and the owner had been queued up by BCCI to know of our arrival. Needless to say the service and the food were absolutely fantastic. And luckily, Cecilia and I both like prawns, so we were in prawn heaven...
prawns koliwada - these were fried shrimp in batter with yummy seasoning
garlic butter prawns- Indian shrimp scampi- delicious
and reshmi chicken (like tandoori but not as spicy)
Rice and some garlic naan (bread) as well, of course
And of course, we were not allowed to pay.
So delicious- but how do you go back to work after that- it's nap time!
So we reunited with Kamaraj and made our way back to the office (this was a bit faster but still more than 10 minutes). At this point, it had to have been about 3 pm... so of course, Vijay was back, awaiting our tea/coffee service for the afternoon tea.
(nope, I'm not exaggerating even one little bit)
After tea, we did a bit of work, but lo and behold, it was time to leave the office for our long journey to the IBM office at the B&K complex (about an hour away from BCCI, sort of enroute to our hotel), to pick up Cecilia's (hopefully) fixed laptop. Her motherboard died day 1 on the project- that was a 'facing adversity' challenge for her first day!
so we wrapped up our (scant) work for the day, and got back in to the car for another long ride and to collect the laptop. We talked about the project plan in the car ride, since this was on our agenda for the day at work and obviously didn't get completed (or really even started!) At least something besides tea and food happened today!
At the IBM office, this time, I waited in the taxi since the security process is rather tedious- but I learned that so is sitting in the taxi with cars honking at you and the a/c off... won't be choosing that option if this happens again!
Back to the hotel and then out to dinner with the team.. for more delicious food (although Cecilia and I went light on dinner, we were still pretty stuffed from lunch!)
I think perhaps tomorrow we will try to get some work done. Let's see how we fare.
Score: Work= 0, Weight= 100 lbs of garlic naan
prawns koliwada - these were fried shrimp in batter with yummy seasoning
garlic butter prawns- Indian shrimp scampi- delicious
and reshmi chicken (like tandoori but not as spicy)
Rice and some garlic naan (bread) as well, of course
And of course, we were not allowed to pay.
So delicious- but how do you go back to work after that- it's nap time!
So we reunited with Kamaraj and made our way back to the office (this was a bit faster but still more than 10 minutes). At this point, it had to have been about 3 pm... so of course, Vijay was back, awaiting our tea/coffee service for the afternoon tea.
(nope, I'm not exaggerating even one little bit)
After tea, we did a bit of work, but lo and behold, it was time to leave the office for our long journey to the IBM office at the B&K complex (about an hour away from BCCI, sort of enroute to our hotel), to pick up Cecilia's (hopefully) fixed laptop. Her motherboard died day 1 on the project- that was a 'facing adversity' challenge for her first day!
so we wrapped up our (scant) work for the day, and got back in to the car for another long ride and to collect the laptop. We talked about the project plan in the car ride, since this was on our agenda for the day at work and obviously didn't get completed (or really even started!) At least something besides tea and food happened today!
At the IBM office, this time, I waited in the taxi since the security process is rather tedious- but I learned that so is sitting in the taxi with cars honking at you and the a/c off... won't be choosing that option if this happens again!
Back to the hotel and then out to dinner with the team.. for more delicious food (although Cecilia and I went light on dinner, we were still pretty stuffed from lunch!)
I think perhaps tomorrow we will try to get some work done. Let's see how we fare.
Score: Work= 0, Weight= 100 lbs of garlic naan
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