GOA Nite

My mum's going to be soo amused when I tell that I went to an Indian cultural night here - more specifically "GOA Nite". The Goans are the closest community to mine - Mangalorean. When Lee first asked me if I wanted to go, my intial reaction was "no way"!! I know what happens at these community gatherings (apart from the copius amounts of drinking, dancing and eating)!! It took me a few minutes to realise that I don't know anyone from my community here, so the chances of being introduced to my aunt's sister-in-law's nephew and the likes were pretty slim. So I did go and I did have fun.


Dancing to the "bailas"...love it! The Mangaloreans / Goans probably get the type of music that was played that night apart from the "bailas" :) Oooh ooh and we even did the marches...hehe!! I had no one to jive with though.


Lee and Adarsh were my dates for the night. For the Bangaloreans - Adarsh and I even met this old Josephite (ok only 5 years older, but back in school that was a big deal). He was soo tickled to see a Sophiate and Josephite together (we were too amused ourselves to correct him). We reminiced a bit about B'lore and talked about the changes (I will refrain from blogging about it).


Parkie to me before I left for the night, "Isn't it an Indian Dance? You don't look very Indian." What can I say? I guess we were colonised...

Our biggest disappointment was the pork sarpothel (hahaha apart from the fact that it was the only reason Adarsh was there). The craving for Mangalorean / Goan food is still strong....the things I'd do for good food....maka zai go ;)