Monday, April 05, 2010

One Year In Canada

Its been one year for me in Canada. Never before I have lived away from my family and friends for so long.
During this time, I got to see my parents for a week and I really feel fortunate for that.

I dont know why but I like India little too much, waha ki mitti mein kuch alag hee khushbu hai.

During last one year, I got good professional experiences. Its not as if I didnt come across a$$h0les but there were many good guys also. Got lot of new friends.

Talking about work, see I am not developing controls for satellites, But almost at the end of every day, I felt like I learned something new, and I am happy in that.
On a lighter note, the most important thing with this project was realization of great saying by Maharashtrian Saint

"Prayatne waluche kan ragadita Telahi Gale"

So what I am doing or what this whole Shell project is, they are crushing the oil sands to separate bitumen from sand/clay and this bitumen is further processed to get heavy crude oil. these sand deposits are so big that, It can surely support the oil requirement of whole world even if gulf denies to do so. U will get mroe details about it @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sand s

I salute our saints who had knowledge of oil sands ;-) without a single deposit being present across Indian subcontinent.

I wanted to see Vancouver, as it is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world but I think I need to come sometime later for that, this time it just didnt happen.

I visited almost all the recommended places in 'One Day' perimeter of Calgary and each location was worth visiting. I still cherish memories of Lake Moraine and its serene surrounding. Banff and Lake Louise were equ ally beautiful. The Hoodoos were just awesome and so were the Drumheller Dinosaurs.

Believe me guys, Canada lives on Tim Hortons. And this Coffee/Donut place do serve one of the best coffees. Taste of French Vanilla or Double Double will stay with me forever.