An Indian to the land of Native Indians..

Even a poor old beggar lady begs in fluent English!!
All the electricians are dumb, keeping the switches inverted!!
The traffic police are dumb enough to come in wrong direction!!
Seems a big backup generator always is running: matchboxes are meant for only smoking, candles are meant for praying only..
Noise pollution can only be done by blasting hip-hop music and not by horn in your car!!
A taxi ride just costs you buying a bike and ride it!
Two way flight charges are cheaper than one way!!
YES, am in the land of native Indians.. AMERICA..

I have been here nearly 3.5 months. This whole period passed as fast as my flight which am travelling now, from Sanfransisco to Denver, and to St.Louis by a connecting flight… Got 2 ½ hours, my IBM lappy and a strawberry juice from south west airlines, to start my first blog about my trip. So here it goes…

Where to start? okay from the beginning, coz i understand memto only after multiple tries.. Got short term onsite assignment.. Any living thing having VISA can go US and get their jobs.. Got flight to St.Louis – Bangalore to Paris, Paris to Atlanta, Atlanta to St.Louis. Spent some 2 hours in Paris roaming here and there in airport finally figuring out that Paris uses Euro and its conversion rate. Arrived Atlanta and got the I-91 attached to my visa. So became an NRI, in perfect words, a essential and basic qualification to become a bridegroom to these days girls.. Getting a American return bridegroom has become a fashion these days.. okay keep aside tat stupidity..

Now to St.Louis, figured out easily the missisipi river by seeing the big river near the st.louis when landing.. Finally got my baggage after 15 minutes and easily became the entertainer of the airport, struggling to pull those two baggage. My friends are kind enough to give me their address and giving me a great idea that I can get a taxi..

My big deal was to get the baggage to the taxi stand.. somehow figured out and got a taxi, which is far more good than the personal cars.. I saw in Chicago, taxi drivers havin laptop in taxi and streaming you tube songs connected to the car audio! First taxi driver having and using laptop! Second connecting to internet and steaming audio!! But the drivers in st.louis is not tat developed as the area.. but did a cruise in the highway, somewhere about 100 mph.. and did all the interesting feats, swearing words I saw in films.. here am in America, place where I am Me, I do wat I like to do…

So now in St.Louis, Missouri. It’s the gateway for west, it’s the land which had Jesse James (if you have seen – Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford), it’s the land of Nelly & Chuck Berry.. route 66 passes through it.. it’s the US second crime city.. That’s it nothing more..


This is the Scrap which I wrote when I was in US, will add more abt my travelling in upcoming posts..

2009 TODOs

Okay, Don’t know if anybody got affected or going to be affected, I AM BACK - may be the most common word used by most scribblers like me. So I AM BACK..

March 2008, I did my last post.. so I don’t want to tell reasons coz its always usual.. 2008 was an incredible year in my life, yes for the first time I was called NRI for few months… from may to aug 2008, lots of pain to get that name.. and lots of enjoyment in that short duration.. Back to India; Back to Singaara Chennai on September.. I got to love it; so I guess I love it.. Back to stay with parents.. again the same struggle with BSNL Broadband.. and few weeks before got internet.. so guess it is clearly stated though not proved that “I was busy from March till now”..

Okay its now 2009, as usual I stayed in home, tuning some TV channels at 00:00 2009 for the wishes.. as usual the same orchestra programs in all channels; I used to surprise about orchestra groups, they survive because people instead of hearing the original song, like to see them trying to reproduce the original song.. Fine, so this New Year went fine.. As everyone tells and few of them executes, here is my resolution plan or 2009 TODOs.

It just took me few minutes to list these, may be becoz I am good at identifying the faults in everybody (as everybody includes me) or may be becoz I am more faulty..

I believe taking a resolution like “I will be kind to others; I will not get angry; I will not cheat others; I will be perfect” is good just to list down but not to execute.. it is simply like I will not lie in my life or I believe Ajith’s next film will be good or Vijay’s next film won’t have rowdies; I mean to say impractical; So I decided to put small actions that is really possible by me.. Guess the intro is big enough..

First one. “try perfection like arrange things” – more generic; I am not going to save any file in my desktop; only the scraps. I am going to save the files in proper folder.. this TODO isn’t new, but its new for me.

Second one. “try to update blog regularly”; update blog weekly, so do it in the week ending for sure. Donno how good this is for u.. okay, any have the TODOs are for me..

Third one. “sleep soon; wake early”; stick to sleep before 11:00 PM and not after 7:00 AM, trust me, haven’t seen two consecutive 7:00 AMs in the past 3yrs..

Fourth one. “try to complete things tat time itself; don’t postpone” – no one can really do that, So maintain a todo list in the desktop and prioritize things.

That’s it I guess, there are lots that can be told, but i believe the above four though small will make some significance difference, first and third makes my job easier in office and home; especially with computers, second should make my friends circle healthy, third should make myself and my parents circle healthy.. Guess its overdose of words for a resolution.. have a draft post written in flight somewhere during my roaming in US, will continue about that.. only thing that I got now to write, boast and celebrate – My US Trip.. will be back with that, bfn..