First Week at San Jose

26/07/2008

This was the day I landed in SFO and reached the hotel at around 2 pm. The hotel looked nice from outside so looked the city. The room was a comfy one. The rest of the day was spent in "cooking" noodles and munching it. And then going for a deep sleep for about 4 hours before waking up at night 9 pm to cook and eat dinner.

27/07/2008

It was decided that this Sunday would be spent shopping, my friend actually shopping and me window shopping. So I got up got ready,had breakfast and then set ourselves to go for the great mall. We took VTA Train. Our stop called Karina station to Great Mall Stop. Did some great shopping there. It is an awesome mall with great stores all around, mainly for apparels and shoes. Once nice Chinese toy shop and the GAP outlet was particularly cheap and affordable. Next we went to Wallmart. Wallmart is a kind of super market and it really is a super market. Where else can you get from candy to Car Tyres . I mean it, you can get virtually anything over here. And thigs are pretty cheap here. Once we finished shopping here, we were headed to Bareeza, the Indian store. Here you find all Indian food items,movie DVDs etc. After buying some curd and vegatable we headed towards room again. The climate and the excitemement didn't let me feel tired after this shopping trip. And the fact that Sun sets only at 9 pm makes a psychological impact saying hey..we can still roam around.

28/07/2008

First day to work. Got breakfast from the hotel, cooked lunch, lemon rice using lemon rice mix packed it into lunch box and then headed for office. Office is just 5 mins walk from the hotel. Lisa my manager took me around to show and introduce everyone around and got me a laptop and I was set to go. Cubicles are big. Office building is awesome. With free pepsi,coke and other drinks and apples,oranges and corn flakes to eat, it is indeed a wonderful place to work. The work culture and the casual atmosphere adds on to it. Wireless internet in the office really helps by avoiding the usage of wires and stuff. Finally the first working day was spent in verifying the bugs and preparing for the next day morning's demo.

29/07/2008

Had an early morn(8.30 AM) meeting , so had to rush thru things. The meeting went all right. Again the day was spent in verifying the bugs.

30/07/2008

Another working day and same old life. Nothing special.

31/07/2008

Arul's last working day in San Jose. At the end of the day went around the campus and took photos.

01/08/2008

Day was spent working for the first half and blogging these stuff the second half.