Laptop and Globalization

I finally have my new laptop up and running – an IBM T42 with 1.7 GHz, 512 MB RAM. Well, this is my first post using my new laptop – O!! Boy, I am thrilled. Just a month away before MLP starts and I can already feel the adrenaline rush. After a blissful vacation I am all ready to take on school. Well!! I can hardly wait. After years of uncertainty things are also falling in to place – Ria is almost close to finishing her PhD and she has started job hunting as well. Probably, 2 years from now – we would be happy; it was worth staying separate for so many years – she got her PhD and me my MBA – we didn’t make the mistake of compromising our careers at our prime. Now, we can accommodate.
 
I came across this interesting article in NYTimes which I wanted to share with you all. Here is a snippet from the original news:
 
“THE rooftop terrace at Cosmo Village was crowded with young partygoers savoring the temperate night air, oversize Kingfisher beers, and their place in this moment of global economic convergence.

At one table, five friends from Singapore sat with a 6-foot-3, 23-year-old anomaly: Joshua Bornstein, perhaps the only native-born American among the Bangalore-based employees of Infosys Technologies, one of India's software and services giants, and one of the few Americans of his generation in Bangalore.

For all the complaints about American jobs migrating here through outsourcing, few Americans have thought to follow them. Eight months ago, Josh Bornstein did.

He quit his job at an investment banking firm in Los Angeles and came to this southern city on the Deccan plateau. He pays $110 a month to share a two-bedroom apartment with a Japanese roommate. He takes the company bus to work at the Infosys campus, as lush and large as Microsoft's in Seattle. He has Indian, European, Israeli and Asian friends, and he has become a familiar figure on this city's thriving pub scene. "Everyone talks about globalization left and right," he said. "This is the way the world is moving."”