Friday began with a quick trip to the Sun building in Bangalore to meet with Vijay, the VP in charge of the site. After that I phoned my driver, Srinivas, and he drove me out to the Tech Park where the-Indian-operation-of-the-company-formerly-known-as-StorageTek (!) was based. I met with the site manager and the architect who works with some of our contract partners; then after lunch I gave my talk on engineering at Sun to the whole team.
And finally my Indian meetings were over, and it was time to drive to the airport, and also to pay Srinivas for two and a half days. He had the invoice ready, and the amount looked correct. But there was a problem: his credit card machine was broken, so could I pay him in cash? I didn't have enough cash? No problem, there was an ATM just down the road. With real misgivings, I withdraw enough cash to pay him, and we headed to the airport. We made it without any alarms or excursions (apart from an unusual number of cows on the divided highway), and I breathed a sigh of relief. Everything on the trip had gone flawlessly.
Little did I know...
[Written en route from Bangalore to Mumbai; posted on Sunday evening from Leeds when I finally got connectivity.]
Posted by geoff2 at October 30, 2005 06:04 PMHello Geoff,
the first thing i did today (well it was holidays for us last 4 days including weekends) when i hooked onto to office network was to check your blog and as expected its really a nice work on your side to write down the actuals about India and your experience travelling here.
Welcome back again in future.
Hi Geoff,
Nice blog. I wanted to post earlier but could not find time due to our festival of lights over here :)
Your posts on Indian traffic are dead-on! Thanks for the presentation in StorageTek which was very informative - I had the misfortune of missing out on signing up for the mentoring program just a few days before.
Hope to see you in the Bangalore SUN office next time.
Posted by: Teja at November 2, 2005 03:15 AMHi Geoff,
It was nice meeting you and your presenation was informative.Thank you very much. Appreciate if you could send me a copy of your presentation, it is really usefull.I can share with my team as required.
Looking forward to meet you again.
Posted by: flavian Pinto at November 2, 2005 04:03 AM