It’s one of those “deep-thought” days when I switch myself into a philosophical mode. Sometimes, this results in some extreme contemplation about the things I have been generally doing in my life. This time it was all about financial contemplation. The choice of the title is obviously inspired by the book “Zen and The Art [...]

This is not a political blog, but perhaps I am a bit cranky after losing electricity and water for 5 days, so I will let this one slip by. So here goes: Image source: http://codenameblogtastica.blogspot.com/ …. he killed a helicopter with a car, and then he walked bare-foot on broken glass, and then he fired a few people, [...]

It’s probably just a few more hours before we lose electric power, and have trees flying around. I don’t know long it will be before we have electricity back up, so I just thought of dropping a line here. If you don’t have anything better to do, follow the eye of the storm closely and you [...]

I had been thinking about what this whole deal with "personal finance" is about; is it about making the most amount of money? or is it about saving the most amount of money? or is it about spending the least amount of money? or is it about reducing stress due to money matters? or is it about this obscure concept called "financial freedom"?

Since a little more than seven months ago, I made some adjustments to the path in which my career was taking me and took up a job instead of pursuing PhD. One of the main reasons for going that route was that I was so narrowly focused for so long that I forgot why I [...]

After debating with myself on whether to use the BS word in the title or not, I finally decided not to censor myself on my own blog and went ahead with it. Censoring the BS word on a BS topic is actually some BS in itself; and using BS instead of bullshit is also bullshit [...]

I guess by now nobody cares if I am around … so this would be just to motivate myself to write a little more. Looks like the site was down for a couple of months after some screwup with Wordpress/Hostmonster/Upgrade/That-Kind-of-Crap; so it took quite some efforts to get it back on track. Now, it looks all [...]

I won’t go in to the details of what prompted this topic since it might get a little too bitter for my own taste, but there is a serious need for reforms in the way the government looks at internet income. To put it in a concise way, I am regretting that this blog ever made [...]

Finally, it’s time to implement what I have been talking about on my blog over the last year or so - it’s time to address lifestyle inflation! The first salary after getting a job is always a tempting  excuse to indulge in a shopping spree. Plus, a new unfurnished apartment cries desperately for a several-hundred-dollars expenditure [...]

I don’t know what to call this passport photo business, so I am just going to stick with “stupid ripoff” for now. During the weekend, we went into a CVS Pharmacy Photo Center to get some passport/ID photos. We wanted a specific size (as they say “from chin to crown”), so we asked the dude who [...]