Author Archives: Justin Joseph

Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master

Just completed the book – Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master (A Yogi’s Autobiography) by Sri M . Learned about so many masters, so many different cults and sects. Such an amazing read and also lead me to Sri M’s youtube page  

10,000 hours

In this world of facebook likes and tags and quick rise to fame and people scrambling to make a quick buck, what if you meet someone who is immensely talented, so talented that it would another 100 years, before you meet someone like that ? But you find that, this person is least interested in… Read More »

The Joy of photography

Whenever people update their profile pic ( as when it gets several likes), with the one I had taken, it fills me with so much pleasure. Also reminded me of the picture I had taken of Rajendran Uncle’s mom which they framed and put in their house

Phone format and a new app life

Today I formatted my phone and installed several new apps and removed several old ones. As expected there was a drastic improvement in speeds, came across some really interesting apps ( one for tech news and another for opening keepass ) and was also able to overcome the photo talking issue ( after taking a… Read More »

Call with my new G0QII coach

Today was my first call with my GOQII coach Charmi – she seems to really know about what she is talking, unlike my previous coach. She collected all the data points related to my marathon training and asked me to look into buying a GPS watch, which should be able to accurately track my pace… Read More »

Dive watch

Dive watch also called as dive computers offer several features, not found in normal watches. I came across this term, while diving at Lakshadweep Came across this model, Suunto D4i Dive Computer which I found very interesting

The printed word – should we trust ?

Janet Leslie Cooke is a former American journalist. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for an article written for The Washington Post, but the story was later discovered to have been fabricated https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/05/09/janet-cookes-untold-story/23151d68-3abd-449a-a053-d72793939d85/ think about it, we read several news stories, breaking news in TV channels. How many of those could be fabricated ?… Read More »

Microscope 

I got microscope as a gift from Kayeen, when he came home yesterday. We talked for several hours about bacterial motility and cell division. Had burger from MacD Today we went to his college at Bannerghetta. AMC college. Met other faculty : Anjali and Vidya. Met students as well. Saw onion cell as well as… Read More »