It was a festive season in India, previously it was Diwali, then the Chatt Puja. So I started from Bangalore to celebrate Diwali with my parents in Kolkata. As the flight ticket prices were skyrocketed in the festive season I have to take train which took around 35 hours. I started on Wednesday, and then reached Kolkata on Thursday. I celebrated Diwali and Kali Puja in Kolkata, few photos of the celebration     These photos are of 27th, the Diwali day. Then on 29 evening I started from Kolkata to Rajasthan to spend some time with my cousin's, as there was no direct train to Rajasthan Churu District, so i have to go through New Delhi i.e. Kolkata to New Delhi and then New Delhi to Churu which took around 40 hours as I have to stay 5 hours in New Delhi. On 31st morning I reached Churu and then around 10 AM we have started for visiting a temple which is around 130 Kms.   Again tiring day, we reached home around 7 Pm. The next day i have started again from Churu reached New Delhi and then taken a train from New Delhi to Chennai as i was not getting a direct train to Bangalore. It was around 34 hours journey and then waited 3 hours in the Chennai railway station to catch train to Bangalore. Again i have not got a reservation from Chennai so i have taken a general ticket which was equally crowded thus I have to stand around 6 hours to reach Bangalore. I have reached Bangalore in the Monday morning fully tired. And thus my tiring festive season came to an end.

I am investing in a Mutual Fund for a long time like nearly 2 years, but recently I am following more and more funds to see which will fit for me. I am a very conservative investor where I only invest in schemes that are moderately risky that is more into debt and less into equity. After a year of investing in various schemes, I settled on 4 funds which I feel is more than enough for my needs and thus created a Portfolio in Groww.in so that more and more people can watch the portfolio and invest if they feel that their Goal is aligned with mine. The funds which I am investing in are : 1. Franklin India Ultra Short Bond Fund 2. Reliance Small Cap Fund 3. Aditya Birla Sun Life MNC Fund 4. ICICI Prudential Liquid Fund The amount invested per month as follows :  As you can see I am investing around Rs 2778 or 40$ per month. Though it's not limited to SIP, I sometimes invest lumpsum also. When I checked my portfolio today, I am sitting on a profit which is around 10% in the last one year, which is not bad at all because I know even if it goes down I will always be in a profit since the risk is not too high.  Also, the length of my portfolio is Ultra Short Duration which means it will always give me profit in a short duration no matter what, thus I will always have my money in hand if I need it. So anyone investing in this less risk portfolio for 5 years, with Rs. 20000, they will easily get more than 15.5 Lakhs. 

How a simple bug in one of the open-source project which I was working on turns out to be a nightmare though not literally. It all started with me talking to the project owner to allow me to work on it. The change was small, that is I have to check if the props are passing the read-only value or not and based on that I will show the toolbar. Sounds a simple right, I thought the same, thus written the code as `!props.readOnly && ` What the above code will do it will check if the readOnly is true, it will not show the component if its false it will show the component. So far so good, I was able to fix it. Now the project owner wanted me to add a button on the parent component, which will toggle this behavior. That means based on button click I will show the toolbar or not. Easy-peasy, that's what I thought. So I have created a button and written a toggle function. And It was working for the first time, that is hiding the toolbar but the toolbar was not showing when I was clicking the button again. That's when the problem started, I was just scratching my head that what possibly can go wrong in a simple button.

A lazy Sunday has got better of me, I wanted to go out today for a trek but did not wake up in time. So done some productive work like cleaning the house, preparing food rather than ordering and then some in-house photography of the Deo bottles. All the photos are taken on my new Canon Lens 24mm, f2.8. Its been a week and I am already loving it. This being my first prime lens, and it was totally worth it. 

I will not say myself old but as a 30-year old I have seen a lot of changes happened to like the technology advancement, you know longer have to wait for movies to watch at the television which you can just download it from torrent, everything you need is just at your fingertip using your smartphone, get updates real-time across the world. Now why am I saying this because in our time we used to do it, I remember we as a family watch movies on Fridays and Saturdays and we wait the whole week to see which new movie is getting telecasted. I remember going through the channel list in the newspaper to know the timings of my favorite cartoons. I remember we hardly go out to a fancy restaurant if we need something to eat we usually prepare at home. I remember we wait for our turn to read the newspaper being in a big family. Now with the technology advancement as well as everything online, we hardly do anything outside of it. Just to give you an example, I wanted to read a book called "**Stay Hungry Stay Foolish**" written by Rashmi Bansal which is about the stories of 25 marketing graduates who left their job to pursue entrepreneurship. I was actually searching for this book for quite some time (I know, I know, I can get it on Amazon.in but who will pay that much delivery charge for a single book), but could not find it offline.

Computers and Smartphones have made our life super easy, now we do not have to take notes, remember contacts or remember anything for that matter because Google is there. They are making our life super easy, so-called hundreds of Apps help us do so many things with a single click. We can contact and get an answer from any part of the world or help anyone even if we have not met that person. For me the best part is Google Maps, I can take my motorbike and go to many places without having to worry about the path because hey Google has an outstanding map. Now in previous days, we used to remember each and every path we used to take so that we will not forget the route while coming back but that is not the case anymore because we have google to remember it for us. Now because of this great technology advancement, our life became a hell lot easier, we do not have to ask for routes anymore, we do not have to remember/write down contacts, taking notes became easier, easier to find places, etc. But along with that, there are a lot of disadvantages too, like now the human face to face interaction became nil, too many online frauds, a lot of time is getting wasted online by so-called social sites, etc. Now the question is aren't we too tied with Technology. On Saturday, I went to a meetup which is around 20 km from my place, even though I know the route I still have started Google Maps. Now suddenly Google Maps started behaving weird and giving all sorts of the wrong direction. Mind it, I had good internet connectivity on phone and I had used Google Maps in the past too.

In India it's very unusual, mostly as far as I know, that you charge too much for your dental problems or I might not know the reality. But whatever I came to my senses or say that I came to know that your dental problems can be costly. So, I was suffering from bleeding gums. It was not happening regularly but whenever my brush completes the 2 months mark, my gums bleed. I always try to change my brush every 3 months. Bleeding gums being a common problem happens for a lot of reason. So to know the reason and the remedy I visited the dental hospital. The clinic was really great means the interior. I was actually amazed to see the interiors as well as how well maintained it was. 

Hacktoberfest happening in the month of October is a celebration where it encourages people to work on open-source projects run by DigitalOcean in partnership with DEV. According to their [website]( https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/) >Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or the company of any size, you can help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge. The rules are simple, you just need to create 4 PRs (Pull Request) in any of the open-source repo and thus you are entitled to receive limited edition Hacktoberfest t-shirt. Do note that only the first 50,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will get a t-shirt. Once you complete 4 PRs, you need to wait for another 7 days for the review period. Once the review period is over you will be officially complete the challenge to get a t-shirt and swag.  Many companies joined the celebration by rewarding their contributors with even more swag which can be viewed [here](https://github.com/benbarth/hacktoberfest-swag/blob/master/README.md). Now the question arises why you should contribute, it's not only for the t-shirt you will earn. We use a lot of open-source software in our daily life (steem being one), by contributing we are just giving back to the community. If you want to start and looking for a project, do let me know. I will help you find a project.

Shravanabelagola is one of the many day trips and the Gomateshwara statues situated here it is one of the pilgrimage destinations for Jainism. It is a small town of Hassan District located at a distance of around 150 km from Bangalore. The main attractions in Sharavanabelagola are two small hills namely Chandragiri and Vindyagiri. Vindyagiri is where the famous Gomateshwara statue is present. We have started our journey from Bangalore around 6:00 AM in the morning and have taken SUR HASAN EXP (11311) to reach Shravanabelagola from Bangalore. As I have mentioned earlier train being the cheapest mode of travel, we usually take train and avoid getting our vehicle. The train started at 6:40 AM and we reached Shravanabelagola at 10:00 AM in the morning. From the station, we have taken Tuk-Tuk which took us to Vindyagiri Hill.

What everyone says is that being absent minded is form of a disease but I don't think so. Whenever you search for absent mindness on Google you get tons of articles claiming that you have this or that but that's not correct.  PC: iStockPhoto So the question I would like to ask today is that are you absent minded?, Means you often forget where you have kept your bike keys or your phone or you constantly think that you have closed your door or not. If you do any of the above things I would say that you are extra cautious or you are absent minded. It's not a disease though and you can overcome it very well. Just that you need to be more attentive and be less absent minded. Though people try to think that being absent minded is forgetfulness but that is not the case always, it can also be a case that you might be preoccupied with something and you became less attentive at that moment. That simply means you are distracted with external thoughts which might have caused you to become absent minded. It can be also because of tiredness and exhaustion after a day’s work or if you are in a hurry in the morning. It's not that people are absent minded all the times, you can be absent minded in certain situations. If I take my example I always think while riding that if I have closed the door or not in the morning before going to office. This is because I am always in a hurry in the morning and have not fully focus at that very moment. Also today instead of booking a ticket for 10th Jan, I have booked a ticket on 17th Jan by being absent minded. Now if I have to give excuse I would say that I have to book around 4-5 tickets and because if that I lacked focus. Now you can't give excuse everyone because that will cost you money. I have lost around 10$ just by booking the ticket on the wrong date by being absent minded. Later I was thinking what was going on my mind, how can I lose focus as I always remain extra cautions while dealing with money. Though there are numerous reason, but today we will see how we can be extra focus while doing things so that we can become less absent minded. Few things which I have to follow, you can also follow if you are also absent minded just like me. 1. Be attentive - While our mind is always think of one or the other thing but of we are doing something which needs our focus then we need to be more attentive at that very moment. 2. Avoiding multitasking - This happened to me since I was busy playing with my kid and booking ticket I lost focus and thus done a mistake. So if you can you should do one thing at a time and then do other things. 3. Have a sound sleep - If you don't sleep well at night, there is high chance that you will lose focus. 4. Avoid being worry at all times because that will not free up your mind to do focus one other things, thus if you are doing something try to thing about that only. 5. Last but not the least try to write down every important things you would like to do in a day so that you will not forget those and will finish it on time. Are you absent minded?