Ami Goenkar -- squeezing lime in your drink!

‘Welcome aboard … this is YOUR SHIP!’ -- Arcadia anchored at Matrah

Sea Who’s Full of Money!

Pardon me for asking, but how much money you have remitted over the last two/three months?

Why, how far is the exchange rate?

Are you nuts? Who’s got the money?

Where do you live? Forget about the accommodation… ask any schoolboy how much a chocolate bar cost?

Well, everybody seems to be having this awful shrinking feeling these days.
So if not you, not me, then who are these NRGs remitting $oooooooo much money that our banks are literally flush with. (http://oheraldo.in/news/
Main%20Page%20News/Eco-Survey-gung-ho-on-NRE-remittances/35019.html)
I was wondering how come in these economic times and the sudden downturn of Dubai economy? Then one of my friends from St Estevem came calling at Matrah. AHOY! Wanna come on board?

Who wouldn’t for only one of its kind of experience leave the shore. I instantly emailed my papers and found myself lounging on the deck weaving dreams -- “if only money were no object this could be one of my dream destinations”.

Vasco da Gama may have discovered Goa, but today Goan youths sail to the farthest reaches of the world and watch sun go down and rise up again from the ocean. They touch the lives of hundreds of people everyday by their smiles and services and get paid and are tipped too for it.

And what else, they have no landlords to demand more monies nor restaurants to take their families out for dinner, but the dream of reaching home and an NRE account in one of the 530 bank branches, each for just over 2,800 Goans, which are apparently overflowing with their deposits.

Bon Voyage “Vasco da Gamas”!