What’s the purpose of this blog? I don’t know. I probably do not like the idea of updating statuses on social media 🙊. I just want to write freely. I want to collect unforgettable memories and put them in a non-cluttered space. I want to look back to a clean space that shows my growth over the years. I want a space that is completely mine – hence this blog. Welcome to my blog!

The Chapters listed here are the phases of my life. I hope you find some gems in there 🙂

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CHAPTER 6 – THE YEAR OF RABBIT

• _{[Mar 19, 2023] california zephyr}
• _{[Feb 13, 2023] asking the right questions}

CHAPTER 5 – BEYOND PANDEMIC

Pandemic is over, let’s move on. WTF Omicron 🤯 two years already?

• [Dec 23, 2022] Peru trip
• [Nov 13, 2022] seasonal updates
• [Sept 23, 2022] why is feminism still relevant?
• [Aug 17, 2022] san francisco → new york
• [Jun 9, 2022] India tripping
• [Apr 26, 2022] reflecting back
• [Apr 8, 2022] #whatjusthappened
• [Mar 9, 2022] seven hundred plus days
• [Jan 17, 2022] year in review – 2021
• [Dec 19, 2021] i am going to tell stories
• [Oct 11, 2021] follow the herd
• [Oct 3, 2021] thoughts ~ october first week

CHAPTER 4 – PANDEMIC DIARIES

This was one of the most difficult and evolutionary phases of my life. I learned things the hard way in this chapter.

• [Sept 12, 2021] incredible people i met in Alaska
• [Sept 12, 2021] my Alaska itinerary
• [Aug 9, 2021] creativity is expensive.
• [Jul 9, 2021] my biggest cheerleader
• [June 10, 2021] the pandemic got me thinking
• [June 6, 2021] people say i am organized
• [May 9, 2021] maturity Sucks
• [Apr 11, 2021] to my parents
• [Apr 1, 2021] A Promised Land
• [Mar 25, 2021] spotless
• [Mar 12, 2021] girls rule the world
• [Mar 6, 2021] 25 and me
• [Feb 12, 2021] quarantine 2.0
• [Dec 29, 2020] 👩🏻 Year in Review – 2020
• [Dec 13, 2020] east coast travel + kdrama obsession
• [Nov 26, 2020] Dimple . . Mismatched . . Rishi . . How . . Original
• [Oct 17, 2020] master of quarantine
• [Oct 4, 2020] me, & anxious people
• [Aug 26, 2020] get to know me? (ok, don’t)
• [Jul 25, 2020] ” Seri “
• [Jul 22, 2020] Signs of an Overthinking Mind
• [Jul 18, 2020] I lost my Quarantine Week Count – Duh!
• [May 30, 2020] Graduation Blues
• [Apr 19, 2020] Week 6 . . . Eh?
• [Apr 5, 2020] Chilling in my Pyjamas – Day 27
• [Apr 4, 2020] Work From Home – Day 25
• [Apr 2, 2020] Work From Home – Day 24
• [Apr 2, 2020] Work From Home – Day 23 – Improve Coding Practices
• [Mar 31, 2020] Work From Home – Day 22
• [Feb 9, 2020] Sunday Post

CHAPTER 3 – UNIVERSITY DAYS

University of Southern California – One of the best phases of my life. I fell, stood back up again, stumbled, screamed, hit a wall, grieved, and made peace with it. Never going to forget this one.

• [Jan 15, 2019] Year in Review – 2019
• [Dec 12, 2019] Visualization Project – Fall 2019
• [Nov 23, 2019] Applied Data Science/Informatics Guide @ USC
• [Nov 22, 2019] Visit to the California Science Center
• [Nov 16, 2019] Tips for the MS Aspirants
• [Nov 9, 2019] Full-Time Offer
• [Apr 30, 2019] Semester II @ USC
• [Aug 5, 2018] Questions I Can’t Answer
• [Jul 28, 2018] Mandatory Post about * USC *
• [Jul 18, 2018] Visa Interview Prep

CHAPTER 2 – MY EARLY 20s

I was naive, young, and ignorant. I admit I wasn’t a good writer back then.

• [Apr 3, 2018] Eutopia
• [Nov 11, 2017] Announcement
• [Sept 17, 2017] International Women’s Health and Human Rights
• [Jan 11, 2017] Taking a Break !
• [Dec 29, 2016] Not that Easy
• [Dec 29, 2016] Carefree
• [Dec 12, 2016] Road Trip
• [Nov 22, 2016] Akbar and Birbal
• [Nov 19, 2016] The Fighter in You
• [Oct 26, 2016] The Childhood Story 
• [Oct 15, 2016] Never Give up
• [Oct 9, 2016] Habits of Successful People
• [Sept 23, 2016] Ultimate Savior

CHAPTER 1 – TECHIE IN ME

My best shot at writing anything technical. 

• [Jun 19, 2020] Preparing for the Data Role
• [Jun 2, 2020] Let’s talk about Internet Advertisements
• [Apr 28, 2020] Open & Connected
• [May 28, 2019] Natural Language Processing
• [May 22, 2019] Computer Vision Research
• [Nov 12, 2018] Google Cloud Platform
• [Sept 12, 2018] Hadoop and Spark – Big Data Technologies
• [Sept 1, 2018] All You Need To Know About Kubernetes!
• [Aug 25, 2018] Virtual Machines, Containers, and Dockers
• [Jul 4, 2018] Computers & Me
• [Jun 30, 2018] Internship Experience @ Tatvic
• [Jun 23, 2018] Virtualization Explained
• [May 2, 2018] Logistic Regression in Python from Scratch
• [Apr 12, 2018] Adwords | AdSense | AdExchange
• [Jan 27, 2018] Decision Forest Classifier
• [Jan 2, 2018] Tools & Languages I used in 2017
• [Nov 22, 2017] How to stay afloat as an old person in a tech world?
• [Nov 14, 2017] Vein Pattern Recognition – Next Level of Authentication
• [Nov 12, 2017] Internet of Things in a Nutshell
• [Nov 11, 2017] 15 Things About Modern Technology That Make You Want to Scream
• [Nov 11, 2017] The Ancient Technologies at Golkonda Fort
• [Nov 11, 2017] Steps to Overcome Technology Addiction
• [Nov 11, 2017] One Does Not Simply Add Ethics To Technology

CHAPTER 0 – FIGURES

This is where it all started.

• [Dec 18, 2016] Brian Acton
• [Dec 1, 2016] #BeingACumberbitch
• [Nov 25, 2016] Homeless to Harvard
• [Oct 2, 2016] Bhakti Sharma
• [Sept 15, 2016] A Reclusive Coder
• [Sept 4, 2016] Shubhendu Sharma, an Eco-Entrepreneur
• [Aug 29, 2016] Inside Case : Harvey Specter
• [Aug 27, 2016] Ai Weiwei
• [Aug 22, 2016] Manish Singh Rawat – An Untold Story
• [Aug 20, 2016] Motivating Quotes by Jim Carrey
• [Aug 18, 2016] Sakshi Malik

BOOKS 

• [Apr 1, 2021] “A Promised Land” – Barack Obama 👍
• [Mar 12, 2021] “Unfinished” – Priyanka Chopra 👍
• [Nov 26, 2020] “When Dimple Met Rishi” – Sandhya Menon 
• [Oct 4, 2020] “Anxious People” – Fredrik Backman 👍

Other Reads

• “Everything I Never Told You” – Celeste Ng 👍
• “The Psychology of Money” – Morgan Housel 👍
• “HBR on Managing Yourself”
• “Thinking, Fast and Slow” – Daniel Kahneman 👍
• [couldn’t finish] “Untangling the USA” – Etienne Deffarges
• “Becoming” – Michelle Obama 👍
• “Born a Crime” – Trevor Noah 👍
• “Greenlights” – Mathew McConaughey
• “The Storyteller’s Secret” – Carmine Gallo 
• “Less” – Robert Petkoff
• “Diary of a Tokyo Kid” – Christine Mari Inzer
• “Grit” – Angela Duckworth
• “The Boring Book” – Shinsuke Yoshitake
• “Option B” – Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
• “Hi, Anxiety” – Kat Kinsman 👍

Podcasts

• The Daily – The New York Times
• Stuff You Should Know
• Lex Fridman Podcast
• Today Explained
• Unexplainable by Vox
• Overheard at Nat Geographic