The first thing I woke up to see this morning from my balcony was a woman sweeping the street with a bundle of reeds. I suppose I am such the gawking American business/tourist but I have never seen this before...
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| From Bangalore Day Three |
What I wonder... does she work for the hotel? the city? ( doubt it.) she worked her way up and down the street, maybe she just lives here and wanted to clean things up. I dunno!
Here is some crazy combination between an auto-rickshaw and a truck. The crazy vehicles here continue to amaze me... also, this is a small one. there are some trucks with the exact same front half, but a much larger cargo area, sometimes full of people in the back. I'd hate to be back there, I can easily imagine someone falling out.
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the other thing I noticed today (but did not manage to snap a picture in time) is the instructions on the back of buses and trucks to "please honk horn" ha you would never see that in the states. It would be like wearing a note on your back that said 'kick me.'
Speaking of kicking, apparently at the company I am working with, they have a twisted tradition: on your birthday, first off the birthday boy/girl has to take their team out for lunch. (Kind of the opposite of how we do it in Seattle.) We had some really good Chinese food. Then, when they bring out the cake, first off they grabbed him and proceeded to kick him in the ass pretty brutally! then, they smeared cake all over his face.
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Live action movie of the beating:
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And the aftermath:
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its all in good fun, but geez I am sure glad its not my birthday for many months!
My policy for today was: every team member that came into my office to ask a question, got their picture snapped. Secretly its my way of making sure I can put all of the names and faces together later, don't tell!! also I want everyone back in Seattle to start to get to feel like they know these guys, even if its just through me. So here's the unlucky ones from today:
Nagendra... rock out! This guy works late into the night, fueled only by youthful enthusiasm and Iron Maiden lol.
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Shriram and Gurpreet
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Me, with Elangovan and Chandru (Elangovan clearly trying to hide behind me ;^)
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Shriram, Uma and Naveen
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Rubin
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