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I am heading to Bangalore India on 11/26/05 through 01/06/06 for business. My company has an office in India and I am heading over for the holiday season to give the management team a well deserved break.

For those of you not familiar with Bangalore, here is a URL to the city: http://www.bangalorenet.com/index.asp

I am both excited and nervous about this opportunity as this is a new opportunity for me to visit a county I have never been to, however I will be many thousands of miles from home with virtually no support system of friends or family, so it is also a daunting adventure.

I plan on updating this page with photos and a blog of my trip, so check in periodically to see how my trip is going.

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By Scot C
January 9th 2006

HOME!!!!! North America » United States » California » San Diego

Starbucks

HOME!!! I made it home finally. After what seems like a week of traveling, I have made it home. My friend Bob was kind enough to meet me at the airport with a pack of Camel Wides, my favorite cigs. He met me at the Starbucks. Picked up the luggage, and on the way home, stopped at Lefty’s Chicago Pizza for Italian Beef Sandwiches. If you don’t know what those are, then you are really missing out. Got home, ate, played with the dogs for a while, and started some laundry. Going to take a shower, possibly shave, and go to [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 9th 2006

Airport Hell - Part 2 North America » United States » California » San Francisco

Ok, so I am sitting on the floor at gate in SFO waiting for the United flight to take me home to SD. Please note, the above does not say business lounge. Why you ask? Well just when I thought that things couldn’t get worse, they did. I blame my sister actually. She sent me a very nice send off message and commented that after Bangalore the trip home will be a breeze…yea, Jane, it was real easy. Ok, so when I last left you I had not eaten in 14 hours, and I was waiting to board my plane in [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 8th 2006

Final Day - Airport Hell Europe » Germany » Hessen » Frankfurt

Final Dinner

I am sitting in the Frankfurt airport waiting for my flight to San Francisco and thought I would post a final blog before returning home. Well my final day in Bangalore has come and gone and I spent it much like I spent most of my days here, hanging out with friends. My day started off early as some co-workers were coming by to drop off a thank you gift. The staff here was super nice and sent me off with a number of gifts and numerous well-wishes last evening. It was very hard to say good bye as all of [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 7th 2006

SF or Bangalore?? Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

Naughty boys

For first few weeks I was India, I kept thinking my company had sent me to San Francisco, CA instead of Bangalore, India in error. It s no wonder I fell in love with Bangalore. As I first got acclimated to the city, I was stuck by the similarities between San Francisco and Bangalore. Let me explain some of the things in common: First and foremost, both cities are overcrowded and facing a housing shortage. There are numerous buildings being built in both cities to match the demand of its citizens. Like SF, everywhere you look there is construction going on [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 6th 2006

My apologizes Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

Well faithful readers, I apologize for the long delay in a subsequent posting. I have not had internet access in some time. As a matter of fact I lost my microwave, towels, and much of the food stocked in my cupboards. For those of you that know me, you know that I am quite well anal retentive when it comes to planning and I pack early. Now the place I am staying is well aware that I do not leave until Sunday morning at 2:30 AM, but apparently the fact that I began packing on Monday was a signal that I [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 3rd 2006

Indian Games Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

3 on a 2-wheeler

One of things I have done here to keep myself entertained is to create games for myself while I pass the time. This started out while in the car on the way to work, since I initially was a bit bored with not actually driving. Most of the games involve counting of some sort, and I have since discovered that other foreigners also play similar games here. The first game I came up with for myself was count the number of people on a 2-wheeler or the variation how many times can you see four people on a 2-wheeler. This may [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 3rd 2006

Shopping Carts Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

So I realize I already posted a blog today, but something kind of funny/embarrassing happened to me at work today which I wanted to share having to do with grocery shopping. In order to appreciate the situation, I need to explain the whole concept of supermarkets in India. They are relatively new to Bangalore and actually aren’t really that super. They all have kind of weird names like Fab Foods or Food Mall. Well actually if you think of it the names of their stores are kind of better than ours, at least it has food in the title, I mean [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
January 2nd 2006

Mr. Scots Wild Ride Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

Bangalore Tower

As you will notice, I have been writing a lot about the contrasting aspects of Bangalore. This weekend I experienced two very different sides to Bangalore. On Friday, I went back to Chickpet for the full experience and then on Saturday I went to the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens. I wanted to talk about the Gardens first even though I did it after Chickpet. I was told that Bangalore was the “Garden City” before I got here, but I have to admit that up until Saturday, I thought the name was a bit misleading (kind of like New Jersey) but when I [View Full Entry]

By Scot C
December 28th 2005

Koshy's Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

Koshy's

So I am finding that there are three things you can count on in Bangalore: 1. The electricity will go out at least 3 times everyday. 2. Traffic is horrible. 3. The service at a restaurant will either be the best you have ever had or the worst. Today I had incredible service. I went to a place called Koshy’s. It is, as my friend reported, “the quessential Bangalore eating place”. The original place we had intended to eat at was having a private party, so we walked a few blocks to the old part of town at my friend Sriram’s [View Full Entry]

Sriram and I after a great dining experience

By Scot C
December 27th 2005

Shaving and Spectacles Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore

My new glasses

There are a number of things I am going to miss when I leave India in a couple of weeks. I will definitely miss the people and the service you get anywhere. I will miss the food of course, and I will miss having somebody drive me around. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to shaving when I get home though. I think this is number two of things I am looking forward to (#1 being my friends and family in the States). Let me tell you shaving in India is one of the most difficult tasks [View Full Entry]

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