Let me first say that being able to stream movies from Netflix is awesome. There’s a lot of low-quality movies you can watch to waste your time, but remembering that some of my coworkers had talked a bunch about King of Kong, I decided I would finally sit down and watch it. Wow. It’s been [...]
Since coming back to California, I’ve quickly made a point to visit all my favorite cuisines and restaurants that I missed while I was in Hyderabad – Gooyi Gooyi, pho, shabuway, Del Taco, dim sum, and Panda Express. But, I’ve found myself really missing India, in large part because I’ve been reading Shantaram, a 900+ [...]
President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Eric Shinseki to lead the US Department of Veteran Affairs. I suppose the timing couldn’t be more perfect, as Sunday marks the 67th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Why? It’s not just because Shinseki is Japanese American, but that it represents just how much the US government has [...]
After nearly 10,000 miles of flying in the past 5 days, I’m happy to be back in California. I had a great time with my family in St. Louis to celebrate Thanksgiving and am looking forward to getting back in the groove here. I think I’m over my jet lag but seemed to have caught [...]
Well, I made it back in one piece to St. Louis for Thanksgiving, so this will be one of the last “what I did” posts about India. I still want to write a bit about my more personal experiences living/working/traveling abroad, but that will come sometime later. Anyway, here’s how the last two days went: [...]