“It’s not who I’m, but what I do that matters” said Batman once! It’s important to have hobbies in life. Hobbies give us humans a motto in life, something to work towards. People often cite ‘listening to music’ as a hobby. That’s their pastime. A hobby is something that adds character to your life, that shapes you into a better person or gives a purpose to your life than mere living. Read about such projects I’ve taken up..
Till date, apart from English, Hindi and Kannada movies, I had bought a couple of Marathi titles in addition to 1 Punjabi title from the Cinemas of India collection. This time, I chanced upon some Bengali movies – 7 of them.
A peculiar thing I observed a couple of weeks after I bought the work is that the girl with the umbrella has only one leg. The knowledge of this has given the art piece a bit of a horror theme to it in my mind. Is she a ghost?
200 movies!! Yippeeee! So it took 8 months to score a double century. At this rate, the 1000 mark will probably be reached only by March or April 2020. Huff! Wonder how people collected million DVDs. I don’t even know if I’ll have such a high paying job I’m 2020.
Anyway, I’m happy to share my first harvest. This activity did take a lot of time during weekends, and stopped me from paying attention towards blogging. Plants, after all require more attention till they can carry on their own.
I was visiting my grandparents (mom’s parents) at their house early today when the topic of which belongings of my …
These two simple steps costing about INR 1000/- ensured that the 11000L of water that we collect in our main underground storage sump can now serve us for about 22-25 days as against 8-10 days before we adopted these changes.
So, the first big step I actually took was to stop using bathing soap as well as shampoo. Now that’ll come as a shock to most of my readers and right now you may be wondering if I stink because I don’t use soap!
Roundup #6, Jul 2017
Titles bought – 21
Total owned – 185
Speaking about classics, my pick of the month happens to be another Yash Chopra movie – a cult classic now, it had flopped miserably in 1991.
I sulked, I ate even more, slept even more hours, was hit by insomnia on some nights, troubled stomach, indigestion, back-aches, strained neck. One day, I was not able to put a spoonful of food into my mouth, sitting at the dining table. I weighed 88 kilos now.
I was writing a blog post on an interesting topic “dormant” for a daily blogging challenge called Daily Prompt held …
Roundup #5, Jun 2017
Titles bought – 5
Total owned – 164
I felt sorry for this hobby of collecting movies. With streaming becoming mainstream, nobody will ever collect these stuff again. They won’t mind paying for the same movie again, I guess! So I picked up 29 movies this month 😉
Life’s like that! The reality of life remains that you’ll stay relevant as long as you’re relevant.
So April was the total opposite of March. The value of my purchases shot up!
So when it rained dinosaurs today, I was estimating the amount if water that I could have harvested in 4 hours.
I think I’ve spent close to Rs 2,500 on movies in March, which is still a sizeable amount and on par with my monthly budget allocation for purchasing movies. But, it’s Blu-Ray that rips you off. Yes, yes! I know! I know that’s why nobody saw / sees any worth in buying those expensive discs.
Oh, there was that another purchase in January I forgot to mention (sic). This one purchase cost me a whopping 1800 bucks! But it’s totally worth it! I’m proud I was able to lay my hands on this last stock available at that store in Malleswaram.
I waited for three weeks to write a 1000km round-up blog. And when Ananya actually hit that 1000km mark, I …
I like long drives. Sometimes these long drives are clueless drives with no defined destination. Back in the days of …
On October 3, 2015, the new Mahindra Thar was delivered to me in the basement of India Garage.
