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When do colleagues become friends?

When I joined my current company three years ago, I didn’t know anyone. The floor had about 100 employees on a good day and being around 100 new people was daunting. For the first few months, I felt like an outsider looking in. Then on a random day, I got invited to play foosball with a few people. Then I got to play some video games with others. Suddenly I had a community of people who talked…

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Fiction: The Last Message

Booting in 3, 2, 1. The body had no monitor on which to show the startup logs. Even if there was, human eye couldn’t read any of them. The CPU chip triggered multiple subsystems’ bootup. The chip scans the logs to spot any errors during bootup. There are a few warnings. Some damage to the body, some missing microbots. Nothing that hampers startup. The lens were the next subsystem completely…

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Book: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman is a murder mystery series about a group of four septuagenarians who are living in a retirement home and start solving murders. It’s unique premise because of the people solving the murders: their cavalier attitude towards death. It’s their ability to get away with a few not so good things simply because they are underestimated by their age. There…

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Post Game Jam 3 (Failed one)

What is the idiom about doing the same thing over and over again? This Godot Game Jam was a failure on many parts. I didn’t plan properly. I left things to the last minute. The game was not exciting enough for me to work on. Lastly, I didn’t finish the game so there was nothing to submit. Let’s tackle them one by one. Even after ~8 years in software development, I am not the best in planning…

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People's Routines

I like doing the same thing day in and day out, though I don’t want every day to remain the same. It’s the fact of waking up and knowing that some parts of my day will be familiar. There’s a comfort in the familiarity, a sense of control over a day where most of the time there’s no comfort nor control. In the last two and half years, my partner and I leave for work at the same time. We take the…

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Wisdom Tooth

Last week Friday I got my wisdom teeth extracted. The extraction wasn’t necessary but it was a preventative measure for the future. I was expecting the recovery to be horrible but so far I haven’t really been through a lot of pain. In the recovery I had a bucket load of pills and soups. I don’t think I have ever had this much tomato soup in my life. As I am writing this post, I am looking…

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Post Game Jam 2

As mentioned last time, I participated in Godot Wild Jam, an event in which I had 7 days to make a game. I participated alone. This jam wasn’t a success, neither was it satisfying. But that’s okay, because I learned a lot. The theme of the game jam was ‘Controlled Chaos’. I wanted to build a platformer style game (think Celeste or Gris) because my partner is really enjoying those kinds of games.…

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Game Jam 2

This week I will be participating in another game jam, this time Godot specific. I wasn’t entirely excited for it but at the last moment decided to go and try it. I am writing this post before the jam starts so I haven’t added any details about the jam theme or what kind of game I am building. That’s for post game jam update. But one of the things I have thought about and locked down in a…

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Photography: Night Sky

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Technical Interviews or Why am I dumb?

Recently, I started looking at job postings. I have been at my current role for 2 and half years and I have seen the workplace change. Work policies around scrutiny and remote work have regressed and I am not a big fan of those changes. There are hardly any jobs in the market. I feel a slight remorse because I changed my career to become an Android developer but now it feels like the role has…

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Anniversaries 7

Continuing the annual tradition, here are this year’s anniversaries. Checkout last year’s post here. I met my partner 6 years ago. I have been blogging for 11 years! I have been living in New Zealand for 9 years. I have been posting on this blog biweekly for 6 years. I have been a NZ Permanent Resident for 2 year and four months. My brother has been married for 5 years and 3 months. I lost…

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January Updates

January was an interesting start of the year. I visited my family from middle of Jan. This was my first visit in two years. Additionally, I participated in my first game jam. And in the middle of it all, I started writing again. I was anxious about the trip. My partner was going to be alone here for three weeks and we were worried about each other. I was afraid that my flight would get delayed…

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I built a game (Boss Rush Game Jam)

Over the last four weeks, my teammates and I built a demo game for Itch.io’s Boss Rush Game Jam. The game jam’s theme was Spin so our game had to involve the concept of Spin somewhere and we have tried to incorporate it well. Check out the game here: https://greywell.itch.io/maw-meat-and-madness

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I have a nephew

I am in India to meet my newborn nephew Gaurav. This tiny human made of equal parts cuteness, crying and pooping is a sight to behold. I expected that meeting my nephew would have made me feel old, but it didn’t really. It made me happy for my brother. He has someone else in his life he will care for and love. Someone who will keep him up at random hours in the night because of nightmares or…

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Hopes for 2025

Every year I make some goals/aspirations. I know that my hopes are too ambitious but I still keep making them. I don’t feel the pressure of having to meet them, that’s why aren’t goals but mostly hopes and ideas. With the same thought in mind, here are some of the things I hope for this year. Health: Normal. I know my health is mostly not in my control. I still want 2025 to be healthy for me…

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Christmas & 2024

It’s very unlikely that my writing schedule and holidays align. This post is going up on 26th Dec, Boxing day. So I figured I should talk a bit about my experience with Christmas in NZ as well. Christmas in NZ is during the peak Summer holidays. The days are long, sunlight brightens everything from 6am until 8pm daily. The Christmas lights and decorations are faint most of the day. There’s no…

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TV Show: Arcane (S02)

Arcane is the best show to come out in the last five years. In case anyone needs a recommendation. The first season, released in 2021 was as close to perfect as it can get. It delivered on some of my favourite story troupes. I have watched season one at least four times by now. And for the last three years I have been eagerly awaiting to see the magic in season two. Season two is not perfect.…