New York New York

Yeah I am working in New York city now. After being jobless for over 1.5 months and almost going back to India, I am working in Wall Street :). When I first visited New York city a couple of years ago, I liked the city a lot. Since then, I have always wanted to work here and now is my chance. Started work 10 days ago and it has been good so far. Colleagues have been nice and helpful.

I reach WTC site by train and from there Wall Street is a 10 min walk. With so many people around all the time, NYC reminds me of Mumbai a lot. There are a lot of ancient buildings as well as the skyscrapers making it a perfect blend of the old and the new. I did some research and found out that the oldest skyscraper (Flatiron building) in NYC was built in 1902.

The best part about NYC is undoubtedly the food, especially for a foodie like me. You have all these street carts where you get chicken/fish and rice for 5 bucks. The rice tastes like the biryani we have back home in India. So, I end up having the same food almost everyday (I am not complaining though :P).

The weather was pretty bad the last couple of weeks, but it is getting better now. Hopefully in a month or so it will be pretty good. Then I can do some site seeing during the weekends. I have some exams to clear and its pretty irritating since they aren't going to help me much technically speaking. But certain things are unavoidable so I guess I have to try and study a bit. More about the last 1.5 months in the next post (provided I dont get lazy again and stop blogging :D). Later