November Resolutions

Fall has ended. Winter has begun. My first semester of college has ended. It feels like time has flown by, much faster than it usually does, but why? Was it because every day was eventful, because there was always something interesting happening. People tell me that time only flies faster from here on. I went into college with a lot of plans. In...

I barely remember when my last post was. Was it March, or was it April? Either way, it's been almost half a year. Life has taken a bit of a wild ride. August was, perhaps, the wildest month of my life. I joined college, made a whole new bunch of friends, and enjoyed a lot. I am, as they say, touching grass. But, amid all of this, the blog has...

Hi, I'm Shivram, and I'm terrible at writing long-form articles, like this one here. Here's a warning: this article will be long, at least by my standards. I've made it a goal to take up no less than 10 minutes of your time. First, a bit more about myself. I'm a person who has lots of hobbies and passions that keep changing with time. I've...

My schedule seems to be tightening every day. Yet, I've been finding time to get away from the tedium and enjoy life. I feel a sudden urgency to live life to the fullest. Here in the centre of the city, life is colourless. Trees are rarer than cars. The greenery and the wilderness lie far away, in the outskirts of the city. I've taken to cycling...

I've been listening to a lot of music lately and observed something - there is a certain quality, a certain depth, do a song sung by a single person, that you can't find in a song sung by a choir. Singing solo brings out all the small quirks of the singer's voice. The quavering, the variations in pitch, all the so-called imperfections. I feel...