America

It just started with Raj Sir(my lead) on a smoke, guys don't misunderstand me,i don't smoke, i m a very decent guy you know :), i was just giving company to him and janvekar sir. Hey shashi(my manager's manager) was telling she need some guys from AE team on site so janu may be leaving soon, wow.. listening that i was so excited that mera number bhi ayega jaldi as i had good image in front of raj as a good bug fixer :)...smoke got over.. days got over, no news, i said to myself, ashwin sapne dekna chode de. I left thinking over it, but dil ki kisi kone mein i had faintest hope that i will go to America soon. I like to mention it as America as it sounds more proudish than just telling US :) because in my village people say America jake aya wo vilayat return hai wo ..appa!!!


Again after 2 or 3 days raj while going to smoke said something in low voice and started walking , i said sir sir arey kya bolre tikh se to bolo, then he said shashi bolrahiti she needs 3 resources onsite, sala koi izzat hi nai software industry mein logo ko resources kahke bulare yar..hmmm chalta hai jab tak acchhi salary dete hai, resources to ya fir daily wage labourer to bolo :) ,then i said dekenge sir jab bhejenge...


After few days i.e on 14th oct in the evening a email popped up with sub line "List of docs for US visa" by seeing that my heart started pounding with great happiness, then my eyes caught cc list there were 5 more names, then thought sala company to 3 ya 4 ko bhejenge so firse isme bhi competition aur mera chance kam dikne laga. chal chod dekha jayega.

I started preparing docs, went to Mysore to get final sem marks card , thanks to visa processing it gave me a chance to get my marks card, otherwise i wouldn't have got time to go to college to get it for many years, though i will be there in mysore monthly once atleast :) , but you know.. i don't get time in mysore, i ll be very busyyy :)

I took photographs in GK vale though vikya told me hey ille hog pa local 40 rupai kottu summ togal , but i was like we shouldn't take any risk man :) full conscious, don't want take any chance so 160 bucks blade, meanwhile filled the visa form on line and took the appointment date on 31st oct and made other 3 also to take same date so that i would go home to diwali and play cards. I won 1000 bucks playing 11 till 4 clock in the morning, I am the winner as always.

You must be wondering y only 3 ..what about other 2 , sorry i forgot to tell that , actually they didn't have passport with them , thank god, 2 reduced :) , one among them is our great Deshbhushan late latif :)

31st oct visa Interview day, i was nervous but to my luck just one question, what is your take home , i said * lac per annum , then got the reply good luck, have fun :), god bless that Interviewer.


On 4th Nov morning got the passport back stamped with 10yrs visa, happy, showed that to many in office like a small kid shows his new toy to everyone , I forgot to tell one thing that janvekar already left to US on 24th oct itself lucky guy.

One week got over after visa but there was no news about trip..used to chat with janvekar everyday , sir kuch news hai kya, he used to tell arey you people will be here very soon...

On sunday evening vikya was telling i have to send some of my gre forms, if you would have gone i would have sent with you and I could save 10 to 15$, then i said let see and wait till next week.

Next day morning i.e on Monday , Sundaresh(company admin and a very nice guy ) smiled and said you are ready ha hair cut and all, i was wondering y he is telling like that, within few moments CRS(company VP) called us( me and my other collegue jaisuthan the L khan... :) he said you will be leaving to New Jersey for 8 weeks on 16th dec. As soon as i came out i sent a message to vikya saying i can take your GRE forms man :)..ohh god i was so happy , i never imagined in my wildest dream that i will be flying to america so soon in my life....ufff it was greatest moment of my life. I told everyone that i will write a book titled "My Journey From Hallikhed To New Jersey" :)

Now started the tayyari . sir used to call at least once and tell list of items which i need to take..rice, dal, oil list goes on....

After taking inputs from many and preparing 3 to 4 lists finalising the list with 50 items :) to take and also took inputs how to cook(rice, dal, phiki dal) from my sweet bro , he was telling like , phiki dal banate samay gas sim pe rakna chayiye
again for some other thing he used to tell gas full pe rakna chayiye then he told so many items recipe that,,,hmmmm i got totally confused :) and i said u send complete recipe , i will leave now :)...

In between calls to all friends and relatives...all relatives like khandan mein pehla chirag :) some friends like mali patil the great gulbarga he* sent mails like "Our Bidar dog Ashwin Biyani going to New Jersey" some other said " setu tujhe kyun bhejre be".. some other like deshbhushan and dabbu (prabhakar) kya seth US jake hame bhulna mat chutye sale :)... some other senti guys like my darling abhijeet "setu i am so happy that you are going " ..sale meku kya samjhe be, utna gawar dikra kya main ....kid cousins wish list, sketch pens, video game, dolls ..list goes on, friends list someone say joursey jacket , our gr8 mali wants one Ipod , on Digital Camera , on LapTop, on LCD Tv ..that's all nothing much :)..my cousin says sale agar daru nai layeto tere flight ko land hone nai dunga.

Final day 16th dec.. Packed everything, room mates were like kya bein seth itna maggi , itna rice , oil, ghee sale marwari waha jake shop kholne wala hi kya be sale...:). I called my cousin avinash... my driver for final day :)

Finally we took those 2 very heavy bags to weigh (Thanks to YD , thilak), guess how much was the weight, one was 30 and other 29 :)

I had to remove a lot, It was painful..forget it ..Thanks to annya for that late night jappi while leaving, It gave me a kind of confidence as i was nervous as it was my first time to airport as well...It weighed 45.4 at airport..saved...and Boeiflight took off at 4.15...continued to be in part 2(don't have time sorry :) )....don't say abe sale part 1 padke hi budhe hogaye abhi part 2 bhi hai ..