SCP News 2006

Monsoon Wedding & Monsoon Package in Goa

Two more exciting weeks lie behind us. And this is how we spent them (if we were not working HARD on our project).
Two weeks ago, we had the opportunity to attend a traditional Indian wedding ceremony. We went to see the "reception" on Saturday night and the "ceremony", including "the seven steps" and all, on Sunday morning. All of us were dressed in traditional Indian clothes (other than the male Indian guests...so we got even more stares than usual...). Sarees for the girls and Kurtas for the guys. We had a wonderful time despite the fact that the reception buffet was purely "veg" with no alcohol available AT ALL.
Oh well.
Indian wedding.
What can you say?
Later that Sunday, we met up with a couple of next year's SBS MBAs: Ravi and his wife, Deb, as well as Sumit and his wife. Deb offered me a ride on the back of his motorcycle through Bangalore's heavy traffic - a unique experience, let me tell you!
By the way, it seems as if next year's batch will, again, consist of a very amiable and smart bunch of people!
This last weekend we - Rachael, Leslie and Alex - went to Goa while Shawn stayed back in Bangalore to relax (and do some work on the project...by the way dude, you're working too hard!!).
We stayed in a beautiful 5-star beach ressort in South Goa, went golfing, hung out at the pool and the beach, visited the bars a couple of times, enjoyed massages as well as the delicious food, did Karaoke ("Take me home country roads") - - - and never left the ressort's grounds...;-)
But we also came to understand why the hotel offered us a so-called "Monsoon Package": it was raining more often than in Bangalore. Not too bad, but more than we would have expected.

posted by Alexander @ 8:02 PM