Miscellanious activities

It feels like forever since I wrote in here, even though it really hasn't been. I think I should clarify, in my zealous typing over the past few posts I've forgot to clear something up. As I said earlier, I'm in the fast track, and the other track is the long cycle. Basically you take an exam at the beginning of training to see if you know enough of the basic computer science information to be in the fast track. Usually people with degrees in Engineering and Computer Science are placed in the fast track. The main difference is well...it's fast. We get right into coding and our modules (classes) go by much faster. To put it into perspective, our whole training program ends on October 9th, while the long cycle doesn't end until sometime in November. After the training here we go on site to work with a client somewhere else in India.

It's pretty nuts, today we started our project. It's a little tedious since it's all stuff I've done before. I'm sure it'll go fine. I finally got a cell phone as well. At the cell phone store here on campus they don't have all the phones right there, if you want one they don't have they order it for you from town and get it to you the next day. I wanted the Sony w200i and I asked her if it came with headphones. She didn't know anything about the phone so she called her manager and for some reason, she asked him to send it into campus that same day. I guess she thought I was being a pushy american, I wanted to tell her it was ok if the phone came the next day, but I figured what the hell. So the phone got there the same day. No one takes a card here for big purchases. I had to get 6000 rupees out of the ATM and walk over to the store and drop a wad of cash on the table. It was a little weird holding so much money in my hand, even though it's like 150 dollars.

I also was sick the other day for the first time since I've been here. I feel like it's almost a rite of passage to get sick when you come here. It wasn't so bad, it only lasted for about a day. For that day though, pepto bismol was my best friend and the toilet was my throne, yup.

When I did get sick, I found one of the best hindi songs I've heard in a long time. It has beautiful music and the lyrics are amazing too. Here is the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7EE6cIFGo4

At work I feel a little bit like a college student/corporate monkey. College student because I live on a campus and eat a ridiculous amount of pizza. A corporate monkey because they're "training" me to work well in a group (read: cubicle) and adhere to the corporate culture (read: brainwashing). The corporate monkey business (ha!) is the same with any big company though so it's not just an Infosys thing.

Bye for now, I know my posts are long, I should work on that huh.