In July and August of 2026 I spent a couple of weeks in Japan, starting in Kyoto and ending in Tokyo. This is a day-by-day record of what I did, partly for me so I can come back and reminisce on the trip, and partly for someone else who might be looking for recommendations to plan theirs :)

In June of this year, I spent 9 days across Milan, Rome, Naples, and the Amalfi Coast. This is partly a guide for anyone planning a similar route, and partly just something I want to be able to come back and read later.

Doorstoppers refer to books with a high page count, often around 500–1000+ pages. Basically books that are physically heavy and thick enough to act as an actual doorstopper. As someone who struggled to read books I could’ve never imagined myself going through one of these “doorstoppers”, let alone finishing a series of five such books. In case you didn’t read it in the title I’m of course talking about the Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson.

I attended my first concert about two years ago. I was excited about it, I knew it was going to be fun. But I had no idea it would THAT FUN. I still remember walking out of the venue with a huge, involuntary smile on my face the whole way back. I wasn’t familiar with the phrase “concert-high” but when one of my friends used it to describe what I feeling, the term totally clicked. That’s exactly what it felt like. An overwhelming rush of joy that stayed with me for hours.

Documenting my 10-day trip to Meghalaya taken in the February of 2025. Ed Sheeran was going to be performing live in Shillong, and since I’d never been to the northeast, I thought this would be a good excuse to make a trip out of it. This blog is meant as a guide for other fellow travelers plus a way to document the trip for me so I can come back and read it sometime in the future :)

I wish I could live multiple lives. Some days I just want to have enough to live in a cabin by the beach, read all day, play board games with my friends in the evenings, and spend my time appreciating the calmness of the ocean waves. Other days, I want the world. I want to move to Silicon Valley, work in big tech, start my own company, and be really, really successful[1]. How does one figure out what one truly wants?