Category: Experiences

  • A year to time travel to

    If I could pick a year to time travel to, I would pick 1998. Why? Because I love the nineties! Oh, what exciting times they were? I would probably go back and have fun with all the nineties technology. Good old CRT TVs, a nice funky VCR, landline phones, Pentium II computers with a whopping…

  • Mysterious things

    A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something. Cypher, The Matrix As a Matrix aficianado, I have always been obsessed by the theory that we could be living in a neuro-linguistic simulation. After properly grasping the concept of the Matrix (when I was in the 12th grade,…

  • A life lesson everyone can benefit from learning

    If I could pick one thing from my learnings in this life so far, it would be the virtue of positivity. In other words, to achieve any kind of success in life, you must adopt a positive approach. It sounds like a no-brainer, but this is one of those things that is straightforward for a…

  • Five things I am grateful for today

    I am a strong believer in the attitude of gratitude. I would simply not be where I am today, had it not been for the help and support of a lot of people. No amount of thanks will justify the gifts I have received from this life. As I am closing out on yet another…

  • My Favorite Toy as a Child

    Okay, this is a fun Bloganuary prompt! 😀 When I was around two years old, someone gifted me a toy car. It wasn’t remotely fancy or pretty. It was a fairly big (for a two-year-old) yellow car made entirely of plastic. It did not even have actual wheels even, if memory serves me right. It…

  • The Road Trip I would Love to Take

    Several years back, I saw a Malayalam movie called “Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi” (literally translates to Blue skies, green seas, scorched earth). It’s the story about a young man called Kasi who decides to go on a cross country road trip across India (from the South in Kerala to the North East in Tawang), with…

  • I did a #wwwp5k, again

    I did a #wwwp5k, again

    The title of this post says it. I took the Worldwide WordPress 5K, again, after five years. It felt no different from the first time! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hari Shanker (@harishanker) What is this #WWWP5k, you ask Quoting the WordPress.com blog: If you’re like us, you’re eager to send…

  • Life, living, expectations, and social media

    Life, living, expectations, and social media

    I saw this tweet the other day, and it left me thinking, because of the simple fact that I’ve been a victim of this EXACT situation. When I was 23, I felt that I had failed in life. My friends and loved ones seemed to agree. I had barely scraped through college. My bank balance…

  • 5 Years with My Lady Liberty

    5 Years with My Lady Liberty

    In September 2018, my wife and I spent 10 days in New York City, on vacation. Visiting the Big Apple was a dream that dates back to the day I saw Home Alone 2 as a kid! The highlight of our trip was visiting Statue of Liberty, at Liberty Island on the Hudson River (in…

  • Elementary, My Dear (Joan) Watson

    Elementary, My Dear (Joan) Watson

    My wife and I are currently binging on Elementary (courtesy, Netflix). I’m enjoying the series – perhaps a tad more than the other famous adaptation of Sherlock in the 21st century. The show’s highlight is that it’s set in NYC and has a female, Asian-American (!!) Joan Watson (Lucy Liu aces it in the role).…