Those were the days; we have just completed our class X. And most of our batch mates were deciding over which stream they need to opt. And our gang were out of all this mayhem as everybody was clear in their mind to opt for the Science stream and we all have decided to join the same college, just to repeat our prank games we have played in our high school….
As we all were waiting for results and having nothing to do in vacations, the biggest time pass was playing hard ball cricket, which used to gush our adrenaline high. Yeaah.. some times the game of cricket used to follow by the some more excitements like roaming the city in Luna (A 50cc moped) which always used to have less than 20 rupees petrol in its tank and four guys over it who all had 5-10 rupees in their pockets for disaster management (to bribe police if got caught or for petrol), or it might be a swimming in the channel or a well, or it would be at least a discussions which used to start and end with no reasons and hogging in well known chat centres....
Wheeeew... I will be delighted even today, when I think about those days and make me sing
“Oh when I look back now
That was seemes to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life.”
I know I’m boring you guys a lot now ... Okie... Now I wanna share one more event happened in this summer of '98, which I feel proud to share, our arteries do pump out when we friends sit and recall those memories, it is an event which I haven't told even to my parents, and always wanted to confess...
It is a trip to Goaaaa....
And the most amazing thing about this trip is a budget which was less than just £5 :)... my next trip to Goa was almost 10-20 times more in budget...and the expenses of trip we guys make now a days make me feel proud about that 400 bucks trip ... We all planned and concluded the plan our this low budget trip, just in a discussion after a game of cricket.. It was gang of seven who managed to get permissions from home, probably as we are only managed to succeed to deceive (convince) our parents ...We drafted the plan taking out atlas, during those days a must have stuff in our school bag .Then we concluded the pan putting our knowledge of geometry, geography together and came up with a plan...
and the plan was much simple; the scale showed Goa and Ganesh gudi are almost at a equal distance from Londa (a last train stop to reach Goa from Karnataka) ...Ganesh gudi was where one of our class mate Sandeep was staying, and Ganeshgudi was our operational HQ ...so we people who were good in calculation decided as even the fare might be almost safe which was around 30-40 rupees... this proved extremely costlier decision in the trip... we were not aware about projections at that time so cant blame the geeks who compelled us to agree to the stats.
So we all started on one Friday night from Davangere railway station to Londa.... as the budget for the Goa trip was just 400 rupees we took a second class train ticket and travelled whole night without a seat and some managed to sleep and sit in what ever the places we managed to get and then finally we reached Londa from there we took a bus to Panaji, Goa and ticket costed us bloody 130 and odd bucks indulging fear in all our minds as half of the tour budget got spent before reaching Goa itself !!!!... still we didn’t took our steps back just was heading with what ever the plans drafted and decided we will cut the trip by a day if its inevitable ....
and then after landing in Goa we just managed to 2 take a cottage near Calangute beach, to pay visit most of the beaches, n thanks to some economical hotel 'sparrow's nest' which was our eat out for all the three days in Goa ..And we managed to booz also one day ….
we finished a trip to Goaaa in just 400 rs :-)
How we managed?? How we succeeded in executing all the plans drafted!!! these questions always comes in our mind; but answer remains the same
Few require MBA, but we are born managers..... :-)
