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I have a few awards to give out,
thanks to genorosioty of fellow bloggers.
These awards are
Candle Lighter Award,
One Lovely Blog Award,
Genuine Blogger Award,
Hope Unites Globally: The Hug Award.
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What is in an award?
What is its significance?
is it money, trophy, fame?
is it tangible, showing off?
What it is, IS recognition -
in whatever group, form.
Here on the blogosphere -
a word, an award, a smiley emoticon,
all comes bringing recognition,
appreciation, understanding.
Acceptance from peers,
from fellow bloggers.
Today I am proud to display
some awards for positivity,
spreading love and hope.
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Not the easiest of tasks it is giving out -
but these awards does not have too much of hefty work for nominations
or forwarding; but it sure needs to be forwarded for the joy to spread,
the love to grow, encourage genuine effort, and promote hope.
I am also trying to do justice with the fellow bloggers
who gave me these awards, in good faith and in kindness.
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Hope Unites Globally: The Hug Award
This award was created by Connie @ ahopefortoday
and I got the award straight from the award creator
on my very first visit to her HOPE space ![]()
I thank Connie for the kind gesture, humbly.
And I would like to pass this award to to the bloggers listed below.
Please note the following instructions.
I quote from ahopefortoday blog:
“People do not have to give up or compromise their own religious, spiritual, or political beliefs to qualify for the Hope Unites Globally HUG Award©. They qualify for the HUG Award© when, without bias or prejudice, they use their resources and gifts to make the world a better place for everyone.”
“Those who receive the HUG Award© may paste a copy of the original
HUG Award© image into an Image widget on their website or blog
by simply copying and pasting the following image URL
into an Image widget:
http://hopesfortoday.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hug-award1.png.“
Please do follow this link for more information on the award.
Without further ado here are my nominees:

- 3rdCultureChildren – tales from Brazil
- Belle of the Carnival’s Blog – Belle’s is the very first blog I followed
- Blood Ink Diary [Shaheen]
- Cee’s Life Photography Blog
- Chronicles of Illusion [Jo]
- demonsking19 – the funniest
- Kweschn! [Elyas Mulu Kiros] – My No.1 fan and the 2nd blog I started to follow.
- jakesprinter
- Judy [jayasfovorites] - I feel such a strong bond with Judy …
- khushjenny – Simply the loveliest
- Marilyn [communicatingacrossboundariesblog] – blog name says it all
- Mirth and Motivation [eof737]
- Overflowing Thoughts
- Sunshine
- The Daily Post at WordPress.com – encourages blogging
- The Maldivian Volunteer – an eloquent blogger
- The Happiness nest
- The island traveler
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One Lovely Blog Award
This award I received from Sunshine and NalaikPand, Jake and Kate.
The recipient is free to choose
how many blogs the award is forwarded to or even not to.
I like to pass it.
And this is such a great opportunity as all of my followers,
and the blogs I follow are all great in their own way.
No more difficult decisions I have to take
on selecting a few, as with many other awards ![]()
So here it is. You qualify as your blog is lovely in your own right.
- ALIA ♌
- Aliza
- Arzvi [DiamondThread]
- ashkitty
- Angelene @Languages Of Art
- Babbles and Tattles of point
- Becoming Cliche
- Cheeky Sylph
- Children’s Books & More [Caroline]
- Emily [Coffee and Spellcheck]
- Epiphany Art
- Elyas [Kweschn!]
- Eva626 [herenownotforeva]
- Flora Fauna – number one local flora blog
- Girl on the Contrary
- Haibar Zair [A Purple Daffodil]
- ilOOK [Glocal Street Style]
- Inside the mind of Isadora
- Jesse Jaca
- khushjenny
- Kate Kresse
- Laafenn – number one local local blog
- latebloomerbuds [Margie]
- learningandgrowing02
- lesleycarter’s Indulge …
- lightscapesphotography [Kerryl29]
- mj monaghan
- Mizz [life is like a rainbow...]
- Parry [Slice of life]
- Peas and Cougars
- Photo Nature Blog
- Pix & Kardz
- Sarah Cho
- Randomlyabstract’s Blog
- Scenefossil [Bindu's photo blog]
- Shail’s Nest
- Sheila Hurst
- silentfingers
- Talin401
- The morning dew
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Genuine Blogger Award
This award I received from Jake
Not sure if there are any rules or not.
I like to pass it and I am assuming I can, to any number of people.
The following I choose, I feel in my gut that these bloggers
without doubt and without question qualify for the Genuine Award
- 3rdCultureChildren – tales from Brazil
- A HOPE FOR TODAY – full of hope
- A Pakistani Boy- a regular teenage boy
- adollyciousirony – all about lemon
- Articles of Absurdity
- All In One: Review -
- AriRambles
- Arjun Sharma
- Belle of the Carnival’s Blog
- demonsking19 Nalaik – the craziest
- Bindu
- Cardinal Guzman
- MaldivesFinanceBlog
- atreegrowsinbklyn
- Black Man Struggle
- Deidra Alexander
- Diary Without Pages [Hamza]
- Mon Ami Elijah [Kweschn!]
- FicFaq [Subhakar Das]
- Fahad Naeem [*Lame*-Munosity]
- Gilly Gee
- john tugano [blitheanduntroubledlife]
- Judy [jayasfovorites]
- halfwaybetweenthegutter
- jawadrasheedsheikh
- lolabees
- Lost in England
- Marilyn [communicatingacrossboundariesblog]
- Maldivesresortworkers
- L’Atelier de Madman
- suehealy
- Sunshine
- T Scott [Dehypnotize]
- TayabIqbal
- The eternal solitude of the restless Mind
- The Better Man Project
- wordsofhonestunwisdom
- Yatin’s Random Thoughts
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Candle Lighter Award
The award given to me by Judy and Elyas.
It was originally created by Kate.
I recommend you visit Kate’s page for more info on it
And I’m sure you will not be disappointed.
[And do visit lovely bloggers: Judy and Elyas,
they are the awesomest bloggers in the whole Universe]
My nominations for this award, for the time being
are as follows:
[It really is difficult to draw a line - for now I will leave it at that]
- Children’s Books & More [Caroline]
- demonsking19 [Nalaik Panda] – the kewlest
- Judy [jayasfovorites]
- Khushbu (Million Minds in my mind)
- Kweschn! [Elyas Mulu Kiros]
- Marilyn [communicatingacrossboundariesblog] -
- Mirth & Motivation [eof737]
- The Maldivian Volunteer
- ♡ The Tale Of My Heart ♡.
- XandiWorldMusic
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These awards have no end
only a beginning.
The list can keep growing
as and when I get a sign.
[sign from where I don't know]
Maybe a sign that says to me
wow what a supportive blogger
not necessarily to me -
but to everyone out there.
Congratulations to the nominees!
Thank you for your support ![]()
And now it’s your turn to do what you please with your Awards
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P.S. If any one wants to switch awards you may do so ![]()
Thank you all, for “following me” and/or allowing to “follow you”



Thanks for the nomination, I appreciated this a lot! Have fun blogging
Thanks for the visit Dolly. Enjoy your blogging journey too
Many thanks Amira for the lovely blog award.
You are welcome Jesse Jaca
you deserve the award. thanks for the visit
Thanks for the ‘Lovely’ blog award. I am humbled. But it was ironic to link to a horror story for the ‘lovely’ blog award
Thanks again and you motivate me to keep the quality of the content high.
You are most welcome Arzvi. You totally deserve the ‘Lovely’ award.
If we try, we can find beauty even in horror
Thank you
I don’t normally do this but *hugs*
aww
that’s very sweet Belle 
And I am so glad 

I truly got my inspiration from your blog.
Before I came across your blog, I have not seen a blogger who replied to every single comment received. And I liked it. And I copied it
It works, replying to comments really encourages people to come back
thanks
Thank you Mon Amie!
Woohoo more awards and am too overwhelmed, getting soooooo behind! Not good at all!
Seriously, these days am not even responding to comments, and I feel so bad.
But I so wanna respond to each comment. lol I may have to take a day off to just do that!
All I’ve to do is find a convincing reason to get that day off. Otherwise no one will give it to me!
Coming back to the awards, … you are very kind mon amie! Two awards! wowz!
Thanks! Me is yellow right now!
And … I was eying the third one but never mind, I guess I’ve to work on being genuine
… Gosh, you gonna kill me! I should be grateful for what I have, right?
Now more homework for me
I feel the load on my shoulder. But thanks for brightening my day!
I better stop being lazy!
Hey mon ami!!! I guess you only read once!!! Remember you have to read twice to get everything in
Read again, and you will find your name all over
And about your commenting … yes I’ve noticed you lagging behind a bit these days

vegabonding is taking its toll I guess
seriously I hope you are doing alright
following and commenting is hard work. I too sometimes feel I need to take time off to just blog
how crazy is that? if only I get paid for blogging I will spend my entire day right in front of this machine
Thanks mon amie, you just made my homework more difficult!
Am alright just caught up doing stuff.
Yes following and commenting is hard work, dont tell me about it!
But if money is involved, it may not be that exciting anymore.
… money changes things. Now we do it out of love, but once we started doing it for money, things won’t be the same.
At least in most of the things I’ve been that has been the case.
of course complaining helps
why do you think people go on strikes, gather for demonstrations, sign on petitions etc etc … because the more you voice out your opinion the quicker things happen
well as for money … we do need it for our survival… i do love blogging
but can’t help wish …. if only money fell from the sky
you are lovely….thank you. I love the insight you have provided me through comments and your blog.
you are most welcome Marilyn. I have enjoyed reading your insightful posts.
keep blogging and spreading peace and understanding
Given me real food for my brain. and I am so impressed with what you do to bridge communities
wao vava viva
and y im the funniest ? im not a clown fish ? :/ i watched in finding nemo that only the clown fish are funny 

dats a hatrick , im turning into lionel messi who scores hatrick and i got here a hatrick of blogging award B-)
hehehe 
and congratulations oye 
hehehe laken ab tumhe aik aur award k leye nai drive bana kar dena pare gi 
hey :@ i also nominated u for the one lovely blog award
btw waoo hhehehe 3 blogs i got on the same day on just one post
thanx amira, may u have many more awards so i can also have them
thanx
lol apun kitna door ka sochta ha B-) phele se hi ma ne aik widger banwa kar rakhi thi
opps itna bara comment :/ itna bara bara agar me apne papers ma likhta tu aj top karta B-)
hehehe
you are the funniest, the kewlest, and the craziest
but you are not a clown fish
koi baath naahee Fanni dear. hum tho soach rahkaathaa aapkay waha widget banaakar sab karkeyhee post publish kareyngey hum. leykin phir b wagth kahaa hoathee hey.
this post took an awful lot of time. but it was fun visiting all my followers and all the blogs I follow
hehehe now its perfect
hehe
yeah im not a clown fish im a Nalaik Panda the exam warrior B-) hehehe yeah im kool in winter n hot in summer
han lag raha ha itna zeyada likha, lagta ha kam as kam 5 hrs to lage hun ge tumhare
but yea its always a fun
Thanks for the award. I really appreciate you thinking of me.
no worries Lorrelee
It is a pleasure to have you on my follower/follwed list.
thanks for the visit
Congrats and very much thanks Amria!
peace and stay relaxed
xandi
congrats to you xandi
keep blogging and keep bringing music to us
Thank you so much for the award, Amira. Your thoughtfulness is touching.
aw
I am just very glad I came across yours (I think through Judy)
thank you MJ
Wowza!
Amira….you have touched my heart with your words, dear friend. I am speechless.
Thank you so much! Three awards…wow. I am overwhelmed, and so flattered that you think of me in such a kind way. I am honored and humbled to read your post. You are such a special person. Thank you so much. ♥
you are most welcome Judy … my words come from my heart. And fortunately or unfortunately my heart is too honest for my own good
thank you for the lovely comment ♥
Ah bless you Amira, I’m really honoured, thanks for your support and reading
No worries Gilly
You totally deserve the award
Thank you so much for the lovely award. Most of the time I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing but it’s nice to be appreciated!
)
You are doing a wonderful job. Not all of our stories get published
and you just did.. congrats to you on that too
awww Amira thank you so much for thinking of my blog as “lovely”. You are really sweet…
Your blog really is “LOVELY” Aliza. Your profile image is so lovely
and your writing is doubly lovely
Hi Amira…many thanks for the award. Appreciate the thought…:)
You are welcome Subhakar. Thoughts what really counts isn’t it?
these awards, these token, they are just tokens.
I do really love your writing
Thank you Amira, for the constant inspiration and comments on my blog! Also, thanks for the double-nomination… WOW! Really cool! Greetings from warm Brazil! http://3rdculturechildren.com
You deserve the double nomination dear.
For the lovely blog and the lovely photos.
and for the great work that you do helping out others settling in
thanks so much for the nomination!…getting award nominations for blogging feels so good..i mean i dont care if its virtual…its just that it feels good that people appreciate what I write…thank you once again gal!
Sure eva! you are welcome.
Blogging is a peer to peer thing, as I see it.
So yes, these awards and tokens really help us to grow as interactive bloggers
Hello. Thanks for the pingback & award
Thank you for the constant liking on my photo challenge entries Cardinal!
It is really encouraging.
Enjoy the award
Thanks very much for the award nomination (Askimet classified the pingback as spam, but I rescued it
)! There are tens of millions of blogs (with more debuting each day), so there IS something significant about being recognized.
Askimet does things like that doesn’t it?
But I guess we have to be thankful there are so many horrid spam that it blocks for us
These awards and tokens really means that we are being read. And what more do we want as bloggers, eh?
I already have one of yours as my desktop image
I simply adore your last photos
Well done on all these awards – you deserve all the accolades
Thanks Jo. And you deserve the awards too
I learned a few things from your blog. I simply adored your contents page. and I’ve tried something like that for mine too.
Awww bless! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
That’s cheered me up to no end because I’ve been feeling horrible this week. Thanks again!
I am glad I am of some help

May you have cheerful days ahead
lots and lots af cheery hugs
Thanks for the nomination!
You are welcome Caroline. You have a totally cool blog space
waw….. amaizing thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
welcome dear. You have awesome pictures on your blog
are the photos of random strangers?
WOW – Congrats to you and to me – WOW … I am appreciative and grateful. I must begin to respond to these as I have been a bit behind. I love my blog peeps so I am going to start to type faster …
Gracias muy amable,
Isadora
yes congrats to you and to me
Gracias 

I can literally see your fingers going faster and faster tap dancing on the keyboard
that reminds me of my thesis supervisor. her banging on the keyboard can be heard down the corridoor even as far as 15 feets
muy amable too
is that the correct way to say “you are very kind” too ? 
of course that’s not. what’s the proper way to say that?
Oh yes – it sure is the way to say kid.
Kind = amable.
I guess I am not typing fsat enough as I have so many I
have missed. I have a voracious appetite to see everyone’s
blogs.
MMmmm … could that be an addiction??? ~~~~ : – )
Love al the blog peeps I have met – inlcuding you.
Besitos y abrazos ….!!!
Congratulations on all your awards and kudos for taking the time to include many WoW! Thanks also for adding my blog to two of them… I am grateful for the gift.
Eliz
Eliz, you totally deserve those awards
anyone who loves the environment and genuinly works on motivating others, score high on my books
Merci, my fellow perfume loving friend!
ah… you are most welcome Eliz
perfume lover 
you deserve the awards. Just consider it comes with a whiff of my favorite Beyond Paradise</em
Dear Amira – congratulations to you for these blog award! Kudos & applause!! And thank you for including me in your list – that is very thoughtful of you, and I am honoured.
At the same time, this is just a friendly reminder/advisory that pix & kardz actually does not receive awards. You may have missed this, so i thought i would share the link with you. this is not declined lightly or frivolously. i recognize the honour it is. thank you ever so much!
looking forward to seeing you in future posts! happy blogging
awww. so you don’t display awards. that’s ok. up to you to do whatever you want with those awards
i like passing it on
and i like displaying what others give me from their heart’s kindness
i respect your decision.
and thanks for the comment and visit. and I enjoy seeing LIKES
do come back
short and simply put…. “amira, you are a sweetheart”
that sure is short and sweet
Thank you for all these awards. It’s an honor to have been nominated. A great way to start the year. Congratulations as well. You’re an inspiration.
Oh thank you island traveler.
I am from the island country.
the word Island alone is enough to like you and your blog
but to be honest, your blog is awesome. Keep up the great work.
thanks for the lovely compliment
Thank you sweet Amira and woohoo to you for all the well deserved gifts you received recently!!
thank YOU sunshine my award goddes
It’s people like you who made this happen
You are way too sweet. Thank you:o)
Only because I have wonderful blogs to follow
you are most welcome Angelene
Thank You Amira for the appreciation as well as such a wonderful poem!
Thank you Yatin for noticing my poetic ramblings
you deserve another award for that
Thanks a lot for considering my blog for “Genuine Blogger Award”….. This is my first time nomination & i feel so exciting….Thanks you very much
you are most welcome dear
Thanks for the award, I also Like your blog very much! And I love to read it jejeje Glad you also enjoy mine.
Hope your having a great week!!
you are most welcome dear.
mine is going alright.
wish a great week to you too
Hi Amira, thank you for nominating my blog for an award — dear one, I appreciate your generosity and belief in my work.You are a gem and your strength shows on your blog, needless to say! Keep penning and be in touch. Cheers.
Thank you for this lovely lovely comment Shaheen. that is very encouraging.
You totally deserve the recognition. I enjoy your writings
amira, have you seen a smiles dressed in many forms? mine is
)
thank you once again!
I am beginning to see it Silentfingers!!! In a laafengly smiley way
keep them going
you are always welcome dear. both your spaces are just awesome
only people like you and other fellow bloggers make me awesome

you totally deserve the awards
Thanks so much for the nomination of the award!! I’m thrilled you like my blog!
congrats to you Cee. You really do have a lovely space going
all the best for you
thank you Amira, really appreciate of you putting this much effort on writing down a post like this and making us so happy. I am sure it is not going to be easy. Keep up the good work and I am sure you will get many more.
Thanks again.
btw wow 77 in comments? impressive
you are welcome MFB. thanks really goes to bloggers like yourself who kept me going with you regular visits
If I made you happy with this post, then I have achieved what I wanted.
The whole purpose of those awards are to give someone a smile
yeah i’m struggling to keep up with the comments. but i like replying to every single one of them
btw just wondering. How do you keep a record on all these blogs? I dont see a blog roll unlike some
oh that.
Wordpress is really great. we have a dashboard where quite a lot of information is given.
There is a list of who is following us. and there is a list of who we follow.
And there is “Read Blogs” which shows us whenever someone in our “follow” list publishes a blog post (only wordpress blogs).
and there is a “comments i’ve made” link which shows recent comments to other blogs I’ve left a comment. There’s a whole lot of stuff that we can do on wordpress.
It’s been sometime since I used blogspot – so don’t really know what new features there are. Back then I found wordpress did a better job
The best thing for this post was that linking to a specific post on a blog, leaves a pingback on that post. Which means I do not really have to go and leave a comment in each blog to say I have forwarded an award to them. I’m not sure if you got my pingback or not – yours being blogspot.
(linking to the main page foes not leave a pingback)
i guess i’m writing too much. so I cut short
Hi Amira,
I was out of town for a few days and I returned home and to the blog to find that you have honored me with a Genuine Blogging Award. I am genuinely pleased and grateful.
Peace,
Adrienne (ATreeGrowsinBklyn)
Adrienne,
I’m genuinely pleased that your are pleased
keep blogging
http://thewritershelp.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/did-you-get-a-hug-today/
I am so glad to be hugged today Thank YOU
Oh Jackie – you are most welcome
and I see that you have done a wonderful joy spreading work by giving out such a huge hug to so many people
Thank YOU
Thank you Amira. I am really honored. Sorry for the delay in responding. I now have two awards form you. I will soon put them up (at Shail’s Nest?)
Thanks again. It is wonderful to be recognised and awarded by your peers, isn’t it?
It sure is wonderful Shail
and yes, please go ahead and post it any of your spaces. Totally upto you what you do with those lovely awards
thank you so much for the award.Very much honored.The no. of awards you have is just a manifestation on how you affect your readers passionately through your lovely poems..You all deserved these awards..cheers..
Thank you John for the lovely comment
I am humbled by the genorisity of my blogger friends.
the awards are a menifestation of how lovely bloggers all around the world really are.
None I know personally. But the community spirit is going strong
Welcome Amira..we may not know each other personally but still were friends somewhere here on the so called Blogosphere..:)
thankyou for nominating me for the one lovely blog award…
you deserved all them awards!
peace&love
learningandgrowing02
you are most welcome dear.
you have a lovely blog going over there at your space.
keep it going
thankyou! and i will!
peace&love,
LearningandGrowing02.
Amira!!
I got here a little late, but it took me days to get to the end of this comment list to leave mine. Okay, not days, but awhile, LOL! First of all, congrats on all your awards and good grief, it had to take you days to do this post honoring all of us with linky dinks and all!! Thank you soooo much for including me in all this great company. I truly appreciate it! Phew, better late than never they say!!
xx, Margie
these awards are not time bound
so no worries. even if you did not left a comment, the award is all yours
and no, it did not take days for the post. but it did take quite a while. I visited all of the links once to make sure I found a right post to link to. and second time to make sure the link works
and some links I had to visit a few times … 

it was fun really. and I learned a bit more about each blogger through this exercise.
So I guess it’s only fitting that a bit scrolling is needed to leave a comment
and also, I’m taking advantage of the situation and putting sticky after sticky of posts that I woult like my visitors to read
congrats to you on your nomination and thank you for accepting and visiting
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Wait, what about the “Moderately-Funny-But-Sometimes-Tries-Too-Hard-Still-He’s-Funny-Enough-To-Check-Out-And-If-You-Do-Don’t-Worry-You-Won’t-Need-To-Take-Out-A-Restraining-Order-Or-Anything-He’ll-Just-Say-Thanks-And-Keep-On-Being-Moderately-Funny-And-Did-I-Mention-Long-Winded?” -award?
i hearby declare you the recipient of the award that I cannot even start to name
and i seriously think you should try to follow your ambitious journey of becoming a pirate
Thanks, Amira! Right back atcha, girl! I do like the “Moderately-Funny-But-Sometimes-Tries-Too-Hard-Still-He’s-Funny-Enough-To-Check-Out-And-If-You-Do-Don’t-Worry-You-Won’t-Need-To-Take-Out-A-Restraining-Order-Or-Anything-He’ll-Just-Say-Thanks-And-Keep-On-Being-Moderately-Funny-And-Did-I-Mention-Long-Winded?” -award?
wow, that breaks the record of long-windedness
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