That day in the pub on the dance floor

On one of the times I went to this Pub by the beach when at Tel Aviv I had this interesting encounter with a beautiful girl...
It goes as this:

There was this group of 4 girls.
They were dancing near to where I was standing.
And while they were dancing one of them was smiling at me.
I politely smiled back.
She signaled me to join them in the dance.
I obliged.
And then she started talking in Hebrew!
Kaushik: I’m sorry, I speak English!
Girl: English! (Laughs aloud with her friends)
Kaushik: (thinks to himself) What’s so funny with that?
Girl: Are you English?
Kaushik: No I am from India.
Girl: India!!!! Coooooll!! Namaasthe! (points to her forehead, looked like a gesture signifying the Bindi)
Kaushik: (thinks to himself) If only you saw the modern day Indian girl…
Girl: (Folding her hands and trying to put up a typical bollywood dance act) Do you know Indian dance?
Kaushik: (thinks to himself) Shit I don’t want to make a fool of myself. (Speaks) Actually, we dance like that only on
special occasions.
Girl: (with a concerned look) Ooh, ok. What do you do?
Kaushik: I work in the high tech industry. (In Israel IT/Electronics is called Hi-tech in the common man’s language).
Girl: Ooooo….So you’re very intelligent?
Kaushik: I don’t think so. I know how to fool my employers and they think I am intelligent.
In the mean time, the DJ plays nice music which sounds like music to me too as it is the remix version of one of my favorite songs, “Smells like Teen Spirit.” So I kinda dance. I know that sounds extremely weird but I did dance.
Kaushik: What do you do?
Girl: I am a waitress. But my dad doesn’t like it.
Kaushik: What does your Dad do?
Girl: He does business with Diamonds.
Kaushik: (thinks to himself) Holy shit! This is the daughter of a diamond merchant and she’s trying to flirt with me! Oh God,
I prayed to you for giving me opportunities, but not the ones of this kind!
(speaks) So you’re very rich?
Girl: Nay…my dad is very rich, I want his money.
Kaushik: (thinks to himself again) Shit, there’s a different concept here…
Girl: (Suddenly coming closer) You dance really great! Teach me… (and she comes closer, while other three girls giggle)
Kaushik: (thinks to himself, getting suspicious) Now that is a puzzle. All my life I have known myself to be among the worst
dancers on Earth. I have known the fact very well that KAUSHIK CHOUDHARY CANT DANCE.
And this lady right here says I dance great…let me see how does she dance that she can call me a good dancer.
Oh my God! She’s worse than I am!!!!
I get very happy to know that fact and I forget about all the advances she had been making to me and then,
Kaushik: You’re definitely flirting with me! Aren’t you!
Girl: (Laughs and laughs again) (Says) Why else does one come here for?

I stop feeling comfortable by the proximity of the girl, the reason being, I got a strange smell in the smoke of the cigarette she was smoking and so I excused myself somehow.
Later on I realized that cigarette was not a simple cigarette, it was certainly intoxicated.

For the record, I neither drink nor smoke and never plan to do drugs. :)

It does sound like a Hindi movie but this is what happened...though I am not too sure about whether all that I got from the girl was true.

And the girl was damn pretty but taller than me!(Even though I am 6'0")

More from Tel Aviv

I finally met some Muslims (Palestinians) here...
Ok my taxi driver yesterday morning was one.
He asked me which country I was from and the moment I said India he asked me about a very familiar name!
He said, "India! Amitabh Bachchan...I no understand da languaage but I see Indiaan film, Amitabh Bachchan"
and then he gave me another news which I didn't know!
"India Israel brothers! Israel, Palestine, Insha allah....India Muslim, Israel Muslim...!"
(No offence)

And today morning my taxi driver offered me a Benson and Hedges cigerrette and when I said NO he offered me beer which I declined too!
He just threw up his arms!

About the girls...well forget about the beach as most of the girls on the beaches are tourists.
But see the girls in the streets...I wouldn't mind saying, God makes and sends the most beautiful and pretty women in the world to Israel.
They are simply so very beautiful....
I mean almost every 3rd or 4th girl is a damsel!

I am thinking of asking my Mom to stop worrying about finding a girl for me.

but yes they scream a lot here in Israel.
Probably that is how they talk.
Everybody except in the office is screaming!

And about work,
This Russian guy who's come here is a genius!
He's from a company called Spirit who deal with media codec designing and stuff...
He's from Moscow and I am to work with for the rest of my stay here in Israel.

I mean he exudes knowledge in his words!

I am simply amazed!
He fixed 2 out of 8 major issues within half an hour!
He came in like a complete geek, with his own set of hardware and gadgets to connect to his laptop while working and the moment his machine was ready he was flying!

Wow!

but the language is a problem.

His English is a Z prefixed language!

Something like,

Normal: "So that could be a problem and this is how we can fix it"

Alex (Russian guy) : "Zso zthat khould be a probelame and zthis is how we can fixz it"\

Sounds funny huh!

Deal with it all day and you'll know!

And most importantly it has been not even a week and I have started missing home. :(

P.S. :I went to a discotheque and danced around for the first time in my life! And I liked the experience! Will go again for sure when I find time again!

Tel Aviv and Israeli Food - I

Ok, the place where I am staying is the heart and centre of the city.
A 5-10 minutes walk from the beach.
My apartment is a single room studio apartment with a bathroom, kitchenette, and a balcony that opens towards the main street.
Things are pretty expensive here if you convert your expenses to INR. :)
Coke is much cheaper than water.

a 250 ml of water bottle that costs Rs 9 in India now costs something around Rs 70 here!
Coke cans are Rs 45-50 or something.
Most shops keep open till 0300 hrs in the night!
Its all safe as you can see girls who by the Indian standards are almost always scantily clad, move around all night and I see them walking alone.

No signs of Army in the city except for the one off soldier waiting for a vehicle or something....probably they go to Jerusalem as I see them on the road to Jerusalem.
Traffic is superfast here. (120 kmph is normal speed)
Taxis are anything between a Skoda Octavia and a Mercedez Benz.
It takes just 40 minutes from here to Jerusalem which is 60 kms away!

Food!
At office, my peers take me to a different restaurant everyday so that I get to taste as much Israeli food as possible.

At night, the first night here I just played safe and took a burger from McDonalds and yesterday I had a Shavarma Roll which is actually Arab food and I have had it in Bangalore.
But in Bangalore it is Chicken and here it is Turkey.
Not much beef is eaten here. they say it is 99% Chicken/Turkey.

I had "Chicken Breast with some kinda sauce yesterday" (I dont exactly remember the name) and I had "Shikar kua" or something like that and tasted a little bit of "Homos"
The first one is a dish made of eggs and tomato sauce with lots of other stuff in it and the other one was I dont know what. It was supposed to be taken with Peter bread which looks similar to the buns we have in India, just a little more flat and the speciality is that it has a pouch in it!

People eat rather early here, Lunch is at 1100 hrs!
The office is good, you have 5 different types of coffee and 2 types of Tea to choose from.

fortunately there is water too! yes I have been craving for it...they dont drink water at all...

Beer, Milk, Fruits anything you want and as much as you want...I take only the fruits.
People are friendly.
I will explore the city more once I have a little more time after tomorrow and will send you updates. :)

By the way the beaches are beautiful and the babes are hot! ;)