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Travelling in Malaysia currently. Wanted to buy from a local Malaysian microbrand. The more I researched, the more Revelot came up as a brand to go for. Established in 2017 by a watch enthusiast, it is making quite the waves in the Malaysian watch market. Saw a store selling their watches, and spoke to the guy for about 30 minutes about different watches.

Finally settled on this beautiful 40mm dress watch 'Universal.' Always wanted a minimalist watch. The dial is beautiful, and the date window gives it an edge over other minimalist watches.

I'm so happy with the entire purchase experience, the pricing, and the overall watch features and quality, that I may buy another one!

Don't remember when I bought this shirt, and if I even wore it before. Glad that it made its way to the suitcase!

Travelling in Malaysia currently. Wanted to buy from a local Malaysian microbrand. The more I researched, the more Revelot came up as a brand to go for. Established in 2017 by a watch enthusiast, it is making quite the waves in the Malaysian watch market. Saw a store selling their watches, and spoke to the guy for about 30 minutes about different watches.

Finally settled on this beautiful 40mm dress watch 'Universal.' Always wanted a minimalist watch. The dial is beautiful, and the date window gives it an edge over other minimalist watches.

I'm so happy with the entire purchase experience, the pricing, and the overall watch features and quality, that I may buy another one!

Travelling in Malaysia currently. Wanted to buy from a local Malaysian microbrand. The more I researched, the more Revelot came up as a brand to go for. Established in 2017 by a watch enthusiast, it is making quite the waves in the Malaysian watch market. Saw a store selling their watches, and spoke to the guy for about 30 minutes about different watches.

Finally settled on this beautiful 40mm dress watch 'Universal.' Always wanted a minimalist watch. The dial is beautiful, and the date window gives it an edge over other minimalist watches.

I'm so happy with the entire purchase experience, the pricing, and the overall watch features and quality, that I may buy another one!

Aquaria KLCC. Great place to see all kinds of fishes, from small fishes to giant sharks and even some turtles and snakes. Baby and momma enjoyed it too. Successful Day 2 in KL.

Jeans and Shirt from Pantaloons

Cap from Urban Monkey

New Balance Shoes

First time traveling internationally with the baby.

First trip to Malaysia.

First time traveling in business class.

First vacation in over a year.

I recently purchased the new Noise REP band and wanted to share my unbiased and honest review having used it for 12+ hours. I am posting this review as a short term review because I wore the band and my old Fitbit Inspire 3 for 12+ hours together to see how they compared. I will not say whether the REP is good or bad, and will let the people decide for themselves. Here are the parameters I adhered to:

1. Started at 00:00, wearing the Inspire in my left hand, and REP on the right.
2. For both the NoiseFit app, and the Google Health app, I unsynced the phone, so that the measurements are solely taken from the respective tracker.
3. A major factor to note is that my Inspire is almost 2 years old, and therefore is calibrated quite well, while the REP is brand new.
4. I tracked and compared three main parameters - sleep, resting heart rate, and activity.
5. Fitbit Inspire retails at 8K+ and REP retails at 7999/- for now.

You can look the pictures of all the measurements each tracker took. The light images are Fitbit, and the dark images are REP.

I leave these here, for people to decide how good/bad the REP is. I will personally give it 8/10.

P.S. - I won't be able to take DMs as of now, so kindly ask me your questions in the comments. Thank you.

Just received this beautiful piece from China today. Mark Fairwhale automatic. For me, it's all about the utility, the look, the price, and then the brand - in that order. Anyway so many watches are made in China or components are imported from China. This stigma with Made in China stuff should now be over, IMO.

Interestingly, this is my 2nd Fairwhale watch. The earlier one was a gift, and it has been running smoothly for 4 years now. No hiccups at all.

Before people downvote me, I got it for next to nothing - less than 5K including shipping and import. Excited to get it fitted and take it for a spin.

Outfit Details:

Shirt and shorts from Westside.

Sneakers from Campus.

Cap from Urban Monkey

Kindly do not ask me how I did this, I genuinely won't be able to help. I'm very sorry.

I've often posted in this sub about how I work freelance and the various benefits I enjoy because of it. No stress, no commute, and more recently having the freedom to spend uninterrupted time with my newborn, to name a few. Whenever I post such content, there are people who ask me in the comments/DMs how they could too do freelance.

Although the pros do outweigh the cons, there is one aspect that isn't spoken about much. And that is the financial side of freelancing. I wanted to give my personal example to show how unpredictable and chaotic freelance could be in terms of earnings.

This image shows my month on month breakup of what I've earned. Although, my wife works full time and has a more than decent salary, living in a Tier 1 City results in so many expenses that any salary you earn after a point feels inadequate. Add to that the massively fluctuating freelance income, and things can spin out of control in no time.

I've personally felt the pinch in the last 1 - 1.5 years. As you can see, last year was my worst year (except the first year when I just started) in terms of earnings, and ironically, it was also the time I had some HUGE expenses. I felt like I was moving backwards. We moved to our own house and the EMIs came in full swing. We also had to change our 8 year old car, because it was no longer safe to drive it, and we decided to not take any debt, so the car was bought in cash. As we all know, baby expenses are unending 😄.

Despite all this l'll still choose freelancing any day over working in corporate (which I've done for 12 years).

This is my takeaway in the last year or so, which I am sharing so that it can help others who are thinking of taking the plunge and exploring the world of freelancing.

1. Ensure that your average earnings hover around a number that comfortably covers your expenses and your investments and savings.

2. Never assume all months will be the same - even if you have a set client with a lot of work.

3. Investing takes precedence over expenditure, when the earnings are not up to the mark.

4. Sometimes the grass is greener on your side.

The expenses will never end. Your lifestyle should not take a hit either. Family is most important. Consider all three and then make a decision!

Spaghetti Pasta with homemade Pesto (with a generous helping of Amul Cheese on top)!

Edit - I realize I don't eat that much cheese, so 'generous' may be over selling it. Sorry 😄

Can't remember the last time we had coffee outside of the house. Glad to be able to steal some moments like these ❣️

HMT Kohinoor.

Shirts from Max, Westside, and Zudio

Both Trousers from Westside

Jeans from Pantaloons.

Wife's famous homemade pizza and non-alcoholic beer! As the kids say - it slapped!

All the photos I have with him are me babywearing. At last, I stole a quick second to click a picture while he was busy eating his hands while lying down in the stroller.

The independence didn't last long though, and he was back in the baby carrier strapped to my chest. Babies be damn unpredictable! 😭♥️

Freelance work means working any time you can get an opportunity. For me, after the baby, the only peaceful hours that I can get for work are after the household sleeps.

My study, a coffee, a protein bar, my TV screen that I use as a monitor (lol), and the rains. Life isn't so bad, after all!