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Arrived in Amsterdam, first views

I've just moved to Amsterdam and its been a couple of days here. This is from my first email to my friends back in India. I'm just settling here. Work has just began here; the dev guy who is to train me has been keeping really busy due to upcoming release and some sessions with the traders. From tomorrow, I will be sitting with the integrator who sits on the trading floor. I have been told that IT people avoid going to the trading floor, because the traders are always after the IT guys for bugs and feature requests. Its like Saurabh Chandna trying to avoid coming to 5th floor if something or the other keeps now and then. Maybe the guy was exaggerating; I guess I'll soon find out. Amsterdam is a nice place. Its expensive; apart from dairy products, potatoes and perhaps wheat, they import almost everything. I just bought tomatoes from Albert Heijn (pronounced Haain, the j being silent or sounding as a y, AH is to supermarkets what Xerox is to photocopy). Costs 1 Eur 35 cents ...