You got to finish what you started. Always be closing. One of the crucial lessons that I learned in life is to finish off what’s started. Be it writing an article, walking 5 km, making a website, learning a song on guitar, or anything, it’s vital to complete it. Else the energy that I spent, …
The pandemic has certainly made our world crazy and uncertain. People are dying and the economy is suffering. Many of us have lost our jobs and even dear ones. It has in one way or the other but definitely affected our normal lives, be it wearing a mask, maintaining social distance or travelling sparsely. In …
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle didn’t fully agree on a definition of happiness. Socrates and Plato argued that it wasn’t just up to fate, luck, or the gods and it was up to the people themselves. To them, happiness was the ultimate goal, something far greater than mere earthly satisfaction. Aristotle, on the other hand, saw …
During the lockdown period, I joined the Netflix community and watched a few series. Vikings was one of those and it easily became my favourite series as it offers a history along with a perspective to manhood, friendship, love, ambition, gods, religion, death, and much. These are the things that have always fascinated me and …
When I had decided to choose civil engineering as my profession, I had no idea that it would offer me a lot of opportunities to travel. Going to Mugu was confirmed when working in RAP3 I was asked by Bill Seal (Engineering Team Leader) to join a team that was conducting a detailed survey for …
Currently, most people are throwing away words like quarantine, isolation and social distancing. Even for myself, I have been using these words synonymously without much care. But turns out, there are differences in these terms which I came to know quite late. Quarantines are for people or groups who don’t have symptoms but were exposed …
My deepest prayers with the ones combating the disease and sincere condolence to the bereaved family. No words can suffice to express gratitude to the forefront battling team of doctors, nurses, health staffs, polices and social volunteers. With the unprecedented spread of coronavirus and the occurring fatalities, many people have begun to question the existence …
Hey Rain. Just what are you? As a child, I used to think whenever god cried, his tears were you. As I grew up, my innocence blurred, I learned the precipitation process and could somewhat figure you out. But despite where you belong, I’m just so freakily surprised with the range of emotions that you …
I was fortunate enough to participate in a program organized by Kyoto University in Japan, along with its partner universities. It was a short term international program on Resilient Society Development under Changing Climate. Although the course was for one month, I had enough memories to last a whole life. My first visit to Japan …
On 4 October 2019, I had the opportunity to accompany Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suttisak Soralump and two other Thai colleagues for the investigation of soil erosion problem and storm water management at Ichinoseki, Iwate prefecture, Tohoku region Japan. Here, I shall try to depict the general context along with major findings, and proposed solutions through …
