The Perceptionist.....

Alone, I sit one day looking at the skies thinking of what it is to live in a village filled with so many countless trees and birds out there and the skies which are filled with sadness and gloom, waiting to pour in their sorrows upon me when suddenly I decide to take a stroll around my village to let go off the loneliness and isolation that characterizes this place. As I set off for my short stroll around the ward, I notice two houses, abandoned by their owners sadly with the ongoing disputes and quarrels over the years and have now left them to turn into endless swathes of overgrown jungles and forests with all the possible creatures one can ever think of existing. As I tread along the lonely pathway in my village, I can feel the jitters and the scares within me, with everything so quiet, so peaceful, filled with the sense of tranquility and solitude but at the same time scary with nobody out and about in the village lanes and by lanes by late evening. There is not...

On the 29th of April 2019, I was privileged to be given the opportunity to visit the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) at the Dubai World Trade Centre. I had gone for it on behalf of Oberoi Dubai (the hotel where I'm currently doing my 2 months of internship). I had just heard about it the other day in the briefing in one of the departments and was eager to see if I could go for it. Infact the same day I came to know about it, I immediately told my parents about it and my father hearing it immediately told me to grab this opportunity as it is very much related to the Travel and Tourism (with regards to my course) and so I registered for it as Travel Professional in excitement and the best part was that my department allowed me to go for it for 2 hours. So I would really like to document my experience at the ATM....... For all those who don't know what the ATM is, ATM (Arabian Travel Market) is an annual travel trade fair held every year for about 3 or 4 days at the World Trade C...

This is a draft which I was yet to post dating to around 4 months back and should have followed my post on Mother Mary's statue....nevertheless I thought of working on it as it is something that I'd like to recount, about 4 months back..... One month has passed ever since I, my sister and my mother had left for U.A.E and now we're back in Goa.We just returned back on the 24th of November, so around two weeks have passed ever since we returned back. I can still imagine the excitement when the day actually dawned for us to leave for U.A.E. That day it so happened to be my birthday, so it was really very exciting to travel on that particular day. I remember on that day, after we had met with a few people in our neighborhood, we left the house in a private taxi to head off to the airport. I, my sister and my mother were all smiles as we were heading to the airport. What's more......on arrival at the check in counter at Air India, I was greeted with a bouquet of flowers a...

On the 7 th February 2019,  our BBA (Travel & Tourism) Department organized a field trip for the students of the First Year’s to three different museums in Goa for the purpose of educating the students of the different Tourism Products of India but in particular the ‘state of Goa’. First we were taken to the Goa Chitra Museum at Benaulim. At the Goa Chitra Museum, we were first shown the different bullock carts from the different states of India with their significance being explained. Then we were taken to an area in the museum where different items that Goan churches used to have in olden times like the small alter, an object that was used in the past to make hosts to serve as communion and various other items of interest in the churches were put on display. Next we were shown the different tools that were used to make toddy, the traditional Goan feni and sugarcane. Overall it was a really nice museum but what caught most people’s attention (including me) was the ex...

I had just arrived home from college today when I suddenly came to know that Mother Mary's statue is coming to my neighbor's place. This really excited me as it was the first time that I was getting to experience it in Goa . It is a tradition very much prevalent in Goa particularly in the villages where in the months of September and October the statue of Mother Mary visits the houses of the people living in that particular village and along with the statue come a group of people with candles singing beautiful hymns in praise of Mother Mary. So I and my mother set off to the neighbour's place in our village of Parra where we waited for the statue to arrive. In the meantime, we got a chance to meet many people from our village we don't get to meet otherwise such as Nobert, one of the neighbours who just lives nearby and Mary, an old friend to my mother. These are the people that my mother knows about very well considering the fact that she was born and brought up in...

It has been six months passed ever since I had finished my Grade 12 board exams. I can imagine how the time has flown so fast….almost half a year is over. It is hard to imagine that about five months down the line on this date, I had already landed in Goa and I was relaxing and chilling out on that particular day. Over the past five months from the date I landed in Goa along with my family members, a lot has happened and that too at a very rapid pace. In fact a very surprising thing to note….the first semester of my college has just got over and now I’ve begun with my second semester. Imagine one term itself is already over. I can imagine that by the time I very well know for myself, I will have finished the course that I have taken that is BBA in Travel and Tourism by then seeing the pace at which things are going. Nevertheless there are certain things that I would like to make a mention of that I would consider as some of my best highlights of this year so far in college. F...

                                          It has been three weeks past ever since I departed to Goa for good. I still remember how on that particular day I and my family had taken all those suitcases to the airport but this time, it wasn't any normal trip we do undertake such as during the summer holidays or Christmas holidays but a journey back to our homeland here in Goa. I was sad at first, at the fact that we would have to leave permanently as I got so used to the place I was living that was in the U.A.E where we all lived in the city with everything in proximity. More sad than me was my sister, who even now still misses all her friends and sends them WhatsApp messages every now and then. But now, after three weeks, I don't really feel sad anymore as I prefer it here in Goa, where you are exposed to nature, where you experience the beautiful bounties of what it is to li...