Omnipresent

This is the definition of word Omnipresent from dictionary.com

om⋅ni⋅pres⋅ent /ˌɒmnəˈprɛzənt/ [om-nuh-prez-uhnt]   –adjective present everywhere at the same time: the omnipresent God.

Origin: 1600–10; <>

I was talking to my dad in India using one of the VOIP software from my lappy and got a ping from my bro on gtalk. I asked him to wait as I was busy on call. In 2-3 mins, I got a call on my hotel landline from one friend, asking if I have curd available and can he come to my room for it !! I asked my dad to wait for a min and served the curd request. Still it was not enough, I got a call on my cell from local Mexican friend asking about a weekend plan. I asked him to call back after half an hour as I was on call at India.  

This situation is more common now a days. We guys are easily accessible through various communications channels and have become almost omnipresent. Recent advancement in social networking has made a big impact on communications.

I still remember my first e-mail Id which I got in yr 2000. I had to force my friends to mail me on that so I can keep on checking my mails at every fortnight and my mail account don't expire. I hardly used to get 4-5 mails per fortnight (that too on relation pressure). When I joined DA-IICT, I got luxury. We had full time Internet access in the college and we guys also exploited the resources to the best. I had 10 different mail accounts (3 in Indiatimes, 3 in yahoo and 2 in rediff, 1 in Gmail and 1 of DA-IICT !!!).  Though we didn't had chat access, guys used to do it using proxies. Managing those account was bit painful but still.. it was a different fun to have a mail id from all mail provider sites !! I also got a cell phone at the same time, one more channel for communication. After some time, I realized that managing those many accounts is not worth (and even not possible practically) so I discontinued with many of them. 

When I joined TCS, I heard about security polices in company. Most of the sites were blocked and it gave major blow to my communication networks. I thought now I wont have that fun of being "online" but I was wrong. I got my professional mail id from TCS along with TCS across chat access. Until I started chat in TCS, I had different perception for chat which changed very soon. I used to greet my colleague good morning wishes though chat, even though he was sitting just behind me. We used to do online chat meeting within team (even though team members were sitting just 2-3 desks away from each other !!). . It was really fun to do chat rather than meeting somebody physically, sometimes not always.

When I came to Mexico, I again started using these communication lines. I almost doubled my friends group in orkut in span of couple of months. I got chance to meet old friends after a couple of hours. I got account in Skype, LinkedIn, Twitter and many more. Now I am really Omnipresent, and so many of my other friends are. Sometimes this omnipresence is annoy little bit. You are enjoying a nice movie in Saturday afternoon and will get a ping from friend, hey.. Wat's up ? Its annoying but for friends and well wishers, we have to "available".. isn't it ?

Roadside Eateries

Since the time I have come to Mexico, I used to eat either own made (not home made) food or used to take lunch in restaurants. First time in my tenure over here I got chance to eat Mexican street food and it was really spicy experience !!

If you ask anybody in India about where can they get the best Pani Puris or Vada Pavs, they will give you name of some streets rathar than restaurants and I had also similar kind of experience here. I visited couple of places with local friends and tried various dishes like Quesadillas, Tacos and Tamales. Being an vegetarian, there were very few options available for me but still it was really great fun in enjoying those limited options.

One thing I have noticed about Mexican food is that they put a lot of cheese in all the dishes. If you take Quesadilla Papas Con Queso (Quesadilla with Potatoes and Cheese), they put equal amount of Potato and Cheese in the Quesadilla (its kind of Indian Roti but thicker compare to Roti and made up of Corn). In case of Tamale of Rajas con Queso (a dish which taste little bit similar to South Indian dish Upama but has green chilli and cheese), you will again find enough of Cheese which makes it a perfect breakfast dish. One of my Indian friend has become a real tamale lover and takes two tamales every Saturday without fail :) In fact he is regretting that he doesn't find enough time to have it in everyday breakfast :)

Road side food has always been a point of concern for health conscious people (including me, sometimes) and many people avoids that but when you compare the taste, nothing beats that. If you go for road side food at lunch time in Mexico, literally you need to wait in a queue to have those delicacies. All these dishes are comparatively mild if you are used to spicy taste of Indian dishes but no need to worry. They have green chilli and red chilli sauce (Chatney in Indian style) which you can add upto your strength !!

I am planning to visit some more places in forthcoming weekends. Lets see how many new dishes I get chance to try.