Influence...!!! Is this you?

Its been almost a year, precisely 330 days, since I came to United States!! I still remember the day I started my jouney with lots of goals and dreams to be achieved. The jouney so far has been quite successful by myself climbing one more step in life to see new challenges and phases of life ahead. Now I am all set to return to India, My Motherland!!! The place I call home!! Am coming....:-) Only to leave you again after a while :-(

The American breakfast, light and dry, to be specific, Cornflakes, milk, Sandwiches have made me almost to forget the delicious n heavy Idli, Vada, Dosa n others... Slurrrp....Ahhh, just the names make my mouth water and my mind drown in to memories! Now even the thought of having them makes me get a weird stomach feel!!

The habit of driving around a car, for everything the needs a transportation, a basic necessity in US has made me so lazy that I am thinking how to get from Airport to home in India!!! I cant believe myself that I am going to book a car all for myself. I used to love to travel by the passenger trains and BMTC buses [Indian Ishtyllle!!!]. Whoa... BMTC, priorly called BTS [humored often as "Bittre Tirga Sigalla" in Kannada (If you leave it now, you wont get it again)] is really the best awesome experience you can ever have! Running and falling off in an attempt to catch the bus/get off the bus!! So much rush inside the bus as if everybody is clinging on to the other, get a seat yourself, nobody is courteous enough to leave a seat, conductor walking through the crowd shouting at them... Well, many more merits to it :-)

The Internet, US will come to a halt if its not there!! which I used to use only once in a month or so has become a 24x7 necessity for life!! Nothing really works for me if I am not connected. Phew, I had never imagined myself to become like this :-(

Above all, the worst, I am so worried that I have started to convert the currency in reverse order.... Initially, its USD to INR... a cup of coffee, Initially I was like 4 USD, I mean 200 rupees!!! Initially, I shouted, "Man 200 bucks for a coffee, are these people mad!!!" Now its INR to USD :( Ticket from Bangalore to Shimoga, 150 rupees, I mean 3 Dollar approx!!Now I tell, "Come on...you must be kidding...its so damn cheap"!!!
Now I realise that, 'THE WAY WE EARN IS THE WAY WE SPEND'

Is this what they call influence of western lifestyle!?! Feels funny... I still think its a normal process, right? Proud to be an Indian & live my dreams feeling American:-)