(Un)happy work anniversary 20 years ago, on a pleasant monsoon morning, I joined my first job. It was a Friday. I wore a new salwar kameez that mum had stitched for this very event-white kurta with lavender and cyan flowers paired with solid cyan salwar and dupatta. My heart raced so hard as…
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Random Rambling | That’s not how you do it, hon!
Yesterday morning, I decided to quit tea for good. And it was one of the best decision of my life. And I survived, almost fourteen hours since the sweeping declaration, almost thirty hours without tea. I was feeling quite proud of myself. But then, after dinner, my head started to spin, my eyes were…
Random Rambling | The Reluctant Traveller
The Lust of Wanderlust When I was little, I ached to travel around. I mean, I heard all these stories from my classmates and neighbourly of how their families would pack up every summer and venture to other neighboring cities for a summer break at their grandparents’ house like it was the most…
10 things I Notice Everytime I Watch Kya Hua Tera Wada song from Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin
I have a tendency to resort to Bollywood music every now and then, I like my dosage of nostalgia, you see. I’m not proud of it, but that’s what I do. Kya Hua Tera Wada (Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin) Today, I recalled this particular one, and watched it a couple of times,…
Random Rambling | Multitasking
We had a quarterly meeting today. The contents of that meeting are probably classified and definitely boring, so we’re not delving into that. Towards the end, a comment triggered some people to add their two cents. That comment that started it all: Do not multitask!!!.. Another person: Multitasking is a myth. The third…