A Year of Mornings - Book Cover

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A Year of Mornings

A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.

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Sajal Choudhary

I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.

I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.

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Everything, as it happens — from the garden, the stream, and the Nordletter.

July 2026

A thing I’ve been doing for a long time is add any books I wanted to read in Reminders app. The problem was I read in a different place, created notes in a different place and so on.
Today, I solved some of it, by adding a to-be-read queue to my website.
Mostly for tracking books, but also movies, shows and games.

I’m considering getting a shorter domain name, maybe sajalc.net instead of the current longer name. I wonder if there is a point to it. Do people type urls in the search bar? Or do we just copy paste stuff?
I have liked cool domains - ma.tt, sive.rs and so on. Mine would be saj.al, which is available, but would be costly to own and renew.

A little sad about the match yesterday. England had started well, as had Argentina to be honest. But then England went full on defensive. It was only a matter of time once that happened.

Reminded me of how ManU used to play.

The PS6 sure sounds like a handheld by Sean Hollister

Here’s what I think: Sony is making a handheld PS6, as has been reported for some time, but it’s no longer a side dish — it might even be the main course. The Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, respectively the company’s best-selling and fastest-selling game consoles, have cemented that a do-it-all console-handheld hybrid is the most popular and profitable kind of console yet.

All conjecture at this point but I’m not sure how this will work. Has processing improved so much that we can get the full PS experience in a handheld?

Do I want to carry it with me in a bag wherever I go? Things break in a bag.

The cost of everything is increasing though - and I don’t know if the current PS5 type console will be affordable in the future.

Finland remains one of Europe's coolest countries as heavy rain looms

Finland will enjoy another spell of warm and sunny weather over the coming days, but temperatures remain well below those seen across much of Europe, where many regions continue to experience heat of around 30 degrees Celsius or more.

Another reason to love Finland!

We had gone to Zurich and Paris in August a couple of years ago and it was so damn hot. There was no AC either in the trams in Zurich. We were travelling in a greenhouse! When taking a seat we tried to sit in the area away from where the sunlight was direct.

No such problems here.

It did not end 1-0.
France were playing well, in fact, more likely to score till that penalty was awarded to Spain. After that they never looked like they were in the game.
Now, to the next one.