the table. Three of those shortlisted when Aman and Tarun discuss and finalize one (I forgot the name of the hotel guy we spoke to but I remember that he said “Let me know when u come and I’ll ALERT my guys”). Meanwhile, Animesh handling the PM Smart front shooting all the issues on his own…great work dude. Aman and Tarun come out of the meeting room with a victorious smile on their faces. What great feeling of achievement that was….way too good.
We were all set to go and no one else in the office had the slightest clue about what’s going on.
Execution:
Friday, 2.30pm - I reach airport. Flight at 3.40pm. Wait for others.
2.45pm - Aman reaches airport. Aman and I go to get a snack as Animesh gets late as usual.
3.20pm - Animesh still not there. Stuck in a traffic jam (dilli ki pehchaan). I suggest to sell off his
ticket to pay for our expenses in Goa. Aman agrees and we laugh it off.
3.25pm - Animesh runs into the check in counter.
3.35pm - We finally board the Indigo (the cheapest airline) flight to Goa.
On reaching Dublin Airport, Aman strikes once again in bargaining a cab deal for our hotel (in Arbora). On our way, as we stop for a snack, the cabbie tells Tarun about some great deals at a couple of hotels at a different place(Baga beach)….Of course he was looking for his commission in those hotels but somehow….i had a gut feeling that this is a good deal. I somehow convinced Aman and Animesh for it and I’m so glad that we went for it. I’m sure Aman and Animesh would be thankful to me and that cab driver. The place was like inches away from the beach. It was amazing to see that. Very dim light at the beach (it was night by that time), a big queue of restaurants on the beach that served food, drinks and yes….hukkah.
Without even wasting a second in the hotel, we went out to have our first set of drinks….not a very good experience. Bad drink, bad beach restaurant, bad service. All three of us were a little taken aback. The excitement was going down.
Same reaction from all of us, lets change the restaurant. And then we found what we were looking for. A place secluded from the crowd, good food, great drinks. We enjoyed to the fullest until the waiter (that bengali guy…I forgot his name too…I’m really bad with names I’m sorry) came at midnight and said sir we need to close. We felt like thrashing him.
Never mind…the drunkards prevail….change of restaurant one more time. Another good find…..this time…hukkah too. We all kept drinking till the time we could, somewhere close to 4.00am in the morning. We walked towards the hotel….actually Animesh walked and Aman and I actually dangled towards the hotel. Nobody had any clues where they were. I’m happy that we at least went into our room only.
Saturday, 10.00am
Everyone woke up. Ordered tea. Went and jumped into the pool. Having a good time until that as*h*** pool watchman came and pulled us out since we were not wearing proper swimming trunks……hahahahaha.
Oops...I just realized this blog’s actually gone too long. Just can't help writing...i'm just so gifted....hahaha.....Ok...for your sake, let me just cut this short here. This is how we spent our days there.
Wake up at 10…get ready…run around the city on scooters, experimenting different types of lunches, and then….our favourite part….getting drunk until 4.00am and talking all kinds of crap….find our way back to hotel somehow and crash.
All right….this is it. A great trip with great people…there were a lot more interesting things although, the great deal on the steamer, the chappal chor in hotel, absolute censored photography, those pics are still not disclosed to the public. :) …and much much more.
I’d never ever forget that trip in my life. Thanks to you two guys….you rockkk.
Cheers,
Tarun
4 comments:
Hmmmm....this secret keeper enjoyed this post immensely ... i guess i missed out on the trip [:)] .. nevertheless .. the tattooooo takes the cake!!!
Tanny
Thanks buddy. Yeah you did miss some great time. And i was in love with that tattoo. I carried that as long as i could.....hahahaha.
Tarun.... You are a great writer.. Indeed! Just for the sake of saying :).. All events... those 3 memorable days collated in a paragraph... Cool man.... appreciate that.
Ya even i can't recollect the name of the person who assured us the Hotel booking and kept his guys
alerted :) all the time.
All credit goes to you, for reminding the two guys who used to sit to your left and right :) that we have to go for a trip...i didn't realized it then when we were booking the tickets that it is going to such masti and fun.. can't dare to forget at all.
Then my credit card worked to book the tickets on time.
However everything worked right for the three guys who were destined to go for a mysterious trip :)
The Indigo Airlines with all hiccups finally got landed at Dabolim Airport and the tourist Paradise - The GOA.
That first Night at the BAGGAH beach was fantastic.. the Sea waves and the cool weather -- made the moments.
All shops tried and finally settled at one... Thanks to Animesh for taking us both to the hotel... and then those rides to the Church, FORT n PANAJI...
And the deal is still there,, steamers.. HILL TOP.... :) all events... we stopped at the right moment otherwise animesh would have thrown both of us :)
A great time with both of you..
Well It was indeed a great trip and the best part was that we bunked office which i did not do for a long time after my college so it was really cool. Use to do it in nucleus as this Jam came near gaziabad but that too for movies only not for so long and yes the drink sessions those were awesome. The plane was another great part of the journey as that stupid low cost carrier shaked so much we cant say. Rides on scooter was goa was good and when we came back all three of us had a sun burn which really catched everyones eye and we were under the scanner of people that something fishy was on. Anju Sharma commented that you three have gone for a vacation together. But never the less it was a good trip in all. Hope we can have some more in future
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