The weekend

As a result of insufficient funds, I didn't really do much this weekend. I really wonder how long it takes the bank here to open an account. We learned in one of our diversity seminars here that India is very process driven. I figured "eh it can't be that bad" but man was I wrong. To do any little thing there's some overly long drawn out process that has to happen. I think one of the quotes they shared with us from one of the earlier US batches sums it up pretty nice. In the quote the person said that any minor deviation from the norm throws the whole process off and it takes even longer to get something done.

I guess it's a different country so we have no choice but to play by their rules huh, but man is it frustrating. I just want them to open my account so my uncle and put some money in it! Ohhh well. But yeah, this weekend I pretty much relaxed on campus and in my room. I saw the hindi movie Guru on t.v. yesterday (saturday). I had already seen it once back home but figured I'd watch it again. Today hasn't been much different. I just went biking for a bit around the campus and now i'm back in my room. I'm wearing shorts today, and it's funny the way people sometimes look at you when you're wearing shorts out here. The way some people stared you'd think I was walking around naked or something.

Tomorrow we take the screening test to see if we're in the long cycle or the fast track. Since I'm computer science it'll be mandatory for me. I kinda want to be in the long cycle so I can just relax a little and not have to worry about studying sooo much in such a short amount of time. I want to travel around India during my time here as well, I don't want to spend the whole time studying!

On Friday we went to Planet X, I had heard a lot about it from the previous batch. It's a really nice place. there's a restaurant, go-karting, and a club/houka lounge. We only went to the restaurant and the club but i'm sure we'll be back for go-karting. The food was ok, liked the cave restaurant way better though. The club was ok, it was egyptian themed. They played hip-hop for once though, Opium was only rock music.

Well bye for now, I'm gonna try and find something to do online I suppose.