Things that define me!

When I saw this #UseyourAnd campaign at BlogAdda, I actually started restrospecting on what defines me. I have always heard people talk about women being either intelligent or beautiful, I’m sure most of you too. If a pretty women grows high up in her career than others, it is generalised that she got the opportunity because of her looks. But we wouldn't consider to think she might really be talented to reach there. Can we just stop and think how stereotypical that is! I believe women are Multitalented and hence writing this post to tell you all what defines me.

To start off, I was second topper in my school during 10th std and studied in one of the best colleges during my PUC. I completed my Engineering from RVCE, one of the top colleges in Karnataka. I got through campus placement and i work for one of the good firms as a Software Engineer. Hold on, don't assume I'm just a nerd who studied well and got one boring job. .

Yes, I can Ride bike too!

Foreign land... Minneapolis!!

Visit to Foreign land... Minneapolis!!

Have you packed everything! Do you need snacks! Call me once you reach there! Do no go out alone! Do not go to water places! There were no pause for me to say anything; I wondered if my mom was even expecting any response. In spite of all panic around me, i kept my calm and packed things for my 8 day stay in Minneapolis (mnpls). Since it was my first time to travel abroad, I had to check with friends on what goes in cabin bag and what goes in check in, ah! Packing is such a pain. After all the talks and preparations finally i reached airport.

En route we had flight change at Paris, for which we were very excited about. Oh yeah! I was not alone; we were 8 colleagues travelling to same destination. We peeped through plane windows to locate Eiffel tower but sadly we did not find :( We had transit time of 2 hours in Paris, which allowed us to roam around a bit in the airport. Oh man what a beautiful and expensive airport that is, ended up paying 7 euros for two bottles of water, Wonder what was in that water! We reached mnpls at 6 pm CST and was waiting to hit the bed as for a record I hadn't slept in 30 hours straight, wish I could have been awake like this during exams:P 

At the end of the day, you need a good place to crash is what I believe. The accommodation made me happy as the hotel had huge room, cozy bed, two Televisions, fridge and yeah bath tub of course. It was no less than a luxurious home!

Apart from work and lot of dance practice hours, I managed to make some time for sight-seeing. Infrastructure of the city is very well planned; two to three generations can live by just maintaining it.

True belief never fails!

Since childhood i always fantasized about travelling on air and visiting other countries. As I'm from a small town in India, being a foreign return was a big deal in family and society around, and it was stuck in my head. Whenever my friends use to come back from their international trips, i would be all ears to listen to their experience. Even though i knew i couldn't afford the trip, I always dreamt of travelling overseas. But once my corporate life started, I realized it is very common for employees going on site for different country visits. Call it my bad luck, unfortunately my company was not one of those who send employees on site easily. But that never made me give up on my hopes, i knew i would go abroad either to study, work or for a trip.

Visit to happy world :)

Every one has a soft side which wants to do something in society they live in, but everyone gets tired and busy with their own life that they give least priority to do anything. But if we get an opportunity in our routine life to do something little for society, i'm sure each one of us would love to. Few organizations makes sure to give back something to society in their own way, and i'm so glad to be working for a company which does a lot of community services.

As a community services event i have visited to NGO called Yuvalok for four times now through my company. Few colleagues involve in such event to please managers or to have a break from work. But it is amazingly true that what ever your reason maybe you would end up having "feel good moment" with kids. Me being a person who actively involves in social activities outside my work place, never like to miss any visits to NGO's through company.

Unlike teaching them computers or Mathematics or Science as we had done previously, this time concept was "Fun while learning". We had to come up with ideas on what we should present to kids which will be fun as well as they learn something. We all came up with few fun science experiments/ Geometric symbols/Identifying famous personalities. Made all logistics ready before reaching the venue.

The enthusiasm in those kids is higher each item i have met them; this time was no less. The eagerness in each of them to learn something new and happiness to see people who have come to spend time with them is simply outstanding. Kids were brighter than we expected. They solved Sudoku( which had geometric symbols) with ease, they had surprised look on face when we showed invisible ink experiment. Explained about what are the environmental hazardous wastes and asked them to make paper bags.


Even though it was a one hour session, we tried our best to leave them with positive thoughts and few learning. More than we help kids, we will be helping ourselves relieve our stress and have satisfaction.
oh well i titled this blog "Visit to Happy World" because at the end of day all you have is a big smile on your face :)