Out of my Nation

I was all set to go America, one of the dream nations for many Indians.

I just had two reasons to go to US
1. As a S/W engineer, its an implied rule to go to some onsite after 2 years of IT service in an Indian MNC Or else who would need to face this question 'Ennada Rendu varusham aagiyum innum velinaadu pogaliyaa?'
Onsite means some place away from india, may be Uganda or sudan... who cares? but u need to be out of india :-)

2. Ofcourse money, seeing your payslip in dollars...Bingooo. Though not for me...but for my future.

But never expect these companies would take you in their palms and drop in US. Its hell a
lot of process and follow-ups you should do to get things done.
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13th Aug 2006

I didn't expect my first international journey would turn to be one of the worst journey in
my life. It all started with the usual delay of Air India (5hrs delayed) that left me in Newark @ 11 in the night missing my connecting flight @ 8

I was given a receipt to take another Continental flight in the next morning @ Terminal A.
The next day got more worser when i discovered that the Continental flights to Atlanta
operates in Terminal C and not in A. To go from one terminal to another u need to get the
Air-Train that runs on top of the airport (as this airport is 10 times bigger than our metro
airports).

It got more worser at Terminal C when i heard it the flight CO-1185 doesn't belongs to
Continental Airlines. I need to run there to get the info abt this flight which is Delta
Airlines operating @ Terminal B

oooooooooof... when i reached there, i had just 15 mins for take-off and a big queue before me. On explaining my emergency to the Delta personnel there, i got an immediate entry to the check-in counter. After checking my receipt and the passport, the lady at the counter said
'you have no seats booked' and asked me to get out of the way for others.

I was just blown for a minute. 'Oh my God'

I asked the Delta personnel to help me out in finding my name again. She checked my name in all the flights and found it in 7'O clock one to Atlanta. 'ooooooooof' was the word i
uttered then.
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17th Aug 2006

Atlanta: Iam now at the outskirts of Atlanta working for a retailer on behalf of this MNC
I found only cars and trucks moving in those broad clean roads, not even a bike until the
third day.

Veg Burger, Fish Sandwich, French Fries, Onion Rings were some of the items that filled my
stomach for the first two days in my hotel stay.

Now i have moved to an apartment(do not think of the indian one, this is different) with one of my colleague here (Bharani) who supported me a lot in getting there

There were some gossips that the project would not survive six months here... I don't know what happens next, iam just getting the transition - my work

அதான் அதான்.. அதே...தான்

அதான் அதான்.. அதே...தான்

ஆன்சைட்னா யு.எஸ் தான்

யு.எஸ்க்குப் போய் புதுசா சட்ட வாங்கி

ஆபிசுக்கு போட்டுட்டு போய் அமர்க்களம் பண்ணி

ப்ளென்ல ஏறி ஊரசுத்தி பார்த்து

அதான் அதான்.. அதே...தான்

எனக்கு யு.எஸ் விசா கிடைச்சுடுச்சு தான்

டொய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்... டொங்

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