Tuesday, January 06, 2009

I can actually smell the flowers, honestly !.......फुलात दंग.....

I'm extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I don't try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.”


Actually, I never said that.

Angelina Jolie did.

And while I am certainly not in competition with her, shocking/playful/scary or otherwise, (and I can see people shaking with apoplexy at the thought of talking about me and Angelina in the same breath), it will be appreciated that it is indeed something to be grateful for, when someone else declares you are honest, as opposed to declaring it yourself to the press.........


Priya, of Dreaming in Suburbia, has sent me this Certified Honest Blogger Award . I cherish this, coming as it does from someone my daughter's age. Thank you.

I would like to pass this award to Darlene, who probably is more honest and has more guts than all of us together, and is the oldest blogger I know.........

Usha , from the garden city of Bangalore, has sent me another award. The Flower Smeller award !

They say that
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.


While I am probably up to October, by now, it has been fun writing about the memories, and yes, one can already smell the fragrance....

This explains the award .

(This badge serves to acknowledge others who are, in their own way, smelling the flowers.

They maybe regular visitors to the GO! Smell the flowers community, one of our founders blogs or someone that could contribute here who is yet to visit! Maybe they have recovered from an illness, written a book, made waves in the blogosphere, won the lottery, inspire others, made a major shift in their life, won promotion, quit the rat race, raising a family, discovering their greatness and on it GO!s as more examples from around the world start to surface. They may not even have an online presence at all - that’s where this award differs!)

I would love to pass this award on to Vivek, Lakshmi, Hip Hop Grandmom, and Lilly.....

This has been a busy time, starting of the New Year, and getting the opportunity to start a Limerick Blog, in partnership with some folks I met in the blogosphere.

While we are confidently unsure of our poetic abilities, I assure you that established limerickers need not feel insecure.

Honestly ! :-)

18 comments:

  1. Oh wow, seriously thank you so much. It means a lot coming from you too! Bless you.

    And now you are starting a limerick blog? Cannot wait.

    By the way I am going to do my first cricket post in the next week - imagine!!!

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  2. Dear Ugich Konitari,

    Thanks a ton, and I want to say it a thousand times. I am happy!

    I have enjoyed your limericks on the limerickwala.blogspot.com

    Thanks again,
    Vivek

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  3. You have such a wonderful blog! each post is like getting to peer through the window of your life and the places and people that are a part of your life. You deserve the awards! Congratulations!

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  4. Congrats, and you deserve every single one of them!
    And thank you for the honour to follow me!

    Btw about smelling the flowers, Sylvia K just wrote something interesting, about not taking the time to see, hear (not taking the time to smell the flowers - in a different way)...a social experiment.

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  5. I am overwhelmed. Thank you so much for the award and thank you for the kind words that accompanied it. You have made my day.

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  6. Lilly The Limerick blog has actually been up and running for some time now ....and Happy Birthday to your blog!

    Vivek,Sylvia K Thank you.

    Fida Thank you and yes, I did see Sylvia's great post. Truly wonderful story....

    darleneThank you for accepting the award....

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  7. "Actually I never said that.. ANgelina Jolie did"... hee hee For a minute you scared me. But yes thats what attracted me to your blog.. honest writing from the heart.. said just as it is..witty an intelligent without any sarcasm, bitterness or anger towards anything or anybody.

    Plain, simple honest witty well written anecdotes giving us lots of pleasure.

    Congratulations on all your awards.

    Vinita

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  8. Congratulations on the honest blogger award. You do remind us of those little honest truths that remind me why I life my life the way I do and what makes it whole. You make me think.

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  9. congrats!!!


    and a limerick blog? i'm going there right now....:)

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  10. Vinita,Kiran,Suma:

    Getting an award is one thing; having so many of you saying so many nice things about that happening is another award in itself.....thanks folks.

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  11. my first time here..nice place...intend to read more of you :)

    keep writing!

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  12. Congratulations, you deserve any award bestowed upon you for your wonderful writing and for just being you!

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  13. You seriously deserve all these awards, including an "Angelina-Jolie-beauty-in-brains-award", if ever there is one. Honestly! Will definitely visit your limerick blog.

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  14. Pri Thank you & Welcome to my blog.....

    Judy Thank you

    Sucharita LOL I am fairly bent over double under the weight of so many wonderful folks writing in , but this "Angelina-Jolie-beauty-in-brains-award" thing has me flat out ROTFL, or better still ROTPHL ...(PH = Pot Holes). Another obstruction for the MCGB to clear? :-)

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  15. Okay, now I get it. I hope I am not the Sasural type. Thanks for straightening me out. I sometimes read too fast and don't take in all of the details. I must stop that. ;)

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  16. I am not to be deterred. I repeatedly tried posting my Honest Blogger award using the URL and blog.spot said it was broken.

    I just tried entering it in my template using the URL, but that didn't work either. I need the code. Do you still have the code you used, Ugich, or can I find it someplace else?

    Thank you again for the award and I hope I can eventually get it right.

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  17. I am not to be deterred. I repeatedly tried posting my Honest Blogger award using the URL and blog.spot said it was broken.

    I just tried entering it in my template using the URL, but that didn't work either. I need the code. Do you still have the code you used, Ugich, or can I find it someplace else?

    Thank you again for the award and I hope I can eventually get it right.

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  18. I didn't mean to comment twice, so sorry.

    If you visit my blog I have something for you.

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