Yes, life is full of surprises (a few awards lately – thank you, readers!) and I have been nominated for the Liebster Blog Award by Suraiya. The way she knows exactly how to create those filigree masterpieces of poetry is amazing. Thank you, my dear Suraiya!
With accepting the award there are certain rules to be followed:
1. Thank the person who nominated you
2. Answer 11 questions
3. Nominate 11 bloggers for the Liebster Blog Award and let them know they have been nominated
Here it is…almost like an interview:
1. The book that changed your life: I did some serious thinking on this one and decided it would be just fair to go with my first “ABC book” because after that one…the whole wide world of books was open. And there are so many of them that have changed my life bit by bit.
2. Your favourite author/writer: I won’ t call them “favourites” but there’ re a couple of writers whose books have always been (are) a pleasant discovery for me. With Gabriel García Márquez, Khaled Hosseini, Alessandro Baricco, Kahlil Gibran, Jhumpa Lahiri among them.
3. Your pet and its name: You know what people say…about dogs having owners and cats having staff… I am that “staff” – for Tibeta.
4. The craziest thing you have done: I think I would have to mention my decision to study Sinology (that has very little to do with sins) and my work as a DJ/radio host. Not sure which one was more crazy back then.
5. Your best friend: Love Of My Life – the Highlander with the Orient in his heart.
6. A childhood prank: Once I escaped kindergarten without warning anyone – I simply wanted to be at home very much. Came as a surprise or more precisely – like a shock. For all the adults around.
7. Favourite musician: Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner. Doesn’ t ring a bell? He is also known as Sting.
8. A place you would love to visit: There are so many but the most – the Middle East, South America and Central Asia.
9. If you had just 5 minutes left to live what is the one thing you would do? Hmm, would I know those are my last ones or not? Live it with a look back, no matter where life would have taken me. And most probably wish secretly there was a touch more time.
10. Favourite sport: Rugby.
11. How do you define love? The essence of life.
Tsk, tsk…the difficult part is done. And I am happy to announce my NOMINEES for the LIEBSTER BLOG AWARD:
Ese' s Voice 
Thankyou dear for writing such sweet things about me!
It was so interesting learning more about you.
I think you have written quite aptly about the book that changed your life. It’s the most correct answer. 🙂
Loved to read about your prank too. 🙂
Thankyou for one more thing….guess what? The butterfly pic at the end of the post. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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My pleasure. And I really did enjoy finding out more about you through the questions of this and another award.
The butterfly….yes…how could I not?! 😉 And thanks once again for nominating me.
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Congratulations for this great award!
Best regards,
Eric
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Thank you, Eric. 🙂
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Thank you so very much for the nomination! Wow you are also quite an interesting person Esenga, thanks for sharing these surprising & lovely bits about yourself. Also thanks for always spreading the love:) P.S. – We also want to visit the same places!
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Thank you for all the good words, Islandscribbler.
Yes, those questions are revealing a bit more than usually is in the “About” column of a blog. Can’ t wait to see your answers ;)!
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I enjoyed your responses to that challenge. I kept wondering what I’d say and thinking how difficult it is to disclose without exposing ourselves completely 🙂
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Have to admit I did enjoy answering the questions. Some answers came easy, some needed a touch more remembering – considering and the one about the book that changed my life I left for the end. And it was really interesting and fun to see the responses other people have come up with for this award – opened the door of knowing them a touch more. 🙂
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I’m sure – the questions really are like a conversation over a few glasses of wine, or a lovely meal.
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Yes and they make conversation…flow. Much more than “tell 5 things about yourself”, for example.
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Groan … which are so self-edited they really tell us very little 🙂
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😀 They do indeed
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congratulations for the award! and so many things to discover about you!
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Thank you, Soumya. Believe it or not, I had you in mind as one of the nominees but…just on time I noticed you were the one who nominated Suraiya. 🙂
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🙂 the world is round…. thanks for that dear
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Congratulations! 🙂
Thank you so much for the nomination too, dear. 🙂
Rahul
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Thank you, Rahul, my true pleasure.
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🙂
Rahul
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Congratulations! 🙂
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Hi Esenga. I am writing to let you know that I mentioned you in my post this evening. The link is: http://robyngrahamphotography.com/2012/10/15/awards/. Thank you so much for nominating me for the Liebster Blog Award several weeks ago. The nomination was much appreciated! Robyn
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