US Travelogue 3

From: Tina
Date: Jun 6, 2006 5:22 PM
Subject: US Travelogue 3

I like experimenting :) thats the conclusion i reached after my Rotis were not exactly round.......:)
Jaara jyada hiiii paaani ho gaya tha .....or rather i was making the american rotis :) i guess in india i got to used to the water - aata proportion of Aashirwaad and Annapurna
to all my former roomies who all used to cook after cuming from office...i am following ur pattern here.. cooking shyam ko.........

Neways they were not that bad ...just cud not distinguish whether it was moon or austrailia or sum other country geographically......
The taking dabba to office thing is really gud though monotonous..........and there is always the temptation of gng to eat out as in india... but the thought of bland (it is not that bad) cafeteria food drives all such notions to the back of the head....

the concept of 'to go' i.e parcelling for home is gr8 fundaaaa
the corresponding terms also are equally gr8....yehan pe portions of food are so much and of course ppl do not share as in grp venture in india so woh khana jyada hota hai and as a result part of the food if it is lunch is parcelled for night i.e dinner.

not yet got used to that concept though :) seriously.....still can't have the same thing for lunch and dinner and that too on the same day

weekend was ok....saw my first downloaded movie (as in the one i downloaded from net) thanks to my friends in different time zones who hav no better thing to do than to giv me company via internet :)

trying to get a to - go phone (Prepaid) or Post paid phone....par woh phir se jaake credit card or SSN pe atak tha hai.... looking into that

toh sampark karne ka jariya ab toh internet mail thru hii hai....
weekend was ok ok... i was at home as it was pouring outside :(

so in the mean time got acquainted with the washer -dryer component we hav :)
atleast i am glad that i dunnot have to wash the clothes :) in the bath tub atleast :))
but yaar i miss the well scrubbed clothes dried in the sun and wind....now i guess i hav to get used to dried in blower .........

one more thing i hav to get used to is the yellow bulb lights :(
i miss tubelight... i guess i will hav to find more kii kaha pe hai and install it myself....
par that is when i find the electrical appliance store....
till then bulb ke lights...
Ghar pe also i used to go around putting tubelights(though Pune low voltage mein woh bhi nahi jalta hai :( ) rather than bulbs....
yehan pe high wattage yellow light hai :) ... i guess they wrk as heater in the room also...woh kaafi garam kar dete hai ...maybe it will be useful in winter ;)

Sunday ko we went grocery shopping near my place ...walkable distance....though carrying the heavy stuff makes it not so walkable though...
idhar mostly weekly shopping hai... and no doodh waala also ...so get the milk for the week :)
same applies for juice or curd or rather yogurt anything edible i suppose:)

Back in india, i used to wonder where did all the big bottles of vatika and many products disappear... now i know... i guess they cum to new jersey :) sab kuuch milta hai ..even cocunut, mustard oil.....
only difference is that it is in $ and cents.....and of course the taste of the fruits and veggies
sab super size and low taste or i shud say watery taste....

Monday was kinda ok... i was in a hurry toh forgot abt the dabba part of it... no probs had frm cafeteria .....i used to like lettuce leaves pehle in sandwiches and stuff.... idhar toh salad mein wohi sab hota hai...toh aaj kal not exactly fond of those leaves......

Met another of my managers.... whose name is Sue....whenever sumone calls her i remember Aamir Khan calling the heroine in Rang de basanti with the song "Chuu kar mere mann ko kiya tune kya ishara "... i do hav a tough time keeping a straight face though....

At times it is weird though.....in the sense that the offices are so deadly quiet that i feel as though i am the only one the whole floor typing away to glory .....at other times u can hear ppl of course managers sort of talking loudly although humko toh explicitly bola gaya hai kii u shud not converse loudly :) ( i guess typical indian trademark)

Went to another american office for the SSN ....better than indian gov offices but typically same... it really does test ur patience....waiting waiting waiting ........till ur almost asleep.... zzzzzzzzzz

Neways....dektein hai...will keep broadcasting .....but it will help to knw kii atleast sum ppl are receiving my mails....else i will always wonder kii mail jaa bhi raaha hai kiii ppl hav blocked me or sumthing....

Keep mailing... hpe i too get to read a lot of stuff ( as in mails not official ok woh toh bahut documentation pada hai)

Regards,
Tina. :)

P.S Neones wants this atyachar to stop then please send me a blank mail or atleast a one sentence mail... calls will also be accepted :)