Intro Every month, I try to post a roundup of everything I wrote/read/watched that month. This year, I’m starting another series to post about planned reads and actual reads. Kinda like office, y’know, setup goals for the year and then year-end assessment of where I was. Just trying to be more disciplines, is all. (And…
Category: Just Saying
I am a fairly opinionated person, but people request me to not be honest. I still need a place to voice my opinions, don’t I? These posts are primarily for venting out the frustration. Occasionally, I may share joyous and pleasant news, too.
Friday Frenzies | First of 2026
TGIF! Frenzy is absolutely justified, right? It’s Friday, the last working day. I have the weekend, followed by two days PTO. I’m super stoked. This week was crazy. Even though many team members were on vacation, my life wasn’t easy as I was supposed to finish an epic. With age, I’m becoming more forgetful about…
Thursday Thrills | Party to Banti Hai
This week was crazy. This year was crazier. Maybe, someday, when I have the time and patience, I’ll write all about it (I have notes, y’know) but not today, not for a foreseeable future. The Invitation So, I was racing against time to finish things, last day and all (for the deliverable, nothing to do…
The Year That Was 2025
Yearly recap of 2025, because why not? Wrote Almost Nothing One novel and two short stories under my name, nothing under any other pen names. That’s all wrote this year. Reasons not to be disclosed. So Out of My League After the Bell Rain Because I wrote very little, I earned very little as royalty….
Roundup | December 2025
Intro Three months in a row. Am I awesome of what? December 2025 Reading Roundup I planned to read all Indian authors from my shelf. Of course, that would be too much, so I picked the pile from the back of the shelf. A nice mix, isn’t it? 1. The Most Eligible Bachelor — Satyapal…
Tuesday Tantrums | The Candy Crush Fiasco
I’ve had a very long relationship with candy crush. If I remember correctly, I started playing the game in 2013 sometime, back when life was simpler, my thumbs were innocent, and match-three games hadn’t yet wrapped themselves around my soul like a clingy situationship. From the beginning, ours was a classic love-hate relationship: I loved…
Sunday Screed | JioHotstar Subscription Fiasco
The day was 14-December-2025. We were nearing the 5 matches T20 series between India and South Africa. Whenever any such series begin, my heart races, I get anxious and restless. Not because I’m an avid cricket fan. Because my father acts like a one-year-old. For the ODI series between India and South Africa, I had…
Thursday Thrills | Merry Xmas
Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way. Oh! what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh. Hey! It is Christmas. The celebration for me is not Christmas but the fact that I got a day off, a day I can use to cross a few items off my never-ending list…
Roundup | November 2025
Intro I’m back, as promised. Yay, me! November 2025 Reading Roundup This was going to be a light month in terms of reading, no thanks to ongoing health issues and shitty work situation. I read abridged version of a classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And then I tried to finish something I started back…
Roundup | October 2025
Intro I’m so bad at keeping promises to myself, aren’t I? In Roundup | July 2025, I promised to revive the tradition of monthly roundsup and then I disappeared for two months. Honestly, not in a good headspace these days, suffering from both physical health issues and a ton of mental stress. This also reflects…