A Home For My Head

Tuesday night in Liverpool, the atmosphere was electric, home team was charged up for once in a lifetime opportunity to make it to the champions league finals, even the away side Roma looked up for it for about 25 minutes. The home side, Liverpool were the once that took the game by scruff of it's neck and kept on shooting the dead opposition till the could, mercilessly. The Roma side who played a suicidal hugh line in defense to their credit also kept on trying and in the end got to goals for their labour which was by and large way more than they desreved. They could have been beaten by 10 goals but at the end they were 'just' beaten by 3 goals. The point is it was all were energetic, there was a sense of occasion about this semi final tie. The next day in Munich was quite the opposite, two European heavyweights battled it out there. One played good if not great by any stretch of imagination, that was Bayern Munich, the Other one just won. The victor here was my team,...

This post is full of SPOILERS for Gone Home. If you just want my verdict read the Last Para. I recently started clearing out some of the backlog that I have built in my PS4 library. I started off by finishing of Tales from the borderlands & Walking Dead: Michone just to get some bling in my trophy cabinet. Then I had planned to start Life is Strange for another easy platinum trophy but before starting it I looked at gone home's trophy guide which said everything could be done in 40 minutes, and I was sold. I had no idea what the game was actually about I thought it must be a cheap horror title with bad graphics and cheap scares, but how wrong was I. Trust me I am glad that I was wrong as what it actually was, was just so damn beautiful and actually a treat to go through, I played it once for the trophy for 10 minute playthrough but then I came back to listen to all of the Journals spread throughout the house of our Protagonist: Katie, who has came back home to her home ...

I am writing this literally hours after thumping defeat at the hands of Barcelona, who really got more than they deserved but they did deserve the three points. Just not with a 3-0 scoreline. This is not a match analysis, there are far too many better people to do that. This post is more to get over the defeat than anything else.  As this result might have knocked the wind out of most of us(Real Madrid) fans, but it should not be enough to ruin the historic year that we have had, in which we won a historic 5 trophies . Yes things are not how they should be, especially with the awesome Super Cup wins, our La Liga & Champions League performances have been kind of mediocre.  The thing is even in the clasico we were better for most parts of the first half, in second we woke up too late after getting down to 10 men and it was too little too late, but this team is great, the midfield is one of the best of all time, the defence & attack are solid, if anything they...

In my recent memory I can't remember any day besides 18th October, 2017 that I felt pure joy, just the happiness that is kind of infectious, you know the kind that stays with you for upcoming days, weeks, and months, like the kind I felt after Real Madrid won the 10th Champions League, the kind that is just infinite that keeps you on a perennial high for a long time. It was an event of seismic proportions that happened that day that has till date kept me looking at life and facing all the shit that it throws at me with a smile. So what was it you ask, well the question is not what but who was it. It was the Kid. The Kid is the reason that I sit staring at nothing and enjoy the nothingness, he is the reason that the future seems bright, the present feels like a present. He is my sister's first child . He is not my kid, but he is my kid, you know? He is the first grandchild that my parents have got. He is the first of the next generation. Born on 18th October, 2017, The Ki...

The second cuming of Jesus                                                                                      December 2017, Delhi welcomes its 7th comic con, my friend and the host of this blog Captain Attree in his compulsive drive against sales and offers decided to get us a 3 day super fan pass to the much exciting world of geeks, fans, cosplayers, & artists,. In our excitement of the event we were throwing different cosplay ideas which included the likes of Eric Cartman, Constantine, & Buddha. In one of my most personal moments which I have shared with myself, I was dwelling in vanity and cursing my beer belly with hair flying majestically when I noticed that my hair and bear...

Last week I was visiting my brother in Bangalore, originally we had planed to leave for Coorg on the weekend but after looking at the current events happening in Bangalore and finding out that Comic Con was also the same weekend, I asked him to delay the trip for a day so I can attend the Comic Con for a day. Welcome! This was my first visit to any Comic Con, and what had me a bit concerned was the fact that I was going alone, and generally atleast where I live it is considered crazy to go anywhere alone, people even want to visit the washrooms in groups! Anyway encouraged by my hippie-solo-travelling-ComicConVeteran-buddy Lakshay(find him on Instgram@ seeking_shambhala ), I decided to go and check it out. It was kind of awesome but not for the reasons I expected. First of all what was great was the crowd, volunteers,cosplayers, panelists, and generally everyone involved. Everyone that I came across was just happy, & enjoying themselves. I guess all of us geeks are more or l...

"Oh, how the mighty have fallen" Well, who would have thought that Justice League, DC comic's answer to the Avengers will make less money than the universally beloved Wonder Woman standalone movie. To my infinite disappointment it is the ugly truth. Now that even the most loyal DC fans are turning on the studio, directors, writers, and each other, what is being lost is an ultimately flawed but enjoyable movie that is Justice League. Between being directed by Zack Snyder & Joss Whedon, and made by a studio devoid of confidence in the product, Justice League finds itself in shambles, after two weekends it is about to make 500 million dollars worldwide, but that number is nowhere near what everyone would have expected and ultimately Justice League will be the highest grossing box office disaster till date.  Leaving the bad box office, messy story, & messier mustaches aside, ever so hopeful that WB & DC will rise above this I have made this list to re...