US Trip Day 2(3/10/2008)

Next day morning I had scrambled egg, spinach sandwich for breakfast bought from 7Elevan outlet near apartment. I found being vegetarian is big curse in US.I tried to befriend Sobhan Roy. I found Bengali’s simple, straight forward, friendly, hard working, professional but lazy and unclean. Also I found that they preferred their own state people for similarity in language, food & topics of interests for discussion.I went to office with a young programmer from Kolkatta who was returning to India and Sobhan to office with 2 USD tickets each to and from office using SEPTA trolleys service. Office is in swanky posh downtown building at 15th floor. I was given general workstation to use internet facility. She also introduced me to Accounts, Attorney, Fellow IT professionals, CEO Shyamal Choudhary, Sid Ghosh, Sales H1B staffing and other people that mattered to me. I applied for bank account, used Swagata's contact number to apply some 9-10 jobs in PA and NJ states. Also she sponsored my afternoon lunch at her favourite hangout place, Indian eatery outlet in a Liberty Palace mall, Market street in downtown Philly. Indranil head of Accounts and immigration arranged to open bank account and allowance for 2weeks 225 USD.As S. C. Dutt, Chairman Kuljian and Data core passed away recently, his daughter, Shanta Ghosh is taking care of businesses of Group Company. Friday night dinner, I managed with 2 eggs and bread along with ready to eat food that I brought from India. Due to cold climate, I slept well that night too.