Second Trip to United States - Week 1
Finally, after 3 Years and 11 Months, my second trip to United States started on Aug 31. My parents, left 1 week earlier than my flight (ofcourse, on my insistence) to their native place, as I am going to be out for a month. I started off, had a touchdown at Seoul for a transit and landed in SFO on Sep 1 noon. It was another satisfying journey, wherein one more time, the jetlag effect was in no vicinity. I am scared that I would never be jetlagged in my life ;) because of my nature of sleeping well past midnight.
Being a Labor Day on Sep 3, it was a looooong weekend. I called up Manoj (my ex-manager and a good friend) and he took me to his house. His kid Tushar, has grown up now, and started speaking native American English. It was bit interesting to hear that. Coming to the point, we all went to couple of places like Half-Moon-Bay, and then the 17 mile drive etc. It was a scenic beachspot, as I had missed the beach last time around. We went to a "Hasya Kavi Sammelan" in Sunnyvale on Sunday Evening, and probably I wouldn't have laughed so much hearing one-liners and comedies performed on the stage. The $20 ticket was really worth it.
On Monday, I called up Ashwin, who was a close friend of mine, who took me to downtown San Francisco, and also showed me some upscale Shopping Malls, wherein I got to try out some funky caps and clothing. We drove to Annapoorna at El-Camino, and wow, I had Sambar Vada, Masala Dosai and all. It was sort of authentic tamil food which I was craving for, and slowly realized the fact that the next 30 days are going to be on 5 pieces of leach fruit, some watermillon pieces, and 2 doughnuts with some strawberry jam. My tongue probably died out and came back to life when I had the idly with coconut chutney that mom prepared on my return back here :)
From Tuesday onwards, it was worktime and I had to meet all those people whom I have heard voices and was able to attach faces to their voices. It was nice meeting people as always I cherish relationships.
All My First Week Pics uploaded at: http://picasaweb.google.com/sriswami/SFOWeek1HalfMoonBay.
Being a Labor Day on Sep 3, it was a looooong weekend. I called up Manoj (my ex-manager and a good friend) and he took me to his house. His kid Tushar, has grown up now, and started speaking native American English. It was bit interesting to hear that. Coming to the point, we all went to couple of places like Half-Moon-Bay, and then the 17 mile drive etc. It was a scenic beachspot, as I had missed the beach last time around. We went to a "Hasya Kavi Sammelan" in Sunnyvale on Sunday Evening, and probably I wouldn't have laughed so much hearing one-liners and comedies performed on the stage. The $20 ticket was really worth it.
On Monday, I called up Ashwin, who was a close friend of mine, who took me to downtown San Francisco, and also showed me some upscale Shopping Malls, wherein I got to try out some funky caps and clothing. We drove to Annapoorna at El-Camino, and wow, I had Sambar Vada, Masala Dosai and all. It was sort of authentic tamil food which I was craving for, and slowly realized the fact that the next 30 days are going to be on 5 pieces of leach fruit, some watermillon pieces, and 2 doughnuts with some strawberry jam. My tongue probably died out and came back to life when I had the idly with coconut chutney that mom prepared on my return back here :)
From Tuesday onwards, it was worktime and I had to meet all those people whom I have heard voices and was able to attach faces to their voices. It was nice meeting people as always I cherish relationships.
All My First Week Pics uploaded at: http://picasaweb.google.com/sriswami/SFOWeek1HalfMoonBay.
posted by Srini @ 8:20 AM
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