Tag: travel

Finding people you can connect to when travelling…!

What’s the best way to meet new people while traveling?
08/10/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It was a good day until I woke up around 4:30 in the morning after something happened to me in my dream…!

Which becomes a post for the night later today…!

Well—

Talking to them would be a start…!

For example,

If you make a pit stop,

Maybe refueling your car/bike if you are travelling in your own vehicle,

And,

You come across some people who are local,

You can hit up a conversation and ask them about the local traditions and some place that they would recommend which you can check out while you’re in the vicinity…!

You can meet someone that you know from your friends or family…!

Imagine you plan on exploring India,

And extended family of yours lives up north—

You can visit them and get to know your roots and talk to them about how your family ended up here…!

Also,

You can talk to them about traditions and what are things that an outsider should be aware of when they explore the town…!

But, don’t be a burden on them by staying with them all day you don’t know how they are doing and you don’t want to barge in on someone’s privacy…!

Now,

Imagine you are using public services like plane,train,bus or any other transport that exists like ferry near water bodies…!

You will have to talk to strangers,

If you plan on hitchhiking like asking strangers to drop you off wherever they are going…!

But,

For that,

You will have to be humble and expect to be rejected until a saviour comes and takes you near to the destiny that you have in your mind…!

You can strike up a conversation with people who are sitting on the berth next to you,

And,

If you find someone who shares the same destination as you,

You can ask them to give you some heads up and be prepared for what they might have to face once you land or arrive at your destination…!

You can join groups or travel in one of you don’t feel comfortable travelling all alone,

This way you can meet strangers and talk to them as much as you want…!

Which is supported by people who will take care of you but for that you will have to pay the amount upfront…!

These would be some ways in which I would find companionship while travelling,

Well some of them can be my relatives too…!

Can’t they….?

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍🤍

08/10/2026
Being spontaneous and planning a trip to Shimla…!

What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
23/09/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Well,

The most spontaneous thing that I ever did was to leave…!

To be honest I left home in the late hours before my day off i.e. A Sunday and travelled…!

Well,

I ended up exploring Delhi that day…!

I went without a thought just my phones and a wallet with some money in it…!

That’s it…!

I ended up talking to a friend of mine who lives in old Delhi and told him that I was in the vicinity and if he was free and to my coincidence he was…!

It was paranthas at first which we shared and later it was Karim’s where we worded butter chicken and mutton mughlai with plain rice and butter naan…!

My mouth feels like it’s watering right now remembering the flavor…!

🤤🤤

Another one was crashing at a friends place after I called him out of blue and asked him about his well being…!

We hung out for a while, had coffee and decided to crash the night after getting dinner and this guy was a pure vegetarian so we grabbed some snacks chaap and paneer and the ol reliable black dal and a kadai panner with butter naan…!

Lastly,

I’d call the most spontaneous thing that I ever did was the trip to Shimla…!

Yes,

I just got paid and decided to spend the time with a friend who shifted to America..!

We planned the trip and were out of our homes with a bag and another one with the booze that we carried on ourselves…!

We reached Shimla, booked a spot and went out during the day and drank at night with company,

Snacks and a light dinner later…!

Even if it feels like I’m not that spontaneous,

I’ve had my share of romance too…!

I mean I surprised my now ex who lived an hour away from my residence where I surprised her with a cake and a plan for a night out which was refused by her because her parents being strict and all…!

And we spend the few hours that we had with each other and after grabbing coffee and cutting the cake I dropped her off at her home and she invited me in which I refused because we weren’t a thing at that point…!

Khair

Let bygones be bygone…!

What about you…?

Did you do something that you would consider spontaneous…?

Well it doesn’t have to be every day, these instances were months apart to be honest…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍🤍

23/09/2026
Tips for travelling on a budget…

What’s your best tip for budget travel?
12/09/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Well to begin with let me tell you I haven’t been someone who travels for leisure or fun…!

There was a time in my life when I used to and that time is long gone…!

These days all the travelling that I do is because someone is born in our family and I go to give them my blessings and a be a part of the happiness and or someone is sick and we go to check up on them,

Or,

The worst case scenario— someone passed away and we have to be present there and help the family who are going through one of the toughest time in their lives…!

Well,

When I used to travel and even if I have to travel for fun or any other purpose I generally have a ballpark idea on how much I will be spending to reach there, staying there and returning home…!

This includes the money that will be spent on fuel, eating and a place for staying initially until I reach the destination…!

And

Once I reach there it’s another set of things that I have to tackle…!

First would be a place where I can safely secure my luggage, take a shower and have a comfy bed to sleep which is in my budget also somewhere we can get breakfast service too…!

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Second would be a chunk of money that I will be saving to eat the local delicacies and buying things for the people back home…!

Which they would keep as memories that someone went out on a trip and remembered to buy a souvenir for them…!

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Third would be some funds saved as an emergency if something were to happen and I’d had to pay someone some money;

Like if I bought a rental car and someone scratched it(or it was something that happened by me…)

I know it’s not my car but it will be inspected and I will have to pay for it…!

For a budget trip I’d recommend to travel within your country and it would help you to control how much you spend,

For a country like Thailand or Vietnam you would spend more on the tickets than what you would spend visiting hill station back here in India…!

40-50k inr for return tickets and for that amount you could spend two, maybe three weeks or a month if you stretch hard enough…!

Well that is how budget works for me,

In short travel local within your country and avoid places that are expensive and try to upsell you every chance they get…!

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Try to explore the cuisine by researching beforehand and taking small portions if possible so that the money lost on food isn’t much…

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Have a specific budget and stick to it,

Try to keep a mental note on how much you spend on things and if possible note them down so that you don’t overspend…!

….

Most importantly

Keep a memo of places or things that you want to discover once your feet land on the place that you wanted to visit…!

I guess that’s enough of a budget thing that we talk about,

Now you can go and enjoy what you went there to do…!

(If you can without worrying the money that you just spent…!)

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍🤍

12/09/2026
Pseudo—camping and joining back work….!

Have you ever been camping?
1/05/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It was a slow day at work yesterday and I had to join back someday and I told myself why not today…!

So I went back to work and started where I left off and began working on the blanks that I prepared before I took the days off for my sister’s wedding…!

I was able to hunk off quite a bit of material and I think I will be done with what was left around 1 in the afternoon—

And I will begin on the second lot today itself and prepare some material for stock as we were running out of it before I went on my leave…!

A packed day it is and it will be a long one too,

but,

I need to draw a line somewhere,

I need to fulfill the promises I made to myself and set boundaries at work like working for a finite amount of time and we have started to reject emergency orders which bring us under a lot of pressure and even after the order is complete we are given the same amount that we were supposed to get if we were doing it on a normal time like a span of a day or two…!

It’s a lot of work that we are turning down but that comes after being forced to work like literal machines and not being paid adequately for it…!

And once that happens we can charge extra for the emergency work that requires same day action on something…!

It’s not something I see purely from a business pov but;

I see it from a view that it gives us a sense of accomplishment and we are adequately paid for it too because we are making time from our packed routine to accommodate your emergency…!

Something that is hard to see if you’re not looking at it from an industrial pov where things go wrong and require maintenance at every single step…!

Coming back to the prompt

Camping and my views on it

Let me be honest;

I’ve never been on a camping trip per se—

like,

We didn’t plan in advance and bought gear and prepared ourselves and took training for setting up tent and any other thing…!

But—

I’ve been to enough hill stations and have enjoyed the pseudo-camps that they have set up there…!

I remember a trip to a place called narkanda which is 60 something kilometres upwards of Shimla and where we booked our homestay…!

And at that place they were setting up these tents next to the bonfire that they had made out of old metal drums and they were putting in wood that they brought from a shed that was attached to the property…!

and after paying extra we got in those tents and took the feeling of what it feels like camping…!

Well,

pseudo—camping to be honest

because all of the stuff was provided to us like food in plates and timber was added to the fire by the homestay staff;

and all we did was sit put in that rent and even blankets were provided to us in that tent and we slept like logs…!

Let me bring your attention to

Pseudo—camping

because that is what we did,

we didn’t hunt(pretty sure that isn’t allowed here in India)

we didn’t cut down trees to keep the fire running,

and we didn’t set up tent as it was already there;

But,

we did feel like we did camping…!

(or maybe in an essence…)

To camping—

A pseudo one if you may;

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

01/05/2026
An Indian kid’s favourite festival and the aftermath of a wedding programme…!

What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
30/04/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

I’m back here after a gap of a few days and successfully completing my sisters wedding programme…

A few things still remain incomplete and a few payments still remain pending which will be completed in the coming week…!

We have that sort of liberty with businesses we made purchase from because we buy stuff from them on the regular and we started our conversation with this fact that we are from the bride’s side and we will have expenses…!

And,

only after they agreed we picked up stuff from them;

The time forward will be of a lot of hardwork and we will have to pinch ourselves and save each and every penny(well in our case rupee)

Because in the coming days ahead there will be people who will be visiting us both from ours and grooms side and we will have to prepare ourselves accordingly;

And,

I’m happy for the fact that we were able to manage it on our own,

well we took help of my cousins and a brother who is not blood related but took the place of someone who’s more than that and arranged it all for us…!

Other than that,

all of us will be operating in recovery mode because we moved so much here and there each day;

All of my joints are making a clicking noise when I move and I can’t seem to do away with the back pain that has been surging from the day before the programme started;

Maybe because I had to sleep on a foam mattress that we took from a business on rent…!

All of this will generally fade away on its own,

but,

I’ll find a doctor or a physiotherapist if the pain persists longer than a few more days…!

Coming back to the prompt

My favourite holiday and why I like it…

Being an Indian and Panjabi Brahmin on top of that;

We don’t celebrate Easter or Christmas but we do get involved with the people following Christianity in their celebrations…!

For me it would be

Diwali 🪔

A festival that all of the nation celebrates at the same time and welcomes goddess Lakshmi asking her for prosperity in our home;

Also lighting diyas 🪔 in our homes;

Just like the people did in Ayodhya when lord Rama won the war with Lord Ravana…!

We,

Well most Indian children like it because we are with our family, eat sweets and we are handed over money in the form of gifts and we can use it however we want when we are adults;

But,

when we were kids all of it was taken away from us by our parents…!

something that still stays with us even after so many years…!

We are together and we pray to the almighty to bless us and the people around us with life and prosperity and we also ask for forgiveness for our mistakes and shortcomings that we have and also ask for the power to get over them in the coming year…!

We also ask the almighty—

For a better life to those who have left for the holy abode and maybe reincarnation into another life…!

A festival that reminds us of the people who we were with last year and their presence is missed if they aren’t with us anymore…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

30/04/2026
Two encounters that brought my hopes up…!

Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.
18/04/2026@Waakiye

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It was a tough day at work yesterday,

As I had to stand on my feet all day and compete a job that required my regular interference as we are running against time here…!

it will be another couple of days like this and I’ll have to spend them on my feet, which will for sure hurt a bit this evening…!

Other than that,

All of the preparations are done just the essentials that are to be bought next week are left…!

Some of which can be bought on spot and I’ll confirm the rest this evening to a mithai shop in Pahar Ganj soon..!

only thing that will be left is paying the rest and picking up the boxes on the day of the function..!

(This is somewhere we see money is everything, you pay an advance and they will happily make anything/everything you want…!)

Coming back to the prompt

A random encounter that stuck positively…!

It was a cold winter’s night as I was returning to home from work…!

I had to take a detour and drive through todapur/inderpuri area,

The road that follows Pusa(IARI Indian agricultural research institute)

Also called dev Prakash Shashtri marg…!

—

I was travelling there on my scooty and it’s drive belt snapped in half mid drive;

Coincidentally no one was home and I was all alone,

as I pushed it for a good 10 minutes and looked for a mechanic but u couldn’t find anyone…!

So a Stranger,

A person sent from almighty came and asked me about what happened…!

On telling him about the belt,

he agreed to push me to the nearest mechanic;

which was a good four, maybe five kilometres away…!

So he put his feet on my scooter’s silencer and pushed me to the nearest mechanic,

before I could get off near the mechanic and thank him,

he drove off and raised his hand not above his soulder level and his palm facing inwards and he drove off away from me…!

it was one of those instances where I wanted to thank, but I couldn’t but I really did from my heart and wished his well being…!

Another one would be a complete stranger,

Asking me about my well being,

while I was sitting waiting for the last train back from Shaheed Sthal station after securing some payment from a client and maybe it was showing on my face but as soon as I opened my camera app it looked like I was on the verge of dying…!

So he asked about me,

Where was I from and such things,

and if I was well…!

On giving limited answers and not revealing much about myself,

he sat next to me and I opened up to him,

it was a few months after a death happened in our family and that old person told me the genetic answers,

It’s the truth,

and we have to accept it,

and many other things…!

One of the last things he told me was that the person who I liked/loved who’s no more; They won’t be happy if i kept myself in this condition any longer…!

Those words hit hard and even if they’re no more,

and I was living without a purpose;

I found these strangers words like a ointment to my wounds…

And he too walked away climbing the stairs and by that time my train came too and I boarded it and reached home…!

Sometimes a stranger’s words do more better than anyone who is near and dear to us…!

G0d save all those who get out of the way to check up on the people who feel like they’re carrying dread in their eyes…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

18/04/2026
From Chawri bazaar to our minds :Aspects that make us unique…

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

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This day started early as I think I fell asleep at 10 last night…!

I’m writing this at 7:10 in the morning…

I spent entirety of the day outside,

After waking up and making a post yesterday morning bere,

I freshened up and went to my workplace to give a bundle of material to hardening,

And before returning home I made my first trip to buy essentials like ghee and at home I had brunch…!

After that I went out to buy munchies and other kitchen essentials from Dmart near our residence…

On returning home and taking another shower, it was three by now…!

I got ready and went to Chawri bazaar for getting the card made;

We walked to metro and reached Chawri bazaar within 20 minutes…!

The wait on the yellow line was oh so much…!

And after walking another 10 minutes because we got off on the wrong exit we reached this shop that was in such a secluded spot I thought we were going to get lost there…!

A street leading to another smaller one and another one leading to another…!

—

After giving them the format that we wanted,

We waited and waited..!

After getting no answer because the person who had to type wasn’t free;

We decided that we will send them the pdf on our own and decided to return back home…!

On our way back we decided to stop for pista badam milk which is famous in old Delhi;

The name of the shop is

Sudarshan Refreshment Centre…

They also sell Kachori

The small compartment that has kachori above and sabzi in the box below…!

And on returning from the shop,

I stopped by the Shri Gujrat Namkeen Bhadaar…!

And bought some kaju both with pepper and plain salted…!

Along with some thepla and fafda

The fafda in question 😂

Side view of the shop…!

Before coming back home,

We decided to buy some burgers for people back home from jumbo king burgers at Rajiv chowk…!

And after waiting for it to get ready and sipping on our sprite;

My sister and I talked about things like her suits and dresses,

And on taking the burgers,

We walked to the blue lines that led to our station and we got on the metro…!

We decided to check out a Salon to get a basic idea of the rates of bridal makeup and they gave us a slip of 20k for bridal and additional 3k for each person that wanted to get their’s done…!

—

And we came out of the salon with a laughter on our face thinking it would be in the range of 10 maybe 15k range..!

—

So we will look for some more…!

What a day it was…!!!!

Coming back to the prompt…!

Aspects that make us unique…

If I’m asked this question,

I’d answer this by saying that,

the thought process

and

the behaviour

That guides us to arrive at a conclusion works to make us unique…!

If you have a corrupted thought process,

Everything goes down from that place,

Because it forces you to pick negative and bad thoughts more and after a point of time you feel forced to act upon them…!

—

And when that happens the behaviour reflects what goes on in the mind,

To all of the world…!

On the contrary,

If you have a better managed thought process,

A balance of both leaning towards good side more;

—

It reflects in the behavior and the people outside can see it too…!

My answer would be a correct mindset with a positive thinking process,

Along with that a behavior that reflects the same…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

31/03/2026
Early morning Railway station visit and getting better at pattern recognition…!

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

This day was stated early as I had to drop a family member who was with us for the past few weeks,

So we travelled to New Delhi railway station early in the morning as she had to leave for Panjab;

In the morning train called Shan-e-Panjab…

A speedy click that led to this perspective like I’m running away…

Me on my way back after getting them seated, up the escalators….

You’d be happy to know how much they have improved on their services;

But,

The crowd is still the same,

No matter what happens, you cannot take the human nature out of us humans can you…?

After getting her seated,

I came back home and after sitting down for a while I came on my terrace,

And the same routine follows—-

Coming back to the prompt…

Secret ability I wish I had…

If I were given a chance to be blessed with an ability,

“I’d love to get a better grasp at reading behaviours and patterns that all of us humans (intentionally or unintentionally) make…”

I know it’s a bit of a reach for a person like me to achieve that;

But,

Keeping on trying and exploring means that I will achieve it someday…!

It will help me both in write ups, my regular life and business life too;

Because I’d get better at making a client comfortable and better form myself to come to the unified terms which benefit both of us…!

In my personal life,

I’d get a chance to get to know what they really want before they come to any conclusions,

But that doesn’t mean I’d jump the gun as soon as I find an answer;

I’d let them come to a conclusion naturally,

And,

Never cut them off or the conversation abruptly making them think I know what they were talking about or what they wanted…!

If I was ever imparted with this ability, I would get to know more about humans as being and human nature which comes to us from us being ourselves…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

24/03/2026
Two phases in my life that were hard to let go…

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

It feels after a long time a prompt has come that I haven’t answered, and I’m all in for making this one a good read also to explore an avenue in my life that I suppressed…!

A view into my life first, I’ve been looking for banquets each day after work and I’ve decided on two who are near the gurudwara which makes the travel easier and other programmes seamlessly connect with each other…!

Well both of them are far from our home because we don’t have a banquet near our home…!

So a lot of time has went into considering a good place and getting more out of our money…!

Other than that,

Work is going well,

Because we are working each day and exploring new avenues and way to achieve the goals that we desire…!

Coming back to the prompt

A phase which was difficult to say goodbye to

It isn’t easier to let go of things that made an impact in our lives isn’t it…?

But,

There are certain things that make them all worth your while and leave an everlasting impression on you…!

Well losing someone who’s close to our hearts would be the first one…!

A female dog birthed two kids and passed away right infront of our house;

We took in her kids and within a span of few weeks both of them passed away as they were very little and weren’t able to get their mothers feed which was very important for their growth and their first few weeks here on earth…!

We tried to get another female dog that also birthed a litter of puppies a few kilometres away but she rejected them and tried to bite them when we let them within her litter…

On the offset that she might run away from her kids we brought them to our home and tried our best to save them—

But fate had something else planned…!

(Khair…)

Another one would be parting away from someone who we thought were the love of our life…!

Imagine you building your life around someone and they give up on you because their family planned something else or they found a more viable partner…?

Something that breaks you from the very core and a mere sense of trust that you had breaks and shatters, making you lose yourself…!

Well I hope it doesn’t happen with anyone else ever again…!

I think,

The things that happen around us shape us in a way that we were meant to have a grab of—

I don’t mean passing away of a loved one is something that is good or builds character;

But,

It gives you a chance to see into the life by letting you see who is a real one and who was in just to leech off of you…!

Who stands with you when time isn’t working with you…!

And who all move away from you or face away when you get the short end of the stick…!

Let’s not forget that all of us have to taste the sweet embrace of death once in our life and we won’t be here to witness what it feels like…!

Keep those who are near to you near and tell them you love them…!

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

28/02/2026
Doing away with dual meaning and walking away from people…!

If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

Hey…

I hope all of you are doing well…!

Another already answered prompt forcing me to cut short my answer and get into one of my saved posts or getting into my notes app to find something worthy of your time…!

Well an answer for the prompt would be something like this…!

I wouldn’t necessarily ban a word because I’m not in a position to do that,

But,

what I’d like to happen is to do away with the dual meaning of words that happen after another generation picks it up…!

For example the word

Cooked,

Meant that the “food was ready” but these days it means something else entirely…!

These days in slang it means “to be in big trouble or exhausted”

This duality has ruined a lot of words like

Slay

Glaze

Bet

Tea

The list goes on and on…!

I would do away with this duality because it’s hard for me to search for the meaning behind the slangs all the time…!

One of my posts underneath ⏬

You only see what you want!

Don’t you…?

No…

Sometimes,

They only show what they want to be seen as,
and they’re so good at it,
you come to know this later…!

They aren’t even a speck of what they act,
like their behaviour and their actions can be the polar opposite of what they are with someone else…

Glad I came and distanced myself,
or rather,
I’m glad things came up and brought distance between us…

Now that I sit back and see,
I cannot agree more with those pointing fingers at you because of who you are,
rather,
what sort of a person you are…

I’m glad and breathe in peace,
That,
There won’t be any fingers pointed at me,
for the fact that I am still in contact with you…!

(P.s.
I might have been in contact with you once,
but,
all of our connections are long gone,

And I have not a single speck of regret for that…!)

Cheers 🥂

Love Waakiye 🤍

25/02/2026