Chinmoy Mukherjee

Santa's Last Christmas (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Santa's Last Christmas follows Chunmun Singh, a young migrant from Punjab, India, who arrives in Sydney seeking a better life. Armed with a student visa, he enrolls in a business course in Parramatta but quickly faces the harsh realities of high living costs, leading him to take up delivery gigs and share a cramped apartment in the vibrant Indian enclave of Harris Park. Over five years, Chunmun adapts to Australian culture while grappling with isolation, financial strain, and the fading novelty of city life. His annual role as a seasonal Santa at Eastfield Parramatta becomes a financial lifeline, earning him around 25,000 AUD plus tips during December, which he stretches through lean months amid soaring expenses like rent, groceries, and utilities.

Amid his struggles, Chunmun finds love with Priya Sharma, nicknamed "Ms. Aussie" for her seamless blend of Indian heritage and Australian flair. Their romance blossoms through community events, picnics, and shared dreams, but cracks under the pressure of his unstable income and Sydney's exorbitant costs. As Santa, Chunmun endures grueling shifts in a sweltering summer, projecting jolly cheer while dealing with chaotic incidents like a puppy urinating on his suit, a child's mispronounced wish for "fucks" (meaning trucks), and bizarre requests such as a unicorn that poops rainbows or a real human skull. These humorous mishaps provide brief respite and boost his tips, but they can't mask his growing exhaustion and doubts about his deferred dreams.

The turning point comes when Priya leaves, unable to envision a stable future together. Heartbroken and facing insurmountable expenses, Chunmun realizes his Australian dream has soured. With savings from his final Santa season totaling around 30,000 AUDa fortune back homehe decides to return to Punjab. The novella culminates in his emotional farewell to Sydney, reflecting on the resilience gained from migrant life, and his joyful reunion with family. Back on the farm, Chunmun plans to invest in agricultural improvements, embracing a simpler, rooted existence where true fulfillment lies in familiar scents, sounds, and horizons rather than seasonal illusions abroad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232972035
• Artikelnr.: 76112857

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.