US Stay Extended

Its been confirmed. I am sentenced to be in this place for a 3 more months :(

My I94- which is a kinda work permit which you need to have in
order to stay in US legally- was expiring on the 25th of August.
The very 'competent' staff at the immigration dept of Syntel was
supposed to extend out the dates of my visa. Well no surprise
the idiots botched it up good and proper that I thought that I'd
be going back 2 days before the 25th.
Fortunately or unfortunately after being royally screwed from
my projects Delivery Director and above, they decided to file for
the extension and supposedly I can stay here legally for 240 days
until the results of the application comes through.

I really dont know whether to be happy or sad. I was okay either way.
Infact part of me hoped that they'd send me back home. Well thats not
to be. I am to slog it out here for a few more months. So be it.

I dont have any papers even proving that I can legally stay here in
the US :-S .... I cant drive - license expired in tandem with the I94 and
in order to extend it, I dont have any papers I can use for that. Quite a
predicament. Looks like its a house arrest for me for atleast some time.
Hope that the ever so competent idiots at my company send over the
documents to me as soon as they can. Its sad that such levels of idiocy
can exist at MNC companies.

Well in this period of waiting for the visa extension, I cant travel
anywhere out of the US :-S ....Coz I dont have any papers with me.
None that are up to date anyways. So again I have to be here until I
get the visa approved or rejected!

I do hope that everything is resolved before November when I was
hoping to get back home.

Also wanna go give those idiots at the company immigration
department a piece of my mind...but well...thats just another dream!

A Rather Mellow Birthday

My first B-day in the US. Ofcourse it was earlier this month
but did not feel like writing anything for a long time. Since I
am back, thought I'd pen down something about that day.

What is so great about a B-day. Its just another day in your
life. Dipu also voiced the same thoughts a day back on his B-day.
I suppose thats really enhanced by the fact that we are away
from close friends and family. Just takes the specialness out
of the day.

Well the B-day ofcourse started with a kicking of my life which
contributed toward some bad back problems for the rest of
the month :( My ever so kind roomies got people from the
nearby flats also to lift me up and give me an asskicking of
my life! Thanks a lot guys!

Neeways...I think that was the highlight of the day. Well that
and a cake :-) And ofcourse some whisky!! A very normal day.
Did the usual stuff. Went around a bit. Visited a restaurant for
dinner. Not so great - I could have done a better job at home!
Watched acouple of movies and that was about it on the Birthday.

Just another day!

Busy Busy!!

The year end is fast approaching and projects I am working on are really ramping up. Wow just seems like last Sunday that I was lazing around like this. One whole week just flew through. 6 different projects all implementing along the same timeframe. Thank God for my offshore team!
:-)

I think this is a pretty good enough explanation for why I did not blog for over a month. Well that and ofcourse laziness! :-)

The health wasnt so good also during the past month. Which made me realise something very important. Health is probably the most important of our own that we have. If we dont have good health, we dont really have anything. So Folks, take care of your health!!

And the other thing is after writing a few very significant posts before this, I suppose I wanted all that to sink in before taking on anything else. So with this, I break the month long absence of blogging.