My mobile phone

When my sis got married, my athimbar's first gift to me was a mobile phone. He was a very practical man, he foresaw that rather than 'phata' my salli with clothes and stuff, he swooned me with a gadget! That was a time when mobile was a true luxury item. After giving the gift the 1st advice I got from him, don't show off with this, but rather hide in your bag and NEVER call from this and ATTEND calls in this. So following his wise words, mobile is just a device thru which I parents can reach me and not track me. This will give a miss call and I'll call them from land line! Because those where the days when you are charged for incoming s too!! Can you believe! All this show is for Nokia 3310! It was held precious than my wallet!

But you have to give it to 3310, he served me loyally for the next 8 yrs! Though I used to get angry and throw, 3310 never left me, for that matter he is still with me and still works if needed!

Then came the phase when incoming were not charged, roaming charges was removed and the golden days of mobile has begun. I gave my 3310 some rest and got a camera phone. But alas he was not able to survive in my kids hand and soon died. Then during the time I was a SHAM, mobile was always treated as a child play thing, to keep the kid company for some time. Then came the Blackberry, which introduced us to concept of smartphone. It gave me the insight that phone is just not for calling, I can use it for much more. So when I joined back to work, I started my hubs blackberry, though my hubs has moved to android that time itself. That was still when social media was in its early phase.

But unfortunately I lost the black berry while grocery shopping.

Now I started feverishly hunting for touch phone in flip kart which would serve my purpose of connecting with social media, entertaining kids, browsing and so. This search led me to Asus Zenfone. Though Asus was new to the Indian market and was waging war with Samsung and Micromax, but still Asus Zenfone held the ground. With my limited budget and said features, I fell for Asus Zenfone.

Asus Zenfone had all my required feature of good camera, good speed, good performance. But then my requirements got changed. I was basically overloaded my mobile with too many apps. My 1 GB RAM was not able to handle. Also anyone with a smartphone would know the worth of good batteries. Just before meetings I used to realize the % of mobile charge left or just before bed the battery will be 17%.

So when I heard about the new Asus Zenfone 2 that's going to be launched I was more than excited. This will be another step in my mobile experience. Gone will be the days when I am hunting for charger that's available for the next 8-10 hrs. Here come Zenfone 2 which charges 60% in mere 39 mins! Also who will not be swooned by the 4GB RAM. Since I already know about pixel master camera of Asus and can vouch that it, so if I get my hands on the new Zenfone 2, I can safely sell my hubs DSLR and become the official photographer in my home. Asus UI was always very reliable with almost nill lag or crash, I would say I am official;y on the prowl to get the new Asus Zenfone 2.

For more info on the new Zenfone, follow the link  http://www.asus.com/Phones/ZenFone_2_ZE551ML/.

Dil Ki Deal

This happened on the 1st year I became a SHAM. That was the time I was running behind 2 kids, one being the naughty toddler of all 3 yrs and the other one the whine crawling baby but equivalent naughty one matching his sister. Being SHAM itself was new and stressful, add to it 2 hyper energetic kids and traveling husband. I had few hairs left itself was a big milestone for me rather the crawling or teething of chintu. In between all this I was still trying to become little more than plain old SHAM is something like a icing on the cake. So that I was the time I was exploring my artistic side of mine. As a self taught artist my house turned into experimental ground for me. I was doing glass painting on my kids study area and also murals wherever I found space. This said exploration usually happened when the said kids are happily sleeping since I didn't want to employ any assistants for my explorations!

This is also the time I was entirely dependent on my husband for the finances. Though my hubs is not a stingy person, still I was very reluctant since that was the starting time I was asking him for money. I was never a hoarder w.r.t. money, as my mother used to say my hand was always open when it comes to spending. But this was the time my hands were empty.

At this juncture came my hubs birthday. As a couple I was always the romantic one, who remembers all birthdays, all anniversary days, engagement days and etc. So imagine my discomfort since I didn't had any thing to spend for my hubs birthday gift, though I wanted to surprise him. That's when an idea came. In this phase I was also experimenting with photography and I had clicked some nice pics of the said better half. So a plan formed.

When kids were sleeping, I used to sneak out and get the pic printed. With my new found artistic side I started creating a photo frame. Since I was just exploring, I started out with paper mache photo frame, then turned into a m-seal mural art and so. It was a pure experiment and I was going with the flow. In the end I had a frame like one which was hardly holding the said photo graph, but it was holding and anyways I wanted it to all come together for one day.

So on the D day I ordered a cake and along with it presented the photo frame to hubs. Though I would say that's the modest gift I gave him I still was happy with it since I made it myself. Needless to say hubs was thrilled, he was surprised by my efforts that he started going thru my other creations of glass painting. So as a return gift he got all my glass paintings framed, though they were so armature, but still for him it held special place. Even though I don't know what happened to that photo frame, I still remember the look on the hubs face and that will be my ultimate prize for following my heart.

I am participating in the #DilKiDealOnSnapdeal activity at BlogAdda in association with SnapDeal and this is part of it.