I have been very lax about acknowledging the awards this blog has received; not because I don’t care about awards but because I really find it hard to word my thanks graciously. I have long had a problem with accepting compliments gracefully…all these years of my life have not cured me of dismissing the compliment with a casual “it was nothing” really, or “this old thing has been lying in my cupboard for years” or something on those lines, thereby dismissing the compliment casually and pretending that I am not thrilled to bits and flying on cloud 9.

Well, I don’t want to make the same mistake with my blog. So, I loudly assert that I AM SO EXCITED AND HAPPY to be receiving all these glorious awards from you wonderful bloggers out there.

Of course, with awards comes a little responsibility – to fulfill the terms of the award and pass it on to other bloggers.

The first award I received is The Honest Scrap award from Sumana and Vaishnavi

For this award, I need to list ten facts about myself and pass it on to ten other bloggers. So, here are some honest facts:

• I am the quiet, smiling person in the office who is cheerful, but mostly keeps to herself. I wish I could be the extrovert but I am not.
• I over-indulge my daughter almost to the point where she is spoilt.
• I love exploring new things – whether different genres of books, sports, restaurants, whatever…I hate monotony. The only thing I am not fond of is trying out new electronic gadgets, but even that is changing a little bit.
• I hate watching TV but I love watching movies.
• I am addicted to blogging so much so that sometimes I do certain activities just for the sake of blogging about it later
• I love taking photos, but am too lazy to upload them anywhere so they just remain in my camera taking up unnecessary space. I generally don’t even look at these photos later.
• I always make new resolutions every month only to postpone them for the next month. But, this year, knock on wood, I have kept all my monthly resolutions .
• I love to drive so much so that even traffic jams don’t faze me. In fact, I simply love to go out. I hate staying at home on weekends, get really depressed…
• I love my career – I mean I simply love it. I get paid for writing, could you imagine anything more awesome!! I write technical manuals but even then, I GET PAID FOR WRITING!! And I never even planned it that way .
• I am an inner shopaholic. By that I mean I always dream about the beautiful stuff I want to get for myself/house/snubnose/Kalyan, but when I see the price tag, I always back out. And unfortunately, the price is usually quite high. All my friends tell me that I always gravitate to the most expensive thing in the store; and when everything else looks ordinary, then I decide that I just won’t bother at all.

Well…those are my ten honest facts. I now pass on this award to other bloggers:

• Megz
• Eva
• Mae
• Smita
• Vaishnavi
• Shona

The next award I received is the Beautiful Blogger award from Vaishnavi

I pass on this award to:

• Kals
• Bermuda Onion
• Shweta
• Veens
• Sumana

The last award I received is the Thank you award from Megz:



The Thank You Award

This award I pass on to all the regular readers and commentators on my blog. You know who you are . Sincere thanks for visiting my blog and and tolerating my ramblings, which sometimes can be a bit random.

Thanks a lot you guys…

I’ve been sick as a dog for the past couple of days…Thai food, yummy as it is does that to me sometimes. So, you can imagine what a pleasant bit of news it was to learn that my blog has been awarded again, and even more pleasant is the feeling of awarding some more of my favorite bloggers .

So, without more ado, here goes:

Thank you so much, Kal .

As part of my obligations in receiving this award, I need to answer these questions:

• Where is your favorite place to read a book?
  On the sofa snuggling under a blanket (only in winter, of course)
• Do you snack while reading?
  Depends. I usually tend to snack on junk while reading trashy novels
• Are you a book borrower or book collector?
  Primarily book borrower. I live in a small apartment where my books have to fight for shelf space along with my daughter’s picture books. So, for the time being I am strictly a book borrower. Dreaming of a time when I will have a book shelf strictly for myself, sigh.
• What is the best book you’ve read recently?
  The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Q & A over, I now pass on this award to some of my new fave bloggers that I have discovered recently:

• The Papaya Factor
• Megzone
• su[shu]
• Book Journal

I also received 2! awards from Meg. WOW! Thanks so much

I pass on the Honest Scrap award to:

• Shona’s Book Shelves
• At Pemberley
• Everything Distils into Reading
• Giving Reading a Chance
• Books Love Me

I pass on the Blogger Buddy awards to:

• I READ
• Casey’s Korner
• Dew
• Chronicles of a Techie
• The Midnight Sun

Thanks to the lovely Sumana over at I Read for giving this award to me.

It is my pleasure to pass on this award to:

• Sharry from Always Dreaming
• Amrit from The Midnight Sun
• 7akifadi from I Talk to Myself
• Josette from Books Love Me
• Grace from Books Love Breathing

A special mention to Shilpa from A Rose is a Rose is a Rose who has already been awarded this award so many times. Thanks for the great blog posts, Shilpa

awards that is

Thank you Prashansa so much for this. I am beyond thrilled to receive this award!

I pass this award on to:

• Chronicles of a Techie
• The Travel Chronicles of an Enthusiastic Arien and a Lazy Piscean
• Archana Online.com
• Always Dreaming
• Five Senses…

Another lovely, totally unexpected award that I received is The International Bloggers Community Award from Makk. This award I pass on to:

• I READ
• The Midnight Sun

Thanks again for all the love