So I arrived here on saturday checked into the nice and shiny hotel took a quick bath and before the jet lag cold get to me got ready and went to PA downtown. Nice little bubbly place, since it was saturday there were alot of people around. What I love the most about the Americans is that they "YIELD", yield is a traffic term here which means let pedestrains cross first wait and then go. And hence this is bred into themwhile walking while opening doors while in the elvator, everywhere they want to let you go first and then follow.
Slider BAr and Cafe :
A very interesting small little cafe which serves burgers and beer. What was so interesting about this cafe was that their burgers are small and tall, kinda like mini burger but was very good. Couple of glasses of draught beer burger, garlic fries was more than enough. This interestingly enough is the de-facto american lunch. Burger Fries and Beer and god bless the person who came up with this, hehe... Love the amount of calories it adds to the body heheh...
Had an awesome two scoops of the very famous HagenDaaz ice-cream. I did not give the jet lag time to set in, beer /burger and good enough sleep enducers if you know what I mean..
Pier 39 :
The next day was a site seeing trip to SSSaaaann Francisco... Every time I say San Francisco it reminds me of the song...Well The pier is like a "fun-fair" that we have here back in India. People eating playing drinking taking pictures. With Christmas around the corner there was an obviously huge chritmas tree. I went there early as in at around 10 in the morning and it was freezing. People had warned me about the cold breeze and so I was carrying a jacket sweatshirt and an umbrella. Thank you RUPALI for forcing me to buy a damn umbrella. It never rained......
Had a good fisheraterien lunch at one of the peir restaurants. Expensive but good. We then ran into a guy who was offering a 10$ ride under the golden gate bridge and so it was to be.. Ride under the golden gate bridge was excellent. It was a very interesting experience looking at the streets of SF from the sea. The golden gate bridge is humongous, when looking at it from the ferry below the bridge it looks so much more bigger than it might be. It was larger than life, downright beautiful.
We then walked upto lombardt street "the crookedest street" in the world. It was fun a lot of walking but ya it was fun. China town was a let down, I was hoping to catch some nice interesting street food but that wasn't the case. It was like the "FORT market" out here in Mumbai.
Drive back to Santa Clara and dinner with Prasant was fun, But special mention to Prashants wie for coming up with a brilliant cpu of tea. It was like tea at home but only like on the other side of the world.....
First day at work was fun, met some of the brains behind Zimbra... Jim Kevin Ellen Maria Boris to name a few, the UI guys hadn't checked in yet but the "Amber's VMware Special" trip was fun. I was put up in an office sharing with Mr Hurley and it was sooo much fun. Mr hurley is like the funniest guy I have ever met. I begged him to take me along to the next "Sharks" game..Spent that night with Karthik Rajesh Satish and their families, it was fun..... They ordered a Jumbo burger for me which is like with two meat patties and I had a very hard time finishing it...
The next night was probably the funn'est night I spent in SF, Ice Hockey game in the "HOME OF THE SHARKS" San Jose. Firstly let me tell you the fans here are crazy, hehe and since it was the home court of the Sharks it was filled with Shark funs and the "Wings" only had a hand full of fan following. By the way Mr hurley is such a big fan that he has his seat and he just won't let anyone sit there.. Its like "THATS MY SEAT". It was fun to watch the game :
"Whats the matter with howard he's a bum" And Howard was the visiting teams goalkeeper...
Met a very interesting guy in the PA office, a Mr mike he is like the vmware know it all GSS guy and fun. He can go on and on and on like one of those Duracell commercials.
I was at 6th street on SF downtown the day before the last day in SF, and man o man it was scary. It had a bunch of homless guys hanging around and a bunch of those cross dressed men, with everyone shouting and drinking. Damn scary place to be in, but if u keep your head down and walk like you know where you are going then probably you will not get bothered. Out here in the US if you look a person in the eye, they consider it as a engaging and feel that its necessary to respond. Now this response can be a simple nod or can be "wat you lookin' at brother".. So my advice do not engage, look away simply.
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