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WFH - gains and pains

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After almost two years of working from home, I feel like I am qualified to tell the world the pros and cons of working from home. Bear in mind I am an introvert who thoroughly prefers working from home over having to socially interact at work. There are the usual pros of working from home – safety from the virus, flexibility, saving time etc and the usual cons – gain weight from heavily depleted physical activity. I have my own takes on the benefits I felt from my WFH stint.   Pros 1. Can call your mum and whine about how you don't feel like working that day 2. Bring the washing in if it starts raining or bring it out if the sun shines 3. Take your plants out for rain shower 4. Listen to music (any sort of music) 5. Make a fancy burger from scratch and finish doing the dishes by the time your break ends 6. Be home to get your delivery and if you miss them, go get your delivery from the post office while participating in the company meeting (more difficult in team me
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Sense of Achievement

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Today I noticed a green diamond emoji under my Podbean account info. Podbean is where I listen to all my podcasts, well 'No Such Thing As a Fish' and 'The Office Ladies' basically. I investigated what the green diamond meant, as that looked important, and I found out it meant I am at "Professional" level. 147 more hours of listening and I would get to "Scholar" and 397 more hours will bring me to "Master" which is the highest level. There is something about quantifying something that you have done and the sense of achievement that comes with it. I have passed "Newbie" and "Novice" levels to reach Professional and that felt like an achievement and I now want to listen more so that I can reach the levels of a Scholar. I don't know if I will see it through as this kind of high rarely lasts long for me, and 147 hours is a long time by the way, and I have binge listened to many Fish episodes already. And to put that int
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Twitter Tantrum

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"Out of sheer boredom, I made my sister start watching Game of Thrones. I am watching it again with her. More than the series, I'm enjoying seeing her reactions." "I've made her cry her first tears with the first important death already." "Watching my sister cringe at some of the characters, leap with joy at some of the triumphant moments and hide behind me at the gory scenes is what I look forward to each day." I thought about tweeting these but for some reason, I refrained myself. I mean who would I be directing these tweets to? In fact, who do I generally direct my tweets to? Sure, I have 800 odd followers in Twitter which I have gathered over a decade. And the most likes my tweets have ever gotten so far are from the retweets they got from people who have a lot of active followers. And here's the thing about twitter. It's not the most popular of social networking platforms. Sure, it piqued curiosity around the time it cam
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Looks

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I had an Aryan friend once tell me, "Aren't you supposed to be hairless since you are Mongolian and all?". She had witnessed my hairy hands which I hadn't yet started to shave. I think that must've been the comment that triggered a life long obsession with hair removal. I'm saying life-long because even though I do it seasonally and very sporadically at that, I still do it. I know people in the west use the term "Asian" to describe anyone who has chinky eyes but in my country, we use the term "Mongolian". And the Mongolians in my country can have the features of someone who white people call the "brown" people. So if you think about it, I drew the short end of the stick since I am brown, short, hairy and have bad hair. Let's get back to the hairy bit. When I was in school, I fell into that category of girls who were studious and didn't care about their looks. Also our school was very strict about girls doing adult t
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The road less traveled 🎧

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I am reading "Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies" by Kitty Flanagan at the moment. But what I'm reading has nothing to do with this post, where and how I'm reading it has everything to do with the reason I'm sitting down to write today. I'm reading this book with an app on my phone. And I have been reading books on my phone for over a year now. The reason? A big fat juicy convenience. If you were to ask my reading preference a year ago, I would have told you, without missing a heartbeat, that I preferred reading paperbacks more than ebooks. Today, I wouldn't be so fast in answering that question. When I first started reading on the onset of my teenage, the only reading option I ever had was whatever I could get from the library at school. My parents never bought us books out of the school curriculum. Even though I went to one of the biggest schools in my country, and even though the library there used to feel massive, I had pretty much been through mo
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6: Thoughts

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[Contains Spoilers] The credit sequence gave me chills because there would be no more of Game of Thrones. George RR Martin had said that the ending was going to be bittersweet and it already started to feel like it. They still show Last Hearth in the credit sequence, which nobody knows why. Winterfell is still in ruins and this time, so is King's Landing. We start the episode with Tyrion walking the streets of King's Landing gingerly, looking at all the destruction that Dany has brought to the city. It's started snowing or it is still raining ash. Behind him are Davos and Jon. At a point, Tyrion leaves them to go somewhere on his own. Davos and Jon find Grey Worm and the Unsullied executing the remaining five Lannister soldiers. Jon tries to stop Grey Worm and the situation gets very tense and it looks like the allied forces are not allied anymore. Davos suggests they, him and Jon go speak to the Queen and they leave.  We see Tyrion picking his way throug
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5: Thoughts

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[Contains Spoilers]  The "Previously On" is full of foreshadowing and I hear a lot of warning bells going off in my head. The episode begins with Varys writing letters to people - the important people in the realm, I'm sure. I saw words like "Rhaegar Targaryen", "hidden by Eddard Stark" and "the true heir to the Iron Throne". Not good news for Dany. He is interrupted by a knock on the door. He quickly hides what he's writing but it's obvious it's someone he knows because he just hides it, not destroys it and it's the same girl he was with down in the Winterfell crypts and she tells him that Dany isn't eating and he tells her, "we'll wait till supper". Varys is obviously onto something. He definitely looks to be conspiring to poison Dany because the little girl talks about the reward being great for the great risk. Varys seems like a strange person but we can see why he's a great spider be
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