A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Nov 2018 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

Hi Friends, 

November is the final month for planning December holidays and the goals for the new years and I am getting a strong feeling that I need to start everything from scratch and the next 3 years of The Life's Way will be towards making videos for Youtube and creating stories on Instagram rather than blog posts. There will be some self-written posts but that will be around 100 in a year or the regular series I intend to do. 

1. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Sep 2017 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - https://www.thelifesway.com/2018/11/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-sep-2017.html - I made some decisions and then broke them and remade them and broke them again. This is a fool's paradise for me and I think it's my comfort zone but as I complete my 7 years of The Life's Way, I don't want to do the same mistakes again and again. Let's build a better future if I can which has a lot of passionate learnings to continually enhance my curiosity and charisma. 

2. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Oct 2017 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - https://www.thelifesway.com/2018/11/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-oct-2017.html - I was late in posting these blog posts on my page last year and this year too I posted Oct one in Nov only. I have to learn to be disciplined and that's why I want to go back to books. I have taken steps towards them too as I am listening to a lot of audiobooks while driving a car and factory reset my 10 years old Kindle Keyboard for the first time. I have added limited books in the same which I really want to read and if not found interesting will be taken out of the gadget. 

3. A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Nov 2017 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay - https://www.thelifesway.com/2018/11/a-memoir-this-month-last-year-nov-2017.html - Last year I did a lot of Instagram meets and walks with one of my colleagues and we became best of friends. He left for Sweden this year in Oct and I felt really sad but WhatsApp calls make up for it. This is being long that I let anyone enter my life like I allowed this person and change me for the better. 

All the other posts I did are for many brands that didn't invite me to their events or gave me anything this whole year so why bother them to mention and cover in this post. Let's think of all the good and bad Netflix shows and movies I am seeing these days. Money Heist Season 1-2-3 I finished the day before and really waiting for Season 4 which they say will be launched anytime in January 2020. I didn't like the movie DRIVE #bollywood and it's torture to be watching the same. I am stopping Netflix subscription now as I want to read some books towards the end of the year and write my own posts for the completion of 7 Years of The Life's Way in December 2019. 

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Get Ready for SA’s First AI Four Camera Smartphone @HuaweiZA #HuaweiMate20lite

Hi Friends,

South Africa’s first AI four camera smartphone – the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite is here. This Selfie Master is also the first smartphone in the country to bring the power of AI to your selfies.

The HUAWEI Mate 20 lite features a massive 24+2 megapixel selfie camera packed with AI features to enhance every selfie you capture. Not only does the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite harness the power of AI to enhance your facial features through portrait lighting but can recognize, eight categories including sky, plants, flowers, beach, stage and night.

Huawei’s new AI and beauty algorithm with facial recognition ensures you are always able to capture the best possible version of yourself. In any scenario, the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite’s HDR Pro functionality, offers real-time effects preview and light fusion for better night shots, while decreasing backlighting.

The front-facing camera features the new Qmoji which mirrors your facial expression. Featuring seven exciting characters, Qmoji provides the user with a fun and playfully animated alter-ego to take selfies and share with friends.

While the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite’s front-facing camera makes anyone a selfie legend, its rear camera performs like a champ as well. The smartphone’s rear camera is loaded with dual 20+2 megapixel AI-driven lens to ensure every moment is picture perfect.

The HUAWEI Mate 20 lite’s rear camera also offers AI-bokeh effects, AI-assisted composition, and slow-motion video at up to 480 fps. The HUAWEI Mate 20 lite’s power is brought to life by the new Kirin 710 chipset with an AI engine, which makes AI operations off the device possible, without impacting the performance of the smartphone. Graphics on the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite are now supercharged through the device’s GPU Turbo functionality which accelerates graphics performance by optimizing utilization of the smartphone’s already-existing software and hardware resources.

The HUAWEI Mate 20 lite also delivers a larger display with a 6.3-inch FullView notched screen fulfilling an innovative and enhanced design aesthetic. Bring content to life on the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite with its Full HD+ resolution and 19.5:9 aspect ratio, which rivals a cinematic experience. A smartphone that can last all day is essential in today’s day and age - the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite offers its users extended usage with its 3750mAh battery that rivals most smartphones available on the South African market.

 

Keeping the elite design elements of the Mate series, coupled with sophisticated craftsmanship - the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite features a symmetrical body with flowing 3D glass effect. Disappearing edging back glass adds to the smartphone’s allure, as it seamlessly connects to metal for distinctive aesthetic appeal. Available in the timeless colors of Black and Sapphire Blue – the HUAWEI Mate 20 lite will make a statement where ever it is.

 

The HUAWEI Mate 20 lite is available from the October 5 at a Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of R8999.

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11 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Goals

Hi Friends, 

The goal which seems too far is now within reach but still there a lot of posts between them. Starting a blog is easy but it requires a lot of planning on pen and paper. Once it's released to the world, then you have make the ecosystem around the same to work. It means setting up your other social media channels from twitter to Instagram, to pinterest to tumblr and facebook. Once you are done with all of it, it's time to create a lot of unique content so as to drive traffic towards all your channels. 

The second part starts when you have to find time to do it on a daily or weekly basis. Some people plan and schedule their posts so that there is regularity in the order which is great if you can do so. I can say that an ideal state of work ethics and professionalism. But with me, I am unable to do so till now in my 6th year of blogging and social media influence. I am lazy sometimes and tries to buckle up but sometimes technology too adds to the woes. Slow internet connection, laptop with not a battery backup and writers block are all the woes anyone can face. 

Aashish Rai - #Editor #TheLifesWay #PhotoYatra

I always have a goal driven approach towards The Life's Way in terms of how much reach I can get from the content that gets shared on my Instagram channel. How many product reviews I can do on my blog posts and when can I shoot my video's for adding to the content of YouTube. There has been no success till date on the same but soon this laziness has to go as I have to achieve my goals this year. Though I am happy to see that my twitter handle was having 50 followers when I came to South Africa in 2013 and a smart watch brand didn't wanted to send their products for review and now I have more than 9000 followers in 2017.

I have started working on the same in small tasks as the first task I did was to create an email id which was pending since long for EDITOR@TheLifesWay.com so that it feels great for the companies to see that it's some passionate person you are working with.

Next task was to take out the autobot to post tweets from my handles for which I used to pay around ZAR 1800 per annum. I have saved on this cost and now I will spend the same on getting some merchandise for my brand and distributing it to the PR companies and my readers.

So, there are a lot of changes happening at my end and I will continue to share the same in rest of my 10 posts for the 5th Birthday Celebrations of The Life's Way!

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14 Days To www.TheLifesWay.com 5th Birthday Celebrations #5YearsofTheLifesWay #27Dec2017 #Nokia #HTC #CameraSmartphone

Hi Friends,

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My Journey with photography started way back when I was only 5-6 years old with Pentax film camera. Then it migrated to Kodak film camera and was limited as the film was costly to buy and process and 1 film only used to do 36 photos max. It was only with the invention of the digital camera, you could click thousands of images and print only the limited ones. And with the introduction of a camera in mobile phones, it further took turns as the prints were only limited and social media sharing took its place. 

My first smartphone camera was Nokia 7650 which my brother bought from Singapore and gifted me. It was an awesome phone and took good pictures. I used it for a while and it was stolen from my Jacket's pocket in my cousin's marriage ceremony. I really felt lost and bad as then I had to wait for more than a year or so before switching back to a camera phone. 

Second camera phone was Motorola ROKR E1 with which I took thousands of pictures using its 0.3MP camera and continued from Feb 2006 till the time I gave it for change of ear speaker and the guy took away certain parts and phone could not be repaired ever in 2007 as the chipset was burnt etc etc. The phone had amazing dancing lights on the sides and used to blink whenever you get a call. I got my job placement notification only from the lights as the phone was in silent mode and went to interview at 1030pm just because of Motorola Rokr E1 flashing lights. So grateful to Motorola for making this device and my brother for buying me this one from Singapore.

My biggest camera came when 3.2MP was launched by Nokia in N73 Music Edition smartphone which was gifted to me by my brother-in-law before my marriage in 2008. I really loved it and used it until 2010 when I migrated to the first android phone with full touch screen and keyboard in Google G1 made by HTC. There must be thousands of photographs I have taken using Nokia N73 as I passed the phone to my wife before going to London. Google G1 was the smartphone where I initiated my twitter handle @araijain long back when Twitter came into the picture and now today my tweet count on the channel has reached around 175k.

In London, I was using Google G1 and when I came back to India, my brother again gifter me Google Nexus One which I still have my backup phone for emails. It doesn't work that fast but it can receive calls and send SMS. This one worked till 2013 when it's power on-off button met its lifetime and I could not switch it ON which I took care using an app on android play store. I have won hundreds of Twitter contests on this smartphone and think of the quality of this smartphone -  the battery is still fine and phone still works great. What an amazing technology by HTC on Google Nexus One.

As I was planning to come to Johannesburg in 2013, I was in love with Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and HTC ONE M7 and I had a choice to buy either. I decided to go with HTC ONE M7 because of its Beats Audio setup and when I used my BOSE earphones on both of them, the difference was clear and I decided to go with HTC M7 and again thousands of my twitter, facebook photos are taken by this smartphone. The battery bloated within a year and I raised a complaint here in Johannesburg within repair center and they gave me a brand new HTC ONE M7 on the second day without any charges. I felt great with the services and fell in love with HTC all over again.

HTC South Africa came in contact with me via my blog and gifted me their review device HTC ONE M8 on my birthday on 22 July 2015 which is still my primary smartphone in 2018 but I am only using the same to do tweets and facebook etc and not to take photos as much as I used to do earlier as the smartphone has gone very very slow and 8GB-16GB smartphone are total waste in this new digital and online world.

So, in the end, my camera smartphone journey is totally based on Nokia and HTC smartphones till date and most of the photographs you see on my Instagram pages are using Review units if mentioned and if not mentioned then it will be using the Panasonic FZ5 or Nikon DSLR from my previous post and rest all are using HTC M7 and M8 smartphones. Looking forward to getting the best in the range smartphone now in 2018!

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