Travel Log

This is the second part of a series of articles on the development cycle of a react native app. You can find the first article here. Step 3: User Flow User flow, according to this website is the path taken by a prototypical user on a website or app to complete a task. The…

On the Trance of Consumption and indecision 22:00, Saturday evening (or 10pm, as it is written on this side of the ocean). I’m in New York still, and tomorrow I take the train back to Boston. The last few nights I have been staying with friends in the Upper West…

Headed back to our apartment thinking that it will rain but it Didn’t! Why lah?

Woke up late again. Ahhhh the perks of being on a holiday Had our lunch at Halal Guys. Again. And while we planned where to head next, i posted on IG to see if you guys have any suggestions To those who voted. Thank you, the rest of you. Why…

DISCLAIMER* I will be periodically rereading and editing these entries. Any entry with a * indicates a subsequent edit. On August 12, Air Portugal will take me from Boston to Rome, the first leg of an extended sojourn on the European continent. An odyssey, a pilgrimage if you will, of some 75 days…but who’s counting? Actually, a photo from Ephesus taken in 2016 Stay tuned.

Chicago is a city that provokes a sense of wonder in me because it is a spectacle of scale. While many cities tend to develop organically overtime, it surprised me to learn that much of Chicago’s city planning, architecture, and public space is linked to a tragedy. After the Great…

Xi’an Great Mosque, Shadow play, Xi’an museum Next day spent the morning doing arrangements for our next stop, Hohhot in Inner Mongolia. In the afternoon, we went back to the Muslim quarter market to look around and shop for some small souvenirs. We found some little things that don’t take…

Terracotta Army, Muslim Quarter The next day we went to visit the Terracotta Army. These are located in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who first unified the country in 221 BC. The Terracotta Army was built to protect the emperor in the afterlife and…

Old City wall, Small Goose pagoda, Bell Tower From Luoyang we took the bullet train (it is what the fast speed train is called here). It was nicer than the regular trains, and obviously much faster. The seats are arranged like in an airplane, rows facing in the direction of…