Despite my best intentions, I am once again updating far too long after my last post. It’s a struggle to do all of the things I want to do even when I have the luxury of time. The days slip past even faster when happy and despite all my whinging,...
So much joy of watching House of the Dragon is derived from consuming post-show discussions and reactions. Reading tweets or memes about the unavoidable and uncomfortable viewer acceptance and rooting for Daemon and Rhaenyra’s relationship; hating on Alicent (worst ex-best friend ever) and Ser Criston (worst ex-one night stand ever);...
I feasted on quite a number of documentaries lately: Girl in the Picture, Our Father, Baby God, The Most Hated Man on the Internet and Paradise Lost (all 3!). HBO’s Paradise Lost was absolutely above the rest. It was so disturbing, thought provoking and moving. I only stumbled upon it...
Not much was actually wrong with Wondery’s Something Was Wrong podcast. I binged Season 1 in 2 days. I’ve gotten onto this bandwagon pretty late as well. It first dropped in 2019. This is the case with all my podcasts, as I have to (unimaginatively) google up “best podcasts to...
I just finished S*** Town by Serial productions and was as intrigued by it as I was in 2016 when I listened to Season 1 of Serial. When I first listened to S*** Town awhile back, I lost interest at the very beginning as it was so different from Serial....
Like many, I’ve been bingeing Stranger Things. The best thing about Season 4 is that J finally watched it with me. Of course, he got hooked. So when I rewatched Seasons 1 to 3 during the month long break before Season 4: Volume 2, Jason watched Season 3 with me...
When I watched Mulan as a kid, I remember a particular lyric of the song, Matchmaker striking a real chord in me. My mom regularly nagged me to 快手快脚, and here was Disney declaring Men want girls with good taste Calm Obedient Who work fast-paced With good breeding And a...
I’ve been on a podcast binge lately. I found Slate’s Slow Burn and listened to 3 seasons – Biggie and Tupac, Clinton and Watergate. All these major historical events that I know of but knew nothing much of. As a kid, I had created my own account of what these...
Well… I did something stupid. Background facts During the Covid lockdown, we adopted Loki. Loki is a pomapoo. It was August 2020, and he was 8 months old at the time. J was overjoyed. It had been J’s dream to have a dog for many years, albeit a more “manly”...
Once again, the last few weeks have passed by in a whirl. Felix and Alexis took part in their first swim meet two weeks ago. It was very ambitious of us because they had only attended seven or eight classes before the Swimin12 Sports Day. Alexis was very insistent that...