Just some observations

So my whole excursion into the city was pretty fun as I found there's things to do other than sit in my room and watch t.v. all day on the weekends. It was also weird because I saw more of the dichotomy of old and new India that I've been seeing since I got here. I would go on the bus in the heat and the pollution from cars and what not from the outside would be choking my lungs and burning my throat. And there would be people on the sidewalk asking for money or asking to shine your shoes. Then I walk into the mall with big clean shops and air conditioning. It's so strange at first to go from one extreme to another. After a while you get used to it though and you don't think much of it, but it still strikes me as weird if I think about it.

The road that infosys campus is on is where a lot of big tech companies have their offices. The likes of Accenture, Cognizant, Tata consulting, Wipro and Satyam computing have huge office buildings here. The weird part is that you see these enormous buildings with their bright and shiny logos on them in the background and in the immediate foreground you see run down shops and huts. It's a strange site for sure, but it's kinda cool to see a country growing up like this.

The other day at work one of my co-workers asked me if there were any villages in the U.S.A. I thought that was such a weird question, ludicrous almost. But then I realized how ignorant I was being in not realizing that for someone who has lived in India all their lives, it's a perfectly legitimate question. So I told him no there wasn't but there were small towns.

I was talking to my friend Aarthi, who is from Chennai but she was training in Mysore as well. I was telling her how in all the hindi movies and stuff the only parts of the US they show are New York or LA with beautiful women everywhere. I told her that was the America I wanted to go to, Pocomoke Maryland is a far cry from that. She told me how a lot of the younger generation in India wants to be "American". Not as in get a citizenship and move to America, but dress and act like what they see as American on t.v. And I thought it was weird because a lot of people in America want to be more and more Indian (or embrace Indian culture with the growing popularity of yoga and what not). Pretty strange how that works.