Officially starting work tomorrow. The coworkers seem nice, lets see how they really are in due course. Signed the lease for the apartment, opened an account, shopped at Walmart for apartment supplies and the only thing remaining is the phone. I will have that after I get my SSN.
Yesterday, I was at the doctor for the mandatory pre-employment drug test with my colleague. I saw on the TV an astonishing news. I am sure, anything and mostly everything weird has to happen in the US!! The news was about fake olive oil, fake chips and fake fish!! In many places, there was fake fish being sold in the market; namely salmon and cod. The fish meat is artificially flavored and colored. So ridiculous!! I thought India and China were good in this, but hats off to the guys in US.
Anyway the other day I was having coffee with my Indian colleague. She said the most awesomely brilliant thing. The conversation went,"They should start this in India, its so like clean, you know." I say,"What should they start?" "They use 'gas' as fuel here, everything runs on it, not petrol!" I reply,"Yes we have that in India as well, but mostly buses or taxis run on CNG (gas) as fuel, but we use mostly petrol or diesel for vehicles. She started arguing and tried to prove her point that we don't use 'gas' in India as fuel for vehicles. Then I realized what she meant, she misunderstood 'gas' (GASOLINE) as gas (CNG). When I said its the same as petrol as Americans call 'petrol' as 'gas' and that's the reason why they call petrol stations as gas stations. But she refused to accept the fact. I gave up saying please look it up on the net and get some proper information. She reluctantly accepted that she was wrong (stupid!) Like I said in the previous post, she is a bit slow. She really doesn't get simple things, always asks some stupid questions from time to time inspite of the a certain thing being just told! Well I will have to put up with this for a year. I am ready for the fight anyway.
Will order some food now, really hungry. Feeling a bit dodgy today, a bit lonely. Was great talking to my folks after a few days. Well more later.
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