He loves me - He loves me not

I'm so glad and happy to share this post of mine on his birthday. When it came to write a post for his blog, I knew I would end up writing something related to love since he is so much in love with his dream girl, I couldn't stop myself, sharing this very post with you all. It was a post I was actually wondering to write sometime back but it got delayed. Indeed when I read the beautiful post 'Be a voice of love to change the world around!' I wanted to share some more to that post so here I'm sharing something it's own way related to it. I hope you like it! And buddy thank you for being there... being as someone special! May your this day and days ahead be full of bliss, joy, success, colours, creativity and grace! Gracious ALways!!! Happy Birthday Saravana!

He loves me he loves me not..
he loves me he loves me not...
How many times you have played around with the petals of the flowers and only to guess whether that guy actually loves you! It's not that a stable relationship is enough to be prove to know how much someone loves you but even a long stable serious relationship brings out some random questions.

image courtesy : Rachana Shakyawar

Y our man is busy watching television instead of looking at you, and you wonder for a split second, 'Does he loves me?'
Your man is not paying proper attention to what you are saying, and you think again, 'Does he still loves me?'
You got into some kind of silly misunderstanding and you literary ask him, 'Do you love me?' This should be probably asking him same thing over 8th time in a day!

You get upset with something on him and you end up saying, 'You don't love me anymore!'

They say women are often nagging while they keep asking 'Do you love me?' even after years they just want to know!
No!!
Don't know why but as far as I know Women don't want to know but love to hear what you say.
It's crazy but so true..it happens, it really does, every lovely conversation ends up with some fight, a fight which we(girls) long for, because we love it utterly when guy try to make up...we like it... it is not the feeling to be powerful or dominating but when guys say sorry and all that silly stuff... they actually forget one single line of three words to address which could have mend everything instantly. If guys say that in first place the fight would never be stretched further. Finally, all that drama in guy's opinion was actually only to hear those miraculous three words in sync to glory.

But what if he simply doesn't says...
In my own little way I have tried to recapture in points certain things which I personally have looked and believed observing mine as well as my friends behavior in relationships. Interestingly no matter how different you and me are in real life, when it comes to love, we tend act and behave often similarly with an urge edge.

He actually say it :
I have seen very few people who are actually good in expressing in good lines and words. People sometimes are brought up in such a way that they think saying would not be important to show love. A lot of men assume that their women know they are being loved. If he says those three words and says them often, count yourself lucky. Men have difficulty in saying those three words more often accept that.

He shows you :
He would order the food that you like. Might get you something that you like it. Not like he is showing his money-power, but his own personal way to show he cares. He might play your favorite song in his laptop or in the car when you are around. Isn't it wonderful to see how he is trying little thing to make a mark on you. Did you forget, action speaks louder than words! He loves you but he has this a different approach in letting you know!!

He's happy around you :
He would change his plans to meet his friends if you say or ask or you are not willing to go. He will know that you are feeling low and have not spent time together lately so he simply comes to you.He would abruptly close down his work/laptop only to be with you. Please don't call it carelessness in work. He needs a break from his works and knows that to be with you is the first best option to feel good.

He listens to you :
This is one of the most tricky thing you can ever ask or imagine. Every time when you are saying something he is either looking into TV or reading a newspaper or surfing internet. But when he actually looks at you while you are babbling something randomly, you must read his eyes. Or take it like you are talking to him and he is not watching you suddenly you stop saying and he looks at you. Understand he was listening you actually but he just have that bad habit of pretending to look busy and indulged. Come on! dear Man..look into the beautiful eyes, sink in buddy, listen to that pretty voice, give a bit of attention, show her you are concerned to her concerns even if they are not important issues. You say something and your words are like his commands! Celebrate! You are treated as a princess even if it mean he is bringing you water, spilling all half of the hallway!

He compliments you
He notices those earring. Or notices the effort you made to look good or dressing up right. He appreciates your efforts and tells you that certain colour suits you or he likes certain colour which mean he is hinting you that he would like that colour on you. Max making a deliberate effort he will end up saying, 'you look good today', ahh you know you look actually stunning and you will and you definitely matter to him.

He takes care of you
He calls you and says he was in sipping coffee, had a break so called you or he might like to call you and ask if you had your lunch. Or might call to ask what he needs to bring while coming back from work. When you are ill, he will take care of you like your parents. Take you, force you to see the doctor. You will know that he was undoubtedly devoted to you and your health. He might even come to help you to fix the dinner or other household work after his long hours of work only to bring a bit of ease to you. Moreover, if you take the garbage out without being asked, probabilities are you'll be getting a big smile in return when you come back.

His friends and family respects you
One of the vital point to notice is to see how his family members and friends treats you. Sometimes you can determine how a man exactly feels about you from the way his circle of friends and close family behave with you. If you see all comfort and celebration around, if they hold you in high regard, you can be sure he's been telling them just how happy he is to have you in his life.

He takes your feelings into account
If something upsets you concerning his family or friends, he tries to see your side of it. He is not shy to share his emotional side for certain things and people whom he calls his loved ones. He feels for you and even if he's seen you cry number of times before, he still tries to make you feel better. And that one warm hug while you are still in tears is only to show he cares.

He appreciates your worth
He might not tell those three words often but you will see how he adores the work you do. If you are working, then he will be support you in your career. He will appreciate your talent, praise about your hobby or any other special skill you got. This could even be like, 'She keeps the clothes in the cupboard nicely and neatly.' Or he might not compliment you everyday for the lovely food you make for him but surprisingly you hear him saying between friends that you make certain dish very well. These are little indirect ways to tell how much he is amazed with you presence.

He asks for your opinion
Whether things are directly related to you or not, he does anything or every thing but takes your opinion. Your view of point or idea from buying a house to making a big or small investment, he takes your prospective on it and likes to act upon it deliberately. He doesn't want to disappoint you!

He's interested in what you want too
Let's say you like to eat certain thing and he ends up eating and sharing the same thing in the restaurant instead ordering his favorite dish. Or lets you watch your choice of T.V. show, missing his live sports show. You must know how much he loves to see you happy. And if he actually sits through it just because he wants to be by your side. Bingo, you won a jackpot Man heart! All little efforts are only for your happiness!


Not that you don't know that you are being loved but it's in a human nature to be a bit curious and suspiciously designed emotions which needs to be reassured from time to time. Specially when it comes to girls, they do not act over-protective and possessive like guys are all the time but definitely she have more obsessive nature.

“Now, girls stop cribbing to hear for those three nasty words. Your man sure loves you and you know it well. Guy, don't make you princess beg to hear those little lovely words. She deserves to be heard and hear all the time, every time, each time she asks 'Do you love me?' After all, it's much affordable to say those three words than to please with diamonds. Moreover, it takes only 5 seconds to say and make her world glow. Don't be shy, say it, practice it daily 'I Love You, honey'! umm...sounds like caramel sweetness melting words..say it one more it Sweetheart!!

~ Keep the Spark ALive..

Happy Man!

the blues on seeing
blue beauties flew away
ray of hope arise

ray of hope arise
grab the opportunity
prove you are the best

prove you are the best
across the horizon, and
always keep smiling!

Submitted to Haiku Heights and Haiku My Heart

The heavenly photo was clicked by Rachana Shakyawar of Humming Today, Thanks Creator!

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PS: I’ve dedicated a post, "my life... her shadow..." to my sweet mother as she taught what life is. Do stop by to know about my life.!

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Be the voice of love to change the world around you!

Relationships aren’t that smooth and easy as we write or as we watch in the big screen because every couple is two different souls, though ignited, and united by a magical word ‘Love’. If the magic dies then they are perfect two different souls and nothing could help them to bind the relationship again unless they wish to lose their egos. Here I come, with yet another Siddesh and Isha tale for you, and I hope it will bring the change that is needed in every relationships.

Image Credits: IndiBlogger

It all started when they were discussing about the IndiBlogger contest, “Time to Change” in association with Stayfree. They girl in the picture did nothing wrong other than looking flawless to Siddesh’s eyes and that’s a perfect reason for the perfect two to start barking, over to Siddesh and Isha!

‘So one more chance to win an iPad2’ Isha say while browsing IndiBlogger website.
‘One small correction dear’ I say with a smile.
‘What’s the correction?’ she smirks as if she has been offended by my words.
‘One more chance to write for IndiBlogger as a Blogger by Passion’ I say with pride.
‘It’s so boring to hear my dear’ she rhymes a crime.

‘What’s so boring in my statement?’ I pause, she stares, and I say, ‘“There is something more than money in life and that’s love”, the golden words of my sweet mom’ I say with pride.

‘Don’t you know that you are still in the 90’s? It’s time to look forward the ways to earn money’. She says stubbornly to prove her point.

‘Let me be the same as I was in my childhood and try to change the people, if not the entire world, at least you.’ I say with a confident smile, and she keep silent but she was tapping the table with her pen.

‘Could you please pass me the lappy so that I can have a look at the page and learn about the contest?’ This time I say with a little high tone to bring her back to present and to forget what I said minutes ago.

She realizes it pretty soon and says, ‘What are you planning to write?’

‘Aw, hmm, Time to change the earth’s shape to square because nothing is impossible’ I seriously whisper on her ears and she bursts out with a huge laugh and says, ‘utter stupidity’

‘Why don’t you give a good try for the topic?’ she says with her wet black child look eyes.
I lost myself for a second and say, ‘Like?’

“It is time to bring back the black money and change the world for better” or “It is time to stop social injustice against women” or “It is time to stop this sinful sin”, she quotes, though I say, ‘Stop’ she never..

‘What the F?’ She reacts to my Stop.

‘I am neither a Superstar nor a Politician. I am what I am, a romantic writer trying to romance with my pen. I do not want to add an e-trash to my blog. All I can do is to make six to eight people laugh or two to three to think and nothing else’ I make her realize where do I stand.

She nods her head in disgust because I never hear her words and she says, ‘Up to U’ and she leaves the bed.

‘Ohi… Can I have a cup of coffee’ I say to bring her back to the room.
‘I shall prepare it for you.’ She says sweetly although she was angry.

Fifteen minutes have gone; she comes with the coffee, sits beside me, sipping the coffee, and asks, ‘How is the coffee?’

‘Flawless’ I say, ‘Thanks’ she says, ‘I said, the girl in the contest page looks flawless.’.

‘That’s Photoshop'ed! Go to hell’ she shouts with moist eyes.

‘Well, I am in the right place then’ I say, and she shouts, ‘why do you want to hurt me so much?’

‘When did I?’ I say, ‘Am I hell? You don’t like me at all?’ She shouts with moist eyes.

‘When did I say’ before I complete she starts crying and says, ‘nowadays you’ve stopped saying that I am cute! You never credited me as flawless but you are describing some stupid girl as flawless and finally saying that I am hell. You know what we actually never go out these days. You are either working or writing, anytime. Don’t you like my company? Don’t you love me anymore?’ and she continues.

‘When did I say all these’ before I complete she throws the coffee cup aiming at me, ‘God? Escape da machan!’ I go down to escape but still it hits my head.

‘Will you leave me alone.’ I shout in pain.

I want to kill God for creating girls but how can I do that because I admire them a lot. So I sit silently in the dark and start to browse facebook.

The ‘News Feed’ shows ‘Rachana Shakyawar shared Masti Unlimited's photo.’

Image Credits: Masti Unlimited

9 Deadly Words Used By A Woman

OMG! I never know this and it is very true in case of Isha. I’ve to understand it to lead a better relationship because she is my life

I scroll down and read, My friendship added a new photo.

Image Credits: My Friendship

Use your smile to change this world and Don’t let this world to change your smile.

‘What a beautiful message Little One! Eternal truth of life! Social Networks and Blogging indeed play a great role in one’s life.’ I say

And I read, “Perfect's Mugaputhagam via Perfect Two”, I click on Play and I…

I realize how much I’ve hurt her in the name of ‘pulling the legs’, though I love her more than anyone else in the world.

She comes in like a cat, sits beside me, and asks, ‘Is it hurting a lot?’
‘Nah’, I lie, and I say, ‘You have to watch this video,’

Video Credits: YouTube

‘That’s a beautiful video, Perfect Two! Just like us.’ She says with a beautiful smile.

...Love
is a
magic...

Oh my God! She is a dream. Even better, you wouldn’t even dream of something so perfect. Words are not enough to describe her and I say, ‘Aw, please don’t kill me with your smile’, she *blush*

‘I learn a lot from this video, and it is time to change myself, I mean it. I’ve to minimize pulling your legs and maximize hugging you. I’ve to kiss you now and then and fight occasionally. I’ve to listen to you ever and never to hurt you. I’ve to love you every second my dear and’, ‘mmmm’ she seals my lip, and later says, ‘even I need to stop nagging and I should trust you forever. It is not just a video but also an eye opener for many couple.’ She continues, and this time she continues kissing.

‘I’m going to write ~ “How to tackle your spouse and change one to lead a good relationship and to make people happy around you. Because a happy family can create a happy society, a happy society can change the country/world and to start loving each other amidst different religions.” I say, she seals once again and says, ‘Whatever you wish you write but now I want to make love with you’, ‘aw’, ‘yeah……..’

‘Love is a magic which ignites and unites two different souls into one. One has to accept to change and love thy spouse unconditionally despite their faults to live a beautiful life. Be the voice of love to change the world around you!’ I say, she kisses, and says, ‘Enough of dreaming! Love you in dream! Go and start writing.’

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PS: This post is a perfect mixture of inspiration from the video, photos, and my dream. This post aims to share love with everyone and to convey golden rules of life. “Love is a magic which ignites and unites two different souls into one. One has to accept to change and love thy spouse unconditionally despite their faults to live a beautiful life. Be the voice of love to change the world around you!”


PS: I as a part of IndiBlogger, ‘Time to Change’ Contest, have published this post. The contest is to write about, "Be the voice of change and tell us what you would want to change around you!." I personally thank IndiBlogger and Stayfree for hosting the contest.

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Sachin's 100th Ton ~ Sachin! Sachin! Sachin! Sachin!

Image Credits ~ Indian Cricket Team Official Fan Page

As a mad fan of Sachin Tendulkar I would like to dedicate a post to Sach and his fans... Do watch the video to get inspired.. Source Credits: You Tube Copyrights: Neo Cricket.

The long wait has come to an end today when Sachin reached his 100th Ton in the 44th over with a nudge behind square leg to reach the milestone. By doing this, he has made history, which will remain as a history and will never ever happen again. He looked up at the sky, thanked God and raised his bat, and acknowledged his teammates by raising his helmet towards the dressing room, what a moment and it can never be captured in words..

Source Credits: You Tube Copyrights: Neo Cricket.

Tendulkar said, "I was not thinking about the milestone. It hasn't sunk in. A year ago when I got my 99th hundred no one spoke about it during the World Cup. Then I guess it was the media who began talking about it. Wherever I went, to a restaurant, the house keeping, the room service, whoever I met just spoke about the 100th hundred. It became a little difficult mentally, because I am not playing only for my 100th hundred. The 99 hundreds that I scored, nobody spoke about them. Everyone had their opinion but eventually I have got to do what is important for the team. Enjoy the game and chase your dreams, Dreams do come true. I had to wait for 22 years for India to win the World Cup."

Just an imagination! How people reacts to Sachin's 100th Ton...

IT companies ~ The productivity has gone down by 50%.. Terrible...

Media ~ Cricket's God made history that will never ever repeat again.. ! Mind voice ~ For another one week we can make good money... RTP Rate has never gone up like today..

Twitter ~ We are offline! Sorry.. We know only Sachin can make this happen..

Facebook ~ C'mon we have to upgrade our servers...

Internet ~ Bandwidth crashed.... Sorry!

Blogger ~ No more blog post about Sachin, please...!

Google ~ 'Sachin Tendulkar's 100th Ton' as their default search query and a Doodle too (On this Day Sachin Tendulkar made his 100th Ton and became first man in cricketing history)

Microsoft ~ We should add "Sachin" in the list of official words so that it never shows as an error when they type

God ~ The moment Sachin looked up at the sky, God thanked him for scoring the 100th century and Sachin replied as ‘The pleasure is all mine. Thank you for watching!’

Sanjay Manjrekar ~ Tendulkar has stayed on top for so long because his mind remains his century and I'm glad he did it today..

Rahul Dravid ~ At least for a week people were speaking about my retirement, now even that’s gone..

Sachin Haters ~ What's so great in scoring a century against Bangladesh and that too at a very low strike rate.. He should retire and should give opportunity to youngsters..

Sachin Lovers ~ "Sachin.. Sachin.. Sachin.. Sachin... Sachin.. Sachin.." Because when you are happy even languages cannot help you to express what you want to..

Sachin's mind voice ~ Shabba.. Ivangula namba mudiyalae.. Kastapathu adichathu naanu aana ivanga peethikiranga.. mudiyala saami...

As a mad Sachin fan ~ Thank you Sir! once again my heart smiled... "Some dreamt, some imagined, but he did it.. 100! I'm proud to say I lived in the era when Sachin scored his 100 centuries...!"

I will update the post with reactions from former cricketers as well.

The list of centuries scored by Sachin... Source: espncricinfo Stats Guru..

1) 119* vs ENG-Manchester-14 August 1990-Draw-Test
2) 148* vs AUS-Sydney-6 January 1992-Draw-Test
3) 114 vs AUS-Perth-3 February 1992-Lost-Test
4) 111 vs SA-Johannesburg-28 November 1992-Draw-Test
5) 165 vs ENG-Chennai-12 February 1993-Won-Test
6) 104* vs SL-Colombo-31 July 1993-Won-Test
7) 142 vs SL-Lucknow-19 January 1994-Won-Test
8) 110 vs AUS-Colombo-September 9, 1994-Won-ODI
9) 115 vs NZ-Vadodara-October 28, 1994-Won-ODI
10) 105 vs WI-Jaipur-November 11, 1994-Won-ODI
11) 179 vs WI-Nagpur-2 December 1994-Draw-Test
12) 112* vs SL-Sharjah-April 9, 1995-Won-ODI
13) 127* vs KEN-Cuttack-February 18, 1996-Won-ODI
14) 137 vs SL-New Delhi-March 2, 1996-Lost-ODI
15) 100 vs PAK-Singapore-April 5, 1996-Lost-ODI
16) 118 vs PAK-Sharjah-April 15, 1996-Won-ODI
17) 122 vs ENG-Birmingham-8 June 1996-Lost-Test
18) 177 vs ENG-Nottingham-5 July 1996-Draw-Test
19) 110# vs SL-Colombo-August 28, 1996-Lost-ODI
20) 114# vs SA-Mumbai-December 14, 1996-Won-ODI
21) 169# vs SA-Cape Town-4 January 1997-Lost-Test
21) 104# vs ZIM-Benoni-February 9, 1997-Won-ODI
23) 117# vs NZ-Bangalore-May 14, 1997-Won-ODI
24) 143# vs SL-Colombo-3 August 1997-Draw-Test
25) 139# vs SL-Colombo-11 August 1997-Draw-Test
26) 148# vs SL-Mumbai-4 December 1997-Draw-Test
27) 155* vs AUS-Chennai-9 March 1998-Test
28) 177 vs AUS-Bangalore-26 March 1998-Lost-Test
29) 100 vs AUS-Kanpur-April 7, 1998-Won-ODI
30) 143 vs AUS-Sharjah-April 22, 1998-Lost-ODI
31) 134 vs AUS-Sharjah-April 24, 1998-Won-ODI
32) 100* vs KEN-Kolkata-May 31, 1998-Won-ODI
33) 128 vs SL-Colombo-July 7, 1998-Won-ODI
34) 127* vs ZIM-Bulawayo-September 26, 1998-Won-ODI
35) 141 vs AUS-Dhaka-October 28, 1998-Won-ODI
36) 118* vs ZIM-Sharjah-November 8, 1998-Won-ODI
37) 124* vs ZIM-Sharjah-November 13, 1998-Won-ODI
38) 113 vs NZ-Wellington-29 December 1998-Lost-Test
39) 136 vs PAK-Chennai-31 January 1999-Lost-Test
40) 124* vs SL-Colombo-28 February 1999-Draw-Test
41) 140* vs KEN-Bristol-May 23, 1999-Won-ODI
42) 120# vs SL-Colombo-August 29, 1999-Won-ODI
43) 126*# vs NZ-Mohali-13 October 1999-Test
44) 217# vs NZ-Ahmedabad-30 October 1999-Draw-Test
45) 186*# vs NZ-Hyderabad-November 8, 1999-Won-ODI
46) 116# vs AUS-Melbourne-28 December 1999-Lost-Test
47) 122 vs SA-Vadodara-March 17, 2000-Won-ODI
48) 101 vs SL-Sharjah-October 20, 2000-Lost-ODI
49) 122 vs ZIM-New Delhi-21 November 2000-Won-Test
50) 201* vs ZIM-Nagpur-26 November 2000-Draw-Test
51) 146 vs ZIM-Jodhpur-December 8, 2000-Lost-ODI
52) 126 vs AUS-Chennai-20 March 2001-Won-Test
53) 139 vs AUS-Indore-March 31, 2001-Won-ODI
54) 127* vs WI-Harare-July 4, 2001-Won-ODI
55) 101 vs SA-Johannesburg-October 5, 2001-Lost-ODI
56) 146 vs KEN-Paarl-October 24, 2001-Won-ODI
57) 155 vs SA-Bloemfontein-3 November 2001-Lost-Test
58) 103 vs ENG-Ahmedabad-13 December 2001-Draw-Test
59) 176 vs ZIM-Nagpur-24 February 2002-Won-Test
60) 117 vs WI-Port of Spain-20 April 2002-Won-Test
61) 105* vs ENG-Chester-le-Street-July 4, 2002-N/R-ODI
62) 113 vs SL-Bristol-July 11, 2002-Won-ODI
63) 193 vs ENG-Leeds-23 August 2002-Won-Test
64) 176 vs WI-Kolkata-3 November 2002-Draw-Test
65) 152 vs NAMI-Pietermaritzburg-February 23, 2003-Won-ODI
66) 100 vs AUS-Gwalior-October 26, 2003-Won-ODI
67) 102 vs NZ-Hyderabad-November 15, 2003-Won-ODI
68) 241* vs AUS-Sydney-4 January 2004-Draw-Test
69) 141 vs PAK-Rawalpindi-March 16, 2004-Lost-ODI
70) 194* vs PAK-Multan-29 March 2004-Won-Test
71) 248* vs BAN-Dhaka-12 December 2004-Won-Test
72) 123 vs PAK-Ahmedabad-April 12, 2005-Lost-ODI
73) 109 vs SL-New Delhi-22 December 2005-Won-Test
74) 100 vs PAK-Peshawar-February 6, 2006-Lost-ODI
75) 141* vs WI-Kuala Lumpur-September 14, 2006-Lost-ODI
76) 100* vs WI-Vadodara-January 31, 2007-Won-ODI
77) 101 vs BAN-Chittagong-19 May 2007-Draw-Test
78) 122* vs BAN-Mirpur-26 May 2007-Won-Test
79) 154* vs AUS-Sydney-4 January 2008-Lost-Test
80) 153 vs AUS-Adelaide-25 January 2008-Draw-Test
81) 117* vs AUS-Sydney-March 2, 2008-Won-ODI
82) 109 vs AUS-Nagpur-6 November 2008-Won-Test
83) 103* vs ENG-Chennai-15 December 2008-Won-Test
84) 163* vs NZ-Christchurch-March 8, 2009-Won-ODI
85) 160 vs NZ-Hamilton-20 March 2009-Won-Test
86) 138 vs SL-Colombo-September 14, 2009-Won-ODI
87) 175 vs AUS-Hyderabad-November 5, 2009-Lost-ODI
88) 100* vs SL-Ahmedabad-20 November 2009-Draw-Test
89) 105* vs BAN-Chittagong-18 January 2010-Won-Test
90) 143 vs BAN-Mirpur-25 January 2010-Won-Test
91) 100 vs SA-Nagpur-9 February 2010-Lost-Test
92) 106 vs SA-Kolkata-15 February 2010-Won-Test
93) 200* vs SA-Gwalior-February 24, 2010-Won-ODI
94) 203 vs SL-Colombo-28 July 2010-Draw-Test
95) 214 vs AUS-Bangalore-11 October 2010-Won-Test
96) 111* vs SA-Centurion-19 December 2010-Lost-Test
97) 146 vs SA-Cape Town-4 January 2011-Draw-Test
98) 120 vs ENG-Bangalore-February 27, 2011-Tied-ODI
99) 111 vs SA-Nagpur-March 12, 2011-Lost-ODI

and aftet a year and four days he has made history...

100) vs BAN-Mirpur-16 March,2012- (ODI) and will continue............

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! The Haiku Challenge 2012 ~ Winners & Highlights !

PS: ! THIS EVENT REPEATS EVERY YEAR AND I HOPE TO SEE THE SAME SUPPORT EVERY YEAR !

What is Haiku Challenge?
The Haiku Challenge is a Haiku writing challenge that runs in the month of February every year. Write a Haiku or set of Haiku every day and share them in the linky tool to enjoy the words.

How it began?
As February being the month of love, I decided myself to express my love for Haiku, after penning down close to one hundred Haiku the love for it has become immeasurable and that made me throw a Challenge to myself, ‘The Haiku Challenge!’ in 2011.

The Journey...!
The Haiku challenge began it’s journey in February 2011, a sweet journey and aw, my sweet child is aging two now. I consider the journey as a sweet achievement as it helped to discover talents, and helped me to find some pearls.

To know about the first edition of Haiku Challenge, Winners and to read participation entries stop by here. To read the kickoff post, and prompts given in this edition stop here. To read the participation entries stop here.

Summary...!
I thought it was my dream when reading you but now I realize that it happened in real while drafting this. It was fun, 29 days of fun with Haiku, exploration of different signatures of Haiku (Haiga, Acrostic Haiku, Pi-Ku, Naisaiku and Haibun). I hope you enjoyed writing for the challenge as much as I did when hosting the challenge, if not then I should call it as Failure of Haiku Challenge and not Success!

In this edition, 45 of you registered for the challenge, 54 challenged, 22 of you completed the challenging challenge colourfully and made this challenge a grand success! Three Cheers to all!!! Thank you!

I love numbers and I’ve been known to cherish stats a lot. In this edition, we had 29 days, 28 challenging themes, 7 different forms, and the poets kick started the challenge expressing their love for words. In all, we read 54 poets, 1001 entries ~ (1706 Haiku); that’s an average of 35 entries (59 Haiku) each day. The minimum entry was 29 entries on Day 25, 26 & 27 and the maximum entry was 41 entries on Day 1, 2 and 9. Considering the count of Haiku, the least was 34 on Day 7 and the maximum entry was 108 on Day 23.

I must thank everyone for adding smile to my heart! Now, it is my turn to return the favours by crowning ‘KING OF HAIKU’, ‘QUEEN OF HAIKU’, ‘STAR NEWBIE OF THE CHALLENGE’, ‘CHEERFUL CHALLENGER’, ‘FAVOURITE CHALLENGER’, ‘FIRST SWEET CHALLENGER’ and ‘LAST SWEET CHALLENGER’.

Thanks for making my job easier with your precious votes. Here we go....

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THE KING OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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                  2...........2..............2222222222222222
                                    3...3......33333333333333333333333

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+/- - The King of Haiku Challenge............ is

There was a healthy competition between three contenders (Andy Sewina, Chevrefeuille and Ramesh Sood), Ramesh Sood won the title in the end. Congrats Rameshji, you deserve the title, ‘KING’...

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THE QUEEN OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The Queen of Haiku Challenge............ is

There was a healthy competition between three contenders (Becca Givens, Pranali Kadam and Grace), Grace went past others with a heavy shower of votes (5 at a stretch) to win the Title. Congrats Grace, you deserve the title, ‘QUEEN’...

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THE STAR NEWBIE OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The Star Newbie of Haiku Challenge............ is

There was a healthy competition between three contenders (Asni (A Walk in my Heart), Valli (Reflection of my feelings) and Vidya Sury) and Asni won the title in the end. Congrats Asni (A Walk in My Heart), you have won many hearts with your words...

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THE CHEERFUL CHALLENGER OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The Cheerful Challenger of Haiku Challenge............ is

None other than a person who dominated others right from the start. She is a true winner as she has won hearts with her encouraging words. As I say, ‘I personally feel that appreciation is the best food for a blogger hunger, in that perspective I thank you for feeding me. I also feel critics will help a human being touch heights. So be my best critic’, she did the best, give a big hand of becca givens who garnered 80% of the votes.

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THE FAVOURITE CHALLENGER OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The Favourite Challenger of Haiku Challenge............ is

She penned ‘Blank Verses and Invisible Lines’ to conquer the heart of many people. She has stolen the heart under three categories by garnering votes under all the categories, ‘Queen, Star Newbie and Cheerful’. Here we welcome our Favourite Challenger Pranali Kadam, Kudos to you...

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THE FIRST SWEET CHALLENGER OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The First Sweet Challenger of Haiku Challenge............ is

He came in first, he signed up first on 9 days out of 29 days defeating Ramesh Sood (7) and Pranali Kadam (5) to win the Title. Let’s give a big hand to Leo, Our Haiku Master....

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THE LAST SWEET CHALLENGER OF HAIKU CHALLENGE...
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+/- - The Last Sweet Challenger of Haiku Challenge............ is

7 out of 29 days, she came in last to join the challenge and completed the challenge colourfully. Thank you, ‘BLOSSOM VYDRINA’

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TIME TO AWARD THE CHALLENGERS WHO DEDICATED THEIR TIME TO COMPLETE THE HAIKU CHALLENGE COLOURFULLY
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+/- - Yay, I completed the challenge...

It is easy to write a day but it is difficult to write continuously for 29 days with seamless flow. They did it with pride! Here you go (in alphabetical order)...!

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If I had missed any of your name in the completed list then I’m sorry, please drop me a mail to create a badge.

If you have participated in the challenge then here you go, enjoy the badge..

+/- - Proud to be a Haiku Challenger........... !

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Check out the first ever magazine of Haiku Challenge....! Poets Featured, Winners and Highlights! 188 pages of fun! Enjoy the words!

The Haiku Challenge 2012

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Signing Off Someone is Special

my life.. her shadow...

I heartily thank IndiBlogger for hosting creative contests and help us to nurture our talent and to write creative stories from the mind or to pen down true reflections from the heart, smiles! There are two exciting contest running at the moment, The Kissan 100% Real Blogger Contest and Around The World With Expedia, and I felt the former is too close to my heart as I realized how beautiful was my childhood days. Moreover, I am not going to write one more love story or a creative fiction for the contest as I did in the past, because I wanted to express something close to my heart, my childhood days and the 100% Real experience that made me whatever I am today.

Whether it is curse or boon, I am not sure how to call it, whatever it may; it taught me what life is. The best place I lived so far in my lifetime is my mother's womb, after that it is my sweet home. It is sweet not because of what people cherish, its size, colourful, or the high priced decorative things, in fact never we had any of those mentioned but my sweet family made it a sweet home. Although it is being built by hands woven with coconut leaves by my grandfather years back, it is our Taj Mahal and I spent my golden childhood days there. The house made us live closely with the nature because at night I can enjoy the stars through the roof holes, at day I can feel the hot sun and at rainy season I can enjoy the waterfall without visiting Niagara Falls, I mean the rainfall that pours through the roof holes. I slept peacefully even in that little house because I had my sweet family with me.

What is so special about my family, well my family itself is special because of my mom, dad, elder sister, more than three dozens of hens, two dogs, six cats, three mango trees, and a beautiful garden, which closely associated me with nature and lives. I am a master at climbing tree and mango tree is my favourite one, whenever I feel hot, the next moment I will be on the tree to enjoy the nature’s gift. I am close to hens, dogs (Snoopy and Browny), cats (Jessie, Poruki, Sweety, Janu, Swamy and Tiger) as I enjoyed each passing seconds in such a sweet environment despite we were a poor family and my father monthly wage was less than what I earn in a day today.

The dream to live a good life helped me to join a government school with two sets of uniform, slate and Balpam (writing stick). I learnt 'a', 'ah', 'e', 'ee' acting as if I am writing without actually re-writing on the slate to save the writing stick for a week. The hunger to gain knowledge was more than the actual hunger.

செவுக்குண வில்லாத போழ்து சிறிது
வயிற்றுக்கும் ஈயப் படும்.

Translation:
When 'tis no longer time the listening ear to feed
With trifling dole of food, supply the body's need.

I sipped knowledge as a supplement for food. The hunger to learn helped me to stay as the best in whatever I do.

Slowly we built a small house, and my brother was born. Our economic condition was much better than years before, I mean at least twice in a day we were able to have food and sometimes my brother and sister having idli's (rice cake), father and me having paluthu and my sweet mom having only water was our new stage.

As days passed, I became the hero of my little school with my intelligence. Be it a teacher or a student, whomever they may be, they know my name, which made my parents proud and I am happy to hear, ‘you are the best’. In order to fulfil the increasing needs of the family, my mom and I started taking tuitions in the evening under the mango tree. We had a good crowd as I was known for my Mathematics skill in my place. When multiplication was a huge headache at that age, I helped people with tips and tricks to do calculations easily, say for eg., 55*55 = 3025, 105* 105 = 11025 but how many of you can do this in a second?

 2
115 x 115
   575
  115
 115 .
13225

This is how we do it right but I taught a simple way... Any square ending with 5 can be calculated with this technique – 115 * 115 = (11*12 = 132) (5*5 = 25) = 13225, 65*65 = (6*7 = 42) (5*5) = 4225.

How much is 99*99? Is it that tough to calculate? Simple, Consider x=99, (x*(x+1))-x --> (99*(99+1))-99 --> (99*100)-99 --> 9900-99 --> 9801, simple right?

29*29 ? Please apply the formulae, (29*(29+1))-29 --> (29*30)-29 --> (870-29) --> 841. But how to multiply 29*30, Do you think it is difficult, simple, (30*30)-30 --> (900-30) --> 870.. This technique applies to any number ending with 9.. Easy right..?

It make life easy when compared to the traditional method. I learnt and taught many such techniques and approaches for multiplication, division and for solving algebra expressions, which enriched my mind.

Before going to bed my mother used to narrate stories in my mother tongue under the moon, which I visualize and laugh at it, may be visualizing a dream character in that small age may have enriched my brain to dream and write creative stories. Her stories always had an emotional touch to it and whenever I ask her the reason, she said, ‘there is something more than money in life and that’s love’. She always showed me how to stay strong even at our troublesome times and made me learn, ‘Whatever happens in life, stay strong and give your best.’

ஈன்ற பொழுதில் பெரிதுவக்கும் தன் மகனை சான்றோன் எனக் கேட்ட தாய்

Translation:
On hearing that her son did an outstanding job, her joy will be boundless and more than the moment, she gifted him to this world.

Days rolled on and I made my parents proud by scoring well in public exams, won many cash awards, and by joining the Engineering College. I did well in my UG too and got into one of the top IT companies of India. I never let go any opportunities that come my way, I gave my best and that is what made me whatever I am today.

Last year when my dad went down to earth with abdominal pain, later confirmed as abdominal carcinoma and to be operated by SUPRA MAJOR OPERATION BY WHIPPLE PROCEDURE. She said, ‘Whatever happens in life, stay strong and give your best.’ She is the true spirit of a woman who fought with so many issues in life to bring up my sister, brother and me as achievers. Salute you Mom!

The write-up may seem to be simple, and you may think what is so special in it. But the 100% real experiences in my life are learnt from my Mom’s words, ‘there is something more than money in life and that’s love’, ‘Whatever happens in life, stay strong and give your best.’ ‘Never let go any opportunities, give your best and show the world that you are the best’.

Whatever I have done till now and whatever I will do hereafter will be because of her! I live for her and more than anyone else in the world, I love her lot. She is a selfless, noble soul, a pure lamp burning through eternity before God’s throne. She is my inspiration, she is my living God, she is my real self, and she is my life. I will never be able to end this write-up even though I write billion words about her, because ‘I am her son’. The post, "my life.. her shadow..." is personally dedicated to my sweet mom, who inspired and taught me what life is with her 100% real experiences.

Thank you Ma! Proud to be your Son!

PS: I as a part of IndiBlogger, ‘The Kissan 100% Real Blogger ’ Contest, have published this post. The contest is to, "Write about the "100% real" experiences you had growing up." I personally thank IndiBlogger and Kissan for hosting this particular contest because I've got a perfect chance to write about my mom. Dear Reader! Be it positive or negative feedback, do leave your footprints..!