Capture #Selfies Which Are Once In A Lifetime Moment #Mobiistar @MobiistarIndia

Hi Friends, 

The camera is the invention which brought the world to capture the memories and keep them forever. Around the world museums, memorials and government buildings are flooded with photographs of world leaders and things alike. With the invention of the camera in a smartphone, the world came real close as the photographs were shared on online channels instantly. Rear camera smartphones were the trend but then the whole of the action moved to the front camera giving us what we call as a Selfie Experience. 

Selfie Camera gained wide acceptance and grew from VGA to now more than rear cameras megapixels or to dual cameras as seen in most of the smartphones these days. Vietnamese Smartphone brand, Mobiistar is one of those brands which beliefs in the principle of ENJOY MORE! They have come up with their smartphones in India which are launched in collaboration with Flipkart where you can check out its amazing 120-degree wide angle dual selfie camera capabilities.

I had an Enjoy More moment some months back at the birth of my second child after a gap of more than eight and half years since I became a father. My elder daughter was very eager to have one of her own brothers or sisters as she felt alone while we both go the office and in the day to day struggles or the rat race to meet your goals. The gap became wider and wider because of working locations and other commitments like not able to take maternity holidays in the first year of your job with the new organization.

Check out this selfie right from the hospital as my wife came out of the operation theatre and icing on the cake was that my parents too reached our city on the same day just hours before the birth of our child whom we named Reyansh - meaning a Ray of Light. Playing with him is just like playing with a toy and I really could relive the moments which I could not with my elder one. I was sent to London for a project assignment whereas my wife and daughter stayed back in India when she was just 11 months old. My wife got the opportunity to work again when she was 6 months old after a gap of two and half years. And I only came back after she celebrated her 2nd birthday too without me. It was a huge sacrifice for which I have no reasons or arguments to justify the same.

With Reyansh in my hands, I thank Almighty Lord that I was there for him from the time he was conceived to the caesarean birth time and out of the hospital. I take time to spend with him every morning and in the evenings to enjoy the parenthood which I missed earlier though I was with Keisha for around 11 months. Little kids are like a flower for which you smile as you look at them every once in a while. I always make it a selfie moment every weekend so that we can remember how it was to do his first things. I still remember when Keisha went to see her first movie, we met Amitabh Bachchan just randomly without any expectations. He came right into the PVR Gold Class lounge at Ambience Mall, Gurugram and sat just behind where I was sitting and later came Ritesh Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez.

Such moments in life can only be captured if you had a selfie camera which clearly I didn't have at that time but now I am sure, I will definitely go for Mobiistar #StarSelfieSeries Dual-selfie camera smartphone to capture both my family as well as the locations where we take Reyansh on his first tours around the world! Till that time....keep clicking on your smartphone and keep making memories with you in them too!!!

Cheers!!!

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26 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Opportunities

Hi Friends,

#Opportunities

4 Years Ago when I came to South Africa I had to first sort out the internet connection and it was a month before I could post the first post. My Indiblogger rating fell after a long while and I needed it to go back to the original levels. I had to start once again to get in touch with a lot of brands using the channel I know best. I contacted all of them using Twitter and Sony Pictures was the one who got in touch with me and put me on the media list for Sterkinekor. I watched every picture they showcased every Tuesday and Thursday and then reviewed them too. I made a lot of friends at the movies and it was really fun to visit the same every week. I was not able to do it this year as I could not leave my office at the media screening times.

There is always a possibility to create opportunities and venture into something new which you have never done before. It has happened to me many times in my life and I am an opportunistic blogger. I calculate the returns on anything I do immediately and then see if that thing is worth the time I spend. It has given me a lot of benefits in terms of monetary benefits which bought me things I always wanted to buy. My whole benefits from my blog go back into paying for the domain and buying things like photography equipment. I love photography and used to win many photo contests on Facebook for many brands. I used to always see and remember the photos I have taken so as to fit the same for the right contest entry and it made me sure that I win the prize. Though it was never anything big, it was worth enjoying.

Opportunities have always brought me the strong willpower to work and win the game. I might be lacking in my game only due to work tensions or laziness but when I have thought about something, I have always worked to win it. Sometimes the world takes advantage of you where you live in false hope that something will happen if you do this for them or they will develop the soft corner for you but its a vicious circle. Get paid for your time and get away with the same and leave all emotions out so that there are no unfulfilled expectations at your end. If I get sponsorships for any place to go and attend, then I make sure I return the value in terms of my social media content sharing on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Cheers!!!

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@SilverstarZA Welcomes the Famous #AaryaRestaurant To @TsogoSun Property #Jozi

Hi Guys,

On Tuesday, 6 June 2017, MasterChef South Africa’s inaugural winner, Deena Naidoo, opened the doors to yet another established eatery under the “Aarya” banner at the West Rand’s number one entertainment destination, Silverstar Casino.

Aarya’s menu epitomises our colourful South African nation. It brings people from diverse cultures and backgrounds together through tasty and innovative food. Speciality dishes include Durban Curry, Bunny Chow and Chef Deena’s signature dish – Butter Chicken. Chef Deena is ready to welcome guests to a one-of-a-kind culinary experience at Silverstar’s Aarya.

“Silverstar Casino prides itself in constantly improving its offering to its valued patrons. Aarya boasts a contemporary, fresh and lively feel, not forgetting extraordinary service. The menu includes an array of delightful food and drinks, and we cannot for our esteemed guests to come and experience all the culinary tricks Chef Deena has up his sleeve,” says Sanele Ntombela, Marketing Manager at Silverstar Casino.

Chef Deena named the restaurant in honour of his daughter, who was given the name for its Sanskrit meaning of noble, kind, honourable, dear, and favourable. His extensive knowledge of spices, together with the fusion of both the traditional and contemporary, results in a uniquely blended menu that delights the taste buds of his guests. For more information or to book your table at Aarya, please visit: https://www.silverstarcasino.co.za

Cheers!!!

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Life is only fun, when we are TOGETHER!

Hi Guys,

Our life is a journey which we can’t travel alone. We need people to come into our lives from time to time and be with us for some of the journey. I was born in a joint family so was always surrounded by grandparents, uncle, aunts and a lot of kids. I was the eldest son of the family so I was the leader of the young force at our home. It was always my responsibility to take care of them and to save them from other kids who tries to beat them or make fun of them.

My optimism and togetherness story is about the time when I was married and had a 6  months old daughter. It was the time when I had huge debt on my shoulders because of our MBA education loan and also my wife was not working at that time due to kid. My wife got job after some time and I was offered onsite to London and my daughter was 10 months old at that time. I had to leave for London alone as my wife just got job of her choice after a span of 2.5 years and didn’t wanted to let it go because of our financial obligations. I waited for more than 7 months to see both of them as I could only get holidays at that time and came back to India for Holi festival. I also wanted to get them their visas etc but there was a lot of documentation that needed to be taken and submitted. I tried to complete all formalities and came back to London. From that day onwards, I kept waiting for them to come to me and it took them another 4 months before they landed on Heathrow Airport in London.

Thank Lord, it gave me strength and took away all my depression and stress. I was so happy to see them again and show them around the city. Those moments of celebrations were extended when my daughter started speaking there as well as my birthday came also. Some part of the city I only thought of visiting with my family and as soon as they came for 23 days, I planned for all the outings while continuing office work also. My wife and kid used to board a tube to Central London and used to come to my office during evening so that we can be together for some time and can also see some of the landmark buildings and locations. Those days really helped me come out of all my tensions and reconnect with my family and daughter. I keep checking some of the moments captured via camera and handycam to enjoy and relive that time.Here is one of the pics from that time! :-)

Our life is only wonderful if we are together or if we are with someone who loves and takes care of us. Life is great with companions and family and is to be lived for those who want to be with you always. It’s during those times when you can’t access your friends and family in person, you come to know how much you miss them? I had my share of tears when I was staying all alone and it’s a part and parcel of my life. But being together – it all starts from the house we call home check out these https://housing.com/ humble adobes which can change your life forever!

Cheers!!!

Indiblogger #Indispire - Five Places I wanted to visit

Hey Guys,

Breaking away from the regular travel destination theme of this week's #Indispire, I thought of some of the moments where I want myself to be once again from my life. If there is some time machine or camera that can show me where I was in that timeline of my life, I will be more than happy and amazed.

1. I wanted to see the place and room where I was born. The very first moments of my existence on this planet earth. Crying or wanting to sleep? How do I look like? Yeah, I know, I looked liked me but in real...how was I on my first minute of birth? Who all were there? What was their reactions to listen to this news of my birth? Who was the first one to take me into his arms? Who kissed me first? When I got to see my mother and father? All this stuff is the place where I want to travel as my first dream destination of my existence. 

2. The very first day of my school. How was I like - wanting to go or not? How was I feeling seeing a lot of kids on the gates of the school? Whom did I first met as a child on my first day at school? Who were my friends? With whom I shared my lunch box with? or didn't shared at all? Was I crying the whole time or slept for a while on the bench? Who was my teacher or maid that took care of me in the school? What was I thinking about my parents to drop me to school all alone in midst of rush of kids? These are some of the questions that I wanted to get answers of from my travel to my second phase of life.

3. The very first salary cheque or cash payment which I received for my efforts for whole of the month. Was I happy? What did I do with the money? What was I feeling? Who congratulated me? Where did I went to party? Did I visited some temple or donated something to charity? What was my expression when I saw the salary amount in my account or hands? Who gave me my first salary? It was the biggest struggle in my life to earn my first salary that I really wanted to enjoy now using the travel destination machine. 

4. The birth of my first child. How happy was I becoming the father of someone looking like an angel? What feelings I had as a new generation has arrived in our family? What did I said to my wife? How eager and nervous I was to hold my daughter in my hands? How did the kid react to my holding? Did she cried? Did she smiled when I took her in my arms? What was the reaction of my family and relatives? Who all came to visit my wife in the hospital? What was the reaction of my friends when I broke the news to them? Did I slept or kept looking at the angel? Did I comfort or thanked my wife after this complicated process of child birth? I really wanted to go and relive this second last destination of my life. 

5. The final one is the last day of my life on this planet Earth as I say good bye to everyone. Is it informed death or I died in an instance? Is it a natural death or accident? How happy or sad is my family on my death? Who all loved me and cared about me? What did I do wrong in my life? What are the people's reactions after my death? Is my family ok? Who is taking care of them after I died? What was people's opinion about my life? Are they cursing me or really feeling pain in their hearts? What I have left for my family? Is it a lot of debt or plenty of income for their survival? How many of my company colleagues/bosses are attending my funeral? The time I spent away from home for work was it worthwhile? These all questions gives a lot of perspective as I am on my deathbed. This is the final destination that I wanted to see today or asap before I actually reach there. 

Yeah, I did wanted to visit the day of my marriage once again, so that I could stop myself from doing it. But if I would have stopped it, I would not become father to a lovely daughter and could not travel there so I have dropped this dream destination out of my list to keep it at 5. Else, surely I would love to revisit the day I got married and check out my confusion and happiness as whole family is celebrating and dancing in this big fat wedding. There are always some funny moments in everyone's marriage that you will always remember. It can be some relative or some ritual or someone dancing with full on alcohol effect or whatever the case may be. 

Till that time, I reach my final destination - I am living in this longest destination of life called MARRIAGE!

Cheers!!!

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Indiblogger & British Airways - Go Further to Get Closer #MrAndMrs Contest

 

How far would you go to get closer to someone you love? 

We all do like to spend some quality time with the people we love, it can be parents, in laws, wife, son/daughter, brother, sister, cousin, relatives or friends. We all try to go as further as our pockets and time allows us to be with them. I have a small story which I would like to share where I think I went a lot further to get close to my wife and daughter. My wife used to work in Mumbai whereas I was in Delhi after our marriage. She took some 3 months leave to come to Delhi and look out for job. She tried a lot but when the time was over, her company retrenched her without any notice. She fought hard for a good job in her life and did got but now it was no more. She came back to Delhi and she tried a lot but she got no job in the area of specialization she wanted. Meanwhile, we were blessed with a beautiful daughter and it was already some 14 months that she was without the job. We tried a lot for her job and even used the services of job websites but of no use. She got a job in Mumbai once again which was a contract but the difficulty lied in the small daughter which was just 4 months old at that time. We fought a lot over going and not going as our daughter is small and she will get a job in Delhi. Meanwhile, with a new year, we tried a lot and it was the time, when I used to sit outside with our 6 months old daughter in the car, while she is being interviewed. My parents and her parents were out-stationed and could not come to help us too. She was interviewed by many companies in her job profile and as locations was far so I used to take both of them with me. It used to be a great experience as my daughter wanted to be with her mother always. Finally, there was that day when I knew that she will crack the job interview this time and we were sitting in the car for three days while she was offered the job. It was a great day because it took her more than 20 months to get the same kind of job she was looking for and all because I was not able to move to Mumbai myself.

Her very first day at job, it was my day to take care of our 8 months old daughter and I took a leave to take care of her. It was the day when I realized that it’s so difficult to raise a kid without mother being present. She will be gone the whole day and I tried to feed her on her mom’s advice, played with her but that day I was not able to brush my teeth. She didn’t allowed me to move anywhere as she thought as I will also be gone as she couldn’t find her mom too. Considering my situation, my mother in law came and supported us for some days. But it was difficult for her too and I got an onsite offer around the same time. This was required to be grabbed as we both had to pay for our educational loans. This created to a lot of confusion in our lives and with small daughter it brought a lot of stress as to where to keep her. We tried keeping her with a maid but it made her a little slow and tired. With me gone to London, she was taken care by the maid only but then something happened and the maid left. My daughter had to go to her maternal grandparents but they could only take care of her for about a month or so. It was the time when my mother took hold of my daughter and she was facing all the change of places. She was getting good care but then suddenly my mother met with an accident and her right hand was fractured. Again, it was a great problem for the family, so my daughter was shifted to my chacha ji home where my cousins took great care of her. My mother didn’t want her to go anywhere else, as she made a lot of friends there and she was happy with them. It was quiet a stressful time and I could not take my wife as I didn’t had the marriage certificate. My wife used to travel 300 kms every weekend to meet our daughter. It used to disturb my daughter’s frame of mind as she would miss her after she is gone every Sunday night. It was also not that safe to travel alone 300 kms every Friday and Sunday nights and too tiring.

I came back from London after a span of 7 months with a lot of toys, sweets and chocolates but she was afraid to come to me. Though she recognized me but it was after sometime she came to me. My brother and his wife too came from USA around the same time. She was very happy to see us all. I drove the marriage certificate thing as my wife’s mom was busy in something and couldn’t travel. It was becoming difficult but finally with a lot of persuasion we got our marriage certificate formalities completed. When I talked to my company about their VISA processing they said that there is no budget as it’s March end. We will approve your request on 1 April. They did approve the request over email on 1 April but I could not raise the request in our system as the cost centres for the old year got expired and the new ones was not made till the 15^th May. Again a lot of trouble and when I raised the request they got their visa’s processed after a lot of documentation went through me from London. It was around the time to travel, my project said that they are releasing me and all the hopes again diminished to show them the city of London. My boss wanted me to go back to India and I requested to stay may be in another project and they found out another project for me. But again, the travel request was not approved and the system wanted to know whether I will be in London for another six months or not? Somehow after a lot of drama, my super boss approved their travel and they finally came to see me in London. 

It was a great pleasure to see both of them again after a gap of 4 months. It was a great beginning of good times and we saw the great city of London, Bath, Stonehenge, Isle of Skye together. My daughter started speaking there only but also got addicted to a lot of milk there. They stayed there for 23 days and it was the best time of my life. I celebrated my birthday during that time. I soon came back as I could not find other goal for myself to achieve after everything was sorted out in my life. I went back in another 2 months time to stay with my family and my daughter was admitted to play way school and I used to pick her after the office. It was a great time that I spend with here while travelling back to home and thereafter.

Once again I am in South Africa and she is in India and I do miss them a lot…

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3 Things my daughter has taught me?

Hi All, 

 
Daughters are the angels in the your life because their cute smiles brings you an internal joy that no other thing in this world can. I am too blessed with an angel in my life and she is the hope and fuel of my life.

My daughter has taught me innumerable things which as adults we tend to forget with time and it's the adaptibility to smile and carry on, no matter what has happened in the past. She leaves me amazed when I see her living in the moment and enjoying herself fully. She quickly adapts to the surroundings and tries to make the best of the same. I still remember when I was in London and she used to live with her grandparents and my wife was working in another city. She quickly readjusted to the place of my parents and when my wife used to visit her every weekend she used to make the best out of those 2 days and one night with her mom. She understood that mom will leave soon and it took her monday/tuesday to come back to normal self but then also she enjoyed herself. It was really tough for us to adjust, but she really did cope up and built herself from there and she was just 1.5 years old.

Secondly, is her quality to get whatever she wants in the way she want. She will build stories around and will try to make you agree by the way of love, smile and sometimes tears but she will be persistent enough to get the same thing done from you. She will come running to me and will ask, Papa, you love me? I will say, yes. Then she will say that Ok, please get my long forgotten toy out of the storing area as I want to play with the same. Another story, is when her mother was doing some stitching on the sewing machine and she wanted to rotate the wheel of the same, but her mother disagreed, so she ran to her grandmother. She told her that my mom is ruining your sewing machine, kindly take away your machine from her. This expression was just because her mother didn't listen to her and she couldn't rotate the sewing machine wheel.

The third quality is the never ending Curiosity and the ability to question the logic and reasoning to understand the world she lives in. Blessed with great listening skills, she understands everything and asks relevant question and we have to tell her the logic and reason why that is so and why is goes like this? She has build up a whole Dholakpur inside her mind and everything runs from there. She thinks Dholakpur is in Singapore and she has to visit Singapore to see if it's there or not. Till that time, she doesn't believe that it doesn't exist in the real world. Last year, her grandparents went to US and she said that she has not seen US so she wants to go with them next year. My younger brother has a dog there in states, so she said she will personally visit to see if the dog does what my brother tell him to? She will question on anything and everything under the sun and it's our responsibility to give fuel to her imagination and curiosity. She loves to eat Parle-G and asked me once what is the G in Parle-G? And as shown in the TV advt, she asked how the cloth is flowing in the air? She tried to do the same with her mother dupatta but failed till she tried it in front of air coolar installed last month. The spark in her eyes and the happiness of achieving something she wanted really created moments that my family will cherish forever.

Thanks a lot.