SOUTH GOA (palolem, Agonda, etc)

Hello

My previous writing was about north and old GOA with college mate. And now here I came with adventure in south GOA.  Well I went to goa before few times but this time it’s special and memorable; Because  my journey from Mumbai to pune was like a bollywood movie stories and there is something  different which I discovered in South Goa.

 I had train to GoA from Pune. I went to Mumbai and from there I was thinking to catch bus to Pune. After finished my work in college I moved to Dadar to catch bus to pune but I got late I reached Dadar at 12noon and I had train from pune at 4.30pm. So I preferred to go to pune by cool cab, but it was wrong choice. Before 60km from pune, car got breakdown on highway and it was horrible to ask help when it again got breakdown in tunnel, because all vehicles speed were above 80km/hr and nobody stopped. Somehow after 20min car starts, but i already got late it was 4.pm. we moved further and halt at food counter where driver tried to cool down the engine by adding water.  But after that engine doesn't start and I had to catch bus which dropped me at bypass road of pune. I called many of my friends so that somebody will pickup me and drop me at station to reach before 4.30pm but nobody was available that time, I was so helpless.  When I reached bypass road it was already 4.30pm and I thought I had to cancel this tour. Then I called my friend who was already waiting for me at station, he said train is also late by 1hr so come before 5.30pm. Then I feel AHHAA. God help me .

 I prefer private car to reach pune up-to 3pm so that I can meet some friends, and like Bollywood movie. I managed to catch train exactly before 5min.

                                            VALENTINE DAY NIGHT AT PALOLEM :)

After reaching GOA; one of my  friend from Palolem(south goa) came to receive me on Canacona bus stop and booked room for me. As room is on beach I thought rent would be 700-800rs but I was wrong.

 That day was Valentine day 14^th Feb. It was nothing special for me as I don’t have GF. But yes it was valentine day; so little excitement was thereJ.  My day starts from Dolphin Safari I went to see dolphin with my friend Nikhil

Dinner. i need to learn European way to eat with knife n spoon 

On Beach Restaurent 

 On the ferry there was one girl from Paris named Maria. It was nice chitchat with her. She said when she was in Mumbai for some time; she wanted to act in Bollywood movies perhaps as background dancer but sad nobody hired her ;).

                                                        Maria And Me

On that day we just did swimming whole day and we had dinner on the beach restaurant. Waiter already informed us that service charge is 10%. Don’t know whether it’s only for Indian or also for foreigners because Indian get everything expensive than foreigners. After dinner we were walking on beach and I met one Spanish girl and while talking with her doesn’t know when time passed from 9pm to 2am. While I was talking with her one Russian girl approached Nikhil and ask him if he want Charas(drug)he simply said he is happy with cigarette after sometime she gone but Nikhil was so much angered on that Russian girl; because he is not charssi(later on he said to me charas is very bad drug) .  While chatting with Angel (Spanish)  I came to know that  she rented room 200-300/day for single room and  same thing with Maria. She has room on beach with sea view; is only for 300rs/day. So I thought I m only fool who paid more, every time I go there. Well I don’t bother much about price but it shows we have to have skills to negotiate.

                                                  Angeles n me

On Saturday we rented a bike and went to see other beaches such as Agonda, Patnam, Rajbaugh, and the beautiful Lalit Hotel/golf ground where many bollywood film shooted. Patnam and Agonda are not so much crowded and its nice that these are peaceful. Every Saturday there is silent noise party organized on palolem beach @Neptune point. And I was waiting for that since I got on palolem.

@ Shacks on Agonda Beach

Lalit Golf International. famous place for Bollywod movies to shoot

 I went alone that party because Nikhil refuse to join me. Party begins at 11pm you can say this was my first Disco party in outside (except college DJ nights). First time I got stamp of party on handJ. I think that party was Big party. I didn’t get joy from inside becoz I used to yell while dancing but here everybody wearing headphone and dancing alone in their theme but I enjoyed as some people joined me later.

AND PARTY BEGINS

CROWED

Marina (Germany) i like the way she dance ;)

                                                          Nobody danced like her.


Some peoples I mean blonde dance really good not just shaking heads, As I don’t know how to dance on English music so I just shake my headsJ. Some girls whistling it was just sexy n awesome., I don’t know whistle L.  Everything was crazy there ;), I can’t explain here, u should go and then u’ll know.  When I remove headphone I felt everybody is dancing like stupid no music outside after wearing headphone oh everything is okJ. One performer perform very nicely on various themes, her performance was awesome.

                                                            WOW!!!

                                                     
                                                      SIMPLY GREAT


 Party ends at 4am then I was sitting alone and one guy from Holand joined me and after some time his friend joined me she was nice and it was nice to know about Holand culture. I never met people from Holand. Funnily they said Gemany and Holand are like India and Pakistan J, We have our bicycles in germany which was taken away by Hitler J and one day w’ll take those back.

                                                                 party stamp

On Sunday we (Nikhil &me) went to Mallikarjuna Temple which is very famous in south goa. From there to turtle beach hoping to see big turtle on beach but we found none. one person said turtle came in night near about 10pm/in early morning. So if anybody goes there they advised to stay one night to see turtle. We ride Kayak @palolem. It was nice experience.

Nikhil on turtle beach

Mallikarjuna Temple

In Palolem at the restaurant/pub which is on beach, some people sung just for fun with their instruments, it was nice to hear them, such live concert J with the rhythm of sound of waves, sitting on cold sand, chitchat with stranger and I felt this is life to Enjoy and Relax.

Here are the some places where party organized

- Benaulim Aqua - The disco below the lobby at The Leela,

 Mobor - Cavelossim GATSBY’S - Colva Alvoc - Colva Beach Ziggy’s - Colva Beach Johnny Cool’s - Colva Beach Gravity Pool - Inside Radisson White Sands Resort, Varca Holiday Inn Resort - Goa, Mobor - Cavelossim Kenilworth Resort - Utorda Beach

And also Pool party @ Lalit International golf on Wednesday don’t know whether  its organized on every Wednesday u have to check. I did not went all above. Only I went to “silent noise A Big one”

If anybody knows more abt party organised in south go just post in comment

Until then Cheers & enjoy

Tamil Nadu Part = 2

Hello Friends

Now almost a year passed to work here in Tamilnadu and in this company. So here I come to evoke some pages of my life in TamilNadu. It is wrong to say that my 1year in this company was very good and happy, everything is good and bla bla… there were some problems with some but one who learn how to adjust and defend oneself can move further and this is exactly what I have done I made myself secure in every situation, done my work honestly and be what am I. I didn't change myself for others. And now I am enjoying benefits of it. Well that’s enough now ;)

  

 After came here from the start I was trying to find some Vipassana meditator who organize the 1day course on every Sunday. But my bad luck I found none, there are some meditators in Pondicherry but they don’t organize one day course and it Its shame that here in Pondicherry n Tamilnadu not much center except one in Chennai and in now in Madurai. But one can get a lot of temples of every GOD in each n every city :). Talking about Climate, no winter, no monsoon, that time i crave for monsoon like DhammaGiri... DhammaGiri is best place to enjoy monsoon :). 24hrs raining for full 4month...

In the mid of July I visited Kanykumari and Rameswaram. as you may be know kanyakumari is end of South in India's map. There I visited a temple of kanyakumari goddesses and shocked when Priest/pujari told me that men can only  enter after removing there upper cloth :), its ritual in some/may be most temples in tamilnadu..Later on we visited other site seeing places such as Thiruvanamalai statue in Sea. One thing is for sure there is no comparison to nature’s beauty when I saw the point where 3sea’s meet, viz.. Indian sea, Bengal sea and Arabian sea. Those tides with full energy make a milky appearance in sea was just awesome. 

Where 3 Sea Meets

Swami Vivekanand Memorial

Crew

Bhai Log

Kanyakumari from Sea 

Thiru statue

@ Rameswaram Infront of Ex President  Kalam House

SunRise Kanyakumari

Rameswaram See that Srilanka Border

Rameswaram is place related to epic Ramayana. First time I went inside any temple and follow the one ritual’s which is bathing with water from different wells (kumbh/kua). Don’t think that how come this atheist did that I dident do for ritual or I do not believe in something. but I did for fun to take bath from almost 30-40 different wells, it was really fun. During site seeing, In one temple of Hanuman I saw that stone which mentioned in Ramayana, the bridge of stone floating on sea from India to Srilanka. That heavy stone really floats. I don’t know science behind that stone, but it really floats ;).

Also in Dec. I went to Kodaikanal hill station its indeed The Prince of Hill Station. It feel that I am god who is seeing this earth from above the cloud. Once again I can say that there is no comparison for natures beauty. After kodaikanl we went to Madurai. In there we went to Minakshi Temple. It was good temple to see but I was shock by reading inside the temple that “NON HINDUS ARE NOT ALLOWED INSIDE THIS BOUNDARY  I dident get the meaning of this sentence. Whether it is mean for Dalits in India/ those foreigners who visited that temple/for any Muslim. This was shock for me that caste-ism is still in India so publicly.

Well talking about city, It nice city; we walk almost whole city.  

Kodaikanal from Crockers walk..

Crew

Siteseeing

Tibetian market

Madurai Meenakshi temple

Shocking

Inside Meenakshi Temple

Dinner

About my Vipassana practice. It’s hard to maintain practice daily while work but i m doing it in my different way :). Like meditating in car while daily short journey etc :). and visiting to catholic ashram as they are meditators. They allow me to meditate in their DhammaHall whenever I went there for short time. And fill the gap by doing self course in my room.

I’ll come with next page of my life till then cheers

BirthDay Plan A & Plan B

BirthDay Plan A & Plan B

Hello buds. This birthday is quite interesting for me becoz I celebrate with strangers. I knew that on 6^th June nothing gonna happened rather than go to work so I wanted this birthday would be little interesting. So I was thinking to go to chennai for little shopping and to watch movie etc, (yes becoz in Tamilnadu no hindi or english movie shown on theater all are tamil or either dub in tamil) so I told my old friend Francoise about plan ( one Belgian friend who lives in chennai) but she told me to come at tourist spot Mahamallipuram which is 40km from chennai which is really good one. I cached the bus and on Pondecherry Bus Stop I met Nichole from Germany. We travel together up to Mahammalipuram we had nice chitchat, and during chitchat she was convinced by me to take Vipassana course, I told her might be I will come to chennai in the evening so we could meet somewhere in mall, and she was happy too.

Finally I reached Mahamallipuram and I figured it out its good place though I got fool by hiring rickshaw for Rs.300 to watch 2km area only because I had to wait for Francoise. Finally I met her in restaurant which is on beach. we had lunch there, then we went to Ideal beach which is very nice place its Resort where u can enjoy facilities like, access private beach, swimming pool etc. for only Rs.400. I enjoyed there very much. Francoise teach me or gave me some tips of swimming. Its wonderful day with her. She gave me a beautiful Gift a T-Shirt with words “Undiscovered Genius”, which I like most As Francoise had different planed in the evening. She went to home

So for further plan I call Nicki to ask about the room in hotel where she stayed, its surprising that in that hotel Indians are not allowed may be for security of foreigner and also rooms are cheap from Rs.175-400 only. Nicki manage to convinced the manager for me. I reached hotel near abt 8pm then we went to Marina beach. Again nice chitchat on beach and then dinner. In the morning during breakfast she told me abt her bad experience in India. Mostly happened in south India. Like touching n grabbing her here and there in crowd and in bus, a stranger on road ask her about f***. As Indian I feel very shamed that this things now also happens. She ask me why westerners considered as prostitute here? and I didn't had answer!. Hopefully she feel positive after meet me.

After breakfast we went for shopping when we walked on the road some local guys who looks educated, pass some vulgar comment on her, it was really bullshit we just neglect them and went away. We went to some malls and did shopping. As my choice is not so good, so she selected cloths for me and I just bought those. Although we both feel very tired we just move on to do the things. In the afternoon I catches the bus from chennai and came home with smiley face,

Thanks to god who planned for me. When I looked about whole things, accidentally I met Nicki and she gave me her mobile no. I was thinking to go chennai with Francoise and do some shopping n stay at her place but as it canceled. Plan B works which made by GOD. And my Sunday and Monday went well :). after writing this I feel like it was dream :) thanks god.............

LIFE IN TAMILNADU PART -1

After spent 2days in home I came to Tamil Nadu to start my work. When I was in train from Nagpur to Chennai, one guy named Sridhar from Tamil Nadu knows Hindi, he help to get the bus stop Koyembedu which is central bus stop in Chennai from where you can get bus to anywhere long distance and short distance.  That bus stop is quite big I never saw bus stop like this.  After Sridhar left it was difficult to communicate with people. In the bus I was quite mum whole 7hours and listened music. I tried to speak with guy seated next to me but he did not understand English and Hindi. When I reached Chidambaram bus stop my company people came to receive me. I thought might be they are mechanic or some other staff but they were sr. manager, sr. engineer. And some other head.  In the end I reached my accommodation which is nice. Next day I went to market to buy some stuff but it was difficult to communicate with them. For example I asked for chana (chickpeas ) in shop, he came with chalk box then I explain them about 15 min the shape, color somehow in the end he understood J. Another eg. We(my roommate) ask to buy 2 hangers for cloth to our maid she bought and told the price in tamil and when we did not understand she said its 400rs each instead 40 we both got shock  J

In 1^st dec I went to my working site. I felt very bored, no work just observe the things which were going on.  After couple of days I got work to observe the things and instruct the worker. When I tried to instruct the local worker they did not understand anything. So most of the time I used sign languageJ. Sometimes I said something and workers did something different. I felt I am on different planet or another country nobody understand Hindi which is national language of India. I feel Maharashtra is really very good state where all peoples from different state and country can live. At least all Marathi people understand and speak Hindi. Sometimes it irritates me when I heard Tamil everywhere and I did not understand anything. But I have no option. I want to learn tamil but as I am here only for 3months I don’t feel it’s necessary to learn.

Now I start to take interest in my job. And result of that I have to do night duty alone to handle all operations on site which were going on. My seniors are good and friendly.  Not much work load just learning things J will come with 2^nd part soon  

here are the some pics

 workmen with engg (me)

 on the beach 500m from working site

                                    daynight  load testing on pile