financial freedom
Its a fairly well known idea nowadays that time is becoming increasingly more valuable than money, and what we really need is more time for ourselves.
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[flashback] considering a shortcut
flashback = old memory. In this case, something that happened over twelve years ago (when I was a teenager)… and nothing to do with me today! If you read this article, please read it completely – do not jump to any conclusions and abandon it midway!! 🙂 —— Sitting in stillness may at times bring…
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I am a software engineer
This is how he’d introduced himself to Kichu and everyone else in the room in 1998 – and to anyone and everyone he’d ever met since he’d started working a year ago. And Kichu had remarked “No you are not.
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freshers in the software industry
Sometimes freshers come with ambitions of, as Jigar says, “writing an entire operating system” right from day one, but have to be confronted with ground reality of doing something less ambitous like reading up some documents.
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of touch typing and programming
Leonid had written about touchtyping and I ended up putting in such a big comment that I thought it might as well qualify as an indendent post! 🙂
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time crunch
Actually off late I’ve been pretty much stuck with being in a perpetually “no time for anything” situation. Moving to a new project next week (1st of August) so must wrap up my current one before that – but its turning out to be pretty hard.
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the final girl
I decided that I would see one final girl – no more arranged marriage business for me.
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the joy of aimless drifting
The other day I went to a marriage hall – it was amazing how people are so obsessed with trivial things, and also how they act among each other.
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my dad's second-last puzzle
Today being father’s day, I’d like to recall a puzzle my late dad gave me in June 1998 a couple of weeks before he had a fatal series of cardiac arrests. Of course I’ve come across this plenty of times later as well… I suppose it must be fairly well known by now. I must…
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dealing with death
This is a flashback really, of something that happened in 1998… This is very delicate subject, and I’ve tried to avoid any morbidity or depression in it though thats rather tricky. One may ask why I share such personal details publicly. I thought about it, and felt that there are times when what I’ve learnt…