I recently had the opportunity to catch a series on HBO. No it’s not Game Of Thrones! :) On a side-node, I haven’t seen a single episode of GoT and don’t intend to, especially after everyone lambasted how bad the series was.

If you’re a cricket fan, you better had been keeping track of what happened at the World Cup this year. It was one of my favorite world cups since 2003 and I kept a tab on the scores and games for almost all the matches. This was also the first world cup since 2003 where I had a subscription for viewing the world cup. (I had the subscription for 2011 when in India but since the World Cup happened in India, I couldn’t really follow much because … work)

I take public transport to work. It’s something that I’ve been doing for about 6 months now. This might not be newsworthy to many folks and if you’re living in a metropolitan area like New York City or Hong Kong, taking public transport to work is an integral part of one’s day.

This was a book by Haruki Murakami in conversation with Seiji Ozawa, the former director and conductor at the Boston Conservatory of Music. The original book is in Japanese and the version I read was translated in English by Jay Rubin.

The article talks about how to better use the pomodoro technique for productivity.

Finally mustered some courage and got over my laziness to create a post on a statically hosted blog. I had been having a (largely idle) wordpress blog for a while now. In fact, I remember getting there from a long route from static HTML back in those days, a custom wordpress site and a tumblr site.

As far as finance is concerned, bankruptcy is probably the lowest point in a company or an individual’s life. The dictionary defines bankruptcy as such,

The title of this post is part of a quote by the famous 13th century Persian poet, Rumi.

Over the last few years, I feel the word “blog” and “blogging” are being slowly phased out thanks to the explosion of social media (and the associated ADHD). Like any millenial who grew with the web from the late 90s, I’ve explored many platforms online for writing (ranting) over the years and as with any media, viewership dictates whether a medium thrives or not. I hope this post would make a good justification of why blogging isn’t dead yet and will still continue to thrive.

I’m a huge fan of Spotify and have been using the Premium feature quite regularly since December 2014. The reason why I chose Spotify over other available services during that time were