Life 'N' More

In life, people often think the only goal they have, what they can do is restricted to attending college, finding a job with a decent salary and repeating the cycle all over again, but that’s not necessarily true. In life we meet so many talented individuals, that we wish we had a life like theirs, and achieve so many extraordinary things in an ordinary life.

 

Breaking boundaries, not restricting

 We encounter such talented individuals in our everyday life either in our workplaces or in our colleges. One such talented individual is Rachael Flora Noronha, a student pursuing her undergraduate degree in B.Com also is a national level powerlifter, a student of fashion design and a member of two bike clubs, ‘Bikerni’ & ‘The Crew’ along with having a business where she sells a numbers diverse things like wedding bouquets, tiaras, dreamcatchers, art & craft items, thread jewellery, gift cards, Valentine Day gifts and a lot more which she sells on the internet and through advertisements in the magazine of the church which she attends. 

Silk thread jewellery by Rachael

‘Bikerni’ is a club exclusively for female riders whereas ‘The Crew’ is open for both male as well as female riders. Both these groups organise themselves through WhatsApp groups. She mentions “Out of the two, The Crew is the more active group where we meet up and go for rides” She adds “When I joined The Crew, I was the sole female rider in the group, but now the Crew has 40 members including 5 female riders”.

 

Rachael during her trips

She says “Both these clubs promote biking brotherhood & sisterhood” She also adds “they have become like my family now”. On her longest bike trip with the clubs, she mentions “My longest trip with the Crew was when I rode to Ballari in Karnataka which is 1600 kms and my longest trip and my longest trip with Bikeni was when I rode to Dandeli in Karnataka which is next to Goa”.

Bikes on a halt during the journey

“It’s my passion, my life, my everything” says Rachael when asked what riding and fashion designing means to her. “People ridiculed me for both my fondness for riding as well as fashion designing. When I ride my bike people used to ask me why am I acting like a man and they also said that there’s no future for me in fashion designing” commented Rachel on facing obstacles in her journey.