lifestyle

  • Fast Fashion: How it’s relevant to all of us.

    You must have heard the term fast fashion on social media. More specifically about how bad it is and why we should stop it, etc. etc. So, my goal for this post is to summarize what fast fashion is, why… Continue reading

  • Living life on the edge…

    Living life on the edge; I think about it a lot, in daydreams and letters that never get sent. About living life on the edge. With no shits given and a camper van for a home. Maybe a cat that… Continue reading

    Living life on the edge…
  • Media Recommendations

    I love spending my time online. And I thought; after all that preaching about media consumption, why don’t I suggest some good media? From books to music, here is a short list of, if not enriching, simply not negatively influential… Continue reading

  • Mangoes, scarves, and summer love

    It is summer again, And I like mangoes again; Yet I can’t wait to stand in the rain, As the water pitter patters on my back- As the sweat now drips. It is summer, And I like mangoes again, And… Continue reading

  • Controlling the media we consume

    Last week I went on about the media I was consuming and its effects. Having gone on about how this sort of consumption can lead to a generation that are necessarily puppets. I haven’t really offered you any tips to… Continue reading

  • The media we consume and how it shapes us

    I have never really given thought to what media I consume until recently. When while pondering I realized, what I listen to and watch makes a large difference in how I think, act and work. I have started thinking that… Continue reading

  • Romanticizing Toxicity: A Look at Young Adult Fiction

    “A burnt child loves the fire.”— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde says this to imply that whatever environment one is brought up in, one grows to be fond of it —… Continue reading

  • Gen z angst

    They don’t like it, When we raise our voice, They ridicule us, For trying to maintain ourselves. They find it funny To comment about young love Or bring a youth down, For believing in love. They make a laughing stock… Continue reading

  • newspapers vs news channels

    For decades, being up to date about current affairs has been and remains extremely important. Over time there have been forms of media that have helped us do exactly that. Newspapers first came during the industrial revolution of Europe. The… Continue reading

  • Sandwich Shop Stories: 1

     She screams at him; he doesn’t remember if it was pickles or jalapenos she liked. ‘It’s confusing. I can never differentiate between the two and you know that.’ He tries to defend himself. ‘Shouldn’t me liking one of them make… Continue reading

  • failures of trial

    A bird flies off, Starting at the branch, It lifts its wings, Bends its feet; And jumps- Flying off to clouds we cannot see, Alas one can only hope so, For it drops: Like the apple once did, On the… Continue reading

  • A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945

    -Vikram Seth Analysis and Themes… -Janx 🙂 The poem relates to the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An attempt at capturing the shock, horror and gore that came over people in those sudden moments where their lives changed forever. The… Continue reading

    A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
  • Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review

    When we sit down to read, we expect some things from a book. We expect fuubutsushi throughout and characters who have sophrosyne by the end of the book. We like to have frissons by the time we are done with… Continue reading

    Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review
  • Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…

    Not a book review, By Janx 🙂 I recently finished reading this amazing piece of literature, and I absolutely had to share it with you people. This book has been the death of me for around a month and if… Continue reading

    Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…
  • My City

    [Verse 1] It’s been years now, Looking through my window, Holding my coffee tight, But tonight, I have a million things on my head, A lifeless existence goes ahead, I’m trying to win this race, But don’t know if it… Continue reading

    My City