A Delhi Metro Voyage

Remember the last time you went by taking Delhi Metro?? Remember the last time you were standing on a metro station and leaning forward to see the metro approaching?? Remember the huge crowds at Rajeev Chowk and Kashmiri Gate metro stations, pushing you and making you board the train automatically??

Yes I want you to recall all those moments you spend daily or at least once in a week travelling by the Delhi Metro connecting the large number of stations and areas of Delhi.

Delhi metro was started on 24^th December 2002 and since then it is serving the city with its full geared up efforts. There have been certain mis-happenings as well but then also becoming more and more conscious, Delhi Metro Management is functioning and daily catering to thousands of citizens.

When I hear the words, Delhi Metro, the first thing I recall is the badly jammed metro compartments, the minute to minute announcements of stations, the loud music played by some passengers, students sitting on the floors even after being prohibited, and the loud ring tones of the mobile phones of various passengers which keeps on ringing one after the other without a huge time gap…

The surroundings of a compartment of Delhi Metro are so worth describing that I can’t avoid myself to write on it. It was a morning peak hours time at around 11 am when all the working individuals take the metro for their office. Just as I boarded from Pitampura metro station with roughly 20 more passengers with me in the metro towards Dilshad Garden, I saw a very aged uncle standing near a pole and waiting for a chance to get a seat under the Senior citizen seats out of those been occupied by teenage boys. On the other side, there was lady standing in a corner and trying to manage somehow with 2 luggages and a small kid. But on the seats, there were young professionals in the age bracket of 19- 30 sitting blindly without noticed the suffering passengers who were most eligible for sitting. I was supposed to change the metro at Kashmeri Gate and take the underground one for Rajeev Chowk.As soon as Kashmeri Gate station arrived, people started pushing each other and as a result the small kid fell off between the station and metro entry. Then also, no-one cared to pick him up and were rushing like anything. I didn’t like the behaviour of these passengers, if these well educated young passengers cannot understand humanity, then how can we expect this from our elders and young kids.

I am travelling in the metro since I started preparing for my CAT exam and was supposed to change 3 metros for the same. And now if I look back, it’s been more than 5 years that I am a continuous traveller of Delhi Metro. I appreciate the efforts of the Delhi Government and the Delhi Metro Authorities for maintaining the metro so nicely that it still doesn’t appear to be 7 yrs old. I cannot take any strict action to make everyone understand the importance of the rules, regulations and etiquettes but I can only request each one of us to take care of such circumstances in our lives which will in turn help someone.

-

Priyanka

Parchment Craft

Hello everyone...

Its been long time since my last blog.. I would first of all like to thank to all of those who were reading my blogs and appreciated me for the same. Also there are few people who supported and encouraged me to write more by helping and suggesting me the topics and different arts of writing.

Today, i would like to share with all a new piece of my work, which is a bit time consuming and because of this fact i am able to complete one of its project in a day only. Its known as Parchment craft where carving sorts work is done on a special piece of paper with special tools and effects. I have added this to my work options and currently teaching as well as taking orders for the same. Hoping for a positive response from all my readers,I am hereby uploading few pics of my work.

1. An envelope

2. A photo-frame

3. Another Envelope

thanks

- Priyanka

Candles

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

Few years back, when the electricity was used to go off, the only instant thoughts that approached everyone in India was to light a candle. But times have changed and so did the technology, habits and thoughts. Now we don’t need to even care for the same as we have automatic generators or invertors which don’t even need to be started once the electricity went off.

I still remember the times when the electricity was used to come back after some times and we used to run from our rooms into a race that who will blow off the candles that were lit on the shelf near lobby wash-basin, in the bathrooms and all over the house. It was so much fun, playing this game as all the kids of a house used to get together to test their running abilities.

Candles, I think I can write and share a lot about them. And the reason for the same is I have been closely in touch with them for around two and a half years. I know how these are born and how to determine its life. Too much of human terms, to be simple, I know the art of making designer candles and also the way it is decided of the number of burning hours.

The candles are also a major part of the romantic dinner theme. These aromatic designer candle light dinners are still today a charm of romance for beautiful made for each other couples. Feng-shui and Vastu-Shastra also support burning of candles at home with a belief that the negative energies also do get burnt with them. Candles are very majorly used by the Christians in Church for there prayers. And the best use we have seen since our childhood is the candles on the cake. Celebrating the happiness and birthdays are not fulfilled without a candle on cake and the birthday boy/girl blowing the candle away.

The various raw materials today being used for candles are like Paraffin Wax, Bees Wax, Marble Wax, Gel Wax, Soy Wax etc. Majority of these are used by heating them to a particular temperature, adding desired colour and fragrance and thereby pouring them into desired moulds together with adding designs. The wick of the candle can be added to the candle at the time of making it and even after it’s completed by drilling a whole and then inserting the wick and holder. The wicks of these candles come in different variety of widths which are used for different candles according to their diameter. These range from 1.5 inches wick 3 inches candle wicks.

I pray to the lord, with a candle in my hand that let the world keep purchasing candles for celebrating there happiness and for having great homes with their loved ones with whom they can have candle light dinners and let this exist with year after year of birthday celebrations with candles.
God Bless All…

- Priyanka

Addiction to Handbags

What is the primary thought that pops-up in your mind when you hear the words, GUCCI…PRADA…LOUIS VUITTON…ESBEDA…HIDESIGN…DA-MILANO…etc.
Yes, it’s a magnificent, wonderful, outstanding, elegant, stylish and graceful handbag for women.

Allow me to ask all my readers one more question. When was the last time you purchased a new handbag? Or when was the last time you thought of purchasing a handbag?
I am pretty sure, sometime in near past, may be 2 weeks, you must have thought to purchase one or must have promised yourself in the marketplace that on the next occasion you will certainly procure “this” or “that” brand or sort of handbag.

Well – well, even all the guys reading this, must have heard something on the subject of handbags from their female friends, associates, girlfriends, wives, sisters and even mothers. You know what, we females, actually have an addiction for handbags.

Well I will make a confession here. I bought one yesterday itself. It’s a beautiful mauve colour Esbeda handbag which is just perfect. Even after buying this one, I can’t think of leaving/ discarding the one I am presently using, which is a polka dotted brown coloured potli type handbag from Baggit which I bought about a year ago. I don’t know, but somehow, it has become vital to me and I can’t even think of doing away with it. I am very much addicted to it as I carry it each and everywhere even in case at times people feel that there is no need of it. It helps to boost up my confidence and gives me a comfortable feeling.

I asked few of my extremely good associates regarding the first thought that pops up in their mind as soon as they hear following popular words, the results are in front of you :-

1. GUCCI – LUXURY brand which the maximum females are mad after
2. PRADA – LUXURY
3. Female handbag - a stylish lady, fashionable n independent; Women’s life for the day; the most essential need of the day

Humans have a habit of associating merchandise with the particular one they are using or dream of becoming the proprietor of. For example, when one of my associates was asked a similar question, her first thought was, an elegant brown coloured Da Milano handbag she was planning to acquire.

The demand and addiction of handbags is just not with the young generation of today, but if you go and check the closets of our mothers, they too are having a minimum of 6-7 handbags, although they don’t get time of changing these very often. A bride is expected to have at least 11 different kinds of handbags at the time of her wedding so that she can match them with her wedding attires.

But Market is now changing. Chinese products have captured the market place with their copied products available throughout the country very easily. People do want to buy branded handbags but they want to spend minimum for the same. ‘Why not buy an imitated Louis Vuitton for 1/10th of the original price’, is the thinking of today’s women. Now we can easily get an imitated China made Louis Vuitton, Gucci for 2000 – 3000/-. The import of Chinese products is the upcoming business these days and more and more businessmen are getting involved in it.


It’s true that we cannot live without a choice, but we should also think of those who cannot afford to have even 1. if out of the 11-12 pieces we have, even if we donate one to the needful, it will help them a lot to fulfil their dreams as well. I am not saying to give away your favourite or the most expensive one, but at least we can give away the one which we are not using at all. So lets go back and recheck in our closets and take out one and only one for giving it to our working maids or any other needful person. Also, may be we can coordinate and club up with an NGO and start working on this. I can take the initiative but will require your support, so all those who are willing to help, please respond to this blog so that I can start working on it.

Priyanka

My Photography

hi
its been a long time i wrote a blog. its because i was on a holiday trip from past 25 days. i went to various places and learnt many things. The trip also made me to grow my interest in photography. as a result, i studied many of the pics clicked by me and also clicked the others acordingly.

i would appreciate all the readers to have a look at some of those and comment on my skills of photography.

Priyanka

SUNDAY – The happiest day and WEDNESDAY – the worst

I know this is a weird and wonderful subject and you all must be wondering that why I wish for writing about this. The reason is, some time ago I was going through the news bulletin articles on internet and found that there has been a study done to prove that Sunday is the happiest day of the week and Wednesday is the worst. The subject matter fascinated me b’coz we Indians also have such a belief. And the basis for such faith might be that the majority of us take Sundays as weekends and have our working off’s on the same day of the week. It is enormously believed to be a family day where everyone is expected to spend time with their loved ones and enjoy to the fullest.

A recent study prepared by University of Vermont, Sundays are considered to be the happiest day which is the favourite of all while Wednesday is believed to be the worst day of the week. Although the research was done keeping in mind many factors and after considering the number of aspects as well as millions of blogs, but we Indians already had this as our mindsets from our childhood days.

Our parents used to have their working off on Sundays only irrespective of they being a businessman/businesswoman or into the service jobs. The Sundays are assumed to be the weekends where every individual is expected to spend time with their family members, complete their pending tasks, take pleasure in cinemas and meant for doing shopping be it from undersized shops or from luxury malls which are having increasing significance day by day. In India, you can notice the maximum number of footfalls and conversions in the malls, all cinema halls booked all picnic spots full of people on Sundays only. Since my early days, I memorize spending my Sundays in marketplace with my parents purchasing the useful stuff for us and for our sweet home and in the evening visiting India Gate, Delhi, enjoying the extraordinary light effects, fountains and eatables like popcorns etc. sitting in the surrounding parks of the well-known monument, India Gate. The few places that are famous to be visited on Sundays in Delhi are, India Gate, Children’s Park, Shopping Malls, and Cinemas etc.

On the other hand, Wednesday is considered to be the middlemost day of the week where the working folks have the highest amount of work stress and this is one of the reasons why it is believed to be the worst day. This is a day when even the students have to go to school and colleges’ without dreaming of the weekend as the weekend is still 3 days far-off. The gloominess level is high on this day as there is no enthusiasm of having fun and of enjoying in the near future i.e. at least for another 3 working days.

Now let me brief up about the study I read which also talks about the rest of the days of the week.

Mondays are considered to be a good day for investing in the stock market and also it is considered to be the day having the maximum deaths due to heart attacks.
Tuesdays are considered to be a good day to update blogs. According to the report by ‘THE DAILY TELEGRAPH’, maximum numbers of blog hits are reported to be done on Tuesdays.
Wednesdays are considered to be a good day for asking a hike in your salary from your boss but is considered to be a very bad day for driving.
Thursdays are good to give up smoking but bad for rain as one's willpower is strong for the first few days which helps you get through the weekend.
And, Fridays are good to sack someone, but bad for earthquakes. According to the study, half of the world’s worst earthquakes in history struck on Friday including the one that killed 30000 people in Gujarat in 2001.
Saturdays are a good day to have a baby but a bad day for drinking. Babies born on Saturdays have a better than average chance of becoming Prime Minister. Of 20 British PMs’ elected since 1900, six were born on a Saturday including Harold Wilson and Stanley Baldwin.
And, Sundays are a good day to communicate but bad for cooking, all females know it better.

Therefore now it’s a suggestion to work throughout the weekend accordingly and have fun to the fullest in our lives, which can be done on Sundays… :-)

Priyanka

Sharing & Contributing

Sharing and Contributing are the two words that we listen too often from our parents and elders. They always edify us to share and contribute to others since the time we are born. Our elders see uncountable dreams ever since the day they know that an adolescent is soon going to enter this world and therefore they plan a lot concerning how will they bring him/her up so that he/she stands well in the human race. Sharing our thoughts, our money-orientated belongings and our life with others is what the most vital need of humankind. Humans are alleged to be communal animals who cannot survive devoid of the help of others around them be it another human being, flora and fauna or any other creation of the nature & supernatural being. Now let me take this opportunity to discuss about the diverse proceedings which emerge in an individual’s life cycle where he actually needs to share and contribute with the others. Let me commence in the midst of the very foremost juncture i.e. the date a kid primarily enters his kindergarten days. He is constantly educated so as to he learn to share his belongings among his other mates. He should spend time with his associates in order to comprehend each other well. A child is always evaluated on the basis of his contribution. Contribution can be in any field like contribution to the class sessions, contribution to the cultural events and also the contribution in maintaining the discipline of the campus etc.

I can still recall the very first day I stepped into an institution. It was a bright sunny day when my dad took me to my school. I resembled a typical Indian school adolescent, wearing the school uniform and having a diminutive school bag on my back which had few books, copies and a pencil box having 3 to 4 well sharpen pencils, an eraser, a scale and a sharpener. And of course, if you have gone through the same then you cannot fail to remember that unique water bottle that always hung in the neck together with a tidily folded handkerchief attached close to the left shoulder. I remember the moment when my dad handed me over to my class teacher who was standing in front of the classroom with a sun umbrella in her hand. She grabbed my hand and guided me towards the class and then to my bench where I was expected to park myself and become skilled at the fundamentals of existence of a soul. She seemed to be lovely but was reasonably strict. Here, in the kindergarten class we toddlers were expected to be trained to share and contribute to our lives. And as the days passed, we were trained new lessons and habits which gave us the capability to comprehend the nitty-gritty of living a great life in this globe.

I am really thankful to those teachers who spent their time to craft these little kids like me to be able to do well in life, which was never possible without them. Our teachers by no means gave up and contributed the major chunk to the positions we hold today. I know all of us must have thought of this many a times but very few of us would have got the opportunity to thank our so respectful teachers. I take this opportunity today through this blog, to thank my teachers, although I don’t want to take their names, for helping me understand this world, developing self-confidence, self-belief in me and enabling me contribute well to this world.

Priyanka