I am ditching the weird timestamp thing, and hopefully getting back to daily blogging at the ends of work days. I went to a wedding in Chandigarh of an office colleague, and it was a lot of fun. The hotel had an abandoned wing that I also explored. There are so many things that I want to do in a day, but am not able to.
Delhi is a funny city. You can get a lot of things for cheap, but you wont even imagine the kind of tricks that people here pull off. Almost nothing is actually priced at the printed MRP, which I don't know why it is there. You need to bargain for everything. Now you do not expect to buy dubious screwdrivers that crumble when used on screws, but you can get them in Delhi. Similarly the immersion heater can fry your plug points, the tissue paper can be non-absorbent, nail clippers will break against toenails, zips of jackets will fail... the list goes on. Basically you need to buy only good quality stuff from reliable, expensive stores, so in the end, Delhi is not as cheap as people claim it to be.
Freaking dubious merchants all across the city.
I also went to the ISPA conference IISC, which is confusingly named similar to the Indian Institute of Science. The exhibition was sad, and there was nothing new compared to the second NSD exhibition. I really should have asked GalaxEye about which vehicle they are using to go to Space, has to be a SpaceX transporter mission. The timeline of ISRO is getting changed so rapidly, that it is hard to keep up. First they juggled the order of the missions, and now they have juggled the payloads on the missions!
Almost every week the configuration of the NGLV and LMLV are being updated. At the conference, I met some top space reporters from the country even though most of the media section was empty. It was a fun, off-beat conference, but the press release from the second day is not out yet. Waiting for that.
My laptop fan is making a lot of noise and it is driving me nuts. I used the dubious screwdriver to open it up, and the internals were not only dusty, but also caked with some long-dead fungus. I cleaned it all out, but I think I need to remove and properly clean the problematic fan. It is funny that I can get it to shut down by just pressing down on the chassis. I do not have a good working machine now, because my gaming laptop is overheating and shutting down as well. Need to do something about it, and I am going to go home now and operate all my machines. Might need to go to Nehru Place to fix both the laptops, but before that I want to try by myself by getting a good screwdriver kit from MR DIY. I found a new store in Saket that is just outside Select CityWalk, which is pretty good.
Also The Jughead Special at Saravana Bhavan at Janpath is something else. It is a milkshake made up of figs, dates, strawberry icecream and cold milk. Just crazy good, among the most beautiful things made by humans. Like forget the SpaceX Starship or the Intel Processor, this Jughead Special is what can truly rival neutron stars or interacting black holes.
