It was a thursday and I got a little late for the office ,So I decided to work from home for the time being.A colleague of mine was returning back to India after staying here for about six months. So, he called me up and asked me to come to office and from there we will go somewhere . I reached office and when Tomas left .We went out of the office , roamed on the 5th avenue , went to apple store ,clicked some photos and then called up few other Indian guys from Accenture and Goldman Sachs .They said they will be there in an hour or so. We tried to go to the Times square. But I shuddered at the sight of the crowd. There must be at least a million people and many more coming, waiting in queues The police and cops were deployed everywhere and they were carrying out their roles with dexterity .It reminded me of the local fares of Delhi at the time of RamLila and Janmashtmi . The difference is we have global crowd at times square. Just imagine, people go bonkers for witnessing the crystal ball drop at times square at midnight and for that they start gathering there from 10 am or so. They just sit there for 14-15 hours. They cannot go anywhere to pee . Some guys keep bottles and relieve themselves in them .What happens to girls I am wondering.
I so people pee in their pants. A smell of food, feces etc etc was filled in the atmosphere.
Standing there for insane long hours in -5 degree Celsius and that too for a show of 5 minutes , hugging or smooching a stranger .Seems like too much work to me. Feels like a cult which is being followed, but then everything is a cult in one or other way.
But its an experience in itself, You talk to people , people from various lands, big luggage with them ,speaking in different accents of English can be something I can look forward to. But this time I didn't.
Instead we went to office again and waited for the other guys to join in. OMG !! there was an infinitely long queue in front of my office .Thanks to its prime location in NY, a road adjacent to Alliance Bernstein building leads to Times square so it was closed. Thanks to our access cards .We could just go through the other side of the building to go anywhere, instead of standing and waiting in the queue with the plebeians :)
We took the food from Halal guys , its one of the best food in NYC. I had falafel over Rice and Lettuce but I stayed away from the hot sauce of theirs. Its insanely hot and has no taste. One thing I like about Indian spices is that they have a taste they are not used for burning few organs of your body which I think is the case with the hot sauce of Halal guys. Anyway, we had food and in the meantime the other guys also arrived. They were starving as well. We took them to Dukes Deli, a nice place to have salad, continental , sushi and my favorite persimmons salad .
I was just standing and looking at various things and another girl was doing the same. We started talking and talked for some time and then her boyfriend came back from washroom .Both of them greeted me new year and they left.
I dont remember when did I talk to any girl randomly in New Delhi. I understand that the atmosphere of Delhi is way different from that of New York. But males are same everywhere, you can see this thing very clearly and this concept got cleared when I was in a nightclub Webster hall there. But leave these things aside, girls are more secure here and more confident . Delhi girls are no less in confidence but they have this air of arrogance engulfing them, and a belief that they belong to some different species , different from normal human beings. Of course I cannot generalize this ,I am not saying that males or american females are the paragon of all the virtues.
But anyway, after seeing a million people at Times square five of us headed to central park ,it was no less than a celebration as well.And then at 00:00 hours fireworks started. The sky was beautiful and the pyrotechnics were adorning it with colors giving shades to it and to the eyes of the on lookers. It lasted for 15 minute. Then we headed back to the our office. I was planning to go to my place but the 4 of them urged me to go with them . We reached their room and it was really cold .
I was not in a mood of drinking, so they people proceeded and had a good time I guess. We had a erudite and very deep conversation on American economy , effect on India and of course Aam aadmi party :)
We kept changing the music on demand . We played cards, 29 was the name of the game. Those who think playing cards is a bad habit should read about Mickey Rosa and six other MIT maths students who brought the house down in Las Vegas casinos way back in 1993. IIT Bombay has official cards society , even my college had few games which everyone was master at.
Finally, at 6 am or so we started getting drowsy and fell on the bed welcoming the first day of the new year.
No resolution nothing !!
I so people pee in their pants. A smell of food, feces etc etc was filled in the atmosphere.
Standing there for insane long hours in -5 degree Celsius and that too for a show of 5 minutes , hugging or smooching a stranger .Seems like too much work to me. Feels like a cult which is being followed, but then everything is a cult in one or other way.
But its an experience in itself, You talk to people , people from various lands, big luggage with them ,speaking in different accents of English can be something I can look forward to. But this time I didn't.
Instead we went to office again and waited for the other guys to join in. OMG !! there was an infinitely long queue in front of my office .Thanks to its prime location in NY, a road adjacent to Alliance Bernstein building leads to Times square so it was closed. Thanks to our access cards .We could just go through the other side of the building to go anywhere, instead of standing and waiting in the queue with the plebeians :)
We took the food from Halal guys , its one of the best food in NYC. I had falafel over Rice and Lettuce but I stayed away from the hot sauce of theirs. Its insanely hot and has no taste. One thing I like about Indian spices is that they have a taste they are not used for burning few organs of your body which I think is the case with the hot sauce of Halal guys. Anyway, we had food and in the meantime the other guys also arrived. They were starving as well. We took them to Dukes Deli, a nice place to have salad, continental , sushi and my favorite persimmons salad .
I was just standing and looking at various things and another girl was doing the same. We started talking and talked for some time and then her boyfriend came back from washroom .Both of them greeted me new year and they left.
I dont remember when did I talk to any girl randomly in New Delhi. I understand that the atmosphere of Delhi is way different from that of New York. But males are same everywhere, you can see this thing very clearly and this concept got cleared when I was in a nightclub Webster hall there. But leave these things aside, girls are more secure here and more confident . Delhi girls are no less in confidence but they have this air of arrogance engulfing them, and a belief that they belong to some different species , different from normal human beings. Of course I cannot generalize this ,I am not saying that males or american females are the paragon of all the virtues.
But anyway, after seeing a million people at Times square five of us headed to central park ,it was no less than a celebration as well.And then at 00:00 hours fireworks started. The sky was beautiful and the pyrotechnics were adorning it with colors giving shades to it and to the eyes of the on lookers. It lasted for 15 minute. Then we headed back to the our office. I was planning to go to my place but the 4 of them urged me to go with them . We reached their room and it was really cold .
I was not in a mood of drinking, so they people proceeded and had a good time I guess. We had a erudite and very deep conversation on American economy , effect on India and of course Aam aadmi party :)
We kept changing the music on demand . We played cards, 29 was the name of the game. Those who think playing cards is a bad habit should read about Mickey Rosa and six other MIT maths students who brought the house down in Las Vegas casinos way back in 1993. IIT Bombay has official cards society , even my college had few games which everyone was master at.
Finally, at 6 am or so we started getting drowsy and fell on the bed welcoming the first day of the new year.
No resolution nothing !!
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