What I like about America in no particular order:
1. Setanta Sports
2. Fox Soccer Channel
3. GolTV
4. Madras Cafe
5. Sarvana Bhavan.
6. Surati Farsan Mart
7. US-101, CA-1
8. Julie and Ellie
9. Manhattan
10. Burrito Bol at Chipotle
11. GSN
12. KomalaVilas
13. Lane Discipline
14. Paved Sidewalks
15. XM Radio
16. ESPN's selection of Andy Gray to commentate for Euro 2008
17. Southwest Airlines
18. O'Hare International Airport
19. Recycling Measures
20. High Speed Internet
What I dislike about America in no particular order:
1. McDonalds, Burger King, Jack in the Box, Carl's Jr. etc etc
2. American food (bland)
3. Salad (and any standard dressing you can buy)
4. 90% Meat options in restaurants
5. 10% veggie options having mainly Zucchini, Mushrooms, Eggplant and Squash
6. Mexican food (with notable exception in Likes)
7. Thin Walls
8. Lack of privacy resulting from 7)
9. Number of cars on the road
10. Hillshire Farms
11. Beer craze
12. Distances
13. Utter lack of public transportation
14. Economy
15. Mail in rebates
16. High cost of labour
17. Reality television
18. MTV,MTV2 and VH1 (I thought these were music channels)
19. Use of toilet paper
20. Los Angeles
21. Number of illegal immigrants (and I don't mean from India)
22. Gasoline prices
23. California Federal and State taxes
24. American Football
25. Baseball
26. Ice Hockey
27. Lack of enthusiasm for soccer
28. Newspapers don't pay any attention to world news
29. Lack of parking
30. Over inflated real estate prices leading to higher rent in California
31. Grad student salaries
32. Long flight to India
33. American Airlines
34. LAX
35. Tap Water Taste
36. Wastage - Food, Electricity, Water etc etc
37. Lack of good trains
38. Seemingly arbitrary credit scores
39. American soccer commentators
40. The American accent
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5 comments:
well done!
why would you care about thin walls...tell tell
Interesting R&D.
Vivek's likes and dislikes about America-in particular order-"boils" dowm to food,food and more food.
Other likes/dislikes seem to be afterthoughts to "make" a list
ah ha!!
You forgot not just your 'likes', but your hots for those long, slender and fit firangi chicks, who also happened to be your students... Wasn't that one of your highlights of staying in US? And the 24 hour lit basketball courts at UCSB?
Say na say na.. bwahahahaha!
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