Super Sweet Blogging Award!

I'm honoured to be nominated for the Super Sweet Blogging award by the super sweet +Vashti Q-Vega who is a wonderful person and great writer. If you have time please stop by her blog at: 

http://vashtiqvega.wordpress.com/

I'm ever so grateful to Vashti for the sweetness extended and wish her all the very best in her writing!

The Rules:

Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that awarded you.
Answer five Super Sweet questions.
Include the Super Sweet Blogging Award image in your blog post.
Nominate a baker’s dozen (13) other bloggers.
Notify your nominees on their blog.

The Five Super Sweet Questions:

1. Cookies or cake? Definitely both 

2. Favourite sweet treat? Cupcakes 

3. Sweet Nickname? Kam/ Kamms  

4. What is the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for you? So many I can't do justice to all

5. What is your sweetest memory? Every single memory of childhood is sweet in a way

And finally my nominees are:

Tineeka De Silva 

J Keith 

Stephanie Weisend 

Lorraine Reguly

Laura Hebbeln

Yolanda Isabel Regueira Marin

Zee Southcombe 

Mak Lind

Urvashi Vaishtha 

Dyane Forde

a Rat 

Joy Findlay

Alana Munro 

The Liebster Blog Award

I was honoured with the Liebster Blog Award by Yolanda Isabel Regueira Marin who is not only a wonderful person but also a great writer and poet. Visit her blog Love, Pain and Other Catastrophes on:

http://lovepainandothercatastrophes.blogspot.com.au/

So before I proceed let me first convey my sincere appreciation to Yolanda for nominating me for this award!

Here are the nomination rules:

1. List eleven random facts about you.
2. Nominate eleven bloggers for the Liebster Blog Award.
3. Notify the bloggers.
4. Ask eleven questions the bloggers must answer upon receiving the award.
5. Answer the eleven questions you were asked when you were nominated.
6. Link back to the person who nominated you.

Eleven random facts about me:

1. I'm a Sri Lankan but I currently live in the UK
2. I'm a cat person but I love dogs too
3. Yellow is my favourite colour
4. I studied Sociology but became a Travel Writer
5. I believe that life is a journey not a destination
6. Paris is the most romantic city I've seen so far
7. I often escape the miseries of life through poetry
8. I love kids but don't have any
9. I don't have sisters or brothers
10. I can't live without tea
11. I'm a good listener

Questions for my Nominees:

1. What was your favourite story/book as a child?
2. What colour is your hair? I mean your 'natural' hair colour
3. Tea or coffee?
4. What's the most memorable gift you have received?
5. Say 'hello' in a language other than your native
6.The rarest animal/plant you have seen? For real (not on the internet or tv)
7. If you were a super hero what power would you have?
8. Are you a clean freak or absolutely messy?
9. What don't you enjoy doing while on holiday
10.What makes you nervous?
11. One ingredient for happiness?

My answers to Yolanda's questions:

1. Oh so many! 'Grown ups', 'Meet the Fockers' and many more
2. My earliest memory is of falling asleep against my father's shoulder listening to him humming a soft tune. I may have been 4...
3. Favourite subject...has to be music
4. Yes, but thankfully my mother was a maths teacher hence home coaching
5. I do appreciate modern art my own way
6. There are so many but Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca are two winners.
7.Yes, my first digital camera and where I'm from it was very expensive
8. Yes I have
9. Italy
10. Boredom
11. Poetry


And last but not least my nominees:

http://zeesouthcombe.com/blog/ Zee Southcombe

http://mydenhere.blogspot.in/ Urvashi Vashistha

http://afrodamusjonz.blogspot.co.uk/ Michael David Saunders Hall

http://fromthesoulofapoet.blogspot.co.uk/ Scott David Buckley

http://ghadaaroussi.blogspot.co.uk/ Laroussi Ghada

http://penpaperpad.com/ Tamara Woods

http://dylandubois.blogspot.co.uk/ Dylan DuBois

http://adriannajoleigh.com/ Adrianna Joleigh

http://sensoryanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/ Afrodite Janus

http://ratnibbles.blogspot.co.uk/ Rat J

http://joyfindlayauthor.blogspot.co.nz/ Joy Findlay



Congrats to all of you and keep up good work!!

The "Shine On" Award

I am honoured to be nominated for the "Shine On" Award by Michael David Saunders Hall and I'm grateful to him for that. I'm very new to the whole blogging experience and to G+ so I don't know many blogs but I've seen a few good ones and hope to do justice to a deserving group of bloggers. So here goes!

The Rules for Accepting the "Shine On" Award are:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
3. State 7 things about yourself
4. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link to them.
5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award requirements.


7 things about me:

1. After completing a postgraduate degree in Sociology I gave up a career in social sciences to become a travel writer. Today, writing is my true passion in life. I'm no poet I just turn my thoughts into words.
2. I'm not a materialist. I believe there are greater joys in life than mere possessions
3. I love travelling and exploring
4. Paris is one of the most romantic places I've seen so far
5. I'm a dreamer and a thinker and I believe dreams have a deeper meaning
6. I hate injustice, deception and liars
7. I'm not a go-getter and I don't strive for things so I often get 'run over' and left behind in this great scheme called life


I would like to nominate the following blogs for the "Shine On" Award:

http://rohitartist17.blogspot.co.uk - Rohit Chaudhury

http://t-rytes.blogspot.co.uk/ - Tineeka De Silva

http://abhijit038.blogspot.co.uk - Abhijit Gupta

http://illegitimatepoets.blogspot.co.uk/ - Prinz Katlholo

http://vashtiqvega.wordpress.com/ - Vashti Q Vega

http://lovepainandothercatastrophes.blogspot.com.au - Yolanda Marin

http://faithfrank.blogspot.co.uk/  - Faith Frank

http://beautifulfreaks17.blogspot.co.uk/  - Mak Lind

http://openyoureyestolight.blogspot.co.uk/ - Emily Ann

http://jennasimmortality.blogspot.co.uk/ - Kevin McDonald

http://jcckeith.blogspot.co.uk-  J Keith

http://alparryblog.wordpress.com/ - Alan Parry

http://femaleuninterrupted.blogspot.co.uk/ - Stephanie Weisend

http://dwmetz.blogspot.co.uk/  - Doug Metz

http://designedtorhyme.blogspot.co.uk/ - Raheema Muhammad


I hope I've done this right and thank you again Michael David Saunders Hall for this award!