My Experiments with Time

  After a heated debate with my 10- year old, we settled to verify with the know-it-all Google. The question was whether I belonged to Gen X, Y or Z. Though we found contradictory statements, we finally agreed with what AI threw up with a beautiful image. I was declared a 'Gen Y or Millenial', ones born between 80s to mid 90s, typically the 90's kids. My mother who is apparently a 'Baby Boomer' as per the categorisation (wonder who named them that!) intervened stating it was called generation gap in their days, but hadn't heard of any specific names. In the 90s, when we were busy watching Tom and Jerry and Shaktimaan, we didn't realise that larger elements like globalisation and liberalisation were slowly changing our lifestyles, everything from the food we ate to the content we watched on television. Not having the 'Skip' option meant that we learnt to wait during Ad breaks; tolerance is really a virtue to practise. And we definitely used more of ou...

(Sequel to FFL - Friends for Life) When I opened the door to step out, I was horrified by the number of mails at my doorstep. I literally had to push them aside to proceed. Having the door bell removed did not help with the menace, now I had to deal with the unopened mails. As I approached the lift, random people came to say hi, they wanted to make friends with me. I had to ignore them and move forward. Life was getting difficult, I might be missing out important mails and important people when I was ignoring unsolicited ones. Now now, if you are wondering what is happening to me, I was just making an attempt to put life into the virtual world of social media platforms that are literally stalking us. In this sequel to FFL ( my earlier blog written almost a decade ago) you will see how much I have moved on and what the fast paced technology has done to me in my attempt to stay sane. I have grown up to the fact that these virtual platforms are no more Friends for life (FFL), ...

I have two hours to kill before I board the flight to Muscat. There is no better time, as travel brings out the creative me and makes we want to write or sketch. This trip to Georgia is special for more than one reason. Travelling was a couple goal we adopted few years ago, thanks to my soul mate who made me realise that travel is that one thing we buy for ourselves that will make us richer for a lifetime. What better way to celebrate fifteen years of our togetherness! Cheers, it did culminate in some wine-tasting at the Kakheti Winery! This trip was special for other reasons; our first time in Europe, our first real snowfall experience, and more so as my little girl is turning out to be a cool and independent travel partner. Another unique aspect was that we travelled in a group this time. That was a wonderful experience as it made us feel like a bunch of college students on a field trip with our History lecturer. Needless to say, our amazing guide Nino was a human encyclopedia, who s...