tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33727082012-02-12T04:12:39.314-08:00Journeys.....Blog on my travel and stay in the USSunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-1105868092915227602005-01-16T01:28:00.000-08:002005-01-16T01:55:25.013-08:00This is a long time to try and finish this write up. Just have to say... that was one of the best trips of my life. Met amazing people, saw wonderful things, made some good friends and had tonns of fun. Super duper cool!!
I had fun on the way back to India too. Met a little girl and her father. The lil girl's mom was no more. Its sad! A lot of people mistook me to be her mom coz we were hanging Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-768827902002-05-23T07:17:00.000-07:002002-07-07T00:56:30.000-07:00Week of Apr 22nd to Apr 28th
One hell of a week this was! :-)
Apr 22nd to Apr 25th was spent at work and also planning for Julia's birthday. It was so much fun. Saved up the mail. Might put it together and put it on my blog later.
Arp 25th Thursday:
Told Julia we were going to the Place called "NOI" and Marcello had made the reservations. Around 6pm when she was in a meeting most peple Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-757474682002-04-23T17:32:00.000-07:002002-04-25T17:14:16.000-07:00Week of Apr 15th to Apr 21st
It was a lil slow week. Nothing much happenning.
19th Apr Friday:
Sharma was to come in. So Dos and I went to Powell station (Harith was to meet us there) waited from 6.00pm and no sign of the man. At around 6.40pm Dos got a call and we realised that Harith was waiting for us on the Top while we were waitin for him at the platform :-). We then took the Bart to Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-754934522002-04-16T21:46:00.000-07:002002-04-16T21:46:38.853-07:00Week of Apr 8th to 12th:
What happenned here! hmm lemme think.It went real fast! Monday to wednesday did nothing much. Julia got back from Italy on wednesday!
13th Apr Saturday:
JP, Vasan, Deepak and I left to Lake Tahoe. 7.15am took Amtrak (train) to Sacremento from Jack London aquare - right across the apt where we stay and then it was a bus (Amtrak shuttle) to a place called Truckee (North Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-751767582002-04-08T14:01:00.000-07:002002-04-08T14:01:56.380-07:00Its the one week time again!
1st - 5th Arp:
Monday thro Friday - was the regular come to office and go back home. Did take Maria out to a Indian place for dinner - India garden :-) Thursday eve Maria dropped me off home early- was feelin a lil feverish! Maria left for her looong weekend. She gets back on Monday.
5th Arp Friday :
Christian dropped me off at San Carlos - that is where Chech Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-113572692002-04-01T15:35:00.000-08:002002-04-01T15:35:35.093-08:00Another week gone by and so has another year ......
Ok! 24th March, Sunday:
Holi at Santa Clara. Was fun. I just watched. Got back to chech's place and then in the evening chech and jeej dropped me off home. Dinn go Narendranna's place. They had a party to go to.
25th - 27th March:
Life as usual. Work and hime. Maria drops me off sometimes now. Its very sweet of her.
27th March, Wednesday:
Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-110617222002-03-24T01:00:00.000-08:002002-03-24T01:00:00.260-08:00Another week gone by. Time really flies out here.
Worked on the peoplesoft project this week. Did nothin other than that. Did have a couple of loong walks and ended up with leg swellings :-) got better now.
These guys are very nice! Anand actually looks out for all when walking to work too. Just looks over his sholder to see if all are there :-) Never known him too well before ... always knew Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-108194412002-03-17T00:07:00.000-08:002002-03-17T00:07:35.996-08:00Another week gone by. Time flies in this place and you donn even reliase it. Its a whole 2 weeks since I have been here.
What did I do this whole week? Hmm! lemme remember!!
Monday! started work on Peoplesoft project. Lunch was with Hagay and Victoria. Marco also joined us. We went to this place which was pretty close to the office. Was good fun to meet Hagay. Very sweet guy. Victoria just Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-106092122002-03-10T22:08:00.000-08:002002-03-10T22:08:38.900-08:00March 10th Sunday:
Been a week now! can't believe time flies so fast!
Today met chech (smitha) and then went out lunch and then did some grocery shopping. Was good fun. First time! Chech offered to take me shopping later, For stuff to take back to India :-)
End of one week . Had good fun :-)
Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105940672002-03-10T13:13:00.000-08:002002-03-10T13:13:50.790-08:00March 9th Saturday:
Maria picked me up and we drove down to SF. We walked down Rashberry street (will confrim the correct name and spelling:))). We then drove down and met cludia. Took a loong walk down Ocean Beach and then got back. Went to a Peruvian resturant for lunch. Was good. Then drove down to Twin Peaks, Lombard street (world's most crooked street), Fishermen's warf, Baker Beach and thenSunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105879572002-03-10T09:05:00.000-08:002002-03-10T09:05:06.863-08:00March 8th Friday:
Woke up late. Unpacked. Called Ying and confirmed Brunch Plans. She picked us up and we drove to west Berkely. A Mediterrianian resturant. Good food.
Got back to the Apt. Got online and spent a while. Then went ap hunting for shailu. Then went to this theater called "OAKS theater" and watched Harry Potter. It was an amazing movie. :-)))
Got back home had dinner and slept offSunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105873292002-03-10T08:35:00.000-08:002002-03-10T08:35:15.263-08:00March 7th 2002:
Thursday!!
Had a meeting with Cheryl and Maria on QE Project Lead activities. Trying to write Process docs. Then went out to lunch with Maria to a Thai Resturant. Was good. We discussed a lot of LMS. Then rushed back to a meeting on LMS 4.0. There was this cute guy Jeff Marshell who was doing a review on the Prod doc. But nothing ofcourse went into my head (a lil did actually cozSunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105766872002-03-09T21:06:00.000-08:002002-03-09T21:06:04.976-08:00March 6th 2002:
Wednesday! Drove down to Brannan with Maria and then walked back to Harrison for the company meeting. Saw Joe but could not go up an speak to him. After the meeting I was talking to Praveen and Joe came up and spoke to me. Its like seeing an old friend when I see him. Feel comfy and nice like with the janta back home :-)
Got back to the office! went to the Bank n got my account Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105404052002-03-08T15:33:00.000-08:002002-03-08T15:33:09.226-08:00March 5th 2002:
2nd Day!! Took Bart for the first time with Praveen and Anand. We take the Bart at Lake Marriet to Civic Center. Then Praveen and I went to Starbucks and got some hot chocolate and Water Bagels. Took the office shuttle. Praveen got off at Harrison and I went on to Brannan.
Marco and Mike took me out to lunch to this Semi Italian Place called Patso (pronounced that way atleast Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105400512002-03-08T15:19:00.000-08:002002-03-08T15:19:55.620-08:00March 4th 2002:
First Day in the US. Got dressed. Maria came over to pick up Praveen and me. We drove down to 1098 Harrison, dropped Praveen off and then went over to 1000 Brannan. Maria introduced me to Cludia who took me over and Introduced me to all and showed me around the office.
We then had a meeting to discuss the staff alllocations and I got allocated to 3 projects actually (they then Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-105398192002-03-08T15:12:00.000-08:002002-03-08T15:12:34.396-08:00March 3rd 2002:
(actually I made post which is now missing!!! OK I wil make this small from now on)
LA!! Beautiful Airport! Got thro customs and I94 pretty cool. OK Ran for the United Airlines Domestic flight as we were already late. We were not goin to make it to the flight so got rebooked onto the 8.30pm flight. Called and informed Julia and then Freshened and then had my first American PizzaSunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372708.post-104222972002-03-05T13:45:00.000-08:002002-03-18T14:36:00.000-08:002nd March 2002:
Reached Airport.. lotsa people to see me off! was very sweet of them :-). Mom n dad were very worried about me travelling alone. They were looking out for Joe Peyton who was not around :-d. Went through check - in and then said Bye to mom. She was pretty upset. Dad came along till the security area ( passed through customs n dinn have to declare my camera - they said they were Sunlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225368513222987114noreply@blogger.com