I have been quite a busy bee the first week of this month. It's funny how I can be unemployed and still have so much to do that I hardly find the time to take a breather. I think I need to be more efficient in my time management skills. But one thing I realized… Continue reading Busy bee
I know this is my first post this month and such a dark topic to blog on but talking about depression and trying to help others cope with it is something very poignant to me. If I had a shot at another life, I would probably be a psychologist trying to make a difference in… Continue reading The Silent Killer that is Depression
Lately, I noticed that if I am doing something, I have trouble staying on focus. My brain will be notifying me about other tasks I need to do some of which are just plain distractions like checking on facebook or Whatsapp. So I have been trying consciously to improve my focus so that I can… Continue reading How to improve your focus
Since I recently got into listening to music more frequently, I decided to try out this post as a monthly series. I have to say that I have very eclectic taste when it comes to music; it is heavily influenced by my south Asian background as I grew up listening to Bollywood music and I… Continue reading What’s in my playlist – July 2019
This week I decided to explore my surroundings a bit further and since I’m a nature lover, it is obvious that my choices of places would have to include that. I found this one spot that has both greenery as well as waterbody and it seemed like a place I could easily navigate on my… Continue reading Hiking Adventure at East Point Sanctuary
It has been two years since Chester Bennington of Linkin Park committed suicide on 20 July 2017. I remember it was Friday morning and my weekend. I had just gotten up and went on my facebook where my news feed showed the devastating news of him committing suicide at 41 after battling with depression and… Continue reading Remembering Chester Bennington
I realize I haven't done a gratitude post for a while. I think it is important to take the time and be grateful even for the smallest things in life, not just when life is all peaches and roses but also during the struggles and hardships. This helps me give a positive outlook even with… Continue reading Gratitude post of the day
I have been told many a times in my life that I was born with a silver spoon as I have always had many privileges that many people in the world are denied. To some extent I do concur with those but people are wrong in thinking I never had to struggle in life for… Continue reading Random Collection of Happy Memories from My Childhood
Stress is a common part of everyone’s life and it cannot be avoided. For overthinkers like me, stress can quickly get out of control and affect many facets of our lives, such as health, work, and relationships. We cannot avoid or prevent stress, but what we can do is to manage and control it so… Continue reading How I de-stress and unwind
It always feels incredible to me how fast time seems to fly by even when your life seems to have halted. It feels like only yesterday when I welcomed 2019 at my cousin's place on the 31st night of 2018. And here we are at the end of June. Half the year is already over.… Continue reading Goodbye June, Hello July
We all have lives as busy as bee or may be even busier but sometimes we do go through an impasse, especially in between jobs or moving somewhere new. Currently I’m going through both the situations as I moved to Canada around a month ago. When talking to people back home, the most common question… Continue reading 5 Things I Do To Be Productive
Throughout my life, I have had a love-hate relationship with the game of cricket . To be more accurate, it should be called love-indifference relationship. However, it cannot be denied that as a Bangladeshi, cricket has been a huge part of my life even when the Bangladesh National Cricket Team was unheard of back in… Continue reading Cricket, Bangladesh and I
Most of us today live such a fast paced life that we burn ourselves out, chasing after never ending pursuit of wealth, career, ambition and what not. While we are busy working to secure our future, we are completely ignorant of how we spend our today. Most people today will roll their eyes and scoff… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Doing Nothing Actually Helps You
While growing up, I was an ardent fan of music. My taste in music throughout my lifetime has been quite eclectic. I listened to old Bollywood songs when I was a toddler, songs that I listen to even now sometimes to transport me back to my childhood days of innocence. Then when I was in… Continue reading Music – A Potent Time Capsule
Since even before my move to Canada, my whole life had turned topsy turvy and I know I haven’t been able to pay as much attention as I would have liked to my blogsphere. Although I started this blog more or less as a hobby, I would like to be more consistent in my efforts… Continue reading Getting Back on Track
It has been 20 days since I have been away from my home, my family and everything else I have known in my entire life. I haven’t really kept count of the days except this morning it stuck with me somehow. I am not sure if it is because of the fact that I am… Continue reading 20 Days
Before I moved to a new country, I knew it wouldn’t be easy. I was mentally prepared but even with all the courage you can muster and all the support of your loved ones, facing the reality is a whole different thing. Sometimes in order to grow, you need to shed the old. Although I… Continue reading How to Adapt to Moving to a New Country
I know I have been gone for sometime again. But I swear I had legit reason for being MIA. I had to go through a major change in my life. I guess the verb 'had to' would be a misnomer in this case as it wasn’t done out of compulsion but rather was a consequence… Continue reading The Big Move
Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all have some fears we are terrified of dealing with. It can be something as common as fear of spiders to fear of heights to complex fears such as fear of people, social anxiety, commitment phobia and so on. I feel complex fears tend to appear based on… Continue reading Facing the Different Faces of Fear
Lately, I decided to step back from my hectic life and live in the moment. Just breathe. Relax. Do whatever I want to do. No pressure. How has that been going so far for me? I would say it’s been going pretty well. I am also currently dealing with many changes in my personal life… Continue reading The Itch to Write
I know most of you who live in the north zone look forward to summer time with much anticipation after the dreary winter full of white and grey. Unfortunately the scenario is quite different for us folks living in the south. Just to give you an idea for the last couple of days we have… Continue reading From Me to You: Your Summer Survival Kit in Extreme Heat
