Did you know that ENTERTAINMENT is good for your HEALTH?? Well, as for me, I have gone gray, tired and have crossed the 50's, but such a thing never did occur to me. And to think of it that just because I had taken a negative stand on the mega entertainment event that has rocked Goa, or rather, Panjim for days on end in the name of IFFI, I let go and missed a chance of a lifetime of being massively entertained for days on end, I am literally kicking myself in the sheens. Why? Because the money that I blew on medical check-ups, the blood tests, the urine tests, the tablets I have swallowed and, most of all, the food and the liquor I had to lay off, could all have been avoided, if only my dear dear friend, the chief minister of Goa, Mr. Manohar Parrikar had to speak out this particular advice on health matters on the cable TV before the onset of the IFFI rather than after IFFI was done with. Now I will have to wait for one more solid year. The advice which Manohar Parrikar has openly given to Goa and Goans is that "ENTERTAINMENT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH" This, when he was speaking to some conference or something, a few days ago, where it looked like there were more intelligent people than fools.
And now, with such a good doctrine floating around, how could I talk against all the tax payers money, in crores, that have been blown up on IFFI?? Am I against the health of the general public too? No sir, not me. I am anxiously awaiting the good news to be splashed on the papers soon, that one ward each of the respective government hospitals i.e. Asilo, Mapusa, Hospicio, Margao and the GMC medical college, Bambolim, have been converted to discoth�ques in the interest of the health of the patients so that they may get maximum entertainment right there in the hospitals and get well effectively instead of blowing up the money on the costly medicines and salaries for the doctors and the hospital staff. Besides, contractors like INOX will absorb the maintenance bill of the entire venues. And the one place that is left uncovered by this scheme, which is the Mental Hospital at Altinho Panjim, this institution will be hosting regular entertainment shows, more specifically "The Bangda Dance" shows, performed by none other than Mr. Manohar Parrikar himself, for, this institution is in the closest vicinity of MAHALAXMI, the Chief Minister's Official residence and from where he can improvise on putting up additional shows as and when required considering the acute needs of the inmates. Or conversely, This ENTERTAINMENT 'Bug' has eaten my good friend's good brains so bad that he may be required to shift residence in the immediate future and the task of doing the 'Bangda" should come to me, for I too can rise up to the occasion to do an excellent "Bangda" myself. And I would do it free of cost, and as many time as is required, so that the good brains of my good friend are restored back to the original IIT capacity, so that he may go back to his pet programme of distorting the young, budding brains of Goa's school children, so putting me in an excellent position of assured business of doing the "Bangda" till the day I die. Cheers & Merry Christmas (did I hear my good friend objecting to my saying Merry Christmas? After all it is all in the spirit of ENTERTAINMENT, in'it?) Floriano www.goasu-raj.org
