What’s this big deal about turning 30?

Oh wow! I never knew turning 30 was such a big deal.

While reading an article online, I came across mention of 33 things to quit doing when one hits the 30s. Finding it quite interesting and funny, I googled it to get the full and original post. And boy, did I find it!

Turning 30 is apparently such a momentous milestone that everyone has something to say about it. I found many versions of the 33 things to quit doing……and many, many more. I found blogs dedicated to the 30-year turning point, numerous articles giving advice about turning 30, dealing with fears of turning 30, the things that one should do before turning 30, personal stories and thoughts on turning 30 and so on and on and on………

My close encounters with NNWs

Women cadres of the NSCN-IM seen during a function at Camp Hebron (PTI file photo)

If you’re wondering what NNW is, it stands for ‘Naga National Worker’, a term and a group of people that we’re all only too familiar with. “Do you know who I am? I’m a Naga National Worker”…..many of us have had such threats thrown to our faces, threats intended to make us cower in fear and give in to their demands as they come accompanied by guns.

50 Rules: Just had to share this

I came across this while browsing around the net and liked it so much that I just had to share it with you……….

50 Rules kids won’t learn in school

By Charles J. Sykes

1. Life is not fair. Get used to it.

2. The real world won’t care as much as your school does about your self-esteem. It’ll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

3. Sorry, you won’t make sixty thousand dollars a year right out of high school. And you won’t be a vice president or have a company car. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn’t have a designer label.

All about that perfect shot

Delivery room makeovers for that perfect first mother-baby picture have apparently become a thing these days. According to a report in The New York Times, a growing number of women are booking hairstylists and makeup artists to come to their hospital room for postpartum grooming, typically with the first photographs of mother and child in mind. Curling iron, hair dryer, boar bristle hairbrushes and makeup kit have reportedly become part of the crucial ‘equipment’ needed in these hospital rooms.

Today it's all about posting that perfect shot on social media

And what’s fuelling this trend? Why, social media of course. Childbirth is one of the most awesome experiences in a woman’s life, but definitely not the prettiest. So expectant moms are said to be increasingly shelling out hundreds of dollars to look pretty and polished after delivering their babies just so they can show off their babies in that perfect first photo on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Unbelievable, right? What has happened to celebrating and enjoying the arrival and bonding with your baby? Clearly, the priority is no longer the baby nor the mother’s health, but getting that perfect shot out as quickly as possible.

No more secrecy please

Modi-Muivah bonhomie at the signing of the framework document on Aug 3

After the signing of the Naga peace document between NSCN-IM and GoI was sprung on the people on August 3 without warning causing much consternation, it is now being explained as a ‘framework’ and a ‘formula’ for the real deal which is to come. So then, if it’s just a framework or a formula, why the big photo-op announcement like it’s a done deal? It has only led to a lot of confusion, speculation and even anger among the people.

Shame on Us!

So, let’s play a game of Spot the Difference.

All those keeping track of news happening around the globe will be aware that Lord John Sewel, a senior peer in the UK House of Lords, resigned his peerage and quit the House some days ago after a video emerged of him cavorting with two sex workers in his central London flat. The married father of four was filmed necking champagne and vodka before using a £5 note to snort lines of cocaine from a table and later from the breasts of a sex worker.