Erode to Chennai!

There are many things that I face struggles for survival in Chennai.
In the beginning, I have to manage the feeling that I miss my hometown, and at the same time, accept the highly populated city. I am going to share a few problems that I am currently facing.

Home food
Till now, I did not value my home food or my hometown's style of food.
Here I am staying in a PG. They are Telugu people, so their food is also Telugu style. Literally, I can't eat the food they provide. Every day, I am searching for a new hostel or home food makers. Currently, I am convincing my mind that this situation is temporary, "it will change after u get a job and move into a new area."

Transportation
I didn't go anywhere till now in Chennai because of the traffic and lack of public transport. In my area metro is also not available nearby. If I plan to go by bus, I will be there half an hour late. So, I am simply sitting on my Hostel bed and scrolling the YouTube shorts.

Weather
Here, I can't feel the freshness of the bathing. Because after the shower, I immediately start sweating. Every day I am going to my class with my sweaty face, my mentor also asked about that yesterday. Actually, I have done my bachelor's degree in Coimbatore. Now, think about my situation. I enjoyed the breezy climate days in Coimbatore. Why am I saying this? There are only two months (March and May) when the weather is hot in Coimbatore.

So, these are my struggles in Chennai currently. Thank you for reading my blog. I'll let you know my upcoming blogs if I overcome these struggles or not and how I overcome them.

Attended the FOSS United Chennai Meetup Yesterday!

After, attending Grafana & Friends Meetup, straightly went to FOSS United Chennai Meetup at YuniQ in Taramani.

Had a chance to meet my Friends face to face after a long time. Sakhil Ahamed E. , Dhanasekar T, Dhanasekar Chellamuthu, Thanga Ayyanar, Parameshwar Arunachalam, Guru Prasath S, Krisha, Gopinathan Asokan

Talks Summary,

1. Ansh Arora, Gave a tour on FOSS United, How its formed, Motto, FOSS Hack, FOSS Clubs.

2. Karthikeyan A K, Gave a talk on his open source product injee (The no configuration instant database for frontend developers.). It’s a great tool. He gave a personal demo for me. It’s a great tool with lot of potentials. Would like to contribute !.

3. Justin Benito, How they celebrated New Year with https://tamilnadu.tech
It’s single go to page for events in Tamil Nadu. If you are interested ,go to the repo https://lnkd.in/geKFqnFz and contribute.

From Kaniyam Foundation we are maintaining a Google Calendar for a long time on Tech Events happening in Tamil Nadu https://lnkd.in/gbmGMuaa.

4. Prasanth Baskar, gave a talk on Harbor, OSS Container Registry with SBOM and more functionalities. SBOM was new to me.

5. Thanga Ayyanar, gave a talk on Static Site Generation with Emacs.

At the end, we had a group photo and went for tea. Got to meet my Juniors from St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology in this meet. Had a discussion with Parameshwar Arunachalam on his BuildToLearn Experience. They started prototyping an Tinder app for Tamil Words. After that had a small discussion on our Feb 8th Glug Inauguration at St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology Dr. KARTHI M .

Happy to see, lot of minds travelling from different districts to attend this meet.