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Rock Garden of Chandigarh |Travel diaries - part 3

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Read what happened before this trip Read about my journey to Chandigarh The first place that was lined for the day was the Rock garden. It was about a 30 minutes drive from our hotel. As I entered the place, my eyes were stunned. Everything was looking so beautiful and unique. I have never seen such beauty in my life. So basically, the Rock garden is built from industrial, household waste, and discarded items. It consists of man-made waterfalls and many sculptures that are made up of waste such as bottles, glasses, bangles, tiles, ceramic pots, sinks, electrical waste, broken pipes which are placed on walls. Inside the garden, there's a Doll Museum which looks so amazing. I clicked a few pictures and shot some videos. Check out the video below. The place was quite large and we didn't have much time. I  and my friends were so lost in the beauty of the sculptures that we didn't realize that we had many missed calls from our professors and friends as...

Travel diaries - part 2

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Read about what happened before this trip As soon as we reached New Delhi station, it was about a 10 minutes walk towards the spot where our bus was already parked.  After boarding the bus,  we were provided with packaged food and water bottles, we then had our meal and started our journey towards Chandigarh. It was about 5-6 hours drive to reach our hotel. To pass some time, we all started playing a few games. We played for a while and then we all got really tired. Few of us took a small nap, while others were singing songs and enjoying with each other. I was sitting beside the window and enjoying the view. Later, the sunlight came right on my face which was making me uncomfortable. So, I took my scarf; placed it on my face, and slept. While I was dreaming about the mountains, the snowfall, and the amazing beauty of Himachal, one of my friends shouted that " result aaa Gaya ". For a moment, I couldn't believe what he said. My mind wasn't ready for that news. I w...

Travel diaries - Part 1

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I have never been away from my parents and went on a trip for ten days. This was the first time that I ever went on a trip for more than a day with my buddies; with whom I had spent more time than my family during my engineering days. I did all sorts of things for this trip: from going shopping with my mom for warm clothing to video calls with my girls and sending pictures to them of the things I had bought that day. The excitement just kept increasing day by day. Deep within my subconscious mind, I knew this trip was going to be important for me. It was going to help me escape from all my daily thoughts and stress, and I just wanted to relax and enjoy nature. Few days passed and it was the new year's eve, right before the day we had to depart for the trip. I was a bit stressed about fitting all my clothes into a single trolley bag. After struggling for a few hours, I finally stuffed everything in the bag and spent the rest of the time with my family. The day had finally arri...

losing Someone

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As we grew up, we just stop valuing people who are around us, or due to our studies or work commitments we just stop giving them time, and hence when they are no more with us, we realize their importance in our lives . This year was quite tough for me and my family. My dad lost his sister and my mom lost her brother, eventually, it was quite difficult for me to see them like that. It was such a trauma for me and my brother because they were not that aged and were in there 50s and 30s respectively. The starting days were quite difficult because I couldn't digest the fact that they are gone. I couldn't sleep at night and used to just think about them continuously and the memories we had together. Another most difficult thing to see was my mom was very depressed due to the loss of her brother, there were times when she used to cry, she used to say that she was not there during his last breath, she started to overthink a lot so I decided to indulge her into few new things. We...

My visit to INS Chennai(D65)

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On 31st July, 2019 I and my friends went to visit the ' Navy Exhibition' which was taking place in Ballard estate. It was conducted by the Indian navy.  I was very excited to visit that place and see Indian warships. So me and my friends were about to meet at CSMT station. During those days, Mumbai was suffering from heavy rainfall and people were asked to avoid traveling. But still, we decided to go there. From CSMT station we started finding taxis also known as ' Kali Peelis' in Mumbai. Almost every taxi driver was denying to go to that place. We were wondering why are they not taking us there, then while waiting for almost 7-8 minutes, we finally found someone who took us to that place. When we reached there, we saw a gate where there was written 'Ballard Estate'. Now I was totally confused about where to go because I couldn't see any ship. Then, we walked towards the gate and found a lot of crowds. As soon as we entered, there were artifacts of n...

My Swimming Experience

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My vacation was going on!! So one morning when I woke up I thought that I should learn something, so I decided to learn how to swim...I told my mom and she said that " ha Chalo leke jaati hu time" .I was soo much excited to learn swimming.  So I Just started finding some nylon or synthetic clothes. after a time span of 45 minutes, I found it. Then I booked an ola, when I was in the cab I was very excited but was nervous too!! .After some time we reached there. We made a visiting pass for 10 days. We started walking towards the academy. We were skimming our eyes to find where were the swimming sessions going on..  after 5-10 minutes we found the place . Then we started walking towards the changing room, While I was walking I could smell the chlorine water, I could hear people screaming, which just made me more nervous. Then I just changed my clothes and I was going towards the pool.  There I saw the trainer. She asked my name,I told her "Poonam"   I also t...

My Childhood Days

So I am a 20-year-old girl. So during my childhood days, my dad was in the navy, so we used to live in Navy Nagar (a place where all naval people live with their family). As a naval brat, my dad always used to get transfers and all, so we just used to change places. I have been to Goa, Dehradun, Vishakapatnam, etc and in the end, he was transferred to Mumbai, and from that time I'm here landed in Mumbai " The city of dreams " as it is known to be. So there was a place where I used to go with him to swimming. Good old days!! But I couldn't ever learn as a small kid. There used to be a tube around my body and I used to just play in the water. My dad used to tell me, " push your legs in this manner, move your hands properly" and all those sorts of things. But as a small kid, I just used to love playing in the water. So, days passed by and my dad retired from the Indian Navy. Then, he got a job in a company, which was very far away from where we used to l...