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California Reunion

Dec 24

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The cali trip was fun this time around. I met up with a couple of friends from high school and re-discovered San Francisco. We stayed in a tiny room near Union Square but I guess we really didn’t a bigger room considering the fact the the room forced us to get out to see the city.

The city looked pretty safe considering that we were walking around the piers at 1 in the night and were pretty much the only people around, except for the sea lions.

I discovered the concept of a duelling piano bar and watched people get drunk and sing drinking songs all night. We just sort of wandered in and it turned out to be a lot of fun. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is visiting San Francisco.

I think I can’t get lost in SF anymore. I covered a lot of miles on foot and am pretty thorough with Union Square, Market and all the streets around Golden Gate. Hit me up if you need a guide :)

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Indian Consulate

Dec 20

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This post is dedicated to the idiot with glasses who answers the window when you ring the bell at the Indian consulate in San Francisco.

Dear “Idiot with glasses”,

I was at the consulate earlier today, trying to submit my application for the passport that I lost in August this year. You answered the window when I rang the bell for the consulate (who the hell runs a consulate in a house??).

The moment you opened that window, I recognized that your face belonged to one of those idiots that I would beat up, back in India. You are someone that I would have never spoken to back home and yet, as fate had it, you were here, in San Francisco, some 10,000 miles away, opening the window without a smile, looking down on me and being all judgemental and sarcastic.

I asked you if I could drop off my application, all nicely packaged and ready to be mailed. Instead, you said that I had to mail it in through USPS. I really don’t understand how it matters, whether I drop it off myself or if some USPS guy dropped it off on my behalf. And you also wanted a notarized copy of my lost passport…. ummm… you idiot!

Thanks for ruining a day of my 5 day vacation. Anyways, I hope you lose your passport sometime, so that you know how it feels, and I hope you walk miles to a consulate, only to be told that you have to mail it to the same address instead. Screw you! I hope you rot in whatever you believe to be bad, in your afterlife.

Kthxbye…!

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OOH (out of home)

Dec 19

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I started out on a journey from Seattle to San Francisco yesterday. I am amazed as to how easily Seattle just stops functioning when it starts snowing. I left home about 3.5 hours before my flight to catch a bus and it took me 2 hours to get to the airport. The buses were running full and the taxi service was booked out until 4 in the evening.

Anyways, I’m here in San Francisco and I must say that the city seemed pretty active last night. I should be heading out to see more of downtown today…. but it’s hard to feel ‘touristy’ when you are in the middle of a city!

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California..again

Nov 19

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I bought my tickets to San Francisco today and will be in the bay area, chilling with VG and Sundeep from the 18th until the 23rd of December. It should great hanging out together after such a long time.

I come back on the 23rd and leave for DC on the 24th until the 5th of January. I just need to survive this quarter.. just survive…

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Me vs. Rental car (pt. II)

Aug 20

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Tomorrow, my brother and I leave Seattle nice and early for a road trip to San Francisco. I rented out a car and this time around, made sure that I didn’t end up with the HHR again. I got a nice looking Ford Escape and I really like it so far. The car (or SUV rather) handles really well for it’s size and feels great to drive around. Maybe I am a little biased now that I drive a huge SUV but I almost ran a red light today because I thought I could :) (with great big SUVs, come great ego).

Ford Escape

If everything goes well, we should should reach San Francisco sometime tomorrow night, get done with our Schengen visa interviews (for Spain) Friday morning and start driving back late Friday. We are planning to camp out for a couple of days in northern California and Oregon area on the way back and taking our supplies with us. That reminds me that my brother got a new road bike for himself (which we are taking on the trip as well)

bike

I will be back in Seatown on Sunday. Adios.

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