Premature Celebration

Just when I was gloating over the fact that our medicine cabinet was almost empty, it's brimming with bottles again. Half the people are down with fever and the rest are awaiting their turn.

New Destination

Spoke to L. Her life is all set to take yet another turn. When I think about it, our lives are so different and if I hadn't met her in college, I guess we would've never crossed paths, even if we lived within a mile of each other.

My promise to L of visiting her in Singapore has become all the more urgent now.

Fragrant Death

Standing in the Metro jammed between two heavily perfumed people is one hell of an experience.

Awake

Bangalore is not the city for someone in need of peaceful sleep. Crackers start bursting in the midnight, out of the blue, making you wonder if you missed a big event. They don't need one, actually.

Days and Nights

I make a list everyday and I break it too. It's a struggle to keep up with the schedule, every single day. I know quitting the job will make my life easier. But this job has been a convenient excuse for the many inadequacies of mine and I'm afraid that when I lose that excuse, I'll be forced to stare at all my flaws and I'll like myself even less.

Outbound

I'm glad we went to Shivanasamudra on Sunday. The weather looked ominous and forecast had rain but we took a chance. Mostly because of Rishi. He's been bitten by the travel bug now. Actually not so much of travel as of doing 'something' over every holiday. He even wanted to bunk Friday and see more places over the long weekend but we weren't prepared. The boy wrote a tough exam recently and did fairly well. It seems to have set him free. Augurs well.

Shivanasamudra falls were good. Kaveri is full and the water falls down in amazing quantity. But you can't go near the falls like before and there is total lack of any kind of facility to view them to your heart's content. It almost felt like our temples, where you jostle to get a short glimpse of God. There is so much of litter all around, you feel sorry for the beautiful nature. It's like the only beautiful places in Karnataka are the ones not visited by tourists.

Binge Season 2

Two season twos in three days. Sacred Games and Mindhunter. Actually I watched Mindhunter Season 1 only two days before. I don't think that's an influencer but it wins hands down. On the other hand, Sacred Games is a terrible letdown. The storyline is as nonsensical as it can be. Pankaj Tripathi is wasted and Nawaz doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing. And the first few episodes pack in so much of profanity that even I wanted to shout back some of them. What the hell! If not for the optimistic P, I wouldn't have completed the series.

I'm hooked to Mindhunter now. And I hate the thought that Season 2 will finish soon.