The Cherry Award

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Aaah so I was given the cherry award by Ritu and Tiku… both women I love… though both of them got an award from IHM in the same post which can’t really be passed and I haven’t got hmppfff…. I will graciously accept this one 😉

Now for the Rules
1. Thank the person that gave this to you
2. Copy the award and put it on your blog.
3. List 3 things you love about yourself
4. Post a picture you love (e.g a person you adore etc.)
5. Tag 5 people you wish to pass this award on to

Ok so rule no 1… girls I thank you (using girls would have floored them enough but still let me complete the rules :P) from the bottom of my heart for passing this award to me… I can’t begin to explain what this means to me and I really admire you both and the fact that the award was passed by you both makes it extra special

phew… done now I know why those actors look so artificial accepting oscars and filmfares 😉 its a tough task

rule 2.  he he i did a little cheating here… inserting the pic from tiku’s blog… saved me memory u see 😀

rule 3. just three things, gosh I love myself I thought u would have asked for more… now see I have to think so damn hard on what to write and what to leave 😉 so here I go after thinking for exactly 3 seconds

• I love the fact that I love reading… I personally think that people who don’t read much are not feeding their mind enough…  “books are the food for one’s mind”
• I love the fact that I am ready to try things… I dont shy away from new things and that makes life a little more interesting
• I love the fact that I am most of the time able to find the silver lining in the cloud and be happy rather than be depressed because something bad happened

Ok because I have fooled enough in this post according to rule no 4 I will leave you with one of my most favorite pictures… I think I have posted it on the blog before too but will do it yet again…. me and just born ojas when I held him for the first time

And now the last rule… passing the award to 5 more people… so here u go folks… get your speeches ready

• Kiran
• Prats
• Smita
• Dee
• Pal

On a separate note, I might be spotted less in the blog samaj, commenting and writing posts for sometime… (though I am reading most from the cellphone) There is so much I want to write… about the brilliant trip to heritage city mysore that we did… my weight update, about the favorite shady classy songs from the past that I claimed at MM’s blog that I will do and a lot more posts that are running in my mind but there is just no time at all.

N’s granny who stays with us is not feeling well and we are just running from one hospital to the next trying to figure out whats wrong… nothing very serious but she suddenly can’t walk which becomes a big hassle and introduces lots of other complications. And to add on the current maid is as good as not having one… actually I think not having one would have been better 🙂

So pray for granny and I will be back whenever I can squeeze in a little time

The List

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And finally my list is ready, after days of digging into archives of the blog, sometimes even forgetting that its for nominating a post and just reading to my delight 😀 what a activity this has been…. loved it to the core

so here is the list

Best Short Story Post

The homecoming by Pixie – http://mytakeoneverything9.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-homecoming/

The house of the SUNK by Pal – http://writerzblock.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/the-house-of-the-sunk-fiction/

A week of life by Prats – http://prats.co.in/a-week-of-life/

I am a ghost by Shail http://shailsnest.com/wp/fiction/i-am-a-ghost/

Best Off-Beat Post

Bimbo and other sports by ritu http://www.phoenixritu.com/2009/11/19/of-bimbo-bashing-and-other-sports/

Pangi a true story by Sols http://mesoliloquy.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/professional-mourner-rudaali/

Free Hugs by Crafty http://craftyshines.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/free-hugs/

Best Book Review

Pallace of Illusions by Mad Momma – http://themadmomma.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/the-palace-of-illusions/

Multiple book reviews in one by Smitha – http://books-life-n-more.blogspot.com/2009/11/time-to-justify-name-of-my-blog.html

Best Movie Review Post

Kurbaan by Rakesh http://rakeshzone.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/kurbaan-movie-review/

Kaminey by Ritu http://www.phoenixritu.com/2009/08/18/signs-that-we-are-finally-coming-of-age/

Most Interesting Personal Rant Post

We wake up late here by Mandy http://churningthewordmill.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/we-wake-up-late-here/

Most Humorous Post

Sach Ka Samana by Don Soli http://mesoliloquy.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/bloggers-in-sachai-ka-saamna/

Times of Fatherhood by Hitchy http://hitchwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/the-times-of-fatherhood/

Best Travel Post

Travel to Munnar as told by N http://highwaytravels.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/tea-heaven-munnar-the-journey-from-bangalore/

Best Visual Post (Photos, Cartoons, etc.)

Munnar thru swaram’s eyes – http://thesongoflife.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/straight-from-gods-own-country/

We are same but different by Mama Mia http://amateurabe.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-are-same-same-but-different.html

Best Culinery Post

at mandy’s baking buddies http://bakingbuddies.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/beans-cauliflower-casserole/

Best Poetry Post

An amorous antithesis by Prats – http://prats.co.in/an-amorous-antithesis/

Ode to my once slim waist http://www.phoenixritu.com/2009/05/25/ode-to-my-once-slim-waist/

Best Public Interest Post

A commendable post by Ra on alternative education in india – http://www.likhati.com/2009/09/27/alternative-schools-in-india-some-advantages-and-disadvantages/

Best evocative Post on Parenting

A post that still gives me shivers by Goofy http://impassionedchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-we-hear-sobs-of-tiny-voices.html

I want I want I want by Kiran http://karmickids.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-want-i-want-i-want.html

Blog Awards

Most Beautiful Header

Life of our Darling Prince http://ourprinceojas.wordpress.com/

Color Me Sunshine http://colormesunshine.wordpress.com/

Indyeah http://indyeahforever.wordpress.com/

Best Blog Design

Weaving a Web http://www.phoenixritu.com/

The Self love project http://www.theselfloveproject.com/

Most Disciplined Bloggers

IHM

Most Networking Blogger

Without any doubts this has to be Hitchy

Most Responsive Blogger

Solilo

So time is running out have u nominated yet? if not then head here NOW

Because there is something for everyone

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In  the lovely Blogscar held by a very generous IHM some days back… and a few fell into my lap too

Thanks IHM

And then the lovely Mandy made me even more happy by bestowing me with the lovely blogger award… thanks Mandy

But the most dearest as Pal rightly puts, friendship is the best award came from Pal… thanks dear the virtual friends I have made here are amazing…

I am really feeling like a star today 🙂

And now time to pass the awards…

The dearest one first…. so the blogger friendship award goes to …. Indy, Solilo, Abha, Hitchy, Crafty, IHM, Imp’s Mom, namesake, Priyanka, Roop, GM, Mandy, Pal (yes u get it too :)), chandu, Aathira,Anamika and many more friends I have made here… guys u all rock…. love u all

Will pass the rest of awards ASAP….

Till then thanks a ton guys… love u all

and ya as most of u know I have been telling it to everyone anyways I was I am off to munnar… Sometime back Hitchy did a post on himalayas which was followed by tara’s post on Valley of Flowers and  these two posts had me craving for a vacation so hard…. now I cant go the himalayas suddenly but nonetheless Munnar it is… its as good as himalayas in the south 😀

So u guys be J and I will be back soon………..

Awards (post no 19)

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A good omen to start the blog with awards 🙂 always a pleasure…

My namesake and Puja of Five Senses have awarded me both with the following lovely lovely awards…

Its always a a pleasure recieving awards, they make u feel good…

Thanks Girls… u made me happy 🙂

And I pass these awards to all you readers thanks guys

Do Sau Ek

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For those who are not very confident with Hindi… it means 201… and ya its all about my blog post… this is my post no 201 🙂

I started blogging a little less than 3 years back with this post when i look back so much has changed since then…

I have learned so much, made so many friends…

Now I think the following have become such an essential part of my life… as Dhiren mentions we have created a lovely Blog Samaj… I like the term dhiren, thanks for coining it..

Now life seems so incomplete without this blog samaj…

The daily thinking dose by IHM and the rhyming that she spread like a epidemic all through the blog samaj

the laughter attacks by Ritu and the warmth that radiates through her posts…

the small updates of my namesake’s everyday life that make u feel ya the everyday life has such charm…

chandu’s boy tales and her take on some of the issues…

Mampi’s lovely posts on whatever she writes (ya she is missing from the scene recently someone needs to remind that babe come back to the blog)

Abha’s picture posts they make u feel so good about life

Roop’s Unchaahi and Surubhi’s XX factor showed me a whole new world of Female Foeticide

and then ofcourse roops regular blog with a typical roop touch to it… if u read her u know what I mean 🙂

Dhiren aka hitchwriter is finally achieving what my dad and N together couldn’t he is making me understand cricket a little… and ofcourse his lovely take on relations

Indyeah whom I started reading only recently but has a huge impact with her well actually very well researched posts

~nm for her warmth, her recipes and her pics and her darling boy Anirudh

Hip Hop Grandmom one of the first blogs I was a regular reader on and her wisdom and willingness to embrace change and live with the current times is commendable

itchy’s twins keep u amazed all the time

Iya makes u happy and proud with her take on issues and her blog has a feel good about it

Solilo for her sweet take on everything and for Peanut

Imp’s Mom for great food/nutrition tips and the lovely Imp

and many many many more bloggers that I read everyday

Now that I am writing about blogging it seems like a perfect occasion for taking up the tag that Dhiren created himself about blogging and is very interesting… so heres my take on the 7 questions he asks

Question 1.) How did you start Blogging ? When did you start Blogging ? What led to it ? In short – How come you are here…
I used to read my sisters blog who is a very good writer and one day just like that I wrote a post… I didnt know what I could write on, whether I could write or not… or after the first post will I ever write again or not… for sometime it went on like this… and then started the interaction with other people the comments and that changed pretty much everything 🙂

Question 2.) How badly are you addicted to this ??
oh terribly… I wrote about it here and now everything that i see/do is viewed from a post perspective… N even says that the blog is become his dushman… and he intends to block it on my laptop. the only issue is time… a job, a baby, a house to manage leaves me with very little time for blogging… only if i had 48hrs in a day….

Question 3.) Are you technically savvy ? Totally comfortable with this ?
well I am s/w developer 🙂 would that be suffice

Question 4.) Do you earn out of your blog ?
sob sob 😦 😦 the answer is no… on a serious note never thought about it that way… its just a hobby but then there is no harm in earning through a hobby… let me get adsense right away… but hey does it work? has anyone one of u got any cheque by adsense?

Question 5.) Have you ever spent money for your blog ? (bought a gadget or header or something ?)
not yet… though I am debating to get a domain for myself and if that happens I will surely spend a lot of money on the domain and the design of the seat… call me crazy sure thats what I am 😉

Question 6.) Do you think you will stop blogging ? That this craze will wane eventually ?
Now this is an interesting question, actually I might just… just like that… like I started I might give up too… one day when I think I dont want to anymore… I am moody person… strange i am talking of giving up an addiction… I hope it was that easy

Question 7.) Have you made friends here ? Are they for real ?
ohh a lot… most of them have been mentioned above and then there are more too Afaque,–xh–,white magpie and many more… have personally met only two but all these friends are for real… u dont need to meet to make a friendship real… though would love to meet u all

And now Imp’s mom has made me feel like a queen again, the queen of award as Afaque says… she has bestowed me with many awards yet again 🙂 is this for real??? Thanks Imp’s Mom u are a darling… hugs

Here are the awards

All these awards are awarded to all those mentioned in this post… please accept your awards… and thank u for bearing with me for so long 🙂

and ya would love if all of you can take up the tag too…

Awards and Tag

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Oh the pleasures of blogging… Awards and tag both together… both a way to appreciate that u are indeed a person of whom people think about… a way to make u feel good… something which I really need at this point of time, past some days have been crazy…

So lets start with the Oscar moments first IHM bestowed me with Bloggers For Peace Award and that means a lot, anything that I can do for world peace is a happiness for me… And someone thought about me for that makes me feel proud…

I pass this to…
Ritu,
Afaque
Vidooshak
Imp’s Mom

And then Imp’s Mom made me feel like a star who gets many awards on the show and then its time to show them off… So she bestowed me with Proximity award, a butterfly , the peace award, Certified honest blogger and the cup… thanks Imp’s mom I feel like a star

And I pass this to
IHM,
Mampi,
Itchy,
The Mad Momma

and I pass this to
Iya
~nm
Mama-Mia
White Magpie

Now moving on to the tag, this one is being down rounds since quite sometime now and I found it pretty interesting and it finally came my way via The White Rain

So the deal is one needs to Google an image for each of my response and paste the one that appears on first page.

Here I go..

1. The age you will be on your next birthday:

2. A place you’d like to travel to:

3.Your favorite place
there is a tie here actually i take a full here… cant decide between my house and the place I lived all my life… so here’s both
N says I make a mini Delhi whereever I go I admit my heart truly belongs there…

and post a pic from my collection… my home

though u can see the garden more but then thats the part I love the most

4. Your favorite food/drink:
aaah…..
drink
cat get better than this

and food this is cruelty, u cant ask me for the fav food… ok ok may be kadhi chawal

and fish tikka

5. Your favorite pet: without any doubts a labrador retriever

6. Your favorite color combination:

7. Your favorite piece of clothing: just love them u can see me in them often

8. Your all time favorite song: so how do u represent a song in a pic????? and anyways its very difficult to choose one

9. Your favorite TV show:

10. Full name of your significant other: In pic, no way he has a very long name 🙂 Narendranath Tamriakulam Raghupathy

11. The town in which you live in: this is what its come to represent these days

though i prefer this anyday… yes its Bengaluru

12. Your screen name/nickname:

13. Your first job:

14. Your dream job: Organic Farming, infact doing some experiments in my back yard currently

15. Bad habit you have: short tempered very

16. Your worst fear: living like a burden to someone

17. The one thing you’ll like to do before you die: go on a world tour in a mobile home ok slightly better one may be 🙂

18. The first thing you’ll buy if you get $1,000,000: Buy a mobile home, do my world tour and then buy some land and do organic farming 😉

I am not passing this to anyone, but if u like it and havent yet done please do so and leave me a comment

Oh I just realized that this might just be my last post of this year… Happy New year guys will see u next year with a new year special post which is in progress… Party hard this evening and have fun….

Butterfly

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A Butterfly has been sent my way by dear Mampi… Thanks for making my blog cool and lively… as it is said that this butterfly visits the blogs that are cool…

And now to pass it on… I think all blogs I read are cool… So if u are there in my blogroll in the left, please display this butterfly proudly on ur blog…

Award Shward

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wow!!! its award time again and I take a bow and cry out bringing my hands to the face in a perfect drama queen style 🙂 and accept the Proximity Award from Mama – Mia and IHM

This award is given to a blog that invests and believes in PROXIMITY – nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

This award means a lot… The past two years of blogging has given me so many friends virtual and real too and I have realised u dont have to meet someone very frequently to really make friends… and there are times when u can be more open and honest with your friends online…

I pass this award to

1. Ritu for just being her and passing the humor and wisdom at the same time and ya for this

2. –xh– who makes it so easy to be friends with him

3. Mampi for being Mampi 🙂

4. Chandni for making me realise that meeting online friends could be just as fun and the her posts on the boy which remind us that love is still in the air

5. Afaque he was the first blogger and friend I made across the border and knowing him I have realised that people that side are like us too they dont want war and dont hate us… thanks for that

6. Monika,ansh for being me namesake and more 🙂

And everyone else on my blogroll….

Another Award and Blogging Flashback…

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So its one after another… here is an another awardI got from Monika,Ansh

Thanks Monika, u are a darling… and I pass this award to all the people visiting my blog… U all are great friends and I have learnt something from each one of u….

She had also tagged me with this long back… Sorry for being late but see I did it 🙂

So here’s what has to be done
“The tag: What you have to do is simple: Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given : family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better.” basically its a flashback of what u have written 🙂

Family : I wrote about my granny here and then I did a post about my son and motherhood when he turned 3 months and before I has started a blog on him…

Friends : This is a small and I guess the only post I had done about my friends…

Love : I havent written much about my love here but here is what i wrote about our first and sillest dream together… the dream that we made true too 🙂

Me : Now this is the most difficult one as this is a blog all about me… I think the following tags I did would reveal somethings about me quickly to the readers…
the three tag
Tag of 8

Anything I like : This blog is all about my likes dislikes etc… difficult to pick up some post

Anyone who likes the tag if free to take it up

Million dollar Friend

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Renu thinks I am a million dollar friend… i am honored… Friendship is a very precious relation and knowing that someone considers u a million dollar friend… thats wow!!!! Thanks a ton Renu… u are an amazingly warm person

This what Renu thinks about me……

“She has a certain individuality which is very endearing, and one thing is special, she always agrees with me but PARTLY, I am waiting for the day she will agree with me completely:).”

And agreeing partly is a great observation Renu 🙂

So now its my turn to pass on this…

1. Life begins as she said I too can relate to her so much… currently her life is almost a reflection of mine…work, home and babies of the same age 🙂 and thus the instant bonding

2. Monika,ansh her everyday life is so interesting inst it 🙂

3. Mampi her poetry, her take on life all impart warmth and a feeling of a security around