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I legit heard a firecracker burst in our community. Hell yeah! *Gand maraa benchod* is just about the only feeling I have right now!

Its absolutely insane how terrible almost every European company’s websites are. A majority of them feel like they were designed by entry level developers at Infosys or TCS. Random errors, no focus on user journey, webpages crapping out for no reason, the fucking websites don’t even implement location detection and change default language to english if location is from a english speaking country. Its just infuriating dealing with European websites. Small mercies – fuck all the cookie tracking but gosh most American websites actually make it easy to do business not harder!

How long before Netanyahu goes full Hitler mode and starts annexing all the border countries starting with Egypt and mercilessly killing civilians in other countries also while western countries continue to affirm their full support? Isn’t that how Germany got out of hand initially? Stop this man before he becomes the second coming of Hitler.

Weirdly enough I am no longer finding micro.blog a space to write my thoughts as i *feel* them. Which means I am cutting down on my *macro* posts in favor of actual micro thoughts because thats how I feel micro.blog is trending towards becoming. Nothing wrong in it, it just means I need to blog more!

I keep reading this here and elsewhere on web, but I genuinely can’t make this out. What, exactly, is a **nuanced** dialogue around abortion? What part needs nuance other than saying women absolutely should have full and complete autonomy over their bodies. What is not clear that it needs “nuance”?

Our city holds a 3 day fest on Memorial Day weekend with attractions, rides, food and live music. It’s always cheese American fun and we usually try to attend a few hours. This time though the teenager invited her friends to our house (we stay very close to the fest) to drive to the fest. Then what was supposed to be a 3 hour thing turned into a full day in hot sun. I and A were drained out of our soul in the weather while these kids still seemed to bouncing off walls. Later in evening they even rejected their parents offers to sub in for us and decided to come to our house for dinner! Were they done post dinner? No. They apparently had to talk something very important so we parents chilled out on first floor. After what felt like an hour the kids call us to basement and show us a dance performance they concocted while everyone waited. It was fun and tiring but a day well worth it in the end!

Rashida Tlaib is a fucking fucking idiot of the highest order. What a moron ooof.

Wow old town Alexandria is so pretty! I can’t believe we have never been to this part of dc area ever!

Summer plans are slowly coming into focus. Dont want to talk about it just yet, but if things come together this should be fun. Lets see.

I had an hour long conversation with my oldest nephew this morning who is now phase of selecting a major and college in India, and wanted some college advice from me. He has two choices – one is a nationally ranked university in an not-super-in-demand major, while another admit is in a locally known but not ranked university, but in a field that super-hot-in-demand. The perennial question being, *Which college and major should I choose? Should i chose better ranked university or a in-demand major from a job perspective?*

I switched around the question and asked him *”What do YOU want to do? What are you interested in?”*, to which his response was *”I dont know!”*. The response was such a quintessentially 18 year old Indian student response at the steps of college. Most of us pretty much up grew up with no particular direction, focus or interest in mind. It all boiled down to how well we did in our 12th grade exams, and that determined whether we did engineering or medicine. 20 years thence, no matter what a majority of us have done decently well for ourselves due to that simple choice.

Compared to that, I wish my almost 13 year old felt that kind of freedom and clarity to say “*I dont know!*”. Education system out here is so needlessly fucking complicated that my kid probably needs to determine in next 1 year what her eventual trajectory and career choice will be and plan out her path & portfolio leading towards it. While I do appreciate the freedom and independence that kids have her to *pursue their own interests*, more often than not as I am seeing constantly around here too, the best paying jobs are only in a few categories, perhaps a few more than India, but still few. I wish I had the luxury of telling my kid, *Dont worry, just get done with SAT and then we’ll determine what you want to do next!*. Honestly I think the number one reason why so many folks in this country are so edgy and anxious all the time can be traced back to absolutely crappy K12 education system in USA.

Anyway, back to my nephew, my advice was being an Indian it didnt matter what major he chose, ultimately he is going to end up either doing his masters and joining a tech company, or finish his engineering in whatever major to only join a tech company! So from my point of view I was like might as well go for an in-demand major at a not so great university and call it a day.