Fuit-a-thon Challenge

This is not just delicious, its healthy-licious! Washington Apples and USA Pears conducted the coveted Fruit-a-thon challenge for their second season!

Most of us know that junk food is unhealthy and yet our fast paced life is laded with kilos of junk throughout the day. We know that poor nutrition is related to heart problems, high blood pressure, and a host of other health ailments and yet, we crave for all of them.

Even when some of us are consuming a healthy diet, we most often forget an essential part of diet, i.e Fruits. They are not just refreshing, healthy and ensures of our well being; they provide high nutritional value, guard us against diseases and gives us more energy.

A fruit doesn’t need to be boring; fruits can be incorporated into your lifestyle in the most interesting ways! Like the ordinary Apples and Pears are a delight to make shakes, dips, salads and even desserts from!

Washington Apples & USA Pears introduced the concept of fruit eating in a fun manner and this time it witnessed enthusiastic participation from the people. The challenge entailed participants from 15 to 35 years of age and were asked to relish various lipsmacking fruit recipes prepared using USA Pears and Washington Apples.The contestants had a crazy competition where in they were divided into three teams with four participants each naming Fruit king, Fruit Tella & Fruit Maniac.

One member from each team had to participate in one round of the competition, the #USFreshFruitathon that had 4 challenges:

1.    Shake It Up– A large jug of heavenly apple milkshake! No surprises here! Be the first to finish it and get your team to win!

2.    Salad Salsa– A large bowl of apple and pear salad deliciously sinful you couldn’t tell its healthy!

3.    Dip-a-licious– Eat as many crackers with the creamy apple dip that will leave you wanting more and more

4.    Muffin Topper– Healthy apple cinnamon muffins that you can eat to your heart’s content without feeling guilty!

The pictures tell an awesome story of the challenge that I am craving for and hope you all are too! An urge to the organisers would be to conduct the challenge at the country level or may be scaling it to multiple cities for all the foodies to enjoy.

Vodafone Knows How to Keep the Fun On!

Since mobile has transformed from merely a communication tool to social tool, it has been successful in gauging the attention span of the youth over the globe. Youth which is socially active, growing and super demanding at times.

Vodafone India launched plan U that especially caters to the college goers and generation Y audience as it comprises of wide array of benefits enabling the mobile users to be connected to friends, fun and internet. In the language of Sandeep Kataria, Director Commercial, Vodafone India- Plan U is perfectly poised to be the Enabler, Connector and Entertainer.

To tell you in detail, Vodafone U brings complete fun in varied fun in comprising of the following benefits:

Data Allowance: Gives you an option to use data based on your consumption from the available packs of Large and small. Vodafone U even gives you a dedicated night allowance.

Buddy Lifelines: Vodafone U pack allows you to choose 3 special friends from your friend-list to call them at the rates of as low as 20p/min.

Data Loan: This is the most unique feature which I love. You can take a loan upto 60 MB of data free which will be deducted from the allowance of the following month. This is surely a way of keeping the FUN ON.

To explore the real fun, you can visit the Vodafone U website and to know about all the fantastic features of it, click here. To connect with Vodafone U on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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The launch of Vodafone U happened in the Hard Rock Cafe which was hosted by famous Youtube stars like Kannan Gill, Raftaar and The Viral Fever making it totally awesome and exciting for all the attendees. It is one of the first kind when all these stalwarts have come together for a collaboration as cool as this.

 

 

 

An Enriching Professional Course at a Top-notch B-School

In the last 11 years of its history, SP Jain has written umpteen numbers of inspiring yet motivational stories, developed a strong alumnus bases all across the globe and leading the list of business schools through an innovative education model.

Is the only Indian origin business institute that features in the global list of world’s top list of institutions for this year. With campuses in Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai, SP Jain School of Global Management has established itself at 95^th position in ‘The Economist’ and Top 10 institutes for 1 year international MBA in ‘Forbes’ ranking list respectively.

In a knowledge and skill driven industry progressing in today’s world, an MBA qualification has become a necessity for career ascent and the Executive program (EMBA) at SP Jain is one of its flagship programs for the professionals with a knack for achievement. Keeping their passion in center, it has been designed for progressive 18 months enriching them with exceptional business acumen and helping them contribute significantly in the industry.

The most exciting thing about this part time course is that it allows you to study at a pace that suits your career and interests, tailoring your learning to a specific area of interest, injecting decision making attributes and transforming you into a leader.

SP Jain boasts of its blended learning model that helps students get acquainted with the industry trends through globally distinguished faculty. The comprehensive and cutting edge curriculum facilitates peer networking as well as lays a strong emphasis on personal effectiveness and leadership.

And when we talk of placements, the success stories written by the students can put any professional to awe having transformed marketing supervisors to Marketing managers, Consultants to Vice Presidents, Software engineers to operations head and many more.

While business programs in demand in the industry, most of the skills are skills downplayed at various B-schools like personality and life skills. “A business school education is more than a professional education such as engineering which Executive MBA program at SP Jain of Global management has been able to provide me through which I can tackle any professional as well as personal challenge and be able to measure my success with”, says Amit , a proud alum of the esteemed college.

The diverse subjects as a part of the curriculum help gain students a holistic view of the business aspects and having students from varied backgrounds make the environment challenging yet full of personally as well as professionally enriching. Who wouldn’t crave for such experience?

Can you think of any other with such amazing techniques? I can’t, atleast not in India, for sure. If this article reaches out to any alumni of the college, do feel enrich me with your experiences. It would be a wonderful experience for aspirants like me!

 

My Source of Inspiration, Ambition and Aspiration; My Mother!

“Whenever you’re happy, look up to those who are more successful than you for inspiration and whenever you’re sad compare yourself with people who have less than you to learn how to live life”

These are the sayings of my mother which I remember most and they have helped me profusely so far.

My all time source of inspiration and optimism is my mother. Just like other Indian mothers, she does scold me often and never lets me make a girlfriend. She works for Indian Postal Service and has been an outstanding student throughout her life which explains her concerns towards my education. She got married at the age of 18 years after she passed out her Intermediate exams and then was expected to juggle with household, studies and children in an orthodox village. Yet she proved her stance, succeeded to complete her graduation with distinction and now serving as head of the department.

This story is of the time when I was struggling with my future after 12th board exams. In-spite of collective efforts of my school teachers, my parents and coaching tutors, I wasn’t able to fetch any good engineering college. Not because I hadn’t studied much, may be because I didn’t have that kind of caliber in me and I was not made for such places. I was left with limited number of options for my future studies and majority of them had high fees structure or didn’t have better curriculum standards.

Coming from a middle class background, it was very difficult for me to comprehend what was the best decision and where would I land up in the course of these decisions. I used to be devastated and depressed as I couldn’t talk to my parents about money issues because I didn’t want them to be guilty of not giving their child of what he desires. I never let it out, not just in front of them but none. I used to keep looking for various fruitful options that could suffice my ambitions and aspirations.

It was my mother who supported me at that time, she sat me down with extreme love and affection one afternoon and told me her story. The story of how she has succeeded midst the orthodox villagers who didn’t allow a girl to get education post 8th standard, married her to strangers by 18 years of age and her story of learning how to cook at her inlaws with taunts and yet being able to complete her graduation by fetching more marks than her brother-in-law who was pursuing the same course as of hers. While he used to sit, study and eat the food she used to cook, she had her child and a north Indian nagging family to take care of with her husband serving Indian Army on high altitudes. She didn’t even have her own family to support her at that time because telephones didn’t exist back then. All she could do was write but whom had she written? to her illiterate mother? or to the father who didn’t know the exact value of having a daughter.

Although you’d be thinking that how is this even related to my story? It is! Because I got to know what my mother has been through when she was of my age and being her child how courageous I should be at this point of time.

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This was one of the stories of how I look up to my Ma, you can have your own through Housing.com and bring optimism to the world.

When You and Me met, post 10 years!

Being an Army kid, I have to travel to a lot of places with my parents. Since childhood, I had to change a lot of schools and make new friends after every 2-3 years. Well this has always been the most amazing part of my life but the sad part has been how to find the ones I left behind because they were the best I had and I didn’t want to loose them. But to my rescue, came these social media platforms and I can now very easily connect to the friend I was friends with in my kindergarten.

This is the story of a friend who I knew in my 5th standard but I had to let go of all of them because we were shifting to my native town, Ayodhya. I left for the new place, new friends were made, got involved in studies and left to Mumbai for higher education. Being a marketer, I am active on almost all social media channels.

Suddenly I get a call from a friend that she has been placed at Cape Gemini and she is coming to Mumbai for her first posting. I congratulated her and I was ecstatic to see her after these many years.

I also gave her few contacts and referred to few sites like Housing.com for searching flats and PG. She finally came, settled in Navi Mumbai but we couldn’t connect for sometime as I am undergoing last year of my undergrad and am jittery of my future therefore putting in all efforts possible.

There was this one time I was feeling low and homesick that I don’t have any support system in Mumbai and I am staying 1000 miles away from my family. I don’t know what led me to this, but I called her up and said, Hey Anshul, You have been here for long. Do you want to grab a meet?

Anshul: Hi, I was thinking the same but I thought you’d be busy which is why I didn’t contact you.

Me: No, yaar. I am sorry. We would have met earlier only but anyways let’s meet. What say?

Anshul: Sure. 

Me: Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?

Anshul: Umm.. I haven’t seen beaches, want to go to waterside. Or wherever you say.

Me: Ohkay, Waterside?! What better than Carters! Let’s go to Carters, will make you eat the best Showarma you can ever have in Mumbai and we will go have coffee somewhere post this.

The meet was decided and we went to Carter road, met Anshul and we both enjoyed each other’s company to the core. We discussed about life, how we used to be during childhood, our mischievous pranks on each others. After this meet, I felt like I was surrounded by friends and I am not alone in this journey as she told me about how her life has been through all crests and troughs.

This meet was very much needed for me to look up with optimism as it is the crucial year of my life and I want support of all my near and dear ones.

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