Hobbies

Rubiks Cubing

Commuting with schoolmates got me hooked to starting a 3x3 rubiks cube, seeing one of the kids trying to solve it. I won a Rubiks cube ata Christmas Fair and solved one side of the cube working through it late night. It took me a few months to solve the entire 3x3 cube.

My passion grew by the day and I have been able to solve 18 different cube types. I was hesitant to solve a picture cube of Dubai views, but I still decided to buy it and solved it too.

I wrote an article on Rubiks cube for Times of India national newspaper, which was published on 22-July-2020.

Rubiks Cube Article - Times of India Republic Cube Open 2023 certificate

Keyboard - Completed level 3

I started my keyboard at the age of 6 with a teacher who taught at Home. I discontinued for sometime and wanted to pursue some serious training from the 6th Grade.

I signed up Keyboard classes with Rhythms, a school that helps people graduate in music. I completed Level 3 exam at Rhythms.

I have performed at 5 large stage shows, one of them was for an annual school function alsong with the other Keyboard player from my class. I performed at a Birthday function and Rhythms school music competition events.

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Blogging - Rare Birds and Animals

My interest in animals and birds started watching National Geographic and Discover channels. I was intrigued by some of the rare species, and took to blogging when I was 13 in my 7th Grade.

I initially started with rare birds and then found some interesting facts of rare animals, which is when I started blogging those as well.

I research on them on several sites, Wikipedia and National Geographic and Discover sites. I blogged on 15 exotic creatures, and then my interest switched to reading books and posting reviews on Instagram.

My Blogs of Exotic Animals and Birds
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Books - They have become my friends

My mom used to read books at night before I fell asleep, fascination for reading them have grown on me. Every summer / winter vacation I run to the shop called Bookwork to buy used books and exchange the books that I have read. The guy at the store has been seeing me since I was in 5th Grade.

I have a very good group of friends called Amigo gang, some of them in the group a variety of books. We exchange our views of the writer, story, characters, etc. which makes it exciting conversations. Most of the birthday parties we end up gifting books to each other.

I also signed up for a Gift-a-book program, where people interested in Books are on a WhatsApp group, some of them specify the books they are interested in reading. You identify 6 such people and gift them a book each of their interest.

I have about 200+ books in my shelf which I continue to add to that on every vacation. I wanted to share my perception of the book and took to Instagram from my 9th grade. With board and several exams, I continue to read and add to my instagram handle #uncharted_library as and when I read. My instagram posts has also made me take some creative pictures to get them to look attractive.

Book reviews on my Instagram handle #uncharted_library