Life in US

Its quite peaceful here. People seem much more organized, disciplined. Follow the Rules is something that has been an integral part of their upbringing... Break the rules is what works in India where people keep working on finding new ways to bypass the system.

People are health conscious. You see people jogging early morning, afternoon, night... any time :-) No matter which time of the day it is you will always see cool breezes keeping you moving. I guess thats why people seem to be so interested in jogging??? all throughout the day. The most surprising thing for me was length of day-time here. You will see sun smiling in the sky till 8 PM which in a way is good...basically more time to see places :-) Work mon-fri and enjoy weekends seems to be weekly routine for most of the people here. Enjoy the pleasant weather, Immerse yourself in nature are high on their TO DO list. People spend their weekends hiking, para sailing, biking,skiing, swimming in mighty pacific ocean which is so cold that is pakka bound to get your legs frozen and can even be fatal if it freezes the blood supply. BRAVO, people here have such a strong willpower and stamina. Some of them go for a barbeque to nearby places like montere, bigsur, halfmoon bay. There are lots of small beaches all around the bay area.

People here are quite fond of dogs. Pashu premi hai bhai :-)...people can have 1, 2 , 3 or even more dogs. you will find dogs in all sizes/shapes... big bulldogs, dogs having layers of thick fur,some times its difficult to even see eyes of the dog (not sure how they mange), paris hilton type dogs...dotted ones...all types... They carry them everywhere especially women...looks to me as if dogs/puppies are their own babies...jahan bhi jaatein hai saath mein nanhe munhe puppies zaroor le jaate hai :D

Human sighting is a rare sight here on roads. If you find a bunch of people, its gonna be definitely a CalTrain station. All around the road/streets you will see machines moving at high speeds. Do not dare to cross the road in between. Always use the pedestrian walk...What?? is this. If I need to just cross and go to next side, I am required to walk 4 times the distance which could have been easily accomplished by moving straight and crossing the road... But Safety comes first..Jaan hai to jahaan hai bhai...But isn't it a little waste of time in the world where time is money and the only resource limited in nature which once missed will never comeback... The road is completely empty and still you need to follow rules...Come-on atleast in this case we could have taken the shortcut. Can't we??? Waise I saw my 1st violation of traffic rules here...KEWL ... some students from stanford( i guess??) crossed the road directly even though there was traffic on the road.. So yessss there are people here who do break rules...But wait, if you get caught then the fine is hefty minimum of 250$...so think thrice not twice before doing it... he he

Driving here is pleasure but becomes pain if you miss any turn you need to go all around and come back and if missed again go around and around... This happened with us during our shoreline park drive...Me and Omkar missed one turn and wanted to avoid freeway, so had to go all around... pain hai yaar :-(

Pedestrians are treated as god of the roads and never dare to hit a one... you may run the risk of getting your license canceled for x years and the worst if he decides to sue or go to court... People give due respect to all pedestrians , they are given 1st preference while crossing roads... India mein kuch karna padega...

Chahal pahal mushkil hi hai yaha, you will rarely see people talking around.. The only thing that constantly act as an input to your ears is the woooo of cars moving around.
Life seems to be perfect here... hmmm (especially bachelor one :D)