The Beginning

The day is Friday December 14th 2007, I have finally come about to starting the blog that I was meaning to do since a very long time. My title for the blog pretty much sums up the context of the posts that I will be putting up on this blog.
The title “Andhra America Ramblings” is synonymous with all the thoughts and the day to day activities that take place in the course of routine life here in America for a person who grew up in Andhra. Daily life in America brings forth unique experiences and situations for anybody who has been bought up with a totally different approach to a lot of things in life, be it the food we eat, the manner of our friendships and societal interactions or just our whole approach to money and finances in general.
You look at things around you in a city like Boston and sometimes can’t help but comment, and at the same time wonder about so many day to day things and then have a reminiscent feeling about how the exact same situations would play out in India and especially your hometown. The mind just races back in comparison and you just cannot stop doing that. When things happen the right way here we feel that we made the right choice in continuing to live in America, but at the same time when things don’t happen according to how you had hoped they would, we just find it so easy to criticize society here and tell ourselves that such a thing would never happen in my hometown.
These unique journeys of the mind between the place that I live in and have just started making as home and Andhra the place were I grew up in the best years of my life, is what put simply prompted me to blog and put forth the daily random thoughts and situations in so that both I, with my short term memory and people out there in general with similar experiences and thoughts see all this in writing.