So a very good morning everyone
from Bangalore. It's currently 7:20 AM.
So today...
Today I'll be sharing my day in the life in Silicon Valley of India.
Let's get ready.
All set.
So the breakfast is here.
I had ordered milk but it isn't here.
But paranthe, curd, and omelet.
I think this is the omelet.
Omelet might be in this
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So now it's around 11:15 AM.
Still, Monday morning, was an important day. Done with some emails,
slack messages.
And also one of the important ticket that I was
working on Android studio. So because the release deadline is coming
So you know tickets keep coming up, bugs keep coming up.
So one bug is solved and rest of the bugs I'll
be fixing inside office. Inside Bangalore city.
I'm so so excited. I'll get an opportunity
to see the office in India.
But an issue is that my laptop isn't closing whenever I close the lid.
It's not shutting down.
So the battery is getting drained.
If I don't shut it down, the battery is currently
80% within 2 hours,
It will be 0%. So because of that, I have to forcefully shut it down.
So that the battery remains saved. And the battery cycles get depleted.
Sometimes what happens is....
I clicked the mouse and it turned on again.
I have to shut it down again.
So all set. Let's go!
And I'm like 1 hour away from the office.
If I take an Uber it could take around 1 hour.
So let's see how the journey will be.
So the office is around 14 km away.
This means it can cost up to 1200 rupees.
But I'm not going to spend 1200 rupees.
So the alternative is that first I'll take the Bounce scooter to the metro station.
Then from the metro to the office.
So I checked that the Bounce is 2 minutes away. Its range is 55 km.
I'll book it. You have to get the helmet yourself.
If you have one then it will be really good.
People steal our stuff from the hotel.
When it's checkout we send the housekeeping to check.
We saw that towel and some other things are missing.
So we caught them and asked them to pay.
She gave us 200 and told us that I'll give it back.
At least you got the money back which is good.
So I have to reach my Bounce scooter in 15 minutes.
So luckily I got a helmet in my hotel.
So I'm all set to go to the office.
First I'm thinking that I should have lunch cause I'm starving.
It's 11:30, so by the time I reach it'll be 12:30. So office after lunch.
If you don't know about the start-up Bounce.
It is an amazing startup in which there are scooters like this one
you can ride one and drop it anywhere.
And it's very very cheap, so affordable. Even cheaper than the Ola bike.
So I have finally reached by Bounce scooter.
The only difference is that it doesn't have its own helmet, it was written to bring your own.
Because people steal from them also.
That's why I asked for a helmet from the hotel.
Swipe to unlock.
Where is the ignition?
It's the horn.
So the scooter is finally on and I'll see how far I can ride it.
When I'll feel afraid, I'll take an Uber and go there.
The goal is to get out of these narrow streets fast.
And after leaving them, is my phone in my pocket? Yeah.
After these streets to the main road then it'll be 30 minutes.
Then I'll be able to experience real Bangalore.
When you're driving on a hill, its pickup becomes low.
The petrol vehicles don't have such a low pickup.
On a hill as compared to this.
When I started going to the office, I complain that
it only took me 15 minutes to reach. Sometimes only 10.
And I even complained about that in the US.
That I wish it could have been 5 minutes. I wish I was that close.
Then you all used to comment that you
don't know what Bangalore is. I didn't know what a 2-hour commute was.
I didn't know the definition of struggle
of this commute.
Today I can see the struggle of commuting almost an hour to the office.
It's written in front that no left turn is allowed.
It's enough.
There is a sign that no left turn is allowed but everyone is doing it.
So even I'll take it.
See even the bike guy took it so I'm right.
Oh my god. Did you see it behind?
I almost bumped into a helmet.
It stopped out of nowhere.
Don't do this on a highway.
He stopped out of the blue. I don't even have side mirrors through which I can see.
Honestly speaking, I'm a bit afraid
But not that much that I'll stop and take an Ola or Uber.
It's straight for 9 kilometer.
I have pressed the accelerator all the way but it isn't going above 28.
Because it's also like a hill.
Oh, shit. The Fortuner went by so closely.
Come on move. It's not going above 10 now.
As soon as the parking comes ahead, I'm quitting the scooter.
For 7 and a half kilometers, it cost 55 rupees.
It was very affordable.
After parking the Bounce, I finally found an auto.
I have to go straight for 3-4 km.
So he told me 200 rupees for the rest of the 7 and a half kilometers.
Earlier seven and a half kilometers for 50 rupees and the rest by an auto.
The scooter had no pickup.
I covered 7 and a half kilometers very slowly.
So I'm going to HSR.
En route, I noticed that the SD card of my GoPro is corrupted.
So I'm recovering all the files, thank god it's done.
So this is the HSR area. What is HSR famous for?
There is a start-up near Samsung headquarters called Dukaan.
So thank you so much Prabjot for providing me.
I can't believe that I am sitting in Bangalore start-up Dukaan. Next to Prabjot.
Feels like an engineer in a start-up.
Singh in Dukaan.
Mr. Harnoor? Oh, man!
For 5 minutes I was like saying to him that your voice is like Harnoor.
Kotlin, Java. Which one are you using?
This is Java & Kotlin.
Awesome. I also use the same.
One quick question. When you have to call a colleague regarding a question, how do you do that?
Is it like excuse me do you have a second? Can I talk to you?
Or some other way?
We don't have that level of formality here.
Hey, Jose.
That's how it's done.
And now lunch. How much do I have to deposit?
And honestly, lunch break is a bit late in India.
It's around 2 PM or 1 PM.
There it starts at 11:30.
So India's coffee in the office is amazing in taste.
Cappacino.
It's very fast.
And there's milk too.
Still in Dukaan.
I'm still trying to recover the data.
The whole day is ruined when 3 days of data is lost on an SD card.
Usually, I vlog on an iPhone. The one time I took out GoPro it got damaged.
This whole HSR area is filled with start-ups.
So my next destination is MG Road. I have reached.
Here we'll do data recovery.
Now, I have to go to the 12th floor of this building.
I couldn't recover the data even after trying very hard.
So back to the hotel and I'll do a bit of the office work here.
Then I'm changing hotels because the airport is very far from here.
Here the elevators are also according to the US system.
I assumed that 0 will be the ground floor but
just like in the US here the first floor is the ground floor.
Checking out and I quickly have to catch a bus towards the airport
because my next hotel is near the airport cause tomorrow
I have an early morning flight. So it's recommended to stay near the airport.
The local bus charges 5 rupees to Pundati gate and from there to the airport.
So from here to Maratili via cab and then the airport.
Bangalore's traffic is really very slow.
Once again crazy traffic.
You get an idea from the bridge about the struggle of being in
Bangalore in the corporate world.
So from this Marathilli station, I have to take a right from the ring road
then only I'll get a cab which will cost 1000 rupees.
Cause Uber was worth 1400 rupees, that's why I had to take 2 local buses.
This is Bangalore's special pineapple. Let's eat one.
Oh, bro. Amazing.
If I had stood here I would have gone.
Do you accept UPI?
The bus didn't take 5 rupees via UPI.
But you take it which is nice.
So this is Bangalorean pineapple.
So excited. Do you have a fork?
So now this cab to the airport.
This will cost 800 rupees after taking 2 bus stops.
I wanted to take one earlier but it was very expensive.
Every car here is on diesel or petrol.
This Swift is diesel.
But in Mumbai and Delhi, they have CNG.
So I just attended an office meeting right now and can't tell you how I did it.
I opened the flashlight and kept it in the bottom left corner.
And only then my face and body were recognized.
No one knew that I was sitting in a car.
Were the lights on? Yeah, okay.
So this is a really really amazing room.
My real day starts in the evening cause
office in the US starts at 6 PM.
So this is what I call a real day in life.
Engineers who work in the US, work according to the US time
they have to keep their hours variable.
So today I had a meeting at 1:30 AM.
I slept at 11 PM.
Made an alarm for 1:30 PM.
Attended that meeting and then slept again.
Now it's 6 AM.
It is 6 in the morning and I didn't know it. So that's why salute to
all the engineers who are working remotely from India in countries
abroad. So they have variable hours.
My schedule is disturbed in 1-2 days. It's not every day
that I have late-night meetings but sometimes meetings are important but
within one day your sleep is disturbed.
So that's why I really have to get ready and I'll see
all in Amritsar.
So there are different different modes in it which are really cool.