Almost a month in Sunnyvale ,CA,USA.The place is quite beautiful,quiet and green.The topiered landscapes,huge avenues,cold weather,scarcity of population,unavail of pollution and inconvenient transportation systems are an alien feature to someone who has spent 25 odd years of life in an Indian cosmopolitan with excellent communication network,full of noise,commotion,pollution as well as population.There cannot be any other city like Bombay,c'est n'est pas?
One cushioning thought is that there are Indians,Indians & more Indians around.This place is nothing less than Little India,Singapore (@ Sharangoon Road).Our apartment rarely sees a Firang walk into its walking bays.The chaat corners,Mithaiwalas,Indianized Chinese stalls,Moughlai or Punjabi restaurants,Udupi's,P.N Gadgil Jeweller's...name it and it's here.Nothing short of deja-vu!
It's a bit boresome after my husband leaves for office since that keeps me and the house to struggle for the whole day.Me with my fairly contemporary yet Indian ways and the apartment with 70's style Americanized ways are trying to adjust to the weird cultures;hoping for the ends to meet! However,in the trunk period TFC awaits the EAD and planning to start a "cookery blog" to earn some bread for living before facing the realities of recession to grab a decent job! Will keep you posted so that the readers could get ready to buy some gas or constipation relievers:)
TFC.
One cushioning thought is that there are Indians,Indians & more Indians around.This place is nothing less than Little India,Singapore (@ Sharangoon Road).Our apartment rarely sees a Firang walk into its walking bays.The chaat corners,Mithaiwalas,Indianized Chinese stalls,Moughlai or Punjabi restaurants,Udupi's,P.N Gadgil Jeweller's...name it and it's here.Nothing short of deja-vu!
It's a bit boresome after my husband leaves for office since that keeps me and the house to struggle for the whole day.Me with my fairly contemporary yet Indian ways and the apartment with 70's style Americanized ways are trying to adjust to the weird cultures;hoping for the ends to meet! However,in the trunk period TFC awaits the EAD and planning to start a "cookery blog" to earn some bread for living before facing the realities of recession to grab a decent job! Will keep you posted so that the readers could get ready to buy some gas or constipation relievers:)
TFC.
2 comments:
hey its good to know that place is kind of home away from home (or india away from india :)). Still it takes time adjusting to a new place. specially when you have to stay at home alone waiting for the day to finish. cookery blog is a good idea. :) your blog surely gave me a deja vu feeling... keep posting... take care...
thanks Sonal :)Never thought I would be contemplating over commencing a cookery blog ever,but as they say idle mind is a devil's workshop...long live the devil then!
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