It’s been more than a year since I wrote anything new or to be more precise anything meaningful or meaningless. An existence without expression is a bad thing, its something like if you don’t see your reflection in the mirror for days, you definitely are going to get uglier by the day. So to save myself, I thought writing and reflecting my thoughts would be a good idea.
And since the day I have moved to the US i have only been embroiled in answering questions, which taper down to just one topic“ How do you while away or kill time?” So now that I have the time, a new place to explore, I will have more to express and lots to write.
Friday the 13th of Jan was the day I landed to the US. Could there be unluckier or rather luckier day to start the new phase of my life? Had come with a complete different mind set, a new hope, something’s to explore, something’s to discover, something’s to learn and unlearn but most importantly to grow as a person and to develop a strong bond with the guy who brought me here to the US. Lets name him Mr Beau.
I never wanted to settle abroad, I always thought life here in the US is shit, but very addictive, and especially for us Indians. We make a lot of money, get a wooden house, a BMW, but at the end of the day we are just a miser here. After staying here for around 2 months, I realized that all my above pre conceived notions are not mere notions but facts.
But there are also lots of good things about staying in the US too. One among them is easy access to travel .I still get so amazed by the fact that people staying in NJ go to a complete different state NY to work. In India this would be operationally so difficult.
Anyways, so far I have been to New Jersey (I stay here.) Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia and New York.
Anyways, so far I have been to New Jersey (I stay here.) Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia and New York.
Let me start with place I liked the best, NEW YORK.
My first visit to New York was to visit Mr Beau’s office. It was a Saturday early afternoon, we went via bus, on the way to New York, you can see the New York Skyline, which looks magically awesome at any point of the day or night.
The bus goes through the very looonng , gloomy Lincoln Tunnel and suddenly once you are out of the tunnel light flashes and all you see is tall buildings and yellow cabs.
The moment I got out of Port authority, thousand words filled my mind. The first thought which came in to my mind was “ Am into some Hollywood Flick? “ It really took me a while to sink in the fact that im in NEW YORK. As usual I was extremely excited. Everything around me was on a move, nobody or nothing was still. The city was charmingly frenzy . One more thing which I discovered very soon was it’s ridiculously difficult to look pretty in this city. It’s a city where fashion never ends.
After visiting Mr Beau’s office my first stop was “The Times Sqaure”, I looked up to Mr Beau and said“ is this Times Square? What’s so great about it” I kind of felt its overrated. Its nothing but crammed with huge vibrant hoarding and crowded with people all the time. In my opinion, what make Times Square… TIMES SQUARE.. are the people.
If you are a people person, you will love Times Square, and so did I. The place slowly grew on me. You will find people from varied countries, of all color, religion, shapes and sizes. The crowd is incredibly diverse. It is place where if you have the talent you can get noticed, and at the same time you can be a ghost in the crowd. It’s one place where I found everybody to be soo soo happy. I didn’t find a single soul who looked sad there. ;) Funny!
The Naked Cow Boy really grabbed my attention. Extremely popular among the girls. Can’t imagine anybody in India doing something like this. Apart from that the NYPD cops are very entertaining too, quite flirty and are forever ready to get clicked. Its place full of glamour and entertainment round the clock.I did visit quite a lot of other places in New York, about which I shall write in my upcoming posts.
There are lot of good things about the city, but slowly I realized there are few things missing too. The city is so electrifying, that you would never see the stars in the night, or see the black of a night.
Whatever said and done, Im stil not a New Yoker, but im loving the city for the only sole reason that each time I have been there I have cherished lovely little moments with Mr Beau and that makes New York city extremely special to me. :)
