Yay! (BM #28)

The Blogathon is over :-) And I posted every single day from the time I took it up. And I have been enjoying it immensely. This was inspite of the fact that my laptop failed me few weeks back. I had been posting through my iPod touch and it did come with its own limitations owing to which some of my posts had bad formatting and I couldn't read other blogs and comment enough. And auto posting of reviews from goodreads too failed and I couldn't figure out why but ended up posting reviews manually. There were 61 other bloggers taking part in the marathon and I wanted to read all of them. Unfortunately, I did not even cross 20 approximately.

But am so glad that I managed to post everyday and am going to continue with this trend as much as possible. So, as I had mentioned in my post here, am starting off with 'Characters of Mahabharatha' in a couple of days. The couple of days is for me to prepare myself. Still am planning to post updates on this tomorrow.

Another good thing is I enrolled for the online course in Coursera 'Crafting an effective writer' which starts on feb 7th. I hope to complete that too and make my writing a little better because when I read my old posts (especially About me section), am not really happy about the job I had done. 

Putting my objectives in writing definitely makes me more focused :-) and 'Yay!!!' once again for the successful Blogathon and 'Congratulations!' to everyone who pulled it through.

Pinterest(BM #27)

Warning: Cheater post ahead!

One of my recent addictions is Pinterest. http://www.pinterest.com/gaya3manikandan/

Few snaphots of my boards. Join me if you like what tou see :-)

 

Laughing till you have tears (BM #26)

Picking up Maya's prompt for the day :-) This is one of my favorite things to do but amn't lucky enough to have such moments often. I would be extremely jealous if someone said they do it almost everyday or even often. Definitely, laughing-till-you-have-tears would top my list of 'Happiness is...' meme.

I had my not-so-recent memorable laughing-till-you-have-tears in an unusual place. Yes, in a hospital! Not getting into lots of details, we were a bunch of ladies, acquainted at our gynaecologists place, pulling each others legs and laughing like crazy. We looked idiotic, I suppose. But none of us cared.

The next closest thing was when I recently narrated to my hubby how my daughter was trying to suck her thumb holding onto the little tail of a toy puppy(she wants to hold onto a cloth when sucking thumbs and trying to sleep) and it looked so funny. But my hubby couldn't make out what I was trying to tell amidst all that laughter. So that laughing session was one-sided. Sigh! 

Am waiting for the next moment!

The Palace Of Illusions

The Palace Of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My rating 5 out of 5 star

To start with, I love the title The Palace Of Illusions and the way it was used as a metaphor to Draupadi's earthly body when she was dying. Coming to the story, one reason we read Mahabharath over and over is the beauty of its characters, rather their complexity I should say. The palace of Illusions is one such reason to re-read Mahabharath - the story told from the view point of Draupadi. 

ABCs of Mahabharatham(BM #24)

We are just few days away from completing this marathon. And I loved it throughout. Most of the days, I will keep contemplating about the subject for the post during the day and by end of day, I will do a post. I don't want this to end and I have taken it upon myself to carry on with the marathon. 

On a different note, I just completed reading The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakurani recently. I am loving the depth and complexity of the characters in Mahabharatham and I want to read more on this epic.

So,

• Starting February am going to do a A to Z post on Mahabharatham. 
• Since I have not read more on the epic yet, February will be a A-Z on Mahabharatham characters, that is I will pick a character with name starting with A, say Arjuna, Abhimanyu and so on. Am just planning to put down my thoughts about the character.
• March will be a A-Z on emotions depicted in Mahabharatham say F for Friendship, R for Remorse and so on.
• I hope I will do more reading this way and will have something to think about during the day :)
• Since there are only 26 alphabets :-P, I will take off from blogging on random days ;-)

For now, this is my plan. Let me test my perseverance, dedication and reading skills. An 'epic' task, truly!