Secret Party

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Patnem Beach, GOA, India
Well, just as I thought... Getting to a computer has been challenging here on Patnem beach. There are two places- and maybe more- you can get to without having to obtain motorized transportation, but... It's hot, the sand is hot, the ocean is cool, and the beer is colder... My Norwegian meighbors have been a kick, really great people, and, again, the family where I'm staying is stellar.  

A really nice English guy named Steve has popped in and out of the hut area where we've been hanging out .. and because all on-the-beach beach light and noise has been outlawed due to the high terrorist threat status in India- you can only have quiet gatherings, which is just fine- but there was a party a few nights ago that was a silent rave. Steve, never having heard of a silent rave, said, "Oh- there's a secret party on Palolem tonight," and we got a lot of mileage out of that one. That, and how everything here is "after", instead of later, which is deemed much more applicable because... After doesn't really denote time, whereas "later" does, and most Indians around here tend to use "after" instead of "later"... so... It's been a good one.

I don't really have much to say. LOTS of good food. Frank, the only other American on this beach, and Alan (Alan and Elin, my Norwegian neighbors) brought a flower offering for me and hung it on my door from the market in Chowdi today...Tonight's my last night here, and of course it made me sniffle when I got back from the beach. Ah well. Dinner last night was on the cooks where I've been staying, and Gautam is making me dinner tonight - a party - for everyone. (Dinner last night was free from them contingent upon me coming in to the kitchen and trying to cook it myself, which I did. I've tried making Aloo Gobi, Paneer Butter Masala, and garlic cheese naan. Before I leave tomorrow: Palak Paneer.) Kishor, the cook, is much too fast for me to try to write everything down very well, but at least I get the idea. Yum.

On that note- just wanted to check in. I need to finish up some basic housekeeping stuff here on the internet, then it's time for my nap. Only so much one can do in a day, and believe me, here in Patnem, it's not much.

Til after, then~!

Comments

starlagurl
2009-01-08

A silent rave?
How does that work? Do you wear headphones?

Louise Brown
TravelPod Community Manager

andreasolo
2009-01-09

Secret Party Headphones for Starlagurl
...Exactly! Well, when I have attended 'silent raves' (or, more sort of entertained the idea of joining once in a while while passing), there has always been a signal / music broadcast from one central point, then the rave attendee picks up (usually rents) a set of headphones that's tuned in to the same frequency, and voila'! Everyone's dancing to the tune of.. the same electronica breakbeat machine. I didn't participate in this last one, but I can only guess that the Indian version was slightly less reliable than the hit-or-miss American versions I've run across... 'Secret Party' was appropriately and very accidentally coined, I think..

Nice to hear from you again, and, especially, thanks for the feature spot. It gave me renewed inspiration to write more / often and hopefully come up with something worth reading, some day!

Cheers,
Andrea

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