Growing up with story telling.

#colgatemagicalstories

When was the last time your child told you a story? It’s time to unlock their imagination.

The new Colgate Strong Teeth packs come with interesting sea creatures & some trivia inside them. There are 4 different packs. Kids can cut, play & learn. What’s more? They could do the story telling this time by weaving their imagination together.

Well, this happened when the colgate packs arrived at my doorstep and the kids in the house ran here and there having fun in the cutting the characters from the packets and then rushing to the elders and family members around to tell their stories and their views. It was amazing how it involved the little ones and the elders in the family. It has been amazing and a great fun activity at home after a long time apart from the family events, functions and ceremonies. This has been a different way of having fun in the family. I would give all the credits to the team colgate for bringing such a great fun activity which could bring family members together and unveiled the learning within the kids and unlocked their imagination boundaries to a great extent. 

The creative narration of stories based on the magical mermaids that came out from them were splendid and amazing. They built the story on the sea animals, reefs, plantations, mysteries in the sea world and a lot more that kept everyone involved and kept everyone into excitement as to what would happen next and come up from the kids. Listening and hearing the kids imagination is one of the best thing for their parents as this tells the parents about the learnings of their children, about their potential and the direction of the impact that the near-by surroundings are having on their children, because it is the surroundings that impact the thinking power of the children. It has been coming as lovely and exciting experience to see the creative abilities of the children flowing in one of the most amazing manner where parents, kids, elders, and everyone else in the family are enjoying and having fun. There is nothing more delightful for the parents to see such as this to see their children narrating the stories and weaving them into wonderful patterns making everyone around them crazy, happy and joyous. 

Story telling has been a great way of unlocking and unleashing the creativities from the children. It helps in building up the children and also comes as a amazing way to learn as learning though visualisation, talking and sharing creates long term impact on the children. Also, such memories of listening and creating stories with the children turn out to be wonderful memories for lifetime. Such stories and narrations stay into the minds of the children for lifetime and come as a great learning for them. It helps them to grow SND develop in a fruitful manner giving them the important and essential learnings for life. 

It is important to inculcate the habit and art of self- learning as this goes a long way into building a successful individual as a whole.

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Redi-GO! The delight!

When we come to talk about fun, freedom and confidence, who knew they would have nothing better to talk about that about the newly launched DATSUN redi-GO by Nissan, which has wonderful exteriors and interiors to offer, with the best of comfort from the industry. The performance beats the best in the market with amazing safety features. These would attract anyone looking to purchase a new car and live the life in the best possible manner.

The fun in the car comes with the amazing feature being fuel efficient giving a wonderful average of 25.7 km/litres. This is great when we come to talk of vehicle being fuel efficient. This would be a great saving on the pockets and would definitely add up to the fun in the family and friends time. What more would an individual ask from life, if not fun ? 

Freedom comes with the amazing sitting pattern in the interiors and the amazing exteriors that the car has to offer at this price, giving it a crossover cum hatchback appearance, giving a tough competition in the market. This is in this respect a marvel piece serving the purpose of designing and being pocket- friendly.

The car is loaded with the compact features such as the turning radius of the car, the lamps, the headlights placements amongst several features an individual keeps in mind while taking a car. The car is one the best in class ground clearance from the front side as well as the back side with the rough and tough roads every here and there which would prevent any kind of damage to the car. This comes in handy as this would lead to high maintenance and keep the car in good condition. The engine of the car being 799 cc making it fuel efficient and thus good for the owners and giving them broad smiles.

In India while going around for a test drive, I would love to take it for a drive from Delhi to Chandigarh and then head to explore the city in the best manner that I would be able to. Also, I would love to go to the place with my family to give them an experience of this amazing car and listen their reviews about it. Looking by the promises that the car has made, it would be a pleasure to be in the car for being cost and fuel efficient for me, and design and comfort efficient for the family in regard to the sitting in the car.

I would like to test it for the comfort of the steering and engine efficiency, because the comfort of driving is main the thing I always look forward to and it would be a delight if it would be giving me this comfort, since each day I have to travel approximately 50 hours each side for my office work and also sometimes have to step out for the field work. Thus, my first thing would be to look at the comfort of steering and secondly looking at engine and fuel efficiency, which would be giving me relief from the urban blues that I face each day on my way to office and back.

Fun. Freedom. Confidence. The ultimate Urban Cross - Datsun redi-GO - the capability of a crossover with the convenience of a hatchback.

#TheImpact

#Impact

We as human beings are being influenced and have a huge impact on lives of one another. No one really has an idea how much impact and influence one can hold on to other and in lieu of the same, everyone should continue to make efforts to one's best potential and caliber and that would take one to step ahead in life and also that can serve as influencing others in life. Human mind is very impactful and it keeps making its own efforts in that direction.

The impact could be on society, on individual, or the nation, the family or may be anything. Anything and everything in nature has an impact of something or the other and this very fact cannot be ignored. For instance, people have role models, some have ambitions and goals set for them. Here for some people role model has had so much impact that one would want to follow the foot steps/ imprints and mould oneself into the similar direction, where as in the other case the goal/ aim/ ambition holds an impact on the individual where one desires to achieve it seeing the impact of it.

Here, as we are talking about the impact, in my life several things have had a huge impact on my life, and through this article I would like to mention few of them that come to play in my life to make me stand as where I am and paving me further motivation to step ahead and excel in life.

At first, I would like to mention my mother who makes an impact on me, my life and lifestyle almost each day and shows me the confidence to deal with life's situations in a positive and hopeful manner. Even when the life had thrown tough times, she has shown the confidence in me and made me to fight the odds and face the life in a courageous manner. This has been the impact of my mother.

Another important person who has had laid a hug impact on my life is the Principal of my primary school with whom I am still in touch who encourages me in a healthy and optimistic manner. He has been a constant source of motivation in my life and has motivated me to excel and reach great heights. Whenever I face any doubt academically, he has a solution to it. I am really grateful to him for his teachings and for being there in the tough and difficult times. 

It is important to pay attention and heed to the slightest things in life to step ahead graciously because they are the things and people who make an impact into our life, and live up the dreams and desires that we have built up for ourselves and others.

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

The beautiful beginning of the day! Gold Morning!

To begin the day, every morning is actually a cheerful invitation to make my life quite simple, and or as I might say innocence, with Mother Nature herself. That is a wonderful way that I manage to turn my good mornings into the gold mornings and drives me into the state of immense pleasure right from the starting of the day. This sets the beginning of the day in a great and promising manner which has been giving meaning and status to my life lately.

I wake up and head to the basin and begin my day with COLGATE 360 CHARCOAL GOLD TOOTH BRUSH leading to the start of the #Colgate360GoldMornings. What I primarily do next is I let my head to fall back on the rest chair, and begin to gaze into the eternal blue sky filled with huge number of shades and colours. It is the morning time that spreads range of colours into the sky with the rise of the sun, marking the beginning of the morning, and often the pleasant one. Some of the sky is red, some of it is yellow, some of it is soft blue. Small cloud scattered across the sky, and also scuttled along. It is not that strange how we humans come to interpret it largely into our lives. It is something that drives one away from the thoughts of death, chaos and pain while draws our mind towards the thoughts of peace, tranquility, happiness and joy.

I love to begin my gold morning by spending my time sitting under the sky with a cup of coffee at my bay and let the beautiful thoughts cross myself as much as possible as they would be the determiners of the rest part of the day. It is important to set the beginning of the day on a high note by thinking in a positive manner as it would keep the positive spark alive and shall enable in leading the day in an optimistic manner which would make life worth living and make the day to appear beautiful and brighter.

The mantra to turn good mornings into gold mornings is to begin the day on a happier note by being true to oneself and begin the day with what one feels happy and I usually begin it with standing under the sky and wishing good morning to the sky under which I stay the whole day for blessing me with the opportunity of beginning another day.

Through the lanes of HISSAR!

Coming to talk of "Design, drive and connect" in the 21st Century should not take us to surprise as these are the times where the three terms fall well into synchronisation with each other and takes one to look at these prospects clearly while they go for something #MadeOFGreat and do not wish to compromise and settle down for something lesser.

For instance, as we go on to talk about the Tata motors, these three find a huge connection where the best beats the rest. The designing, the technology, the satisfaction, the comfort, the connectivity, all of them are well synchronized into each other and find a huge place into the heart of all individuals who want nothing but the best.

The best cities have always offered huge amount of anonymity, conjunction, variety, and qualities which are amazingly basked in by travelling through them, because one does not have to go into the story teller's or the fortune- teller's, only to know that one might end up gearing into the lanes that have been already discovered. I belong to this amazing city named Hisar into the mainland of Haryana. The city is amazing that contains more than what any inhabitant can know, and the best thing about this great city is that it always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination and paves new challenges which lead to the amazing discoveries of the paths undiscovered, connecting well the historical and modern times together. 

The roads have a well layered and properly managed structured. The highways and by- pass connectivity through the town is greatly managed by the city authorities. The city has huge amount of historical significance associated with it and is also known for schools and colleges. The connectivity throughout the city is thus properly maintained to allow the smooth flow of traffic into the main- town without any difficulties so that it does lead to any kind of difficulty.

The designing of the city holds the differently laid structures of buildings with new and old, both standing amidst the city. Also, there are small villages within the city. The agriculture fields are also available in the city which is one of the major fields to some of the major crops. Hisar is the major district of Haryana and is the major economic spot of the state. A lot of business takes place from this particular district.

The driving within the city is quite comfortable. It is not crowded and often the city has calm environment. The hassles are minimized and the environment is more people friendly in the city. 

There is no logic that can be superimposed on any of the city; it is primarily the people who make it, and it is to them along with the buildings, designing, connectivity, that must fit the plans of the city.

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Sugar-Free Dessert Challenge! - Chocolate cake!

Chocolate cake is a bomb explored by the amazing people in the most hurrying manner where the taste buds find no control and the guilt remains which is pardonable and is in-fact pardoned each time which makes happier and merrier. The inventor of the cake should rather be sainted. Life is great with chocolates in any form, be the drinks, cookies, brownies, and what so ever. I would rather take a dip in chocolate and stay into it. It is immortal. 

Well, to satisfy my chocolate cravings and desires, the best I do is prepare a cake for myself and have it for next 3-4 days and then the other cake sets into oven. I never go short of the cake at my home and it is one major thing I am known for, for almost all the times. Rather, my friends and relatives now have this thing well fit into their minds that they would surely find a piece of cake, if not anything else. What a joy to be known this way, ain't it ?

Well, when I heard of this Sugar- free dessert challenge, I thought to give it a try with Sugar-Free Natura and it turned out to another amazing treat for myself. Here I share below my recipe of Chocolate Cake. I hope you get tempted out reading till the end and wake up yourself in the kitchen to prepare this amazing mouth- watering dessert.

The ingredients for the amazing chocolate cake delight are as follows:

• 1 cup butter, melted
• Sugar-free natura
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup baking cocoa
• 1-1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1-1/3 cups milk

Method of Preparation!

In a container or abowl, add the melted butter and sugar- free nature. Blend the mixture of sugar and butter well till it blends into a smooth paste. After the above step break 3 eggs into the bowl one after the other, beating the mixture after breaking each egg into the bowl. The mixture has to be stirred in one uniform direction. Now, after the addition of eggs to the above mixture, the flour is put into the bowl and other ingredients such as cocoa powder, baking soda, salt is added to the paste. The mixture is blended into one direction making it a smooth paste. Now the milk is added to the mixture and is converted into a smooth batter ready to poured into the pan for baking.

After the batter is ready, the pan is to be made ready. The pan of desired shape is taken and greased well from all corners so that the cake comes out smoothly from the pan and does not stick to the pan.

After all the above proceedings, the oven is preheated to 350 degree F. The batter is then poured into the greased pan and the pan is placed into the oven for approx 35 minutes. The cake is being checked after few minutes for the fluff in the cake and lately to see if the baking has been complete. 

The cake is then taken out of the oven and kept aside for cooling. The cake is then ready to served after icing and decorating in the choicest manner. 

Happy Cooking! Happy Baking! 

http://sugarfree-india.com/

Through the lows with pride! #MadeOfGreat!

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” -- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.

It's not an easy going job to grow up into a woman and defending herself at her roles at any stage of life.

At every other moment, a woman is taught, instilled and bombarded with the thoughts and ideas of an ideal life that she should follow and encompass. The thoughts are poured upon at every age as to what should be done at any particular stage of life.

For instance, what she should wear at ten, twelve, eighteen, twenty, and so on. Another one could be the act of how the actions should be carried out at any particular age. The deeds are being governed by societal norms. With the times, the changes are being seen, but there is not much assurance of the comfort at which women are.

It is gracious for a woman to be elegant at any age, wonderful to be fashionable and courageous to be brave at any points in the life. It requires a strong stand to bark all the set norms and baseless ideals. These are the testing times when a bold step is needed to overcome the issues and set new norms which portray a fast and forward approach for all girls and women.

One such woman that I have known who has faced life beautifully and with the best of spirits is my granny. She has faced the poverty bravely and even the riches with modesty. The humble nature that she has possessed throughout her life has been an example for the all the societies and groups she has been connected to. Because of her delivering attitude, she has been head of several social groups in the societies and mandals.

The main aim of her life has been to fight against the stagnant society. She wishes everyone to step out and achieve success and laurels in life. To fulfill this aim she has knocked several doors, talked with kids, mothers, fathers, of all age groups so that break the shell and come out of the comfort zones. She never raised her pitch to convince for any good to the society. Her persistent and consistent efforts have been fruitful.

With her learning and invoking attitude, she learnt the art of healing the physical injuries such as breaking of bones n cartilages, cervical problems and knee problems. She has been known for her doctory skills, now that age factor seems to set in that she has to forcibly give up on them. She is well versed in ayurvedic medicines without any official education. For her these services, she has been publicly available at all the times.

Also, she has a beautiful voice and delivered lessons and classes to the local populations about the importance of music, culture and heritage. She has been a staunch deliverer of the human art forms in the best form she can through encouragement. Now, that she no longer delivers vocal lessons, she has been asking kids and enthusiasts around to pursue and enroll themselves in several activities.

A cook that she is, I have learnt a lots of kitchen and cooking ethics from her. The simplest and the most complex food items that I know today are through her efforts. She has delivered sessions of cooking classes too, when one day I requested to go for it in her later 60's days.

She has been "a wonderful daughter" as I have known from my great grandfather, "a lovely wife and a beautiful person" that I got the comments from my grandfather, "a caring and humble mother" from my uncles and aunts, and "an inspiring granny" from her grand kids, and last but not the least "A lady of toil and perseverance" by me!!!

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