Early days in Singapore
Coke can cannot, Pepsi can ... can .. can ? The shrill heavily accented female voice brought me back to reality. I quickly tried to regroup myself. I was in a what I came to know later, in a food court in Singapore. I had ordered a fried rice (the closest to some Indian food I could find) and then went on to splurge on having a coke in a can ! My teenage years had gone by adoring and yearning for The Coca-Cola and here I was... about to buy one ! 75 Singapore cents.. less than Rs.20 ( the first thing you do when you go to a foreign country is to start converting it in your currency ). ... did I not tell you to remind me to get even with my uncle? Ghanshyam dutifully picked me up from the Singapore airport at 4.30 pm, 24 hours later than my scheduled arrival. He was a 3rd generation Indian Singaporean. He got me to the company accommodation .. a nice sprawling 3 bedroom house. However, the room furnishing and the neighboring locality was none better than that of my hous...