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As usual had a nice breakfast in the morning and went to office. Booked my tickets to new jersery. I had to postpone my trip to NJ to 28th as I could not find any good deals for tickets to travel on 21st. It was actually my uncle who had booked my tickets 
. I should say I am really lucky as I have an uncle who books my tickets to NJ, a friend who takes me all around san jose, takes me to restaurants, weekend trips, driving lessons, etc 
Today I had a chicken pizza for lunch and this was the first thing I liked here after so many days. In the evening I went to my uncle’s place san ramon…..its around 30 miles from san jose. Had a nice time over there. Atlast had good indian food cooked at home
March 27th, 2008
Things started settling slowly………one thing I forgot to mention was about the breakfast in my hotel……I must say this is the only part of the meal that I enjoy the most ….rest of the day I just eat to fill my stomach 
Anyways today I found some indian dish for lunch in the cafeteria…..took that but as usual it wasn’t that good….then later in the day I went back to cafeteria again as I was too hungry….. and this time there were very few options and I had to settle down for a salad
Imagine what kind of a situation it would be wherein a guy who never eats any green salads had actually bought one for $3 . I used to call it ghaas-poos when I was in India and now I am forced to eat it. Anyways I din’t like it and just had half of it. So, by evening I was so hungry that I left my office and went to my friend’s place. We went to McDonald’s and had a burger and fries.
And for dinner…..looking at my situation my friend took me to another indian restaurant swagat which was supposed to be a good one. Here we ordered an egg biryani. My friend told me that this restaurant was running for more than 17 years now and the person who came to take our order was working there for the last 17 years 
. This time the food was good….but not that great. Anyways I had very less time as I had a conf call and had to go back to hotel soon. So, did not go out anywhere after dinner.
Was feeling vey sleepy…so went to bed immediately after my call……
March 14th, 2008
This was my first day in office…..took a shuttle from the hotel to office. Met my manager….he showed me all around the office…..then got settled in my cubicle…..In the afternoon, went to the cafeteria for lunch with my manager and other team mates. This is where the real problem started ……there were so many food options but not even one that suites my taste ……there was pork, beef, tukey, chicken, salads n a whole lot of other stuff….ohhh I forogot to mention they even have burritos Atlast after going around all the counters twice I settled out for a chicken sandwich….and luckily in the deserts I found my all time favourite chocolate mousse
In the evening went out to meet another friend of mine…nandhini. We had dinner at an indian restaurant called Bombay Garden. Was happy to see some indian food….so I happily ordered a rogan josh……..but you know the burrito was much better …..the mutton pieces were like pieces of rubber…..except the gravy there was nothing to eat
So, for the first two days, the dinner I had was hopeless……this might be the first time that I had spent around 1200 rupess (ofcourse I should not actually convert the $ into rupees) for each meal and ate almost nothing
Lesson#2: Never order any mutton dishes
Also I had taken a new at&t connection in the evening….a prepaid connection for a month. It costed my $25. Also talked to some more friends of mine.
Forgot to mention….today I actually drove my friend’s car. That was the first time I drove in the US. Its definitely going to take some time before I can get used to driving here. Once I start thinking of the rules n lane changes, I tend to forget abt keeping to the right and vice-versa. Anyways its just going to be a matter of time before I would be comfortable driving here.
March 14th, 2008
Staring from today you will see a series of posts about my US trip. I will be in san jose for a month on official work. In this month’s time I am planning to visit as many places as possible. I will also be going to New Jersery on a weekend.
So, let me just start right from my journey to san jose. I started from bangalore on 10th march. Took singapore airlines flight…..bangalore —> Singapore —> Seoul —-> SFO. Only the last part of the journey from Seoul to SFO was a bit boring as it was a continuous 10 and half hours flight without a break. From SFO took a taxi to reach my hotel in san jose. I did not had any jet lag problems and after getting fresh went out along with my btech friend rahul. He had done his Masters in US and is right now working in Cisco. He showed me all the big companies here in silicon valley…..then we went to have dinner at a mexican restaurant “On the borders”. My friend has ordered a burrito for me…….I just had a few bites and left it …..Lesson#1 : Never order a burrito again Then went to starbucks n had a frappuccino n a cake. That was my dinner on first day
More to come in the next post….keep checking
March 12th, 2008
Was thinking of uploading my ooty trip photos since a long time but was a bit busy n lazy too
Atlast I uploaded them today….you can see them here
December 29th, 2007
Thought of writing abt my favourite tv programmes……my most favourite channels are discovery and national geographic.
The programs I like the most are Extreme Engineering, massive engines with chris barrie, man vs. wild, dirty jobs by mike rowe from discovery channel and from NGC it is Air Crash Investigations, seconds before disaster,wild and many more.
Out of these I never miss watching air crash investigations…I really like the way things are analyzed ultimately reaching to the root cause of the crash. I like watching the programs which show massive engines, the way they work…, construction related programs n those dealing with machines…machines n machines
Till now I did not get the idea of putting in about these programs in my website…but today I was watching the program The secret of Einstein n was so impressed by it tht I thought of writing about it here….so from today I would keep writing about all those programs in detail. And to start with…….I will write about The secret of Einstein today.
Keep checking for more updates……… so coming up next The secret of Einstein
December 17th, 2007
Bought a new swatch today…..a colleague of mine who got it as gift was reselling itÂ
Its a swatch IRONY diaphane SVCK4002G……….its a chrono & navigator & automatic
Details can be seen here
December 13th, 2007
Just today I had taken a new domain name in my name….Its http://www.rakeshreddy.in
As of now its redirected to http://www.rrkandula.com
December 1st, 2007
I heard that Goal movie was supposed to be released on november 23rd…so was checking for pvr tickets from 22nd itself but still the booking was not open and even in the coming movies list goal was not displayed…so I thought the release was postponed……but today I was just chekcing pvr website in the evening at around 4 PM and guess wht tickets were still available….so without wasting anytime I booked a ticket for myself and after 5 mins checked the site again to book for my friend but it was housefull by then…….I was really lucky to get the ticket for the friday show .
Anyways now coming to the movie…..Ithe movie was really gud……I liked it………a gud movie after the hopeless saawariya & om shanti om. There are no similarities between chak de and goal…..both of them are gud in their own way…….I found one or two loopholes in the movie but afterall it can’t be 100% perfect . The story is all about saving the southall united football club. Arshad Warsi’s acting was good……a different role from the one he had in munnabhai….even john abraham and boman irani were gud…….the second part of the movie was much better than the first half….especially the ending was too gud. The first half is all about forming the team……john who was initally in an english team ultimately joins the southall team after he was not selected for the league matches as he was not an english guy.
I was expecting tht definitely there would be some racism related stuff and that was all the movie about….the goras (english) trying to show their superiority over asians….aah this was one movie where it was not only about being indian but they were talking abt india, pakistan and bangladesh together….so the movie was basically goras vs. south-asians .The last match is the highlight in the movie. One more reason why I liked the movie was there were no useless songs just to drag the movie…all the ones were according to the situation or just background songs. And finally coming to bipasha’s role, she had nothing much to do……..
On the whole the movie is worth watching…….again a gud sports related movie tht can be a hit.
November 23rd, 2007
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