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A collection of 43 issues

Paying for fuel with cash in France

Let's say you need to refuel outside of office hours and your card would not work for whatever reason. Turns out there is a way to pay for fuel with cash without having to talk to a person. 1. Search for "Intermarché station-service" and get to the nearest Intermarché station.

Learnings from a year without WhatsApp

I've been off WhatsApp for over a year. Here are my observations!

The second-best time is now

About 3 years back, during the covid lockdown, I started working on Chopin's prelude No. 15 often called the raindrop prelude. By the end of 2020, I got the notes down. More or less. But never ended up being able to play it as well as it deserved to be

On Social Media Stories

I've been thinking about this a lot. I've never liked social media stories, whether on Snapchat or Instagram or anywhere else. (Although VS Code stories was nice to play with when it was first out.) I've been trying to understand why I don't like stories in the first place. At

The mountains, they stand

Went on a day-long trek last week or so. Was a much needed break. While we were on the way to the starting point, we drove under an old-looking bridge. We spoke about how a lot of people are involved in keeping bridges and other infrastructure in order.

Responding to why's

This happened years ago before the pandemic when choir rehearsals were still a thing. A soprano walked into the practice room about 40 minutes late, and that lead to an exchange that went something like: Conductor: Why are you soooo late? The soprano: The bus was late. C: Should have

Go, get what you want

Been experimenting with digital art lately

Random doodles... nothing to see here :)

2021: a year of short trips

It was September 2019. Two super-close friends were down in Mumbai at same time. We went out for dinner one night, and did a lot of catching up, and at the end of it we decided to do a London trip the next year. Fast forward to early Feb 2020:

Beauty in mundanity

I was only in primary school when I noticed how everything is relative. It's one of those things we've all known from the start. 'More candies' (relative) always sounds better than '3 candies' (absolute). More is generally better. (Raise your hand if you'd like to be paid less :) One way