Impact Of The Journey (God's best gift to me)

On 28th January 1990, two individuals tied themselves in a relationship called marriage. It was an arranged marriage. It was a beginning of a new journey for them. At that time there was no Facebook so there was no announcement on it. That Guy and girl neither changed their relationship status nor they uploaded the pics of their honeymoon trip. It was a quiet start to their relationship. The guy was a banker and he lived in a small house in the colony near airport with his mother and a younger brother. While the girl was from a big family of four brothers and a sister.

The guy had lost his father at very young age so he was very mature and responsible. While the girl had enjoyed her childhood but she was trained well in all the household works. After the marriage, girl started to make a connection with guy's family. She accepted guy's family like her own family. Thus in few months time, girl mixed herself into guy's family like salt into the water. On 24th May 1991, the girl gave birth to a boy and became a mother. After that the couple's bond got stronger. The couple was leading a perfect life but with the passage of time their family was expanding.

In few years banker's younger brother got married and in couple of years of that marriage he too was blessed with baby boy. Then on 12th August 1996, banker was blessed with another baby boy. As the family was getting bigger it was getting difficult for them to live together in that small house. So in the year 2000, banker decided to buy a new house but he only had only Rs. 25K for that. He decided to take a loan from his bank to buy a new house. He bought a small house in the same colony worth Rs. 3.5 lacs but that deal got cancelled. The owner of that house changed his mind after taking the token amount. Search for new house began again after that. It ended in the society 3 kms away from that colony. The house in that society was worth Rs. 8 lacs. It was way out of his budget.

He took the loan of Rs. 7.5 lacs not from his bank but from other sources. It was the unanimous decision of the couple to buy that house. They bought it and in july 2000, they shifted in that house. It was the biggest test of their relationship. There was huge mountain in front of them which they had to climb. The guy was earning only Rs. 10K per month and he had to pay off Rs. 7.5 lacs. It was a huge amount at that time. The lady had never seen such financial crisis in her whole life. The banker became tensed. He had no idea how long will it take to pay off such a huge amount. Moreover He had responsibility of two children who were in their growing age.

The banker lost sleep from his eyes. The only support he had was his wife. The lady stood by him in that crisis and together they started climbing that mountain. They started saving more money by cutting their extra expenses. They made their lifestyle very simple. Banker started doing part time jobs. They saved every penny they could have during that period. With all the hard work and discipline they paid off that money in 6 years. Financial crisis taught them a lot in life and their bond got strongest by the time they came out of it. After that their journey became merrier. In 2013, banker gifted a car to her wife on their 23rd anniversary. Recently they renovated and decorated that house in a way they dreamt of it to be during the crisis.

There were other ups and downs as well in their life but those were nothing in front of that crisis. Today they have completed 26 years of togetherness and they are going stronger than ever. Now how I know about this story? Well, I am their elder son. They are the god's best gift to me and there is huge impact of their journey on me and my brother.

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Designs - January 2016

This month I finally feel that I am growing as a designer. I have added two new platforms in my designing portfolio. In total now I am designing on four platforms. Two new platforms on which I have started designing have tees and hoodies. December was dedicated to designing. In December lot of stuff was designed for this month and I received positive response on that. Every month I am trying to bring something new in my designs. In this month's designs as well I have played with few things to bring in the novelty. Let's have a look.

Freecultr

On freecultr I tried new bases last month. This month I have further added in those bases. There are five designs this month on freecultr and none of them are on plain bases. There is a sailor's tee in off white with sailor's sign all over and a boat showing the act of sailing. Second tee is on the game of chess. It is made on the black and white checks which I added last month. It has the message which chess teaches us with couple of characters of the game. Third one is floral tee with flowers all over it. Fourth tee has 3D boxes in white on it. While in fifth tee I have added sun on the cloudy base.

PosterGully

Since last month I am saying that I have the most varied collection on PosterGully. I am saying that on the basis of variety of designs in my collection. Cartoons, geometric designs, planets, quotes, logos, aliens, bikes, cars, animals, monuments, famous characters like joker and simpson everything I have in my collection on PosterGully. As the temperature was touching new lows, number of hoodies was touching new highs in my collection. There are as many as 35 hoodies in my collection at the moment & there is different design on each one of them. Apart from hoodies I worked on wall arts, mobile cases, tees, tops, laptop skins, cushion covers, wall clocks, coasters, accessoriy boxes etc. I told you December was dedicated to designing.

Freshmonk

I came to know about it on facebook. It has different concept all together. On freshmonk tees and hoodies are available for limited period. In other words there are limited edition t-shirts and hoodies of one design. I have made three designs on freshmonk so far and those three designs are related to batman, cycling & blogging. We all love batman & we all know he is a dark knight so one of the tees related to batman is displaying that. Among other two one is for bloggers and other is for fitness freaks showing the importance of cycling. Again all these t-shirts and hoodies are limited edition so it won't be available for long. So if you want buy them then grab them quickly.

Dream Store

Dream store has the same concept as of freshmonk but the only reason I started designing on dream store is because of cricket clip arts it has on its platform. The only design on dream store is related to cricket. Cricket is all about agony so here is a t-shirt and a hoodie showing agony in cricket.

Products of the month

As months are passing number of products making it to the products of the month are increasing. In december following products got thumbs up from you.

Designs - December 2015

In November I took one step further in designing. While designing December's designs I got an inviting mail from Poster Gully. I had never heard of Poster Gully before but I was happy with that mail. Not being a professional designer if I am getting a mail from another website to put my designs on it then it is some sort of achievement for me as a designer. I discussed about it with one of my friends & he said that Poster Gully is a good website and he often buy things from it. Then I submitted my artwork on it and it was approved by them then the products were online.

There is only t-shirts on freecultr while on Poster Gully there are posters, mobile cases, laptop skins, wall arts, wall clocks, t-shirts, tank tops, greeting cards, hoodies, mugs etc. So now my product portfolio is wide and varied. Hence I am concentrating more on designing these days. I am giving lot of time to it and trying to make better designs. Let's have a look at the designs of this month.

Freecultr

On freecultr I have created 7 designs for this month. December is month of Christmas and new year parties. So I have made a tee on dark shade with party christmas tree on it. Second tee is dedicated to all the bloggers (including me). It says Being Blogger. Now all the bloggers can announce themselves proudly in society. Third one is around the world tee. It has world's famous monuments on it with the globe in centre. It is a good looking green tee.

Fourth tee is in light blue colour with small clouds all over it. Fifth tee has checks on it. Normally we see checks on the shirt. So I thought let mee try it on tee. Black and white checks gave an awesome look to the tee. Sixth one is in dark green colour with one of the cocktails on it. 'Dream. Believe. Do. Repeat' is the message on the last of this month for those who dream.

Poster Gully

On poster gully, I have made almost all the products but today I will talk about three of them in which I have made more designs. Let's start with hoodies.

Hoodies

In winter hoodies are the new black and eventually the hoodies on poster gully are in black. Hoodies are decent with simple designs on them. Poster Gully offer hoodies in two colours black and grey. Hope you guys will love these hoodies.

Laptop Skins

Laptop skins are classy. It will change the look of your laptop. There is simpson, joker & back of aamir khan on it. Your laptop will get a new look after wearing these skins.

Mobile Cases

Protecting a mobile has become trendy with the designer cases. Poster Gully has mobile cases for almost all the premium mobiles. So if you want to give a trendy look to your mobile. Buy one of these.

Products of the month

Yes from this month its products of the month. This month its a tee, a hoodie and a laptop skin has grabbed some eyeballs.

Designs - November 2015

Diwali is round the corner & everyone of you is ready to go on a shopping spree. So I am here to help you. This month I have made six designs to make your Diwali happy & trendy. This month I have played more with colors and drawings rather than messages. As Diwali is around the corner I thoughts drawings on different colors will be more appropriate than messages. There are couple of message tees though & both of them are based on theme given by freecultr in October. There are in all twenty three t-shirts in my tee store. As I mentioned in october's post there is something for everyone. So Express Yourself by donning cool tees from my tee store.

1. Autumn t-shirt

Winter has arrived. Leaves are falling from the trees. Hence the first tee of novemeber is for those who want to express the arrival of winter.

2. Christ t-shirt

Second one is in orange with the replica of Christ the redeemer on it. This tee is not only for Christians. This tee is for all those people who love that Christ the redeemer statue & who simply believes in Jesus Christ. So express your love for Jesus Christ by donning this tee.

3. Tic tac toe 2 t-shirt

Last month I made the 'O' & 'X' tee in dark blue shade. This time I have made the same tee in light blue shade. Os & Xs all over the tee are looking even more awesome in light blue shade.

4. Oldest Cycle t-shirt

I found pic of an antique cycle on the internet so I thought let me make a tee out of it. There are lots of people who love antique things. So this tee is for those peopele. People express your love for antiques & cycling through this tee.

5. Unsingle t-shirts

Freecultr gave designers a challenge to make tees with the theme of Unsingle. Unsingle was not about love but it was about connection & friendship. So I made a phrase 'unsingle yourself!' & made couple of tees around it. Change your status to unsingle with these tees.

Tee of the last month

The tee which caught some eye balls in the month of october is 'Tu beer hai' t-shirt. I just want to say tu beer hai yaar.

Enjoy your Diwali Shopping.

Designs - October 2015

When I began designing I didn't knew even D of designing and to add to that there were conditions of freecultr. It wasn't easy for me. In the beginning I had no idea how I will do it. It was quite frustrating in the beginning. Everything was going haywards. I was not even getting the right tools to design but as they say where there is a will there is a way. I had a will to design thus I found a way to design t-shirts. I found right tools to design according to the conditions of freecultr. Then there was no stopping for me. I was really excited as I found those tools because by then I was more than ready to try my hand at designing.

When I started designing I had couple of things in my mind. One freecultr's campaign 'express yourself' & other thing was what kind of tees I personally prefer to wear? I prefer simple tees with cool and decent design & colour. When I buy a tee first thing I look on it is what is written on it. I am very specific about that. The reason for not buying a particular t-shirt for me is mostly that I didn't like the text written on it. So I take care of that while designing a tee. Apart from that I am trying different things on different colours. I think I have something for everyone in my store by now. Let's have a look at designs in my store.

I started with 'Born to' series. At some point of time in life we all realise what we are born to do. So this 'Born to' series is for those who have realised that. For the time being there two tees in this series but there are many more to come.

Then I used a heart in my tees. There are two contrasting tees in heart design. First one is #ForeverAlone for those who are lonely & other one is to impress your crush or to express your love.

  

When I started designing Sangakkara was playing his last series of his career. So 'best lefty' tee was a tribute to him. Another cricket tee has been made with 'Keep calm' thing for those who just love cricket. I am a cricket maniac so many more cricket tees are on its way.

 

There are couple of beer tees as well. One of them says 'tu beer hai'. Recently on twitter people were saying each other tu beer hai yaar. So I thought let's make a tee out of it. Other beer tee again is combined with 'Keep Calm'.

  

There are couple of tees with scribbling, one of the tee is dedicated to the game tic tac toe, one of them is fashionistic tee, one of the tee is with the face of duck etc. In all there are 17 designs on my tee store. As I mentioned earlier there is something for everyone. So what are you waiting for? Visit my tee store on freecultr and buy a tee to express yorself.

Wait! I have a FESTIVE OFFER for you. Get flat Rs. 200 off on all the designs in my tee store and it is more than 40% of the price. Use coupon code AADW46 to avail the flat 40% discount. There is a link to tee store on this blog as well. So hurry up! Get your tee and Express Yourself.

My New Venture

My uncle taught me to never get satisfied with what you have. Always go for more. Today I have a government job but if I stick to that only. I will never get there where I want to be. I always wanted to start an online business & I am trying for it since I have completed my MBA. Finally Freecultr gave me that opportunity to start that business. It is more of a profession. On Freecultr I am designing t-shirts for guys and girls and selling them on their website. Freecultr has given me my space to design and they call it a tee store where I put my thoughts on my tees. Designing is something which I have never studied but I was interested in it. So it was worth giving a try.

I have come a long way to this. I worked in a denim industry for quite sometime in a hope to start my own denim brand but that thing didn't worked out. People has wasted my time and has kept me waiting just because they had that network and knowledge which I needed from them to start my own business. Actually I want to thank all those people who wasted my time and said no in the end & those who kept me waiting, gave me hopes which were never fulfilled. I never wanted a godfather in my life. I was pulled towards those people because of the hopes they gave me. Moreover those people are part of my own family. It was the toughest lesson of my life which my own family taught me. They pushed me to do everything on my own.

Now I am doing everything on my own. I never wanted a godfather in my life so I don't have a godfather in my life. I will try & be a self made man. Tee store on Freecultr is first step towards it. The name of my tee store is RMG Apparels. It is kept on the intials of my parents who are everything to me in this world. I have started designing according to the terms and conditions of Freecultr and the resources I have. They are not allowing me to put copyright stuff like Simpson, Joker etc. These characters are very popular among us as we love some or the other thing about them. (I have made some cool designs of the simpsons and joker. Contact me if any apparel brand or designer is interested in it.)

There are certain limitations on Freecultr & it is very different from having my own brand but it gives me that freedom of my own venture without investing a single penny into it. Only thing I am investing into it is my time and my internet pack. I am trying to make and sell some cool designs on my tee store. I design by keeping various things in my mind. I hope people of this country love it. Success and failure are part and parcel of life but I want this tee store to be a huge success story to me. Whether it is successful or not at the moment I am enjoying it. I am expanding my horizons with it. I am trying to establish myself with the talent and skills god has given me. So let's hope for the best and let my designs do the rest.

My superhero turns 51 today

24th June 2014. My father said to me "it's my birthday today. Have you even wished me?" I was really feeling bad that I didn't even wish him on his birthday. It was not like I forgot that his birthday I thought it is on different day. Actually he celebrate his birthday twice in a year. Once the day he was born i.e. 24th june and the date which my grandpa wrote while taking his admission in school. So last year I thought the other date is the real one not 24th june. In that confusion I didn't wish him last year.

Paa is 51 now. So I will try to evaluate 50 years of his life from what I have seen and heard about him. Life is not easy when you loose your father at the age of five. My father started earning since he was in 10th standard. I remember my grandma used to say 'If there is a blanket there is cold but if there is no blanket then there is no cold.' I have just heard this qoute but my father has lived that qoute. He was a brilliant student in school. He would have been a doctor or an engineer today but he dropped science in 11th standard because we had no money.

They say if you want to test a man then see how he treats the people below him and my father treats the people below him like they are equal to him. He will do whatever he can for them. In family also no matter how one talks about him or how one treats him he will always be there for that person if he or she needs him in trouble. Apart from that very few people know that my father is an amazing host. Those who have experienced his hospitality knows that how amazing host he is. Those who don't have experienced his hospitality I just hope that you experience it one day.

Now if I come upon my relation with him then he is more of a friend to me. He sits with me every single day and ask me about how was my day?, is there any difficulty I am facing in office?, etc. He guides me at every step of my life. Whenever I have gone against him in life I have failed. Just by looking at me he will know about my mood. If I am happy he will join in but if I am sad or upset he will be the first person to ask me about it. I just love going on long walks with him. There are very few things in this world which money cannot buy and one of them is love of father. I am very lucky to have him in my life.

As a person I just salute him. He might not have made a lot of money in his life but he has won many hearts and have earned a respect of lot. I am trying to convince him to write his autobiography for quite sometime now but he being modest always say that I am not great enough to write an autobiography. I hope I will convince him one day. My role in his life will now increase with the rise in his age. Paa, on your 51st birthday I assure you that from now onwards I will live for you and mumma only.

Happy 51st Birthday Paa (Mohan Godhwani).