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Happy international Day of Yoga

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Was waiting for the right day to post this and looks like International Yoga day is apt to portray about my yoga journey from Sapta Yoga. Lockdown and Work from Home has made me lethargic and the girl who was flexible always active is no more the same. Except walking I wouldn't do anything. However, walking did keep my weight stable but I was neither fit nor flexible. I am not a Gym person and do not like going to the gym (though I have it in my building for free). I watched YouTube videos in Dec 2023 and did yoga/ fat burning exercises for a month continuously. But like as u all know when everything is free(doing in your home at your own time while the yoga video is playing on Tv) we tend to loose interest and the same happened with me. I wanted something which is a slow step by step process which helps me to loose weight and gain my strength. Until I realized this it was Feb 2024. Such a quick realization isn't it . That's when I started checking Google for Offline Yoga n

Places to visit in Puri and Bhuvneshwar

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Now that the plan is fixed to Puri Jaganath and Bhuvneshwar. All the flights to Puri are in day time and its just 1.15 hrs from Hyderabad. From Bhuvneshwar Airport take a cab to Puri Beach(which is 60kms) and this location has all the hotels along side the beach road. Now, let's go to the different places which are a part of my itinerary. Places to Visit in Puri  Day 1: Puri Jaganath Temple: The very first thing anyone needs to do is to visit this temple and then roam to other locations. Puri Jaganath temple is about 3 to 5kms from beach road and you can either book a cab through the hotels(for overall trip) / the mini autos / 7 seater autos / rent a bike. There is no uber / ola. Started at 11 am from hotel took an auto to Puri temple      Puri Jaganath temple has entrance in all the 4 corners of which there is only 1 main entrance. The autos will take some sort of short cuts and drop you at their convenient entrance gate and do you know what non-Puri or non-Odisha people are not

Trip to Vaishno Devi + Kashmir changed to Puri Jaganath + Bhuvneshwar in no time

Like every other IT employee even I had lot of leaves which is going to get expired by year end so had a very good thought of utilizing it to the fullest. Considering where my mom wanted to visit and where I never visited, we had multiple options      1. Isha Foundation       2. Tirupati       3. Vaishno Devi      4. Any International travel  I have seen so many posts/videos of Isha Foundation that I really wanted to experience the peace, but when I actually visited Isha Foundation site looks like Isha Stay is booked for the whole month(coming 2 to 3 months as well) and it also says " please do not book any flight until your stay is booked " this sentence was more than enough for me to cancel Option 1.       Now I am just left with Option 2 and 3, so I started checking out Tirumala website to book Tirupati Special Darshan, but my luck was so bad that looks like tickets   needs to be booked 3 months earlier and that too on a specific date and clearly it's not possible to

Places to Visit in Go Goa Gone

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This plan had a GO from my friends. It's my 1st time to take such a long journey by road ~ 680kms from Hyderabad. Do start early morning to escape the traffic and to reach half of the way at the earliest. Take a break at Gulbarga  Tea store where they use Jaggery instead of Sugar ; refreshing ourselves with tasty tea,coffee and  amazing Cream Rolls. Then we head on to Belgavi to have the yummiest lunch at Sun and Sand Restaurant , try their Chicken Fry Curry and Chicken Fried Rice. Finally reached Goa after 15 hours. The traffic is horrible during the peak hours cos of the narrow roads, however this place soothes your mind totally. This place has so many coconut trees all over, greenary, restaurants, pubs, casinos, shopping street, beaches, N num of liquor shops etc etc. You can find many restaurants opened 24*7 and the best about Goa its a GENDER NEUTRAL city and I support this type of mindset. Here Women sell / own most of the Liquor stores and trust me you would be a kid in comi

Best Restaurants/ Cafes/ Street Food in Pondicherry

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Any trip would be empty when our belly is empty 🤪 i know that was a bad joke😬. So to fill our belly we googled, checked blogs, checked vlogs and finally ended up eating at my selected list of restaurants. In Pondi I prefered to have French cuisine and some different varities. Also my 1st preference was Sea Food as you know Pondi is Ocean Side and no doubt you would get Fresh Shrimps Fresh Fish  List Of Cafes, Restaurants and Street Food at Pondi:  Bakers Street : This bakers is mentioned in every blog and vlog and I would remame it as Over hyped Street. Its a very small bakery with too much crowd. However their service was good. They sell crossaints, lasagna, babka, burgers pizzas, coffe etc etc. I liked the choco filled Crossaint and Babka Approx 400 Rs for 2 people Street Food :   This Street is located at the end of beach,just google for "Asian House" pub and thats the street where you find these yummy Street Food and food trucks 1. Smoky Biscuits: Just like how dry ice

Places to visit in Pondicherry

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With too much of research and experience on my recent trip to Pondi hoping that I would provide the best itennary to Pondicerry. Once you reach the hotel just checkout with your hotel staff to hire a 2 wheeler( max 350 rs to 400 per day) and enjoy the all places. The roads of Pondicherry is neat and huge with hardly any traffic and pollution, so no need of scarfs and helmet(no traffic police stops or no one cares to wear a helmet here). Do apply lot of sunscreen to your face, hands and legs before u get out of hotel to protect urself from getting tanned. Looks like too many precautions 😬yeah yeah no more now Here is the list of places to visit in Pondi Paradise Beach : Of all the beaches in Pondi the bestest/ worthiest/ private beach is Paradise beach. The most neat and clean beach with clear sand and huge waves. This beach has adventure sports like Kayaking, Aqua Park, Skiing, Donut ride, Zorbi Roller, Bull ride, trampoline and Sanduens bike. In order to keep this beach lively there&

My 1st day experience to Work from Office after 2 years of lockdown/ Work From Home

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My 1st day experience to Office might look lengthy but trust me this is gonna be interesting when you read through every line until the end. I live in the IT sector and it just took 15 mins to reach office gate (Mindspace-Raheja-12D) as there is no traffic and no signals touching my route. Lucky me 😏and then I parked my 2-wheeler in Basement 2 parking and went to the lifts, I see a keypad to select the floor for the lifts, yes you heard it right just like the phone keypad or laptop keypad, you can experience digital “Lift Keypad” and it shows only 0-9 digits, S, B keys on it. I was wondering how am I supposed to go to 13th floor as this keypad doesn’t have any double digit number and also every lift is named with Alphabet A | B |C |D. I pressed 9 key thinking that there may be one more lift for top floors (silly me) and the keypad popped with ALPHABET nothing but the lift which I need to take. When I reached 9th floor it’s the same lifts with same 0–9-digit keypad 😪 clicked on S agai