GameTamilan #100Days

Day 1 12 mar 2020 Thank you universe for this great opportunity to have a good family. Thank you universe for giving me a chance to live this day. Thank you universe for giving me good health. Thank you universe for putting the food on my table. Thank you universe for enabling me to have my own ride to office. Thank you universe for giving me opportunity to make my own living. Thank you universe for giving me time to rest. Thank you universe for giving me friends to spend time with. Thank you ...

Monday mornings no matter how hard I try I wake up at 7.30 am. I refuse to get up lol. thinking about it loud its either I'm not happy about work or I developed the habit from the early childhood that Monday is bad. Monday blues is ingrained into me (this may be true to you too) right from the school days I guess. My teachers used to give tons of homework during weekends and need that to be submitted on Monday mornings and obviously I don't finish up everything by Monday morning. some will be s...

I forgot to write my journal yesterday. My bad :) . So I am here for now Try 3 of hundred day challenge. First attempt I broke the daily chain on Day 12 and second try on Day 26. Today I thought of writing day 27 and upload it. But I thought "Wait a second who am I kidding?" myself. So here I am Day 1 try 3. But what is more important is the progress I am making. Today had a awesome crab recipie so tasty and hot. Made with paste of onion, tomato and pepper. Both mouth and eye watering at t...

Learnt a lot of new stuff related to my work. It's fascinating that everyday even if you are doing the same thing for months you still have scope of improvement and learning. My grandfather used to say that read a book many times and each time you will understand the same text with new meaning. Repetition is not only for memory but for getting familiar and to scale new heights or go to new depths of understanding. I have realized this myself so many times. Learning will never cease if it doe...

Today again is full work no play day. Have been working for 16 hrs continuosly to sort out a bug. Atlast had a break through and I felt like I started to understand the issue. I am dead tired and exhausted but you know what I can't break my writing chain. So here I am typing away what I am feeling. Very heavy rains in my city which had water scarcity looks like God decided to remove it overnight. It is pouring. Saw two snakes shifting there home :) looks like their home is flooded. They ar...

Got so much accomplished today in my office and also helped few clients with their issues. Personally nothing much. Woke up at 7.00 and started to office at 8 and put my head down and worked away. Did not go for a walk for the past 2 days. I guess I will go tomorrow morning. It's been same two days since I listened to the book sapiens. Damn so tired to do anything. But I could never shy away from witing my journal. I might read "Magic of thinking big" after this. It also seems to be a good ...

My productive day continues. Had all the professional goals for today completed. Learning goals not so much just learned some java and read an article on HBR. Solved a long standing customer issue for a client with over 3 hours in a call. Read in HBR about how to build a resilient team. The key take away is that for a successful organisation its just not enough for individuals to be resilient to the adversities. Leaders should make sure that they build a team with Candor care for each ot...

Worked from home today since it was raining heavily and felt tired after yesterday's travel. And I was atleast twice as productive as working in office. ground out the day from 9 to 5 with just one lunch break and that is it. Walked for 2 kms while listening to "Sapiens" audio book. Came across a cool concept called "Types of Chaos" Type 1 Chaos system is the one where the prediction of the event does not have any effect on the system itself. Example is weather prediction meaning irrespecti...

Had a nice day visited my native and worshipped the Goddess "Moongathamman" she is the one who is protects our village and the villagers. We always go the temple and worship her during the first week of "Aadi" Month in Tamil calender. The month is special for goddesses and people make Raagi based dishes and also gravy prepared by using brinjal,potato,raw banana and dried fish. Also drumstic spinach dish is used as side dish. Polytheistic religion like Hinduism(just a collective name for the b...

Very very productive day today. What did I learn today Java HTML Javascript Angular read an article in Harvard Business review Typescript and played with kids, took wife to hospital she had indigestion, went for a walk, Watched Novok Djokowic's interview and listened to audible book of Sapiens when I went for a walk. So much that it would feel like crazy but all this managed by technology reminding me to do what I planned for. And I take liberty to add to thinks but don't remove anythi...

Okish day at office. Done what I set out to do. I have been waking up early for the past 2 days like around 5:45 am and then reading Harvard Business Review articles for some time and today I installed my new harddisk which is a Samsung SSD 1TB. And started installing the apps I lost when my last harddisk crashed. And with the Habit loops app I've been able to keep up with the habits I deceided to do. One thing which I would change in the coming days is to sleep early. I've been sleeping ar...

Done with most of the habits that I wanted not to break the chain on. I guess I am kind of started to hit the ground running. It seems fast but looks sustainable with the tools I have. Have scheduled the activities and areas of improvements that I have procrastinated for long. Will take habit inventory for the next thirty days from tomorrow to see where I am spending my most time on. Talking of the time tracker I remember a app called SmartTime which I used to have but forgot for months now. L...

Took off from work. Had to get a govermnet id card for my younger kid. Had a good rest day since I was tired from yesterday latenight study of the Atomic habits. Also started to do few habits which will enahnce my work life. I have 8 or 9 items spread across 7 days to read or learn like programming languages/frameworks and concepts. Thinking of changing to different company. Purely because I need to increase my take home salary. My current company is best in work life balance there is but n...

Not so great productive day at office. But a good productive day personally. Learnt a new technical stuff which would help me in my official project at hand. But what was more satisfying is my reading habit today. I read about 4 hours today. Read a Harvard Business review article about "Persuasion" which outlined how the art of persuasion was handled from Ancient Greece to modern era. The compilation is from the ideas of Aristotle.1. Ethos or Character - Establish your identity with the audience...

It started as a bright Monday and ended up with a rainy night. Had a not so productive day at office but managed to finish what I deceided to do.Went for a walk for 60 mins listening to Sapiens audio book. Today the author was explaining about how imagined realities continued to exist and explained the concepts of objectivity, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity where the last one is what makes it possible to make the imagined realities like nationalism, religion and caste divisions to exist or ...

One most important thing I learned today reading atomic habits is that "Whenever you decide to start a habit start small and add in smal increments. Use a two minute rule. If you want to run a Marathon. Decide to put on running shoes daily in the morning. The small habit would make it easy to do daily and then you can improve on it. Standardise before you optimize."That makes perfect sense. And thinking about the 100 day writing challenge. I see that deciding to write like opening the Standard n...

Today is a quality day spent with my family.Attended Parent teachers meeting of both my kids. Talked to my mom and also listened to nostalgic songs and listened to good music. Listened to Mozarts music and also M.S Vishwanathan songs. Fulfilling day with me reading more  than 2 chapters of atomic habits. finished reading first law of Habit development. "Make the cue obvious"Now reading the chapters of second law of habit formation "Make the habit attractive"Read few stuff about financial sucess ...

Had a very productive day at office. Most of the time coding and nothing else. Talked to my long time friend. It brings back profound memories or nostalgic memories to be precise. Speaking of profound I heard about the book "The Prophet"  by Khalil Gibran poetics essays. The profound thing that it was talking about is that the same things that gives us worry is the same thing that gives us joy. Profound isn't it.Goodnight. ...

My kid woke me up at 6:15 and asked me to help her get ready to school. For some reason she was anxious to go to school. I helped her and I started to office. Got to read 2 articles about how to being a senoir developer. Learnt that there are "Senior Developers" and then "Developers with Seniority" I fall into the second category right now. I make things work and then move on. (Author call this people CodeMonkeys). But the so called senior developers continuously go on improving the code. There ...

Damn India cricket team lost the world cup semi finals. Terribly disappointed. But nothing can be done other than to move on. Woke up at 6:50 am and got my kids ready to school and had a good productive day at office.Learnt few new things. Didn't get a chance to read atomic habits today. Need to restart my walking routine. May be I will start jogging. Listened to Bach-The Well Tempered Clavier piano classic. And also few of Pomp and cisrcumstance march music today. They really are very soothing ...

"Motivation is overrated; Environment is what really matters" is the chapter I read today as part of the Atomic habits book. Currently I am reading through the chapter which explains how environment plays a role in shaping a habit.Habit has four ingredients Cue Craving Response Reward. Environment comes in that creates the cue part and craving part. So to change an old bad habit or to follow a new good habit it is worthwhile to try changing the environment even in the smallest possible way."A st...

Today is a very productive day. Woke up at 5.45 am and got my younger kid ready to school. And started to office.I have reduced drinking tea so I replaced tea with just hot water. I see no difference really. I will keep looking for any withdrawal effects or something like that. But I feel great. Read a chapter of atomic habits and today is mostly work day. Looking upto the semi final clash tomorrow between India and Newzealand in the cricket world cup.I have also trying to reduce my weight so I ...

Sunday is always a happening day since I get more rest than errands to do. But I made sure I made my working desk tidy and threw few unwanted stuff out. Read few pages of atomic habits and also spent quality time with my kid explaining her the meaning of the poem "The Road not taken" by Robert Frost. It brought me more of my high school memories. I helped my kid with her homework. And I was contemplating about what success for me looked like. I always wanted to be a sharp programmer and wanted ...

Woke up at 7:30. The water scarcity has subsided as there were rains in the past week improving the ground water levels. So free from filling the water from corporation water pipes.My 2TB harddisk crashed on me. It had few bad sectors. I am using 2TB seagate Firecuda it had its problems. Looking to switch to a solid state drive.Anyways fixed them and got my laptop up and running. Had doctor appointments for my kid and taken them out for a bike ride and bought them new helmets to wear during bike...

Woke up at 5:45 and helped to fill water in the storage container from the corporation tap which doubled up as an early morning excerciseWent to office early and do what I do best. Sent off a friend who is going abroad for higher studies. I have been sending off so many people close to me. They pursue the carriers which shows promise, well who does not?? hm.Have gone for a walk, played one starcraft game and stared at the stars.. well stared at the clouds and meditated a bit. Felt the soft drizz...

Happy July 4th.Today is the first day my kid went to school junior KG. She was very excited to go to school. The school actually opened a week back but my little one was affected with rashes so she was not able to go to school on the actual open date.She was so anxious to go to school and it was rooted in the new uniform bag, box and pencil. Small things makes her happy. And it brought me a deluge of emotions and memories right from my childhood. Was down with stomach upset and dehydration but t...

Woke up at 6.00 am and played a game of starcraft. Helped my kid to do eye exercise and accupressure and made my bed which is the first win of the day.Reached office early and closed few planned tasks. I have subscribed to HBR so got to read the latest issue. It contains stimulating thoughts and ideas.Had a good chat with long time friend. She sounded so cryptic out of the blue asking me to realise my full potential and make use of what I learnt. I too have that same feeling for long not realisi...

Fresh from the win of my favourite sports team "Indian cricket team" The Men in Blue against one of the arch rivals Bangladesh. India gathers run hitting hard and gets 6 and 4 runs but play out too many balls without runs. But on the other hand Bangladesh accumulates runs in 1s and 2s but keeps the dot balls percentage low. They gave a tough fight but Men in Blue prevailed. Still thrown off of all the routines I have planned. Skipped walking and reading. Too tired to do anything right now other ...

Thrown off of the routine yesterday. Got acute water crisis in my city due to ground water going scarce. So had to run all the errands associated with making enough water to drink bath and clean utensils. Did not get a chance to write yesterday. So restarting the 100 days of writing challenge today. Got to stay home today to fix the water pump that pumps the water from the borewell to the water storage tank in the first floor. So no office today. And since most of the team is in US this would be...

Good day today. Completed my walk, played good starcraft games. Listened to Sapiens audio book for 30 mins. And importantly learnt a new Computer language from my Kid. Been in computer programming industry for a decade and half now and now I come across for the first time an educative programming language called "Logo"  based in which there are tools developed as open source software at MIT, Berkeley.I am fascinated by it meaning that it was around when I was a school kid I guess but never came ...