The lockdown may seem like a depressing time and you may feel there is nothing to be grateful for. However, trying times are our best teachers and we have a lot to learn from these times. Firstly, we should be grateful that we are alive while millions have died all over the world. Secondly, we … Continue reading 5 Things to be Grateful for during Lockdown #GratitudeCircle
In the first week of March, I started writing my posts for #A-Z Challenge 2020. My theme was "Love Stories". I wrote the posts but when I revealed the theme of A-Z Challenge it was different. It was no more 'love stories'. I decided to write about my feelings during the #coronavirus lockdown. It helped … Continue reading Z is Zen #A-ZChallenge2020
When I feel like a confident and 'situation-under-control' Mom, I just need to read messages on one of the Mommy groups on Whatsapp. Immediately, my confidence shatters like a house of cards. There are precisely two places on Earth that can shatter my confidence as a woman. The first one is a beauty parlor and … Continue reading ‘(Y)ou are a Bad Mom’- Says the Whatsapp Mommies #A-ZChallenge2020
Covid19 has aggravated Xenophobia especially Sinophobia all over the world. For obvious reasons the Chinese are the worst affected. The conspiracy theories that are doing the rounds point fingers towards the Communist regime of China. As a result many common Chinese people are getting targeted. However, in many cases many non-Chinese mongoloid people are becoming … Continue reading Xenophobia during Coronavirus Pandemic #A-ZChallenge2020
I have been working from home intermittently since last ten years. I never felt working from home so exhausting the way I am finding it now. I honestly envy those who are getting time to Netflix and Chill. I recently read a post by my fellow blogger Akshata Ramesh who is facing a similar ordeal. … Continue reading Work from Home during Lockdown, The Pros and Cons #A-ZChallenge2020
My moustache and husband's hair is growing, if the lockdown continues then we would look like (bad) clones of each other. Almost like celebrity wax statues, where the statue looks similar yet not really similar. Both of us like many other people all over the world have not visited the salon in the longest time. … Continue reading Ugly, Untidy and Unclean during Lockdown #A-ZChallenges2020
The global lockdown would have been more severe and unbearable had there been no technology. Can you imagine this lockdown during the 60s, 70s, 80s or even 90s and how we would have felt without the internet. How more difficult it would have been. Thanks to technology it is helping us a lot to cope. … Continue reading Technology to the Rescue during Lockdown #A-ZChallenge2020
Social media has become extremely 'challenging' ever since people started 'social distancing'. Every other day some new challenges are coming up and I am getting tagged. The first tag that was making the rounds to apparently create 'positivity' was the #stronggorgeouswomen. I don't know, if it created any positivity for others, for me it just … Continue reading Social Distancing and Social Media Challenges #A-ZChallenge2020
After fourteen years of marriage, mushy romance got restricted to the honeymoon photos. These days we have replaced ‘I love you’ with ‘I told you’. For example, just a few days before the lockdown started the man had wanted to buy 20 kilos of rice which I summarily rejected. Now, when all grocery shops are … Continue reading Romance During Lockdown #A-ZChallenge2020
Trina Looks Back 