Goa -Of Dolphins, damsels and dumbasses..

Just writing this to chronicle recent events for a future read, not a typical blog I would say..
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Early Jan I went to Goa to meet up with Miami dosts Vinay D Souza and Nikhil Iyer and pursue my scuba certification as well, besides I hadnt met them for more than 2 years.
Both of them are frm Bbay, frm a very obscure place called Mulund, though they beg to differ and make tall claims to its prominence in Bbay. Much has been said and done about this amongst us and spats were common in Apt 610, FountaineBleau Milton, Miami and yet
no one concurred abt it.. A schism had set in with the Blore Boys making a mockery of Mulund and referring to them by the last 4 letters of that word. Battle Lines were always drawn and
many a boring night was whiled away, mocking at the mulundites. But they were/have been my best friends since we first met..

Nix happens to be one of the most savvy palghat iyers I have ever come across...
Suave and succinct, he is a great guy to get along with. The less said about his partner and my roomie for 2.5 years, Vinu, the better !! Here was a child who had probably leapfrogged into adulthood and was endlessly enamored by Video Games and WWF and the like ..
his childhood was fraught with misadventures I heard and he was a mocking bird :)
These two were frnds frm yeons though... hmm.. a conspiracy of the forces of nature ..

Katte or Katz was what everyone called me, nobody knew Mukund.. :(
After 2.5 years, Nix greeted me with the usual " Yo Katte, bolimagane, wassup " at Calangute Beach :) These guys get wind of the most imp words quickly and never let go.. !!
We on our part just let it pass. Well, we have lil choice, what ?

Accompanying Nix and Vinu on the tour was their frnd frm Bbay who they called bhiki..
It would not be far off the mark to say Bhiki was very much like Jason Biggs in American Pie,
a greenhorn and keen to test out his virility :).. But alas, Bhiki just lacked the wherewithal
to even make the right first moves.. Many were the chances that went abegging at the beaches and later at the clubs..

Nix summed it up nicely later :)) I quote below...

"being the quintessential lauda that he is, bhiki did not get laid. seriously, that guy will spend that night looking for his own lund even if the chick spreads herself before him begging for a good"stuffing". he should have smoked her like a cheap cigar, i say. instead he was
lollygagging all weekend driving around in a dumb scooty and checking out the scenery in goa. fucking dumbass." :))

On my part, I stuck to my task of getting my scuba diver license done with and what a joy it was .. Going to Grande Island on the boat, diving Suzy's Wreck, Lobster Cove, chasing away scorpion fish, hermit crabs and the like, being tagged by Angel fish, gazing silenty at schools of Sergeant Majors and the best part after surfacing and heading back to shore - watching the
Indo-Gangetic River Dolphins flip at whim in the open sea and dive ever so gracefully..

Goa rocks ! In the Winter though...