Best is yet to come ;)

Yes now that I have done journeys as promised to myself ....and I am left with nothing much apart from expressing the deep feelings and expressions which already had a big share in this space.

So I can move on to a different domain of my life which mostly couldn't draw my attention towards it, though it has provided me with very much appreciated independence but I never managed or should i say intended to do justice with it and kept it ignorant due to my priority which highlighted the other areas always. I doubt anyone can even guess it...well I am talking about the professional aspects.

Since childhood I had many dreams and as i grew older i can recollect it as a long list of aspirations, to mention some sensible ones out of those were a Doctor first then a teacher then Astronaut....IAF Pilot....CBI agent.....Volleyball player .....and ultimately i thought I should just concentrate on being a good home maker :P coz it includes some of my favorite things i like to do over past 10-15 odd years like ...cooking and baby sitting, but then i realized every girl has to do these stuff eventually whether they like it or not So I took it for granted that these will be surely coming my way in future....and also i m doing it currently in bits n pieces so lets channel my energy where i can contribute to someone beyond my family n friends...again this was not done voluntarily rather I decided to take up a profession that my dad has been planning for me. Getting thru engineering college was again a totally interest-less and enthu-less experience :P but then I had to make my dad happy. And like always ....my dad's every wish for me comes true....thats reality, watever he wishes for me i get it eventually.....awkward. I wonder when my dad can will start wishing what i wish for. :|

Anyways coming back to the point finally after studies with the dedicated efforts i got a decent job and with a good luck backing me i got thru this super hot technology in my first job itself... so now after almost 4 years I have become a so called "Consultant" who is supposed to provide the streamlined solutions to the top managements for their ERP's with designing reports..planning etc....but I didn't feel even a single sensation in my blood to even aspire for doing something related to it till sometime back.

Yes you read it right ....till 2 months back I was all set to break away from this kind of life and move to a totally different dimension with dreams in my eyes and hopes of shaping up my future as i wanted it to be. But life had some different plans for me in store and after knowing that I totally lost it...and no other option or way could be worked out because none of it was leading me to the path where I intended to reach. So now that I am back into this business .... I have found a new hope for acquiring the knowledge.I have been challenged and I know if i work with a decent percentage of my abilities, I will end up with a recommendable job. And in the meantime my dreams can wait for me coz I am in the pursuit of acquiring more than what i ever wished for. Its certainly a wishful thinking! :)

With bundle full of aspirations I am hopeful again that I will become what I want to be instead of what situations or external factors will try to make me. It is about the dream that I have seen and I will not leave even a single stone unturned to gain whatever it takes to become what I have always dreamed of. :)

Someone once told me that whenever you are going to do something big, which seems impractical to people or something your soul connects to ....always make sure you announce it beforehand so that with so many eyes checking out on your progress your slightest doubt will vanish to live up to them and most importantly to your own expectations....sounds appropriate. But i never do things to show people, I do it because I want to stand tall in front of the mirror with pride and self respect in my eyes and face myself.

Good luck to myself..

Worship diaries..

Ok ....I admit that this space is updated more with my emotional n psychological journeys rather than the actual physical journey to places and yess jus now i realised that i missed to update one of the crucial trip i recently took. Yess finally I made it to Vaishno devi after 5 long years!!



I had been planning to go there from almost a year but thanks to my sweet betraying friends who always managed to flop the plans....but this time i told my best mate that listen I am going there and you let me know if you are coming with me or not. No waiting for the groups or the right time! and like always she said yess :)) So tickets were booked in hurry jus two days before the start of the journey and arrangements were made well in time as me being a good planner :P



So we started the journey from delhi station amid monsoon drama that we all saw in delhi this year but our hopes were high and there was no backing off this time. Jhelum express as I expected was a total jhelne wala package :D it took more than 12 hrs to reach jammu still we made it in time to Katra as per the planned schedule...thanks to J&K's tourism bus service.



So after little bit of rest and refreshment we were all set to start the trekking ad the weather looked good at the base.....yet there were some dark clouds waiting at the peak and they seemed as if they are all waiting to test my endurance...nevermind we started teh journey and did pretty well in first few KMs. Then the mighty rain gods showed up and we somehow liked the idea of trekking in rain and so mighty indra dev also couldn't stopped us from moving further..



With a good pace we reached the half way which is Ardhkuwari in couple of hours and because of the large turnout of crowd we decided to move on further. I must mention that my partner having a very strong diet control habits and me being a total eating freak were a deadly combination and this resulted both of us reaching Bhavan with couple of milk glasses down in our stomach and few juices because on rest of the food items there were always a mismatch :P I bet shez gonna pay for that very soon :D



So as i said earlier also there was a huge turnout of crowd so there had to be a long waiting line....but surprisingly it was for the cloak room and not for the darsans :O see these things make us indians unique ... we will have a bang on perfect arrangements for darshan but we will sideline rest of the stuff which incidentally contribute to the main attempts.....waiting in line for the cloak room locker for 1 and half hours :O :O and that too after taking bath in chilled water at 11 in the night ....i really swear that this is the last time i m taking bath in Bhavan :P Damn it was cold ......colder than winters :O may be because of the constant drizzling which wetted us.



Anyhow after the darshan we moved on to Bhairo and it was seriously a piece of cake....trekked the most steep way of 2 km in jus half hour B-) and contrary to my belief that the way to Bhairo is generally full of horse's shit and slippery mud and we being bare foot would make the trek more painful ....we made it pretty nicely.



Finally we were at our final destination in about 8 hours .....yeah i know this is the worst record so far but we also halted coz of heavy rains at places and yess there was a power blackout on the way to Bhavan and also remember that 1.5 hour waiting line fr lockers :D so we did nice right?



And we thought now the challenging part is over and we will climb down nice and easy in couple of hours.....BUT to my surprise my sweetheart had different plans !! Yess though i noticed the fascination in shutey's eyes for seeing Ardhkuwari cave in mid way only but never knew that she will make me walk 2 KM's extra to rech that cave again on our way down :| Yeah we came back by the most unexpected new route and until Bhavan climbing down was again a cake walk expect for an instance where we almost slide into the valley because of that mixture of mud, shit and what not :D



Now comes the most challenging part of the journey ...climbing down from Bhavan to Ardhkuwari via new route. Despite being the newly constructed the tiles have been totally broken by the monsoon and since it is not at all steep so it really doesnt make much difference in the timing of the trekking both ways...

This was the most difficult trek I have ever did....may be because of the fatigue of the whole journey we covered so far or may be the tiredness was because of getting drenched in rain without taking breaks and bothering to dry ourselves...My pal did pretty fair than me. I was a total wreck at this point of time and I swear that I am not coming again n foot to this place....Take a helicopter and get down near Bhavan was my ideal way f reaching there in those moments :D

We also couldn't thought of stopping by and taking some rest because covering 1 km in one hour seemed to be our pace and with this there was no way we could have made to the Jammu station in the evening to catch Rajdhani with pit stops. :| So we kept moving.....at one point i saw a empty bench and laid there telling my beloved companion (who made me come by that terrible route despite my numerous efforts to lure her for the other shorter route :P) to keep moving and i will catch her up in sometime. BUt as expected she also could not avoided the tempting benches offering their cosy space for a break and yess we slept there with our bags...shawls...jackets on and slept there for 35 minutes: O I tell you that was THE best nap i ever had apart from the two other which I am not likely to disclose here or anywhere else ;)



And yess without boring you any further I will say that finally after that pit stop and dragging ourselves to the Ardhkuwari....we finally reached and shutey ran straight to the queue with some jugaad and got into the long queue for darshans ....and I ....I headed straight to a bench crowded with some aunties and slet there for an hour by the time my Darshan craving sis was back from her fasciations :P n guess what did she say after coming back...."You know what Vinny it was only a cave" and i was like yeah so what else were you expecting :O :P :D and then we headed back downwards and against my decision of riding a baghi or a horse i went down on my bare foots...not becoz i had regained the lost stamina but because i couldn't find any bagghis or horse x-( huh :P



But it was a wise decision i actually regained my momentum later and we regained our pce of 4 KMs per hour :) n yess What i learned was pushing my limits when my head said its totally gme over for my bare foots ....I gave myself chance to prove it wrong! ;)



And after that ...we reached safely home after roaming in few temples in Jammu in the evening....thanks to Rajdhani's timing and a good night sleep.



So this was all from my trip.....and you know what I never realised I will be skipping all the important messages that I wanted to give thru the blog while reaching the climax of it. My bad .... I got bored atually! :P :P



Anyways Cheers.....Jai Mata Di :)