Winding Up 2017

It was for the first time I had Resolutions in 2017 and it sure did not suck. May be for the reason that they were not actually resolutions, instead were a plan of action. Yes, I did not meet them all, but, Satisfactory? Hell yeah! Here is quick summary post of the list and yes, all this along with professionally tied works!

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1. The More Bucket:

1.1 General Blog posts:
The plan was to have 120 blog posts and ended up with 149 (including this). I know you all agree that blogging is definitely fun!

1.2 Reading Novels:
The plan was to stop at 12 and could not. It went to 20. The Year in Goodreads sums it all. Touched a lot of classics and definitely made my year.

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2. The Equal Bucket:

2.1 Technical Blog Posts:
120 was the goal and 120 it is! Questioning the quality of posts, I agree they were not to the expectation and got to improve.  They will in 2018.

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3. The Less Bucket:

3.1 Reading Research Papers:
The plan was 120 and I could go till 86. I still consider that as a good number but 120 should have not been difficult to achieve.

3.2 Coursera Courses:
Was supposed to complete 10 but the model changed and most of the courses were no longer free. Now the model also has a subscription fee as well. I could only manage to complete 3 courses this year. However overall I have managed to complete 31 by far.

3.3 Writing Ebooks:
07 out of 12 were completed and 03 are work-in-progress. I missed on this one badly. 100 Haiku , See, Say, Market Recommendations , Poem Shop , A to Z – Poem for an Idiom , The Web Circular , The Void and Hashing are the published ones.

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Others that made the Year memorable:

Apart from winning few prizes in the contests, getting a poem published in an anthology and teaching a class of super enthusiastic students, here are other things that kept me happy through the year:

• Completing A to Z challenge in the month of April
• Completing Two NaNo camps (April and July)
• Working as a ML for NaNoWriMo India (November)
• 4 version releases of my research work
• My NaNoWriMo 2016 novel went through the first editorial review and I still have hopes of getting it published
• Completing most of my technical text book
• An hour long exercise everyday (with a break on sundays and when sick!)

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It’s been an year which I am thankful about and to a lot of people as well! A year that has given me hopes that much better things can happen in 2018. I am going to set my goals high and better.

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IBMC Challengers – December 2017

This is a summary post of challengers who have completed or on-going with the Incredible Blogger Marathon Challenge for the month of December 2017. The challenge was instantiated in the early second week of April 2016 and a part of WordPress Event which can be found HERE.

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Rekha from the blog Amore Natura is the Forty Fourth blogger to complete this challenge. Her words speak experiences and wisdom. I have enjoyed reading the challenge prompts, thoroughly!  The first one can be found here: The Cool and The Fool.

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Ritwik from the blog SCRIBBLES has completed two challenges so far and the first one can be found here: Tick Tock Tick Tock.

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‘Thank you’ to all who have taken/been taking the challenge and to all who have liked them. Feel free to take up the challenge if it excites you!

A list of all the completed challengers can be found HERE. 

 

Dance of the Devils

There rests,
Tunes of the wicked,
Beats of immoral,
A language of the foul,
A ballet of the imps,
Wanting to rule,
For eternity.

In the same place,
Where the love lies.

When the love lies,
It’s the dance of the devils.

Life, Ride.

This post is written for Three Line Tales Week 100 hosted by Sonya. The challenge is to write a three line tale for the supplied image. And yayy, it’s week number 100. Three cheers to Sonya for the 100.

Manu Sanchez via Unsplash

Life.

A roller coaster ride.

Whoever you are.

The Rules

 

Young,
Made to see the rules,
Vows, perfumed crap.

Adult,
Struggles, deprived thoughts,
Still stick around the rules.

Older,
Everything taken away,
Away, no more young.

Rules,
Unforgiven.

More and Miss

You were deceived,
When you were told,
“There is always a tomorrow!”

The sun will rise again,
But it’s never the same.

The unpleasant reality,
Truly,
Is that,
You might have missed A start,
But,
How many more,
Will you miss?

Lost in Time!

For no one would know,
How much I loved you,
Because,
I will never be the same old me,
A version of me,
Lost in time!

My imprints in you,
My flavors in you,
All that made you, from me,
You decided to let go,
A version of me in you,
Lost in time!

Another you,
I would never find,
Another same me,
Would never exist.
Yet another unique love story,
Lost in time!

Talking of Books and 2017

Yayy!  and here is why!

I know 20 is lot less but with the workload and things that go into my plate, I am pretty excited to complete my Goodreads 2017 challenge.

Here is how I am going to put the 20 into different buckets!

Bucket 01: The Top-Notch – Exceptionally good

Bucket 02: The Gems – loved and enjoyed reading them

Bucket 03: The good good reads

Bucket 04: The good reads

Bucket 05: Could have ignored them!

Well, I have decided to double the number for 2018 and I am already excited.

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Note:
We all have our own interests and reading habits with respect to books and genres. If your classification matches mine, I would sure love to hear some recommendations.

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Kafka on the Shore – Book Review

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator).

Wild!
Brilliant, Splendid, Glorious and every other word that describes the category. Wow! Just wow! All I question is, “How could some one put up something so beautiful?”

I ended up with a lot of questions. A lot to seek. A lot more than just a riddle. But that’s the beauty of it. I was taken away to the different world – I just sit and think, but mostly blank.

I guess this book surpasses every other book I have read so far and may never find an alternate equivalent!

The Pieces

Pieces from parts,
Pieces from whole,
Pieces from depth,
Pieces from surface,
Pieces from push,
Pieces from pull,
Pieces from person,
Pieces frompieces,
Missing pieces.

More. 

Life has to go on!