{"id":199,"date":"2011-12-13T03:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:39:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T07:09:26","slug":"life-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/life-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, so far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the last time I wrote something here was on <del>Jan&#8217;26th<\/del> Mar&#8217; 23rd, 2009 -almost 3 years ago. Obviously a lot&#8217;s happened and much has changed in life -or may be nothing&#8217;s changed. I recall lines from a Gulzar saab&#8217;s poem:<\/p>\n<p><em>Pal bhar mein sab kuchh badal gaya,<br \/>\nAur kuchh bhi nahi badla.<br \/>\nJo badla tha, woh toh guzar gaya<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/jenson-lee\/4401334015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Life\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4049\/4401334015_1135f82487_d.jpg\" alt=\"Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">by Jen Son https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/jenson-lee\/4401334015\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In any case, here&#8217;s a few of my experiments I can remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Left Satyam to join Directi and moved to Bombay\u00a0 from Bangalore<\/li>\n<li>Satyam went nearly broke and bankrupt, thanks to Mr. Raju, and the overly emotional and messed up capitalist system<\/li>\n<li>Worked on the despicable, and yet vital, online advertisement and traffic monetization business<\/li>\n<li>Learned about the awesome algorithms that go behind powering a beautiful, but annoying, parked page<\/li>\n<li>Learned the art of writing Firefox addons and wrote a couple interesting ones (none open source, sorry)<\/li>\n<li>Joined <a href=\"http:\/\/null.co.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">null security group&#8217;s<\/a> core team and played the role of Mumbai chapter&#8217;s moderator<\/li>\n<li>Did something I wanted to do for a long time -an experiment of living alone (for an year). Had the painful realization that human touch is an underrated indulgence.<\/li>\n<li>Met a lot of crazy (and) talented people, and made some friends<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/projectbee\/4368857404\/\" target=\"_blank\">Won an Olympus E450 in a photography contest<\/a> (Yay!). Sold both cameras and bought a Nikon D90<\/li>\n<li>Became the proud owner of a 3rd generation Amazon Kindle B-)<\/li>\n<li>Became an entrepreneur&#8230; eh, no, not entrepreneur. Rather a startup-businessman. Yeah, better!<\/li>\n<li>Moved (back) to Bhubaneswar to work full time on the product<\/li>\n<li>Volunteered for<a href=\"http:\/\/spicmacay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> SPICMCAY&#8217;s<\/a> 26th National Convention and worked on the first ever LIVE streaming of performances<\/li>\n<li>Launched two products, including <a href=\"http:\/\/entranceforms.com\/?prjb\" target=\"_blank\">EntranceForms.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Working on a third product -sort of derivative and related, but the one that&#8217;s got me pretty excited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like any startup guy would tell you, every dawn starts with a bunch of promises and hopes, and you&#8217;d be super lucky if even one of them materializes by sundown. For now, all\u00a0 can say is life&#8217;s frustrating, irritating, brutal, lonely, rewarding, and fun -in short, <strong>fulfilling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh by the way, I&#8217;m going to conduct another interesting experiment <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnyjacob.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">with a fellow nerd<\/a> &#8211;<strong>A Road Trip<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the last time I wrote something here was on Jan&#8217;26th Mar&#8217; 23rd, 2009 -almost 3 years ago. Obviously a lot&#8217;s happened and much has changed in life -or may be nothing&#8217;s changed. I recall lines from a Gulzar saab&#8217;s poem: Pal bhar mein sab kuchh badal gaya, Aur kuchh bhi nahi badla. Jo badla &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/life-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life, so far&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf2XR-3d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}