Chintan Ghate

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2025 - The eventful year

2025 - The eventful year

I think this has been the most happening year of my life, yet. I have read more, travelled more, worked more, been more social (intentionally), just feels like I have lived more. I read my first Marathi book this year – पार्टनर (Partner) by V. P. Kale, already on

Story of Holly

Holly has been our pet for almost 5 years now. But before we talk about Holly, we need to talk about Ginger. Ginger was the friendliest, clingiest, loudest ginger cat in Jayabheri Silicon County (my Hyderabad rented apartment). You would hear him before you saw him. He would always follow

La dolce vita

Our Italian vacation started on 19th April. Our flight to Rome was supposed to leave Zurich at 8:30 in the morning. We reached the Zurich airport 2 hours early. I like to be ahead of time to keep my travel anxiety at bay. None of the kiosks were open,

Swiss Week

Aishwarya and I went to Switzerland for the first time in our lives this year. We went from 11th April to 19th & it was honestly one of the best trips of my life. So good that I wouldn't mind moving to Zurich for a couple of years

Bath

Aishwarya & I took a much needed short vacation the last weekend. Took the friday off, caught a train early morning, our early morning – 10:00 am from Paddington to Bath Spa. This time Aishwarya planned everything so I was just there without any plans along for the ride. It

A decade of Vans

A decade of Vans

I was going through my old photos today. While scrolling through the memory lane I realized that I have worn the same shoes for over a decade now. I bought my first pair of Vans before moving to Kerala in October'13 - new shoes for my very first

My Garden

I fondly remember my grandfather gardening in our backyard and around our home from my childhood days. We used to have vines of night-flowering jasmines, a couple of yellow elder trees, and a few other flowering plants whose flowers were reserved for garlands that my grandparents used to sow to

London

It's been a while since I last updated this blog. Lots of updates. Major update - we moved to London in January 2022 with our cat Holly. I moved to a research team in Google as a bungee (a program which allows us to work 100% of the

Married Life

I am happy to announce that Aishwarya & I got married on October 6, 2020. We had a quick and simple ceremony in my hometown, Vadodara, amidst a global pandemic. It was one of the happiest moments of my life. We returned to Hyderabad a couple of weeks after that,

Turbulently Peaceful

Turbulently Peaceful

So much has happened since we last talked. I completed 2 years at Google on May 22, got promoted on October 23, & got engaged on October 26. These past 6 months have definitely been the best time of my life yet. I am sitting at my desk in my

The Big Apple

It's mid March, the Global EngProd Summit for 2019 at Google is scheduled to be hosted in San Francisco on 22nd & 23rd April. I apply for a spot in the summit as soon as the Registration link opens & recieve a confirmation for it within a week.

Beautiful Bali

It all starts somewhere in mid-August. I receive a mail saying that this year's offsite is going to be hosted in Bali. I remember the last time my friends and I planned for a Bali trip, a volcano managed to burn down our plans. I was pleased to

A missed flight

A missed flight

It's 27th August, afternoon. I was supposed to be back in Hyderabad today, back to work at the office, instead I am writing this from Aishwarya's room in Gandhinagar. I missed my flight yesterday. I came home this time to celebrate Rakshabandhan, which was this Sunday

Love

It's 26th May, 5:04 in the morning, I am sitting at my desk in my room in Hyderabad, writing this down at the end of a sleepless night. It's quite quiet. It's been 2 days since I redesigned my blog, 4 days since

Q2

It has been over an year since I wrote a post on the blog. A lot has happened in one year. I have left my job at Perleybrook Labs as of December 2015, & started my own gig as an Indie Developer since the 1st day of this year. Things

Redemption

Its 10:20 in the morning of a sunny day, 18 April' 15. I am paying my last visit to my favorite Roulette Table at the casino, before I catch the 10:30 shuttle to McCarran Airport. I take out a $20 bill, give it to the dealer and

CodeHorizon

It was either 12th September late-night or 13th September early morning, I don't remember. Most of the time I lose track of time and carry on reading or whatever I am doing till I finally feel the gravity pulling my eyelids down. I was checking my e-mails. There

Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

To all those who recognize this title you can go back to watching the next episode, and to all those who do not, well, you're in for an absolute treat !!! This post is going to be about a TV-Seires named "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey". "Cosmos&

Insomnia Strikes Back

Insomnia Strikes Back

Yeah, yeah, I have started watching the Star Wars TV series and movie series once again. There is too much of Jedi wisdom in there, which I am in dire need of. I have lost my path master !!! The last few weeks, no lets say for past month, my schedule

Resurrection

It's been a while since I have been active on any form of social media or social connection for that matter. I dived into the abyss of algorithms since the end of March and have ocassionaly managed to see daylight. Its been almost two months since my last

Eleutheromania

Eleutheromania, an intense and irresistible desire for freedom. Its late night on Sunday now, end of weekends, most of which I spent on coding competitions on Hackerearth making it to 17th position in the first one and 5th position in second one. I missed 1st position in the first one

Rainy Winters

I am sitting at my desk. Its 2:30 AM on 22nd January. Its officially winter here in Vadodara, and it is also raining cats and dogs with loud thunders. Expereincing best of both Winter and Monsoon, a better weather could not be asked for. I reached Vadodara on 10th

CG-2092

As of this hour I have completed reading Dan Brown's latest novel Inferno. I almost read remaining two-third of the book today, enjoyed it, visualized it, lived it inside my head. There cannot be a better way to start a New Year, feeding my imagintion with INFERNO, a

Simplicity

Finally, I have managed to redesign the blog. Somethings still need a final stroke but that can wait for a while. Now its time to share my thoughts on the new design. Looking at the old design, the default design provided by Octopress, I felt a need to simlify it.

Pilot

Its 3:30 AM here in Palakkad, Kerala. The "WHOLE" city is deep asleep. I can hear the mosquitos buzzing in the next room. Yeah, its that quiet in here. But I, I am fully awake. So in this quiet times, I have decided to write a blog