I really wish my cousin moved back to India from Canada. She is young, multi-talented and a very hard worker. Canada has nothing to offer her with current job market, cost of living and immigration hardships that most are facing there now to keep staying there. At her age we were having the time of our lives here – and she works 7 days a week to make ends meet so she can pay off her loans and just survive in Toronto. Instead she could be in India, with her parents, invest in a dance studio while doing her IT job and find more meaning in her life than whatever she is doing here. I hope she listens.
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I have no idea how I am feeling. I haven’t slept more than 4-5 hours past few days. I feel good in morning only to be a wreck by afternoon. But its not like I have a runny nose anymore but insane headache – which quickly goes away with an advil. Of course I know this is all signs of something viral but fucking annoying!
Cousins sis is visiting us from Toronto and flew in last night. In anticipation of more questioning by border control at airport, she asked for all my IDs and address proofs so she had them all just in case she was pulled out. Her immigration process took all of 20 seconds it seems and she sailed through the pre-clearance. Anyway, good to be seeing her after a decade. Its crazy that we haven’t seen each other since 2015 for one reason or another but good to finally catch up!
My wife has been convincing me to invest in high quality jeans for a while but I haven’t gone out of mentality of spending more than 20 bucks on a pair of jeans, and then I’ve hated them all. So last week I finally went out and bought pair of Mavi Jeans and 7 For All Mankind and now I feel like I’ve completely lost out on many years of comfort! Sure they are expensive, but goddamn, I can never go back to my 20$ wranger anymore! I should listen to my wife more about clothing choices.
Is it just me or LinkedIn is full of Microsoft apology posts about how the cuts were all “business” and about “AI” and nonsense. Like this is like reading twitter version of right wing posts every one of them is posting about how this was a transformative business decision which is all about AI. WTF! Like real people and families were impacted by this. Please don’t try to spin a layoff as something positive and amazing for a company. Please do not normalize it assholes.
Trump announcing the Qatar Airways-Boeing deal reeks so much of desperation and yet the media and brain dead Americans are somehow going to attribute this to tariffs and how Trump was able to use that leverage. Like imagine if Modi had made the announcement of Indigo airlines ordering 500 Airbus planes (yeah, they did actually), folks would be shouting omg great example of government controlled communism. Like wake up people.
Agent on phone: “Here’s what I’ll do, I’ll send you two quotes; one if we start the policy in June and one is we decouple auto and home insurance and auto starts in September to give you additional discounts. I like to do that because i am a strategic thinker!”
Dude you are an insurance agent giving me a fucking quote. Strategic thinker it seems!
I feel really old today. To have seen Sachin/Rahul/Sourav retire from tests a while back to now Virat/Rohit retiring from test cricket. An era has passed, and I firmly believe that Virat Kohli was the best batsman India ever produced, even higher than Sachin or Sunil. Of course purists will debate all that, but I absolutely loved the aggression and fearlessness he brought into the team & himself. At times, and more recently he definitely has resorted to being bigger than game itself with the dramebaazi, but there is absolutely NO denying his batting prowess. Man, I feel old today.
Any strategies on how to make money off the Trump pump’n’dump scheme going on in the stock market? Because its literally just that at this point. Say something tariff-tariff and stocks go down; say Oops-I-didnt-mean-it and watch it go up. Make sure your wealthy friends know exactly what moves you are making so they can rake in the money. Its just so obvious, so might as well pls tell me how to make money off this grift too. I just want to retire and move to Costa Rica, thats all!
A beautiful evening unfolding in our backyard to the music of birds. Absolute perfection of weather.