Dec 07th'10:
We woke up and got ready a bit too early than our regular timings and we were accompanied by 2 more colleagues in the cab so it was packed and we reached office early by 9 as walked past the Old Post Office in the chilling winds cutting us through.I had some good enough work on storage end as we left for lunch by around 1pm and Amit took us a popular American joint "5 Guys" which served primarily beef and bacon stuffed burgers.This place is called Eat @ National Place which was a food court that features a wide variety of low cost dining options and different cuisines.Vijesh didn't opt for 5Guys since it had the typical burgers, hence took a walk around and checked out all the mouth watering options.I settled for the Mexican Moe's SouthWestern Grill and had the burrito with hot spicy sauce and it was yummy.Vijesh chose the Grill Kabob and went for chicken kababs with rice and naan.The mall was great place for amazing variety of dining options to choose.We left this place satisfied and Amit took us to a nearby shopping store
Filene's Basement which had very good deals on Tommy Hilfiger and other major brands, this place was big and lots for shopping. Left back to work place and reached room, we are approaching closer to our final time here in US.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Last Week in DC
Dec 06th'10:
This would be the last monday i would be working to work in Carlyle DC office.We got to work pretty late because of the metro which took an hour to reach and its frustrating to sit in the train which gets delayed, but they say this happens once in a while here. We got most of our work done during the first half of the day and had room prepared lunch together in the cafe. I finally got my camera D3100 with Telephoto 55-300 mm lens and thanks to Sai for his help in getting this done.With the Tripod and lens, i looked like a pro as others kept teasing me ;), I handed the cash to Sai and left to Duhn Lohring with Kusuma as we were invited for dinner by her, we got picked up by her husband from the metro and We had Rahul, Elina and Priya joining us for the dinner.Kusuma turned out to be a great host as she prepared Tea and dinner within an hour and it was a 5 course menu,this showed Women power and her dexterous ability.Rahul and company landed in DC from Blore and were freezing in this cold weather.We all left dinner and it turned out to be a good get together.
This would be the last monday i would be working to work in Carlyle DC office.We got to work pretty late because of the metro which took an hour to reach and its frustrating to sit in the train which gets delayed, but they say this happens once in a while here. We got most of our work done during the first half of the day and had room prepared lunch together in the cafe. I finally got my camera D3100 with Telephoto 55-300 mm lens and thanks to Sai for his help in getting this done.With the Tripod and lens, i looked like a pro as others kept teasing me ;), I handed the cash to Sai and left to Duhn Lohring with Kusuma as we were invited for dinner by her, we got picked up by her husband from the metro and We had Rahul, Elina and Priya joining us for the dinner.Kusuma turned out to be a great host as she prepared Tea and dinner within an hour and it was a 5 course menu,this showed Women power and her dexterous ability.Rahul and company landed in DC from Blore and were freezing in this cold weather.We all left dinner and it turned out to be a good get together.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Big Freeze Sunday
Dec 05th'10:
Well the freeze continued and Vijesh had lost interest for DC as it had more of historical monuments, after convincing him and finishing breakfast we left room at 12pm and we wanted to save on cab hence used the metro bus. We were waiting @ the Jerman town closer to Wendy's and initially stood on the wrong side, we stood in the freezing winds blowing across our face and the bus was the least preferred mode of transport in this county and one of the Nepali guy was waiting at the bus stop and was sweet enough of to call the help line and let us know the right bus, so grateful to him we boarded the cosy bus and got a direct bus 1C to drop us at Duhn Lorring Metro.Once at metro, we reached DC office had lunch and walked to the National Air and Space museum which was massive with largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It had lot of space explaining exhibits with simple explanation of how planes fly and children loved it, it was so huge that we couldn't even finish watching the ground floor.We were asked to leave by 5.30pm and we walked back to return some other weekday.We then walked to the Washington Monument which was the world's tallest obelisk , again walking in the open -5 Deg chilling wind took toll on us and we got glimpse of it shining in the night.We took the metro and managed to get our bus to reach back home safe :) Our last weekend of this memorable US trip comes to and end.
Well the freeze continued and Vijesh had lost interest for DC as it had more of historical monuments, after convincing him and finishing breakfast we left room at 12pm and we wanted to save on cab hence used the metro bus. We were waiting @ the Jerman town closer to Wendy's and initially stood on the wrong side, we stood in the freezing winds blowing across our face and the bus was the least preferred mode of transport in this county and one of the Nepali guy was waiting at the bus stop and was sweet enough of to call the help line and let us know the right bus, so grateful to him we boarded the cosy bus and got a direct bus 1C to drop us at Duhn Lorring Metro.Once at metro, we reached DC office had lunch and walked to the National Air and Space museum which was massive with largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It had lot of space explaining exhibits with simple explanation of how planes fly and children loved it, it was so huge that we couldn't even finish watching the ground floor.We were asked to leave by 5.30pm and we walked back to return some other weekday.We then walked to the Washington Monument which was the world's tallest obelisk , again walking in the open -5 Deg chilling wind took toll on us and we got glimpse of it shining in the night.We took the metro and managed to get our bus to reach back home safe :) Our last weekend of this memorable US trip comes to and end.
Freezing Weekend
Dec 04th'10:
With work following me around the corner i was more than the happy to get some SAN work done on the weekend, after getting work done we left office by around 10 and walked to the nearest Capitol Hill, in b/w clicking snaps at FBI office and Old Post Office.It was 0 deg and we walked in breezy windy weather till cold hit us, we reached the Capitol Hill in about 45 mins way beyond the time we thought considering the distance from office. Capitol hill is the parliament of US and its among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically one of the most important building in the world.We just saw the front portions of the building and then walked past the Smithsonian castle and our destination was Washington Monument but cold winds struck us badly and we had retire to our favorite Carlyle office which is walking distance.After warming ourselves up and eating lunch brought from room prepared last night we now walked into the closest Madam Tussuad's wax museum and felt paying 21$ for standing next to Celebrity wax models was no fun hence we chose the International Spy museum.This museum was exciting by name and we ended as yawning ducks finding our best to exit it. It had collections from the past on spying fundas and it did bring in any interest.A 1965 James Bond Aston Martin was the only thing of any interest.We left the museum after 3 hours of boredom and strolled across the DC downtown market. We came back to office warmed ourselves and picked my laptop to proceed towards Georgetown Washington.We got down at Foggy Bottom (like that name) and walked towards Georgetown area,which is home to Georgetown University, Old Stone house and its more like commercial street with the M street having lots of shops and food joints. I could not resist the Georgetown Cup cake shop and waited in queue for 20mins to get my Chocolate square cake and it tasted heavenly.Walking back i had the chocolate flavored haagen dazs cone ice cream and it was worth every penny.Vijesh couldn't take the cold anymore so we skipped the harbor and reached home to be in the cosy feeling, still love this cold amazing :)
With work following me around the corner i was more than the happy to get some SAN work done on the weekend, after getting work done we left office by around 10 and walked to the nearest Capitol Hill, in b/w clicking snaps at FBI office and Old Post Office.It was 0 deg and we walked in breezy windy weather till cold hit us, we reached the Capitol Hill in about 45 mins way beyond the time we thought considering the distance from office. Capitol hill is the parliament of US and its among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically one of the most important building in the world.We just saw the front portions of the building and then walked past the Smithsonian castle and our destination was Washington Monument but cold winds struck us badly and we had retire to our favorite Carlyle office which is walking distance.After warming ourselves up and eating lunch brought from room prepared last night we now walked into the closest Madam Tussuad's wax museum and felt paying 21$ for standing next to Celebrity wax models was no fun hence we chose the International Spy museum.This museum was exciting by name and we ended as yawning ducks finding our best to exit it. It had collections from the past on spying fundas and it did bring in any interest.A 1965 James Bond Aston Martin was the only thing of any interest.We left the museum after 3 hours of boredom and strolled across the DC downtown market. We came back to office warmed ourselves and picked my laptop to proceed towards Georgetown Washington.We got down at Foggy Bottom (like that name) and walked towards Georgetown area,which is home to Georgetown University, Old Stone house and its more like commercial street with the M street having lots of shops and food joints. I could not resist the Georgetown Cup cake shop and waited in queue for 20mins to get my Chocolate square cake and it tasted heavenly.Walking back i had the chocolate flavored haagen dazs cone ice cream and it was worth every penny.Vijesh couldn't take the cold anymore so we skipped the harbor and reached home to be in the cosy feeling, still love this cold amazing :)
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Friday, the Rasika charm
Dec 3rd'10:
Its Friday and the weekend has approached but we were more excited for the lunch. This was our turn to take Amit Vyas for lunch and after getting our work done in the morning, we went for lunch after 12pm. We gave Amit the option for deciding and we knew he would choose Rasika,this is a luxurious modern indian restaurant serving indian food and french wine, Eastern spicing and Western presentation,style and substance.We started with mango lassi and it was thick, luscious and yummy, i chose the famous Palak Chat which was tangy, main course for me Tandoor Salmon ( a weird combi) it was so filling and unfinished, Vijesh started with Sheek Kabab and ended up with Chicken makhani ( i have never heard tht in india) and bread, Amit chose the paneer palak with rice and bread to go along, food was divine rich but not spicy it was more 5 Star hotel kind of food served by a foreigner and eaten by foreigners as well ;) Dessert was still on the menu and we chose Gulab jamun with ice cream.As most of food items is mild the ice cream was less sweeter and more of Kulfi kinds and same with Gulab jamun on less sweeter side.Rasika lived upto its name and for once we found menu the least confusing part.Amit shared more of his experiences as he treated us to American Chai.The chai tasted as if its made from goats' milk and tea added was for flavour :(. An exciting weekend lay in store for us.
Its Friday and the weekend has approached but we were more excited for the lunch. This was our turn to take Amit Vyas for lunch and after getting our work done in the morning, we went for lunch after 12pm. We gave Amit the option for deciding and we knew he would choose Rasika,this is a luxurious modern indian restaurant serving indian food and french wine, Eastern spicing and Western presentation,style and substance.We started with mango lassi and it was thick, luscious and yummy, i chose the famous Palak Chat which was tangy, main course for me Tandoor Salmon ( a weird combi) it was so filling and unfinished, Vijesh started with Sheek Kabab and ended up with Chicken makhani ( i have never heard tht in india) and bread, Amit chose the paneer palak with rice and bread to go along, food was divine rich but not spicy it was more 5 Star hotel kind of food served by a foreigner and eaten by foreigners as well ;) Dessert was still on the menu and we chose Gulab jamun with ice cream.As most of food items is mild the ice cream was less sweeter and more of Kulfi kinds and same with Gulab jamun on less sweeter side.Rasika lived upto its name and for once we found menu the least confusing part.Amit shared more of his experiences as he treated us to American Chai.The chai tasted as if its made from goats' milk and tea added was for flavour :(. An exciting weekend lay in store for us.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
A nothing Thursday
Dec 02'10:
We went through the usual rigmaroles and got our office work done. This time for a change we got lunch prepared from our room and savored it sitting with Kusuma and sharing different stories in the Carlyle cafeteria.Left office a bit late and Vijesh had to sacrifice his seat in the metro as the rush hour begins after 6pm and on reaching room i snuggled into the cosy bed to prepare dinner later and hit bed...Nothing exciting about this day :)
We went through the usual rigmaroles and got our office work done. This time for a change we got lunch prepared from our room and savored it sitting with Kusuma and sharing different stories in the Carlyle cafeteria.Left office a bit late and Vijesh had to sacrifice his seat in the metro as the rush hour begins after 6pm and on reaching room i snuggled into the cosy bed to prepare dinner later and hit bed...Nothing exciting about this day :)
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Amazing time @ Zaytinya
Dec 01st'10:
It had rained last nite and early morning while we were leaving to work, interestingly temperature drops here when it rains so it felt as if it was bengaluru weather with rains around.
We got work done and for lunch we were excited as new cuisine waiting to be tried ;),Amit (our client) had tried almost all food joints around DC hence we had 2 options either Cuban Restaurant or Zaytinya. We choose Zaytinya as it was more options for vegeteranians and this restaurant was an innovative place serving Turkish, Lebanese and Greek cuisine. This was a good chance for us to build a rapport with the customer and we didnt miss out, talking over Hummus with Flat bread dipped in Olive oil we got to know more abt Amit as a person and how hard its for him to find an indian girl to settle with him here. I chose the Apricot nectar as drink to sip on an and it was delicious thick and natural, rest of the dishes were of small portion and these are called Mezze hence i chose the Horta,Amit the Falafels and Vijesh Seasoned mushrooms.Next to be ordered was Seared Salmons, Vijesh chose Duck breast and Kolokithokeftedes (zuchini patties) ,the lunch was different and i loved it.We ended the lunch with Turkish Delight dessert.We walked back in windy and chilly weather, it was a great time and day ended on a positive note.
It had rained last nite and early morning while we were leaving to work, interestingly temperature drops here when it rains so it felt as if it was bengaluru weather with rains around.
We got work done and for lunch we were excited as new cuisine waiting to be tried ;),Amit (our client) had tried almost all food joints around DC hence we had 2 options either Cuban Restaurant or Zaytinya. We choose Zaytinya as it was more options for vegeteranians and this restaurant was an innovative place serving Turkish, Lebanese and Greek cuisine. This was a good chance for us to build a rapport with the customer and we didnt miss out, talking over Hummus with Flat bread dipped in Olive oil we got to know more abt Amit as a person and how hard its for him to find an indian girl to settle with him here. I chose the Apricot nectar as drink to sip on an and it was delicious thick and natural, rest of the dishes were of small portion and these are called Mezze hence i chose the Horta,Amit the Falafels and Vijesh Seasoned mushrooms.Next to be ordered was Seared Salmons, Vijesh chose Duck breast and Kolokithokeftedes (zuchini patties) ,the lunch was different and i loved it.We ended the lunch with Turkish Delight dessert.We walked back in windy and chilly weather, it was a great time and day ended on a positive note.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Loner Tuesday
Nov 30th'10:
I woke up and got ready to leave office when i find that Vijesh isn't joining me to office hence i call this post the Loner Tuesday as i was alone to wander the day at office.Reached office got some work done and then had to figure out a good spot for Lunch since i was all alone. Hence took the safe bet of walking to the nearby mexican Qdoba and chose the Veg mexican Gumbo with hot spicy sauce and it was filling,flavorful and yummy.I stayed back longer at work and reached room to find Vijesh in good health , prepared dinner and hit bed.
I woke up and got ready to leave office when i find that Vijesh isn't joining me to office hence i call this post the Loner Tuesday as i was alone to wander the day at office.Reached office got some work done and then had to figure out a good spot for Lunch since i was all alone. Hence took the safe bet of walking to the nearby mexican Qdoba and chose the Veg mexican Gumbo with hot spicy sauce and it was filling,flavorful and yummy.I stayed back longer at work and reached room to find Vijesh in good health , prepared dinner and hit bed.
Lunch @ Asian Nine
Nov 29th'10:
We woke up and got ready to leave for work after a loong weekend !!, took the metro reached office and it was 1 Deg at morning 9am which is wow nice,the best part it wasn't windy so tolerable.We had lunch with Molly at Asian Nine, which serves Chinese,Thai and Vietnamese food.Again, the toughest part is the food selection hence after getting confused i chose the Pad Thai (Thai Veg Specialty), Vijesh opted for the lunch Special Tiffin box and it had salmon,rice combo.Pad Thai didn't live up to its name and it was kind of sweeter with fried Egg and Veggie tofu rice noodles.As i was too full, i didn't go for Desserts while Vijesh opted for the Bread pudding and he loved it.Reached room, prepared dinner and slept.This also mean we complete one month in US wakaao.
We woke up and got ready to leave for work after a loong weekend !!, took the metro reached office and it was 1 Deg at morning 9am which is wow nice,the best part it wasn't windy so tolerable.We had lunch with Molly at Asian Nine, which serves Chinese,Thai and Vietnamese food.Again, the toughest part is the food selection hence after getting confused i chose the Pad Thai (Thai Veg Specialty), Vijesh opted for the lunch Special Tiffin box and it had salmon,rice combo.Pad Thai didn't live up to its name and it was kind of sweeter with fried Egg and Veggie tofu rice noodles.As i was too full, i didn't go for Desserts while Vijesh opted for the Bread pudding and he loved it.Reached room, prepared dinner and slept.This also mean we complete one month in US wakaao.
Sunday Rest
Nov 28th'10:
We woke up at 10am after coming back from NY at 3am, it was more of a rest day after the packed and chilly New York trip.We managed to eat breakfast by around 1pm and then watched "United 93" movie, its a movie based on real time account of the events on the United flight 93,which was one of the planes that was hijacked on 9/11 near Pennsylvania.We then walked out the nearest grocery store and picked up few veggies.Had lunch by around 6pm and have to admit the Bhindi turned out to be spicy and awesome according to me ;)..i made the NY pics more presentable.
Dinner was a single apple and milk and i hit bed.
We woke up at 10am after coming back from NY at 3am, it was more of a rest day after the packed and chilly New York trip.We managed to eat breakfast by around 1pm and then watched "United 93" movie, its a movie based on real time account of the events on the United flight 93,which was one of the planes that was hijacked on 9/11 near Pennsylvania.We then walked out the nearest grocery store and picked up few veggies.Had lunch by around 6pm and have to admit the Bhindi turned out to be spicy and awesome according to me ;)..i made the NY pics more presentable.
Dinner was a single apple and milk and i hit bed.
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