OMG!! Liebster

Wow! I received five Liebster nominations, and from whom?? My five favorite bloggers!! (eeeeee)

Actually this is what blogging community is all about, appreciation and recognition! Can’t thanks, Meenakshi, Deepak, Jahid, Guspazha Chinar, Meera, enough for acknowledging my blog, Congrats to you all and Thank you so so much!!

Meenakshi – I can never ever stop praising her, she is a wonderful writer, poet and thinker, her poems, especially haiku (she specializes in haiku!) and articles have deeper sense and meaning to it… its so good to read her!

Deepak:  He is the one who wrote Katy & Dug!! – I also own an e-book ! Everybody I know, knows Deepak!

Jahid:  he is a captivating blogger; his memoires take you to that time & place, It seems like I know his friends personally now -parag da! special mention, because of his ‘great escape’!

Guspazha Chinar: She is young, she is enthusiastic and she has so much energy (read youth) in her writing I just love her

Meera: Oh I first read her short story, it was real fun, real short but interesting enough to hook me to her blog – Rat Nibbles (he he he Loved her intro)

Sorry for blogging so late (I am not going to give too-much-work-in-office excuse anymore, so just say I have been Lazy!- its not true, I am loaded with work!

Now as a nominee of Liebster Awards I must to do following things

a)      Write 11 things about myself- That’s easy!!

b)      Answer the questions by the blogger , who nominated me – Will be a mixed bag

c)       Nominate 11 bloggers (with less than 200 followers)

d)      Tell all the bloggers I nominated by posting in their blogs

11 Things about Myself

1.       From Allahabad  and an Allahabadi in every sense! Language, attitude, creativity, intelligence, humor, politics, power-lust, show-off...

2.       I am a voracious reader, I read all the time!

3.        I love Russian literature, Ivan Turgnev, Maxim Gorky, Tolstoy…Just love Charles Dickens (have read all his books) Romantic poets Keats, Wordsworth, Shelly… I adore Harishankar Parsai! Modern writers : Khaleed Hosseini! Aravind Aadiga , I read espionage/spy novels as well- Alistair McLean, Robert Ludlum are my favorite.

4.       I  believe in myself, I believe in God

5.       Professionally I write! For leisure I write!

6.       I Love my self- I am trying to be humble here that’s why its mentioned at #6

7.       I am a passionate about my work and I am a perfectionist

8.       I am painfully honest; I have never lied to my parents!! Sometimes I have lied to other people , friends, collogues, vendors, but only for a good … (that’s what I think!) -If its good you will know, if it’s bad you will know

9.       I love Music- hip hop , R & B , Trance to be precise and like all Michael Jacksons fan I too think I am the biggest MJ fan in the world.

10.   Volunteered many times for society servicing, Women upliftment and Child Education primarily

11.    By this time you must have guessed I have never done any crazy stuff in my life  so I might as well accept- I have not! , you may want to call me boring!

Answer Questions by bloggers who nominated me!

He he he I am going to choose the easiest ones!

1.       Mention 3 things which give you happiness

a.       Good Food, Good book and Animals (except reptiles)

2.       How many hours of TV you watch daily

a.       One  hour most of the time

3.       The reason you write?

a.       My emotions are better expressed in writing, I also think I inherited it, My mother is a famous Hindi writer

4.       What do you admire about yourself and why?

a.       I am honest and I admire everything about myself ! and why? Because I am blessed to be me

5.       What’s your idea of charity and why?

a.       I think in place like India, its better to devote time than to give money, so I prefer to spend time and do things myself

6.       You can’t leave home without…

a.       I can’t leave without my Phone!

7.       Emotion or logic

a.       Mix of both, logical emotions

8.       Can love happen more than once?

a.       True love can happen only once. 

9.       Who is your idol?

a.       My mother

10.   What will you do if you get to know that there is no God?

a.   If there is no God I will find someone else to pray , to believe in..

11.   What can you die for, if anything?

a.       Truth!

The bloggers I nominate

Heartiest Congratulations! You all are amazing bloggers!!

1.       Pink Orchid- The Fire in Me

2.       Eswarji- Tryst with writing

3.       Needhesh- Expression

4.       Saurabh Chawla- Saurabh’s Lounge

5.       TTT- Tangy Tomato Twist

6.       Ravi ji- Ravi Akula Chronicles

7.       NanI- South Explored

8.       Himanshu Nagpal- Being Traveler

9.       Titli-The Little Princess

10.   Prasoon- Life is short and Time is Swift

11.   Sathish- It slips a beat

Now My chance to ask question ( I will try to make it simple J)

1.       From where you get ideas to blog (streets, newspapers, daily soaps…)

2.       Why your blog name?

3.       Poetry or prose what do you prefer and why?

4.       The last book that touched your heart & why?

5.       Fame or Money (yeah yeah I am asking this to writers but I have my reasons…)

6.       Adventure or serenity- idea of perfect vacation

7.       Work: Idle time everyday

8.       Thoughts on online relationship

9.       Religion v/s rational what’s your opinion

10.   Being Married is better than being single?- your thoughts

11.   We are Indians first then why there is a difference (read conflict) between South & North India - Thoughts

Ok I did it!! Would love to see other bloggers (besides the one I nominate) to answer some of these as well, whenever they have time. I read them a lot and would love to know more- Deepak (Not a surprise), Meenakshi (Not a surprise either), Panchali,  Amitji, Jahid, Jay (oh I simply love his blog, road to sanitarium)

Thanks once again Meenakshi, Deepak, Jahid, Guspazha, Meera, for acknowledging my blog…

Sony(o)! I Still Love You

Ok Today it happened: My Laptop finally freaked out and screamed ‘ Oh Get Up!!  Pick me up! You are hooked to wrong things! First You come back home, LATE!! Every day!! Then you play stupid games on ipad : Empress of the Deep?? Who is she? Why you are even bothered? Why do you want to bring her justice? And haven’t you finished the game already? You want to play part 2 now? What’s it with the empress and you..Are you even straight, hanging around with empress all the time??’

‘I am not with the empress for last two days ‘, I defended

‘Oh Yeah??’It shrieked , ‘And while you were not with it, you were busy watching stupid SITCOMS? Since when have you become such a TV freak? You are watching everything even ‘Everybody Loves  Raymond’!! Everybody Loves  Raymond’??Seriously??,  I thought you didn’t like that show! You never liked Ray Romano’s nasal voice! Why you are doing it to yourself? Just to avoid me eh?’

‘My Choices have changed! ‘

‘Choices or priorities??’

‘My Choices!’, I stressed, ‘ You are still very dear to me, remember I was with you for the whole day, last Sunday’

‘Oh Oh Oh Don’t you get me started on it now! You mean mean person. Last weekend was the most painful weekend of my life!’

‘Ccmon we were together, what do you want?’

‘Together my foot! You have used me for your ecstasy you played Plants and Zombie ENTIRE DAY damnit! What is that stupid game? Super unrealistic, plants firing zombies and killing them?? And you love it? You finished all its levels, its mini games, its puzzles even survivals!! Survivals – That’s a new low even for you! While you were drawing some sadistic pleasure out of ‘killing zombies’ I, had pretty hard time pleasing you. I tried showing you I am exhausted that day, by buzzing several times, by getting warmer but you !you… just put a cushion underneath and continued? Same stupid game! And today you have the audacity to remind me of our times together? Sorry Boss We are not on same page anymore

When you brought me home, you promised me you will give me happy time each day, you will read, you will write, but now it seems I am with a different person altogather , You are a selfish jerk ,you have used me only for pleasure. Listen carefully .  I am not one of those who can be played with!’

‘I..err..’, I stammered

‘And don’t you give me crap about your office work. I got to speak with your office laptop yesterday, you may be loaded but compared to other writers you are not! You are a writer, you are SUPPOSE to write, professionally and otherwise so stop cribbing

Either its me for something or Nothing, Play one more time and I am outta here’

I saw it again, my silver sleek Sony Vaio. It is still glowing, it is still beautiful. I have been mean to it. I remembered happy times together, when I was writing a book, when I use to write articles every day read a lot. Today I hardly get to see it. I felt sorry , tears rolled my eyes. I hugged it tight, felt it again with my fingers.

‘I am not going to be mean to you again baby’  I promised.

For those of you who think I am bluffing with my laptop- Well you are correct!!

Muaaahhhhhhh (Devilish laughter)

Deep in Ditch, Drenched

I didn’t realize I have fallen! Worse I didn’t even realize I have been in this dirty ditch all this time. Yes! what I have been thinking as the bed of roses (curse the human power of imagination) was actually a dirty stinking ditch with ,what seems like, abysmal depth!- What was I thinking??

I was thinking of world where –LOYALTY, HONESTY, INTEGRITY, ETHICS, VALUES really means what is written in the dictionary, not what it has become now. Loyalty became sycophancy, Honesty is new foolishness, integrity is innocence (you will learn as you grow up) ethics and values are like dinosaurs   (interesting to read but extinct long back)

I was thinking of the world - where relationships exist in its purest form and last long only because of love in heart not mullah in bank.  Where when a sister calls her brothers it’s because she wants to, not because she wants something. When father spends on son it’s because he knows his son’s smile is priceless not because he wants the price of it back with interest! Where mother does not want the son to payback her warmth in cash and gold!

Dreamy and mesmerized by all the goodness around me, I never noticed the fall, frankly to me then it was an exciting fall... Zero gravity!! Extreme exhilaration!

I looked around again, things have changed miraculously. Truth does not exist anymore- Everything is make belief. I noticed I am one of the victims of convulsive social system. I raised my voice several times but it was drowned in the cacophony of hypocrites, trying to prove that this is a better world and there will be a better tomorrow.

There is a sense of paranoia; everyone is living on the edge, people have been betrayed so many times that they have stopped trusting their own blood! Purity in relationship has lost its luster. It’s not white anymore! Purity does not exist, everything is amalgamated every relationship is impure. I could smell the strong stench of rotten relationships here and it’s getting worse

Even God has been questioned and dethroned.  Everyone is disillusioned. Everyone is making their own rules, implementing their new laws of nature. Everyone has painted the world Grey. Individuality have been crushed freedom has been chained. It’s suffocating here!

I am tired of this place! I looked up, there I saw the real world the world that I imagined -the world as it should be. I saw hope! I staggered, trying to reach up, it is an abysmal depth, but I will try! I have nothing to collect from here I just want to elevate.

 I am just back on my foot, I can stand upright. Oh well it’s raining heavily now and its blurs my vision, but I could still see that light. It’s a long distance but I will try. It’s slippery and dangerous, but I will try. Now that I have seen hope I will try.

 I will elevate.