I found another really strange thing that happens with Mongoose when used inside Async.
let mongoose = require('mongoose'); mongoose.connect(db_conn_string); let util = require('util'); let async = require('async'); let Schema = mongoose.Schema; let ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId; var PersonSchema = new Schema({ name: { type: String }, username: { type: String,...
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26 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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bangalore
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floods
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nature
08:00 pm: Walk into a restaurant for dinner with a few friends and seniors from IIT KGP.
11:30 pm: Decide to step outside and be faced with one feet of water in every direction the eye can see.
Reaction: WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE?
The best reference to come up with here is: July 26, 2005, Bombay
I was there, 9 years old at the time. Hardly understanding what the fuss was about, schools weren’t there for a few days I was definitely real happy about THAT. There was a lot of stuff going on at that time in the city, I got to know of most of them after the fact. As stories that were recounted several times...
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25 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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adaptations
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emma
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gillan
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karen
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movies
I watched The Circle. It’s a movie everyone needs to watch
The movie touches on some of the core concepts of privacy and does a really really good job of putting a clear LINE where transparency begins and privacy ends. They do it in an obscure fashion with no direct references, main characters who are incredibly skewed in their personalities, visions and with motives unknown to the audience. Money might be a driving factor, but Tom Hanks’ character and the guy Tom Stenton, they have LOTS of data, I wonder if money is their only over reaching goal.
Anyway, putting all of that aside, it’s a great cautionary tale of what happens when people start believing that what’s not on...
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24 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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books
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king
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shawshank
The second type of guy knows that there is no harm in hoping for the best as long as you are prepared for the worst
(p. 88, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King)
I have known this particular phrase / quote for a long time now. I finally found the source (or it could be older than even this book!) In any case, it is a GREAT quote to live by.
(27th May, 2017) I have now read about 100-110 pages of the book. Dufresne has made the escape, Red is merely tying up all the knots. I have read the whole book (almost) on my phone, and I didn’t check where the book ends. So...
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23 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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king
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mongoose
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movies
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population
UNFULFILLED POTENTIAL
If you have seen any trailer of The Circle (2017), you will know that this is the thing that Emma Watson’s character is most scared of. I just finished watching Good Will (Goodwill?) Hunting. That movie is the portrayal of unfulfilled potential. The ending is good, in my opinion though, the movie is over rated generally.
I have gone through 2 pages of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It’s pretty easy reading (after that nightmarish historical mystery book, I bet anything with actual people walking around the place would be easy reading) and I know who Andy Dufresne is. Fair enough, more updates soon.
I went back and had a look at the “Should we send...
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22 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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books
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king
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movies
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suits
Next up: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King. I read my Stephen King book a few months back, and I promised to read more Stephen King this year. Different Seasons (the set of 4 novellas) is the perfect way to get started. All the four novellas are small enough for me to be able to be confident enough that I will finish each soon.
(It’s also a convenient way to cheat through the Goodreads reading challenge and mark 1 HUGE book as four books. I don’t know of any other Stephen King book that would afford that particular oppurtunity.
Good Will Hunting is the next movie I would like to tackle, I didn’t finish watching it just yet....
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21 May 2017
100daysofwriting
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alien
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books
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covenant
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movies
I finished reading Daughter of Time today! -> Goodreads review
Today will be one of the few days that I have been able to post well before midnight AND on the same day as the post is due to be out. I think as this endeavour comes to an end, I would like to be able to make the last 7 posts on time. Ending on a high, is what it is called, I think.
I watched Alien: Covenant today. It was so totally on a whim. It’s a GREAT movie though. Saying anything more about it will almost certainly spoil the plot for the reading-between-the-lines sort of readers of this blog.
Michael Fassbender does an amazing job playing...
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20 May 2017
100daysofwriting
Shutter Island vs. Inception. I immediately picked Shutter Island, ironically, I know Inception’s story and even the little subtleties of the screenplay, storytelling, dialogues, the flights, the characters, the levels etc etc way better than Shutter Island which I watched only once. I decided to fix that and watch the whole movie again.
The Circle is out. I wanted to read that book before the movie came out and then I could go to the movies and watch the movie and decide what I liked better: A few hundred pages or Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. I decided to do that one year ago with Great Expectations (Dickens) and Fitoor. I managed to finish the book and watch the...
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19 May 2017
100daysofwriting
The Daughter of Time is a slight disorienting book. It is about a historical murder (or not?) and dates back four centuries. The names are all extremely confusing (of the characters in the book that the main character is reading). For now, Alan, the Matron, the two nurses, Marta, Brent and Laura seem to be the only ones in the main story that matter. There’s also a Sergeant, and a Super who never enters the picture (Thankfully!)
On the historical side though, things are murky as hell. Richard III is the character of interest, he has an elder brother by ten years Edward. I don’t know what number this Edward was though, IV seems like a good guess. He also...
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