Good People in worst days of my life

Its not a honesty or nice if I do not talk about those people who in fact supported me and talked to me in my terrible time. They are the individuals who treated me as a human. For Rambo Siblings, Johnny siblings and Rocket, I was just like a servant. Every time even if they said “Hi” or “Bye”, to me it felt as if I look like a retard to them. And you know I have not been granted a single day off the work just because Joke factory does not allow any day off for first 6 months if you are at the boat !!!

I would like to show gratitude and talk about people with whom I truly had a lovely time. Which helped me to battle this annoyance in last 106 days,

1. My Wife aka Rockstar - Rockstar is my Wife's wicked twin. I did not want to make it obvious because I wanted you to appreciate how significant 2 characters of a same person can be. We all have twofold characters and also I had to go home too :-). If she was not there I would have lost this battle a long before, Thank You for all you have given me till today.

2. Lara Croft - She used to work on a boat named Caesar. Both the boats Caesar and Cleopatra are part of same fishing firm "Glycodin pvt Ltd". She was initially a part of the Joke Factory but she decided to give it up for a big ship at Sea for the same reason I experienced. She is very concerned and entertaining, Thanks for all.

3. Mel Gibson - He is part of Caesar (Shore) at Joke factory and at the moment working at “Caesar” with the crew Caesar (Sea). He is a cool guy; but only when he is awake :-). Thanks for having lunch with me every day.

Then I had few folks at boat from the crew Cleopatra (Sea) who treated me one of their own.

4. 3 storied man - He is the main mechanic of the boat Cleopatra and he looks after the boat for any holes or broken machinery. He is a very kind and humble guy. He has always spoken to me about India whenever he had time. I called him 3 storied man here because whenever I spoke to him I had to look up as if I m talking to a person who is standing on 3rd story of a building, Very tall man but with tiny ego, pride and attitude. Thank you.

5. Indiana Jones - This person is Mr. Cool, no worries whatsoever about anything. Man with insignificant ego, arrogance or attitude. He has come to my desk and spoken to me about all the things except work almost every single day. He looks after the conversion of language whenever boat goes to a different country and crew does not speak the lingo, lovely man, Thank you.

6. Hulk Hogan - Gem of a person, very soft spoken and very good at heart. He looks after specifications of the boat. He always have given me liberty and value, Thank You.

7. Michael Doglous - Rambo is on leave right now and Michael is acting head presently. When I see him as the person in charge of the boat I feel what the F#¤% is with Rambo!! Why can’t he behave how this gentleman does?? I remember that last week for everything I did for Michael on the boat he said "Thank You" EVERY SINGLE TIME!! I can't even recollect when Rambo brothers and Johnny siblings told me thanks the previous time!! Thank you Michael for all you respect.

8. Damien Martin - He is from crew Cleopatra (Shore). This guy is last resort to me. If nothing is working out I just ask him for help and he has responded EVERY SINGLE TIME. He respects me alot and I also have too much faith in him. Thanks for all the help you have given me.

You know none of above except my wife would have recognized that they are playing such a vital ingredient for my life every day and we usually fail to appreciate that. But you come to know their magnitude only when they are still there in your dire time. So say thanks, it costs nothing :-)

It was a very rigid period for me in recent days but I have learnt 1 thing is that people who support you in your bad time are your true friends :-)

Thanks to all of you for doing that.

Most terrible days of my Life

I know many people would wonder that he is in a foreign country, place of all dreams you would have ever dreamed of, yes it is and it has been a great place since my previous 2 visits but this time it was poles apart :-(

# Cleopatra - It is a Boat where I am working currently, I am not a direct crew member of this boat but I have been sent here to assist and to have enhanced communication between my original crew and the crew on Cleopatra. Troop at Cleopatra is known as "Cleopatra (Sea)"

# Joke Factory - Joke factory is a shipping company who provide "any type" services to different boats or ships around the world and "Cleopatra" is one of them. I work for Joke Factory. I am a member of the team "Cleopatra (Shore)", team that assists "Cleopatra (Sea)"

People who are liable for ruining my life within these 106 days,

In a precedence order,

1st being who pissed me off the Most,

1. Rambo - He is the main commander of the boat and he is the MOST retarded person you could ever bump into, he is not dreadful but he wants everything to be faultless till the last detail and for that he will observe your work so much that you will ultimately loose your senses. Sometimes he himself does not know what he wants, he could be a faultless asshole, He thinks he knows it all and he also thinks that Joke factory is filled with a bunch of jokers, he likes to have last word in every conversation, he basically is a old pathetic bastard.

2. Chota Rambo - He is the bitch of Rambo, they even share the like names, what Rambo says bitch repeats it, over the past few years he has actually learnt how Rambo laughs, speak and what different phrases Rambo speaks, Chota Rambo has mastered everything and now he is a carbon copy of original Rambo, Whenever Rambo is on leave I never miss him because duplicate is always there.

Rambo pays Joke factory a great deal for each facility provided to “Cleopatra” by Joke Factory

3. Little Johnny - Little Johnny is person in charge of the crew "Cleopatra (Shore)", his troop assists and facilitate Rambo's group for different things, since Joke factory gets lots of capital from Cleopatra, Little Johnny has also sold his soul and respect and have also become Rambo's bitch, whatever Rambo says will be done, it does not matter what the job is, if Rambo even asks him to say that an Elephant is a Rabbit, Little Johnny would say its not even a rabbit its a mouse, An incredible Asshole

4. Big Johnny - Big Johnny is Little Johnny’s boss and you can say that he is the boss because little Johnny is also a bitch to big Johnny and does whatever big Johnny says or permits him to do. Big Johnny is also Rambo's bitch but he is bitch to many more such Rambos, he handles more then 10 different boats and makes sure that all those 10 "Shore" Teams work like slaves, I once remember that Rambo requested for a map of India and this asshole charged him for that too!!!

5. Rocket - She is a part of the "Cleopatra (Shore)" at Joke Factory, Her work is essentially to discover faults in everybody’s effort, she thinks she is the best and has some astonishing skills which no one has, I am part of the "Cleopatra (Shore)" team from 2 yrs but she has spend only 1 yr but Fortunately for her, I don't know what little and big Johnny saw in her, they made her my superior so now she tries to boss around on each crew member of "Cleopatra (Shore)" and especially me.

6. Rockstar - A very food friend of mine, we like each other’s company a lot but she is my most evil critic, she always console me when I am down or sad or frustrated but if I talk or share my issues with respect to my job, Rambo or Johnny brothers to her then she does not agree with me even if I am correct.

Various incidents that made me SICK

1. Rambo always expected that I will fix his new auto pilot engine for his boat but I am a navigation expert!! How on the earth could have I done it, little and Big Johnny did not do anything to lend a hand, they just said its my responsibility to do whatever Rambo says!! Little Johnny even recommended once that take a regular engine and name it as autopilot and tell Rambo that Job is completed because anyways Rambo does not know what Autopilot looks like!! I know that you are an absolute idiot little Johnny but Rambo is not.

2. Little Johnny was always behind my ass because I was not able to patch the auto pilot up, I told him that I am a routing expert, use me in navigation but no Little Johnny and Big Johnny decided that I will do auto pilot and a member from my gang "Cleopatra (Shore)" who is an auto pilot professional will do routing!!! Nice judgment ... WOW .... Johnny brothers a Couple of retards.

3. When Little Johnny was on leave, Rocket assumed that she now has to handle this team, so she started passing on everything to me!!! Little Johnny and Big Johnny were sitting and watching emails and were not bothered what’s happening.

4. That’s still ok but if I am miserable because of this and if I talk to Rockstar and discuss these things with her, she says "You are not doing your job appropriately", she says I must do Navigation + auto pilot and should keep working for double hours, it does not matter if working double hrs will decipher the trouble or not but since I m not working double hours people are not pleased with me!!!

5. Finally I fixed the autopilot, then

# Rambo says "You are a navigation expert so why its not auto piloting navigation also!!"

# Chota Rambo says "You are a navigation expert so why its not auto piloting navigation also!!"

# Little Johnny says "You are a navigation expert so why its not auto piloting navigation also!!"

# Big Johnny says "You are a navigation expert so why its not auto piloting navigation also!!"

# Rocket says "You are a navigation expert so why its not auto piloting navigation also!!"

# Rockstar says "If you had worked for double hours you could have made everyone happy even if it was not auto piloting navigation!!"

6. Today perhaps is the worst day of my life. I fought with Rockstar today and I think that I am good for nothing; whatever I do I am not able to keep these 6 people happy.... I have no idea how to come out of this pressure as well as make everyone alright at the same time.

If my wife had not been there with me then I might have had lost my mind by now.

7. I have no place to go, If I m at the boat then Rambo, Chota Rambo and Johnny brothers are always trying to bolt my ass. After work I cannot discuss it with Rockstar also because then you know what will happen. So mainly I had nothing to bust my stress out these 106 days, it was only in sleep where I was not getting blamed; sometimes people came there too to haunt me.

Thanks to my Wife who stood by me and gave me strength to fight it out daily, but i guess all assholes overpowered that too. I had a nervous breakdown, I did not know what to do in life so I decided to write this and after writing it I feel slight comforted. Over the period of years I have realized that if I m hassled and disgusted then writing down a give back answer to the person who is responsible for it, it helps a lot.

Sorry for writing this in a very swanky coding language, I do not want actual people involved in it to get reason to hold me accountable again for no reason.

Please don't ask me who is who, I suppose you can effortlessly guess :-)

Also please tell me what do you do when you are stressed out.

Live in the moment

How would you respond when you are said that don’t buy that it’s useless and will not be of use for a long term. Save money don’t waste it, save it for future.

What is future!!! Do you know your future, does anyone know his or her future!! I don’t think so, its undecided, then why do you want to live on the foundation of uncertainty??

I told my wife that in our house I want to have a box built in the wall for flat screen television like a movie screen but she said keeping the television in the wall is not long term thought; we might not utilize it after sometime. A serious question pops up in my head, what is this long term planning??? 

Long term planning is not doing precisely what you want to do but doing it in a method that it will lessen maintenance price tag, I really hate the idea. If all my life I waited to have a private theatre space and now I can’t do it just because it will not yield anything good for long term!!! 

What this long term has given to anyone anyways!! After 10 years when you will loose all your passion to do things and you will be with 2-3 kids then everything will become stand still and there will be no time to do anything else in life.

So what are you living for, don’t you deserve to do anything with your own money!! My mother says save money save money ... for what!!! If I want to buy a nice phone or iPhone or Play station or foreign trip I have to think 10000 times before because it is stuffed in my mind from childhood that whatever you do think of a long term use.... and as result I did not buy many things because they were not useful for long-standing!!!

Why is it essential to think of long term in everything!! Why are you working hard to make that money and not working hard to spend it, I don’t say that spend every single penny but don’t be scared to acquire your dreams with that money, you might not get it after today :-)

So live in today not tomorrow, live in the moment 

Roadies The HIT Disaster

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Sorry for my foul language at 1 or 2 places in this blog, it was just because i was upset to the core.

I am very sure that you must be aware of a TV show MTV Roadies and I do know that some of you personally hate it from the bottom of your heart, I don’t.

I started watching this show from its season 4, I like shows where realism of this category exist, I know many of you hate it because of its foul lingo but trust me its lot better then many other TV serials not because we are young and we find humor in foul talking but because of its layout because of its unpredictability.

When I completed watching Roadies season 4, I became a HUGE fan of Roadies, its format and Raghu (Creator of Roadies). I like the way Raghu screw people and the way he observes things as soon as one opens his/her mouth, BUT he frustrated me.

. Roadies season 4 was a HUGE hit, huge means HUGE, It broke all the TRP records, every teenager was chatting about only 1 thing, Roadies, very few of us knew the existence of roadies before season 4. And season 4 had many great things, It had an exceptional and most worthy performer "Anthony" who finally won, most deserving Roadie to win I would say, then there was this big mind game participant who screwed every single soul on that show, "Rishab", Then there was "Bani", the drama queen who survived till end but lost to “Anthony”. This season had nothing you could say was terrible; it was really a great season.

. After the unpredicted triumph of season 4 MTV launched season 5 pretty shortly, auditions were held and Roadies 5.0 started, Now Mr. Raghu lost his cerebral stability completely and started putting his illogical twists and turns onto the roadies, I appreciate that you want to do innovative things and you don’t want us to forecast what is next BUT Mr. Raghu you must also take care that you don’t get your audience pissed off from your ridiculous ideas.

When season 5 started the initial episode itself took everyone by surprise that it had 2 eliminations. It was Ankita (Simran) and Varun who got out in the first episode itself but after that it was pretty ok, all the tasks were excellent and there were not too much of surprises excluding the episodes 6 & 7 in which Mr. Raghu brought back every voted out roadie (Except 1st episode's voted out roadies Ankita and Varun and as anticipated no justification given Why!!!) But since there were almost equal number of roadies on either sides (Voted-out and non-voted-out) so viewers accepted the twist. The thought was excellent that Roadie who is most commendable will go to Malaysia and that is what happened.

BUT by the end of episode 8 Mr. Raghu's baldhead started going through enormous pain because he not yet had applied his silliest ideas, he chose Malaysia for it.

# Ridiculous Idea no.1 --> Varun and Simran who got voted out in the first episode joined the other roadies in episode 9 in Malaysia without any struggle without any contest, no explanation given why?? That was the most retarded twist I had ever seen but Mr. Raghu did not discontinue.

# Ridiculous Idea no.2 --> In the final episode Mr. Raghu introduced one more crapiest thought, he again called back all the roadies and asked the 2 finalists to pick their squad. They chose their team and the crapy part was that 2 finalists did not have to battle at all but all the voted out roadies have to participate for them and the winning team's skipper will win!!!! But it got tied..... just right circumstances to give audience an another piece of CRAP.

# Ridiculous Idea no.3 --> This was the most astonishing and the mother of all the crap, Since it got tied between 2 teams it went to the 3rd Roadie who got abolished the last, just before finale, it was "Sonel" and She had to shout the name of the roadie SHE THINKS IS THE WINNER.... Cmoooooonnnnnnn man..... You show yourself that you are the most genius person on earth Mr. Raghu but YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF CRAP CRAP CRAP.

So that ended the season 5, which was again a hit because of the reputation of season 4. So Mr. Raghu decided to do something gigantic this occasion, generally they take 13 roadies but this time he decided for 20 roadies in season 6.

Season 6 started with the Bang, they said it will be scarier, intense, in Australia HELL DOWN UNDER, Hmmmm sounds appealing.... last time Raghu made it like Saas bahu serial.... who is dead he brings him/her back .... I thought he is a shrewd man and he will not replicate those things.... BUT he proved me WRONG BY A VVVVVV LONG WAY.

Season 6 selected 20 roadies.... 20 incredible roadies..... But then came the 1st episode and this time Mr. Raghu did not hang around for 6-7 episodes to demonstrate how retarded he is. In 1st Episode he divided 20 roadies in 2 groups on basis of his retarded mind, group 1 (insecured group) whom he think needs to prove themselves to go ahead which included roadies like “Sufi” and “Nauman” and group 2 (secured group) whom he really wants to see ahead in the show, now if you look at the group whom he really wanted to see ahead in the show had roadies like "Devarshi", "Paulami", "Gurmeet (Palak)", "Tamanna" whom each kid in India knew are of NO CALIBRE.

Out of that insecure group he for a second time divided them in 2 teams and made them compete, team lost went home straightforwardly in the 1st episode itself, 5 roadies "Ankur", "Sonia", "Neha", "Vicky" and "Bhanu" were among those 5 roadies who were the sufferers of Raghu's Mentally retarded - Challenged – Fucked up skull .... Next few lines are in Hindi for Raghu which I will explain in English below it.

To Raghu "Saale dhakkan, gadhe, ullu ke patthe tu apne aap ko shayad Bond samjhta hai par tu asliyat me hai ek ghanghor chutiya, saale bhadwe jab ek saath 5-6 roadies hi nakalne they to kya ghanta bajane ke liye 20 roadies liye they !!!"

English: "Asshole when you had to get rid of 5-6 roadies jointly to trim down the expenditure then why the FUCK did you choose 20 at the first place"

But all of us still thought that Raghu is not that foolish or dim-witted to do such thing and he will bring them back later in the show like how he did in season 5. BUT NO Raghu proved himself the biggest ASSHOLE.

He showed what happens when someone finds success much before when they truly should have achieved it.

Another thing, it’s a game show, a game show has some fundamental laws which are fixed but not for Raghu, he says something then he says no I want this!!!! there was a task in which weakest roadie had to be pushed in a coffin and whoever gets inside the coffin will loose the immunity, this was told initially in the task but later person who was pushed inside "Bobby" wins immunity!!!!!! And "Devarshi" who volunteered himself to go into the coffin goes out without even being voted out because Raghu changed his mind!!!! How EXTRA STUPID are you RAGHU???

Similarly there were 2 more such occurrences where Raghu Showed how gigantic fool he is and the best part is he thinks that he is soooooooooo smart that people will not catch his stupidity,

# 1st - When he gave opportunity to Sufi again, for the third time, reason, he was voted out because of Raghu's Twist, Abay saale to twist daalte kyo ho!!!! (Why the hell do you introduce twists) .... 3 times!!! Sufi gets 3 times because RAGHU wanted him to win BADLY.... Sufi gets 3 times but those 5 roadies who got purged in first episode dint even get there 1st chance correctly and they were not even called when all the roadies had to comeback for the finale .... Sign of an original brainless asshole.

#2nd - For last finale when final 2 roadies had to compete, for that Kiri won and had to choose between "Nauman" and "Palak" to participate with him in the finals, again came the mentally challenged Raghu and his equally mentally retarded brother Rajeev. Both of them knew that they can twist Kiri's intelligence, they made him pick Nauman !!!! You know why ...... because if you had seen the last task of Roadies 6, Palak even in her dreams could never ever have done it..... And this idiocy of Raghu and Rajeev made Kiri loose his Roadies title.

But I DO appreciate that every task executed in Australia was AWESOME ... i dont know if i have to give the credits to "Bumpy" (Director of Roadies) for it or to Raghu .... but they were superb.

I will be glad not to see you face and your tricks in Roadies 7 Mr. Raghu if you stick to your words that Roadies 6 was your retirement.

Look back and learn from your blunders.... you are making fool of yourself on national television..... You are well-known and successful..... Don’t loose it..... It’s your fan telling you and not someone who hates you..... Listen to your fan's word at least.

Could you respond to this Part 2 ??

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There are few more things which according to me are BAD HABITS and they have annoyed me for a long time and they still do but when I gave it a strong thought then it strike me that “How can all these things be incorrect when countless people do it”. Then I thought, why not I request reasons for these things from you.

Please reply your justification in comments wherever it relevant to you,

1. TENDENCY – Trash on Road.

QUESTION – Why do people complain about India being dirty when they themselves littre it by throwing trash wherever it is possible.

MY ANALYSIS – People are so selfish that they do not realize that India is also there home, you do not throw garbage in your living room do you ?? Why cant you take all the throwable trash to your house and dump it in your dustbin, why cant you look out for a dustbin or atleast throw it somewhere where it is probability for that trash to be collected in the morning.PLEASE DO NOT litter

Exception - I truly expect that governmanet must have dustbins atleast at intervals of 100 meters whithin all market places.

YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you feel ?? Let me know in the comments.

2. TENDENCY – Native lingo conversation

QUESTION – Why people use their mother tongue when someone who doesn’t understand the idiom is also involved in the conversation??

MY ANALYSIS – Bad etiquettes.

YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you feel ?? Let me know in the comments.

3. TENDENCY – Queue breaking

QUESTION – Why so sophisticated people (generally the IT mass) break line and want to be first, circumstances like line for lunch, bus or anything??

MY ANALYSIS – Is it lack of proper education!!

YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you think ?? Let me know in the comments.

4. TENDENCY – South Indian food is awful.

QUESTION – Approximately 90% people who are not from South thinks the south Indian Food is pathetic.

MY ANALYSIS – 89% out of that 90% either have never tasted the food of south or they make assumptions based on texture of the south Indian food which is not as attractive as oily – calorific north Indian food. Rest 1% does not want to get accustomed to it. How would you feel if a South Indian tells you that Pav-Bhaji, Pani Puri, Samosa, kachori are the worst things he/she has ever eaten, yes it will make you annoyed, now put yourself in their shoe and think.

YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you feel?? Let me know in the comments.

Please do let me know what do you think about any of these which will allow me to realize and transform my belief regarding few things.

Also please let me know if i have missed some habits which annoys you alot and are worth mentioning.

Waiting for your comments :-)

A trip to GOA

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There is a very very dear friend of mine and he has written this fiction which i found so intresting that i felt like sharing it with everyone, its the story of 2 friends who took the trip to GOA togather. Here it goes ......

Goa is one place I always wanted to go to. I planned it every year however due to friends backing out and financial constraints could not do it. Finally in Dec 2008 I was able to persuade Lucky, that Goa is the best place to spend New Year. Lucky by the way is my childhood friend. He is one person whose opinion you can not trust and he has an opinion about everything in the world. He has great marketing skills, he can convince you to do anything, trust me. I have traveled sitting on engine of the train, with my legs trying to find some support while drinking Vodka, getting scared that it could be my final ride. Only because he thought it would be amusing. If you ask me, it was stupid to risk life for nothing. 
  

An additional thing is that Lucky’s parents don't like me much. They hate me. I am that individual who has disfigured their innocent toddler however what they don't know is that it's the other way around. There are many reasons for them not liking me in which the most current one was an accident while searching for food after boozing to our full capacity (which by the way is too much for anyone to handle) at 2 AM in the morning. We got injured pretty roughly and since then any plans involving him and me got a big NO from his parents. So I was sure that we will not able to go together but thanks to Lucky's great marketing expertise, he was able to induce his parents which also resulted in his father came to drop us to the railway station.  

  

Journey by trains in India and people in your compartment, it always have a story. My expedition was no unusual. I was sleeping on my seat and suddenly I was awake due to a prolonged rattling sound made by the train. It was the brakes, which brought the train to a halt. I went to use the restroom and found unfamiliar luggage on my seat on when I was back. I inquired about the baggage in the compartment and my query was answered by a middle aged woman with a single word 'Mine'. I waited for two men accompanying her to remove the bags from my seat so that I could retire to the bed again. When nothing happened I asked them, "Would you mind removing it from my seat?" The answer that I got was, "adjust kar lo" which meant that they had no plans to eliminate there belongings from there. It was time to get pushy; I told them to get rid of the luggage because there was no room for me to sleep. Again we had an argument about adjusting. I was thinking why I should adjust after paying the full amount for the ticket. After in contention for about 5 minutes and after Lucky 'the angry young man' coming into the picture, who threatened them to throw there baggage if they don't remove it, they finally agreed. I could go to sleep once again, with only one thought in my mind GOA.  

  

I got out of the train at CST took a bus from CST to go to Colaba. The bus was packed and was stinking pretty badly. I managed to capture a seat for me but underprivileged Lucky ....... he was standing. I was proud of my swiftness and also of the fact that I snatched away the seat from ass of an uncle who had his eyes on it for a long time. It was 30 minute ride and I was pleased that I have support beneath my butt and was also apologetic for Lucky whose ass was now getting molested between two giant uncles. I was having fun watching Lucky struggling between the uncles, when unexpectedly my facial expression changed to absolute disgust. I was taken aback by a hot puff of air hitting my face and my nostrils filling in with a strange sickening stink. It was the same uncle whom I beat for this seat and now his ass had its vengeance. It was sickening, someone farting on your face. I had nothing against farting, I think it's an important body function and needs to be performed, but on someone's face?? If I would have been him I at least would have warned the person behind me, may be would have asked him to move a little to the right but not this guy. He likes to take people by surprise, or rather by shock. I wished I could payback but I could do nothing and he got off the bus on the next stop. I wished I was not that agile and swift to hop on to that seat, and instead it was Lucky who had it. I don't mind my ass being between uncles but you never want experience what I just did. The filthy sensation faded off by the time we reached Colaba. 

  


I have a friend in Colaba where we stayed for two days, Mumbai was rocking but I was impatient to reach Goa. Finally on 30th Dec 08 we reached there. Goa is stunning and my agent David got me to an incredible resort from where the Calangute Beach was just a walk away. When you are relaxing in your trunks on one of those beach benches,  sipping your drink, watching the beautiful sea, with beautiful people playing in water wearing their most revealing swim suits you feel all the weight on your shoulders is melting away, It's a startling feeling. 30th Dec the day we reach there we spent the whole day on beach and night in a beach party.

I got up in the afternoon on 31st after partying hard last night. I had the usual hangover. To get rid of it, the best cure is a cup of coffee. I went out, had the coffee, came back to my room and got ready once again to hit the beach. There are shacks on beaches which offer you the most amazing food. One such cottage is Rolly’s, owned by a sardar jee, who prepared the most incredible butter chicken I ever had in my life. There I found a pool table too. I find irresistible to play pool and it’s on that table where I got acquainted with a middle aged British investment banker, ‘Nick’. Nick is on the party of his life. He is in Goa from past six months. We were drawn in together because of our worship for the game. We were friends in no time and he invited me and Lucky to a party in a club called Ethiopia. I gladly accepted it because I knew Ethiopia throws the most amazing New Year bash. 

  

So in the evening I got geared up. I wore jeans, a t-shirt and converse slippers. This is fashion in Goa, no one cares what you are wearing. Lucky and I hired a bike and went to Ethiopia. The place was rocking, and the most wonderful thing was that it was a pool side party. I saw Nick, he was all over the place, going nuts with the music with Ahmed. Ahmed is a guy from Saudi Arabia, who took leave from work to do a course in networking from some institute in Bengaluru. He and Nick met at Rolly’s too. I think it's Nick's preferred place to pick up new friends. I offered them a drink and they looked at each other and smiled. They were smoking a cigarette with no filter. I asked them what is it. Answer came from Ahmed ‘hash – hash’. I asked them again what in the world is ‘hash – hash’. Ahmed looked at Nick and Nick said ‘Marijuana’in the most soothing tone. At this point in time I saw glitter in the eyes of Lucky and I knew something is about to go off beam. 

  

I told him lets abandon these guys and drink what our bodies are used to, but skills of the master. I was made to believe that we came to Goa to try ‘hash – hash’, without trying ‘hash – hash’ my trip is incomplete. Just like ‘a trip to Vaishno Devi is incomplete without going to Bharo Baba’ I swear I was quoted this. So we decided to have some. I smoked the first puff nothing happen, it was like any other smoke so I went on to smoke the whole cigarette. Nothing happen when I was sitting however as soon as I got up I could feel my heart beat, it was getting slower. I was dehydrating, I got up to the bar and asked for a water bottle and drank it in a single breath. I was feeling recovered, a little hot but better. My breath was coming under control. After five minutes my body was not a hot any more, it was ‘burning’. I saw the pool and next thing I know is I am running towards it. I jumped in the pool with my clothes on. The heat in the body was disappearing.  

  

I don’t know for how long was I in the pool or what happen to Lucky, Nick and Ahmed but I liked the way I was feeling. I heard the music that the DJ was playing, without a doubt it was Trance. Now let me tell you ‘Trance’ & ‘hash – hash’ is a lethal blend. Your mind can not think straight, you know what you are doing but you also think that everything you do is correct. My life was now in the hands of the DJ, I could think of nothing except the music. I crawled my way out of the pool, got rid of the wet T-Shirt and started raving, after some time I realized that one of my converse slipper is missing, but who gives a shit about it, I threw the other slipper and continued to rave. I remember telling people I am trying to feel earth, I am trying to feel how the people make me feel. I am trying to get close to nature. I was raving hard and some idiots joined me in my quest to feel nature. I was bare foot, and I was raving on the sand, on concrete, on the wooden benches, I also remember trying to climb a tree. I could feel no pain. All I felt was absolute delight. It disgusts me now that I was stepping in the washroom, on other peoples piss with my bare foot, but at that time I was getting close to nature. I was raving hard very hard. 

  

The next thing I remember waking up on the same wooden bench, on which I went wild the whole night. There was no hangover not even a slight headache, however my feet were throbbing with pain. I looked at them and they were all red and dirty. I washed them in the pool, picked up my T-shirt and got out of Ethiopia. Lucky, Nick and Ahmed were no where to be found. I was picked up by a cab, the driver asked me where to and I remember telling him 'to the nearest shoe shop'. 

  

So that was my adventure of Goa, I never met Nick and Ahmed again. Lucky was also under the effect of ‘hash – hash’, so instead of taking me he hooked up with a French girl, and took her to our room. I can only imagine what they did on that night under the effect of ‘hash – hash’. He got the beating of his life for leaving me there and had to pay the rent of the room we stayed in. It was fair because after all he was the one who actually used the room. When I was leaving Goa, I didn't regret anything I did there. I am a firm believer that you should try everything in life at least once, except things like getting farted on your face. Goa was fun, Marijuana was fun and the whole trip was an etched in your mind experience.

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Onsite travel.

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The excellent news

It’s really an overwhelming feeling to visit a new country, different set of people, diverse mindset, different ethnicity and lots and lots of fairy tale places to visit.

Here I will tell my experience about overseas travel (Europe particularly because I have been there only) and few things you might want to know before and during journey so that the first travel does not become frustrating. Most of the points can be adapted even if you are holidaying too. 


Things you must purchase,

1. A good suitcase which is strong to defy the abuse from airline baggage transfer crew, look for the bag which could carry up to 25 kgs (Except US, its 44 kgs I guess) and make sure that bag must not exceed a weight of 3-4 kgs of its own.

2. Inner wear Thermals, a monkey cap, high-quality gloves and woolen socks, you will need it since its freezing for almost 11 months and almost boiling for 1 months, JUNE usually. Keep one good quality jacket which to keep you warm, don’t go for fancy thing which looks good from outside but does not keep the warmth. You really need to fight cold there because it goes as low as -10 degrees in some countries in Europe.

3. Carry some necessary stuff which you might not get there or you might get it with high difficulty like, Nail cutter, scissors, Medicines (buy whole strips and buy for EVERY single normal disease, balm, cough syrup, ENO, painkillers, fever, cough, cold, thermometer etc.), adhesive tape, few passport size photographs (you will need them when you will get your bus pass ready and few other things).

4. Keep eatables ONLY for 1st week, more eatables and more weight they would claim, keep as much as Maggie you could because that's the one thing you can eat 3 times a day (Some of us actually can including me), you can even keep few ready to made MTR packets which can be prepared in hot water but each packet is about half kgs.

5. If you are planning to cook there then you must keep a tea-vessel which would serve the purpose for many things like for making tea, Maggie etc, Keep 250 grams of all sorts of Masalas (spices) it will be sufficient for 6 months for a single person even if you cook every day. Also, carry a tawa to prepare chapati, a cooker (If feasible to carry) which could also serve as kadahi to prepare side dishes, 2 spoons, a knife, Belan (Chapati Roller), rest of the things you can find there itself but try to purchase everything plastic there because steel is expensive in Europe.

Few things to Note:-

Before voyage:-

# Have a travel Itinerary which is painless to pursue, try to keep away from domestic flight within India (Applicable only If the airport in your city operates international flights) prior to catching the global flight.

# Make sure you have no less than 1.5 – 2 hrs between every linking flight so that you will be competent to catch a glimpse of the airport and have adequate time to board the connecting flight even if you have to go to some terminal which is little far away.

# You will get Vegetarian food onboard without difficulty when you will begin from India but you might not be blessed with the same in the following flights so ensure that you ask your agent to get availability of vegetarian for ALL following flights, all airlines WILL arrange vegetarian food for you if they are told in advance.

At Airports:-

# Take a picture of your passport and keep it in your mobile and camera so that you have it readily accessible if some catastrophe happens, have 2-3 copies of Xerox of every vital document and preserve it in all different baggage so even if your 1 bag goes missing (Usually happens, don’t be afraid because it comes back after some time) you still have 1 copy with you, keep your necessary documents handy for immigration like Passport, client invitation letter, company ID card (extremely essential).

# Do NOT keep any fluid in the check in baggage or in hand baggage and do not keep any knife, nail cutter, scissor in hand bag, it will be thrown away.

# Make sure that you click pictures on any airport before seeking the authorization from airport staff/security because it’s forbidden at many places and could land you in nuisance.

At Onsite:-

1. Don't take woolen pajamas because every house in Europe has centralized heating system so within the house you will have the temperature as good as India, so you will not want to wear anything which will keep you warm in the house and evidently you will not wear that outside.

2. Clothes I would advise to keep

# 7 pairs of undergarments so that you can wash them without any stress on the weekends.
# 2-3 pair of jeans not more then that.
# 6-7 shirts or t-shirts for the whole week is enough.

Since it’s TOO cold and TOO clean there, you will not perspire or even get dirty, so you will not have need of washing as repeatedly as you require in India. I remember that I washed my 3 pair of jeans only once in the span of 2.5 months and please trust me I was not being lazy.

3. DO NOT lose sleep about FOOD AT ALL because every country in this world has Indians so you will find Indian restaurant and Indian general stores without any difficulty with slight hunt but do not hesitate in going to local general stores chains also because there also you will get many things like rice, bread, SNACKS and beverages. Vegetables like Onion, Tomato, Cabbage, capsicum, Garlic and Potato are available in almost everywhere in the world but its very hard to find ginger and chillies, you will get them only in Indian or Pakistani stores.

4. Look for the house which is close to the office but don't try toooooooo hard to seek out, first reach there and get yourself easy and then do investigate in your free time on weekends, you will find everything with no trouble.

5. First thing you should do on weekends is to get the bus pass done it will eliminate one Burdon off your shoulders, I would recommend to do a lots of groundwork from India itself so that you wont face much troubles. You can be acquainted with many many things from the site www.wikitravel.com

6. Memorize few terms which you cannot be used outside India,

Nonveg = meat (no one understands what is non veg, ask if the food contains meat or not)
Petrol pump/bunk = Gas station
Do you know English = Do you speak English
General store = Grocery store
Rice = Reese (at least in Copenhagen, it might work for you too)
Cold drinks = Soda

7. Don’t give the impression of being a tourist, especially Indian by being in sports shoes, find something other then sports shoes also. For them it looks truly weird to wear sports shoes at places other then gymnasium or while playing. You can wear them but not every-time, wear them only once in a week to the office, Please remember that sports shoes does not go with Formals AT ALL. Wear them when you will have to walk a lot but don't be dependent only on them.

8. Follow rules, follow traffic light, don’t push people in queues, be polite and people will treat you like a celebrity, so learn from them and improvise on your Indian tactics while being within there rules and regulations.

You will know as you start staying, don't be bothered that you need to pack more if you are going for 6 months, pack as less as possible because you might wanna bring lots of things from there for you and many of your relatives :-)

DO NOT carry anything for friends because it will simply overload your luggage for someone who is not as important as your relatives.

DO NOT panic at any point because nothing will happen since its not INDIA :-)

Keep your cool, have endurance and keep your eyes and ears open, learn from different people of different ethnicity and DO NOT falter to ask about anything from any one.

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