Sathya's World

So how's it to be in Bucharest after moving from Bangalore?

📅 May 17, 2020 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ sathya

It’s been 7 months since I’ve been in Bucharest. The past couple of months I’ve been under quarantine and staying indoors. That aside, people kept asking me how’s it been in Bucharest and how’s life been in Bucharest, how different life is compared to Bangalore. Sunset at Bucharest Moving across the world is a huge endeavour and even though I’ve done my share of travels, moving and settling in Bucharest while smooth, experiencing day to day life in Bucharest took me by surprise.

Mărțișor

📅 Apr 24, 2020 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 2 min read · ✍️ sathya

I returned to Bucharest from my 15-day visit to India on the the first of March. The next day as I was walking to office, something was different. The flower shops were livelier than usual. The Mall was buzzing with a lot of small vendors, selling red and white trinkets with flashy boards. I thought these were because of some sort of sale and just passed by them. Trinkets at Plaza Romania Mall Flower Shop Then when I reached office, I saw more such flowers, chocolates and trinkets.

Hellforge, Remastered: Rebuilding my home desktop

📅 Jan 19, 2020 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 7 min read · ✍️ sathya

It’s been more than 7 years since I last built my home desktop. It hadn’t remained static - there had been a steady trickle of updates over the years but the base foundation:

Salut Bucharest

📅 Jan 8, 2020 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 9 min read · ✍️ sathya

It’s been a while since I posted anything, so lets get this started again. As I had tweeted few weeks back, I have moved to Bucharest, Romania.

Day trip to Mekedatu Sangama

📅 Jan 4, 2019 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ sathya

It’d been a while since Jo and I had gone for a day trip on the outskirts of Bangalore. Jo on a whim suggested going for a long drive. And since I had nothing else planned, we took the car out. Originally we planned to head out to Kanakapura and come back, but that plan changed soon.

We started out fairly late, at about 09:15 in the morning and stopped for breakfast at MTR on Kanakapura Road, near Art of Living Ashram. Jo had a long face when she thought that was the end of the long drive but I told her that we were just getting started.

Day Trip to Melukote

📅 Feb 25, 2018 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 4 min read · ✍️ sathya

Starting this year, Jo & I wanted to resume our monthly outing to a place outside of Bangalore and we’d decided to head to Sravanabelagola during the Republic Day weekend. Unfortunately couple of days before the trip, Jo fell ill and we had to cancel the trip and thus January month went by without a trip. Few days later, Abhilash mentioned that he was arranging for a ride to Melukote and since this was the week after Barcamp Bangalore, Jo & I signed up for the ride.

A Look Back at 2017

📅 Jan 6, 2018 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 6 min read · ✍️ sathya

Ah 2017. What a year of unexpected twists and turns, an unexpected job change and an even bigger financial drain. Let’s see how the year went by

Of Z-Wave, SmartThings, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Kwikset Deadbolt and the colossal failure that is connecting them all – aka “Home Automation”

📅 Dec 29, 2017 · 📝 Sep 13, 2020 · ☕ 5 min read · ✍️ sathya

This is a huge rant I sent to Jo. Some backstory: Few months back Jo bought a Kwikset 910 deadbolt (more like I asked her to buy - hindsight I should have done more and better research) and I was trying to setup the remote locking feature using Alexa/Google Assistant via SmartThings Hub. Here’s a copy-paste of the entire message. I’ll have a separate post on my home automation setup.