Blake goes to New Delhi

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One of my best friends from high school works for a $300 million Nasdaq-listed software company. They recently bought a Delhi-based instant messaging team.

So now Blake, my friend from high school, is going to Delhi, India for two weeks to help integrate the new team of 15 software engineers with their other 400 recently appointed American, Australian and Romanian coworkers.

Blake will be setting up domain controllers, Exchange servers, DNS, DHCP, WINS and IP telephony services at the new office in Shashtri Park (Delhi's new IT complex).

We're watching the movie Gandhi this weekend (at Zach's suggestion - it was great!), and we are eating as much spicy Indian vegetables as our stomaches can tolerate. It is preparation for his two weeks abroad in a foreign land - and for my own Saturday indulgence in a culture that I visited almost a year ago.

Update Later that night, Blake and I went to the Diwali Mela & Garbha Night at the Global Mall in Norcross, Georgia. We ate even more Indian food and experienced a few terribly awkward situations as the only caucasian attendees to the otherwise crowded event. I am confident that our Saturday of Indian culture immersion was enough to last the both of us for a long time. (Last year, I was in Mumbai for the first days of Diwali fireworks.)