The worst fear

in US for me, is getting trapped in a washroom, when someone's intestine is being cleared :(.....Unlike India, here all buildings are completely air-conditioned and CLOSED. So if someone leaks a bit of air, you are going to have the worst few seconds of your life, which u can never realize until your senses encounter the weird smell......So, you have no option of opening any windows, for there are none and the bottom line is - Always be prepared to expect the UNEXPECTED!!!!!

The first word that erupts in my so called mind is BIG, the minute i think of US. Anything for that matter, cars, vegetables, fruits, houses, roads, office buildings.....name it, they are all big and huge. So are the effects of the leaked air in a closed room :(:(. I have never seen the door numbers in a community to increase sequentially....they are always multiplied by two,three and the maximum i have seen is twenty. WOULD U BELIEVE IT????????????????? 20 grounds for one house, where a max of 4-6people live? And each one in the house have their own CAR, just like the two-wheeler funda in india.......

But Indians are always Indians....Ya u cannot change certain traits that have been inherited and practiced for most part of your lives. As far as i have seen, anyone speaking loud on the phone in a public place is an Indian, when a group of elderly man gather and laugh aloud, they tend to be indians.....When you find someone dressed with shorts and t-shirts and find a woodlands full formal shoes, they are again Indians, completely dressed in formal phants and shirts, most indian women tend to have big round bindi in their foredhead......oh god!!!!For someone sake, cant they realize how bad they look? Forgot to let you know, a three piece suit and a Nike sports shoe is common among the Indians who travel to Chicago downturn for work. Pathetic. The irony is that, the few of such eminent personalities, with whom i got a chance to talk, have been here for more than seven years......

While that is one set of Indians, there is another side of it. Ya every coin has two faces.....These are real professional at most times....Ya when i say most times, they tend to be carried overboard, overdoing their makeups :).....All in all, so far i have never felt missing india except for the Transportation. Yes the bloody transportation SUCKS big time here.

The best thing about this land is that it has lot of natural wealth. I can find all roads adorned with green/violet/pink/white/blue/yellow trees/flowers/grasses on either side of the road, which has become a rarity in India, and future generations will get to know about them via virtual world and museums. Will they get to experience it?I guess it is out of question!!!! for we did not provide the opportunity to do so and we need to blame ourselves than no one.....

While US has all wealth, every possible thing that could make human life easier.......the serene calmness i experience within me after the days work ends and i find myself at home, while the clock is happy inching near the 1am mark......i dont tend to experience it here....even if the clock reads 11 in the night...there is always a restlessness!!!! Has it something to do with me returning to India or is it something to do with me settling here? I guess, before i leave for my ABODE, i will find an answer.....