No Bitching

Hello Everyone

Hope you all are doing fine.

Coming back to me, feeling little low on very demanding job. 
It's not that i hate my job or people around but i think every once in a while this situation comes and which forces to find my calling further.
When you are working in corporate office, there will be people whom you have very good relation and also there will be people with strained relation. These cases are inevitable. Lets not decide on who or what is wrong but the fact is some people are so different that you and it's impossible to gel with them.
So here are the tricks i use to make my workplace sustainable.

1. Acknowledge the difference-
Will give a real time example i have a colleague who is worst of it's kind in term of  minimum understanding for shared responsibility. With time i have grown really intolerant about her presence near me. I am facing same kind of heat from her end as well. It's difficult to avoid this kind of people when you have to part of same work force. But i cant be bitching around so decided to leave the mess as it is, Keeping my interaction to minimum and making an independent niche for me really helped.

2.Say No to bitching-
This one is difficult particularly if you are a women.
We are hardwired that way for being very critical towards fellow women. But trust me this do much harm than good. So understand the difference and let your ground not intersect theirs. Your bitching is grapevine for others. So lets not wash our dirty laundry in public.

3. Troubled old relation-
Some one used to be  a very good friends of yours whom you no longer have talking terms. Ironically best friends becomes worst enemy if relationship go soar. Having venom about other person, missing no opportunity to tarnish his/her image, i personally find it meaningless to try to patch up things. If relations go wrong i prefer not trying to repair it. Opposite of love is not hatred, it is apathy. There is no better revenge than when you don't give a damn about other persons existence. Hatred still have binding force with that person. Loose all bond and go free.

Hope if that can help.
You can share your experience in comment below.

Happy living and Happy blogging...
XOXO
Mini 

6 Reasons To must Have Kindle If You Are A Reader

Helloooo

Finally it's SUNDAY and after many weeks of continuous work i have OFF today.
In this busy days one of my gadgets has been a constant companion " my kindle". I don't call myself a hard core reader but as a matter of fact i totally love reading. But days are gone when i used to have ample time to dig my head into library shelf now i barely have time to read(honestly) . I have the same feeling for books, the touch, its feel is way different when you read same thing in soft copy. The content remains same but still the feeling of reading shifts drastically.
Anyway coming to the point despite all i bought a kindle(after lot of calculations) and you know this is certainly my "Gadget of the Year"

Image Curtsy Google.com

So here is 6 reasons why you must have a kindle if you are a reader:
1. Store-you can store huge collection in this tiny device. 
2. Flexibility- you can read in all break times in office, with morning/Evening tea, before bed time.
3. battery power is superb. I keep reading for 20+ days without charging.
4. Less strain to your eyes thanks to awesome brightness setting.
5. Comparatively less expansive.
6. Travelling with Kindle is a real breeze, Long waiting hours in airport or railways won't bother you anymore(at the least minimize).

After complaining for years about time constrain for reading now it certainly has became a routine. I read during my office hours whenever i am having small tea breaks, just after waking up and before going to bed. I could read very small portion though but i am happy to make is continuous.

So with all the beautiful feelings of reading, stay fit, stay happy, happy reading........

XOXO
Mini :).........

Gokarna- A little piece of paradise

Hello there,
First time ever i have heard about Gokarna is from some travel blog. In description , it totally looked like my kind of place so ever since this place was on our travel list. Finally on Jan 2016 long weekend we finally stepped there and yes it was way prettier than how it was described.

Place Details:
Those who have never heard about Gokarna, it is a sleepy small town in coastal Karnataka(close to Goa). It also has pilgrimage site of Murudeshwer nearby.

Things We Loved :
Well to the people who just want some nice, beautiful place away from regular life. This place is perfectly for you. People who want a very happening time i don't think Gokarna promises that.Water is perfect  blue and beaches have fine sand and very clean( at par with beaches from south Goa & 1000 times better than Calangute/Bagha). It's not jam packed place. Most of the tourists there are foreigners.

Cons:
1. Infrastructure is not very developed. You can't find many resorts kind of things(There are few you can checkout in google). Set ups are basic hut.
Food was amazing and eating itself is too much fun.
2. Connectivity is poor(at least i think that). For us it was train journey from HYD-HUBLI. then bus ride to Gokarna covering few places of interest on the way. Thanks to the Jumbo group we were travelling with,this journey felt like breeze. If we would have traveled alone journey itself might have frustrated us.
3. Few Beaches: Please don't think it is just like Goa. In Goa in every few kilometers there are beaches and options are many with individual preference. Here Its just 3- Kudle Beach, Om beach and Gokarna beach. The last beach is mostly crowded with people of spiritual thirst. Kudle and Om beaches are perfect for other tourist. There are two more beaches named as halfmoon  beach & paradise beach which you can reach after some hiking. They were ok not something amazing.

My Recommendation
I loved stay and food@ Kudle beach.

Here are photo journey:

Sunset @ Paradise beach

Top view of Paradise beach

Few Yoga enthusiasts

Kids getting ready for the game

Top view of Gokarna Beach

Just me

Me and Hubby trying hard for a nice selfie

Please let me know by comments if you like my piece.
Stay Healthy, keep travelling and happy blogging

XOXO
Mini

Glipse Of My Nomadic Life

Hello there,

I don't call myself a traveler but it does stand a unique lifestyle to me which i am always inspired to live.
I love the feeling of being on road where vistas changes every kilometer.
Food on highway dhabas taste divine to me. It lets me venture out my restricted hygienic food criteria.
And most precious treasures on different road are the people with different stories. 
There is hell lot of things to learn and also to unlearn. It's not wise to carry the load of everything happened in our life. we need to empty the bucket sometimes to fill it with new experiences.

Here are glimpses of our nomadic life (which occurs few times in an year)
Pics are taken during our trekking to Annapurna Base Camp, Nepal.

@ New Delhi airport, while taking flight for Kathmandu, Nepal

@ A restaurant on the way to Pokhara, Nepal

@ Pokhara, the foot town for all trekking expeditions.

@ Annapurna Base camp

No doubt life is most beautiful when you keep doing what you are passionate for.
I am not a full time traveler. I have a full time job which i love from bottom of my heart and yes money matters to me. So as of now leaving my job and taking travel in full swing is not in plan.   
( Though  i have been inspired to do so after reading many successful blogger and full time traveler)
Hope i will keep on posting regularly.
If you like my write up, do post comments. If you have suggestions i would be more than happy to incorporate.
Stay Healthy and Happy Traveling. 

XOXO
Ranu

Office.....

Sometime your workplace become very challenging like today for me. Things go wrong one after another leaving you skeptical about your capabilities. I am an aircraft engineer where Female to male ratio is very very low. Action from my end is mostly overcompensating for me being woman. I am always extra careful in my work so that no-one can raise a finger on my compatibility with my profession. Yet today few mistakes left me disheartened. Well i think i take it too personally. When things go wrong I take it too much on my self respect which actually deplete my self confidence. I know "To err is human". But i am not sure when will i be able to learn to take it normally..

P.S. - Here attaching one pics of happy days in workplace.

Lonely.......

Hiii there
Sometime in life we feel extremely lonely. I do it sometime and today is one of them. It's not i am scared of it but understanding it better helps me to get over it fast.
My understanding so far says many battles in life is meant to be fought solo. No-one NOT even your life partner can help you by any means. So STOP  complaining.  This is over expectation that someone has a magic stick and can solve your problem when you who has best understanding of the whole situation is struggling to get some light. I think we expect too much from our life partner or may be we are expecting minimum but they can't even acknowledge that. But being disappointed or frustrated can not solve problem, it may aggravate that. So i have made my mind No more Cry baby for not getting motivation and outside support for fitness, No more effort for trying hard to make me understand  correctly. No more stupid question if i am putting on weight or not and wait for approval. Like many other this is solo battle for being better and being happy.
Hoping for the best and the GAME IS ON...

P.S: Attaching  a selfie of thoughtful me which was taken in Virupaksha Temple, Hampi.

 

Thoughtful..............??

Hiiia Everyone

Happy New Year 2015 Amigos.

As January is about to pass what is the progress on your new year resolutions? Are your are in pace with them or slipping behind??

My observation so far about life is, it never flows in uniform speed. Either i am too high or too drowned, too excited or completely gone. I am not sure is it just me who has this issue or everyone has it one or other time. Taking benefit of doubt i think i have this manufacturing defect in me. Anyways as i am growing i am in the process of shorting this out.I have been more thoughtful these days. I have no intention to offend anyone but i have considerable dislike for self help books. My experience with them are that they will make you dreamy and do lots or promises. Which they fulfill obviously BUT very temporarily. That is the reason which make me picking biographies or random stories of interest instead of them. However i came across a book named "MiniHabits". Now a days busy reading it and surprisingly liking it too. So if you are also one who are slipping behind your new year resolution or frustrated for not meeting your self expectation  AND of course ready to spend INR 381 i believe one must give it a trial.

Happy Reading & Happy Blogging.

Here attaching image taken at Hampi, Karnataka where we celebrated our new year.