Dhwani
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Startup operator. Mostly talking about startups, business, culture, banter, nonsense - whatever brings me joy. Eternal sunset lover.
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Me before joining startup: barely uses the word product, pronounces it pro-duct (like grow-duct)
Me at startup: actually we’re a PRAWduct company, building innovative PRAWducts, ya I dabble in PRAWduct, dude PRAWduct market fit nikaalte hai, dinner mein PRAWduct ki subzi thi kal
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Mom is in ICU, dad quarantined at home. Can’t meet either of them. Multiple family members, friends have tested positive. Scramble for hospital beds. I’m scared to wake up everyday. And I see photos of Kumbh Mela. Can’t put into words what I’m feeling right now. Pls send prayers
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Not enough is written about the melancholic aftermath of leaving home young for college/work. Life is just never the same once you leave home.
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I hung out with a 22-year old child last night. Horrible experience, would not recommend. Stay safe guys - protect yourself from the children.
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I am absolutely not old enough to be feeling like I’m running out of time, yet I feel like that everyday. The pandemic has me constantly feeling like I’m losing the best years of my life. This sucks
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If you have a name like Siddharth Malhotra, and look so good that it’s hard to tell if you’re real or a sculpture created by the Lord himself - you kinda HAVE to become a movie star no?
Imagine if Sid was a PM at a B2B expense management startup HQed in Bellandur.
Literally ZERO
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The worst part about growing up imo has been that there are no summer vacations anymore. What do you mean April May mein bhi job karni hoti hai. What is this nonsense
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I grew up thinking that the ultimate goal was to make everything about me appear ‘effortless’ - effortlessly smart, sharp, well-spoken, pretty, everything. This was probably compounded by the barrage of ‘oh my kid doesn’t even go to tuitions yet tops X subject’ type of
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I should not be allowed to go to parties because all I do is get drunk and convince people to leave their perfectly fine jobs and join a startup
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Who is the PM/PMM at Ola who handles app notifications? I just want to chat. Please understand I DONT WANT YOUR SCOOTER. I WANT A CAB. If you send me a notification to book that damn scooter while I am IN THE MIDDLE OF CAB BOOKING FOR 20 MINS I will seriously find you & 🥊
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BLR is amazing cuz from 10 pm to 11:45 pm on a weeknight, everyone is partying like crazy to Balam Pichkari & what not but as soon as the clock strikes 12 sab band matlab light band music band cabs band log ghar pahunch gaye. Arre 12 baje toh hum party shuru karte hai Bombay mein
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Sick &tired of paying anything between 150-500 rupees every time I book an already overpriced flight ticket just to get a damn seat. Why isn’t the seat selection cost included in the ticket price? I bought a ticket. Why do I have to buy ONE MORE TICKET? No free seat options also
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Dear Apple,
No one in the history of the world has ever wanted to open a .csv file with Numbers. Give us Excel.
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I just wanna say that in the 2.5-3 hours I was stuck in traffic in BLR today, I didn’t see a SINGLE traffic policeman. Nor did my drivers. In all my life in Mumbai, I almost always saw traffic policemen show up within 30 mins of a bad traffic snarl. That’s all I’m saying
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@rahulchhabra07
What blows my mind is the absence of a single woman in this photo. I’ve seen the PayPal mafia again and again on social media and this fact never stops bothering me
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Everyone I talk to these days seems to be having a really hard time with life (me included). Everyone, at once. Something’s just off about the state of the world. Need some peace now 🧿
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I want (need) a GenZ child in the age group of 17-21 to adopt me as their slightly older wala GenZ friend/sister whatever and send me daily updates on what’s trending, what’s the new lingo, what or who do young people these days vibe to/listen to/watch etc
Im vv serious guys
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Potentially controversial opinion: I immediately lose a little bit of respect for anyone who says that being an ‘inspirational’ or ‘motivational speaker’ is their full-time job 👀👀
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Bangalore is such a difficult city to love. Puts you through the worst traffic, floods, dust, extreme temp swings, non-existent infra
And when you’re almost ready to give up on her, Bangalore will give you stunning weather. Full hill station vibes. How to not fall in love now?
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How does a working adult go about making new friends (preferably female) in a new city (specifically Bangalore), during a pandemic?
Not asking for a friend 🙂
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@vikasnavaratna
Your wife is doing the Lord’s work. I also want to add for my fellow sunscreen wearers - Derma Co hyaluronic acid sunscreen (orange bottle) is very good too. No white cast no sticky feeling and absorbs fast. Stay protected out there ☀️
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One more tweet thread from a sub-21 year old about all their learnings from life and I will flip 😭 I hadn’t learnt shit at that age
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Okay so story time: on my trip home to Mumbai last month, I forgot my credit card at my home. Only realised it once I reached MUM airport for my flight, so asked my dad to courier it to my BLR address. He did, and the parcel reached me over a week ago - a small cardboard carton.
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Yes we know Razorpay rejected Flipkart as a customer in their early days yaar the whole city of BLR knows this by now but you really need to stop using that as an excuse to justify why your early stage B2B SaaS company can’t land a single big client
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Last night I found myself on Sarjapur Road.
All I could think was - WHY? How did I let myself get here? How could I allow myself to achieve such levels of despondency? Is this who I am now - a person who goes to Sarjapur Road?!
Tons of introspection. Good stuff.
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the cutest thing in the world, what is? I’m a grown working woman who pays my own bills but my darling dad thinks he should get me toothpaste. I have actual tears 🥺 Dads are the absolute cutest people in the world - thanks dad, for setting the bar so high. ❤️
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statements that were common through my childhood. I spent a good few years trying to be effortlessly great at everything. I have now realised, firmly, that nothing is more impressive than INTENTIONAL greatness
Not effortless.
Effort-ful.
Effort is difficult. Effort can leave you
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Please put yourself in situations where rejection is a very likely outcome.
Please stop avoiding scenarios that may lead to a non-ideal outcome.
Your life is going to have so many rejections, all the time. Don’t protect yourself. Prep yourself. Learn to be rejected gracefully.
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My boss once told me that he thinks my generation is so interested in the stock markets + so risk-loving with their investment choices only because we haven’t seen a significant bear market yet.
I think he’s right
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Was at the HSR McDonald’s yesterday. Young college couple was sitting outside the outlet, on the railing. Holding hands and whispering and giggling. So many memories ❤️
McD and CCD teen romance is real. Looks like some things stay the same, across cities too 😊
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Saying entrepreneurship > MBA for the likes on Twitter is v normal now. I’m desensitised. But aaj I read a tweet ki angel investing ~40 lakhs in startups > spending ~40 lakhs on an MBA. Bhai what is wrong with all of you. Sab ne pi rakhi hai kya? Kuch toh dhang ka comparison karo
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dejected. Which is why, nothinh is more impressive than putting in the hours for something you intentionally want to get good at.
This is not advice - but personally, I’m going to stop romanticising effortlessness.
Give me effort. Give me hard work. Give me intention.
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If I hear one more kid say that they want their first job out of college to be in ‘strategy’ I will flip
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Got dressed, put on makeup, wore my rain-resistant shoes, tried (rather unsuccessfully) for 45 mins to hail any kind of ride, finally cancelled my plan & headed back home. The apps are STILL looking for cabs.
Who’s gonna pay for the makeup I wasted huh
Ola or Uber or Rapido?
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I’m just tired yaar. Mentally physically everything
So damn tired
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This is my regular reminder to y’all - be nice to the new kids at your startup & teach them the jargon.
I know what it feels like to be a young fresh college grad who furiously Googles misspelled abbreviations every night to fit in better at work+look smart in front of the bosses
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Adding your friends on LinkedIn is so funny. Like how are you a Strategy Manager?!
I saw you spill an entire cranberry vodka on your white dress last week
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Give me drive & purpose.
In all spheres of life. Work, family, friends, love. All effort-ful.
Good morning and happy Thursday. I hope you are showered with some intentional energy today :)
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Hi
#indiantechtwitter
#bangalore
I need your help. I want to start a community of founder’s office/CoS folks from high-growth startups - will be super helpful for all of us to learn from each other, help each other avoid mistakes etc I am super confident of the value this can add
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Sheryl Sandberg, one of my greatest role models, narrates a powerful story from her time as VP @ Google in her brilliant book Lean In. 7 months pregnant, she found it difficult to walk from her far-off parking spot to the office building & realised - pregnant women at Google
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Don’t fool yourself into believing pedigree/college doesn’t matter anymore. It absolutely does, maybe not as much as it used to but still.
Put your head down, study hard -> get a better chance at a successful life.
Kabhi toh ragadna padega, abhi karo ya at 25 that’s your call.
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This week marked a year since my mother passed. I have missed her every single second of every single day. An ode:
Some Kind of Prose: An Ode to my Mother.
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You could be a fully grown-up adult living on your own for years but falling sick away from home will universally continue to be the hardest thing in the world
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Coming back to Mumbai means aapan jya number var call karaat aahaat ti ya vedes vyast aahe, kripya thodya vedane punah prayatna kara
and why did listening to this make me so emotional that I almost shed a tear
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Something Google Meet got right but Zoom/Teams hasn’t:
When I’m the first one in a meeting, I keep the meeting running in the BG & move to other tabs. I want to hear a chime when someone else joins so I know I need to come back to the meeting tab. This is so simple yet so imp.!
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What I’m loving about growing older - a slow acceptance of myself & a diminishing desire to fit in.
This is who I am, take it or leave it. Both personality-wise, body-wise (no more clinging on to old clothes in the hopes of fitting into them some day) & vibes-wise. I am who I am.
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Love how all of them are letting their natural hair flow. No pressure to apply extreme heat. Everyone looks so at ease with themselves. Beauties 💗
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A teacher at my school often used to say to me
‘It’s a bad day, not a bad life’
Didn’t quite grasp the power of these words back then, but I do now
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There is an unreasonable amount of pressure on the last few days of every calendar year to give us lots of learnings, self-discovery, reflections, epiphanies & new perspectives.
We must not succumb to this pressure. Every day should be utterly useless & result in no learnings.
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I’ve now partied in a Mumbai club till 2:30 AM in the night (with the best music EVER)
My body is reset. I’m now capable of spending 6 more months in Bangalore.
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My brain has gone NUTSS
I was scrolling Instagram reels, saw a really nice dance reel, the lady’s bio said Developer at <IT services company>, <Good college> Batch of ‘18.
I had to stop myself from DM-ing ki do you want to work at a fast-growing edtech startup😭
Always selling🥲
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No one prepared me for the amount of life admin work you have to do as an adult who lives on their own. So many bills, renewals, bookings, salaries, grocery optimisations to manage, JUST for basic survival.
Add to that, a job and a social life. How is any of you managing?!
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Laptop crashing because it can’t handle all the students attending and chatting in your company’s live Zoom event -> best Sunday ever
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Who are these ‘catch flights, not feelings’ people?
Have you TRIED to catch a flight these days? From BLR airport specifically?
45 min lines to enter, last min gate changes, airlines forgetting you in the bus
I’d honestly rather catch feelings - that seems far less stressful?!?
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INTERNSHIP ALERT!
I’m looking for an intern who ticks the below boxes
- confident and well-spoken
- camera-friendly
- spontaneous
- generally smart and resourceful
That’s it. You’d have to be a virtual emcee, which is as cool as it gets. It’s fun work, & well-paid. Please RT!!
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A girl should always carry sunscreen, lip balm, a Tetra Pak of juice, a can of wine, a lighter and a nail cutter in her bag. Everywhere she goes. Don’t ask me why. I don’t make the rules. Thank me later.
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Woke up at 9:30 am in a WILD panic that I was late for my cook, my maid, my car pool, my job - everything and then realised I’m not even IN Bangalore this morning and that I have taken a day off from work. 😑
Adulthood PTSD is real
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work would get done yougaiz.
How would anyone focus when Sid would enter the 10 am standup 10 mins late; with ruffled hair, rolled up sleeves, black coffee in hand, bags under his eyes, and say ‘Sorry folks, was up late working on a PRD’
Who would chastise him for being late? Not
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the way to live is to collect as many wonderful people as you can
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A late-stage bus fleet aggregator startup failed to survive COVID and shut down last month.
A bus fleet aggregator startup just raised 44 CR in seed funding today.
The VC-circle of life ✨
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Someone I met last year once casually said ‘Why not. My response to most things in life is why not. It opens up so many possibilities.’
And that is the energy I want to take with me to 2022. To go from not sure to why not. Not easy for someone like me, but a girl can try.
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Happy to share that I am officially a scented candle girlie. My conversion is complete.
Nothing gives me more joy than my dumb little expensive blocks of wax that make my house smell like heaven. Who said money can’t buy happiness? 💜
(That said - drop some candle brand reccos)
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me, that’s for sure.
No one would be able to get any work done.
Good only he became a film star. We didn’t deserve him.
But makes you wonder about the narrow career optionality that comes about as a result of a Malhotra last name and deadly good looks. What a tough life.
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It is absolutely INSANE that life does not come with an instruction manual & we’re allowed to make massive mistakes without any warning, any idea what we’re doing or any oversight.
Give me the manual. I cannot do this trial by fire learn on the job training anymore
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I have cracked the code to a good, smooth Saturday night in BLR.
1. Reservations. Reservations, reservations, reservations. Only go to places that take reservations. I cannot stress this enough. RESERVATIONS!
2. BluSmart. If you live in an area not serviced by them - sorry :(
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There is a severe lack of real-ness in the ecosystem. It feels like everyone is putting on a show here. Everyone is trying to appear a certain way. Me included. To what end? At the end of the day you have to live with yourself….the real version
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Bangalore mein aise din aa gaye hai ki ek acche product designer ke liye log pushtaini jaydaad de denge apni
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It’s 2 am, everyone’s headed to the after-party. Ur so sleepy you can barely keep your eyes open. That’s when u know ur old. When sleeping is more appealing than the AP.
Mind you, this AP kind of sitch only occurs like once a year in my life.
Yet, I’d rather sleep. Yep, I’m old.
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Petition to ban Instagram stories because how the f**k are y’all having cute quaint weekday brunches and outings in the day when I’m literally slaving away at my laptop on a Wednesday afternoon
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INTERNSHIP ALERT! 🚨 RT FOR REACH
Ever wondered how Plum got marquee clients like Swiggy, Meesho, Hike and 2000+ more on our insurtech platform? All thanks to the magic woven by our Account Based Marketing (ABM) team that sources leads & new business for Plum!
This all-star
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I have realised now that the combination of really good at their job/very talented professional + a genuinely good human being is incredibly, incredibly rare.
I’m at that age now where the latter is important to me.
There are many great professionals around who are absolute
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It’s crazy how most ‘unique’ life experiences that help you stand out in applications to prestigious jobs/institutions are a luxury reserved for the 1%.
Sure a sabbatical spent backpacking in SE Asia helps you stand out but how many of us in India have that kind of safety net?
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It seems my Twitter account has finally found product market fit. I’d like to thank my early backers, my friends, who believed in my vision from Day 1 of being slightly funny online, always liked & retweeted 🙏🏻 Grateful. Here’s to scaling 100x building the next cool account!🚀🚀
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
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Lady at the salon asks my age - say Ma’am if you don’t mind. I tell her. She says Ma’am you look so much younger! Your face is like a teenager!
Validation for the week = done.
(Yes I know she was only flattering me to upsell more services. I don’t care. I’ll take this win.)
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The BIGGEST personal alpha you can create for yourself is to become fully unafraid of rejection. In any sphere of life.
Become unabashedly shameless, keep asking for what you want, never take rejection personally.
Doing this will easily improve your life/mental health by 10x
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I think it’s time for me to accept that I never was, am not, and can never be, a chill girl.
I’m certified insane and incapable of being chill, nonchalant, go with the flow, etc etc
This is just who I am
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I need a day off from life so that I can catch up with my life 😭🤕🥴
How is it July already? How is one week of July already over? How is it 8 pm already? Where the FRICK is the time flying?!?
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buy some more. He insisted I carry toothpaste from Mumbai - I told him I can buy it in BLR but he insisted and stuffed a tube of Colgate in my suitcase anyway. He then also proceeded to COURIER me toothpaste because he was worried his darling daughter would run out. If this isn’t
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My favourite thing about the phenomenal business success of Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner et al: shatters every single notion of what a successful businesswoman should look like. Hot as f, top tier fashion game, no fancy degrees, no interest in world affairs, yet ruling. Queens.
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Sweet salon lady saying Ma’am your skin has become so dry, your scalp is so dry, let me suggest a treatment yeh woh - my dear my whole SOUL is dry here how are you going to help me with that - I appreciate your comcern but pls. You cannot solve this
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Hello gentle reminder to just ask.
99% of things you want - you will get if you just ask. ‘Omg how can I just ask them for something like this’ is all in your head. They don’t care. You ask, they will give/tell. Simple.
Please go and ask :) there is no downside!
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Two realisations dawned upon me this morning:
1. Kids in my society call me aunty
2. I spend my mornings Whatsapping with the fruit seller and the laundry guy and the cook to coordinate their arrival timings with my office timings
I just……am old
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card in the last couple weeks. So I open the carton, and the man has sent me a dabba of dry fruits, my forgotten card and jewellery, and TOOTHPASTE. Toothpaste, you guys. Why, you ask? Because when I was in Mumbai I casually mentioned I’ve run out of toothpaste in BLR & need to
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@apparitionnow
+1. Remember this tv show called Mahadev where the lead actor could’ve given any of these new-age Bollywood stars a run for their money. He was so good
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After how many months of joining a new company will you stop having to ask for access to Google sheets
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In the last 12 mos I’ve been buying a lot more from D2C brands’ websites directly vs from Amazon etc. All are built on Shopify. ALL ask for my contact & address details 😭 So close to giving up & buying from Amazon etc only bcz of this. Need a one-time login/auth service for
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Until now I used to see Instagram stories of women and be like oooo where did you get that top from? Where did you get that dress from? Where did you get that bag from?
Now I see Instagram stories of women getting engaged and I want to ask ooo where did you get that man from?
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