Bijoy who is VP of Engineering at HealthAsyst and who has been taking us around invited us to his house for a traditional Indian dinner. It was very interesting and I really wanted to see how people actually live in India so I ws excitied about it. You don't really get a sense of were the typical Indian lives just driving on the main streets, etc.
Bijoy's family consists of three people his wife Sonja and 4 year old daughter. They live in a two bedroom apartment in a neighborhood about 15 - 20 minutes away from the old office. Getting there is interesting as you go through a variety of residential streets that are actually more like alley's in the US. They zig and zag around because there is no planning that goes into development of a neighborhood it's a hodge podge of different buildings.
Sonja brought us many dishes that could have fed 50 no just the 7 that were there. Each had it's unique taste and smells. Like many Indian dishes most were spicy, some of the dishes were fish, mushed mustard leaves, variety of bread, vegetables and chicken. It was all taste but for me I still need to develop a more tolerable stomach so I ate moderately.
Our hosts were very gracious and we stayed until about 11pm. All the US guys were pretty tired by that time. Stanley slept overnight at Bijoy and Sojna's house. The amount of available labor in India is amazing. Bijoy has a live-in house keeper, he has someone come in every morning to wash dishes, he has someone to wash his car a few times a week. He had someone paint the inside of his house for very little money.
When we left the stray dog's that wonder the streets of Bangalore were fighting and creating quite a commontion. The streets during that time of night were pretty quiet of traffic and pedestrians.
I'll post some pictures from the dinner as soon as I meet up with Stanley who is currently at the old office.
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