My Favourite Movie Memories Growing Up

1. Tarzan (1999)

I remember watching this movie on a VHS tape. Back then, we rented most of the VHS tapes and owned very few of them. My brother and I watched this movie almost daily – which is probably why my parents decided to just pay up and let us keep it.

The tape sadly met its end from my hand when I accidentally put a hot iron on top of it as I was ironing my school uniform (moral of the story being – do not let a seven-year-old iron their own clothes). To be honest, I haven’t re-watched this movie since, and I am not even sure I would like it as much as I did back then.

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Lockdown 2.0

Did you ever hear of the words ‘Lockdown’, ‘Quarantine’, ‘Isolation’ etc. before this covid thing?

To be honest, I may have heard them but I never needed to use them in my life. So, I can say I didn’t hear about them. But now those words are more common in use.

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Jamchen Vijaya Stupa; Or Why You Shouldn’t Hike in a Smog

Last weekend, I decided to go on a short hike. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The rain had come and gone, the sky was visible for the first time in days, and things seemed to be on an upwards trajectory.

I’m just gonna blame brain damage induced by the pollution for that decision and take absolutely no responsibility whatsoever. Anyway, we decided on the Jamchen Vijaya Stupa in Budanilkhantha as our destination. The logic behind it was that it was new and shiny and we aren’t the smartest people in the world.

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Called by Nature-Jamacho

I never thought of writing a blog for myself. But as time passed, my interest in travel started increasing and I wanted to share my stories with the people. As we decided to go on a hike every weekend, I wanted to include my best people in this time of travel. I asked all the close friends of mine but we five could make it happen. They were so much happy with my previous blog post about my travel to Bishnudwaar that they wanted to join me.

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How My Interest in Travel Led Me to Bishnudwaar

I always enjoy travelling with a small group of people rather than travelling in mass. I would like to experience solo travel but never dared to do that. One day my friend asked me whether we should meet at a nearby cafe or hike to Bishnudwaar. I love travelling, but I hardly go on hikes at nearby places, so we choose to go to Bishnudwaar.

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Arbitrary Gestures and Bhitta ko Namaste

I was a huge reader back when I was young, going through books like they were nothing. Of course, my young mind couldn’t really grasp the implications of most of them, so they’d just slid off my brain. You can’t really give The Brothers Karamazov to an eight-year-old and expect the little bastard to get anything.

That’s not the case for everything, though, and some stories get burned into your mind so clearly that you still remember it fifteen years later. Sometimes those are pretty unassuming too. Not well-known classics or bestsellers, just some random story that grabs hold of an impressionable mind.

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Lesser-Known Romance Movies to Watch This Valentine’s Day

If you are a sucker for good romance films and have gone through all the quintessential ones like 500 Days of Summer, Annie Hall, Titanic, etc. then this list is for you. Here is a list of romantic movies that I think more people should watch. And since it’s Valentine’s Day, today might just be the perfect day to start the viewing.

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Favorite Reads of 2020

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

I’ll be honest, this was not a great book but this was a much-needed book for 2020. Stuck in our homes, with our own thoughts, some of us losing employment, we were at the same point as the main character of this book is at the beginning. And the ride that the book takes us along to is a comforting one and we can’t help but be hopeful for Nora and for ourselves – that even though this life might come with its problems and regrets, we will be able to make it through.

This is an easy read even though it kind of slows down in the middle. I would suggest this book to anyone who is feeling a bit down and has regrets about the past.

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Tokyo Godfathers: The Most Underrated Christmas Movie Everyone Needs to Watch

If you are looking for something new for your to-watch list of Christmas Movies let me recommend the late Satoshi Kon’s most light-hearted and magical movie Tokyo Godfathers. This movie follows three “wise” men in the form of three homeless Japanese people who find a little bundle of miracle abandoned during Christmas Eve and spend the whole movie trying to unite the baby to its parents.

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We’re All So Lonely It Hurts and Art as a Band-Aid is not Enough – A Review of I’m Thinking of Ending Things

I am not a Kaufman fan to be honest. But his movies are always an experience regardless of whether I like them or not. Plus, I like the fact that he does not care whether anyone likes his movies at all. And as he makes movies so sparsely, I always find myself awaiting all of his releases eagerly.

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