Welcome to the USA,
where there are no cows and we dont drive autorickshaws ever in our lives
only meat, no yummy sweets
and no, animals dont bark at any time of morning..
Repeat that 10 times over and you still dont become an american. cha thats so sad yaa.. i thought if we rap and wear baggy clothes we will fit into the brutherhood of the americas... but it yis not so baybeh..
As is probably not yet evident. I am not yet really liking my stay in the USA.
I crib.
I crib and I crib.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
I am convinced that Indians hate each other. They look out for "brown skin" thier eyes searching and when they find one - it convinces them that they're cooler/hipper and a more "well-fit american" than the ultra paavam desi tagged with a wife and a kid with a phone too expensive for him to make sure others know the salary is 6 figure in USD- mind it ;)
As of now , I have to admit, I am the petrified Indian, I feel like I'm doing everythng wrong when everyone else seems to know what to do and how to do it. I have a particular problem with restroom faucets. I, very simply, never know how to open them. There are mostly tiny or no buttons, and are never marked. and THE nightmare of my lifetime is the sensor operated flushes. I find it pathetic and as my better half says -"its too intelligent for its own good"
I also have a problem with potato chip packets- they don seem to have the flap we are used to- which means we pull in some random direction and its supposed to open up!
There is a lot of health food stacked up in grocery stores..the biggest of which i have seen is 'safeway'. Its located in the 'watergate building'. Yes the same watergate scandal..of the nixon presidential term.. so your daily interactions with bits of history take you by surprise in DC.
It made me go back and read a bit about the 'deep throat' revelation which came out as Mark Felt in 05. Woodward and Bernstein wrote "All the presidents men", till the point when i read this i thought it was some Sidney sheldon book.. he he..
I bid you adieu with the not so nice feeling of being a misfit and part of a life i dont enjoy just as yet but i hope i can get over it, make some decisions and get things going for myself.
As of now , I have to admit, I am the petrified Indian, I feel like I'm doing everythng wrong when everyone else seems to know what to do and how to do it. I have a particular problem with restroom faucets. I, very simply, never know how to open them. There are mostly tiny or no buttons, and are never marked. and THE nightmare of my lifetime is the sensor operated flushes. I find it pathetic and as my better half says -"its too intelligent for its own good"
I also have a problem with potato chip packets- they don seem to have the flap we are used to- which means we pull in some random direction and its supposed to open up!
There is a lot of health food stacked up in grocery stores..the biggest of which i have seen is 'safeway'. Its located in the 'watergate building'. Yes the same watergate scandal..of the nixon presidential term.. so your daily interactions with bits of history take you by surprise in DC.
It made me go back and read a bit about the 'deep throat' revelation which came out as Mark Felt in 05. Woodward and Bernstein wrote "All the presidents men", till the point when i read this i thought it was some Sidney sheldon book.. he he..
I bid you adieu with the not so nice feeling of being a misfit and part of a life i dont enjoy just as yet but i hope i can get over it, make some decisions and get things going for myself.
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