Palolem Beach
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: India
Today is my 3rd day in Palolem, and I had practically been doing nothing. It was great. This cresent shaped beach is quite interesting, filled with a large variety of people. For starters, there are the travellers like Helen and myself, the shop vendors and hotel managers. Then there are families on vacation and countless number of couples on their romantic getaways. Thousand of Indian ladies and men tread across the white sands trying to sell to the sun-bathers jewellerys and strange artifacts. Indian tourists on holiday, swimming in their saris. Not forgetting the four legged creatures - yesterday we witness a spectacular fight between two massive horned beast and plenty of dogs cheering them on. The crows like to sing each dusk and dawn, and the family of pigs residing close to our shack lies in the shade from the afternoon sun.

I finally finished that long dry history text book entitled 'White Mughals'. The main plot is about a tragic love story between a British resident and a Muslim woman of noble birth. While the story itself was interesting, what was more revealing of India in the late 18th Century was the first influx of Europeans into their subcontinent. It was highly informative, but after slaving through it for the past two weeks I am so glad to finally finish it.