Quite blessed I am! I never thought I would get nominated for such an award. Heck! I didn’t even know such a thing existed. So I am very very grateful to A Splash of Inspiration for providing me this opportunity (Yeah yeah, I think it just got a little formal but I am actually really thankful). It sure makes you feel beloved as its name says.

My sister laughed when I was going through the post and told my mum that something like this was going on. I was happy just being acknowledged. (I had been nominated by my friends as the biggest anime/manga freak on my college’s campus, the previous week, in a question asked on facebook) And everytime, I would smile on some new comment on my posts, she would tease me.

If you want to know more about the award, please refer to this post. But let me put the rules here:

• Make a list of 11 Random Facts about yourself.
• Answer the Questions that your nominator gave. 
  
• Nominate at least 5 more blogs for the award
  • Only nominate blogs that have under 200 followers.
  • Obviously let those blogs know that they’ve been nominated.
  • You can’t tag back bloggers.
• Come up with at least 5 questions for your nominees.
• Post the badge on your site.

(Source – A Splash of Inspiration)

As for thank you to my readers and visitors, I put another post today which I had prepared long time ago.

I don’t know what else to write here so I’ll get started with the ceremony or ritual of completing the tasks allotted.

11 random facts about me:

It’s really difficult to come up with such things but here are some facts about me

1. I am very lazy –I am just like the main character of Hyouka – who thinks being lazy is conserving one’s energy and not actually “being lazy”. I don’t do any work until and unless, I’m told to or there is a hard deadline with severe punishment and this has been a lot of times, a cause of me getting scolded.
2. I don’t like to study – But who does? The main thing here is (not bragging……may be a little) that I have always been among top three during my school time. I also cracked all the entrance exams (some of them are considered to be very tough), I sat for, after my high school. But after I joined college, I got involved in anime watching and manga reading so much that I almost left my studies. I don’t find studying interesting. I like to learn things by applying them practically. I have always wanted to say this. Now I feel less burdensome.
3. At present, I am trying to learn four very similar languages – Yes, I know I am a fool but the three out of four (Manadarin, Japanese, Korean) were so similar that I actually thought learning one would help me grasp others faster and hence, I took up all. Now fourth (Thai) I have to learn out of necessity as I am soon going there. I ended up learning nothing but still I am not ready to give up.
4. I hate Indian dramas – Being an Indian, I should not say this but the main reason I went to J and K dramas is because they have a defined story and get completed in limited no. of episodes. In India, dramas keep going on for like years with generations, doppelgangers, a lot of plastic surgeries and what not! Although there is a fad here, that Indian serials are for aunties but the series targeting the youth are no better. But that may be my opinion only.
5. I am socially inert person – Not a very random fact but yes, I don’t like to socialize. That’s why I feel comfortable in talking through chats. Irony is, I do like to make friends with total strangers especially if they are from different country but in a crowd of people, known or unknown, I feel uncomfortable
6. I start hating guys if I meet them more than a few times or talk to them very frequently– I sometimes laugh at this one but it’s true. There have been a very few exceptions, may be one or two. If someone keeps pinging me on facebook or gtalk and keeps chatting with me (even if it is due to work) or I get to meet a particular guy very often due to gatherings and all, I develop aversion towards the person. Or if a person shows over kindness or friendliness when I am not acknowledging his help. I am not talking about only the flirt kinds but the general too.
7. I have been called a kiddo all my life because my friends thought I couldn’t understand what they were talking about – Hehe. It’s a kind of confession but sorry friends. If any of you is reading this, I did understand everything, every damn thing, be it adult talk or whatever. Only, wasn’t too sure if I was deducing the meaning correctly and I was right most of the times.
8. I don’t like to make people wait – Contrary to what is generally believed here that if you reach a place at time, it decreases your importance, I rather prefer to reach the place five minutes early.
9. I am an attention seeker – I hate to admit, but I like people’s attention (please…..not in a bad way!!). But that should be due to my achievements and not due to anything physical. That’s why, I used to work my ass off in my school trying to shine in those areas too which were not my cup of tea. But oh well! Everyone gets to know their limits.
10. I can’t look in people’s eyes – Though very important for communication, I can’t do it no matter what! And I haven’t been able to find a concrete reason for avoiding eye contact with people.
11. I am very bad at remembering people’s faces – The above point is the reason for that but I had to make them two, because I am not getting any more points right now. My friends do ask me, how can I not remember faces of Indian people but immediately get to learn Korean and Japanese people’s faces (which, to them, seem same same). My problem is genuine and for every human being. Just that when I get crazy over a group, I get really crazy, upto the point that I tend to finish all the dramas and reality shows, they have been cast in.

Questions asked by the nominator:

1. If you could blog about anything else in the world, what would it be and why? – I don’t think, I would have started the blog if it wasn’t for this. Even this blog was started because I got frustrated with people asking me same questions again and again. But, if, if it was an absolute necessity, then maybe something about ………….. I seriously can’t think of myself writing on any topic except this even after one day. So, yup, I wouldn’t have started blogging.
2. How did you initially get interested in the topic that you blog about? (For K-drama/K-pop people, how did you come across those things in the first place?) – This question I have already answered in my first ever post. Please feel free to refer here. Specifically speaking, Hana Yori Dango was my start for search of dramas. The anime being very old, I couldn’t find it and the streams available did not work in my college (there were a lot of restrictions on internet especially videos at that time). Then I saw Boys Over Flowers and it all started. Though my first drama was Dae Jang Geum but it didn’t arouse my interest in other things that much. After Boys Over Flowers, I became a huge fan of K and J dramas and the OSTs took me to the world of K-pop (J-pop, I was listening earlier too due to anime)
3. Sike! That URL is taken and your site’s name is copyrighted.  Now you have to change your site’s name and web address. What will it be and why? – A difficult one. I had tried this name hundreds of times on different search engines before putting it down. Hmmm…. Another name. May be “My Name Was Taken” (just kidding) or “My addiction to East Asia” something like that? I mean, it would be just adjustment with words, meaning would have been same.
4. This is your last post ever. What would you address in it? – If this ever happens, my last post would be ‘How I actually got to marry an East Asian guy and how I led my life after that’. Wah! That would be dream come true. On a realistic note, my last post would be giving suggestions to future East Asian lovers about what I am planning to do, if it’s present and what I did, if it is future, to increase the awareness about this amazing world of anime, dramas and pop culture among others around me.
5. You have to pick one specific topic (it can’t be too general like “movies”) to blog about for an entire month. What topic would you choose and why did you choose it? (Try to stay within the confines of what you currently blog about.) –  The moment I saw the question, only one name flashed through my mind and that was Super Junior. I first got introduced to SM Groups through Shinee’s OST for Boys Over Flowers. After that when I saw Super Junior, I finished almost everything I could, their songs, MVs, making of MVs, their dramas, their reality shows and even their performances on Music Bank and award ceremonies….. whatever I got subbed in English. Even if there was only one member in any series or episode, I have tried to cover everything. Yup, so I think I have a lot of material to talk about them.

My five questions:

1. What is one sure shot thing according to you, which can help, at least, to incline other people’s interest towards your interest (K-pop, J-pop, anime, drama etc. etc.)?
2. You want to open a club related to East Asian culture specifically related to dramas, anime manga in your school. How will you convince your very strict principal who doesn’t believe in anything else other than studies and for him, it’s all waste of time?
3. The world is about to end. What is the first thing that comes to your mind reading the sentence related to your interest and what might be the reason for that?
4. What is that one thing you find very difficult to explain people related to your interest other than why are you interested at all?
5. Why did you start taking interest in your field (related to your blog)? Is there any particular reason or you just began casually and your interest just grew?

The bloggers I want to nominate:

1. Be Unique
2. 自分自身に忠実である
3. P-Chan’s Delicious Drama Reviews
4. Fresh Korean
5. Korealignments

PS – This post is too long for me to review so i would like to apologize for the mistakes grammatical or otherwise.