Vikram Jain
@nomadicvik
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cobbled streets and aimless walks | random interests | @arsenal - life revolves in football seasons, not years | ☘️ vegan(ish) | 🇮🇳🇺🇲🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪
Berlin/Delhi
Joined December 2009
Love how for just a handful of weeks of Feb and March, central Delhi is full of tulips blossoming all around and then one fine day they are gone till next year's blooming cycle
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@ishygoel @reangdeba Also how we gravitate towards one or so language. French, a natural attraction vs German, a compulsion...made learning french way easier vs German is a grind.
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@aaaudacity 1 thing I miss from the metro commute to work during my time Paris was finishing books on the journey, though I still wouldn't give up remote work for it now
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@ishygoel Trying to do that with grandparents and record some of their life story in their voice but recording stuff doesn't come naturally but learning to record more moments
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So many can do with a little empathy
Zero. They get a salary. You don't get a tip every day for just showing up and doing your job, do you? If they were solely dependent on tips, then 10% of order value. Don't making tipping an annoying cultural norm in India as it is in the US.
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RT @ElliottBlackwe3: I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of…
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@aaaudacity 💯 Read 'white crane lend me your wings' not so long ago and it helped me know so much more about life in Tibet tribes before occupation by China, their ways of life, CCP's occupation and more. Not sure I would have necessarily picked up non fiction about it
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Cure to a exhausting day at work is watching highlights of Arsenal thrashing City again on Match of the day
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Always fascinates me to look at older views of cities I'm familiar with, to see how they have evolved over time and in case of Indian cities often for worse
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Good for him but I feel we still could have kept him. He may not have the legs but for me he is better than Rice, specially in finding forward passes through the lines.
🚨💣 Jorginho is negotiating the last details of a pre-contract agreement to join Flamengo in June. The player will sign a three-year contract. [@DiMarzio]
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@jon_selvaraj No, but curious about them too. There is this one apartment which has the carrom board hanging outside on the wall and often wonder if I'll ever catch them playing a game under the peepal tree
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