First weekend in Canada!

Amongst all the anxiety about stay and food, i landed here at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 16th November 2009. It was not such a bad experience with the flight, for the first time i traveled outside my homeland. And now, it has been 5 days already here and i have just borrowed a laptop to write this post.

When i touched down here, i thought that it was really cold. The temperature was closing in to 0 and sometimes touching and going into the negatives. I must say that now it has started becoming a lot better. I somehow realize that Darwin was so right when he mentioned about adaptation being the prime source of survival and that survival would be for the fittest. I have heard stories about the temperature going below -25 degrees here in the winter...Scary...and hence i believe that i should not care much about the pleasant weather right now (Hovering around the 0 degrees).

Anyway, first look of this City was not different than what we find in India, i should say...3 AM in the night at Bangalore would be just the same as 5 PM in the evening here. No people on the streets...No tall buildings...But the only thing, the drivers would like are the streets. I must tell you, they are pretty scared when they find a pedestrian crossing when the signal is not down (Yeah it happens here as well but then you might be run over in India if you do so). The trees look dead already and you feel that winter has arrived a lot before than any part of India here.

Today i had the chance to visit the downtown of the city. I plugged my Ipod in and it felt as if i was so close to being with the people that i was hearing on the pod. It feels a little lonely here though on the streets but i hope that's temporal and i make friends here real quick. It's so interesting to learn about the culture people possess here and then there is this challenge of them accepting you the way you are. People travel by bus here and the transportation is just great...haven't seen any discrimination yet and i feel and hope that i won't face it for the time i am going to stay here.

The girls i have seen so far are both HOT and Beautiful. Well, the surprising part is that, you don't have to even walk a meter to find them. I have honestly been influenced by the western things during my teens that i seem to like some of the stuffs that they like...but i am looking for that lead up, so that i can connect to them better.

Sure as hell, i am going to be different person when i go back from Canada. I thought that US would have been a better place to be in...but i have started to like this place more than i could have imagined...I wonder where Bryan Adams or Chad Kroger stays...Wish to trace them soon :)! Until the next time...

Leaving on a Jet Plane!

Yeah it's official. I am flying to Canada on next Saturday - 14th Nov. How do i feel about it? Well, i am not very excited to be honest. This is one time when i can surely feel what being an Indian means. It's kind of strange when people in the office hear about your trip and congratulate you. As if it is some Bumper lottery that i have won. Well anyways, sarcasm and oppurtunities are not the best of friends. On this trip i would want to do as few things which otherwise may have never been possible. I want to meet new people, as many as possible, learn their culture. Secondly it's the land of Brian Adams, NickelBack etc and hell man, i got interviewed, just a few days by Radio Canada International...at that time, i surely did not know that i would be headed to that country. Thirdly, i wish to play and spread my band's music as much as i can over there. It would be a dream come true if i can play at some show there with atleast an acoustic guitar. Opps, i forgot to mention about the work, well ofcourse that's also a plan...

Apart from the usual things, the worst part of the stay probably would be the temperature at this time of the year and esp and Ottawa. I would be completing my 25th Birthday there in just a few days. It just throws those wrong signs when i realise that i am really getting old. Christmas would be an exciting time to be there. I wish i go and come back and the days just finish up in a whisper...I definitely would miss my friends...and my mom...