Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contests. Show all posts

Monday, 15 July 2013

IndiBlosp: The Voting Begins..!!

It's time to vote, cast your vote...

IndiBlosp: The Voting Begins..!!: Now it's time to Vote... Before announcing about Voting guidelines I thank every participants, for contributing and sharing... read more.....



Sunday, 30 June 2013

IndiBlosp: 55 Fictionist

IndiBlosp: 55 Fictionist: To reach the goal of IndiBlosp. We have started with a contest and it is the first step from IndiBlosp to get together the Bloggers.

Here You have another 55 fiction contest from me.... Enjoy it....


55 fictionist

Monday, 17 December 2012

Results...!!!(B55F)


Hi friends here are the results.... 

Please Note: The Idea of voting is just to encourage, not to differ best and worst. each entry stand as Best in unique way. So all are Best Fictionists. Thanks for sharing your creativity here. I really enjoyed it, hope you too.

        Names                                                              No. of Votes
1. Tanya Sehgal                                                        =>  4
2. Green Speck                                                        =>  6
3. Sayantini Bhattacharya                                          =>  4
4. Neha Agarwal                                                      =>  3
5. Anirudh                                                                =>  6
6. MuthuKumar.A                                                    =>  4
7. Tanaya Nath                                                        =>  6
8. Thewhitescape                                                     =>  3
9. Look For A Lovely Thing                                    =>  3 
10. The Ghost of Winter (By A Great Liar)              =>  6

As we have 4 members who have got equal votes, here we're declaring those four as winners and other 6 as runner ups.

Thanks for your support and encouragement friends. You can grab your batches by copy pasting the HTML code below. Happy Blogging...!!!



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Thursday, 13 December 2012

The Voting Begins..!!


Voting Lines are closed now,

Results are published click here

 

Now it's time to Vote...


B55F


Before announcing about Voting guidelines I thank every participants, for contributing and sharing their creations here. All the entries are really very Innovative, so every participants are at the best, in unique way. And thanks again for sharing your creation through this contest.

The voting lines are now open for the "Best 55 Fictionist Contest". And the voting Guidelines are given below...

Rules:

  • You can cast up to 3 votes, but for 3 different entries.
  • No need to put vote for your own entry. It has been added already behalf of you. So every entry already has an vote behalf of it's Author. Other than that, you can encourage your readers to vote for your entry.
  • Participants and any of the Readers of Beginner(this blog) can vote(others votes will not be considered). Don't forgot to visit all the Entries/Links before deciding to Vote.
  • The voting lines will be closed on 16-12-2012(Sunday) midnight. After that results will be announced and Badges will be provided.

    Voting Format:

                 
                     Serial number and Name of the participant followed by the reason or suggestions, If any.
                    
                                               for example:   
                                                               1. Sasikumar
                                                               10. JOHN
                                                               5. Shilpa
                                                (Here goes the reason or suggestion)

                 You can send your votes through the Comment Box of this post. As I have enabled the comment moderation your votes won't be reviled before the results. Just enter your votes in given format and publish the comment that's it.

                  As we have 10 participants, the top 3 persons who gets the highest number of votes will be declared as the winners and other 7 persons will be declared as runner ups... So there will be two badges available Winner and Runner up!

    List of participants:


    1. Tanya Sehgal  6. MuthuKumar.A  
    2. Green Speck  7. Tanaya Nath  
    3. Sayantini Bhattacharya  8. Thewhitescape  
    4. Neha Agarwal  9. Look For A Lovely Thing  
    5. Anirudh  10. The Ghost of Winter (By A Great Liar)  


    All the best for every one!!!

    Thursday, 6 December 2012

    Best 55 Fictionist Contest

    Entries are Closed now 

    Click Here for Results 




    It is the announcement of the contest Best 55 Fictionist. Recently I came through the word 55 Fiction. I don't know exactly what it is, so I have searched in Google and Blogosphere and Just got an idea to host this contest. I was already planed to host a contest for fellow bloggers, so I was thinking for a concept. This 55 Fiction admired me to host the contest on it.

    Here Exactly what 55 Fiction means,

                 55 Fiction is a form of microfiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.


    Criteria

    A literary work will be considered 55 Fiction if it has:

    1.Fifty-five words or less.
    2.A setting,
    3.One or more characters,
    4.A resolution. (Not limited to moral of the story)
    5.The title of the story is not part of the overall word count, but it still cannot exceed seven words.


    Let me come to the point, here you have to write a short story about Ghost in 55 fiction format. You may write it in your own style but it should complies with the Criteria given above. Winners will be decided by the number of votes they've got.



    Rules:


    • Write a 55 Fiction about Ghost, it may be thriller, comedy, tragedy or anything in your own style. (Only One post per Blog)
    • Then link the URL of the post in given below INLINKZ tool.
    •  You can submit your entry till midnight of 12th DEC(next Wednesday).
    • After that voting will start. Another post will be published to announce the voting format and time, so keep in touch. 
    • Finally the Badges will be provided for the winners, they can use it in their Blog, to Show-Off.


    *It is mandatory to copy and paste the below sentence in your post

    This post is written for the Best 55 Fictionist Contest, hosted by Sasikumar Raja Blogs at Beginner

    You can share this with your friends and fellow bloggers who are Interested in participation

    All the Best Folks...!!!













    I still Love You. - My entry for the Get Published contest

    This Story is about the Love between two College going students Sharvan and Shalini (real names are changed) and the incidents happened in their life. Here narrator is Sharvan's friend. 

    As I mentioned earlier this is not just a story, this is an incident that has happened in the protagonists life.

    I'm not going to tell that the protagonists are perfect, vice and blah blah blah... 

    As like as everybody Sharvan is a simple college going guy, he has some dreams and ambitions, of course some good qualities but when there is a need. He stays as a paying guest in a well developed city but his native is a rural area.

    On the other end Shalini is an average scoring student but hard worker, who doesn't know other than her family, friends and college. Her friends circle is very small as she lives in her native village, which is located in deep south India. 

    The rest of the story is about how they've got introduced and how the love blossoms between them. Is they both carried it in good and bad situations. 

    And how the Devilish moment has came in their lovely life and what is the reason behind it, and how they suffered. 

    aggressive love 


    Because of that devilish incident, I believe in 

    "Situation and Society can make Angels to Daemons and Daemons to Angels"  

    This is not a usual love story which sets the genuine characters to make the story better. But it has the other real things and real characters to make the story even better. And filled with real emotions, incidents and twists. 


    This is my entry for the HarperCollins–IndiBlogger Get Published contest, which is run with inputs fromYashodhara Lal and HarperCollins India. 

    Tuesday, 18 September 2012

    "May you live to a ripe old age"

    "May you live to a ripe old age" How do you take this phrase..? As a blessing or as a curse.

    Consider this, the elderly population in India is continuously increasing and the problems they are facing is also increasing simultaneously. 60% of elderly couples in India are forced by their children to leave their homes. So the number of peoples in old age homes are constantly increasing and also most of the parents are now deciding to live in old age homes rather than living with their children.




    In India, unlike USA, parents do not leave their children on their own after they turn 18 but children find it hard to accept the fact that there are times when parents want to feel the love that they once shared with them.  

    There are times when parents just want to relax and want their children to reciprocate their care. Every parents wants to see their child grow and be successful but no parent wants their child to treat them like an unnecessary load on their responsibilities.

    Old age cannot be avoided. It is a phase of life, which will arrive and stay till death takes its toll.

    Our culture recognizes the status of the parents as that of God. A moral duty is put on the children to take care of their parents. But nowadays what we are observing in our society is that the children are not willing to take care of their parents, they do not want to spend money on them, they are treating their parents as aliens, they do not want to share an emotional bond with parents. These children are forgetting that the foundation of their life is built up by the parents. They are forgetting their moral and ethical duties towards their parents. This is because of fast life, industrialization, money oriented minds, inflation. Children have no time to look after their parents because of their busy schedule and as a consequence of this situation the elders are getting neglected. 

    The problems in old age is in two forms: emotional and physical. Many studies have proved that the two are actually interconnected. No precautionary measures can avoid these problems; senior citizens just have to face them bravely.

    But the only thing they need is love from their children and family. Those who can afford, try to reduce their guilt by sending their old parents to the home for the aged. But seldom do they realize that although their parents or grandparents may get physical care in these institutions, their emotional needs of affection and love by their own near and dear ones remain unfulfilled. What the youngsters of today fail to realize is that they will get old too some day and may have to meet a similar fate, because history is bound to repeat itself and a person reaps what he sows. 


    Why do we tend to forget that the reason we are in this world is our parents, the reason we studied is our parents, the reason we were alive all this while is our parents, the reason we survived all the diseases is our mother’s care. The hands who made us walk is our parents’. When we were kids we never thought of it but we knew that no matter what, our parents will be by our side. But when our time came to show our respect, to reciprocate the love, to show our gratitude, we back out.



    It's time to realize that our parents need us till the end. So don't soak them, love them don't treat them as a burden. They are waiting for the Soak No More state...



    Even when they are counting their last breath, they are still thinking of us!











    Friday, 20 July 2012

    Importance of Hair and Hair care


    As compared to Girls, Guys are little bit lazy to do everything, including me. It continues when it comes to Hair Problems.

    Being a Guy it took long time for me to ‘realize the importance of Hair and Hair care’ after suffered by many Hair Problems.

    I thought ‘hair care is not that much important for guys’. But my hair taught me a good lesson about it.

    As like as everyone, I have experienced my first hair problem in teenage. It is not because of hormone changes, it is because of my carelessness.

    When I was a kid, my hair looked silky soft, smooth and thick. I received many complements from my friends and relatives about my hair. So I feel very blessed.

    As I turned to teenager. I used some materials to style my hair. I used hairspray, hair color, and hair gels etc.. I used these accessories to look stylish and modern. Even though I know these items are chemical and alcoholic contents I started to use it. Because I have studied somewhere that hair grows from dead cells. So when we cut the hair it doesn’t pain. So I thought using these accessories won’t affect. And these materials gave different stylish looks to my hair. At that time I don’t know there is lots of stress behind that.

    After sometimes I have had my first experience of hair problem, it started with hair fall. When I comb my hair every day I saw my hair fall increases. And simultaneously it loses its silky soft texture and turned to dry hair. Day by day it increased and my hair loosed its original texture.
    I was worried about it and I realized how much hair is important to a guy, and if it goes like this I’ll be bald quickly.

    Now it is the time to change. I started to know the hair care tips from many girls and family members and friends.

    Finally I filtered some easy steps to follow, they are

    ·         Oil your hair regularly it will bring back your silky softness,
    ·         Wash your hair two/three times in a week with good shampoo and good conditioner.
    ·         Try to avoid using chemical products like hair spray, hair color and hair gel etc… because stylish hair won’t last but healthy hair does.
    ·         Last but not least, maintain good lifecycle eat, sleep and do your work, in correct timings regularly.

    Even much more things are there to put an end to your hair problems. But these things are enough for guys to maintain healthy hair.

    And finally these simple steps worked well and my hair started to regain its silky softness, thickness and all its textures back.


    After sometimes it seems difficult to do oil regularly in this busy life. And as like many folks I don’t like oils.





    So I prefer “DoveNourishing Oil Care”. It is much better than using oils.

    Because of its “Fiber actives and Revolutionary Vita Oils” smoothness, shine and softness will be restored.

    As “Dove Nourishing Oil Care” is one of the “Dove Damage Therapy” it can give good treatment by deeply nourishing and replenishing essential nutrients. And it contains natural Coconut, Almond and Sunflower oils which can replenish essential vitamins.

    When I used Dove for the first time. I used it as directed on the backside. It gives the softness to my hair in first wash.

    Then I started to use it three times a week. It adds the softness, silkiness, smoothness and thickness to my hair. And that was the end of my hair problems!

    Then I changed the hair care steps as shown below,

    ·         Wash your hair two/three times in a week with good shampoo (Dove Nourishing Oil Care) and good conditioner (Dove Nourishing Oil Care).
    ·         Try to avoid using chemical products like hair spray, hair color and hair gel etc… because stylish hair won’t last but healthy hair does.
    ·         Last but not least, maintain good lifecycle eat, sleep and do your work, in correct timings regularly.

    These steps are much easier than above mentioned steps.




    Are you aware about your hair?

    Check this out Dove Hair-Aware App and it will show you the correct treatment for your hair problems.



    This post is written for the Indiblogger’s Dove contest under


    If you like it, do vote for it here.


    I thank Indiblogger and Dove for sending me a wonderful gift hamper.

    ...Thanks for reading...

    Tuesday, 10 July 2012

    Cinderella's super tresses and Speaking Dove's

    As like as Rapunzel, there was a beautiful girl with long tresses. But the difference is, she has long black tresses. Every girls who saw her tresses will surely get jealous on her, her name is Cinderella. 

    Cinderella is a joyful pretty girl, she was living in a village. She is the only girl who has the longest beautiful tresses in that village. 


    Image from http://pharoahess.deviantart.com


    One day a strange man came to the village, everyone in the village looked at him. He was so nervous, and very hungry. Some folks in village asked about him. As he began to say everyone rounded up to hear. 

    He said "I'm a Doctor, i was travelling through the forest near this village with my friends for a vacation, now i lost my friends and my things are with them, i don't have anything except this cloths and my Mouth-organ. I'm very hungry now can you please give some thing to have..!"

    Before he ends his sentence, Cinderella brought him some food items. The Doctor don't even saw her face, he just grabbed that food items and started to eat. After he had all of that, he thanked Cinderella and he saw her beautiful eyes which shows plenty of pleasure.

    At that first sight he fell in love with her. Obviously, any guy who saw her pretty face and beautiful tresses will fell in love. But he doesn't saw her beautiful long black tresses yet.

    Then Cinderella left that place. And the village people allowed him to stay there until he finds his friends. 

    'Sun sets down'

    On the night he looks around the village for Cinderella. He founds her place, but it is closed and there was a bright light glows inside her house. 

    He knocked the door by asking "is anybody there?" but there is no reply. 

    He didn't stop, he knocked it again and again. 

    Then there was a sweet voice came from inside asking "who is that? and what you need?

    He replies "i'm the doctor whom you helped morning, i just want to talk to you. can you open the door"

    "no not now, i'll see you tomorrow under the big tree near the Lake" she said.

    "just few words, please open the door" he said. "wait under the tree morning i'll surely come" she replied.

    He can't leave that place before see her pretty face. He looks around that small house and found a little gap. A bright light ray came from that gap. He looks into that gap and he was shocked about what he saw.

    On the next morning Cinderella was waiting under the big tree for him. Surprisingly she heard some music. She followed that and saw the Doctor playing the Mouth-organ. Suddenly she hide under a big rock.

    After the doctor came there, she came out casually and walked towards him.

    She asked "are you waiting for long time?"

    "no, i came just now" he replies.

    "Oh! OK tell me what's matter?" she asked.

    He proposed his love to her by giving a beautiful wet Read Rose. She avoid his proposal and told "i'm not the right girl for you, i can't accept it sorry".

    "Why Cinderella don't you like me?" he asked by holding her shoulder.

    She can't control her emotion "i love you but i cant marry you, i'm not a normal girl" she cried.

    He holds her hand, then hugged and said "i know about that".

    She was shocked. He said all the things happened yesterday night.

    And he continuous "When i saw you through the gap, i saw your black tresses are grown very longer and turned into grey color and it glows like a bright light. It was a shock to me, at that time a hand touched my shoulder, it increases my shocking. I turned to see who is that, i saw a old lady. suddenly she holds my hand and said that she is your mother and explained about your super tresses. She told that your tresses will look normal in sunlight and turns like this after the Sun sets and it will do everything you say. Finally she asked me about our love and i promised to her, i'll marry you. Then only i understood that it is a super power of you."


    Image from  ziz-ther.deviantart.com


    "You all are saying it is a super power, but for me it is a great problem. I cant live my life as a normal girl. I can't do somethings which everyone does. I want to feel free and live without any special powers. I want to mingle with people and share my soul with you. By having this power i can't do these things ever. I hate this... I completely hate this...!!!" she finished with tears.

    "Oh my dear, don't cry. If it is your wish i'll find a solution for it" doctor says. "But how?" she asks. "Don't worry I know how to handle this come with me" then he bring her to her mother.

    They asked about this to Cinderella's mother. And she asked him to don't even think about it. 
    "Why?" doctor asked. "There is a way but it is too difficult to handle, and it is very dangerous if someone go behind it, then they will be lost" says Cinderella's mother.

    "Tell me the way, and i will do it for my Love" said doctor.

    "You have to reach the top of the hill near the forest, and you have to face 5 traps after that you have to find the 'couple of Speaking Doves' and bring them here. This is the way" mother says.   

     "No you don't do that, if it is my fate i'll accept it" Cinderella stops him. 

    The Doctor kissed her and gave a rose and silently left that place with a smile.


    Image from http://pharoahess.deviantart.com

    Then the doctor start to travel towards the top of the Hill. And he faces the Traps of Five natural elements. It was too difficult for him to face those. But he defeated the traps.

    Now he have to find the "couple of Speaking Doves". But it is not easy to find them, he searched everywhere on the top of the hill. He was so tired, he sat under a big tree and started to play his mouth-organ. While playing it, he has been distracted by a noise which came from the top of the tree. Suddenly he looks up and there was the couple of Speaking Doves arguing themselves. 

    He explains the problem of Cinderella's super tresses to the Doves and they agree to go with him. But they put an agreement, "If wee have to come with you, you have to answer our questions". And the doctor agreed for that.

    Doves started to question, "Which is the favorite color of Cinderella?".
    He answered "White".
    Doves asked "What would Cinderella do when she saw somebody is in trouble?"
    He answered "Without no question she will Help them."
    Doves asked "If we help Cinderella, what will you do for us?".
    He answered "Anything you want me to".
    Doves said "Sacrifice your soul for Cinderella."
    He remains silently for a minute.    
    Doves asked "Won't you do that, for her? why are you silent?"
    He said "I have to share my soul with Cinderella. If i sacrifice it then who will do that?"
    Now the Doves remains Silent, and they said "You are the perfect match for Cinderella, and you deserve that. Take us to Cinderella"

    The Doctor reaches the Village with the Doves, and it seem to be Sunset. When he reaches Cinderella her Beautiful tresses turned into Grey glowing long tresses.

    He gave her a kiss and hold that Grey glowing long tresses and said "with or without this you're my Soul-mate."

    Now the Dove's did the magic.

    Image from catholicjules.net
    In their wedding ceremony, both of them released the Speaking Doves. And they ended with wedding kiss.  


    Now Cinderella feels free and she is very happy without her super tresses. She enjoys her life which she wants to. She loves her Long Black Tresses and her soul-mate who made, that for her. 

    Image from http://pharoahess.deviantart.com 

    "...and that was the end of my hair problems!" Says Cinderella...



    In this Cinderella's life, those couple of Speaking Dove's made the change. By putting an end to her hair problem.

    To put an end to your hair problems, try this Dove   
    Image from dove.us
    Are you aware about your hair? try this  Dove hair-aware app. 


    This post is submitted for Indiblogger's Dove contest 
    under

    If you like this article do vote for it here        


    Saturday, 7 July 2012

    Is hair problems are only for Girls? .....


    Is the hair problems are only for Girls? .....

    Obviously the answer is NO....

    Why don't Dove prefer Guys to act on add's? Because Hair Problems are not only for Girls. Isn't it....

    What are the Hair problems for Guys?  Bald, Grey Hair. These are the main things which will come to our mind.

    This is the story of my Hair Problems....

    When i was in 15 i had my first Hair problem Hair fall.
    My mom told me "use oil daily, your hair is too rough and thin. if this Hair fall continues, you will become Bald soon, like your Grandpa..."
    From that i have started to used oil regularly, even i don't like oils. And this problem somewhat Ends.

    And then, when i was nearly in 19, one day i saw a Grey Hair on my head. This time i asked my friends, they told me to cut off that hair, because it is only one. So it is easy to do so, and i did it.

    After some weeks i found many Grey Hairs, Now i decided to ask my mom.

    She brought me some natural oils and natural hair powders. Those are not working.

    Finally we consulted a Doctor, She gave me some Tablets and Oils. And she asked me to take this treatments at least for one year.

    But i can't do that, because i have to start my Higher Studies in another State.
    Then i used to apply Hair Colors.

    Till now i'm using Hair colors. Now i'm 21, there was a problem again, the Hair color is not lasting. So i colored my hair twice a month.

    Some days before, i saw the Dove Add in TV.
    By that, i came to know about the Dove color Repair.
    And i used it, now my Hair Color is lasting and that was the end of my hair problems!

    Two days before i used the  Dove hair-aware app. to ensure that my hair is now perfect. But i shocked, i 
    have some other problems. And  Dove hair-aware app. shows me a correct solution Dove Nourishing oil care. As i don't like to use oil, i'm using Dove Nourishing oil care

    Now i believe as Dove says  "Your Hair will be looking Perfect but it is not Perfect". 

    Make the Dove test here Dove hair-aware app 

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