Conscience of American Life - Part 1

It was a big surprise for me when I landed in this country. Specially the people around and the system. We used to respect the firangs always in our mind, I don't know why this was an habit to me, still I know most of them do so. May be this particular thing, disturbed me a lot in the 1st few days of my life in this foreign country. My mind was not accepting the fact that they are doing all labor works.

I was out from the flight and in airport, been to toilet. I saw a firang cleaning the toilet. Haa... dats fun.. I was little disappointed though happy in my mind. Got a taxi to my hotel and again a finrang.. Cool, a firang calling me Sir.. I enjoyed. I was talking to him as much as I can, such that, while he replies, I can hear the 'Sir' again and again. Payed him am 10$ tip and he was very happy with me. You should keep your pocket filled with $ for tip in US. Thats the custom.. Its called gentleman's pay. If not its called Desi pay. Only Desi avoid tips.

Hotels are the best, apart from the food they serve. But I got used to it since the outside cost was little higher than expected. Con-flex, fruits, bread, cup cakes, are my favorite now. Silver dine or a chipotle lunch and dinner. Trying to be an American in eating habits. My cooking cant be explained as simple in 1 para. It need another post. I will do later.

Our people are lazy, I cant say that, may be the outsourcing trend changed out habits. I used to sleep by 1 or 2 in the morning and get up by 11 or 12. But its something really amazing in this country. People start going office by 4Am. There used to be a good traffic from 5 to 6 AM. They come back home by 5 and sleep at 7 or 8. I was in a meeting with client and one firang was explaining his yesterday, "I had a late night Dinner @ 9" late night dinner @ 9?? man its not even a evening snack time for us. Being with this time format is the one I faced more difficulty in.

I decided to give a tail of 'Part 1' for this blog since, its not gonna stop in few pages. i realized it once I started writing. I may stop by this para in this post since its time to go back home. Now you do know from where I am writing this post is. :-) shh... let not all know about this. Its just a free time I got for 30min. It doesn’t mean that I am always busy. used to find time for chatting also orkuting. The best thing may be funniest part, is I saw movies, more than I had ever seen in my entire life with in 6months being here in US. Isn’t it that funny? You can ask any onsite person, he will have the same answer. Hope I will write more posts.......