Everyday Lives

Ever since I broke up with my girlfriend, I’ve been familiarizing myself with the Wall. Every evening, I stare at the Wall. The wall is hard and rice white, with a marble like finish. It stares back at me, with a gaze that can only be described as cold and unrelenting. I tell myself that that’s what breakups are. You have to stare at the wall. It’s not the most comfortable thing, but it’s better than the other alternatives. Sub-par dates, Hinge doom scrolling, frivolous (and wrong) connections - all time suckers. ...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about prices, in particular what is the best strategy to buy into a stock. A 20% to 30% fall from all time high is usually a safe bet. Certainly, I bought the dip. However, what I did not anticipate with regards to my investment in Chinese stocks, is that there was going to be a further dip. Already, the investments that I have made have lost 22%, which means that if I had bought at this price, a rise to the price that I bought in would already mean a 22% increase. ...

Just managed to add some Google Analytics to this site. Woo hoo : ) Excited to be able to view and track the growth of this site. Would need to wait 24 hours to see the changes propagated.

Unrelated post, but I am pretty much enamoured by Hugo. I built this site using a simple Hugo theme and I am now hosting it on Netlify. I have been an avid blogger (well, privately for the most part of it) for close to 10 years, and this is the first time that I am writing my blog from a text editor like Atom, and pushing it into Github to update. The workflow is significantly different from CMS sites like Wordpress and Blogger (long time fan, still use it after its death in the hands of Google), but after my experience for the last few days I am seriously enamoured. ...