New Year Resolutions - Week 28 Achievements & Failures in 2023 #TheLifesWay

Hi Guys,

Week 28 was something for which we had to wait for 12 years as it was a snowfall day in Johannesburg, South Africa. The social media was full of Joburg Snow videos, reels, shorts and images. 

1. Snowfall - Last I saw snowfall was in London in 2011 and I was also told that in 2012 it happened in Johannesburg last. But this year on 10-Jul-2023, we saw the snowfall live in Johannesburg, South Africa again. It was a fun-filled day for everyone who took selfies and videos in the sea of white snow. The weather took a drastic turn in the last few days as it was super cold this weekend. 

2. Entertainment - I did watch the third part of Carry On Jatta 3 and it was hilarious. Gippy and the team did make a wonderful film once again in the series. This time the whole setting was in London and Sonam Bajwa was introduced as the main lead actress. I also watched Zara Hatke Zara Bachke starting Vicky Kaushal and Sara Ali Khan and totally fell in love with the Tere Vaaste song and the dance steps. I totally fell in love with both movies. 

I also watched The Test Case web series starring Nimrat Kaur, Atul Kulkarni, Anup Soni, and Juhi Chawla which was now available on YouTube. I wanted to watch the same for so long but didn't have access to the streaming platform it was launched on. It's a one-time watch. 

3. Launch Event - I was invited to the Logitech Silent Mouse South Africa launch event which was really an amazing experience as we got to play and exercise with Bungee Workout. They also gave me the best goodies bag ever and I totally loved the new mouse and keyboard set which doesn't produce any sound when you type as well. I also went to Mandela Day with Southern Sun and got a volunteer t-shirt from them. Many thanks for calling me to the filling of food in the fight against hunger campaign for around 67 minutes. 

4. Car Service - I made the biggest mistake of my life by taking my car to the Car Service City in Benmore. Neither they are good nor they are cheap. The level of service is also not great as compared to getting to the Honda Showroom and Service Centre on William Nicole. I will never recommend anyone going to any of the Car Service City as my another friends also told me later that he was not satisfied with their service. I was going to Honda but then returned and gave my car to these guys. My biggest mistake for sure. 

5. YouTube Shorts - I am not a regular on the platform but trying hard this month. Since the month of May when I was posting 5 videos per day this month, I am going to do around 1-3 per day. Let's see how much benefit it will bring. I am sure this month I will reach the threshold of USD 100 to get paid in the next month for sure. Let's keep working on the videos. 

I am not getting time to create a lot of long-form videos but I have to find time to do so on a daily basis. I need to do it and I will find some motivation to do so and work on all the ideas I have for the long-form videos which are nowhere on the YouTube platform. Keep watching as your views are my only blessings!

Aum Namah Shivay!

Till next time...Aashish
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Space is Infinite And So Are #ColgateMagicalStories By #Children

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Moon and Stars are the first attraction that I was fascinated towards in my childhood. Some stars used to bright more and some less, some used to create a pattern and some didn't. Sometimes some of them used to move around the same time which later I came to know as satellites sent to space by humans. But always the world of SPACE was filled with never ending questions and curiosity to know more and more.

My daughter too is fascinated by the Magical Space and various adventures that comes with these. Starting from the basics of planets and Milky Way Galaxy, she always has a lot of questions. We then go and find out all the answers to those queries on the internet as with each of her new question, I too learn new things. 

Colgate has come up with three packs of "Magical Space Adventure" where it have given every buyer a unique experience to create more than 15 space characters from the packaging of toothpaste. The kids and adults alike can cut those pieces and create any story they are fascinated about. The story can be anything from mystical Alien Planet to Zero Gravity Space Walk to further magical world of dreams and fascinations.

My daughter is fascinated by the recent movies on space travel including The Martian so she was more inclined towards the space walking and floating in the spaceship. But before that her query was how we reach the stars and how much time it takes? She was thinking that it will be just like going to nearest burger joint or maximum to her grand mother's home and she can be back home in no time. Never she could think that it's a huge effort and lot of science that goes into getting to space.

It took a while for her to understand that it's not like car travel and it will require a lot of patience to learn more about stars before we can actually be there. Still science has not solved all the queries which an adult mind has too. But in her own world and on her study table, she has decorated all the characters cut from the empty packs of Colgate. I know she will be fascinated by something else soon but from time to time, she will come back to flashing twinkling little stars again and again.

You too checkout these Magical Space Adventure packs and let your child weave their own story and create a magical life full of dreams. We never know when the inspirations from Kalpana Chawla or Sunita Williams can hit our child and they do aspire to reach for the sky too! Check out more - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op995I4Rh7A

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Ignored Warning Signs Completely!

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Your life can change in a second of time if you are not watchful of the early signs. My life did changed in a moment's time as I was not paying attention to the signs shown to me by the Universe. It happened way back some 10-12 years back when my family along with my father's brother's families joined us in TATA Sumo to travel to Salasar Balaji in Rajasthan from my hometown some 300 km away. In total we were 6 adults and 7 kids of vaious age groups from 2 years to me being in my 19. We started our travel around 10pm towards the holy town. The driver seems to be a good guy wearing a safari suit and continuously chattering about the recent political rally where he met some of the senior leaders of some political party and had snaps shot with them. As every Indian common man has some interest or cribbing involved with the political system, my dad and his cousins were really amused. I was thinking when he will stop speaking so that I can fall asleep on the last seat of the Sumo. The car also held the stickers of Lord Bajrang Bali and we were traveling to one of his avatar's temple so my uncle has full faith on the driver and the vehicle. The lighting on the roads in rural Rajasthan is very very less and roads are not wide enough also so everytime another vehicles approached in your direction, you have to take one side of the vehicle on the kaccha road. My uncle was sitting along with my father on the front seats along with the driver. The middle seat has my mom, 2 aunts and one other uncle sitting. All the kids were in the back with myself guarding the gate on one side and my younger brother on the other side of the back seat. Small kids were all sleeping on the space between the back seats as we carried our beddings. Now it seems to me on the thought, how so many of us were inside the a single vehicle and 3 families fitting into the vehicle and traveling together. But at that time it didn't seem so difficult to travel as there were small kids occupying very less space and enjoying the travel playing games like antakshri and singing songs.

The ride was smooth and slowly we all fall into the hands of sleep and only my uncle was awake to keep talking to the driver so that he doesn't fall asleep. But no matter how harder you try, sleep overpowers you when there is nice cold air in the summers, vehicle on the roll and you are sleep deprived. Suddenly, my uncle's voice of saying the driver in full voice “dekh ke” made all of us fully awake so as to find what has happened. The driver was sleep deprived due to his political rallies travel and agreed to travel with us in the greed of making more money. He slept for 2-3 seconds while driving and there was a turn on the road and the sumo was going straight ahead where the next thing was not at all visible. After the driver heard the yell, he tried hard to control the vehicle and bringing it back to the road by making it steer back on the road at high speed. The vehicle did moved back to the road and the tyres tried to come back on pakka road where one of the tyres bursted and the vehicle turned to one side while dragging on the road and at the end of the road, turtled upside down before coming to rest. 

I was fully awake by then but could not think that the gates on my side is now switched location with my brother as I kept looking for the knob to open it. The smallest kid of 2 years was sleeping in my arms so I was very tensed and was looking for her. When I saw her standing alright outside on the road, I immediately pulled myself out from the window opening, the window glass flew in the air during the impact of vehicle with road. By the time I came out, my brother was able to open the back gate and slowly all my cousins and uncle aunt started coming out of the vehicle. In the middle of the night, there was no light and there was no other vehicle traveling, so it was difficult to judge our condition. Due to the impact the front window of the vehicle crashed and my uncle came out from the broken window. The driver was hurt because of the steering wheels hurting him on his hands and head. He was conscious as the injuries were minor. The bedding was thrown on the desert land full of small thrones and we asked all the family members to sit there and relax. In the end on of my father's cousin was missing as he was sitting on the side so we started looking for him immediately. The window of his side was open before the crash and he has taken his hand resting on the window. As we found out he was buried under a lot of beddings and luggage that it took him time to become fully aware of his location and to say something. We helped him come out of the vehicle and sit on the bedding. By that time the other travelers I.e night buses traveling in Rajasthan saw the vehicle turtled and saw children crying immediately came to help and offered some help. Finding all of us alive and without any major injuries, all thanked Lord. The vehicle was brought to upright condition with the help of bus passengers. 

The nearest town from that area was Churu which was some 30kms away. We couldn't sit there all night long so me and my uncle went in search of another vehicle from the nearest village along with one of the jeep drivers who offered help and the driver too came with us to call the insurance and some mechanic to check the vehicle. After searching for the vehicle in the middle of night around 2am, we got one vehicle to take us to Churu so as to decide whether we should continue our journey to holy destination or go back home from the city. Finally as all of us were walking on our feets without any injury at all leaving aside some due to the glass cutting here and there, we decided to higher another vehicle and complete the darshan. We finally were able to do darshan and reached back home safely. 

There are many early warning signs which we ignored and it almost caused 3 families into the grave. The very first warning was the driver's talkativeness which was due to the fact that he wanted to keep himself awake as he was tired due to all his earlier travel. Secondly, we could have booked seats in a bus and so many people in a small vehicle is always dangerous. Thirdly, the driver's greed which not only costed him the vehicle loss along with injuries to himself but also was a threat to all of us.

There are many lessons we can learn from this real life story which I am unable to rationally derive because of the feelings involved but for some it could have been the last journey of life! 

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