Home Office

As oxymoron-ic as it may sound; I am setting up my Home Office. 120 days of work from home later, I have decided to have a dedicated office space. So far, I have used my bed, dining table, drawing room sofa and even my balcony garden as a makeshift office #hotdesking . Which means I have put almost all the electric sockets in my home (except those in kitchen and bathroom) to use by charging my laptop and my mobile #loadsharing (ok, sorry!)
If in movies, we try to imagine a post apocalyptic world, in reality we are hoping for a post pandemic world. Until then, #wfh seems to be a long term state and I would rather only one corner of my house reek of corporate shit.
So, I am setting up my Home Office. I have two options-

1. My old-timey computer table in my parents' room(where the monitor, CPU, keyboard, mouse and printer still reside; all wearing my mom's hand embroidered table covers). The drawer contains what 90s kids would know were called music cassettes (all adorned in dust bunnies).
2. My study desk- currently housing all things miscellaneous- a wall clock that works only when it's not hanging on a wall, a plastic flower that is also a tiny wind mill and non-functioning stationery items like dried up sketch pens and blackened erasers. 

Remember one of those cliches "I keep my personal and work life separate"😆

When Life Gives You Contests

Class 4 or 5: I had gone to another school for an inter-school computer quiz competition. In between various quizzes, there was a 'lottery' kind of thing in which all participating students were handed a card to fill in their names and drop in a bowl. That card was from the sponsors of the event and there was a question- to choose one out of three items- Speakers, Modem and one more thing. 9 year old me knew what Speakers were and had a vague idea of Modem. Plus even at that age, I knew lotteries are just chance and had no hopes whatsoever. I just ticked on Speakers and tossed in the bowl. 

The very first lottery winner in that event was me! That day I took some cool Speakers back home, along with the quiz certificate of course. My brother was amused at my 'luck' and also told me next time to really try for Modem 😛

Class 9 or 10: Listening to FM was like a major part of my day, specially when I stayed home to 'study' during pre-exam days and my parents were off to work. I think it was my favorite radio show, which had a radio contest. Some random thing- like guess that masala or vegetable or something. I told mom that I'm calling the radio station to participate- and mom said 'go ahead'. I knew that there would be like 50-100 people who call the radio station at the same time and there are close to zero chances that my call would even connect. My call did connect- and the RJ said in his cheeky voice "Hi, Wassup... what's the answer?" I was tongue-tied! All I could say was "Uhhh..." and he said "Uhhh?? That's not the right answer! 🤣🤣"  

Anyway, only a few days later- I had fully recovered from this shyness + shock and I called them again for some other contest and yes- I won two free tickets to the latest movie "36 China Town" which I took my mom to see with me. And then one more radio contest- where we won a bunch of goodies- including a CD with Kishore Kumar classics💗

So basically whenever life gives me contests- I participate, with zero ambition plus a little confidence, and it ends well🙂

P.S: I just participated in an Instagram contest where I had to upload a  1 minute video of my mom cooking her signature dish💌 There are like 800+ submissions and I have very basic video making skills and well, who knows.. 😉