A trip to Remember...

Yes, a trip to remember and cherish.. I have travelled a lot but this trip was out of the world. The reason was not just the place but the company, the friends I made on the way.. So, without further delay let me take you through my splendid tour of Switzerland, France and Dubai...

After a flight changeover in Dubai, we headed to Zurich, which is the financial capital of Swiss. Swiss is landlocked country, surrounded by 5 countries. While landing, the view was awesome. The scene was so spectacular, it felt as if painting has come alive.. :)

After landing, we headed to Luzene. Luzene is a tourist place and there we took cruise to Lake Luzene.



After cruise, we went to Wooden Bridge, which is next to the lake and is one of the oldest bridge there and is decorated with red flowers. The combination of dark brown woods and red flowers looked very beautiful.



After a short tour, we went to Engelberg. It is a beautiful village surrounded by mountains. One can see mountains covered with snow and mountains having wooden houses. Its just picture perfect. Patches of yellow and green grass accompanied by green and brown trees added beauty to the scene. This is a view from my windown and I loved it :)



From Engelberg, we went to Lauterbrunnen, from where we took train to Jungfraunjoch, top of Europe with train changeover at Kleine Scheidegg. The track from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraunjoch is in the form of 9km long tunnel.



Jungfraunjoch is top of Europe at 11,333 ft. There are various sports that can be played in snow and sledge riding can be done as well. We went to the top of the peak and it felt as if I am blessed. Snow covered peak along with patches of clouds because of sunshine made it more beautiful. From there, I saw just snow, snow and snow.



We made our way to snow and it was thin and soft. Since we were running out of time, we took snow disc and slided in snow using snow disc. Initially, I was very scared but later it was like childs play and you enjoy the moment when u start sliding down and you just see snow snow and nothing else and trust me it feels amazing..



Next we went to Ice Palace which is at third level there. It is in thr form of cave and ice is so soft that if you run, you can actually slip in filmy way. There are various cartoons and creatures made of ice and its worth it.



Next stopover was at Trummelbach Falls which is around 15-20 mins drive from Lauterbrunnen station. Flow of water is around 20,000 litres/sec and the water comes from three mountains, Jungfraunjoch, Monch and Eicher.

There are ten levels but the fall is worth seeing from sixth level. The view from there is little open and to reach there we can take lift or stairs. Lift goes upwards at an angle of 45 degrees. Waterfall is inside caves and it is really hard to imagine the way it is built. The view is breathtaking and it really needs courage to go upstairs specially when you are leading the group but I have never seen such a waterfall in my life.

Next visit was to Interlaken. The city is between two lakes Brienz and Thuner and hence the place is called Interlaken. The city is built beautifully with road side cafe and shop near the roads.



Next, we visited Mount Titlis which is at 5 mins distance from Engelberg station. The Titlis Rotair is the world's first revolving cabin car - takes you all the way to the summit of Mt.Titlis, where you will find a breathtaking panormic mountainscape awaiting you. The Ice flyer glacier chair lift has you floating right over the awesome Titlis glacier. Once there, you have wide choice of snow toys to play with.



Now, it was time for shopping. So, we headed to Bern, Capital of Switzerland since 1848. It is also declared as heritage city by UNESCO. There is clock tower which was built in 16th century and it is still working. Next to Bern Parliament is Swiss Bank, which is currently holding maximum amount of Gold. Bern is build on old architecture and yet the trams and shops there give a modern look to the city.



After Bern, we visited Geneva. Geneva is having 200 organizations of which the most prominent one is HQ of UN. The other prominent buildings are UNICEF, Red Cross, WTO and ILO. Lake Geneva is the largest lake in Switzerland and it takes around 1 hour to cross entire lake. Jet d'eau tallest fountain is in Lake Geneva. It is 470 ft high and was built in 1891 which was reply to Paris for Eiffel Tower.



Geneva is having a modern look not like other cities of Swiss. One can find cafes at every corner. Streets are full of amazing cars and HQ of mostly all the watch companies is in Geneva. Its unlimited fun and shopping @Geneva...



After that, we had visit to Chillon Castle. In its current form Chillon Castle is the result of several centuries of different construction and alterations. The small rocky island on which castle is built acted both as natural protection and a strategic loation to control movement between north and south of Europe. Castle all in all was amazing. Holding map in hand and then running here n there was so so fun with frds with handycam and camera following.. :)



Then we stopped over Montreux, whose one side is covered by Lake and another by shops with houses above shops. We opted not to shop and headed towards lake side. The view was picturesque and after few steps we went inside the lake. It felt out of the world when we stepped into it and played a lot..



As the journey was coming to end, we again went to Zurich and visited Rhine Falls. These are the highest fall in Europe and they have built view point near the falls where you can go by taking ferry. The falls were beautiful but not worth to be the highest fall in Europe.

In the whole trip, we played dumbc, UNO and antakshri in the bus.. Chilling cold and long walk in streets without jackets, talks, fun, fooling each other, taking class, playing teen patti whole night long.. I am missing each and every moment we spent together. No doubt that Switzerland is beautiful but the company made it heaven.



I am very sure that people in this pic will never forget the time we all spent together.. :) Miss you all alot!!!! Wait for France and Dubai blog.. ;)

Bhatija and Chatai Pav Bhaji stall

Mumbai - As depicted in the movies, is the city of dreams. City where people come to live their dreams. Inspired by such movies, a person called Bhatija came to Mumbai from a small village of U.P. All the incidents and characters are true.

He opened a small Chatai Pav Bhaji stall near Kings Circle. Slowly, slowly his business started growing and he was running out of resources and someone whom he can rely for managing stall with him. So, he called his real brother, Umesh from UP to assist him in his business.

Umesh learnt the business and everything about pav bhaji stall from his brother. But greed and ego creeped inside Umesh and he opened his own stall near to his brother's stall.

Now again, Bhatija ran out of resources and recruited a person, lets call him Raju. Raju became left hand of Bhatija and started handling most of the Bhatija's business. Now, Raju did some setting and threw Bhatija out of his own business. After sometime, Munna, Bhatija younger brother came from UP and started working under Raju.

Now Bhatija is not having anything to do. His dreams were shattered. His own family members betrayed him. Seeing Bhatija's situation, Umesh felt guilty and recruited Bhatija to work under him. After sometime, Bhatija again opened his stall in the same area but closed it due to police pressure and again started working for Umesh.

One day, while cutting onions, Bhatija like any other MBA thought of capturing a new territory and went to Pune. He opened his stall in Deccan in Pune and is now running his business successfully.

At the end, Bhatija, Umesh and Raju (outside recruit) are successfully running their business and Munna is happily working under Raju and telling everyone story about his family business.

Bada-Imambara - My Visit at Lucknow...

To change the subject of my blogs, I hereby introduce some travel. :) Recently, I visited Lucknow and there I visited Bada-Imambara, one of the beautiful historical monument. So, here's what it is all about!

Bada-Imambara is a four-storey building where each floor is very much different from the other one. It is neither a mosque, nor a mausoleum, but a huge building having interesting elements within it. The construction of the halls and the use of vaults show a strong Islamic influence.



The Bada Imambada is, in fact, a great hall built at the end of a spectacular courtyard approached through two magnificent triple-arched gateways. This columnless hall has been an architectural marvel since 1784, with the interior length of 49.4 m and width of 16.2 m. The ceiling is more than 15 m high. The hall is Asia's largest without any external support of wood, iron, or stone beams. What leaves the visitor astonished is the construction of the roof. It is said to be 16 feet thick and weighs nearly 20,000 tons.

There are three halls under the same roof namely, China Dish, Persian Hall and Kharbooja Hall, also called as Indian Hall.

The China Hall is square at ground level, becomes octagonal at mid-height, and 16 sided at the top. At those top, queen used to come so that no one can see the queen and queen can see everyone.




The Persian Hall is the central hall simply astonishing in proportions. The Persian Hall carries Tazia which is the model of Karbala. There are two such models. One model is made of silver and the other one is changed every year.





The Kharbooja Hall or the India Hall has been fashioned like a watermelon. These are only minor structural variations.



The roof, common to these halls, is flat and in one piece. The Persian architect, Kifait-ullah supervised this unique architectural extravaganza. The acoustics are equally marvelous. Even the slightest whisper can be heard at the other corner of the hall. Light a matchstick and you can hear the sound across the length of the hall. So, all the windows at the top is the first floor of the Imambara.

Coming to the second floor, the walls of the second floor are such that the voice or even the whispers at one corner of the building can be heard in the entire floor. This also gave rise to the saying, "Deewaro ke bhi kaan hote hai."

Third floor is the famous bhool-bhulaiya or the labyrinth. At every confusing set of stairs, there are three set where two are wrong and one is right. So, one wrong turn and you are done to get lost in bhool-bhulaiya :). One of the most amazing thing about the architecture is that the whole support for the building is hollow and is made of sugarcane juice, jaggery and udat daal.

Fourth floor is the rooftop. From the terrace one can have a snapshot of Lucknow city. The terrace gives a grand view of old Lucknow with numerous mosques and minarets on the horizon.


So, thats the famous Bada-Imambada of Lucknow. Hope you enjoyed the tour of the same. :)

Random Things About Me!!!

Although this is in FB but still I had nothing better to post now!!

1. I am highly emotional.. I take even small things direct dil pe... Althought i pretend to ignore lot many things but i remember everything!!

2. If I love someone, I will do everything possible.. But if I hate someone. I hate him/her from the core of my heart...

3. I am highly secretive... One cannot easily tell what am I thinking and what is it that I want.. I prefer keeping things within myself..

4. I behave the way I feel.. I dont care what the other person will think.. I show what I mean..

5. When i was in 5th class.. I ran away from home to see my parents and brother who were coming from mumbai... :P

6. I always wanted someone to throw surprise bday party for me which I do for my close friends.. But I havent witnessed one for myself :(

7. Although I have no plan for marriage but I have decided everything about it.. Decoration, invitation, dress, my to be home, interiors and everything!!

8. I love changing my hair style after every few months.. I get bored of my same look very soon

9. Although I hate daily soaps.. but when I am alone at home I watch them and then analyse the episode as well :D

10. Sometimes I feel as if I want to cry and the other moment I would be crying for no reason. I cry because i feel like crying..

11. I dont give flowers to everyone... Very few people have got flowers from me..

12. I have great observation power.. which I sometimes use to blackmail my friends :P

13. I cannot live without chatting.. Even while studying I chat...

14. I found it very hard to forgive people.. I never understood the concept of forgive and forget... But off late I have mastered the art of forgiving!!

15. Although I dont like flirt and hate people who flirt a lot.. but :D

16. I never eat in parties and marriages.. Very view of huge amount of food extingusihes my hunger... And also I have notion that food is unhygenic as it is cooked in bulk

17. I am highly dramatic at times... I can irritate you, make you happy or make you sad in few mins..

18. I never had an affair with my friends's friend..

19. I love to give my electonics gadgest random name which I somehow find very interesting.. I have even thought the name of my to be car...

20. I talk while sleeping...

21. I love to collect small small things like erasers, stickers, key chain.. I have huge collection of such things..

22. I love to receive gifts from my friends if they come from somewhere.. I sometimes even tell them that this is what you have to gift me once you are back..

23. I can watch any kind of movie.. And at the end I like all movies...

24. I am pampered.. And I love it when people pamper me

25. I dont know for what reason.. half of my class guys are scared of me!!

Please help me in increasing my list!! :)

Do I love him or am I used to him!!!!

Getting used to someone so much that you mistake it for love, is as common as infatuation!

When you actually sit down to think whether or not you love him, there are greater chances you don't! The good news is that, once you decide to figure things out for yourself, you are actually taking a very positive step ahead.

If it's love after all, there's nothing much to worry about. But if you've been dating the same guy over and over just because you are so used to him that you've fallen into a comfort zone and don't want to break away from it, think again. It might just help to take some time off him and see where your feelings stand.

If he moves on, well it's time for you to take another assessing look at the whole situation. It might not be a great idea to hold on to him, just because you can't imagine your life otherwise. Maybe it was never meant to be, and maybe, there's true love really in store for you and you just have to break away and find it. It really is not worth getting way too worked up on his account.

While it's wonderful to have someone to go out with all the time, it could actually help far more if you spent some time alone and not in a supposed relationship that's nothing more than just filling your evenings.

Always wanted to join that salsa class or bring home an aquarium having Aki n Nikki? Now is the time to do it! Not only will a hobby keep you meaningfully occupied, it will also take your mind off any depressing and lonely thoughts. Once you start viewing your life as yours alone, independent of your connection with him, you'll find many more fresh perspectives than you asked for!

Now it's up to you to decide whether what you have is true love or force of habit!

Something Strange!!

Since yesterday, I am feeling something strange, I don't know for what reason.. But I have never felt this before!!

I feel as if I am standing in the middle of the crowd and people around me are in hurry.. Just rushing around.. They all are just too busy to look at you, to ask you how are you doing.. Someone is coming and telling you something.. someone is coming and is asking for help.. I am overhearing some talks... But at the end of the day I am there all alone..

I don't know how many have faced this.. But it's a different feeling where you are detached from everything and everyone.. Sometimes you like the isolation but sometimes you hate being not with everyone!!

Truth....

Many a times we know what is the truth but don't want to face it.. Why?? What stops us from facing that truth of which we are so scared of???

May be it's the acceptance of the truth.. We don't want to accept what we are thinking will actually happen and we don't even do what-if analysis of the same as we don't want to face it... Well, to be true, it is applicable for my case!!

I know whats the truth and I know that it had to happen one day.. But that day will be today I didn't know and yes, I was not prepared for it. So, what do I do when I listens to it and when I face it..

Hmmm.. First Option: Maybe talk to friend.. so I start searching for my friend with whom I can talk.. Search began at afternoon within few mins and ended after hours as someone is busy with something and someone is too happy about something and I don't want to make them part of my sadness... Second Option: Cry and think over it.. Well, I don't want to cry about it as this was expected and if I will cry I will become more weak.. Third Option: Forget that something like that happened.. Naah.. if it was too easy to forget then why I would have cared about it.. Fourth: Accept the truth and party.. Yes, that's what I did..

I accepted the truth that love doesnt mean getting all the happiness you ever desired but it also means sacrifice to see your love happy forever and I wished him luck and partied whole night!!!!

Today I have learnt one more thing, to accept anything in your life, I need one thing and that is happiness within myself and yes,I have found it... :)