{"id":8830,"date":"2025-07-16T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pce.edu.bt\/?page_id=8830"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:07:18","slug":"from-ugh-to-wow-the-blooming-side-of-pce-i-almost-missed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pce.edu.bt\/?page_id=8830","title":{"rendered":"From Ugh To Wow: The Blooming Side Of PCE I Almost Missed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From Ugh to Wow: The blooming side of PCE I almost Missed!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cThey say flowers wither… but maybe, like us, they bloom when it\u2019s their time. <\/em><\/strong>Here’s to noticing the beauty that was always there.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

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Flowers are pretty, aren\u2019t they?<\/i><\/strong><\/span>
They are colorful, smell good, eye-catching, and make our environment look aesthetically pleasing. But honestly, I\u2019ve never really been into flowers since I was a kid. Of course, they\u2019re pretty and I don\u2019t deny that. But I was never the type to pluck flowers and slide them behind my ears, unless it was for an Instagram post.<\/span><\/p>

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I\u2019ve never even once in my life planted a flower or done any floral gardening. Flowers wither. They dry over time. And when they do, the place doesn\u2019t even look that good. That\u2019s what I used to think, anyway.<\/span><\/p>

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In our college, there are plenty of spots where flowers bloom and totally take over the place. It really makes PCE look beautiful – especially in Spring, you wouldn\u2019t want to miss it. That\u2019s also when you\u2019ll see girls posting gorgeous pictures of themselves in flower fields, with matching Tegos and Kiras that adds to their glow.<\/span><\/p>

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Until my 4th semester, I never really paid attention to the flowers growing around campus. I didn’t even know what I was doing, but it was everything except<\/em> admiring the flowers or posting flower-field pictures on Instagram.<\/span><\/p>

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It was only during my 4th semester that I started noticing the college was digging up the lush green grass where I used to sit and practice music. I thought and contemplated, thinking it was kind of unnecessary, until the flowers bloomed. They forced<\/em> me to sit next to them, not that often though… I\u2019m usually caught up and barely make time for nature.<\/span><\/p>

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Then came the next surprise: that chain-link fence surrounding the football ground. It used to be covered in thorns and greens, but now it\u2019s filled with red, pink, and white flowers. And suddenly, it looked so pretty in my eyes. The glow-up was unreal- literally from ugh<\/em> to wowwww!!<\/em>. I even shared it with my friends. <\/span>PCE wasn\u2019t kidding when it focused on flowers to make the campus look more conducive and aesthetic.<\/span><\/p>

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Behind our SB-Block, there\u2019s another garden where flowers are blooming, some even grow as tall as us! Honestly, it makes me want to crawl over the wall and run through the garden, but let\u2019s not be dramatic\u2026 there is<\/em> a proper way to get there.<\/span><\/p>

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And just beside the SB-Block, there\u2019s that peach tree. I shamelessly stole and ate a lot of peaches from it (guilty!), but I never once sat under the pink flowers it bloomed with. My friend looked so pretty sitting under that tree. Even our Pavilion looks prettier than me these days- with flowers all around, while I sit here writing about them with my messy tied-up hair, oily face, dry lips, and eyes glued to this laptop screen.<\/span><\/p>

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We have two gates, the main entrance and another one just below the academic block. And I want to proudly say: the flowers that line the path from that lower gate to the canteen and stationery- I\u2019ve always<\/em> admired them since my first year. The reddish glow they give is magical. <\/span>But the anti-lover in me didn\u2019t even know the flower\u2019s name till now. How foolish of me, right?<\/span><\/p>

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As my 4th semester was ending, I saw Instagram posts of girls with vibrant red flowers on the chain link fence in the background; videos of them laughing, talking about life, slow-mo clips with red roses and wind being the paid actor.<\/span><\/p>


I was like, \u201cWhere the hell is this place?\u201d<\/span>
Only to realize at the end of my 4th-semester exams, \u201cIt\u2019s literally next to the college\u2019s outdoor volleyball court, you dumb Dora the Explorer!\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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Now that I\u2019m officially stepping into my 5th semester, I realize I had been holding onto this one idea- that flowers wither, they don\u2019t last, and eventually lose their beauty. Maybe that\u2019s why I thought I wasn\u2019t into them. But now, I know I actually do<\/em> love flowers. Maybe that\u2019s why I never plucked them. Deep down, I always knew they were beautiful.<\/span><\/p>

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They really <\/i>are<\/span><\/em> pretty.<\/i><\/b><\/span>
And more than that, I\u2019m in love with the idea of how flowers remind us that- yes, we wither at times, but we also bloom when it\u2019s our time. We just need to embrace every phase of life.<\/span>
Isn\u2019t it ironic? Even tiny flowers can teach us something so deep and meaningful.<\/span><\/p>


Or maybe\u2026 I\u2019m just too smart for making that connection. Or maybe too dumb for realizing it after two whole years here<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>

Uhhh-ughhh, but Dekhar do love flowers now!!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>

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\u201cI used to think flowers were overrated. Pretty? Sure. But never really my thing<\/em>. That was until a few semesters in, when PCE\u2019s campus turned into this blooming beauty, providing a contrasting reminder of beauty, and even life<\/em> comes in phases. This is a story about flowers, my college, and the realization that maybe… I always loved them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

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