All posts filed under: Reflection

Snow Flakes & Memories

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Week 3 – 2021 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. But this week is a bit different, I am not writing about something new that I cooked, or tried, I am writing about something new that I experienced. Every morning this winter I have been hoping for either blue skies or snow. Granted that snowing doesn’t happen very often in South West London, one can only hope right? This morning I woke up to the same grey sky that makes every day look the same. The grey is in perfect sync with the monotony of the lockdown and yet it seems like is mocking you every day with it’s passivity. It’s this feeling that you get when you look up, that no sun, moon or stars ever existed. The clouds are not even clouds anymore, they are just a thick blanket that puts the landscape around you in a non flattering light. I have my morning coffee thinking about ways to make today different and I almost miss …

Stopping the Time with Short Stories

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Week 50 – 2020 This is another post from the series “I tried something new this week”. I have written a few blog posts about trying something new each week and they were mostly about food but last week was a bit different. I wanted to start focusing on something that I wanted to do for a long time – learning how to write short stories. I am a big fan of short stories, I read anything that I can my hands on. From Chekhov to Neil Gaiman. I recently re-read some of the Grimm stories. I am particularly passionate about mythology and folklore stories. And I always wanted to learn how to write my own. In all honesty, I am not sure I am good at it, I have started to write and develop quite a few ideas, from stories that I heard as a child from my grandmother to fantasy stories that I came up with during my travels. There is only one way to find out if I am any good at …

“Constant Gardener” – A way to find Balance

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First thing is first, I am going to start with the disclaimer: this is not a post about gardening. I like being outdoors, I feel in my own element but gardening is taking skills which unfortunately I don’t have at the moment! Because, in all honesty, I am investing my time in other projects, So now that this is out of the way you are probably wondering why I chose this title for the blog post. Well, first time when I said to someone that I am like a “Constant Gardener” it was in an interview. It felt like a good way to describe myself on the job. I work as a software engineer and live systems are like gardens, they grow in time, they need constant attention and fixing. If you are not careful the weeds of bad and unmaintainable code are taking over. With all the rush of the world and the abundance of information everywhere I feel like being a constant gardener, always trimming and choosing, always prioritising, has become more and …