The 30s are tricky period. Till 20s you can survive with a student or young earner tag. In the late 20s, you experience what the freedom is. And, when you start feeling you can do whatever you can and reach wherever you want to in life. Now you’re in your 30s and most likely you got punched at your face.
Are you envious of younger generation?
Good if you felt envious
Scene 1: During school days
Teacher : Why didn’t you finish your homework?
Student : We experienced powercut all through the evening. And so, the home
T : Don’t say unnecessary reason in your age we were reading under the street lamp.
Scene 2: During college days
College student : I need a bike to commute to college.
Parent : In your age we were walking n Kilometers to catch the government bus to college, your generation needs private vehicles at this young age?!
The 2010s - Part 2
This is 2nd installment of the story. I’m trying to arrange beautiful photos of the last decade. The photos are all captured by me.
The foggy view of training center on a December morning. The first time I had a taste of resort-like place.
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| 2011 - The Training Days |
The Kevin Mitnick replied and followed me, after a tweet about Ghost in the Wires
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| Kevin Mitnick follows me |
This was one only outreach programme that I took part in. The experience was good eye opening. It showed me state of the primary school education, which was frightening.
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| An Outreach Programme |
A bachelor den. More-or-less this was a typical arrangement of our residence. Green-thingy was the mosquito net, without which you can’t protect your blood. Addition to ceiling fan, we had 2 table fans. Even thats not enough for the Chennai summer. And so, we used up the another option. Check out next photo.
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| Bachelor room |
The fore mentioned green-thingy enabled us to sleep on open terrace. Compared to sleeping on terrace, the camp-fire can go aside. Dozing off while staring at stars & sky, waking up to the chirping birds and screaming trains. Also, you should be ready to run inside when the rain drops in. Also, setting up of the bed on terrace takes time.
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| Sleeping on terrace |
The Chennai Flood. The natural calamity that I been part of. We always change the TV channel when the visuals of calamity is shown; believe me, once you experienced it, you’ll pray to the lord, even though you’re an atheist.
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| Chennai floods |
My first air travel. I resented for not getting the window seat. But, after the transit I got the window seat. To be honest the aisle seats are much butter to stretch legs and reach out to rest room.
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| The first time inside a flight |
My favorite dish is dosa. And, I’m not a fan of chocolate bars. The first day on the foreign land, this was the breakfast. This acted as catalyst for me to learn cooking.
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| First breakfast abroad |
The popular Chicago Skyline. I was grateful to the weather god for allowing the sunshine on that day. WATER! LAND! SKY! This photo reminds me of the Centurions
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| Chicago Skyline |
As a Chennai resident, I lived through 2 seasons - Summer & very hot summer. But the US of A boasted of 4 seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall & Winter. Each season has its own speciality.
- Spring - life springs back after the brutal winter;
- Summer - time when people stay outside of house more than staying in;
- Fall - the leaves fall down, with colorful display;
- Winter - shows that hell needn’t be always hot.
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| Magical Fall Colours |
You remember Prison Break TV series? This is the prison that keep appearing in the Season 1. It’s an abandoned prison in Joliet, Il. The time we went there some teenagers were tearing apart the fence and getting inside against the _prohibited _ sign. We took handful of photos and drove away.
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| Shooting Spot of Prison Break |
Snow flakes. This was captured from my car on a snowy day.
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| Snow Time |
This was the view from the backside of my house. When it snows, you can hardly see any creatures roaming around. May be in arctics or in wild some animals could roam. But the social-animal-named-humans won’t be seen when the earth is black-and-white.
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| View from home |
My favoritest photo. Captured from my workplace. It’s like an entire ecosystem - lake, stream, road, dead trees & office space.
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| View from office |
The 2010s - Part 1
The 2010’s was my 20’s. I was in the middle of under graduate course when the decade begun. An average engineering graduate who doesn’t know what engineering really was or what’s the future is offering. The end of year marks the recruitment to my current employer. Yes right, I’m with the employer for almost a decade.
IIRC 13k was my 1st my first salary. Couldn’t recall how I spent it, guess gave it to my mom. My first smartphone was Galaxy Ace with 142 MB of memory (now there are plenty of apps that comes with larger memory footprint than the phone).