{"id":11441,"date":"2017-04-29T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T10:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:48:15","slug":"memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/29\/memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a somewhat scatter-brained person, and I&#8217;ve also always felt this sort of compulsion to catalog everything. The\u00a0hope, I think, is that\u00a0indexing everything would somehow make my life better \u2013\u00a0that I would &#8220;learn my lessons&#8221;\u00a0better.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Over the years, I&#8217;ve definitely written a bunch of things that are memoir-ish. I&#8217;ll index them here.<\/p>\n<h3>Overall:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/misfit\/\">Misfit<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/visakan.veerasamy\/posts\/10152395674178915\">I was the problem child<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/indian\/\">Indian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/childhood\/\">Childhood<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/04\/24\/games\/\">games from my childhood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/04\/21\/the-love-of-reading\/\">the love of reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/my-education-journey\/\">My education journey<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/28\/junior-college-sucked-for-me\/\">junior college sucked for me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/22\/armchair-critic-history\/\">Armchair Critic history<\/a>\u00a0(shows) \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/07\/09\/the-rather-strange-armchair-critic-story\/\">Armchair Critic oral history<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/15\/jamming\/\">memories of jamming with many different musicians<\/a>\u00a0\/<\/p>\n<h3>2000 \u2013 2004:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/gep\/\">GEP<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2007 &#8211; 2009:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/05\/smoking-in-jc\/\">smoking in JC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/28\/why-i-stopped-reading\/\">why I stopped reading<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2010-2012:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/10\/08\/snippets-of-memoirs\/\">snippets of memoirs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/06\/05\/the-joy-of-exhaustion-and-menial-labour-2010\/\">working at the singapore air show<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/30\/past-couple-of-weeks\/\">Sudden BMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/01\/11\/national-service\/\">my national service experience<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>2013<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/starting-work\/\">Starting work\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a somewhat scatter-brained person, and I&#8217;ve also always felt this sort of compulsion to catalog everything. 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