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Thursday, December 20, 2007

The Shameless Lions Writing Circle


Nothing better than this to "de-costify" for a while:D ( Current status: preparing for Cost Accounting Paper tomorrow)

I was nominated by Abhinav in The Reluctant Writer
And for this, I thank my Mom, my Dad, my Brother,my Grandma, my friends who have been tolerating my craziness for years, my neighbor's cat, my laptop, my Internet connection... ( Background noise: Sheesh! Ask her to shut up someone!).. Umm.. See what an award can do to an apparently sane (?) person like me :D Hee hee. Sorry. What is life without a bit of drama?

So here you are. My current favorites, arranged alphabetically by titles of the blogs:

A bend in the road : His archive begins from July 2007 and though I haven't read all of his posts yet, I love the dash of humor he adds to each post. He has scripted some of my favorite comments in my blog too.

A Little South Of Sanity She is right. She is the "the oldest 18 year old to walk the planet". Her natural style fits in with her biological age but her meditativeness sometimes surprises me pleasantly.

Candid Diary I could have put Amit Verma's India Uncut or Scott Adam's The Dilbert Blog here , but I like the kaleidoscopic view he provides of the world without any pretensions. A haven for the still child at heart.

Intelligent Bacteria's breeding ground Here again, humor wins hands down. He is wicked. I specially recommend his Public Interest Litigation.

Post a Secret: This doesn't need an award, it is pretty popular by now. And one page I look forward to visit every Sunday morning. Not because I find any voyeuristic pleasure in knowing other people's secrets but because some of those shared are simple yet compelling. Each little postcard gives you the scope to dream up a story behind the confession. And you have to appreciate Frank Warren's entrepreneurial spirit. Anonymous works, his name. Kudos for dreaming up something like this. But the best thing is the effort he has put in for charities. Maybe philanthropy can be practiced only when you have become able enough. Someday...

About that three elements, requisite of "good writing"- I don't believe you need three, just one component is enough. The feeling that something will choke you to death until you pen it down somewhere. That's for creative writing. For tips on "good" collaborative writing, I will charge $65/hour for consultation. :D

P.S Thanks Abhinav, I love the way you described my page :)
Sorry to those who are my favorites, but I couldn't mention here. Blame it on the paucity of number 5 to accommodate so many wonderful pages from blogosphere.

19 comments:

Occasional Brilliance said...

[:O] humbled beyong belief... cz this award comes to me from my favourite blogger...

Anonymous said...

oh, wow! vielen dank :-) renders me speechless!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! You deserve it all!!!

Abhinav said...

Gimme some time before I'm done with wading through your archives. I meant to that for a long time but kept postponing it. :-)

Anonymous said...

where is ur promise of making my quote a world famous quote ...remember *mad* *very mad* *very very mad* *very very very mad* ......*very ^ infinity mad*

Sam said...

heya!! congrats... and u surely have listed quite a few cool blogs out there... way to go!! :)

Vinesh said...

congrats! :-)

Anonymous said...

don't tell me that you're doing variance/overheads analysis etc.?

Aparna Ganguly said...

@Anonymous
Doesn't look like, does it :D But yeah, I was . And I screwed up a problem on activity-based costing. :(

Aparna Ganguly said...

@vinesh
:) Thanks..

Aparna Ganguly said...

@sam
Wish I could list some more..

Aparna Ganguly said...

@saikat
Ruk ja! Has to go with the context with the post

Aparna Ganguly said...

@abhinav
Waiting...

Aparna Ganguly said...

@arnab and bubbles
My pleasure :)

saikat said...

@ appu: then write a post based on my quote *stern* ...i am a very demanding quote maker u know :P

Sam said...

okies.. mail me the list.. i'd like to go through them all!! :)

Saurabh Kukreti said...

nice....

candid diary said...

Thanks a ton 4 choosing my blog :D

Aparna Ganguly said...

@candid
Thanks 2 tons for updating it :D