Dinner at Justin's
Justin invited me for dinner at his place yesterday. He is a colleague at work.
I learnt a couple of things yesterday. Americans are a passionate lot, and take good care of whatever they have. Firstly, their house. It was a four-bedroom set, over two floors, with large open space in front, as well as the back. Considering that he passed out of Harvard Business School around the same time I did from ISB, and probably has a much bigger loan than I do, I was surprised that he dared to buy such a house... and a sports car to go with it. But there... that is consumerism.
He lives with his girlfriend, who is a Peruvian - from Lima, and speaks Spanish ( I din't know that they spoke Spanish in Peru!!). Besides being very pretty, she cooked a fine meal - amongst the finest food I have had in the US. The best part was, after the food was ready, she took five minutes to explain what each dish was, how it was cooked, and what makes it special. I think I ate as much as both of them together.
They are planning to get a dog (they already have a cat called Tiger) - and they have all the infra ready. A big cage, different kids of dog straps, comb, food bowls, and God knows what. The interesting bit was the toe nail clipper for dogs :-)). Goes back to the point I made some time back about these guys doing whatever they do, even if it is keeping a pet, with so much passion and science - something to be learnt!!
Ohhh... Justin told me about one section mate of his at Harvard, whose ambition was to become the Prime Minister of India. Once when they were asked to write an essay on work-life balance, he said that he cannot have work-life balance because he needs to take care of an entire nation - which is a 24 hr job. Now, that is what I call thinking BIG!!
Overall good fun - and yes, these guys seemed to have traveled half the world as well!!
I learnt a couple of things yesterday. Americans are a passionate lot, and take good care of whatever they have. Firstly, their house. It was a four-bedroom set, over two floors, with large open space in front, as well as the back. Considering that he passed out of Harvard Business School around the same time I did from ISB, and probably has a much bigger loan than I do, I was surprised that he dared to buy such a house... and a sports car to go with it. But there... that is consumerism.
He lives with his girlfriend, who is a Peruvian - from Lima, and speaks Spanish ( I din't know that they spoke Spanish in Peru!!). Besides being very pretty, she cooked a fine meal - amongst the finest food I have had in the US. The best part was, after the food was ready, she took five minutes to explain what each dish was, how it was cooked, and what makes it special. I think I ate as much as both of them together.
They are planning to get a dog (they already have a cat called Tiger) - and they have all the infra ready. A big cage, different kids of dog straps, comb, food bowls, and God knows what. The interesting bit was the toe nail clipper for dogs :-)). Goes back to the point I made some time back about these guys doing whatever they do, even if it is keeping a pet, with so much passion and science - something to be learnt!!
Ohhh... Justin told me about one section mate of his at Harvard, whose ambition was to become the Prime Minister of India. Once when they were asked to write an essay on work-life balance, he said that he cannot have work-life balance because he needs to take care of an entire nation - which is a 24 hr job. Now, that is what I call thinking BIG!!
Overall good fun - and yes, these guys seemed to have traveled half the world as well!!
posted by Animesh Kumar at Friday, March 10, 2006
3 Comments:
what is the name of the guy who wants to become the prime minister of india...i am just curious if he is an indian.
yes...americans do everything with lot of passion and we indians have a laidback attitude ....is it because of our tropical climate?
Navroz Udwadia... keep track of that name - you never know!
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