3rd Apr 2008 
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Love it or hate it, I am back to Bangalore. I will spend my April living in this strange world, again. This time I am much more well prepared. I bought lots of food supply, medicine, face mask. I don’t feel as disoriented as the first… [...]
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I have to work in Bangalore for another month. This time, I am well prepared. Other than my month long supply of instant noodles, I also bought a Respro Techno Mask from Mountain Equipment Co-op. The mask can filter out hydrocarbons, sulphur… [...] Tomorrow night, I will be flying home leaving this stinky (literally) city. This is the end of my first month work assignment in Bangalore. It is an eye opening experience. I see many new things and learn to look at the world from a different… [...] There are many nice restaurants to have good food in Bangalore. I have been trying out new restaurants every night after work. The company has save a lot of money by outsourcing to India, I figure I should help them spend some of the saving on gourmet… [...] When we travel aboard, we love to claim that we are there to experience the culture. We tends to look down on package tour that lock tourists up inside air conditioned coaches and only released them at specific spots to take a few snapshots. … [...] 
India is famous for the scared cows roaming around in the city. You see cows everywhere, along the road site, next to parked cars, even in the middle of the busiest intersection. Cow is considered holy in the Hindu religion, so killing of… [...] One of my Indian colleague is going to be a dad soon. I congratulated him and asked him is it a baby boy or baby girl. To my surprise, he said he have no idea. It turn out in India it is illegal for the doctor telling the parents the sex of the baby. … [...] 
After two weeks staying in Bangalore, I have to get away from city to get a break. So I went to Goa for a weekend trip. Goa is a beach resort town on the west coast of India, which is about 1 hour flight away from Bangalore. Comparing to the busy and polluted… [...] 
Auto rickshaw is the most common transportation in Bangalore. It is kinda like the taxi of India. You can hire one by raising your hand on street corners or find a richshaw stop in front of shopping malls. The auto richshaw drives like a… [...] 
Cricket to Indian is like Hockey to Canadian. Cricket is probably the national sport in India and every one seems crazy about it. I haven’t a live game, but I see lots of cricket on TV as the world champion is playing in Australia this… [...] It seems I am writing about India in my blog every day. Well, I guess I am still experience the cultural shock. Everything happening around me seems so strange and foreign to me. Usually people will eventually get over with the cultural… [...] I had a tour in the Wipro campus today, which is next door to our office. Wipro is the biggest outsourcing company in India. The campus is hugh, looks kinda like a small university. Maybe not as nice as the Microsoft campus, but sure it is… [...] Looks like I am adapting to the life of India sooner than I expected. First, the tourist feel is vanishing, the prove is that I took much less photo today. The route between office and guest house is the same, so I have seen the view on the way. … [...] Yes, I am counting my days of stay. I already have home sick and miss the comfortable life in Vancouver. Anyway, my second day is also full of adventure. The driver came and picked me up in the morning and drove me to work. The distance from… [...] 
Starting next week, I will spend my next two months working in Bangalore, India. That would be quite an adventurous trip, since I will be living in a strange place, probably suffer from a cultural shock. Before I get on the plane and shipped… [...] It is wise to take immunization and vaccines before traveling to third world countries. Those places are so poor in hygiene that have many deadly diseases. I just visited the travel clinic today before my trip to India. I guess India is… [...] Everyone traveling to India need to apply for a visa. India is famous for their bureaucracy, so the apply for a visa needs to fill out many forms. First I have to get two Indian passport size photo, which is difference size than a Canadian passport. … [...] This afternoon, I was booking my flight to India. There are not many airlines flying direct to Bangalore. I am not adventure enough to take an internal flight inside India, so my options are limited. The most straight forward path is taking… [...] I don’t know it is lucky or unlucky, I am drafted by my manager to service in the India tour of duty. I will be going to Bangalore in the name of being a technical expert for 2 months. The excuse on the surface is knowledge transfer so the… [...] |
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