I guess i am pretending !!

My Apt.

Its Saturday Night !

So It is my first saturday night in the US...
Well i have just took an escape from the jet lag. And I am readying myself to go out and visit the
colorful downtown street once again..
Afterall the day's 2 hr walk with a 2 hr bhaat ( chat ) at Starbucks ( a la CCD or Barista of teh US) with a Vanilla Latte wasnt satisfying enough.
I had 2 college friends too from Synopsys bangalore here in same apartments ..
As their departue was about 10 days from now with about 3 weekends ( the effective total number of days actually) in hand. .. they were slogging it visitng places.
They had just come back from "Yosimite Falls" , a 3-hr drive of which i too was to be a part but as told .. i better spent the time in sleep than a 6 hr 150 mph to-fro in a Nissan Sentra with no pee-spots on the long wide freeways here. Thats what one of these 2 guys told me first hand.
Was about to use the empty coke can when suddenly he could see the apart. area. approaching. well aaah ! sigh of relief.

The critical area comes here .. well these 2 guys were by now exhausted .. so
i couldnt persuade them to accompany for a night out.
They missed out something they would later realize.
No probs even . I have a company colleague ready to come along.


The Buddha Lounge - owned by a desi.
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contd.

10th dec 2005

Went to a pakistani restaurant for lunch yesterday ..
felt just like still in india

one of our colleagues threw a pizza party at his home yesterday
but due to lingering jet lag i dint go and prefferred to sleep

went to visit downtown streets near my apt.
There is a food street here full of restaurnats only
similar to church street of bangalore.

There are many indians here.
met a superstore owner , a guy from ludhiana
another resteraunteer from punjab
then many taxi drivers too from there.

Just Reached the US of A

I reached US safely and comfortably. I have settled in a corporate housing apartments provider's plush furnished apt. here. Its a feast for eyes to see the beauty of everything here. So calm and so clean environment... but definitely missing india and bangalore. Right now i am working on a wi-fi which is provided throughout the apt area , which is like a hotel kind of with many different people from different countries and companies staying over here , the number may be around 300. Yesterday we had a complimentary snacks party with some drinks, found a large number of indians here... pretty much having a presence in The Silicon Valley. Also yesterday the drive from SFO airport to the apartments, a 40 mile one was covered in about 30 mins by the solid black Limousine Sedan which was employed for the pick-up. And the person who came to pick up was an afro american , but in no way seemed different than an indian apart from accent. Well , just got somewhat settled . The JET LAG started to show at when i suddenly wokeup at 3 in night here. Ppl say it remains for 2-3 days. Its 6 am now and the alarm is about to ring.