This is one of the best designed Tee that I received from @BIGCBSLOVE on a Twitter contest in their The Beauty & The Beast contest. This is one of the special Tee and I am always a fan of the @BIGCBSLOVE on twitter. Their goodies are always different and unique. Thanks a lot BIGCBSLOVE for showering your love on me all the time. Cheers!
A woman is the whole of nature
wrapped up beautifully and sent to the world to make it a better place. She has
the power to create, nourish, nurture, love and heal. Today, right from the
moment the doctor tells a mother the three golden words, "It's a
girl", a strange fear tugs the mother's heart. Fear of rejection, fear of
what might be done to her because of the lack of that primarily important Y
chromosome and the greatest of all, the fear of her little angel having to deal
with rapists, eve teasers and dowry seekers. Each breathing moment carries a
feeling of helplessness in the parents' hearts, when they see the apple of
their eyes out alone in this big bad world.
In those moments of truth, it’s
the brother/cousins who are of your own age and always acts as your friends for
life. They are the protector and always are ready to go the extra mile to save
you from all praying eyes. My wife is totally devoted to his brother Avanish
who made her stand on her own feet. He helped her did ICWA and when that didn’t
fetched her the job, he helped her to pursue MBA. He even helped her
financially with the coaching fees, books, filling up all the forms and travel
expenses. As she took admission to a prestigious MBA college he helped her with
monthly expenses throughout for 2 years. She did manage to fetch a scholarship
but all the other expenses were covered by him through his hard earned money.
Finally he spent whatever was necessary to spent on her marriage to me, we had
a love marriage and so no dowry was exchanged as we both saved money for our
household goods and expenses through our jobs.
Overall, it’s his great love and
sacrifice that my wife is happy with her life and what she is earning and what
kind of job she is doing without MBA and with MBA. Avanish surely has helped
her excel in her career and life.
Thanks a lot Saale sahib!
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My introduction with Google Android OS started when my brother gifted me Google G1 Mobile phone way back in 2009. This was the first Android OS mobile phone introduced by Google in collaboration with T-mobil & HTC. HTC names the set as HTC Dream. I really loved the phone as it has this sliding qwerty keypad and I was able to type very very fast on twitter and facebook. It was a small laptop for me as I didn't needed to open to check emails and all. I really loved the device very very much.
I went to London, I was introduced by Nokia to its new phone N8. It has a great camera with 12 Megapixels and old OS Symbian. I really loved it's large screen and nice design. The phone did came with a lot of features and accessories. But it has some lags and I didn't fall in love with the device and returned the same within a months of my use.
My brother again gifted my another Google phone named Nexus One which I still use. The phone is simply great with Amoled display and cool features. It upgraded itself to v2.3 Android and not further. The best thing about Android was the free apps and drag & drog of data files (movies, music, docs) into the Micro SD card & you are ready to see them on your device. I enjoyed the phone very much till recently when it's power button got broken. Then somehow I was able to find that this HTC phone has this problem and you need to take care earlier. I was able to find solution but could never switch-off the thing going forward.
Now in this world of Phablets, screen larger than 5", quad core-dual core- processors, 8gb/16gb memory on board phones from all Indian as well as International brands I am feeling that I need to now say Good bye to my old phones. I still have both of them. Let's see if I could find solace in iPhone 5 or Nokia Lumia 920 or Samsung S4 or HTC One or BB Z10 etc. Till that time I need to save a lot of money as all the phones are highly priced in India. Thanks all! Enjoy!
FoxStarMovies organized The Croods
contest on twitter & the motivating prize was the tickets to the Premier
show of the movie a week before it was going to be released in India. It
was a great motivational factor as I always wanted to attend one. I started
tweeting Why I want to see The Croods and kept answering till the end of
contest for the day. The other day when the results were announced I won
and received the details of the cinema – DT Vasant Kunj, Delhi at 840pm
on 12th Apr 2013. I asked my wife to come early from office
that day so that we can leave home by 700pm & we reached the destination
and became the first one to demand tickets from the person in Fox Star
Studio tshirt.
Finally as we entered the Audi
5 with 3D spects in our hands we sat on the extra comfortable seats of
DT Cinema. The surprise element Fox Star was talking about was the few
trailers of the upcoming movies – The Heat, The Interneship, Turbo. The
Internship was specially interesting to me as it was shot at Google office
in California. Turbo has some upbeat feel about it and really made us laugh
– looking forward to the same asap.
Finally we were displayed a screenshot
to tweet with #IloveTheCroods and win some amazing prizes after the show.
I really grabbed the opportunity at a lightening speed.
The movie started with a great
chase sequence for the food hunt and the characters were introduced during
the run. The run really replaced the memories I had of Casino Royale –
James bond chase. The graphics of the movie was breathtaking spectacular
and amazing. With every movie the graphics are getting better and better.
This movie showed everything from fireworks, dry sea, avatar style jungle,
rock climbing, Life of Pi style starry nights, fire, volcanic eruptions,
sea, amazing animals.
The variety that was covered in
a single journey to follow ones dream and survival really kept us glued
to our seats and entertained. Some of the moments were so awesome that
my 3.5 years old daughter was laughing out loud and she was seeing the
movie without the glasses. I don't want to reveal the whole story and scenes
in my blog.
This is one movie that you have
been waiting for to take your kids on an adventure together and learn some
moral lessons on family - staying together even when everything else is falling
apart and Never ever be afraid. Go and enjoy as the movie is releasing 19th Apr 2013
and you will receive your money's worth.
I started blogging on 27 Dec 2012
and thought that I will make it a photo blog. Same day I relogin to Twitter
account and found out that there is different world out there & I am
missing on all the fun. To make short story more short I got approved by
Indiblogger after I wrote 15-18 posts & my twitter tweets picked up too.
Since that day I was wanting to attend the meets organized by the IB team and
was going through all the earlier events and what people experienced at the
events with lot of free goodies, wins along with entertaiment and laughing
their hearts out! But yes a LIVE experience is required to know what blogging
is all about and what IB meets are like...several quotes coming to my mind but
let them rest in books! :-) You got them in your minds what I was about to say!
LoL
Why I am talking about Twitter
also? You will come to know by the end of this post. :-)
I was all set to leave for the
Blue Frog, Mehrauli on my bike & I did reached the venue before
time and found a place to park my bike just outside the premises helped by security guards.
Finally, I
entered the hall to see Mr. Arvind Passey with his wife Sangita. It was great
to see him though I didn't had a chance to interact with him. I did met Aditya
Pranav at the gates where we took some photographs with the posters. I made it
to the registration desk and got my FIRST INDIBLOGGER TSHIRT & that was the
moment of joy and happiness. The interiors of the Blue Frog was awesome with
Orange posters and neon lights. It was heavenly feeling as eyes could not
capture all the beauty.
We did chose a seat near the
stage as it will give us more visibility and we will feel more closer to
prizes. We because I had Aditya Pranav with me throughout this meet to
accompany. We sat near a person whom we talked to& he turned out to be a prestigious movie
blogger with all the movies he reviewed were Classics & European Cinema. APOTOFVESTIGES explained us about his blog and we too shared our blogs with
him. Got several new ideas that I will be implementing in my blog soon. We all
met Ramit Narang, a blogger with 10 years+ experience and running his own US
firm. He has taken social media to another level and gave us all great tips
& tricks of the business.
Ali & Aditya were nice
fellows and we became a trio of new friends. Time flew away till the time meet
started with Aroop taking the stage. He started with applauding for all of us
for making it to the meet. The best thing that I liked about the guy is the
NAMASKAR pose he did several time to appreciate all the love showered by all
the bloggers on him during the meet. It was a small gesture but I noticed it
dude!
Receiving Cash Prize of Rs. 1500/-
Started off with a game to choose
numbers between 1 to 10 and people started raising hands and the first number
chosen turned out to be a Stone procured from the surroundings. People won
random prizes in that round with cash prize of Rs500, Microsoft Arc Mouse &
Microsoft Tshirts. Finally the lady luck did shine on me as last number left
was number 10 and it has the cash prize of Rs. 1500/- associated with it. I was
jumping with joy. Wow! Awesome my first ever meet and I have cash prizes to
take back home. Thanks.
After that there was a 30 seconds
of fame for bloggers where prizes were given to all who's blog url was
displayed on the screen. It was a nice feeling to know what people are and have
achieved in their lives and what they are passionate about? My blog didn't
passed the lucky draw test there.
Microsoft 365 India Director Ms.
Ritu Chaturvedi walked us through the features of the package with a video
presentation of Mr. Steve Balmer, CEO, Microsoft Inc. Ritu explained to us
about all the features of the package as it's based on 4 pillars i.e. Devices;
Social; Cloud
& Control. This package was available across all devices no
matter which one you are using as you just need internet connection. By Social
it meant that all your social profiles will be displayed from Facebook,
linkedin and others in a single timeline. All your data will be saved on Cloud
and you could access it anywhere any device limited upto 5 just like Kindle
app. Control is the security and other features that protects your business and
important data from theft and risks. Overall it was a great presentation and I
did bugged her a lot with my queries. Airtel too has to show some slides as
they tied up to make the bundled package available for all types of users. The
pricing of the product suits all types of businesses.
There was one benefit of using
this new Office 365 that you can write it offline and it will automatically
post to your blog. It has Skydrive features to store your files in Cloud and
Lync to have an online meet with other people via IM/Chat & video chat too.
A game was played with all who wore Striped clothes and was given Microsoft
Tees. A booze break was announced immediately after this. There was a Microsoft
stand to change your extra large sizes tees and get them replaced with right
sizes of your choice & pick up extra tees if you want them.
During the break I got to meet
Karthik and came to know how and why Indiblogger was created? It was a nice
concept and really I felt that entrepreneur feeling all kicking inside me.
While writing this blog a googling to check the spelling of Aroop's name
brought me to a link to be shared with all you guys! -
http://yourstory.in/2011/08/our-community-has-been-growing-at-close-to-around-80-yoy-vineet-rajan-indiblogger/I came to know that there is no Wikipedia
page for the Indiblogger team or it might be the case that I couldnot google enough.
Booze Break
Microsoft Team did organized some
contest there under the sun and a lot of people won Rs. 1000/- cash prizes. A
lot of non-veg snacks was served with various Mocktails and Beers. I could not
find any veg snack & didn't put effort also to get them. At that moment I
was busy talking to other people and drinking Coca Cola.
Microsoft Arc Mouse
In the final part of the event we
all returned to our seats as the numbers of bloggers got reduced. Many of them
travelled from places like Nainital, Chandigarh, Muzzafarnagar which were more
than 200 kms away. Aroop initiated the Twitter contest and started reading
tweets with lot of MS Arc Mouse to giveaway. After a long ordeal he noticed my
tweets and complimented me that "Man you have been tweeting since morning
and you deserve it". I was elated as I always had a dream to hold the
curved ARC mouse in my hands. Thanks a lot Indiblogger and Microsoft team. Now
you all know why I was talking about twitter? It pays to have an account on
twitter, this Blue Bird is always chirping. :-)
One of the luckiest tweet did win
NOKIA LUMIA 820 and that was grand. She wrote amazingly great tweet by virtue
of working in the publishing industry; she catched the nerve perfectly and got
paid for the same. Kudos! :-)
Finally it was the time to say
Goodbye as we departed for the photograph session outside the premises. We made
promises to meet again at the next meet and enjoy ourselves all over again. I
am really happy and reliving the time while writing this blog. Finally a video to say thanks all!
