Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Life in OZ Land.....

Vowing to the rigorous pressure from fan(s) (reddy thanks for encouraging me) of my writing i finally decided to blog today. We moved to OZ land (from now on for Australia) in the month of june. I was living a retired life for around 6 weeks. It was awsome fun as i didnt have to worry about earning bread (My wife was doing it for us). My daughter and myself use to just play all day.. i used to make lunch for her and hit the bed after lunch. When she gets up we used to go swimming. By the time we are done hitas mom would be back and i used help myself with some alcohol. I know i am making lot of you guys jealous. This lasted for 6 weeks thats it.
I had 2 offers in melbourne, one from a logistics company and the other a startup, to which i was referred by one of my thomson colleagues. I decided to join the startup even though salary was 30K AUD less. Its been fun working here. We are a company of 5, CEO is the only guy who does not code. Out of the 4, 2 are phds in robotics... (These guys are unlike the phds i have met in the past. SCA folks will understand) I am the most under qualified in the company... All of them are extremely arrogant, so i am feeling @ home here (hahahaha). Public transport is great and no hassle of driving. Remember commuting to office in blore....
I met one of my previous employers who have office in melbourne, i was told that they dont like me as i blogged something about them. So that makes the count 2 (not getting job cuz of blog). I think i am a controversial writer... hahahahaha

Now enough of personal ranting and making you guys jealous.....

OZ land is shit expensive.... For starters, Banana is 8$ a Kg.... Poor mans fruit in India. I was flabberghasted when i saw the price. After living in US this place is very expensive, even if you dont convert things into INR. Most importantly, Oz beers suck as much as US beers... and to make people buy Oz beer these bastards sell imported beer @ a very high cost... Corona costs 20$ for 6 pack.(reddy get some KF when u r coming here). They attribute high cost of vegetables and fruits to famine. One thing i have figured is, this country has less people and they want to make the most out of them. Come on guys get some people from a religion which preaches not using condoms (u guys know who i am talking about). Next 20 years OZ will be fighting to control population like India (hahahaha). My daughter has started going to school and guess whats the fee for one day (90AUD).

People are crazy about footy... Slowly starting to get hang of it. TV is pretty much crap as you get 4 channels without cable or anything.

Oh bfore i forget... i have changed my religion... not using Windows anymore.... on MAC... it rocks
I promise, next blog will surely offend IIM Students (Kartha, watch out hahahahah...)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

K Man.. good to see you back on blogosphere.. and better yet.. u are as controversial as ever man.. good on ya.. we need more frequent updates tho..

- Reddy

Anonymous said...

I love to read you blogs. Surprised that there are people in the world like me. I consider myself cynic and don't like what much people like.

Just go through my blog http://ganeshprakhya.blogspot.com. Just came from Bangalore IT crap to Singapore couple of weeks back and feeling homesick now. Planning to bring family soon.

I gained much knowledge in Bangalore companies, of course, out of my passion and enthusiasm. You know, in the company I am working here in Singapore, the work is simply pure shit. Lot of blunders.
Don't ask me about the people here especially our Indian Java programmers.

I don't understand how these people landed here,

Lot of things to share with you through blogs.

Bye for now,
Ganesh
http://ganeshprakhya.blogspot.com

K said...

Hey Ganesh,
Thanks a lot for the comment, yes i am surprised to see that somebody likes to read my blog (other than the people i know.. hahahha)