First week of September has been balanced at work. The back-n-forth of opinions on my current project are finally resolved & now my team is in a flow state. We also bade farewell to two of our designers, Vishnu & Jeevanshu. Instead of two cakes for farewell, we went with a single cake, samosas and chai. It was raining heavily that day & people enjoyed the atmosphere with the right snacks.

Started my passport renewal process and got to know from friends on the expectations from rental agreements - around attested copies, two eye witness signatures etc etc. And the owner doesn’t stay here. I almost panicked but thankfully, she was in town over the weekend & helped with the paperwork.

I went to Dali & Gala Thu night with a friend & loved every drink. We had 4 cocktails & each of them were super well-crafted. Good vibes over some great company. Last I’d enjoyed a cocktail this much was at Jigger & Pony, Singapore.

Tried out few layout changes to my blog, especially around moving the horizontal nav to a vertical sidebar & sticky note content in About section, but didn’t quite like any of those. Fixed a good number of layout issues in mobile view, but I would still prefer reading a blog on desktop. There’s something about reading on a larger screen/space that makes it feel more intentional.

Travelled to Mumbai for consumer research on second week of Sep. We’re expected to travel to a new city once every 3months to understand consumer behaviour & sentiments better. We had a lot of new team members doing on-ground formative research this time, so that made it even more exciting.

And what’s a trip to Mumbai without exploring the food scenes. We went to Shiv Sagar for their comforting pav bhajis. After some spicy food, it was customary to go to Bombay Sweet Shop for their insanely good Rasgulla Tiramisu. One of the days, we went to Araku Colaba for their brown butter icecream, which was equally delicious.

I extended my trip over the weekend, & ensured to wake up early at 6am & spend some quiet time by Marine Drive. There’s something about the vastness of sea that makes you slow down & contemplate life.

After spending some time by the sea, I went to Sassoon docks for some photography. It was super crowded and quite muddy, which made it a bit diffciult to shoot but hey, good practice. This was also the very first time a cat came to me & curled against my leg!! My heart was full 🥹 🥹

I checked into NMACC to experience the immersive exhibition & artworks. It was fun to decode how some of those installations might have come to be, since I’d tried similar stuff with p5js. A tiny bit of validation that I’m learning along the right path:)

Before flying out on Sunday, I went to the Siddhivinayak temple to get the fresh ukadiche modaks. Sooo good🤌

Back in Blr, attended Ganesh Puja celebrations at a friend’s home. They had made the ganpati statue themselves, and it was beautiful! Good way to start the second half of the month, I must say.