Magic Moments

The StoryGraph I am floored by the analytics and insights they have worked to provide. It is clear they have used AI and ML techniques for annotating the various moods associated with the books, from audiences around the world – like a manual crowd annotation of sorts. This is great since it is manual effort yet, labelling of the dataset, but the people on the platform are many, and I can only see the platform grow. Goodreads is really old, 2000s. In 2020s we need StoryGraph . I want to do certain recommendation system, like this website does with respect to emotional moods, but a bit different. Catering to Reading Challenges prompts. Like, you get book suggestions for prompts like ‘a lady of the cover’, ‘deals with Jewish traditions’ or ‘won JCB Price in last 10 years’. So, that is the idea. May be I’ll make it, hopefully I can, and leave a website for you to try. The Enneagram Type The Enneagram Personality Type – this is the recently trending personality system, a pointer o...

  There is a certain allure to a foreign land, a foreign culture, a different language, unchartered territories and a promise of romantic adventure. The latest offering from Netflix ‘Emily in Paris’ gives us all of these and more. It is all of 10 episodes of 25 or so minutes each, and is worth a binge-watch. It’s about a social media content strategist, Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins, who moves to Paris from Chicago to work for a marketing firm, a big career opportunity, dreaming of a wonderful life. It’s about her adventures both in career and romantic front, as she learns French, making hilarious mistakes and feeding her Instagram with all-things-Paris. We watch the beauty of Paris in its culture of life-first-work-second, all things luxurious- from fashion to perfume to wine, the spiraling staircase of a hundred-year old building where Emily stays, the ornate architecture, the old-world charm mingling effortlessly with the new, the elaborate office dinners, the picturesq...

Source Love Myself Or You is a 20 episodes Taiwanese drama. Du Kai Qi is self-reliant, independent and lives on her own terms. She refuses to seek help or rely on other for anything at all. She doesn’t ask for company even when she needs it the most. She doesn’t acknowledge any kind of assistance as it makes her feel indebted to the person. She likes being alone, and rarely seeks friendship. She thwarts every attempt of getting close from people around her through her rude remarks and mean words. She has trusting issues. She has a past. She doesn’t cry when she’s sad. She holds it in, and it fuels her work. Ah Jie is all smiles, all optimistic for everything. He is a professional chef who doesn’t enjoy the spotlight and joins as an intern in his father’s restaurant. He has worked in different French restaurants, studied culinary arts in France and knows Frenchmen’s taste as well as the French cuisine totally. He would sign his dishes ‘Louis’- his French name when he wor...