I call it a dream like all the others do. Only a dream can be unbelievable, it can be what you want or wish it to be and you never know when it started but you would feel the end right after you wake up and feel for it not lasting forever.
This is a dream that 33 of us experienced for around six days and even now we are refusing to come out of it.
Designing this dream was not an easy job but it felt like a breeze cos of Alagiri, SV, Arthi, Sudharsan and Shivram.
The dream was filled with beach, sea food, volley ball, water sports, shacks and of all a set of 33 wonderful people always around.
We do not know how we became close, we do not know what made us grow close, all we knew was we could just randomly choose a person out of the lot for help no matter what it was.
The train journeys were remembered for the mafia games, dumb-c, the card games, and sha-boo-three :P, the endless manga sessions, standing near the door, coffee and tea at random stations.
And the bus journeys for dance, music, and at times getting hidden in the last rows to just come out surprisingly very active.
A halt at any beach is incomplete without us getting drowned in them, the choke slams where the guys literally push the girls down the sea only when a scaringly huge wave hits, a game of volley ball, monkey game in the beach and a lot of other silly games.
Dinner had always been an exciting part of our trip, cos we girls had never gotten a chance to go out with our class guys for dinner on any day in college.I should say I got to know a lot of guys really well cos of the dinner at the sea food restaurant, where we eventually ended up every day.The first day dinner was kinda intimidating, but now its like I'm missing those moments forever, it was not the food or the restaurant, it was the 15 of us who had grown close during each dinner.
The walk back to the hotel after every night was an amazing experience.We girls never had the chance to experience the night life like the guys, but all I know is that we never complained cos the guys made sure we enjoyed as much as we could before the curfew time and then only dropped us back in the hotel. I loved sharing my room with apu cos she always kept company till I slept by continusly mangaaing and talking, this was the first time I had shared a room with her or prolly should I say spent time more than any other day in these four years.
The adventurous part in the trip was the water sports at Calangute with its banana ride and para sailing which makes me wanna go back there again.
The other memorable moments have been my work as an alarm, I really detested that job but yet it turned out very interesting and funny each day, and then the hailay hailay song that moni sang at Daniel during dinner, then the very pleasant driver at Goa :P , and non-sarcastically sweet and a supportive Suresh na , our tour guide and our unstable hotel owner who surprisingly arranged for a camp fire without petrol or wood,
and Daniel had to show his art of breaking chairs and tables to gather wood for the camp fire :P, the big rooms, fresh breakfast by the pool side, the addiction for mafia, vishnu's hairstyle and the effect of orange juice on him, the breezer baby at the river cruise, and our tireless dance at the river cruise, the NIO's ppt whch didn't last even for 5 minutes when it should have been the major part of our entire trip, very supportive faculties who acted oblivious to many things, viswa's 'his'tory, everyone's life story, and that night where many people were candid about their entire college life till then, and a very thoughtful toast by shivram.
After this trip, its like I know a lot of people and I'm sure I would stay in touch with them forever. My outlook on people like Shivram ,Arunachalam,Aparna and Adithya have totally changed, when I say change I mean to say it was for real good.
And my entire trip wouldn have been what it was if it was not for alagiri, divi, daniel, sv, apu, mike,viswa,CP, moni, arthi, aishu, shivram,vinod,arunachalam. I can actually keep adding.These were the guys whom I always used to search for in the trip.
Every moment in this trip has been captured really well, that it would slap us if we happen to forget our class at any point.We all wanted photos not for the sake of it cos we wanted to remember the moments and our emotions at every stage.
There would have been a lot of things that I would have forgotten , but all I know is this trip holds a very special place in my college life , this was the one that brought all of us together and brought us out of our shells and made us understand what exactly college life meant.I had always been excited about just 7 months remaining in our college life , but after this trip I feel seven months is not enough, I wanna go back to July 4,2007 and start it all again.
Hope this dream is remembered forever by everyone who were a part of it.
Cheers to Goa and Us , the Softies 2k7 :):)
This is a dream that 33 of us experienced for around six days and even now we are refusing to come out of it.
Designing this dream was not an easy job but it felt like a breeze cos of Alagiri, SV, Arthi, Sudharsan and Shivram.
The dream was filled with beach, sea food, volley ball, water sports, shacks and of all a set of 33 wonderful people always around.
We do not know how we became close, we do not know what made us grow close, all we knew was we could just randomly choose a person out of the lot for help no matter what it was.
The train journeys were remembered for the mafia games, dumb-c, the card games, and sha-boo-three :P, the endless manga sessions, standing near the door, coffee and tea at random stations.
And the bus journeys for dance, music, and at times getting hidden in the last rows to just come out surprisingly very active.
A halt at any beach is incomplete without us getting drowned in them, the choke slams where the guys literally push the girls down the sea only when a scaringly huge wave hits, a game of volley ball, monkey game in the beach and a lot of other silly games.
Dinner had always been an exciting part of our trip, cos we girls had never gotten a chance to go out with our class guys for dinner on any day in college.I should say I got to know a lot of guys really well cos of the dinner at the sea food restaurant, where we eventually ended up every day.The first day dinner was kinda intimidating, but now its like I'm missing those moments forever, it was not the food or the restaurant, it was the 15 of us who had grown close during each dinner.
The walk back to the hotel after every night was an amazing experience.We girls never had the chance to experience the night life like the guys, but all I know is that we never complained cos the guys made sure we enjoyed as much as we could before the curfew time and then only dropped us back in the hotel. I loved sharing my room with apu cos she always kept company till I slept by continusly mangaaing and talking, this was the first time I had shared a room with her or prolly should I say spent time more than any other day in these four years.
The adventurous part in the trip was the water sports at Calangute with its banana ride and para sailing which makes me wanna go back there again.
The other memorable moments have been my work as an alarm, I really detested that job but yet it turned out very interesting and funny each day, and then the hailay hailay song that moni sang at Daniel during dinner, then the very pleasant driver at Goa :P , and non-sarcastically sweet and a supportive Suresh na , our tour guide and our unstable hotel owner who surprisingly arranged for a camp fire without petrol or wood,
and Daniel had to show his art of breaking chairs and tables to gather wood for the camp fire :P, the big rooms, fresh breakfast by the pool side, the addiction for mafia, vishnu's hairstyle and the effect of orange juice on him, the breezer baby at the river cruise, and our tireless dance at the river cruise, the NIO's ppt whch didn't last even for 5 minutes when it should have been the major part of our entire trip, very supportive faculties who acted oblivious to many things, viswa's 'his'tory, everyone's life story, and that night where many people were candid about their entire college life till then, and a very thoughtful toast by shivram.
After this trip, its like I know a lot of people and I'm sure I would stay in touch with them forever. My outlook on people like Shivram ,Arunachalam,Aparna and Adithya have totally changed, when I say change I mean to say it was for real good.
And my entire trip wouldn have been what it was if it was not for alagiri, divi, daniel, sv, apu, mike,viswa,CP, moni, arthi, aishu, shivram,vinod,arunachalam. I can actually keep adding.These were the guys whom I always used to search for in the trip.
Every moment in this trip has been captured really well, that it would slap us if we happen to forget our class at any point.We all wanted photos not for the sake of it cos we wanted to remember the moments and our emotions at every stage.
There would have been a lot of things that I would have forgotten , but all I know is this trip holds a very special place in my college life , this was the one that brought all of us together and brought us out of our shells and made us understand what exactly college life meant.I had always been excited about just 7 months remaining in our college life , but after this trip I feel seven months is not enough, I wanna go back to July 4,2007 and start it all again.
Hope this dream is remembered forever by everyone who were a part of it.
Cheers to Goa and Us , the Softies 2k7 :):)
I love this blog post of yours!! :) Very well written! :) I re-lived the entire trip once again, as I was reading it! :) What a trip it was, indeed!! :) :) You've jotted down in the most appropriate manner, almost every single thing that would come to our mind immediately, when we think about the trip!! :) :) I never knew you this well over the past 4 years! Had a great time with you! :) The dinner times were fun! :D :D Whoa - those 6 days were truly one among the best days of my life! :)
ReplyDeleteThe watersports were \m/ ! :) And all that screaming in order to bring in the extra "effect" was fun tooo! :D
The Mafia game was SO awesome!! :)
In short, the trip was packed with too many pleasant memories to bring back with us, not all of which can be penned down, but they will remain as some of the moments which will be cherished the longest!! :)
All you folks made this trip turn out to be the BEST ever trip!! :) Thanks a tonne for that! :)
Cheers to our Goa trip and all of us!! :) :)
Love,
Apu! :)
gr8 post :)
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those were really gr8 days of our life...
thanks to the class as a whole(collective contribution) for making every moment enjoyable :)
LOVE* u softies2k7 :)
(*- {sudha,cp,dani,pd,ilam...}hope u really do understand the meaning)
Nice read. "Mafia", I din know it went 5 years down the lane.
ReplyDeleteim responding to this blog almost a week after we came back...and still i can still feel each n every moment in the trip..right from the min we got onto the train to mangalore ill we bid each other goodbye on 17th morn in cbe station....n all thru..i hear tat song..."sweet memories...keep haunting me.." in the background!!..oh im still so hungover that "most awesomest-ly wonderful" trip of my life!..
ReplyDeletecan never forget the St. Mary's island..EVER!...beautiful moments to remember...specially the last few moments...where me, ila, sudharsan and visnu were all sitting with a can of pepsi...looking out into the sea...n getting all philosophical and serious...we were all acting drunk!..for god's sakes...!..Although very short...i MUST say..the conversation was very deep indeed!..
One more thing ill NEVER EVER forget is the water sports in GOA...specially the banana boat and the parasailing...oh my god!!..i bet me or sudha will never forget it...coz we were SO shaken up!...i had us asking for an encore...but obviously..our wallets HAD to shrink jus then!:P...the banana ride where he kept asking if we rrreeeeeaallllyyyy wanted to be thrown into the water in the middle of the sea...n we both kept saying.."BHAIYAAAAAAAAA!!>..ANDAR ANDAR!!"...n tat thrilled tat guy so much tat he started singing to his delight!...n the parasailing!...OMG!...i just remember one thing when we were up there hanging...:)...SCREAMING out with all our might to our heart's content..and the water touch was THE BEST!...the point is....we didn shut up even when we were getting pulled in the water..we jus kept screaming and filling our wide open mouths with the sea water..as if it was some prasadam or something!!:P...i remember sudha running away everyday to wake up our class's "kumbhakaran"..shivram!...n i WILL NEVER forget vagator and colva beach..and swimming lessons #1 and #2...courtesy sudharsan and shivram!...we went right ino the sea...till we were like neck deep in water..n we'd get thrown up by the guys when huge waves came...as if we were some volley ball or something!...n ill never forget the "sea food" sessions...so memorable...and unforgettable!..and the best part??..the train back to cbe..none of us slept..NONE of us...we jus kept talking...a million secrets from so many unassuming classmates of mine...who have turned out to be such awesome friends...special mention:..Arunachalam!...and to him i'd like to say:Arunachalam!its just so bad that we didn't know you earlier!:)..and im soooooooo glad we're good friends now:)....another special mention: Adithya!...and to adithya..i never knew you spoke so much!really!im happy the trip was an ice breaker and i hope it never gets too cold enuf for the ice to form up again!:)...and another special mention...:)...:SOFTIES 2K7...guys!...i LOVE you all!!!...im SO happy i am here..and im double happy we made it to the trip!!..kudos to sudha n alagiri for making the trip so rockin and to sudharsan for being so AWESOME in photoraphy!:):)...im sure these memories we have of goa are gonna remain with us a long way into our lives and keep reminding us of all the fun we had and can never imagine of having again!...