Moved to Seattle, started at Microsoft
Rain seven months a year and Mount Rainier appearing out of nowhere on the clear days, which is a fair trade. Also where my taste in flannel quietly became sincere.
KhushwinKhushwin Ujoodha
I build Android apps at Microsoft, and Orbit in the evenings. I grew up on an island in the Indian Ocean and I still cook like it.
Everything below is dated, newest first — work, Orbit, tennis, the occasional thing I wrote. One list, because that’s the order it actually happened in.
nobody’s life has separate tabs for “work” and “personal”
journey is the three places I’ve lived, oldest last
I own four. sincerely.
Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Left the island at eighteen for a university I had never seen. Four years of computer science, four years of varsity swimming, one real coat. Worcester is where I went from someone who codes to a software engineer, and I can't point at the week it happened.
Vacoas-Phoenix, Mauritius
Sugarcane, sleeping volcanoes, and three languages in one sentence. Non-negotiable formative event.
the list ends where I started.
felt right.