First week...

The first week of work with the new team in Gurgaon is coming to an end. I do not want to talk too much about work, but I can say that we are very impressed with the team. They are all very intelligent and very hard working.

The operations room is on the 4th floor of a building owned by DLF. I have been inside the White House, CIA building, US DoJ building and FBI building, BUT the security over here is still tighter. They don't let you bring any kind of camera in, even on your phone. No jump drives or memory storage devices of any kind. Not even any optical media (thats CDs and DVDs for you less tech-savy folks). The security guys actually search your bags to make sure. It is crazy. Most of you have probably noticed that my wallet has the lanyard that sticks out of my pockets. Well, the security was even buggin' about that and they asked me to stick it in my pants. What harm could possibly arise because of a freakin' lanyard? Oh well.

It is a beautiful building. The area is like a huge campus. Many buildings, all either connected to each other or very close to each other. There are some food places on the ground floor. One of them is called Deja Vu. It is very nice, but very crowded. But then what do you expect with a country that has 1 billion people living in it.

Apparently, all the guys who work in the building get picked up and dropped off from there home. As if that is not enough, they ALSO get free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, you are probably thinking that the food tastes bad. It doesn't, it is actually pretty damn good.

We hung out with the team on Thursday at one of the restaurants. It was a lot of fun. All the guys are really cool and laid back and fun to be around. We took pictures, and most of them should be in it, except for one or two.

All in all this has been a very good week. The only downside was that the four of us (Mo, Osama, Rodel and I) got a little sick during the start of the week. Nothing major, just an upset stomach or two. It just took time for our body to adjust to the food in India. The hotel food is great and all the food we have eatin' outside is great too, but Indian food uses a lot of spices (whereas in America they use a lot of fat and oil), so it took time for our stomachs to get used to it.

When we first started feeling sick, we all went to a store to get some medicine and the prices are amazing. I got some medicine for a cough and some tablets for an upset stomach.