My lovely friend S, over at Failed Experiments & Experimental Failings, nominated me for the Liebster Award!
A couple of days later, Kathleen from Writing, Reading, and Life, nominated me again! I have only started reading her blog but the name, if you know me, is like a magnet and you should definitely stop by.
This is very special to me as this is the FIRST award this blog has won. Thank you, both of you!
This is a pay-it-forward award. It’s only for participants of the A-Z blogging challenge that began on April 1st... I understand that some of you might not 'do' blogging awards, so just take it as my appreciation for your work :)
The rules are:
1. Thank the person who nominated me and link back to their site
2. Post 11 random things about myself
3. Answer 11 questions that S has for me
4. Ask my nominees 11 questions of my own!
Here we go then:
11 things about myself:
1. I'd really like to be a travel writer. Being paid to travel and to write is my dream.
2. My friends are my life. As an only child, they have always been my support system.
3. I love Scotland! There is something simple and unpretentious about life here.
4. I have lived 23 years of my life in India and am not patriotic at all. Close friends say I was born in the wrong country :P
5. Poetry is a sublime form of life.
6. I believe in magic and fairies!
7. My favourite movie is Walt Disney's Cinderella; there is wayyyyy too much to learn from it.
8. I'm a huge pessimist when my feet are on the ground.
9. I love entering peoples' lives when they are messed up and then fixing them!
10. I get taken for granted by friends a lot, I hate it!
11. I am a Grammar Nazi.
Now to answer the questions S put up:
1. What does your name mean? Do you like your name? Have you ever wanted to change it?
It means 'the rising'. I do like my name. I am called Jhelum at home (most Bengali kids have two names lol), sometimes I wish I was called Udita at home and Jhelum formally.
2. Why did you start your blog?
This blog began on 18th Feb, 2007, the day I turned 18. I wrote my first post at 1800 hrs.
3. Tea or coffee?
Both
4. If you could revisit a day or a certain period of your life, what would it be?
It would have to be my undergrad years, I loved it then, and I would like to relieve it again!
5. What’s your favourite thing about the internet?
Being able to read pretty much anything that I want to read
6. Do you think all this technology and social media has made us better or worse at being social?
Definitely worse! People can't even read real maps anymore!
7. What’s your favourite food?
I'm not fussy about food, anything goes. But I quite like my Gran's Mutton Curry :)
8. Are you a city person or a country-side person?
Oh I'm a countryside person through and through; I'm miserable in cities
9. If you won the lottery, what’s the first thing you’d buy or spend on?
More books :) and travelling
10. Why did you decide to do the A-Z challenge this year?
It gave me a reason to put down in words all the thoughts I have in my head. Also, I wanted to catalogue Scotland the way I saw it.
11. Describe yourself in 4 words.
Imagination. Creativity. Free. Aquarius.
Now for Kathleen's questions:
1. Of the Three Stooges, which one are you most like: Larry, Curly, or Moe? Curly!
2. If you could take the place of any character in any book, who would it be and why?
Tough, maybe Alice, or Sophie... they're both curious :)
3. Mac or PC? PC
4. What is your favorite book cover of all time?
Don't know, maybe the old cover for The Bell Jar
5. What are the last 5 books you’ve read?
Leave of Absence
This Mobius Strip of Ifs
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Leonardo’s Swans
... all of which i have written about at BookMark
6. If your life was a movie, who would you want to play your nemesis? (HA! Tricked you on that one!)
Liv Tyler
7. Vanilla or Chocolate? Vanilla :)
8. By some strange accident of fate, I’ve been stranded in your home town. Can I stay at your place?
Yes!
9. Are you sure? Yeah...
10. What was your favorite book as a child?
Moby Dick and Treasure Island
11. What is one word that describes your current MC?
MC?
So, here are the people I nominate. They are doing a great job in their spaces!
Life and Times of a Student
MAGICAL MYSTICAL MIMI
The Ruralhood
Paula's Place
Life on the Muskoka River
Crazy California Claire
Finding Eliza
Voices in my Head
Oh, Frog it!
Michael Abayomi
Phenomenal Lass
My questions for you are:
1. Do you know the meaning of the German word 'Liebster'?
2. One place on your must go list?
3. Do you believe in astrology? Why? Why not?
4. What is the most daredevil thing you've done?
5. What is your favourite book? If you don't read, movie?
6. What is your biggest weakness?
7. Do you believe in fairies?
8. Tea or Coffee?
9. Who is your best critic?
10. Life in five words?
11. One blogger you read everyday (doesn't matter if they aren't taking the challenge)
Enjoy!
A couple of days later, Kathleen from Writing, Reading, and Life, nominated me again! I have only started reading her blog but the name, if you know me, is like a magnet and you should definitely stop by.
This is very special to me as this is the FIRST award this blog has won. Thank you, both of you!
This is a pay-it-forward award. It’s only for participants of the A-Z blogging challenge that began on April 1st... I understand that some of you might not 'do' blogging awards, so just take it as my appreciation for your work :)
1. Thank the person who nominated me and link back to their site
2. Post 11 random things about myself
3. Answer 11 questions that S has for me
4. Ask my nominees 11 questions of my own!
Here we go then:
11 things about myself:
1. I'd really like to be a travel writer. Being paid to travel and to write is my dream.
2. My friends are my life. As an only child, they have always been my support system.
3. I love Scotland! There is something simple and unpretentious about life here.
4. I have lived 23 years of my life in India and am not patriotic at all. Close friends say I was born in the wrong country :P
5. Poetry is a sublime form of life.
6. I believe in magic and fairies!
7. My favourite movie is Walt Disney's Cinderella; there is wayyyyy too much to learn from it.
8. I'm a huge pessimist when my feet are on the ground.
9. I love entering peoples' lives when they are messed up and then fixing them!
10. I get taken for granted by friends a lot, I hate it!
11. I am a Grammar Nazi.
Now to answer the questions S put up:
1. What does your name mean? Do you like your name? Have you ever wanted to change it?
It means 'the rising'. I do like my name. I am called Jhelum at home (most Bengali kids have two names lol), sometimes I wish I was called Udita at home and Jhelum formally.
2. Why did you start your blog?
This blog began on 18th Feb, 2007, the day I turned 18. I wrote my first post at 1800 hrs.
3. Tea or coffee?
Both
4. If you could revisit a day or a certain period of your life, what would it be?
It would have to be my undergrad years, I loved it then, and I would like to relieve it again!
5. What’s your favourite thing about the internet?
Being able to read pretty much anything that I want to read
6. Do you think all this technology and social media has made us better or worse at being social?
Definitely worse! People can't even read real maps anymore!
7. What’s your favourite food?
I'm not fussy about food, anything goes. But I quite like my Gran's Mutton Curry :)
8. Are you a city person or a country-side person?
Oh I'm a countryside person through and through; I'm miserable in cities
9. If you won the lottery, what’s the first thing you’d buy or spend on?
More books :) and travelling
10. Why did you decide to do the A-Z challenge this year?
It gave me a reason to put down in words all the thoughts I have in my head. Also, I wanted to catalogue Scotland the way I saw it.
11. Describe yourself in 4 words.
Imagination. Creativity. Free. Aquarius.
Now for Kathleen's questions:
1. Of the Three Stooges, which one are you most like: Larry, Curly, or Moe? Curly!
2. If you could take the place of any character in any book, who would it be and why?
Tough, maybe Alice, or Sophie... they're both curious :)
3. Mac or PC? PC
4. What is your favorite book cover of all time?
Don't know, maybe the old cover for The Bell Jar
5. What are the last 5 books you’ve read?
Leave of Absence
This Mobius Strip of Ifs
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Leonardo’s Swans
... all of which i have written about at BookMark
6. If your life was a movie, who would you want to play your nemesis? (HA! Tricked you on that one!)
Liv Tyler
7. Vanilla or Chocolate? Vanilla :)
8. By some strange accident of fate, I’ve been stranded in your home town. Can I stay at your place?
Yes!
9. Are you sure? Yeah...
10. What was your favorite book as a child?
Moby Dick and Treasure Island
11. What is one word that describes your current MC?
MC?
So, here are the people I nominate. They are doing a great job in their spaces!
Life and Times of a Student
MAGICAL MYSTICAL MIMI
The Ruralhood
Paula's Place
Life on the Muskoka River
Crazy California Claire
Finding Eliza
Voices in my Head
Oh, Frog it!
Michael Abayomi
Phenomenal Lass
My questions for you are:
1. Do you know the meaning of the German word 'Liebster'?
2. One place on your must go list?
3. Do you believe in astrology? Why? Why not?
4. What is the most daredevil thing you've done?
5. What is your favourite book? If you don't read, movie?
6. What is your biggest weakness?
7. Do you believe in fairies?
8. Tea or Coffee?
9. Who is your best critic?
10. Life in five words?
11. One blogger you read everyday (doesn't matter if they aren't taking the challenge)
Enjoy!
4 comments:
Thanks so much for the award, Udina! You had some great answers there!
MC = Main Character. It probably assumes that you are writing a story of some kind.
I think the fact that you enjoyed Moby Dick as a child explains just about everything there is to know about you!
Congratulations to you, a well deserved award, I just browsed your blog!
Hello, Udita. I finally got around to putting together an acceptance post for one of these. Sorry it had to take 2 years. :D
http://www.michaelabayomi.com/2015/04/the-liebster-award.html
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