Life As I Know It

Sima Taparia - The Matchmaker Indian matchmaking seems like the perfect segue to explain my absence and presence on this blog. I had last posted here on 25 th December, 2017. I could no longer write the way I was writing earlier because I felt that the good out of me was being sucked out by the people around me. I wanted to write but couldn’t write, my friend Lulu couldn’t write because she wasn’t sure if she’d stick to it once she started. That’s how Bob and Lulu was born. We decided that, that blog would be our escape; our alter egos that people weren’t aware of were highlighted there. The blog was in parts revenge and mostly our way of telling people, “ In your face!” If you read some of my posts here between 2015 to 2017 you’ll realise that there was a lot of anger and sadness in those posts and I did not want to make my safe place on the internet a diary of sad stories.   Where did all the anger and sadness come from? Simple – My relatives and society. I learnt ...

The lockdown is taking a toll on me as I am sure it is on you too. I started writing a post on my top 5 favourite gender bender – Japanese and Korean dramas. Then my laptop started acting funny and it would be tragic if both Lulu and I were sans laptop in the current circumstances. I decided to give my laptop some rest for a couple of days and during that time I cleaned the fan and guess what the laptop is back to staying on without switching off, so yay! In the past two days I decided to finish watching a historical Korean show I’d started watching after Itaewon Class but I seem to have hit a road block with the series as I am finding it to be too dry and  ghisa pita, wahi purana story.  Usually people parallelly watch romedys when they are reading a heavy book or watching an emotionally taxing show. I need to watch emotionally taxing stuff just to complete viewing this Korean drama(Which I still can't bring myself to finish watching.). I have two more epis...

I love Park Seojun and I have watched all the series he’s been in and Itaewon Class was released this year so I knew I would binge watch once all the episodes were released.   IC is originally a Manhwa (Korean equivalent of a Manga). I had read this comic in parts and then as luck would have it the app I was using was removed from the play store. (Yes, I read pirated comics online. If there was a paid source that had the comics I want to read believe me I would pay and read. If anybody so much as suggests Crunchyroll I will find you and punch you in the face. I hate Crunchyroll it has such a yucky selection of comics. Even if I am a girl I need my fair share of violence because some experience I like having vicariously). I don’t know if I have mentioned about my love for revenge previously on this blog. I love the Count of Monte Cristo so much!!! I read it for the first time in school and I understood what “Kalaje main thandak” meant.   I have reread that book so many times si...

Given all the hype around Sacred Games it was but natural that I’d end up watching it. I haven’t read the book hence I am not comparing the show to the book. My primary reason for watching this show was Anurag Kashyap and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. I have loved their combo since 2012 when I watched Gangs of Wasseypur. I am a tad bit ashamed to mention that the language used in both Sacred Games and GoW helps me vicariously channel my extensive vocabulary in cussing. I liked how the story began. This isn’t a slow narrative, you basically have to run with the characters to catch up with their mind and emotions and sometimes have to see between the frames. I live on the extreme ends of storytelling arch. I love the slow narrative where each and everything is described in such a manner that you feel you are in that situation and you start feeling what the character feels and then there is the impromptu situation where you are unexpectedly put in and you have to start catching up with why the cha...

Image courtesy Wikipedia. I like AIB and when they came up with the   - ‘ The Truth about lust’ video I knew that I’d end up watching Lust Stories and here we are with the review. There goes one more thing in my bag of bad choices🤦. No, no read on. I promise to be funny. Before I proceed further please know that there will be spoilers😈. I hate Karan Johar and I would also recommend that you never rely on KJo for personal hygiene tips😐. Having said that let’s begin! The first story is directed by Anurag Kashyap and it features Radhika Apte and Akash Thosar of the Sairat (OG) fame. I like both these actors and as the story unfolded I couldn’t help but think that Anurag Kashyap may have found inspiration for this story from his own life. The story is as complex as the male gender makes out women to be and just as simple as men would like to presume they are. Irrespective of the nature of relationship, the moment you find yourself drawn to another person and begin a relat...