Dinner and drive

I lost my way to office today. For those that know me, this shouldnt come as a surprise. Home to office is one straight drive (no left, no right, no nothing - dead straight), and still I managed to lose my way :-(. The problem here is that you cannot see a soul on the roadside who you can stop over to ask. Also, I couldnt find one place to pull over and check the map (which I always carry but never use)- another reason why I dint want to pull over was that i've been told that in case you do, then the patrol car (which is always doing rounds along the highway) thinks your car has some problem and comes over to help - and my shady Indian license is the last thing I want to show around :-).

Anyways, I did manage to reach office. Also, I finally managed to meet one known person in office today. Vlad was one the section leads during TU. Russian, but settled in the US for over a decade now. I had some discussions with him and our general counsel about taking my TU idea forward.

Thereafter, he took me out for dinner. It was around 5:20 PM. He took me to an Indian restaurant called 'Sarovar'. It had a typical Indian restaurant ambience, something like Samarkhand in Bangalore... and it was playing hindi music. It played some current popular numebers like 'Kajra re', 'Dhoom macha le', 'salaam namaste' - btw Vlad knows this song. He says that during his three month stay in India, he heard this song on almost every channel on TV, or on the radio while he was in the car. There were some songs which I had not heard for ages now. Some real oldies. Anyways, dinner was through by 6:30 (this was the earliest I have had dinner in my life - the last being from 6:30-7:30, when I was in the boarding school).

So as you can see, today was a bland day. Look forward to a new day tomorrow.