A Memoir - This Month Last Year - Dec 2016 www.thelifesway.com #TheLifesWay #1350Post

Hi Friends, 

Last Year December was very hectic at work and I could not find time to do any blog posts. I did receive some surprise gifts from one of the brands which I wrote about. December 2016 felt like the shortest month where it passed as soon as it came. 

1. @SunStreamEnergy PLUS™ Keeps You Connected Using #SolarEnergy #SunStream - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/12/sunstreamenergy-plus-keeps-you.html - This is a totally awesome gadget to have in your car or home and as my car in India, doesn't have a 12V charger installed this came in real handy when I visited India in the month of Jan/Feb 2017. Loved the same in red color and gifted the same to my mom as she liked the portable charger with a built-in torch.

2. Love thy neighbour…but don’t get caught! #ChatsworthStyle #KandasamysMovie @kandasamysmovie - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/12/love-thy-neighbourbut-dont-get-caught.html - This is one of the best locally made movie on South African Indian community. I totally fell in love with the movie and it's star cast when I met them at the premiere of the same. Watch it on DVD or online this is a riot of laughter and fun. 

3. @TheGreatMoscow Circus Opens in #Johannesburg #MoscowCircus @MonteCasinoZA - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/12/thegreatmoscow-circus-opens-in.html - Montecasino is an entertainment hub always bringing the best of the world to Johannesburg, South Africa. I have always been a part of many events and shows they have on their premises and The Great Moscow Circus was awesome to be a part of. The show offered a lot of magic and acrobatic performances which kept the audiences glued to its seats in amazement.

4. Are You Drinking And Driving? #DriveDry #ThisIsMyStory #Diageo Campaign - http://www.thelifesway.com/2016/12/are-you-drinking-and-driving-drivedry.html - This is again that time of the year when people need to be aware of the same. Drinking and Driving have impacted a lot of lives and let's make the world around you a safer place during the Summer and Christmas holidays here in South Africa. Take a pledge and follow the rules and have a great holiday season. 

As I celebrate 5 years of The Life's Way in 2017 and this being my 1350th post on my blog, I wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and Lovely New Year to look forward to. Live Well, enjoy your life and make your holidays memorable for the years to come and keep creating memories and do share them on your social media channels. Show some love on my instagram channel and see what I love most in my life!

Cheers!!!

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4 Years of www.TheLifesWay.com #TheLifesWay #Birthday #Blogpost

Hi Guys,

2016 have been great for my blog - reached out to new brands and some of the brands said Good bye too! Change is the only constant thing in this world and I came up with terms that sometimes your passion will take a hit for the earning of bread and butter. 

Year 2016 being the 4th year of #TheLifesWay brought 518917 pageviews in 12 months from 396 blogposts and for the first time ever it crossed One Million pageviews on the eve of my birthday 22nd July. This was a proud moment as it happened on my birthday and was the biggest gift of the season. To celebrate this occasion I bought myself a Samsung Gear S2 smart watch from Incredible Connection in it's Cyber Monday sale.

The most important thing along with this one was the moment when I won a smartphone Samsung A5 (2016) model from a movie premier show for Trolls (movie) by Fanta South Africa. I always wanted to win one but all these years I could never so this was a great feeling and I gifted the same to my mom in India. Sponsored posts wise this year didn't brought that much money/vouchers like 2015 but this year's Indiblogger PR posts helped me buy a Nikon DX 35mm lens for my Nikon DSLR camera which I always wanted to purchase.

2016 brought the biggest travel in a Cruise from Durban to Mozambique and Portugese Island in MSC Sinfonia sponsored by Flight Centre and Cruise About. It was a great time spent on the ship and I really enjoyed all the activities there. I did felt sea sick first night but took a medicine and was sorted for rest of the trip. Also, this was my first trip to Durban and really loved seeing the old local Indian populated town. The second trip was my first time to Kruger National Park which was sponsored by Protea Hotels at Paul Kruger Gate. I really loved watching the animals but eyes were too tired to keep up on the searching all day in sun and sand.

Braham Sarovar, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

I was part of most of the events at Silverstar Casino and did several posts for them and posted a lot of pictures too on my instagram page. I was lucky enough to win in one of their media events and stayed again at the Vega Presedential Suite. Also for the first time in 2016, I attended an event by Logitech and got my own #TheLifesWay printed UE Roll 2 bluetooth speakers. Huawei remained a prime sponsor in my life for inviting me to all their launch events and goodies bags they give are amazing. Year 2016, I received Hugo Boss Sunglasses for P9 launch and Huawei Band for Mate 8 Launch event. Though I still feel sad that they have not sponsored me their smartphone despite my instagram page filled with Huawei hashtags and also I have not seen the likes of P9 and other recent smartphones for review also. 

I also got Go Budds bluetooth earphones by DJ Fresh which are really amazing and a surprise package of SunStream's Portable Mobile Charger using Solar technology. This really made my car in India charge my mobile as it didn't had that 12V charger in it. Checkout this product in Builder's Warehouse starting from ZAR 250 onwards.  I was part of several new launch events and shared the same across my channels. There had been so many small small items that I received from brands which I regularly distributed to my friends and family. I am so grateful to Universe for each one of them. It's just because of my blog www.thelifesway.com I am able to get them.

In the year 2017, I surely would love to get sponsorship in terms of a smartphone, tablet and laptop as my Dell XPS L501 was bought way back in 2010-11 from London and tablet Google Nexus 7 my parents bought from San Francisco in 2012 and smartphone is HTC One M8 which was gifted by HTC South Africa (old review device) in 2015. They have helped me shape my blog and twitter handles but it's time to say Good Bye to these devices too! Are you listening Universe?

Also, this year I plan to increase my Instagram followers and post more snaps every month to the amount of 5 each day on average. I also plan to venture into Youtube this year as I am trying to make video's on my DSLR camera and started learning the same too using Youtube channel of Nikon India. I have also missed my writings on several of the series I used to publish in 2016 but will revive all of them in 2017. Also, I intend to post all the pending reviews of all the electronics items I have bought and used for some time. I also missed all the time I could devote in 2015 on my blog as professionally my role in my job now demands a lot of office work to be done at home too. So I hope to bring in more efficiency in my work to get some hours of open time for taking my blog and social media channels to next level. 

Let's see how to fulfill all these aspirations in Year 2017 but thanks once again to all the brands and PR companies for investing their time and money in me. I am eternally grateful to all the PR companies who left me in 2016 and to all of those which embraced me further. I will always work towards giving everyone fair returns on their ROI but won't work for their brands if I am not getting anything in return. 

Cheers!!! 

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@SunStreamEnergy PLUS™ Keeps You Connected Using #SolarEnergy #SunStream

Hi Guys,

The arrival of summer holidays usually sparks a migration between the big urban cities and the smaller rural and coastal regions as South Africans around the country head for home, the sea or the bush. Whatever the destination this time of year is often characterised by long road trips and time spent outdoors making it even more important to stay connected anywhere, anytime.

Mobile devices are a lifeline, a connection to family, friends, work and play. This connection doesn’t stop when we’re out and about. In today’s world keeping mobile phones charged on the go is a life essential. The challenge with mobile devices has always been the need to stay continuously charged. This has required access to a fixed plug point or reliance on expensive and often inconvenient charging options.

SunStream™ provides mobile electricity wherever you go, by streaming the sun’s power directly into your mobile phone. SunStream™ technology converts sunlight to electricity instantaneously at a 99% throughput rate, making it the most efficient mobile solar solution on the global market. Because it eliminates the need for circuit boards, charge controllers, or chipsets – components that are notorious for breakage -- the hand-held panel is extremely durable. This patented technology offers a reliable, daily solution for the mobile device user who has limited or no access to electricity.

A necessary must have for the holiday season is the SunStream PLUS™. It offers half an amp of power, making it the ideal mobile electricity solution for smartphones, bringing some phones up to full power within two hours. The SunStream PLUS™ also powers feature phones faster than a wall plug and provides an excellent source of energy to power other digital and battery storage devices.

Whether as a practical, thoughtful gift or an essential life item, the SunStream™ solution offers a chipset free, fast charging (for multiple devices), portable, waterproof (it even works under water) and extremely robust advantage. It has been drop tested to two meters with positive results and comes with a shatterproof glass face, is heat-proof, freeze-proof and UV stable.

No need to run around looking for a plug point. It’s as simple as connecting your phone to a SunStream™ via a USB cable and angling the panel directly towards the sun. So wherever you’re heading make sure you take your energy with you with the SunStream™.

SunStream PLUS™ is available at all Builders Warehouse and select MTN stores across South Africa. Visit www.sunstreamenergy.com or connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (@sunstreamenergy) and YouTube
 

Watch the following link for the John Anderson's vision behind the SunStream™:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJhVyzvq_bw

 

I felt touched after watching this video and I hope that it will have positive impact on all of you too. I feel I need to buy these for all the people in my life who comes from far rural area where electricity is still not available all the time.  

About World Panel Inc. and SunStream™ products
Based in Colorado, USA, World Panel Inc. is a triple-bottom line company (people, planet, profit) founded by solar expert and entrepreneur John Anderson. The company produces a line of mobile solar devices under the SunStream™ brand, with retail relationships on the African continent where mobile electricity is in high demand. World Panel’s SunStream™ products charge 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE handsets as well as most USB devices.

 

Cheers!!!

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