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We spent the weekend in Philly for my best friend’s sister wedding. A lot of partying happened over two days and two nights. It was fun to completely disconnect and just have fun. A lot of folks were people I hadn’t met in decades so there was lot of catching up too. However it was also slightly bittersweet in sense that a major part of the group of people at the wedding perhaps will never get together again in one set – partly because she was the last of the family to get married, and we know all these folks through my friend. And second realization that everyone collectively had was the next wedding for all of us within my friend circle is now going to be one of our own kids a decade or more from now. It was a sobering thought and gave us more reasons to party harder. It was also nice to completely disconnect from the grim and depressing news all around us to just have a good time.

In Philadelphia for a close friend’s sister wedding, with Hindu ceremony in the morning followed by Jewish ceremony in afternoon. This is what is beautiful about America that the buffoon wants to kill. The groom killed it in baraat! Stunning wedding location to boot.

It’s hard to comprehend it’s been only 8 Weeks or so and so much has already been dismantled and gutted. When you read in history books how Hitler took only a few months to completely destroy Germany it felt unrealistic – and now we are seeing play out live here in this country. Ooof.

If there is a system that can be exploited, you can be rest assured my fellow Indians will find a way. For instance, the amount of people now qualifying for EB1-A visa by creating some random profile of yourself is through roof. You know have agents and companies solely focussed on making you a EB1-A eligible candidate so you dont have to go through the long wait of EB2/3. I personally know one who made his “profile” standout so he could qualify for EB1-A. Or how my cousin got his B1/B2 tourist visa. If you go through regular channels, it will take around 18 months to get a date with Indian embassy for tourist visa. However there are now agents and companies in between you can pay 20-30k rupees to and all they do is appointment farming. They have actual humans monitoring the scheduling queue 24/7 and the moment something opens up they grab it and book it on behalf of the payee! my cousin says most ppl simply pay the additional 20-30k and get appointments within a week or two if not max a month. Telling you, if there is something that can be exploited, desis will hehe!

Put in my papers in my current role/team. Taking up a similar role in another team local to the area. Still in the same company. I had reached a point of no progress in my current role/team/scope and was not adding anything to my resume. While my new group is not exactly the sexiest org of the company, the role scope and new people/team should bring me some fresh energy and focus. [And then there were a lot of other reasons regarding my own manager that I wont get into detail about].

Hey Siri, what is the status of flight WN3800

Siri: Do you want me to ask CHATGPT?

No you fucking dumb prick, its just a flight status. I could just type the flight number on my phone search bar an it will show me the status without even leaving the screen or opening a browser so why can’t you just that instead? chatgpt for what fucking use?

7miles/21000 steps yesterday in DC. It was chilly but nice. The cherry blossoms were out in full color. However this shot from the car at sunset was my favorite. Like the sun is setting down on American greatness vibe.

At the north entrance of the White House the white young man protesting against the genocide in Palestine, I love you and you have my support. To the white lady with the mic yelling through the fence at top volume – “White House has been occupied by a fascist nazi! Save democracy – remove the Nazi!” Over and over again – I applaud your bravery and passion.

Weekdays are popular for school trips to dc area. It was insane how many middle/highschoolers were donning the full maga gear – girls or boys. I saw even their chaperones and teachers in the gear. I am sure these are kids from maga trashlands and not here. Ignore what you see in media, Trump is fucking popular. (The black guy who heckled me I saw later was leading one of the group of kids).

Cousin here so took him to standard dc tour. At the entrance of natural history a black man wearing the red maga cap yelled at me “you are fired! I am throwing your fucking ass out of my country!”. I ignored him and walked away not wanting a confrontation but a white dude behind me flipped him off and gave him a sounding. Thank you for doing that – you give me some hope.