A Personal Almanac
Abul Bashar ArmanA Personal Almanac
— the author, in monochrome —
By profession, a Computer Scientist. By passion, a traveler and a trader. By heart, a poet — and a quiet student of philosophy, psychology, and history. Now and then I sit with the sixty-four squares, where strategy and imagination learn to speak the same language.
Wandered 40+ cities across 18 countries
My passport
A record of where the road has taken me — cities I passed through, and cities that passed through me.
Visas & Endorsements
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PAK'19·KHI
QAT'21·DOH
TUR'22·IST
GER'22·FRA
BEL'23·BRU
NED'23·AMS
CZE'23·PRG
ITA'23·ROM
AUT'23·VIE
SVK'23·BTS
LUX'24·LUX
POR'24·LIS
ESP'24·MAD
FRA'24·PAR
SUI'24·ZRH
UAE'24·DXB
HUN'25·BUD
ROU'25·BUH
Wandered
18 countries
My upcoming books
Two novels and a book of verses, still finding their final shape. Peek at the shelf before the ink is dry.
Two novels and a book of verses — all coming soon. Slide through the shelf.
Enter my books →My library — books that shaped me
The shelves that shaped me — pages already lived, chapters unfolding, and volumes patiently awaiting their hour.
Switch shelves above — slide to browse each one.
Browse the library →The growth systems
A quiet cabinet of the instruments I truly live by — refined across psychology, focus, money, health, and craft. Built on time-tested principles, distilled into templates you can adopt today and keep for a lifetime — no gurus, no subscriptions, just systems that quietly compound.
A cabinet of small instruments
drawer i · simple templates
Excel & Google Sheets — open, edit, make it yours in minutes.
drawer ii · full systems
User-friendly web & desktop apps — installed once, yours to keep.
Adopt any one — or more — for less than a cup of coffee.
one-time buy · no subscriptions · yours forever
My thoughts
Articles, essays, and small observations — filed like clippings from a life in motion. Read one, share one, or wander the tags.
On Wandering Slowly
Some cities you pass through. Others pass through you. A note from a quiet week in Lisbon, where the trams keep their own time and the light forgives everything.
Share to Instagram story, WhatsApp, or anywhere — the link opens the full page.
From the desk
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thoughts from a life
in motion
Vol I · issue vii
Latest thoughts
browse by topic
— clippings from the week, filed and dated —
A virtual coffee
An unhurried hour, cup to cup — bring anything you're carrying and we'll sit with it a while.
Reserve a Cup
A conversation, cup to cup.
An unhurried hour on anything you're carrying — philosophy, psychology, moving abroad, trading, or the art of staying calm while the world moves fast.
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Career Abroad
- Trading & Crypto
- Finance
- Arts & Spirit
The purpose
This almanac is a quiet corner of the internet where the many lives I lead find one roof. Here I share my poetry and short stories, open the shelves of my library for what I am reading and what has shaped me, and offer my books — in paper and ebook — for those who care to hold a thought a little longer.
You will also find the growth systems I actually live by — habit trackers, finance and research templates, daily routines — refined over years and offered for less than a cup of coffee: buy once, use forever, no monthly rent on your own discipline.
And, of course, dispatches from the road — travel blogs and vlogs, field notes, chess diaries, and whatever else the week hands me.
Read · Reflect · Grow