Zindagi Rockz

It felt like I knew you guys forever.. So, that initial awkwardness or the need to make that first 'good impression' was never felt.. And we just transitioned from colleagues to best buddies effortlesly.. There was nothing that we couldn't discuss about.. Yours was the only company where I felt safe and where I let my guard down.. I could be myself.. You know the passive aggressive, sarcastic, unpleasant person that I usually am.. But still you accepted me.. Because you saw some 'good' in me.. So while I was this rather 'difficult' person to be around with I was still welcome among you all.. And you never missed an opportunity to make me feel special.. Be it by celebrating my birthday with all the fanfare that a 'homesick' girl deserves, or by making my favourite dish because I had access to only boring PG food.. Those 8 or 9 years of my life have been the best years of my life.. There's absolutely no doubt about that.. Those dinner meets whe...

So for all those people mourning the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, here are some statistics for you.. Between January and March 2019, 610 farmers committed suicide in India.. At the time this also made news headlines but never trended on Social Media.. Also I never saw these many posts/tweets praying for the souls of those farmers so that they rest in peace.. I'd like to ask "Why wasn't same concern shown then?".. See I don't want to get preachy about the whole issue because I know I'm not perfect.. But it does make me want to laugh out aloud when I read comments like "Lets boycott Bollywood", Let's boycott XYZ films. and not watch films of actors namely ABC, EFG and so on.. Like really?? You're going to boycott "their" films?? Hypocritic much? You're seriously going to boycott movies produced by a certain individual because you feel he/she abetted the suicide of the person in the news lately? Well I know I wont.. the reaso...

So this used to be a long standing joke between an old friend and me.. That I will undertake a solo trip someday.. and whenever I would talk about undertaking this 'solo trip', my friend would trip over me, cracking a lot of mean jokes at my expense.. Well, for those of you who know me closely probably know about my terrific sense of direction or rather the lack of it! I'm just terrible with directions.. I just can't seem to remember routes/roads/places/landmarks.. I'm directionally challenged.. so much so that another friend would joke saying that if she took me outside office and just swirled me around I wouldn't know in which direction to proceed in order to reach my house.. and that's precisely why Google Maps was invented.. To lead the 'blind' people like me.. lol.. Recently went home to Bangalore for a bit.. The normal mode of transport between Bangalore and Hassan used to be the Airavat (sigh! how much I miss you Airavat).. However, owing to t...

This is my take/review on the Season 2 of the web series "Four more shots please!" So like I've said in an earlier post, the cardinal rule while watching a blockbuster movie or in this case, a "fabulous" season of a web series, is that you need to leave your brains behind and also accept the fact that all logic goes for a toss.. Well, I loved the first season of this series and so I watched Season 2 as soon as it was released and enjoyed it thoroughly.. To my surprise I read a lot of negative reviews about the series.. See, I get why people are miffed.. Can you imagine a group of friends who have not been on talking terms for months together just drop everything and decide to take a trip to Istanbul? So when I saw this scene I rolled my eyes and said "Yeah right, they're flying off to Istanbul and here my friends don't even want to visit me in Hassan.. Yeah so that and a few other things make you wonder if you should be putting your time to bet...

So we have to come to the end of Day 13 of the lockdown..It's way past my bed time... but I'm unable to fall asleep.. I'm looking at a baby lizard that's on the wall.. which is playing hide and seek with me.. Well, spotting a lizard in your house isn't a scary thing.. The horror begins when you can no longer see the lizard.. that's when you are shit scared and wondering where the lizard has disappeared and whether it is crawling on the floor or worse still, whether it's landed on your bed.. presently this baby lizard is hiding behind my guitar that's propped up against the wall.. Guess I won't be catching much sleep tonight.. So this baby lizard along with two other baby lizards have been my company at home during this lockdown period.. I was telling about these three lizards to my friend who said that they must be the same lizard.. And I got into a detailed explaination about how I can identify that they're three different lizards.. My frien...

Well it's that time of the year when people profess their undying "love" for their beloved by sharing roses, chocolates, teddy bears and all such "useless" items..(Yes the grapes are sour!).. Anyway,I spent today sharing memes on Valentine's day with other people who also found that the grapes were sour! Heh heh heh.. So we were having this discussion at work where a colleague was telling us that in his younger days his friends and he would have a discussion about how many roses/proposals they got on Valentine's day.. It was a fun discussion.. it took us all down the memory lane and we began to get nostalgic albeit silently not really wanting to share our rather shady memories of Valentine's days in our younger days.. Today, for no particular reason several people came to mind.. A friend who'd been in a long distant relationship with her then boyfriend and now husband, A friend who'd been in a steady relationship with her then boyfriend...

So I'm a frequent traveler between Hassan and Bangalore and the Club Class Airavat (Bus) is my preferred mode of transport.. It certainly burns a hole in the pocket because a regular non stop 'kempu' bus ticket would cost jus 200..but then I would have to meet a lot of unpleasant people on the kempu bus and endure their company for a good 4 hours on an uncomfortable bus ride.. Hence the journeys on the "more expensive but comfortable and free from clowns" Airavat.. Normally I spend the journey time trying to catch up on sleep/listening to music/playing Candy crush (Oh yes! I'm still addicted to that game.. lol).. On one such journey a lady happened to be sitting beside me.. I was answering an official call.. Just as I hung up she turned towards me and struck up a conversation with me.. Now all you people who know me closely know how much I hate small talk...and what I hate more is when strangers sitting next to me in the bus, try to start a conversation wi...