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Weeknote 33 2026

Published on: 17/08/2026

Last edited on: 17/08/2026

This was a super interesting and SUPER LONG week. I learned a lot about this two-faced world, not just from work, but also from a friend, and finally a refurbished fridge dealer (you already know where this is going 😂). I finally moved houses and now live in Indiranagar! If you are reading this and in the locality, hit me up :).

Btw, all the shifting is also the reason I am late in writing this weeknote 😅.

Life

Birthday Party

On Sunday, I attended a friend’s son’s birthday party. His son is around two I guess, just barely speaking, and also SUPER CUTE! It was not just us adults (am I an adult already???) yapping, we made sure our little buddy stayed entertained the whole time. I also danced with him on his absolute favorite song: Bum Bum Bole. We later cut a cute cake with big Panda on it, little guy loves Pandas đŸŒ! This also makes me wonder, does he not realize we technically just sliced through the Panda đŸ«Ł.

Cats

I got an answer for my last week’s doubt, stray cats are all good with milk. Thanks to Yash for being my veterinary xD. I kept feeding them over the week and just to be sure, I checked up on them everyday, they are more energetic than last week, and have started to like my presence. That was a genuinely happy moment 😁.

Flatmate

Human communication is so hard. I tried to explain something to my now ex-flatmate, and even after explaining the topic over and over and over in a calm and composed manner, my buddy did not understand anything. Looking back, I think he never wanted to understand, but then he involved his father too in the conversation. With all the misunderstanding he threatened me to beat me up!!?? And trust me, I did not suggest anything which should have triggered this reaction. He finally realized his mistake after contemplation, and since then he has been continuously apologizing to me over the week. But its sad that he thought it would be good to involve his dad. Listeners are very rare in this economy.

Soya Chaap party

I went to a friend’s house for some Soya Chaap, and IT WAS SO GOOD! đŸ€Œ. Brother is a goated cook, and I haven’t had any of his delicacies for a while. It was a nice catch up and food appreciation meet xD. All of this was good after reaching there, but I want to know, why does no one accept autos/cabs for that area!? What is going on over there? I have experienced it before too. There’s something up with Wilson Garden, Richmond, Cooke Town etc.

Fridge

I have bought two second hand fridges from Facebook before and both of them have turned out to be really really good! So this time over, I tried to do the same. Umm..sadly this was the wakeup call, can’t be lucky every single time. Fridge stopped working soon after delivery and the seller refuses to take it back, we got swindled of 5k and also got a lot of stress of fighting with him. Well, not stressful for me, cause I have always been ready to FAFO! But it wasn’t a very pleasant experience for my new flatmate, I am just thankful I didn’t get kicked out so early 😛.

Movers and Packers

I want to understand why are movers and packers so expensive in Bengaluru? I consistently got a quote of 2400 from each and every one. In the end, I got it done in 500 rupees Porter plus 100 rupees extra for the driver to help me carry all the luggage up and down the stairs. That’s it! FAFO is the king. People put too much weight on convenience, get out there, you are gonna spend the money either ways, so why not learn something real while you are at it!

Climbing

This week in climbing has taken me back to the absolute early days of my climbing career (can I call it a career now?). FALLS and FALLS. It’s been so long since I have ONLY fallen down and not gotten any closer in making even the first move, let alone send the whole route. I was pretty pissed at this earlier, but now I feel way more comfortable this way. Climbing has always kept me humble, and its good to stay that way :). Another manga panel which I find utterly inspiring!

vagabond manga panel

Before we get to the set on Thursday, let’s talk about last week’s set. I called it a scam, which it mostly is, but few climbs are fixed. One of them is level 5 black, it is SO SO MUCH HARDER NOW! I get the paddle dyno, but I am not able to keep holding on the ending hold of dyno. Interesting move regardless.

I managed to send level 7 white on Tuesday, and the reason this wasn’t the first thing in this section is cause I think it’s a level 4 đŸ« . I also managed to send the easy level 6 yellow on the same day. I am not at all happy by sending these routes, the only thing which made it better was me thinking I did 6-7 😭😂.

On Thursday, overhang got reset! I am happy and absolutely confused at the same time, cause they had very recently reset it. It was supposed to be intact for at least 2 more weeks. But hey, not gonna complain
is what I thought, until I actually tried the routes, I seriously do not remember last when I had not completed all the level 4s in a new set in warm up. This time, I could not send them after projecting too! On top of all this, level 5s are SO TECHNICAL and STRENGTH taking at the same time. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SETTING! Last week I cursed the setters? This week I wish them all the happiness in the world! My only gripe is, these routes are only set with tall people in mind, so they take 2X the amount of skill to project for a shorter person like me. I think I am gonna spend all of my month just doing these routes, SO EXCITING!!

Swimming

This week was supposed to be business as usual
except I couldn’t swim for three consecutive days. With so many things happening, I just wasn’t able to sleep on time any of those three nights. But I made sure I made most out of the remaining sessions, maintaining my 900m continuous goals along side underwater training :).

Another heart-breaking thing is, this is my last week swimming in this pool. I won’t be visiting it anymore cause of moving to a new house :(. Thanks my love, I really really liked you and will always remembering the joy I felt spending time here every single morning.

Swimming pool in Jayanagar

Food

Parka

After the birthday party, we went to Parka for dinner. Sadly, food wasn’t any good. We tried Paneer Makhanwala, Red Sauce Pasta, Garlic Naan, Dahi Kebab, Mushroom Kebab and Jalapeno cheese balls. Everything was just mehhh, nothing stood out. Best part actually came after this. We ordered Magnolia’s Chocolate Cake slice and loads of Banana pudding, shit always slaps!

Nisarga

I tried some chaats at Nisarga cause I was super hungry before climbing and its near to my office. My honest advice is not to never step into this place for chaats. If I start ranting this section might actually reach infinity. Everything which could be wrong, was committed by them. It should be declared crime to cook such bad chaat. As you can tell, I am pretty disappointed.

Bebinca

How have I not known about this sweet till now! One of my colleague brought it back from Goa, and IT IS SOO GOODD!!! There’s literal levels to this thing (I mean it, search how its made). If you take anything out of this weeknote, make sure to try out Bebinca once!

Ondu

I also had a late dinner at Ondu on Thursday night. I ordered Mushroom masala dosa and “Banana and berry” protein shake. Dosa was not bad, decent-ish. But the shake slapped! Just look at the size of this thing. Quantity, quality, taste, 100% on all fronts!

Banana and berry protein shake

Work

This week work had a big hopeful day and then the most depressing point in my career packed into a neat little combo.

Starting with good news, I finally gathered up some courage and talked to my manager about getting to do some proper work, he mentioned a few topics I could pick up. This got me going bananas, finally I would be back
RIGHT RIGHT?

Well on Thursday, while grabbing coffee with a co-worker I respect a lot, I got some gossip. Gossip was what I was scared about the most, I am getting intentionally sabotaged by my manager because of “not blindly using AI”. Mannnn, this is so disappointing, I literally shaped the company’s complete direction by bringing in datafusion and getting us to a stage today where we beat Databricks in benchmarks fair and square! But of course, people using LLMs are shipping faster, so its my fault for being slow. Thinking about a feature which is already being worked on in upstream repos is wrong. Who even wants to track upstream!!?? We got LLMs to hack together an ugly piece in the internal fork. “So what it affects other clients performance? It works for the client I am handling”. This is their mentality now. Learned people, working on the core parts of computer science have gotten this delusional, this just makes me even less hopeful about the future 😓.

Well anyways, I am gonna ramp up my applications outside, so if you are hiring and want a guy who truly loves to work from first principles, hit me up! This website has my resume linked! (will update with latest info soon 🙈)

Tech

I made more progress on coalesce batches logic. I finally got around to fixing the bug in it and now entire program is ready to be optimized. I am super pumped to use Tracy next.

TV Show

After having a sudden recall about Revenant, I decided to watch another good Korean suspense TV show! As I was doing some research, all the reddit pages, like seriously ALL of them seem to be recommending: Flower Of Evil. It wasn’t a hard decision and I am six episodes in already. It has kept me on the edge of the seat till now, and I am pretty intrigued by what is going to happen next!

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