Transformation

Ola readers, this is going to be a very short post. I just wish to inform all my followers and readers that I have decided to shift to Wordpress from Blogspot. I have started my blog there, with the same name. It is atimerncans.wordpress.com. So this one here is not going to see any new posts from me. I hope you guys to visit me there as you did here.

I had over 1700 page views here, and that is something I am really going to miss. My writing and my posts will continue with the same enthusiasm and passion there as well. I hope to see you guys visit my new blog on Wordpress like you did here. Please do stop by, that one is empty right now, but I am soon going to fill that up with posts too.


The reason why I shifted over is I hear that Wordpress has better functions/ features. I am going to miss this one, but I am sure, I will have readers there as well. .I also hear that Wordpress is a more happening 'blogsphere' that Blogspot, so lets see. I hope this move turns out to be a wise one...

Goodbye, Alpha over and out.

PS. I have copied my latest post to my new blog to ease recognition. The ones that follow will be new.

Awards

Award is something which is conferred upon someone in recognition of their great work. I have not looked up the definition, but this is what came to my mind. :D

We as human beings desire attention and appreciation; we are social animals, as it is always said, being picked out of a the plural and honored for anything that we have done, gives us the necessary energy to do it even better. Motivation drives humans, in every form, in every field. My apologies, these facts are not limited to humans, works on animals as well. Every field that you look upon has a way to award its associates in some way or the other. In work, the award comes as a promotion or as an increment in salary. In the classroom, the responsibility/award of being the in-charge says it all. Heck, the joy one gets from the kind words of an elderly person whom you just helped to cross the road, makes you smile. Even if that is not what you did it for, you did it as an act of humanity and kindness; but those words are like the cherry on the Ice-Cream.

A few kind and praising words can do wonders. It is a known fact that polite words can make one do things which a ‘stick’ cannot. Such is the importance of awards. Awards may not always be physical, words, actions; sometimes even a smile can motivate one to go a step further.

I decided to write this article when I was nominated for a blogging award, ‘The Versatile Blogger’, by a fellow blogger and dear friend of mine. Frankly, before today, I did not even know that bloggers confer and have awards amongst themselves. It felt wonderful. My blog is not a revolutionary blog, I started it just to share my views and the tagline of my blog is the same since its inception. My blog is not famous in the blogging world; not many people visit it, but the objective of me writing this was to share my thoughts and feelings. I had started with the theme as pure science, as I am a very scientific person, science-buff, one might say. It has changed course, but if you look carefully, most of the posts-which are not many- do have science present in them in a subtle fashion. My aim was to spread the knowledge which I have and am gathering to others.

I do not have an agenda for this article, which I do for most of mine, so this one’s gonna be a little haywire. What I am trying to communicate here in this article is the satisfaction and happiness that i have received by being nominated for a Blogging Award.

My only thought which I wish to share is, “Kind words, words of Appreciation don’t cost you anything; yet they may make someone else’s day. So speak kind words, appreciate the smallest of things others do right and spread happiness. It definitely comes back to you.”

Baasi...

Photograph

Everyone of us has some childhood fantasies, some dreams. I am not talking about what you wanted to become when you were adults, but what you wanted to do. For example, I wanted to study astrophysics; couldn’t happen.  I have accepted that. There are also other things that one wishes to do, for example, I wish to drag race; drive a race car on the slopes of a hill, see how it feels to be so close to death and yet survive, be so close the edge of physics, to decide when to pull the brakes and skid, and when to pump the gas.

There are a lot of things which one [every human] desires to do, and of them is to photograph nature (or something else- the point being, to photograph), I have had a passion to photograph since I was a kid, I always liked nature, the depth that it had, the detail and the beauty it possessed always fascinated me.  Now that I am more knowledgeable than before, I respect and admire nature for its perfection. I always took pictures of stuff around me to keep as mementos, but mainly to satisfy my inner urge to photograph.

The reason why I am writing this article is because I know someone who has not only been able to photograph, but also learn, advance and develop in that field. I am sure that all of my readers [however few that may be],  have at some point in their life have had a feeling and liking to photography. I write this article in the name of only one person, Nandini, who has set examples on how to photograph. She has not only taken and takes good pictures, but has studied and implements the techniques of photography. She has taken from silhouettes to landscapes, in perfection.

My inspiration of this post is her; her blog and gallery can be viewed at:

http://nandinidhiman.wordpress.com/

I hope you enjoy the link I have mentioned and frequent it for she posts much more frequently than I do, and every post has beauty to it. Recently I developed a liking to a song which has been stuck in my head for weeks now, and it is related to this topic; its called ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback, so I post its video link here:

                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0DU4DoPP4&ob=av3e

With this I take you leave, if there are some great blogs out there which you know of, do share them with me in the comments for this post. Cheers!!

Tschüß...