It's now friday night and time to start my vacation. We had a productive week, finished most everything we wanted to accomplish. We worked, drank beers, and had tasty indian food for lunch. Here's the core search qa/ops team:
Above is yahoo and a couple google guys at downtown, a pub in bangalore.
Below is the extended bangalore team eating an amazing lunch at samarkand
These guys here in bangalore are definitely more social than we are in sunnyvale. It could be the fact that the office is new and there are a lot of younger yahoo's working, but i've read that india, in general, is more laid back than corporate america. First day everybody was very nice and friendly, we actually got some training done, went to a nice lunch down the street, and continued training in the afternoon. Except for a small brick wall i hit in the afternoon (gotta be jet lag), it was a great day. It's amazing how much more i learn from spending time with these guys versus just sending emails and having IM conferences over the last 2 months.
The Yahoo office is in a pretty happening area of Bangalore, near many other american tech companies. Evidently bangalore has some of the best weather in india (nice and cool but rainy), combined with some of the best internet infrastructure and cheap engineers, it becomes very attractive to corporate america. Once inside the yahoo building, it's pretty much just like every other office building – cubes, ac, water cooler, on-site kitchen … One thing that is pretty cool is this dude who walks around with a tray offering coffee or tea to people as they work. Very nice touch – but very inline with the service i experience in india.
I completed my 36-hour journey through hong kong, singapore, and bangkok, to arrive at bangalore without incident. My hotel is definitely big pimpin' – they had a dude in a suit inside the airport who identified me immediately, walked me out to my own driver who took me to my hotel. The hotel itself has a very cool old british architecture feel with excellent service. Check it out 
As soon as i checked in, i took a sleeping pill and crashed hard. The next morning i actually got up early and hit the hotel gym, had an amazing western and indian breakfast, then our personal driver drove us to work. Us be me and nam, my manager from california who got down here a couple days before me. It's good to be the king.
I’m going to India. Hurray. I’m still getting things organized for the trip, so i thought i’d enter the blog world and chronicle my adventures. I’m still getting my feet wet, these pages might change a bit, so bear with me.
I’m traveling to India for work, but will also have some time for vacation. I’m not sure what i will do for my vacation, but i finally got my itinerary nailed down. Still don’t have tickets yet, but hey, i’ll be at work one more day before my trip, so why worry? I also did some research and got some vaccinations last week. Hopefully that should take care of any wanderings i do throughout the country. That’s it for now.