Chronicles of a man on a journey. Husband. Father of three. Designer. Fauxtographer. Goa forever. Since MMXII.
Man, oh man! Gregory Esayan, where’ve you been all my life? Pilgrim’s Diary is just brilliant. Something about his music is so emotional — just like most of the artists on the Silk roster.
Every track is seriously amazing—Taxi, Game Of Hearts, Numb Capsule, Make A Wish. So many layers of complexity, arranged so masterfully.
Shingo Nakamura epitomises everything I love about electronica — beautiful chord progressions, sweeping synths, no vocals, and this deep, ambient flavour mixed with the piano that takes you to another place. He clearly deserves a lot more recognition that he currently gets. I mean, he doesn’t even have a bio on his Apple Music artist page yet.
I found him on Beatport, and I’ve been playing his 2014 album Days for the last several weeks now, and it never gets old.
Anyway, all the tracks are outstanding—Side Trip, Orphic, Abyss, but the standout track for me easily is Travelog.
Allow me to introduce Sofia Teresa Fernandes. Born this evening at 05:07pm, weighing 2.7 kilos. She’s beautiful! Can’t wait for Sasha to finally meet her.
Life is such a miracle.
Early morning ferry ride to Divar Island? Check.
Dreamy summer weekends at the beach. How I love these two!
Sasha just loved Bondla! Looking forward to bringing her back here when she’s a little older to understand all the animals.
My last photo with the Kainos family. It’s been a good two years at Santa Cruz. I had the privilege of working on two really large enterprise web apps for local Goan businesses.
But it’s time to move on. Startup life is fast and unpredictable, and we’re often victim of our own biases — so things don’t always work out the way you expect.
I guess that’s the beauty of it all. Thank you for the memories.
After nearly a year, I’ve started shuffling again. Doing it for fitness and as a stress-coping mechanism, rather than love of dance.
I’ve realised that — like most things worth pursuing — shuffling looks deceptively easy but takes a while to master. This is a simple Melbourne shuffle routine with the basics: RM variations, T‑stepping, spins and kicks. Keeping it simple with both the moves, and the edit (once again with Lightworks).
The track used is a snippet from Survive, by Savant. Add him to a list of producers I’m digging these days — Vintage & Morelli, Fehrplay, Soarsweep, EDX and more.
Life of Christ is essential Catholic reading. Written by Fulton Sheen—one of America’s most charismatic Catholic leaders — it is no doubt the fruit of decades of quiet contemplation and reflection on the life of Jesus.
688 pages of insight await. The last time I was so excited about a book was Steve Ray’s commentary on St. John’s Gospel.
I’ve just read a couple of random pages, but I already get the feeling the next few months will be intensely enlightening.
Lord, in my zeal for the love of truth, let me not forget the truth about love. St. Thomas Aquinas