So I've just received my first ever blog award! Thank you Blue Mist! I started following your beautiful blog only recently and really like it. I think it's an honour to receive this award from you!

It's the Honest Scrap Award and I think I'm supposed to write down 10 honest facts about myself, before passing on the award to other bloggers that I think deserve it.
Now, I've already been so honest here on my blog, too honest in fact. I'm wondering if there's anything left to say even ;-) But let me give it a shot.

1. I'm really bad at numbers but I want to run a successful business of my own! Yeah... that would also make me suicidal I suppose.

2. I cry at the slightest things that do not concern me - soppy commercials, romantic movies, no-brainer TV shows, Rakhi Sawant's declaration of her love for Jeejus, anything!

3. I don't start crying about my own problems until they reach a bursting point, and then... there's no stopping me! I am surprisingly very strong and resilient when the chips are down. You'd want me around in a crisis. You really would.

4. I do not trust people who are not passionate about music, it could be any kind of music. Just make sure it rocks your world, please! It really freaks me out when people tell me they don't listen to music. I wish I could sing, more than anything else in the world. Of course, I am tone deaf.

5. I am extremely forgetful and absent-minded. This usually leads to a lot of accidents in the kitchen and sometimes, in the bedroom ;-) Ha ha it's not what you think, you dirty dirty minds.

6. I love movies because they make me shed all my inhibitions, in my head. I get completely absorbed while watching a movie and feel like I can be anything I want to be. When I was younger, I really wanted to act. Once I didn't get a part in a school play and cried for 3 days continuously. I never cried so much for anything before or after that!

7. I am very self-conscious and find it very restricting and limiting. It's something I want to change. I am also painfully shy, although you wouldn't believe it if you met me. Maybe if I had gotten that damn role in the play, I wouldn't be writing this fact. Grrrr!

8. I am my own biggest critic and best friend. I am never happy with what I do and wish that I could be so much better than I am. When I write something I really like, I tear it up or delete it and write all over again. I must either be really brave or really stupid!

9. Inspite of everything that's happened to me I know that there is only one way that I will ever love - deeply, madly, completely and foolishly!

10. No matter where I go and what I end up doing - whether it's baking or running a restaurant or teaching English abroad or running a pre-school and day care centre - I will always write. I think of myself as a writer, first and last.

Now comes the tough part of passing on the award. I read quite a few blogs and enjoy them immensely but I guess I'll have to pick just a few (in keeping with the theme). So here goes, in no particular order:

Guyana Gyal: I've been hooked on to her blog from the very first read. She writes in a delightful Creolese that I absolutely adore. It's a world that is so far removed from mine; the people, the places, the characters, the colours. It is all so wonderfully different from everything I am familiar with and yet, I can always relate. I think it's the honesty and warmth that really touches me. This absolutely fabulous blogger is also the reason I was introduced to the next two bloggers. I think it was through her blog that they came to mine and these special connections were made.

Pat: She is everything I wish I could be. Beautiful, warm, generous, extremely sharp and witty. Pat is the only blogger whose opinion I actually worry about. When I'm typing a post I wonder - am I being too obnoxious? What will Pat think? :-)
Through Pat's blog I am able to reach out into a beautiful world of sepia tinted memories, romance, the hardships of war and such a varied range of emotions. I am a nostalgia freak and Pat's blog manages to satiate that side of me like nothing else. I also admire her spunk and positive attitude. She always has something to say, and it's always something nice. The best part - she never sugar coats things and is always honest and forthright. Pat really inspires me and makes me want to be so much better than I am.

Sheer Almshouse: What can I say about this beautiful, gorgeous young woman? I adore her. She is like my soul sister but so much better and focused than I have ever been. I admire everything she does and takes on, and on the days when I'm really feeling down there is always a new post on her blog that speaks to me - like magic! Inspiring me and egging me on. She is so immensely talented - she writes, takes fabulous pictures, designs, creates, cooks, bakes - there is nothing she cannot do! She is honest as hell - making it straight to my heart.

Saltwater Blues: Well, what do you know? We finally have a boy on my list :-) The Blues and I have a lot in common, and that might make it easier for us to get along I suppose. But it's not always the case. Sometimes, when you're alike you have to work harder to not be at loggerheads. I love him for the way he calls a spade a spade, unmasks his feelings and of course, all the wonderful music he plays on his blog. Yes, he makes me laugh out loud too. All the "bludy" time :-)

Agent Green Glass:
I remember the first time I landed up on her blog, I didn't leave until I had read every single post. I've never felt so much like a stalker. She was so much like me and yet so different. She has that magic - she can make you laugh, cry, cuss all in the same breath. She is honest about everything, even when she is scared. That just makes her all the more fearless in my eyes. Before I met her, reading her blog always gave me the feeling that she was too perfect and we could never become friends. Guess what? I was wrong! I am now proud to call her my "fraand".

Mentalie: My head just did a 360 degree turn when I first read her blog. It was like having a bucket of cold water poured over my head. I felt so alive. She writes like a dream but that's just the least of it. It's the things she writes about that blow me away. Her blog is sharp, edgy, humourous and pulls at my heartstrings. A fine writer in my books, one of the best. She is awesome in person too. I should know, we're engaged to be married ;-)

I enjoyed doing this so much and I feel bad about leaving out my other favourite bloggers. So guess what? I am going to come up with my very own award - soon!