Mar 2Do Worry Darling‘Don’t Worry Darling’ (2022) directed by Olivia Wilde, had the potential to be our generation’s ‘The Truman Show’ but unfortunately, it fell flat on its face. The film is set in a 1950s American suburban town evocative of ‘Pleasantville’, ‘The Stepford Wives’ where perfectly dressed housewives prance about cleaning and…Film3 min readFilm3 min read
Jan 20, 2022Love in the time of CovidIt’s January 2022. I’ve almost forgotten what dating was like in a pre-Covid world. In just 3 years our world has completely flipped upside down and throughout my somewhat rocky and bumpy journey, I’ve learnt a lot. …Communication3 min readCommunication3 min read
Jan 16, 2022What does our future look like?What does our future look like? I stumbled upon this newspaper snippet dating back to April 18, 1963. 59 years ago, having a smart phone was labelled as still “far in the future" and yet here we are. …Future3 min readFuture3 min read
Dec 29, 2021Death to 2021Ready to go down memory lane? Or rather a roller-coaster? This ‘comedic retrospective’ mixes actual footage with dark humour for a snapshot at the shit show of 2021. ‘Death to 2021’ is a new mockumentary that just hatched on Netflix. Interestingly enough, it is produced by Annabel Jones and Ben…20215 min read20215 min read
Dec 28, 2021How are you holding up?How are you holding up? 2019 feels like 5 years ago for most of us. So much has changed in such a short amount of time, in that I can’t stop hearing how “2021 flew by.” Following last year’s bread-making time warp, we’ve all proved to ourselves and the world…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Dec 24, 2021Don’t look up…because we’re all fucked upOk so I just finished watching “Don’t Look up" and even though it’s riding the dark humour, tongue-in-cheek, Taika Waititi train, it’s message is a true slap in the face for humanity. Lesson 1) We don’t appreciate just how good we had it. We don’t appreciate the life we had…Environment3 min readEnvironment3 min read
Dec 23, 2021Stop scrolling & read thisEven though social media platforms are ‘free’ till now, we are still performing a transaction with our attention economy. As Tristan Harris describes in his famous documentary ‘The Social Dilemma’, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” Our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, ideas are all shaped by…Attention3 min readAttention3 min read
Dec 23, 2021“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”— Plato, The Republic What is the internet to us nowadays? What would we be without the internet during Covid? I doubt we’d be knitting away Pride and Prejudice style. Pre-Covid we reached for external gratification ignoring and running away from the things that made us feel “less than” inside…Social Media4 min readSocial Media4 min read
Dec 20, 2021Is ‘Meta’ too metaphorical?We’ve all heard about the infamous re-branding from Facebook to Meta and how it updated its logo to an infinity loop that resembles the letter ‘M’. Soome might say that Zuckerberg jumped the gun with this re-branding as there isn’t an exact definition of what the Metaverse is. ‘Meta’ is…Metaverse4 min readMetaverse4 min read
Dec 18, 2021My first attempt at social media detoxingWe’ve all been there. We’re eating dinner with our family or friends, look up momentarily and glance at our loved ones obsessively swiping through their phone. You speak to them and know they’re not all there. They nod and smile but their gaze is fixated on their phone. …Social Media Detox4 min readSocial Media Detox4 min read
