Personal Finance Books

Back in 2004, when I took up reading about ‘Personal Finance’ to save myself from the clutches of an LIC agent :-), I had to scourge the internet (rediff money and later economic times) to understand even the basics like PF vs PPF, why Term Insurance is the way to go or how evil ULIPs were . Thankfully, things have improved and there are some very good books that people can instead turn their attention to. Let’s Talk Money & Let’s Talk Mutual Funds – Monika Halan A book like this would save so much trouble for people looking for …

Continue reading

Twenty Years Ago

It was exactly 20 years back that I had to started to blog online. Just when we finishing college, in 2001, two of my classmates from B.Tech CSE in Pondicherry Engineering College, Siva and Arun, had an idea to create something that will keep us all connected better than the only option available then – yahoomail group. It is funny to think of it now, but back then they were probably on to the first social media idea (along with several others including one Mark Z you could say 🙂 ). But unfortunately their campus placement offers were delayed and …

Continue reading

[PS5] The Last of Us – Part 1

This game is set in the backdrop of a post-apolatypic dystopian future – specifically after a fungal infection outbreak has turned humans into something like zombies (controlled by the fungi) and dangerous. Originally made for PS3 a decade back and remade for PS5 last year, it is a visually captivating, emotionally haunting story with elements of action and adventure thrown in. If there ever was a video game that behaved like a movie that you could control and play in as the lead character this would be the one. Within the first few minutes of the game you understand that …

Continue reading

Atomic Habits

Self help books are usually not my cup of tea. I have tried a few and absolutely not liked them (sorry fans of ‘The Alchemist’). But there are some on the right side of rationality while also being helpful with some day to day stuff and ‘Atomic Habits’ is one such book. It feels well researched and actually gives practical suggestions that could work. Moreover the tone of the book is more of opening up the knowledge instead of taking the “I know everything, now listen to me” attitude. I also like that it touches upon difficult topics like “genetics” …

Continue reading

PS5 – The Gaming Monster

I have had my eyes on the Playstation roughly for 10 years, every time with the “Last of Us” game as the backdrop – starting from PS3, and then with the remastered version in PS4 and when PS5 came out was surprised that they reworked on the Part 1 again, but never thought of buying it. Once I got my gaming Laptop and managed to play few PS3 games on them (Uncharted 1-3) I was again interested in the playstation. I then managed to run the first few minutes of “Last of Us” and was convinced that I would be …

Continue reading