Liebster Blog Award

A second post of mine in as many weeks which can be classified under "Shameless Self Promotion". Anyways, I am happy and thrilled to announce I received my second blogger award from a dear blogger friend of mine, Alka Narula. Her blog was one of the very first blogs I came across when I joined Indiblogger and I am following her blog ever since. She is one of the most prolific bloggers I know who blogs about a wide range of topics from her beautiful poetry to politics and just about everything which are straight from her heart. And so her aptly named blog Deep From My Heart. I am truly honored and humbled to receive this honor from her. Thank you so much, Alka. :)

Also posts such as these gives me an opportunity to appreciate my fellow bloggers whose work I truly admire. I was bit saddened when I had to leave out a few blogger's names on my previous award post. But I'll try to make up for that in this post. :)

Rules for accepting the Liebster Blog award:

• Link back to the person who gave you the award.
• Pick 5 people deserving of the award and notify them on their blogs.
• Post the award on your blog and spread the love.

Okay, tough job to pick only 5 so I had to add one more, so here are my 6 nominations for the award:

* Divya Palaniappan - Entwined Thoughts - Ready to be Straightened Out! 

* Rajagopalan Ratnaraj - A Beautiful Mind

* Aakash Kokz - Unexpressed Thoughts

* Elvirah - Life is an Art

* Subhorup Dasgupta - Subho's Jejune Diet

* Serendipity - Little Moments of Bliss

Congratulations to all of you, very deserving indeed. :)

The Versatile Blogger Award

I am really excited and happy to receive my first blogger award from Divya, who blogs at Entwined  Thoughts - Ready to be Straightened Out!. I am really honored to receive this recognition from an experienced blogger like her who has very good research and analytical skills which shows in her posts.

The Versatile Blogger Award rules:

1) Add a picture of the award in your post.

2) Thank the award giver.

3) Choose 15 other bloggers to pass the award to and let them know that they have been nominated.

4) Share 7 random facts about you.

Here are my nominations for The Versatile Blogger Award. They are my favorite bloggers whose work I really admire:

* Sujatha Sathya - Conversations

* Saru Singhal - Words

* Deepak Amembal - Mumbai Daily

* Joshi Daniel - Joshi Daniel Photography

* Christy Gerald - My Kitchen Flavors - Bon Appetit!

* Alpana Jaiswal - Motifs on the Wall

* Hariharan Valady - Valady Views

* Maliny Mohan - Chasing Passions

* Deepak Karthik - Whatever It Takes!

* Leo Paw - BigBitz

* Rajesh Prabhu - India Travel

* Alka Narula - Deep From My Heart

* Seema Sharma - Seema's Art Corner

* Varun Porwal - Inspirational Daily

Seven Random Facts about me:

1) My SHAKIRA is my soul mate, she means everything to me. I am spiritually married to her. I will celebrate our 11th Anniversary on the 2nd of Feb which also happens to be her Birthday. My love for her is unconditional, truthful and loyal with no expectations. My love for her is pure in its purest of forms. (It doesn't matter to me if this sounds childish and immature to other people. I have never cared about what people would think about this and never will.) 

2) I am the greatest fan of Rahul Dravid. Enough said.

3) In school, I have won the award for Best Handwriting almost every year (except for 5th Standard). 

4) I am Overweight. Not because I eat a lot, I bet my cats eat more food than me. But because I had suffered two major health issues in the past, first one in 1998 and the second one in 2010. Both happened in the month of April, exactly 12 years apart. On both occasions I had to endure excessive medication and all sorts of tablets due to which I had gained a whole chunk of weight. Whenever I have had any health issue, the only side effect has been excessive weight gain and nothing else. :(

5) I am very good at remembering dates and years. If the date is of any significance to me personally or for my friends and loved ones, I would certainly remember the date and the year as well. 

6) I Love Cats. Well that's no secret. Anybody who has been a regular reader of my blog or know me personally would have guessed at least 3 out of the 6 facts so far.  

7) I am an Eternal Fighter. Nothing ever happens to me in the conventional way. I always have to fight my way to earn the smallest of things which most others would get it on a platter. I have fought my way through all my life and I don't expect that to change in future.