After a long hiatus - 8 years

 Lot of life happened in the last 8 years. Much changed in my life. I got a son who's 9 years now. I've ping-ponged between a few companies. 

Let me tell the order:

• 2013: End of 2013 moved out of Xilinx back to Ineda as I wanted to do more work
• 2014 - 2015 : Worked at Ineda. Got to do excellent work. But, after a while, there was no work. I was idle for almost 4-5 months. I got an offer from SM Silicon (Soft Machines) and moved there
• 2015 - 2017 : Worked at Soft Machines. Didn't really like the work initially. I did the design for some good block. But, my manager's manager was an ass. He was abusive. I didn't like him. I had to work a lot of nights. Didn't want to take that sort of pressure and moved out. Asked Pidugu if there was an option back at Xilinx.
• 2017 - 2022: Pidugu forwarded to an IP team. I liked it there. Worked for 5.5 years till AMD acquired. AMD acquisition put me in 10+ years back designation. I was pissed, but I was moving on.
• 2022 - Currently: Got an offer from Imagination for decent money. I moved here. I was made a lead and responsibility has increased

This is work. Now, coming to personal life:

Karna: He's now 9 years old. How time flies!!! He's very energetic and naughty. 

Sahaja: I'm proud of her completing Acupuncture course. She's doing her Masters in Psychology. 

After Karna was born, I couldn't do my yoga so much because of lack of sleep for many days. I tried doing yoga. Body didn't like it.

So, I wanted some quick weight reduction. I hated walking and running. But, I wanted to try walking short distances. Did it. And slowly built up to 10KMs per day.

But then, as I'm wot to do: I started having bowel movements halfway in the walk. 😅😅. This made sure I had to stop walking. And in the morning time, there were dogs and this made the problem worse. I hated it.

I then tried going to my apartment gym with horrible treadmill, obnoxious elliptical trainer and a bizarre cycle. I didn't like the quality of it. So, I decided to join Talwalkars.

Like a typical globo-gym, a trainer caught me on day 1 and convinced me to train with him. I lost about 8 KGs in 3 months. But, I was extremely weak. I didn't like it. I wanted to be able to play with Karna and strong enough to lift him.

So, I started slowly moving towards strength training. Found Rippetoe. Bought his books. Did what I thought he taught. And was bad at it. I tore my rectus abdominis with 285lbs on my back while doing squat. I was terrified of going back to that weight for quite sometime.

In the meanwhile, Talwalkars chose to remove the only Jone's machine which I could with a barbell. I searched for some gyms and found "Core Fitness Station gym" near my home. Worked very well for 2.5 years before Pandemic hit.

In the meanwhile in 2018 March or so, I was frustrated with my lifts not going up. So, I wanted to get coached from Rippetoe's team online, which was then called Starting Strength Online Coaching and now called as Barbell-Logic Online Coaching.

I had a labrum tear in 2018 November and ended up with a shoulder surgery. And by 2019 end, I was getting slowly stronger and in 2020, pandemic hit and I had to stop going to gym......

But, then I wanted to get my own gym. I bought all the equipment required for all my lifts for about 2.5L. I put this setup in an apartment owned by my in-laws.