As planned well before today was the dinner party day with my onshore team manager and some key people related to our team. They had planned to go to Murphy's Steak House which is a well known restaurant here. I can say its like Vidhyarthi Bhavan or MTR in Bangalore. They say Its a must visit restaurant in Boise. As these people finish their dinner at around 7 PM to 8 PM they had planned to go at 6:30. Exactly at 6:30 we were in Murphy's. Its a very old restaurant here with a good ambiance and nice crowd and no need to say costly too.
Attendees to this party are
Ken - My onsite counterpart having 32 years of IT experience with great knowledge
Diana - She is the busiest person here, hardcore techie,person behind forming this team
Jeff - Information Architect who had come from Salt Lake city first time to Boise.
Christine - Project Manager for few projects here, nice lady. Who has visited India.
Mike - Old guy with solid domain knowledge and intellectual.
First of all my self and Ken reached this place in his car, and while waiting for other people to come we ordered drinks. He ordered a vodka drink and i said "I will take Beer" , then comes that chick with options... god I never knew about any of this.. In India Beer means they will ask KF Strong, Premium, 5000,6000 or 7000 etc.. but this was something different she started explaining about each and I was not able to understand..I thought I will remember one and I will order that, I could able to remember the last one.. as soon as she stopped I said I will take Blue Capa acapoa bribbilikion*$%# some thing like that...My tough time did not end, muchkondu hogodhu bittu she again went to subdivision in that and I followed same strategy remembered the last one.. she said thank you and says good choice... yappaa devre.
I saw Ken was studying the Menu same way like we studied one day before exam, me too followed, I was searching for the word Chicken in that Menu. God is great, I found one item called Chicken Masarala, :-) in that happiness I overlooked at it and it looked like Chicken Masala...immediately my aathma said it can not be and looked carefully it was Masarala.. eno ondhu saavu...I decided that whatever it is I will order that one only.. in 10 minutes Diana and Jeff came and they said Mike and Christine will be joining us soon....
...............................to be continued with much more fun
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
routine
today is sunday, full time I am in Hotel room.. actually I dont know what to do going outside.. How many times one can go to same mall and same walmart... some guys over there started identifying me...not kidding..
Yesterday had been to walmart for exchanging one of the items which I had purchased last weekend, I exchanged that and with that I again ended up in shopping few things there.. My plan was to come back to downtown to have that crap Indian food and then go to Town Square mall, pachi had given a list of shirts he wanted from Hollister.. but things did not work out as I was thinking, one fatso driver who is fit to be working in BMTC delayed things and I could not get Indian food as they close shop at 2:30, but still sticked to my plan I took taxi and left to Town Square. Finally got that Hollister outlet.. able to buy 4 shirts..
came back to room at around 6:30.. I am writing this on sunday evening , so I am with this laptop since one day..ofcourse I took a long break for sleeping and 2 breaks for eating...
Morning I was planning for today and did not get any good idea... so full time I spent in the room..
completed watching Aloo Chat.. it was Ok Ok movie...
I hope next weekend will be good which is the only weekend left for me here..
Yesterday had been to walmart for exchanging one of the items which I had purchased last weekend, I exchanged that and with that I again ended up in shopping few things there.. My plan was to come back to downtown to have that crap Indian food and then go to Town Square mall, pachi had given a list of shirts he wanted from Hollister.. but things did not work out as I was thinking, one fatso driver who is fit to be working in BMTC delayed things and I could not get Indian food as they close shop at 2:30, but still sticked to my plan I took taxi and left to Town Square. Finally got that Hollister outlet.. able to buy 4 shirts..
came back to room at around 6:30.. I am writing this on sunday evening , so I am with this laptop since one day..ofcourse I took a long break for sleeping and 2 breaks for eating...
Morning I was planning for today and did not get any good idea... so full time I spent in the room..
completed watching Aloo Chat.. it was Ok Ok movie...
I hope next weekend will be good which is the only weekend left for me here..
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
One Weekend in Boise
I am here in Boise for almost 3 weeks. A different experience.. when I came here it was so cold and one day I was even able to see snow cap mountains from my hotel room, the weather here is changing like anything.. in 3 weeks I have seen 3 degree to 20 degree variation is temperature. While I was experiencing that 30 degree temp in Blore I used to think how good it will be to stay in a cold place, but now my opinion has changed I feel that is better than this. In Blore atleast I can go out and do whatever I want though I am sweating but here I will automatically go back to room when I try to come out. Luckily last saturday and sunday I saw a good weather, Saturday I was able to go out in my T-shirt and enjoy walking here and I visited Walmart and some other shopping places. Its really different experience to go out alone where everything is different feels like I am in a different world. Not sure whether its good or bad experience but it was different.
I walked up till Broadway which is 1 and half Km from my hotel and took a bus, while waiting for the bus people were watching me like I am an alien. I guess no one waits there for the bus or these guys may not know about Bus service. Boise has a bus service called valley ride which provides a day pass for 2 dollars and you can use it full day like our BMTC in Blore. From Broadway I took bus number 2 and got down in Downtown in Central bus stand like our Majestic and took number 9 and the last stop was walmart.
After entering the shop I got stunned and I was happy to see such a big store where you can get everything you want, as I was alone with lot of time to spend I went to each and every section and I was examining each and everything and spent around $150. Chief item was LG Cu400 thinking to give that to my wife. I took some dress for me and for my daughter too. Looks like my major part of shopping will be for her only.
On Sunday 9th May Morning I tried washing my clothes in the hotel Laundry, where they have kept washing powders, washing machines and dryers.. for everything you need to $1 :-) Afternoon I walked to Broadway again to Burger King for lunch and came back. In the evening one of my colleague(Hari) who helped me in the beginning for settling down had called me and more colleague from India for dinner in his house, he was very kind and came to my hotel and picked me for his house. He has purchased a house here, he and his wife were excited to show their house and even I was curious to see how things will be in this part.
His cute little daughter was so happy seeing us. She took some time to get adjusted with new faces as other kids do, after half an hour she started explaining about her toys, cartoon character etc.. He had invited one of his friends too for the dinner who lives in his neighborhood..
Finally it was time to gulp, the food was good, that too I was eating home made food after 2 weeks, I ate like anything. Around 10'O clock he dropped us. I had to send some mails before sleeping.......
I walked up till Broadway which is 1 and half Km from my hotel and took a bus, while waiting for the bus people were watching me like I am an alien. I guess no one waits there for the bus or these guys may not know about Bus service. Boise has a bus service called valley ride which provides a day pass for 2 dollars and you can use it full day like our BMTC in Blore. From Broadway I took bus number 2 and got down in Downtown in Central bus stand like our Majestic and took number 9 and the last stop was walmart.
After entering the shop I got stunned and I was happy to see such a big store where you can get everything you want, as I was alone with lot of time to spend I went to each and every section and I was examining each and everything and spent around $150. Chief item was LG Cu400 thinking to give that to my wife. I took some dress for me and for my daughter too. Looks like my major part of shopping will be for her only.
On Sunday 9th May Morning I tried washing my clothes in the hotel Laundry, where they have kept washing powders, washing machines and dryers.. for everything you need to $1 :-) Afternoon I walked to Broadway again to Burger King for lunch and came back. In the evening one of my colleague(Hari) who helped me in the beginning for settling down had called me and more colleague from India for dinner in his house, he was very kind and came to my hotel and picked me for his house. He has purchased a house here, he and his wife were excited to show their house and even I was curious to see how things will be in this part.
His cute little daughter was so happy seeing us. She took some time to get adjusted with new faces as other kids do, after half an hour she started explaining about her toys, cartoon character etc.. He had invited one of his friends too for the dinner who lives in his neighborhood..
Finally it was time to gulp, the food was good, that too I was eating home made food after 2 weeks, I ate like anything. Around 10'O clock he dropped us. I had to send some mails before sleeping.......
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