USA - California - San Francisco - Foster City

Foster City, CA. Thats the place where I am right now. The place is beautiful. Right next to the sea and the views are absolutely breathtaking. Foster city is a small place next to San Francisco, and has very few residents as compared to any village in India. The thing that struck me most is that if you walk out on the street, you will rarely find anyone else walking. The weather currently is awesome as its spring time, and the weather sunny. This place is for people who want to live an easy life away from the crowd and just spend years after years without worrying about money or other material things. But you need a car here :P. Its absolutely impossible to survive here if you son't have a car. The cabs are more expensive than a meal. And people dumb. The people here are very single minded. If you ask someone a question, wait before the person figures it out before u ask the next one.. Otherwise, you'll get a blank look back :D. Like the first day I asked the receptionist of the hotel to tell me if my colleagues are in while she was checking me in. She completely stopped doing what she was, waited a complete minute before replying "Let's do one thing at a time, first we check you in, then I'll tell you where your friends are". I thought, okay, no big deal. Then she gave me my reciept for the room booking and stared to go out. I said, "hey, what about the question I asked" . She said, " I've written it on your reciept". Man, now is that something, she had a problem anwering such a simple question, but coulput the answer as a comment :D. Similarly, if you ask any waiter for two things at a time, they always write the first one and then again ask for the second thing. Anyways, I guess thats the way things work around here.

On the whole though, its easier to get things done as most of it is automated :P

THE XLRI INTERVIEW

Okay, had my XLRI interview. The stupid DubiyaMan made the travel harder for me (he just had to come at the same time, didn't he!!)

So, I started at 9 AM, reached at 2PM (fuckin 5 hrs inside delhi, travelling. It took me 5hrs to reach from Pune to Delhi a day before), waited till 3:45, then got a call inside the room..

[Room] 3 interviewers A,B and C. 1 interviewee, I.

B: Mr. Varun Jain?
I: Yes Sir :).

B: Please come in. Take a seat.
[I sat down on a plastic chair in fornt of the table and passed my certificate folder]

B: Hmm, Varun Jain! Member of Technical staff, Persistent? What is this Persistent?
I: Sir, that is the company where I work.

B: Okay, so how long have you been working? What have you been working on?
I: ... [standard ans]

A: What have you learned about urself while working?
I: [What the fuck?? Learned about myself. Hmm,,,,] Sir, I learned blah blah blah..

[A smiling, C don't care, B serious]

A: What else?
I: hmm, nothing more sir :) [Bloody hell, I wasn't in a self realisation mission]

A: Okay, so how will you get time for an MBA curriculum now that you have been working for so long?
I: ?? What Sir? Could you please repeat that!!
[A repeats]
I: After leaving my job I will have 24 hrs sir, time will not be problem [Lol., I was laughing within myself thinking, was it a good answer, bad answer, fucked up answer?]

B: What do you know about regulatory authority, give some examples.
I: [WTF?? What regulatory shit?] hmm.. Don't know Sir.

@#@$% went on for another 5 min, and then it was cya. Hope it wasn't for good :P

Waiting for the results now :)