Initially the title was "Life at Fremont", but i changed it because it sounds weird that one understood whole about the city in a week.

The 4 working days and 3 Holidays, 4 working days passed like 4 weeks and 3 Holidays like 3 hours. what the hell...? why is the working day sooo long? The answer is.."i will have to wait for few more days to understand if it continues"..

I landed at SFO airport on sunday at 9 PM. At 9:30, i was waiting for a cab at taxi stand opposite to airport. There were bunch of cabs standing in a long Q and picking up passengers. I was asked to stand in the very front and look for an American cab and its body painted with Orange and White. After good amount of confusion, a punjabi came and picked me up. This guy started talking about Advani's babri masjid issue and told me that it is not good. I said, there is nothing to discuss, politics are like that. Then he started about Ramsena.. Soon i realized that he is pakistani and not Indian. I didn't avoid, but decided not to discuss about communal issues. We were on a no mans land, it was pretty dark and conversation was getting pretty hotter. Not about politics, but about pranksters this time. He told me an incident, where a gun was spotted upon his head and narrated that incident in a most beautiful dreadful way..and continued.."ye log ek dollar ke liye bhi maar dete"..i was not sure if he is talking about my future in 5 minutes...

In 5 minutes, i reached my destination..I have been through lot of sucking (this is the better word to describe flight journey) journey, i raced to bed. Regular story started, i woke up in the morning and went to office. My god, day was sooo long and i thought its because, its a first day. But consecutive 3 days were no exception. I am no different from a child waiting for final school bell.

Finally all the 4 days were so long and all the cab drivers i have seen are Afghans. Now i understood, why Fremont is also called Mini Kabul. But Fremont is very much a diversified place. It has got lot of Asian population and Non-Asians too. But diversified is a positive word and it has other side as well, this city is rich in gangs and gangsters. Fremont is supposed to have good climate, but it was raining from the day i came here..even then Fremont seems to be another hyderabad with its diversity except for the fact that Fremont has got much disciplined traffic and my office is 20 minutes away from where i stay :-)

and the next 3 days, it was very fast. Though i did nothing, it was fast. I was working from home for the first 2 days and last day i had a little glance of city. We had long drive for around 50-60 miles away from city and visited my friends company at Alameda island(I hope i typed it right) and then marched to mall and then to bowling again..