good morning - yest. and tom.
So my driving is improving and now I don't mind driving in traffic so I am getting lazy in the morning. I want to write a comment on nishit's blog too but he writes on books and stuff.
Well the fact that he is reading my blog makes me write more. And mr. ananymous you gotta leave your name there.
So yest. we had this bar party at night 8.30 onwards and my manager was keen to make me go there (it was in downtown seattle- the hippy place). Well mom happened and I didn't go. Anyways I was told that its rude to go in a bar and not drink (atleast the bar owner might not be pleased). And the other suggestion was to carry a glass of water and pass it off as vodka :).
Well my friend suggested that you should go and drink but don't drink the first time in front of strangers coz you never know how you might behave :). All weird advices. Somehow I havent become adventurous enough to try to drink. Prob. its kind of a mental block for me.
Well apartment hunting is going on big time. Asking every one from Sunil (my colleague) to other's outside office. Have shortlisted the following:
- Hampton Greens (biggest plus is that it is close to office and next to proclub (http://www.proclub.com) - our official gym.
- Ravenswood
- The Lakes
- Trails of Redmond (Where i live currently)
- Archstone Lakes
- Archstone
- The Parks
All the apartments with the name lakes are actually beside lakes and it is a part of the coast (?) line of one of those big lake - sammamish and they have bought and privatised a part of the coast line. Man its a huge lake spreads for 270 degrees of my vision. i had seen Archstone lakes - it was amazing. I like the idea of having a lake view from the apartment and being able to lounge in one of the chairs besides it on a lazy sat afternoon reading some book or listening to music.
The only deal is it is not close to office or market place but welll if I get the license it will not be much of a issue as I drive from Trails to my work and Archstone lakes is close to it.
Let's see how it goes.
posted by arati kadav at 8:07 AM
2 Comments:
Hmmm Mr. Anonymous - Did anyone just called my name :-) Well let me remain Mr. Anonymous until you win the guessing game!
From what I have seen in the past 4-5 months in the IT industry, I can totally relate it to one of my Sociology courses that I had pursued -- in affluent groups/socities, there is consumerism and lavish spending. Drinking is like a status symbol; non-drinkers are in the minority and many a times shunned upon! Well anyways I will keep my flames for some other time (may be when I am infuriated enough from this behavior I will post my rant up on my blog itself).
9:41 AM
for me, mental block is good, as far as drinks are concerned. :-) It's become custom to accept drinks "socially". more so at US, but not for me as of now. Let's see how it goes for you and when you become "piyakkad" at US ;-) Have fun!!! BTW, Congrats on driving.
8:04 PM
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