Let alone credit card, in this country they don't even let me open account online. Ah! I have to go the one of the branches of the bank for that

I have moved to the land which works on credit and credit history. I arrived in SFO on Nov 20 and working here since Nov 22 ( Read more... )

JC Road seems to be the favourite spot for protest rallies. This afternoon there were a group of students shouting slogans and blocking traffic. Couple of days back , the Kannada cine stars.

This morning, driving along JC Road, I was amused to see big boards with street names and the lane to take to reach that street. Here road is a domain and people just point their vehicles in the general direction of the destination and move. I guess these boards merely create some ad-space :)

Went to Mysore over the weekend by car (Maruti Zen) and had a tough time due to rain. Many roads in Mysore were flooded with water and I lost my way. Not too familiar with Mysore. I was afraid the car would sink or water would could get into the engine. Nothing of that sort happened. Even on my way back, it rained continuously for 3-4 hours and ( Read more... )

I am a member of 8 cliques of size 8

• abiligiri, kalyan, khorgath, mmk, mekin, mrinal, yathin, sidcarter
• abiligiri, kalyan, khorgath, mmk, mekin, mrinal, jessyleen, sidcarter
• abiligiri, kalyan, khorgath, mmk, mekin, yathin, klooloola, badikumar
• abiligiri, kalyan, khorgath, mmk, mekin, jessyleen, klooloola, bhatta
• abiligiri, kalyan, khorgath, mmk, mekin, klooloola, bhatta, raghotham

Started playing UT multiplayer today. Sort of felt sick in the stomach and dizzy after playing it for an hour or so. Experienced people tell me this is normal.

Read this news article http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/27visa.htm. At the end it states that finger prints cannot be collected in the US and hence people have to travel to overseas for renewal. I fail to understand why. Is it because of some law against collecting ( Read more... )

Back home after the 2 week vacation in Europe. Visited Florence, Pisa, Rome, Venice, Paris and Zugspitse (highest Alps peak in Germany).

Lot of things happening in office. Too many changes. Hope things turn out to be good ultimately.

My wife kalyani is on livejournal. Right now she is in Germany , working for Siemens. I will be joining her soon, have got the visa. Will be leaving to Germany (Munich) on Monday. Will stay there for about 2 weeks and get back on 23rd. Yay! Vacation time!!