Getting to know

Chicago, for the first few days, was quite fun. The minute i landed here, smokes came out of my mouth and nostrils, whenever i opened my mouth or breathed heavily. I had watched many hollywood movies and with our friend we have tried out many similar things in ooty and kodai, but all in vain. But here the minute i opened my mouth a white envelope clouded my face and my glasses became blurred.

Keeping right is one thing that i found very difficult to get accustomed to....eventually i had to, i kept finding myself uttering sorry and many excuse-me fell in my ears. So sort of keeping left is becoming an out of law thing. The second day, when i started for office, i was all ready...neatly dressed, with my laptop in my backpack sitting alongside my lunch box, neatly polished boots. I had never looked so perfect. My room mate stared at me for few seconds, when i was trying to open the door..."hare yaar, what are u doing?", was his question and he smiled. "Me about to go to office", a simple reply...."This is not your chennai, wear the jacket". Ya then only i realized, i need to wear this extra luggage on me :(:(

The one thing that was really bothering me like hell was the usage of papers....Nope not the hindu or dina-thanthi....I am talking about the tissue papers that are used to wipe our ass clean. I dont really feel like completely cleansed...ya what to do....so i always made it a point to take my bath after the happy pooh-pooh time :):)

I really miss chennai for one particular reason. Transportation. It sucks here. Everyone has their own car.....No manja color autos/the MTC buses which carry a special smell along with them. Most shops close down by 6 in the evening and u really get to do nothing after u come back from office. Cooking has been well taken care of by my room mate. His duty is to cook good food, mine is to clear the dishes and ours is to clear the cooked food no matter how bad it is.

The widely talked about jet-lags....I had often wondered how could people get affected by it....just skip a sleep...and everyhting would be in place....that really crushed me for the first one week...i was unable to work, sleep....ya what else...even could not time the pooh-pooh well :):)

Now, i have almost crossed 3 weeks and its gonna be summer soon......