my first day at onshore... never ever imagined this will happen so soon in my

life...everything happened so quickly.. i was not prepared mentally to leave my sweet home

soon after getting my long time aim to work from chennai...

One thing tat puzzles me... always i used to be nervous when ever i do anything for the first

time... But to my surprise my first air travel was nervous though, but my entry to a new

country did not make me feel nervous... My entry to a new work location did not make me feel

uneasy... yea the culture is different but like the work culture here... the way people greet

others whom they even know before...Its different but we should accept things that are good

in any culture....

One thing for sure i miss my home badly... Food is obviously new but soon will start cooking... the biggest

punishment i can give to myself...

Now i completed my 100 days stint away from home, i turned to look back the path... i cannot imagine i worked so much than ever before.. Its not i was pressurized to do so but i like the work and new challenges...i havent worked more than 12 hours in office before but in this short span i worked for nearly 24 hrs not once but twice. OMG is it me who have jus worked 8 hrs a day and that too most of the time in cafeteria... (I pinched myself,,ouch its not a dream :)) sending emails to offshore, offshore calls, escalations, onsite coordination, client interaction, pizzas, burgers, salmons, casadia's, sushi's, chicken nuggets, spinach, dounets, mexican gumbo last but not the least working on a laptop and that too macprobook.. the list is never ending...

how can i forget my cooking, not bad at all i cook pretty decent...

The life over here is the same but the terms used are totally different..

here they call

lady'sfinger - Okra,

petrol - Gas

ground floor - first floor

currency - bill

bill - cheque

chillies - peppers

weight - pounds and ounces

parcel - to go

cycle - bike

curd - yogurt

bun - bagel

biscuits - cookies

there are more, these differences simply confuses a innocent like me:( i would not blame this as this is their world and i have entered this den. So as the saying goes "when in rome (do as the romans do)" i do not want to do what they do but get used to the things here..

i need one more birth to understand this culture:)

Few ppl i have met they are crazy abt US life style, it is their interest but i wonder why i am not like them...I always love to be in india and that too Chennai throuoghout my life...

Is that something wrong with me, no way as said in my previous post i wanna be myself thats it....

Being myself!

Finally got some time to express this long time question i kept on asking myself...

From the day i remember, i heared from many ppl saying that I have to live a life like a good person... but they just do not stop with that, they give examples, like i should follow truth like harichandra, i should be like X,Y,Z et al..

Then initial stages i tried to be like that, then one question kept on alarming within me....

Is that wrong in being the original? is it a crime to live without a mask?

I feel defently not, I wanna be myself!!! when i try to live like others then i am acting throughout my life by loosing my identity... then i am no more true... so i decided let me be myself, i do not want to get dragged by the so called "X" factor...

Whether it is right or not I wanna be myself!!!!