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Dragon Loyalty Award and Premios Dardos Award

I love rains and when it rains awards I love it to say the least. So here I am accepting two of those awards that got my eyebrows raised when I received them. No don’t get me wrong, eye brows raised as I had never heard of them and found them very unique and amusing.

So thank you Ashish once again for spreading sunshine and bringing smiles to me 🙂 Ashish as we already know from my earlier post is a poet who writes inspirational poems and quotes and accepts super writing challenges – all in all a fun person and a wonderful writer.

Before we go to the unique awards, I want to thank Deeshani Batra for nominating me for the Sunshine award. Thank you so much!! Deeshani we know is fresh off the boat in our blogosphere and write at Inner Thoughts of Taciturn.

. She is a sweet person and writes beautiful poems and amazing articles 🙂 Do hop on to her blog and enjoy her write-ups 🙂

The first of the two innovative awards is the Dragon Loyalty Award….wow, I googled it when I read it and understand that the Dragon’s Loyalty Award is an award for the loyal fans/commenters, whether the recipient is a fellow blogger or just someone who follows and comments regularly, innovative ain’t it? 🙂

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The rules for Dragon’s Loyalty Award are:

  • Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you.
  • Acknowledge that blogger on your blog and a link back
  • You must share 7things other bloggers may not know about you.
  • Nominate up to 15 bloggers for Dragon’s Loyalty Award, provide a link to their blogs in your post, and notify them on their blogs.
  • Copy and paste the award somewhere on your blog.

Well, I am your very own Shweta and now you know a lot about me so I think whatever I say will be like a summary. Not sure if there are things friends don’t know about me. Toh jhelo boasting ab

  1. While I love travelling and have extensively travelled Europe, I haven’t seen Greece and planned and cancelled three times, my best friend is Greek 🙂
  2. I really laugh a lot when life gives me a chance to, I was very chirpy in college
  3. I did paragliding this year (ok ok post coming up and I wasn’t scared)
  4. Most know I am vegetarian, the upcoming fact is that I plan to turn vegan soon
  5. I can make a disgusting face when someone around abuses but I slip some myself while driving (am super passionate about cars and possessive of my own, wash and wax polish them myself)
  6. I can be very naughty sometimes 😉 (last time when I went to watch a movie the guy (stranger) next to me was polecat and I placed my hand on my nose visibly after which he changed his seat (nasty I know…but it was a torture)
  7. The ultimate unknown fact I am coming to India in Oct and plan to meet all my super friends Shashank, Maniparna, Kokila, Datta, Somali, Bhavik, Ravish yayiiiii J

My Nominees –

I would like have a special nomination, this person has been regularly visiting my blog and motivating me to do better and I can’t thank enough but this is a way of telling her I value her giving time on my blog. She is none other than Sweta Biswal 🙂 Sweta shares amazing recipes at Oriyarasoi and I am sure she must be an amazing cook herself 🙂 Thank you namesake for being there 🙂

And my favourites

  1. Maniparna
  2. Kokila
  3. Datta
  4. Purba
  5. Somali
  6. Shashank
  7. Bhavik
  8. Ravish Mani
  9. Saru Singhal
  10. Alok Singhal
  11. Amit Agarwal
  12. Anoop P
  13. Yogi Saraswat ji
  14. Uppal ji
  15. Anita
  16. Meera
  17. Meoww
  18. D Nambiar
  19. Sunaina Ahuwalia
  20. Madhududan 
  21. Archana 
  22. Vishal Grover
  23. Maitreni Mishra
  24. Deeshani Batra

The second award is The Premio Dardos Award which means Prize Darts in Spanish 😉 I was in great awe for receiving this award as it is given from one blogger to another, in recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values that are transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. Wow isn’t it? 🙂 Well Thank Ashish once again for considering me worthy of this award.

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There are three rules that follow this award

  1. When you accept the award given please post it on your blog along with the name of the person that has granted the award and link to his or her blog.
  2. Include the image of the “Premios Dardos” in the post
  3. Pay it forward and pass the award onto another 15 wonderful blogs worthy of this acknowledgement.

I believe a person who blogs has an ability to express her thoughts, views and emotions in priceless and powerful words. And I cherish this a lot when I read other bloggers. Of course there are things like you come across a blog with repetitive topics and not so good content but that can be worked on 🙂  So my nominations remain the same as above for this award too!

I always feel like a celebration when awards are shared so all the best super buddies and sweethearts, keep writing and love you have met you in this blogging world 🙂

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Scorching – Five Sentence Fiction

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SCORCHING

Few villagers caught him and tied him to a tree as the scorching sun blazed in the heat wave; death wasn’t far now he thought seeing one of them lift a handmade revolver at him.

Falling in love and wanting to marry a girl of the same village was a taboo. He had to pay the price like seven other boys before.

“Sirji, let’s kill him quick it’s too hot here and I don’t see this forest too safe to stay longer.” one of them whispered

Breaking news: The leopard of Chandrapur forest is back again, this time claiming lives of 3 villagers surprisingly a man tied to a tree was left untouched.

This post is linked to Five Sentence Fiction (Scorching). 

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And the Sunshine Award goes to….

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We bloggers have our daily life…while some rush to work and manage home and there are super moms who amaze me with their balance and multi-tasking abilities. We bloggers have one thing in common the passion, the zeal that captures us when we start typing when we forget our difficult lives and embrace the first love when the beauty of black letters on a white background brings out a wonderful creation and when we post it we have a sense of satisfaction that all is worth it 🙂

And then when a friend reaches out to us with an award it’s brings pleasure unfathomable, it becomes a celebration! Its a reminder to go on and give your best and keep readers happy. I thank you Ashish for considering me for the Sunshine Award. Friends, Ashish writes beautiful poetry in English and Hindi and poignant quotes at AshishVision since 2011, my perception of him is a very polite and humble person who pings me when he posts a poem especially in Hindi and looks forward to my 2 cents on it.

I want to add this special note that since the number of people whom I can nominate for this award is not mentioned, I want to nominate my special friends who have made me smile and brought sunshine in some way through their writing or their friendship in my life 🙂 I consider this a celebration and a thank you to them 🙂

Now for the rules

Rules

  • Thank the person who nominated you.
  • Answer the questions from the person who has nominated you.
  • Nominate some other bloggers for this award.
  • Write the same amount of questions for the bloggers you have nominated.
  • Notify the bloggers you have nominated.

My nominees

Well the list is not exhaustive but these are my favorite 🙂

Now for the questions,

1. In your opinion what is the biggest service to mankind.    

When I was in school we were asked to do one good deed and share it with the class, it could be as simple as helping someone cross the road.  For me biggest service would be to be yourself, respect nature, have faith, love and be loved and do good deeds. Simple things go a long way!                                                       

2. What is life?                                  

Life is a gift of God with an expiry date and a condition to live it to the fullest, make it beautiful and enhance it each day!                                                                                                   

3. What inspired you to start blogging?    

Nothing actually, I wanted to pen my thoughts, my experiences and thus blogging started. I wasn’t inspired to blog!                                                                                       

 4. The funniest moment of your life.  

Now this is going to sound crazy but when someone falls I feel it to be very funny, I instantly start laughing (I know it’s terrible but that is how it is). I fall a lot too and I laugh at myself when I fall 🙂                                                                                            

 5. You might have done mistakes in childhood. Share your favorite mistake. 🙂    

I was notorious in school, I remember carrying and distributing snuff in my class (was a only girls’ school) and when the class started we all were sneezing, next I remember I was in Principal’s office!

  6. What are your first impressions of my blog?

First impression is of a very thoughtful person who pens deep thoughts in the form of beautiful words.

Since I said it’s a celebration with friends I wouldn’t want them to work for my party and thus I skip asking them questions, another reason is also that I know them and asking questions would be stating the known.

Bring in more sunshine and happiness and a big thank you for being there always 🙂