I AM SMRITI RAI

Follow my blog with Bloglovin Do you guys ever feel like, if along the way you didn't do that one thing you did, you would be in a completely different place! You feed your mind with so many things which might serve you or not but it will totally affect the next thing that you encounter and experience. The existing knowledge you have helps you to translate your experience. My point here is that the day to day things that may seem insignificant are actually shaping our lives. We do not pay attention to a lot of things that we do, a lot of choices that we make on a daily basis. We are not conscious of what we are consuming, yet these are things that are making us succeed or fail! People say everything happens for a reason and it is true that everything that happened to you is the reason that you are here today. The other day I went to visit the exhibition of Turner Prize Winner and the other three artist shortlisted at Tate Britain with m

    London during the winter is a fairytale with Christmas decorations. More than a fairy tale winter is about keeping yourself warm, it is about hot chocolate and latte, it is about indulging yourself with extra love. Winter is cosy and winter is home...Winter is Wonderland. Past few weeks, I claimed to be busy all the time with my assignments and I was missing out on all the things that winter had to offer... This City break to London restored my energy and made me realise that there is world outside my assignments(it sounds so simple but it's the truth). This is my last year of University and I will never get it back again. The other day my colleague told me that she misses having the long Christmas break... After you start working there is no semester breaks. So whilst I am still in Uni, I will enjoy everything that Uni has to offer and take it season by season. 

As the cold weather of November is here, I recall my year abroad in heat of Melbourne and Vietnam. You might have heard stories about people how going and living abroad changed their lives... This is a story of how going abroad didnt completely changed my life! I am definitely glad for all the things I got to experience on my year abroad. These are memories I will have forever. But for me change came from somewhere else...  T hings that changed me was my everyday choices, my everyday decision and my everyday habits. Ultimately it was upto me to decide to do things differently and see things differently. To try everyday to be better than before. To accept and learn from my mistakes. The power to change your life is in your hands whenever you want and wherever you are... always! I have realised that the s trongest people are the ones who stay and change their circumstances. Anyways, I have a lot of catching up to do with my Uni work cause of my year abroad and I

Here are some photographs of Bicester Village Designer Outlet , where I have been spending most of my weekends, working of course! Busy in the weekends and not too quiet in the week days, I get to see people queueing up in Pandora half an hour before they open! Discounted designer brands bring a lot of shoppers from all around the world. They are on the process to make the outlet bigger...that means more opportunities!!!  Meanwhile, they have  put up the Christmas lights up... I cant wait till they light it up! Photography by Smriti Rai

Pret a Manger, Canterbury Templeman Library, University of Kent

  Everything shouldn't always be planned. Try getting out of the day-to-day. The rat race will always be there waiting for you when you get back. Hence, we packed our bags and set out to this last minute planned trip to Norway with a little idea of what to expect... Ordinary touristic things are always screaming for the attention of an ordinary tourist but it's what you do outside of the ordinary that makes things extraordinary ! So, we sidestepped the ‘things to see’ in Oslo and my close friend Filip took us to the restaurant near the ski slope from where we could get this wonderful view of this city. Art makes better use of space than anything else...   Vigeland Sculputure Park   Eidfjord Gjestgiveri B&B   Voringsfossen  waterfall! Some of the funniest moments that I can recall are: being offered a priv