my neighbour

Walking out of my place, I am greeted by my new neighbour. "My name is John and I am here from LA!". Cool and what does he do? "I build satellites for Lockheed Martin..."

Wow! I am all set to scream out my sales pitch as to how I can help him make the software for the satellite that will ensure it stays orbiting forever. But i hold up for a bit..

and he goes on talking about himself, swaying almost 60 degress in the hot sun, thanks to the beer in his hand. he was positively drunk.

"I love to BBQ! and if you find me pounding upstairs just tell me to quite it down - we gotta communicate!"

As it turns out he loves to party and is growing old and was looking for some guys to turn up the volume ..never mind the partying, i really wanted to figure out what he is really made of:)

So i pop a question - "so you an aeronautical engineer" - he says "nah..i havent gotten a degree yet, i have been thinking of studying but the 16 hrs a day is killing me.. hey but i love to party you know. I dont party a lot now cause age is catching up..but you never know.."

So build satellites could easily mean working on an assembly line..but who am I to judge. Lets see what he comes up with next!

GC in his swank eclipse

I land up at the mountain view cal train station, carrying all the stuff which will hold me out for the next 3 months, waiting to be picked up by new room mate guang chen.

Just then a sleek black mitsubishi eclipse drives by - easily the sexiest race car i have seen in quite a while..

He jumps right out and says "Call me GC". we do the introductions, dump the bags in and I get treated to an awesome chinese meal right in the heart of the valley.

Tons of chinese, indian and mexican places were all over the place - not to mention the majority of chinese and indian faces...

All in a expansive, neatly laid out set of towns.. all of which make up the bay area. Thats silicon valley for you!

It's true

My first impressions of the sunnyvale neighbourhood was very much like what we see on US sitcoms. You have the married yet adventurous woman (or so i thought cause of her skmipy dress, cigarette in hand, deep red lipstick and 3 kids running around with their light sabres) - which could be compared with quite a few characters on desparate housewives:)

then you have the UPS delivery guy with his big van parked outside - out he comes with a big smile, waves at you - not to forget his funny brown shorts:) The first thing that came to my mind was the King of Queens. I cant wait to see what his wife looks like:)

then you have the big bodied american walking his dog..he could easily fit the bill of the plumber on DH.

and many hispanics... still gotta find the eva longoria among them! they all seem pretty out of shape on first sight.