Low Altitude Sickness

I’ve been thinking about this for quite sometime now. Whenever, I return after a trip, it completely unsettles my rhythm back at home. My tolerance threshold is very fragile and especially when it gets to my Parents it almost nill. I think it is quite an experience living together with Parents in late 20s and [...]

Immaculate Contraception

These days, I get peeved quite frequently. I usually vent my frustration in one form or the other. Point is…it is certainly not healthy and makes people around me uncomfortable.

I will be entering 30s by the end of the third quarter of this Calendar year (Gregorian). In the past 1 year or so, I have [...]

Cry out loud

It was a Sunday afternoon and my mother decided to open up the matrimonial conversion (the last topic that I wanted to discuss with my Parents). This is the type of discussion that I have never been seeing eye-to-eye with my Parents. The worst thing is…you don’t want Parents to be baby-sitting you (or in [...]

Get your own binoculars

This post draws heavy inspiration from Eddie Vedder’s “Long Nights” song. I recently watched the movie, “Into the Wild” (2007). It is such a terrific film and would recommend it to anyone that liked “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest“/”House of Sand and Fog“/”A Perfect World“. “Into the Wild” introduced me to Eddie Vedder’s work [...]

It rains in Mojave

“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it” - George Augustus Moore

My professional track is meandering away from the expectations of a very normative society. I don’t see myself in the shoes of a 9-to-5 working prototype in a cubicle life. If you are reading this [...]

The humming bird smokes

The beauty about life is its *unpredictability*. The unpredictability of relationship, job, markets, weather etc.

If life was so predictable, i think it would be utterly boring. How do you handle yourself gracefully in situations of failure? How do you learn to recompose yourself after a relationship that didn’t work out the way you intended? Sure, [...]

Arrested Development::The dust settles

“The things that you own end up owning you” - Character “Tyler Durden”, Fight Club

Why am I such a Nihilist? No! Not always. Says my other alter-ego. So, after working as a freelance developer from home (as in Parent’s home), I decided to move to Bangalore based on an opportunity to work for a Startup. [...]