Just noticed the date of my last blog, 15th of December 2013.
I have been pretty busy. It takes a lot of work to get to the United States of America. Especially when there are like umteen jhols that need sorting.
From biotech to software testing and TCS days, to celebrity dazzled book launches & talk shows, tele series and FMCG brandings ... along with all the insane travelling and job switches...
I am back to biotech. school days... dancing...cooking...laughing...sometimes studying...& best of it... Unemployed!
In all, I had 6 jobs in India between 2009 and 2014. I guess the common denominator for all of them would be bosses who loved me a lot followed by doleful anguish for ditching them & quitting, damaging them always with the devilry I so love. Followed by the oh so ominous - ethics - speech!
To my beloved bosses, where is that so called "ethics" when you trim my pitiful pay checks for lateness by margin of minutes blaming the idiotic "digital time attendance recorder" & how is it that the idiotic recorder always fails to notice the out time & the illustrious "ethics" reciprocate efforts with silly appreciation emails worth dung followed by lament of bad economy.
So in essence, I have no regrets. Loved all my jobs. Loved every bit in India, till I realized, I could be a pain else where too. ;) Why be so selfishly racist and restrict the privileges of my heightened sense of labor laws to only my country men given that the world is ever in need of trouble makers.
Entropy you see, chaos is needed. And Chaos it has been, this across oceans journey. Securing bank loans, gathering marksheets & recommendations, swanking SOPs & CVs, forms & payments, tax -finance documentations, it is a whirlwind ride. I did it all. Wow! factor would be GRE math, or rather practicing math after 10 years. Joe - A toast to my teacher!
Battle of emotions.. trepidation of university rejection ... shock of acceptance ...dreadful visa interview and the horrific delay - administrative processing 221 G.
Gist of it all, after cancellation of best british airways tickets scheduled on 2015 January 12 and dejected postponing of my most anticipated travel to a 9 month late date in september, my F1 visa finally arrived 4 days before the last date of US entry mentioned in immigration document.
Yes, I did leave my country in 3 days time. Family shopping, friends packing, some very very important friends missing, barely spoken good byes and Bidesh!
Lufthansa got me to the land of dreams & for me, freedom on the evening of 18th January, 36 hours before my university start date. My welcome to this new country has been cold. Literally, with the first snow fall of the season, minus 20 degrees Celsius & ice sheets 2 feet high, 2015 a new year...new life!!
I have been pretty busy. It takes a lot of work to get to the United States of America. Especially when there are like umteen jhols that need sorting.
From biotech to software testing and TCS days, to celebrity dazzled book launches & talk shows, tele series and FMCG brandings ... along with all the insane travelling and job switches...
I am back to biotech. school days... dancing...cooking...laughing...sometimes studying...& best of it... Unemployed!
In all, I had 6 jobs in India between 2009 and 2014. I guess the common denominator for all of them would be bosses who loved me a lot followed by doleful anguish for ditching them & quitting, damaging them always with the devilry I so love. Followed by the oh so ominous - ethics - speech!
To my beloved bosses, where is that so called "ethics" when you trim my pitiful pay checks for lateness by margin of minutes blaming the idiotic "digital time attendance recorder" & how is it that the idiotic recorder always fails to notice the out time & the illustrious "ethics" reciprocate efforts with silly appreciation emails worth dung followed by lament of bad economy.
So in essence, I have no regrets. Loved all my jobs. Loved every bit in India, till I realized, I could be a pain else where too. ;) Why be so selfishly racist and restrict the privileges of my heightened sense of labor laws to only my country men given that the world is ever in need of trouble makers.
Entropy you see, chaos is needed. And Chaos it has been, this across oceans journey. Securing bank loans, gathering marksheets & recommendations, swanking SOPs & CVs, forms & payments, tax -finance documentations, it is a whirlwind ride. I did it all. Wow! factor would be GRE math, or rather practicing math after 10 years. Joe - A toast to my teacher!
Battle of emotions.. trepidation of university rejection ... shock of acceptance ...dreadful visa interview and the horrific delay - administrative processing 221 G.
Gist of it all, after cancellation of best british airways tickets scheduled on 2015 January 12 and dejected postponing of my most anticipated travel to a 9 month late date in september, my F1 visa finally arrived 4 days before the last date of US entry mentioned in immigration document.
Yes, I did leave my country in 3 days time. Family shopping, friends packing, some very very important friends missing, barely spoken good byes and Bidesh!
Lufthansa got me to the land of dreams & for me, freedom on the evening of 18th January, 36 hours before my university start date. My welcome to this new country has been cold. Literally, with the first snow fall of the season, minus 20 degrees Celsius & ice sheets 2 feet high, 2015 a new year...new life!!
