Some News & Lots of Challenges ;-)

Happy New Year dear friends :)

Firstly my apologies for disappearing from the blogosphere (I was away for a valid reason but more on that later) and secondly thanks for the lovely feedback on my interview at Blogadda. Each comment there and in the post here is precious for me and I will be replying to each one of them soon.

The reason of my absence was the sickness of L’lle one. He was suffering from throat infection because of which he had high fever, which also resulted in him not eating anything (he is teething also) and which resulted in a severe case of constipation. In few words last few days have been hell, with him having restless nights, not eating anything & having trouble over something as simple as potty. I mean he is a nanhi si jaan and the amount of pain he had gone through gives me Goosebumps. Thankfully now he is on the road of recovery. Here I must say that all said and done I have given birth to a smart L’lle fellow. This isn’t coming from the mouth of a proud mother; let me tell you why I am saying what I am saying.

He has never given us any problem in taking medicines but when he is sick he just refuses to take them. So we go to lengths like holding his arms, legs etc. to give him medicine. But the smart fellow outdid us this time. As soon as we would go near him with a spoon he would start shaking his head from left to right (as if saying no-no) which literally meant that even if we managed to hold onto the rest of his body it would still be difficult to give him medicine and even if we managed, some of it would still spill over. As my hubby said to him, “where do you learn all these tricks from?” I seriously wonder where do kids get these ideas from. Seriously! Thankfully those days are over and I wish he never falls sick again because it tears our heart to see the bundle of energy down.

Besides this, life has been hectic. We are moving out to another rented apartment next week, the move would mean my travelling time will increase but the area we are moving-in is good. Another piece of god news is that hubby’s office is moving to a nearby area which would reduce his commuting time from 2.5 hours to 45 mins. Isn’t that amazing? The whole movement reminds me that I need to come up with Part 3 of my House Hunt series; I have loads of masala to share.

In fact there are many more posts that are brewing in my mind wish I had more time but lack of it is not deterring me from opening a new blog. Yes, very soon I am coming up with a new blog on Cooking. I have always been fond of the same, even had a group blog for it but now have decided to foray in it all alone. The blog has been made, Title given but it needs finishing touches. So may be in a fortnight will share the link here.

That brings me to another love of mine i.e. books. In 2011 I had taken 2 challenges and managed to complete 1 successfully.

The first one was S Krishna’s 2011 South Asian Challenge. Under that challenge I managed reading 32 books and accordingly I can crown myself to be a South Asian Guru ;-), the list of books that I had read can be found here.

This year again I am taking up the challenge again and this is my sign up for that.

Besides that I took the Good reads challenge wherein I had committed to read 50 books but as per their widget I have read only 17 books which is impossible. So I need to go check that and unfortunately I am not getting time to do so at home. One day! And yes I am taking up the Goodreads challenge for 2012 and have committed to read 50 Books!!! Yes that many!!! Wish me luck :)

Besides that I am committing myself to the challenge put up by The Book Vixen and the goal is very simple, I need to outdo myself in the number of books that I had read in 2011. So good luck to me on that.

And to top it all, I pledge that I will review if not more, then at least one book per week. Which simply translates to 48 reviews and if I can review more than that then I will treat myself to a chocolate fantasy at CCD ;-)

I am calling this challenge a “Let’s Review More n More books” Challenge!!! Game for it? If you are then feel free to pick this badge and flaunt it on your blog

Up for the challenge?

Updated on 9th Jan '12

After reading Reema's post I have decided to add 1 more challenge here with a hope that it will overlap with the above challenges and would be an easy go ;)

Off The Shelf Challenge where we are supposed to read those unread books that have been lying neglected in our bookshelf for God Knows how long. You can read the details of the same here. The level that I have chosen is Tempted (5 books to read