Getting laid ...

We rebelled, marched.....got bruised, mugged, lost all our money, and finally got laid....

Mission Objective: Getting laid

Code Name: Industrial Visit (I.V)

Destination: Beaches of Paradise called Goa..

Combat Vehical:Rusty (A sparkling red Mahindra Classic 4 Seater Open Jeep)

Partners in Crime: Rohit,Farhan,AJ(Ajay) and of course Shankz our man!

Official Trip Sponsors Pleasure Island'.

"That’s our challenge we are hitting Goa tonight with a certain mission on our minds to lose it! Virginity is a strange creature, for us guys it’s like a monkey off our back, which we want to get rid, and have the seal of manhood engraved on us.

 But for girls, it’s an entirely different animal altogether; they feel like it would be similar to be bitten by a jelly fish, which could sting them for eternity if it is not picture perfect....

I was cool and mature enough to understand sex, its an activity which grownups do, everyday of their lives and towards the end either get boarded or are completely incapable of doing it. That gives us strong reasons to start early.

None of us Me, Farhan,or AJ came remotely close to getting any action, for us our demi god was Shankz, he was a rockstar for us, we all had heard his heroics with girls and never had any doubts as we all knew, almost all of the Jai Hind College girls knew him by his nickname. That was good enough to make him a living legend amongst us school boys.

Me and Farhan were always caught between books, kinds our teachers or parents won’t be proud of, we were the porn peddlers of our school, from junnies to geekies all were our customers. In daylight for our teachers, we were lost losers, but after hours, we were gatekeepers of 'Pleasure Island'.

That was a name made famous by  Raghav, who was a geek by day but by night, his horny hormones would awake the Wolf within him. Rags was one of our largest customer.

It was summer vacation & we had made a decision of going for expansion and relocating our Library from Farhan's Dad's study room to Rex Uncle’s unused garage. So in mid March 1998 office of Paradise Island shifted from a risky location of living room of Mr. Aftab Ansari,  to backyard of Capt. Rex D’Souza, he felt a sense of joy in lending us our new office space, as to the world we ran a library of rare books on Science & Technology, and that’s were AJ came into picture, he was our front end, and we wanted world to paint our picture on shades of our brand ambassador, AJ, greased hair, thick soda bottle glasses with so much Parachute  hair oil on his head  that it would lit up faces of top brass of Marico, glasses were so thick, if accidently exposed to sunrays it could burn absolutely anything in eyesight. The so called as Library was named as Einstein’s Den, the project was well appreciated by school and the teachers.

 As it happens in a typical Indian scenario, our teachers had weaved dreams of us cracking the IIT’s and wanted us to live up to the great tradition of ‘Parle Vidyalaya’. I don’t know about our chances, but AJ was serious about IIT’s, led by family pressure, being a son of a Nuclear Scientist and a top ranked RBI Officer left him with few choices in Life.

We never imbibed any aspirations to go to World renowned institutes like IIT's, still we had a Global presence in our own way, just like in real world.

 We had a huge demand for Pondi (Pondi was our code name for PornStuff.) from various countries especially emerging economies like Russia, Brazil & China.

We started it as a social service; objective was to serve both the segments the unused & overused minds of the school. Pleasure Island, which started as an activity to quench thirst of the sex starved and over pressurized minds soon became a booming and profitable venture. Farhan managed the inventory, the inflow and out flow of books and CD's. Yes we had diversified to CD's as it gave us better margins.

AJ was our chief security officer and gate keeper of Einstein’s Den, he kept the factory of Paradise Island safe from the scum of grown up world. 

Shankz got us new customers, through his hypnotic ability to tame the deprived and introduce them to a magical and a blissful world, thus he helped us in ramping  up incremental revenue. And i managed the finances of a complete illegitimate business run in old garage with efficiency of a large corporate. We were doing 15K per month, and grew by a whopping 30% month on month, which beat few of the best performing listed corporations.

But their was not profit motive to run the show, it was just sheer passion and our entrepreneur instincts to identify gaps and plug them. The venture which we boys started had flourished into a thriving and cash rich entity, which funded and fuelled our aspirations,

Rusty was our 1st toy funded by our project of Joy, we pleaded Mr. D'Souza, who was obliged and more than happy to sell his open Jeep to us for a lakh of Rs, he knew we had cut a raw deal, but in a strange way he felt, it was his way to contribute to Science.

Shanks was the only person who was eligible to drive a vehicle amongst us, but we had learnt tricks of trade early in our lives, it took us few thousand Rs to get fake licence for all of us, and we never had to flex our morals in this case as we were on the verge of being eligible for learners licence, it was matter of few months we told ourselves.

'In life no matter what may be it, its very important to convince yourself, before you plunge', these lines helped me convince Farhan, AJ and Shanks (to a certain extent) to start Pleasure island, book rusty and to move towards distribution of CD's over books.