A Mexican in India – 3 – Life in Bangalore

August 17th, 2010 by Dariela Escobar

I got to Bangalore’s airport. I could feel the heat coming from outside already. Ankit (from AIESEC Bangalore) and Caetano (a trainee from Brasil) were waiting for me, then I met Mariane and Raunaq, and the 5 of us went together in Raunaq’s car to an AIESEC congress (LCong 2010), where I met more trainees (Mareike, Juliana, Eric, and Claire) and many AIESECers.

I had 2 suitcases and one bag so it was impossible for me to find anything without fully unpacking throughout the whole weekend! But on the contrary, a smart lizard was able to find what she was looking for inside my bag… food! A lizard chewed my bag and made a very big hole right next to the zipper trying to get to a pack of sweets that I’d brought from the Netherlands, the lizard didn’t get to them, but unfortunately neither did I, since I was scared they’d been lizard-contaminated, and decided it was best to throw them out.

On Sunday we came back to Bangalore and I got to my first flat in the city, Raheja Residency…. Here I shared a room with Juli from Brasil and had a great time!! But even though I liked this flat and the people living in it (Juli, Mareike, Eric, and Emi), the distance from here to my work place and the un-killable bugs in the kitchen made me search for a new place.. So 2 weeks later I shifted to a new place in Benson Town with Caetano, Maddy, Aurelien, and Virginie.

On the 2 weeks that I lived at Raheja Residency, I spent between 3 and 5 hours everyday on a bus, so I was always tired and I didn’t do anything other than work.

My first days at work were good, but there was too much information for me to absorb, names of people and places I’d never heard before, numbers of buses, words in Kannada, … but I found that the office is very nice and it was a safe, clean place and a hideaway from the problems at Raheja and the horrible buses! And I finally got to meet Zia and Venkat and begin my work!

On the first weekend I stayed in Bangalore and got to know the city a bit. I went to Majestic, Malleshwaram, and to a very big shopping mall (Mantri Square) with the girls from work (Sunitha, Keerthi, and Sheethal) and I went to a club and to Brigade Road with the trainees.

On the second weekend, I went to Goa with Juli, we went by plane, and we stayed at Silver Moon Guest House in Anjuna beach. We spent the weekend in the touristic beaches of north Goa, eating in restaurants with expensive fish and beer, driving a rented scooter, shopping, and sunbathing. I also met Luis, Kamila and other trainees that were attending a wedding at Baga Beach. It was an amazing trip and I had a lot of fun with Juli, but it still felt like a holiday anywhere in the world, I didn’t feel completely in India yet.

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Choosing a Good Logo Design and the Bicycle Repair Man

August 12th, 2010 by admin

A simple Google Search would reveal there are approximately 178,000,000 results for “Logo Design”. This article is going to make it a 178,000,001. What’s so different about this one, you’ll know soon enough.
Image Credit: Oddsock
Your logo designers may not be the Pablo Picassos of today, but they sure are a cunning lot. Even if they’re [...]

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A Mexican in India – 2 – The Ash Cloud

August 9th, 2010 by Dariela Escobar

The trip…
On April 11th I left Mexico. After a forgotten credit card, an excess luggage fee, hugs and tears (from my friends, not from me!) I was on a plane on my way to Amsterdam. I sat next to a Mexican woman and her baby, her husband is from Norway and she was traveling with [...]

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Barcamp Bangalore 9- A Note To Mom Before We Hit The Bar

August 5th, 2010 by admin

Nothing can be more exciting for a bunch of technology and design addicts than a league of extraordinary sessions at our very own Barcamp Bangalore. So all of us at Outsmart360 are going to be moving from the bar to Barcamp Bangalore 9 on September 18th 2010!
Hold on, this was supposed to be a note [...]

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Visit from the Neighbour

July 30th, 2010 by admin

As I was sitting and having lunch in my room at the OutSmart office yesterday, I was suddenly startled by a noise upfront.

Its a squirrel!
I tried taking a couple more pictures of our friendly cute furry critter, but they obviously did not turn out too well…

Now, we have a small contest. The first person who [...]

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A Mexican in India – Before coming to India!

July 28th, 2010 by Dariela Escobar

August, the dream begins…
“Try to say YES to every opportunity that comes along” I thought. Then my friend Rod called me and said “Do you want to come with me to the Panamerican University to hear a talk about an exchange program?? It’s about something called AIESEC“. And so we went. [...]

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Share Scare

July 23rd, 2010 by admin

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (5 PM): Creative Director of Outsmart360, Miss Zia van der Veen steps into the kitchen to find a pack of her favorite Nestle Skimmed Milk cut open and half empty.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 (5:10 PM) : Zia manages to catch Krshna by his neck and twist him for thieving from her personal supplies. [...]

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Outsmart’s Ok-Tata-Good-Bye-Farewell for Mala

July 19th, 2010 by admin

We’re always of the opinion that farewells should be as much fun as our welcomes. So how do you send off someone who’s been with you for years on end? Ok-Tata-Goodbye?

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Batalla de Puebla party!

May 28th, 2010 by admin

First a quick background story on what this is all about.
What is Batalla de Puebla?
The Puebla Battle took place on May 5, 1862 in the city of Puebla (a beautiful city just 1 hour away from Mexico City!!) when the Mexican army fought against the French who were trying to invade Mexico, they came through [...]

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How do you get inspired: Sight!

May 27th, 2010 by admin

Everyone wants a fantastic work-space for themselves. But most companies overlook this and just give their people a staid, boring, white-walled office environment and expect them to come up with mindblowing ideas to change the world.
Well, we, at OutSmart360, decided that to come up with these ideas, you need to be inspired. And inspiration comes [...]

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