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Featured blogger of the week

Arash Farzaneh is an aspiring writer who is currently working as a language professor at a private university in Mexico and a Suite 101 Contributor. Arash has a Master’s in French literature. He has studied psychology and finds it fascinating (but falling second to literature). He is interested in languages (can speak five languages), writing, cinema, music, philosophy, history, psychology, religion and anything in-between.

He considers blogs as modern day versions of confessions because priests are not to be trusted and psychologists are too expensive. Anyway Arash is hoping that it will serve as a form of a dialogue to communicate with the outside world. He also thinks that it would be a good way to get others to read and perhaps appreciate his work. You can fid out more about his work at http://www.arashworld.blogspot.com/. Feel free to disagree because he can take it. Warning: He may cry a bit and punch the wall, but will understand at the end. At least he is making a promise to do so. By the way he is expecting to become a proud father soon. So I wish both of you and the baby all the best.

I must thank all the bloggers who responded positively to be featured here. Please be patient till I go through your blogs and select randomly. If you want to be included in this list please contact me or submit your URL here. By the way, any blogs that are pornographic, defamatory, libelous, tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy, racially or ethnically objectionable, hateful, promotes or provides instructional information about illegal activities, or promotes any act of cruelty to animals will not be featured. Good thing I found this list. Actually, I also don’t know meanings of some of these words. But anyway find a dictionary and check whether you have any of these because I really do not like to reject a request but will have no other option to do so if it is necessary.

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Linkback Project begins new phase. Click the first link below to understand the procedure

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11. Sexy
12. mobile
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16. Homeschooling
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Feeling down?

Last week I was busy with my article on depression. You will find it useful if you are feeling down/depressed. You can click this link to go to my article How to fight against depression?. I do not think it is appropriate to repeat everything in the article here. But I would like to make a suggestion on this. If there’re readers who are feeling down/depressed please try Samaritans. Find the nearest branch from this web site http://www.samaritans.org/ . They will not reveal your personal information to a third party. If you don't like to go there write a letter about your problem. I underwent training at one of their branches as a volunteer and we were given strict instructions on privacy of the callers. I couldn't serve them for long due to my tight schedule. But I know that they can help you. They undergo special training to help their callers to dig out the hidden negative feelings and buildup positive ones to replace the negativity.

By the way you can share your problem here. I can have a separate category in my blog for your problems. You can contact me anonymously with your problem. I will post it here and let the other readers give their suggestions/opinions on that. I myself will try to suggest something useful if it is possible.

Featured Bloggger of the week

Erika Hoagland (also known as Ravyn) is an experienced writer and a recent college graduate. She has been roleplaying for seven years and writing stories nearly all her life. She is making use of these skills to work as a fluff-writer for Victorious Press, an independent tabletop game design company.

From her blog http://exchangeofrealities.today.com/ she is making an attempt to bring the worlds of table-top roleplaying and writing closer together by illustrating techniques usable in both formats. I think you should visit her blog if you’re interested in writing and roleplaying. She will help you to explore the synergy between the writer’s world and the gamer’s, and show members of both the way to best take advantage of the tricks of the trade.

I must thank all the bloggers who responded positively to be featured here. Please be patient till I go through your blogs and select randomly. For those who didn’t see the announcement regarding this and if you want to be selected as the blogger of the week to be featured please contact me or submit your URL here. By the way, any blogs that are pornographic, defamatory, libelous, tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy, racially or ethnically objectionable, hateful, promotes or provides instructional information about illegal activities, or promotes any act of cruelty to animals will not be featured. Good thing I found this list. Actually, I also don’t know meanings of some of these words. But anyway find a dictionary and check whether you have any of these because I really do not like to reject a request but will have no other option to do so if it is necessary.(I must thank http://www.freepixels.com for the image)

A special thank for the supporters who encouraged me last week at
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A contest announcement from crunchnow.com

(Given below is the original announcement from crunchnow. If you have any queries regarding the following contest please forward them to crunchnow.com)

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Featured Bloggger of the week

This week’s featured blogger is Morgan. She is a 24 year old who loves art. Morgan loves making jewelry with her own hands to make it more personal, original and beautiful. If you are looking for earrings, rings, necklaces, and bracelets you must visit her blog http://karmabymorgan.blogspot.com/.

Other than art she enjoys soccer, traveling, comedy, learning and archaeology. You will enjoy her company because she loves to laugh. If you want to find out more about Morgan and her post college life visit http://morganthegreat.blogspot.com/ . It describes in detail about her feelings about life, friends, finding a secure job, funny situations, sad situations, and etc.

I must thank all the bloggers who responded positively to be featured here. Please be patient till I go through your blogs and select randomly. For those who didn’t see the announcement regarding this and if you want to be featured here please contact me or submit your URL here.

By the way, any blogs that are pornographic, defamatory, libelous, tortuous, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy, racially or ethnically objectionable, hateful, promotes or provides instructional information about illegal activities, or promotes any act of cruelty to animals will not be featured. Good thing I found this list. Actually, I also don’t know meanings of some of these words. But anyway find a dictionary and check whether you have any of these because I really do not like to reject a request but will have no other option to do so if it is necessary.
(I must thank http://www.freepixels.com for the image)

Do you want more backlinks ?

I know that most bloggers and webmasters are concerned about backlinks. Here’s a way to get more. Click the first link below to understand the procedure (I am too lazy to type the whole story)

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76. Inside Of Nasz
77. Blog Farahaznil
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80. Suara Dari Keyboard Daddy
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83. Koogita
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86. Aeirin's Collections
87. MerapuLand
88. Ima Blogger
89. Morphed
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91. Mother’s Got a Dot Com
92. Mutiara Hati
93. The Unemployed Dad
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96. Comedy Plus
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102. mar1masri
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104. Link Building

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Good Luck!

Life in a fish tank

I had to take my mother to her friend's place yesterday. I really don’t mind helping her, but waiting for hours and listening to them is not that easy. Some days they go on for hours and I have to wait there like a dummy. It’s true that I make contributions for a very lethargic rate of one word per hour. I listen most of the time because it takes an extra effort to talk. I am waiting very patiently for someone to come up with a contest for the laziest in the world because I have a good chance of grabbing the first place. My mother’s friend is the opposite. She had only few hours to catch the flight to another country. She went to and fro at an unbelievable speed (from my point of view) and kept on talking at the same speed. I was horrified. Anyway I was delighted to hear that I will be able to get away from that place earlier than usual. At the end I had to drag my mother out after a long spell of TWO hours because her good friend was having a tough time managing words and work at the same time. In fact she was out of breath. Unfortunately, my mother didn’t notice this and her friend was not ready to give-up talking. So I had to intervene before she gets hospitalized for high blood pressure.

I almost forgot the topic. While I was waiting I had a good view of their fish tank. Four to five creatures were moving to and fro like my mother’s friend. Luckily they didn’t make any noise like her. They moved forward, backward, turned this way, that way and again back. I really felt sorry for them because they will be moving to and fro in that small fish tank till they die. Then again we are not that different from them. (I must thank http://www.freepixels.com for the image)

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Sorry, I am not reviewing them. I just wanted to share with you this amazing site. But unfortunately Qassia is currently in closed beta. That means, you can sign up only if you were referred by someone who is already a member. Qassia is not available to the general public at this time, but you can put your name on their waiting list. Don’t worry, I got a referral link today and it is my pleasure to invite all my friends who visit my blog. Please feel free to visit Qassia

Weight loss and the magical paste

I was really busy with my article on ‘weight loss’ and didn’t have time to post here. Whenever I visit hubpages to publish my articles I get stuck there. There’re so many interesting hubs to read and I just don’t have time. This is pathetic. Somehow I managed to come out today.

I do not like to type my article here. But I wanted to share with you the recipe for the magical paste since this is a very serious problem faced by many. This will help you to get rid of fat.

Magical Paste

Take the same quantity from the following and mix it up. Grind or squash it to make paste. Add lime and take one teaspoon with your lunch or dinner.

Curry leaves
Malabar Tamarind (Goraka)
Pepper
Garlic
Salt

(Warning: have a glass of water next to your plate if you’re not familiar with spicy food)

Eating the paste alone will not work if you neglect the basics. If you want to find more about the basics please visit How to maintain a good figure and get rid of fat?

In memory of a cockroach

This is another sad story. I am totally responsible for this. You see I have this bad habit of walking without watching where I am going. I keep on thinking about what I write or what I have written. Yesterday when I was walking about like this I heard a noise and felt something under my foot wear. I jumped aside to take a look. Luckily no one was around to laugh at me. I never knew I can jump like that. If I knew I would have ended up at the Olympics. Current record holder should thank me for not taking part. Now back to the story. To my utmost horror I found a cockroach under my foot wear. It was struggling for his life. I just waited there watching the fellow suffer like a dummy. I couldn’t do anything to help. Felt like taking the fellow to the vet. But then again the vet will not be able to fix the broken parts. Clumsy me. Should have watched where I was going. Should have been mindful. This is awful. I really feel bad. So I thought of dedicating this post for that poor creature who sacrificed his life for my clumsiness. Now don’t laugh. This is not a laughing matter. I’m pretty serious.

Get paid to review your neighbor's pet?

Very recently I came to know about a very interesting site called Review Stream where you can review anything around you including stores on your street, the shops you visited, any product you have used or even your neighbor’s pets and get paid for your reviews. Current review rate is $ 2.00 (subject to change it seems). If you write five reviews a day you can easily make $300.00 for that month. I think this is a very good site for someone with a writing talent.

You may think that I am writing a review about them. No, I am not planning anything like that. I only wanted to share this opportunity with you. I also do not have time. I spent hours there reading what others have written to understand the basics. You should do the same if you are planning to start reviewing. But do not take hours like me. I am always slow. I just don’t know the reason for this. Anyway we should always start reading before taking up writing. By the way I must repeat my old story here, ‘I am new to this site and don’t know much about them’.

The destiny of a pen

This is a very sad story of a pen. Actually this is heartbreaking. You may laugh. But, this is horrible. I am totally responsible for this. I will not blame anyone. Now, where did I keep my tissues?

Using an expired facial wash?

Have you ever used an expired facial wash? Well, very recently I started using my expired bottle. No, I didn’t use it on my face. Well it is like this, sometime ago I bought a facial wash to fight against oil and dust. But, my skin gave me a clear warning to ‘give up’ using few pimples. So, I gave up the idea of fighting. I only wanted to help the skin and if there is a rejection I really can’t help. But, I did not have the guts to throw away my weapon. So I just kept on ignoring till I find a way to deceive my skin. At the end I thought of taking a look at my weapon and found that it has expired. But, I didn’t give up. I started using that to clean the tiles. What a sweet fragrance!!!!

Beginner's world

I had a tough time today selecting a video at youtube for my article How to survive as a writer? There were so many good ones and I just found it difficult to select. But, when I came across this video I thought of displaying it here to make you understand the difficulties I underwent when I started blogging. By the way, do let me know if I am still like this.

Get paid for making friends?$*+!@#!

I found a great site with a lot of resources. At Mylot you get to make friends around the world, have discussions on various topics, widen your knowledge and share your secrets. The most interesting part is that they pay you for taking part and making friends. It’s free to join. Does it sound too good to be true? Well I am new to this site and don’t know much about them. I can’t tell you that it is the greatest site in the World Wide Web. It’ll take sometime for me to get used to their set up.

Taking a cat for a walk

Well, this is one of the two little bundles of joy. Earlier he went around playing and climbing trees like his sister. But now, this little fellow is always waiting near the door. Few days ago I found my mother asking this one to come in (Can you believe that my mother who is pretending to loathe them inviting?) But the cat did not move. Just waiting there, sleeping, eating and again waiting. This is a sorry site (don’t worry, he is in good health) I don’t know how to help him. Feel like tying a rope around the neck and taking him for walk. Well, then again it’ll be absurd. But, we might as well make it to the Genius book

How to motivate your child to be the best?

Sorry for taking some time to post. When you have so many things to do and a very little time it is tough. Have you ever seen a person running around like a busy bee and ending up without doing anything useful? Well, I am one of them. I was busy but couldn’t do anything useful. Today I found time to do something useful (hopefully). You see, something is better than nothing. So, I started editing my article about How to motivate your child to be the best? Experience I have gained as a teacher helped me a lot to write this. Working with children is fun. Handling difficult children is very interesting because they always try to teach us. Some of them taught me very good lessons and I became a better teacher because of them (we should always look at the positive side). It’s a pity we do not have many difficult children. The above mentioned article is meant for the parents. Actually it is better if we get a chance to teach some of them first without making a foolish attempt to change their children. Now, don’t come here and protest in front of my house because I know that there’re very good parents who are doing every possible thing on earth to look after their children.

Two little bundles of joy

I thought of starting my blog with my two little bundles of joy. Have you ever had any uninvited visitors to your backyard? Well, we had two little visitors few months ago. Their mother had abandoned them (not completely, paying visits once in a way to check on them, may be to see whether they’re still alive) giving us a wonderful opportunity to make friends with them. They may be very ordinary but I consider them as two little bundles of joy. I always go and check on them and the very sight of them makes me happy. Sometimes I feel very sorry for my little friends when I see them waiting near the door for their meals. My mother doesn’t like the idea of having them inside the house. But she is generous enough to provide them with meals. I also do not like to restrict their freedom because they still visit their own mother who is in the neighborhood. Sometimes you find them entertaining their guests and waiting patiently for them to enjoy their meal or having a good time on the roof.

I found an interesting post regarding living in backyard at,

Skunk in my back yard