Goaing Goan

as the new year draws close and we get away from the year that was.. the festive people of this festive city make plans to get away...
to bring in the new yeat in style..
to do something special for themselves.. something unique... some go there..
cos its the best they can afford.. so go there cos its mighty convenient...
and some go there cos such was their plan...

Goa the land of golden sand and other nice things (which i may not be able to throw much light on.. as i've never gone there)

the distinct chords goa stricks in my mind are...

1 of my closest friends had a brilliant time with her bf there....
1 of my other friends went there with a few friends to celebrate the end of her CAT..
and when another 1 of my close friends was going to go there for last new yrs.. tsunami happnd.. and she shelved her trip.. .

hmm..
doesn't quite seem like a yr has passed since the advent of the killer waves...

1 of my friends picked up Garage Inc. from there.. coz thtz where he first saw it...

and the sweetest of all.. is ofcourse when my folks went there for a week and i had a blast at home...

haha.. who'd believe there can be so many associations to a place.. without having even gone there

anyway.. as the new yr comes around.. these 3 friends.. head-back to goa...

one is newly married.. so honey-mooning..
one is about to get engaged.. and is holidaying..
and the other is yet celebrating... friends....

different people headed to the same place for different reasons.. with different set of objectives.. and yet ending up within a square mile or so of each other...

maybe it is coz they are from bombay.. only the global-village could define their proximity and their dissonance