The Fashion statement of Westeros
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Game of Thrones Memes: Winter is Coming!
We are the Starks of Winterfell, people expect us to be weird. Whatever the conversation, it usually ends when you say "Winter is Coming"!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Game of Thrones Memes: Ser Jorah the Man-servant
Ser Jorah Mormont - Previously worked at Brave Knights Inc.
Presently employed as man-servant/flunky.
Game of Thrones Memes: Dragon Eggs
Previously : Dragon eggs, precursors to the most fearsome creatures in the realm
Presently: Decorative stones
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Getting Old at 24
To some people, the age
of 24 years might seem as far away from being termed old as it could possibly
be. But getting old is more of a mental state of being than a physical one. You
could still be able to walk miles at a stretch and not feel tired, but even as
you walk, the past and future haunt you even as the present seems uncertain.
And not so long ago, I found the whole concept of a Mid-life crisis a bit vague
and out of place.
I guess I am beginning
to enter that age when nothing on Facebook seems interesting anymore. My
friends keep requesting me to get out there and solve some criminal cases,
perhaps play some Poker, but I guess I am too old for games now...maybe in a
few months my Facebook Timeline will look like that of all the other "old
people" who maintain Facebook pages for God knows what reason!
Instead, all I ever seem
to want on a weekend is a good book to read and a nice, peaceful nap that goes
on and on.
It doesn't hit you like
a brickbat, mind you. It creeps up onto you and before you realize you are introduced as
"uncle" to small kids, and addressed similarly by certain ladies with
a distorted sense of the passage of time.
It occurs around the
time you file your first Income Tax Return. Your family starts taking you
seriously and your advice on financial and social matters is eagerly sought and
duly noted, instead of being brushed off as immature as should have been the
rule before having filed said return.
Money matters take the
first hit. Unlike earlier, when money would have at best been associated with a
smartphone or laptop budget, you start contemplating your investment portfolio
and devising tax-saving schemes to save some hard-earned money from ending up in government coffers.
Then come fairly small, almost
unnoticeable things. One day you miss an eagerly awaited cricket match due to
work, and the next thing you know, you have lost all interest in such childish
pursuits. I do not even remember the last time I watched a cricket match on Television
or even cared to turn to the Sports page at the end of the newspaper.
It is the time when you
contemplate life-altering decisions while walking to office eating an apple,
standing in the shower, waiting for your Burger at Mc Donald’s (on second thoughts,
they have a pretty decent service and plenty of distractions (:P) around so let us count that out). You no longer care
about the stares from the onlookers while you stare straight ahead of you deep in thought like
a perpetual visionary.
Well, to be fair, I have
always been a bit out of place for my age group. My idea of "Aaj Kuch
Toofani karte hain" (Let's do something rash today!) still involves
reaching the Bus Stop 5 minutes earlier instead of the standard waiting time of
15 minutes. Minus all the Harry Potter, Disney and Batman movies, I am a pretty
intense character.
It is just that for the
first time in my life I am missing the innocence of my childhood. Back then,
life was pretty simple, you do your homework on time, watch Disney Hour, write
your exams, and play for 1 hour in the evening.
But now, there are such
a large number of variables involved in my life, I can’t comprehend the order
of the differential equation that shall solve my woes! And all this when the
most potent complexity (or so I have been told), the Female conundrum is yet to
hit me!
I hope that this
complex, uncertain phase ends as quickly as it began. But for now, it seems
like a particularly long wait!
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