American Desi Pie

Guyz, before you really think that i have changed my profession from a S/W Engg to a Chef ... lemme clear thins. Today I am goin to speak about Indian employees goin abroad on an official trip, maybe say for a Project. Thanks to the generous givin away of H1-Bs these dayz and the visa processin being made so easy. So are you also one among these so called American bug bitten ones???
I recently had a colleague of mine come from the US of A. He was there on a short-term Project. I was quite taken aback by the change in his attitude ... the so called ' The US returned' attitude. This does happen with most of the professionals visitin America or any part of the world for the first time. So in this post I thought of jotting down some of these symptoms displayed by these so called ... hmmm ... lets call them ' American Desi Pie' ..... so the next time u tend to smell such symptoms in air.... watchout guyz !!! u r sure to be sittin or sharing ur room with one such American Desi Pie ....


Symptom 1 : U get to hear a loud and a crisp 'Hey XXX!! Whtz Up Dude??' (trying his best to speak in an American accent) instead of the normal subtle ' Hi XXX!! How are you??.

Symptom 2 : He becomes the most talked about team member .... ' Arre yaar!!! uski tho kismat khul gayi .... ' (tis guy was hardly noticed before or even spoke about).

Symptom 3 : U get to hear lots of " U know wht ...... it doesn't happen like tis there .... its only here we get to see/hear all this kinna rubbish ..... disgustin man!!!!!"

Symptom 4 : The usual formally dressed guy now appears in a Tommy Hilfiger Tee, Levis Jean and an expensive Reebok shoe.

Symptom 5 : U smell Davidoff's Cool Water instead of the usual pathetic smellin bodyspary.

Symptom 6 : Sight of headphones of the iPod in the poor ears throughout the day with also the poor head moving to and fro.

Symptom 7 : Lunch date with Female colleagues (who was even scared of speakin to them before and now .....).

Symptom 8 : U see Chopsticks and an empty ready to eat noodles box and not to forget .... empty Pizza boxes in the dustbin.

Symptom 9 : Fav hangout place would now include the biggest mall in the town and fav eat-out which used to be the Chat Chowpati would now be Subway and McDonald's.

Symptom 10 : The seat is graced by his presence once in 1/2 hr.

Symptom 11 : And finally ..... " Gosh!!! the climate is awful here ... how do u guys manage to stay in such kinna climate?? " (as if he was born and brought up at Antartica).....

Guess u all had fun reading the above post ..... these are some of the most commonly found symptoms I hav come across till date. Do lemme know if there are anyother symptoms other thn the above stated ones that u hav come across in particular .... :))