[US trip april 2018]: people and what they said...

let's see...i met so many people...business, professional, family, friends, strangers...

• the english literature phd airbnb person...this is the most intuitive experience i've had since my childhood
• the michigan student who told me about the german town of westphalia of less than thousand people...I want to go back someday and work there
• sctt...you have to tell me specifically why you say we are siloed...who is telling you that we are
• ajy...yaar tu mera ek bada doubt toh clear hi kar diya (at that coffee shop)...tu kahin na kahin kheenchke leke hi jata hai
• pal...why don't you just come in and we'll chat..(ajy and i cold-walked into wdi...)
• wndy...come let me hug you (end of mtg)
• smit...hey man...my cousin she's gone all vegan and got those curved jaws...that's what i want
• cow business plan competitors...indian breeds don't give much milk
• gaytri...ck made time for everything...for everyone (during the b-plan competitions)
• andri...i knew already you'd say that
• the girl from burkina faso who introduced me to cortado coffee...oh, you know where burkina faso is?
• maxine who took us on a cycle trip in harlem...if you cut your hand and my hand...the blood is the same color (in jacob's restaurant)
• the armenian sculptor who keeps building his rock sculptures (sisyphus rocks) even after people keep pushing them down...keep doing (said without actually saying)
• Raymond @NYSS...you are welcome to go back there...I modeled in the morning myself
• visl...I'd choose back massage over sex anyday (bed-sty, brooklyn)
• visl...everyone wants to change the world but themselves
• shrl...I want to do this for you...right now (and she sent out intro emails)
• mishel...that's it? you don't have any brochures...it's all you...great (in response to me saying...why do you need anything else when you have me in front of you)
• man in gym...sir, so do you squeeze and push forward while lifting those? (kettle bells)
• the deer...stared and stared (in the tenafly forest, we were really close)
• entrepreneur with achalasia...this conversation was disturbing but very useful to me
• prasdm...medicineman...you can buy mushrooms there...they say sometimes cures cancer
• cc...big...big (in flushing)
• girl near MTA vending machine...Fuck you, I am trying to earn a living (in response to me saying, this is not the way...she tried to force-help find the right bus and ask money for it)
• jn...am sorry I've not been myself since my dog died...
• swraj...I see myself as a jazz player (in the car on way to chitti's in dc)
• prash...did he say purugulu? (joking after thru telling us to eat punugulu in dc...purugulu means bugs like cockroaches...punugulu means bondas type)
• green person after accalasia...even white people do...see
• carid...I don't want to see them...I'm too angry
• Mila...you look like you need some fixing up here (and she brewed coffee, heated pizza that brought back life...it was afternoon, i was coming after carid, exhausted)
• Lady in cafeteria...oh on his birthday they send him such big cakes...he's a great and kind man...he hired me too (re dr isw...she's mom-in-law of myra)
• ykti...i was nervous...would you think of me as less cool now?
• ykti...you are very persistent...that's what s-hil said...(and she booked her tickets to slc an hour after I left)
• prshanth...you'll see gurudwaras on the way there...
• man from visalia...whatever religion you practice...buddha...whatever...it doesn't matter...you'll see god amongst those great trees
• graham the bearded guy from kansas at sequoias...i'll remember that place...blanket...chadar in hindi...the fire makes the sequoias and also destroys them
• forest ranger lady...drive to general sherman...it's already late...plus there's snow on the trail
• prbhu...you can know potassium levels by big data analysis of EKG readings
• shankr...macha you still sound the same..(i was facing the door in pd's office reception area)
• mnish...the singular factor why people sign up is the quickest time you get back when they inquire or when they need
• ami...tell me all about it...what went wrong that day (on the dining table)
• gndu...machine learning is difficult
• vjay...google paid half million to that phd student for machine learning
• princ...hemorrhoid banding...(in that wine place in palo alto)
• sorb's mom...when children are saying these sandals look good, it must be
• hena's dad...your office is in malad? and your son...how's he? your wife where's she working...
• samr...i'm in a happy place right now (while sharing ice-cream from that old shop in burlingame)
• homeless man...no, I can walk...my parents died, then my wife died...I have liver cancer (outside mexican restaurant in SLC downtown...head totally bent, all his clothes and possessions behind, fingers thick...cigarette stubs all around)
• 74 year old uber driver...i drive to meet new people instead of staying home alone
• raul the ceo...i'm doing this 8-16 hour diet for last 3 weeks to control diabetes
• cowboy m who's lived off the grid for 10 years and narrated his out-of-body experience...that happened on the day hale bob comet went past the earth...there was so much of love there...(later)...i've been alone all this while...all of you...it's been glad...
• terri...it's so great to see you enjoy us and all that we do...and allowing us to enjoy you
• 89 year old hal...you are like my son
• hal...lemme tell you a racist joke
• hal...she's my lady friend...she was an air hostess when she was young (she's 85 now, there was a black and white pic of her in front of the plane)
• hal...you let him pet you Madison (madison is a cat...much like a fearful child...she kept running away...she's never been outside the house)
• hal...never refuse nuts when someone offers you (and he ate some)
• hal who supports gun ownership...guns don't kill people...people do
• pal...jesus fucking christ...dad...
• diane...they asked us to leave after 40 years...it wasn't fair...we just want to see patients...don't need a salary...and we want to take care of our two wonderful employees
• cliff...you should've seen a lot of game there at this time of the year...
• isha...i'll count to 19 this time (while playing hide and seek)
• s-hil...you...you are a good boy (while driving to airport)
• man next to me on plane...you really went to idaho?....we are on a choir trip to ny
• chck...they are these mba types who are smart and think they know everything
• musical note person...i'm not reading that shit (alex haley's roots)
• phil...i never stay in a job this long...it'll be 5 years...i don't know what i want...i just want challenges
• chtra...hmmm...yes you follow up...it's all healing isn't it
• pd...anna it filled my heart when you both spoke so much that day
• nanimama...plus (means in addition to bad lifestyle contributing to problematic health)...the babies are now subjected to a new babysitter...the phone
• joke I heard and enjoyed in idaho...a hunter is stopped by the forest ranger. He has a bag of dead ducks. The officer pulls out the first one, sticks his finger in the duck's ass, smells and says - this is from Nevada, do you have the shooting license? Hunter says yes. Then he repeats, says - this is from Utah, do you have the license? Hunter says yes. Then Texas follows. Finally, the ranger asks him, where the hell are you from anyways? So the hunter unbuckles his belt, pulls his pants down and says, you are the smart ass, you tell me where I'm from...

there are lots more...will update as and when i remember...