Nice to be Nice

An award from ~nm

"This award will be awarded to those that are just nice people , good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others that are there to lend support or those that are just a positive influence in our blogging world!"

Don't know if I am supposed to say something before passing it on. Me being me, will say something anyways!

The blog world is a strange one. You never know if that favorite blog of yours is actually your wifes, who is writing when you are not looking.

Call it the "you never know" factor, just your natural demeanor or the "why be nasty when you can be..." logic! I get a "nice" award. Seriously people, it is nice to be called nice by nice people. It is nice to be nice!

Now to pass this on to other bloggers

PK for always trying to do right
NV Sir for always being the devils advocate
UK Balaji for showing me what lies beyond nice
Mitr for always encouraging me to blog
Boo, UTBT for being great blogpals and most importantly to
Balaji, who got me started with this whole blog thing!

ps. I was going through my blogroll last night and realized something...

I left out Kavi! How could I? The man does exactly what this award states. Kavi, you are truly an inspiration. Hope you get to see this changed post!

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Clever Marketing..

Most of you have seen Jr.'s sweeping craze in my previous posts..

The broom we got from India has started shedding, because Jr. has the habit of sweeping rough concrete with that broom! So everytime she is done brooming, we have to follow up with come vacuum cleaning.

She kept insisting we buy her a toy vacuum !! I did not even know if one existed, but obviously she had prior information about the existance of such a toy..

Last week we actually found the toy! You have to hand it to these guys. The thing looks real, runs on a battery and has the light and sound effects of the real Dirt Devil. I am sure they are more than making their revenue projections on the toy vac than on the real one !!

ps. I would have posted a pic or video of Jr. doing the vacuum. But recently the baby's sickness, accidental injuries as well as Jr.'s tantrums have all been statistically correlated to their pictures and video's appearing in the blog with a Karl Pearsons coefficient of 9.99 x10^-7. Most statisticians would argue that it isn't much of a correlation and they are independent events, but then if you multiply this coefficient with the weight factor for the wife/MIL (which is around a million, compared to the weight factor for me, which hovers at <1.0), the picture changes quite dramatically. So dramatic, that it might shut down the blog, again. So, I will have to stay content with talking about Sun TV programming, Chennai news, etc. for the time being.

pps. Saw Vadivelu as spiderman in the "Vyapari" movie review on Sun TV. He is indeed funny!! Hats off to Vadivelu!

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