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This is the 4^th instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 22, 2020). This is 757 words long.

Some interesting finds from the past week

1. Big Bazaar Story

   During college days, we visit Big Bazaar to have their ice cream. Ice cream connoisseurs may not agree, but for us, a small group of college kids who depend on pocket money for this occasional eat out, the Big Bazaar was the goto place.

This is the third instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 13, 2020). Word count at 800.

Some interesting items from the past week

The AIIMS Story

I happened to read about the founder of AIIMS - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. This piece from Indian Express details on how she dreamt about an institute for medical higher education in India.

Here, I want to discuss about an unexpected outcome from interview. Contrary to the ‘rona times, I felt happy and contented.

The interview is usually a stressful affair. I usually prepare 100s of topics, then the interviewer will bombard me with 101^st topic. Well, its just a déjà vu, nothing new with the session.

The interviewer was friendly and made me absolutely comfortable, there were no stress-inducing questions, all through the entire discussion.

This is the second instalment of weekly update. Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (September 6, 2020).

Some interesting news the past week

• Monday’s news feed is filled with Chinese law that hurdles sale of TikTok to American entity.

Chinese officials revised rules that govern the sale of certain kinds of technology to foreign buyers. The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition — the kind of tech that experts say is used by the popular short-form video app. - CNN

Let’s revisit the interesting things that I came across in between last Monday and today (August 30, 2020).

Positive News

1. Apart from recoveries, I don’t see any positive news in the last week. As of 29^th, the number of recovery is 2.712M, with total cases at 3.539M. Recovery rate @ 75+

Negative News

1. As if the COVID-19 pandemic is not enough, the state of Assam is worst affected by flood in Brahmaputra river.

In this write up, the hostel is used to indicate not only limited to the boarding school but also staying away from parents.

TL;DR You must live in a hostel.

All through these years since your arrival, you’ve a safety net named parents. They cleaned your shitty bums, they fed you with the food that are handpicked for your well-being, they were there when you tumbled down, they taught you how to walk, eat, pee et al.

Social Media is a petri dish, culturing cultured and uncultured humans in real time. Based on your followers and taste you develop your own bubble, reinforce the bubble’s collective thought and at some point of time you’ll start believing it.

One way to not get lost in the rabbit hole is to think the collective thought (trending topic) is wrong and trying to justify it. Then I came across this ‘-pride’ posts. We are blindly getting proud of nation, the mother tongue, the city we line; heck, the caste we born to.

Emails became so much intertwined in our daily life. Whatever the internet service it be, eventually it comes to identifying you only through your email¹. The newsletters used to be my source of information. I gradually unsubscribed to newsletters and marked the providers as important in my everyday feed of Twitter & Facebook.

There is a couple of first order effects,

1. I inadvertently started following so many users related to the news feeds
2. The email inbox, once used to be zero inbox turned out to be filled with spams and filths

Beyond First Order²

The future generations must be viewing this as a biggest psychological experiment, worst case scenario and the inhumane practice to save humanity and much more. This is COVID-19 lockdown.

Lockdown was imposed on March 25^th 2020. Being a social animal, we went through a lot. The ill effects of lockdown ranges from anxiety induced due to potential job loss - historic unemployment rate, potential downturn of investments in coming years, struggling to keep up with daily work-from-home with it’s own challenges.

My SO asked a curious question. I froze, like a Windows XP machine, couldn’t answer then. After the incident, for several nights, the question ran through in my head to decipher the answer.

Let’s start with little about me . I like to read books. As of today, reading is one of the hobby for me. For her, reading is a boring chore, like majority around me.

The question was simple and on to the point.