My First few days @ Maryland

As i flew in, i realized it was a sweet city i am in. Its called Germantown. Good number of indians here for sure. And yes, sulekha.com works. I didnt had my SSN number and i never had my credit history, so getting an appartment on my own was a bit difficult initially. Later i found through a friend that you can find for indian roommates in any location in US using sulekha.com. Well, that worked for me too. I had some options for accomodation. I found a good friend in this whole process. Ajay is his name. He is good and helped me a lot in my initial days of my germantown. The city climate was more like bangalore chill winter climate. But they call it summer here. Also i heard that since i am on East the winter here could be as low as 23F or -10 to -15 I am just waiting to see the winters though.

I am liking the summer here. Its nice and pleasent. Apart from the cheating light that longs last till 9pm which decieves you from cooking your dinner early, rest is all good. I stay in Hampton's group sharing my appartment with Mitesh. He works for NIH, a govt. project. The place is new but mitesh and I go around every place to get groceries, house holds, bla bla. I am loving playing Tennis here. I never touched Tennis racket while i was in India. Still trying to learn to get on to a player phase. Its not so easy as it looks initially.

Work is good. I can reach office pretty easily from home. I get a Bus pass for 10$ and i can walk from hamptons to Germantown, transit center via Taco Bell. Its a 10 min walk. Then i get Bus - 75 to clarksburg and i am right infront of my office within 10-12 mins. The busses here run on time with a minor deviation. They are centrally managed though. Every individual here has a respect. A Bus driver is considered to be treated as your friend. He will identify you every day if you get into his bus. "Thank you, have a great day" - is the statement that brings smile on your bus drivers face and yours while you get down from the bus. The Pulling the wire to activate the "Stop the bus" signal is something thats interesting. Walk to the right, and be careful with your hands especially when you are with another indian, just walk with distance :-! Learn the culture. No wonder you get every indian item here. I work as a consultant and i enjoy working 8 hours. I get over paid for working extra hours or extra weekend.

I have a sweeet team here. We have a jel of Coldfusion and Flex team with backend DB team. CF team works on writing webservices that gets exposed to the Flex front end. Myself, James Alley and santosh form the flex team. Casses Sealy, Jason Heaslet, Phil Nacelli, Aaron Miller form the CF Team. Vaideki is our project lead with a core knowledge of functionality of the product. Vipin Wagh heads us as VP. I love interacting with every one in my team. They are extremely friendly and extremely smart... but I need to learn a bit more on what they do actually. They pursue their personal ideas and goals, personal creativity, personal extra curriculars, personal business, personal start up idea implementations on their own after their 8 hours work.

I am loving Cooking too. I dont miss any indian food, well i do a lot but i just dont want to get into the thought of missing my mother land. Rest is good. Life here with slight adjustments to the salary ratios and couple of months with DL in hand and a car would make it a perfect fit. There is no life in US without these things: Laptop, Internet, Mobile, SSN, Credit Card, Car, GPS, TV, Self Cooked food and some friends around you... I had been to the Taco bell, mexican restaurant and had my chicken chilupa, yesterday i was at Chipotli, another mexican restaurant having chicken roll. Chicken Steak Sub was my lunck on the friday noon. Life is just going on with some interesting things happening in steps... Lets watch for more...