26th August 2026.
My last update was on the 9th of April, 2026 - almost five months have gone by.
It's been six months now since I started my current role - I feel grateful and happy to be here, doing what I enjoy! Life has been a sort of blur outside work though. I don't notice the days go by except looking forward to the weekends.
To kind of combat that, I've started travelling to places near Adelaide, something which I hadn't done of my own accord for the three years I've been here and owned a car. Outrageous, really, there's so much to see. I went to Hahndorf and McLaren Vale last weekend, and to Sellicks beach down south the week before. The drive and the places were both beautiful and was time spent well. Another thing I actively try and get better at is spending my time mindfully and choosing what to do with it. Journalling is also something I want to start doing because, as Herman mentioned in his recent blog, it increases the depth of your experiences.
I've felt that, before I had a job, I was way more hardworking than I am now. I feel safer, but I don't think I like it/ am used to it. Before, I was thinking and doing so much - solving coding problems, writing code, learning stuff, just for the sake of it because it didn't have instant rewards. It was just fulfilling. I am trying to bring that back by intentionally practicing the guitar, maintaining consistency in the gym and cooking, reading books, learning Korean for the 15th time, and trying to get back into AI stuff.
It's also almost hometime for me! I'm going back to India in December for a month, and there's not much waiting left to do :)
I'm currently reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - quite fun! I'm listening to Sultans of Swing right now - the live performance from 1996. Just doing what I can, really.