Debugging Life

Yo stalkers! Writing after long long time! It's almost the end of June. And life's been a roller coaster, frightening but exciting. I like it this way. PS - I GRADUATED!! Next target is MBA... but after 3-4 years.. I want to be a VP in a good firm by the time I reach 30.. This inspiration came from my previous manager during my internship in Portland. She did her MBA from MIT Sloan.. and is a VP... she seems too young to be a VP... I want to outperform her... I want people to take inspiration from me.. I'm targetting Cambridge, UCB, Fuqua, IIMA, IIMB, UChic, and a few more... but that's for some other post.. I've realized a lot of things about myself, while nearing graduation. I realized the cost of ambitions. In a journey to make it big in life, I have sacrificed a lot of interpersonal relationships. I don't even know how it feels like to be at home, to connect on a deep emotional level with mummy, papa, dadi, baba. My life revolves around making it big, which ...

A lot has happened in the few months that I've not written anything on the blog. I traveled back to home (India) for some 20 days and then returned to Boston again! Lived for a month in Brighton, and then right now again near university. Many things happened in these 3-4 months.  GOA Went to Goa with Modak, Bhonsle, Tiwari, and Gangrade around year end. Had the time of our lives. Didn't partied in goa. We just relaxed at Ozran, Morjim and Anjuna. Gladly, my psyche matches with my homies and we avoided cliche places like Baga, Arambol, Calangute etc. I can't even describe in words what was it like. Attended Lucky Ali Live. I stood at the very first row and guess what?  We made eye contact and he sang a couple of lines of "MAUT" while staring at me. I'm not kidding. I've the video on my phone. He also hummed O Sanam, which I've uploaded on YouTube as well.  Anyway, the concert was just 10% of the trip. Tiwari and I strolled on the empty Anjuna beach at 3...

 So, I'm writing after months. And we've stepped into a new year. Or I will rephrase it: The increment in Gregorian calendar year, which is an abstract concept in my mind, which is marked by earth's completion of a circle around the Sun. Which again isn't a circle because sun itself revolves in milky way, and milky way revolves around the galactic cluster, which also revolves around some gigantic cosmic body and so on. So, yeah. It's just an escapism of us mortal humans from our daily lives. But yeah. I'm keeping aside this critical side of me to ask one question - does new year necessarily has to be accompanied by a new version of yourselves? Personally, I don't want that. I mean yes, I'd work on a couple of qualities, but I won't change myself entirely. I mean, that's my individuality. And I should be proud of it, which I am.  I ask this question to you. Do you want to change your entire persona in 2022? Ponder! Also, life updates. Left Portlan...

We all keep reading news, hear opinions, debate with friends on ideologies. Here, I am specifically talking about political ideologies. Because it is one of the main things which decides the traits of an individual on a smaller level and adds upto the fate of society and nation as a whole. I'm not going to write about the cliche capitalism vs communism debate. But I will try to give you a torch, which will help you to tread a path of your own. Truth is subjective, and you have to decide your own. But yes, I also believe that there are some truths which can be generalized in an objective manner. I believe that a person who is in love with one side of ideologies (be it left or right) is certainly not correct. He doesn't have free thoughts, it's just an impression of an ideology which he read while seeing the world through it's bias.  I'll love to put forward some examples: Feminism. This word is a topic of heated debates in every part of the world. Giving equal rights...

Right now, I hung up the phone. I had a conversation with papa. Barely 8-9 minutes. This is the first time that I called him on his number, and we talked this long. Not like, I never spoke with him on phone, but it was barely like 20-22 seconds. Yes, in last 22-23 years, we never had 1-1 conversation even for more than 1 minute, unless ofcourse he had to scold me. I am feeling strangely powerful. He didn't give me motivation, but just him discussing future with me, made me realize that now I am a grown up. He sharing his plans with me about my younger one's education, and he sharing some life lessons with me... had a profound impact. Quoting him, he gave me a good advice.  "Baba ye baat bolte hai, unne experience kari hai. Maine bhi itne saalo me experience kari hai ki paisa kamana aasaan kaam hai, paise ko jod ke rakhna bhot mushkil hai. Aur tu choti umr se hi aadat daal. Hamesha ye baat yaad rakhna. Paisa bahot badi cheez hai." I myself, have seen him struggling whe...

Hey stalkers! It's 5:43 PM and I'm listening to some bhajans on youtube. Someone came to see our house, since we have to sublease it from January. But, this is not how a typical day in my life looks like. I'll write about it (my day in Portland) in second person. You get up at 5:45-ish in the morning, turn off the alarm which was about to ring at 6am. And then instinctively you call at home. Talk to Mummy and Dadi for half an hour. Boom ! It's 6:30. Now, you rush to the kitchen, to prepare breakfast. Mostly it's cereals and milk. Sometimes it's omelette, and rarely some leftovers from the last night which, you ordered via Uber eats. Then you wash your face, get ready for the office and catch the 7:20 bus to Portland downtown. From downtown, you catch another bus to Unum I/B or Jetport. There you go. You're at office around 8:20-8:30 in the morning. Now, you start checking your emails, teams messages and set yourself for the meetings which are generally aroun...

"Woh kuch paane ki chaach me oho! Woh badhta raha raah me oho! Gehra samandar tha oonchi oonchi lehre mere yaaro sunlo sunlo Kashtiyaa jinpe ke mushkil se thehre mere yaaro sunlo sunlo. Wo saahil tak aa hi gaya, wo manzil ko paa hi gaya. Uske the jo sapne, wahi uske the apne. Aisa tha sinbad the sailor. Tum ho toh gaata hai dil, tum nahi toh geet kaha.   Tum ho toh hai sab haasil, tum nahi toh kya hai yaha? "  Song recommendations because been listening to them since a week: Sinbad the Sailor (Rock On) -----> this one is my fav <3 <3 <3 <3 Woh Ladki Hai Kahaan (Dil Chahta Hai) Piya Basanti (Ustad Rashid Khan) All I Need (Radiohead) Reckoner (Radiohead) Tum Ho Toh (Rock On) Naav (Udaan) Madhubala (Amit Trivedi's Songs on Love) Sunflower (Spiderman sang by Post Malone) Affection (Cigarettes after Sex) Jaane Kyo Log Pyaar (Dil Chahta Hai) Chhod Aaye Ham Woh Galiyaan (Maachis) Kasoor (Prateek Kuhad) Tuta Pull Wahaan (Deepak Rathore) Khoj (When Chai Met Toast) ...