My blog is blogged!
It was a sweet surprise to see that my blog is blogged on blogged.com . While checking my websiste stats, I found many visitors coming to my blog through this URL and I clicked on the link out of curiosity and it was good to know that the editor gave me 8.2 points. I found it quite fair.
It is written that, the Editor reviews are provided by professional editors who evaluate a blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style. I personally feel that I could have got more points iff ( yes if and only if), I was more punctual in posting. I have been so busy in promoting my website and my office work, that I am not getting time to do regular blog posts.
However after seeing such feedback and reviews, I plan to write daily and then some more pressing work is there, and the blog takes a back seat. These days I am also busy doing wordpress custom theme designs and I simply love it. I am a programmer by profession, but I love designing and have an eye for detail and I can spend hours working on photoshop and designing stuff and most of the time, I am busy doing that only. So guys, if you are looking for a sleek and clean looking wordpress blog, you can write to me.
Well here is the screenshot from the blogged.com website
Mistaken Identity
In our school, we used to have Sanskrit as a subject and I was really good in that. Infact I remember, most of the Sanskrit teachers used to praise me and they used to say “Asha belongs to far north east then also her diction and pronunciation is so good”.
This famous incident happened when I was in 9th grade,when we had a new Sanskrit teacher. I still remember Mam S. She was very different from other Sanskrit teachers we had in the school. Most of the teachers used to translate Sanskrit into Hindi and teach, whereas Mam S, always used to use English for translation and she was quite good looking too.
So the first day when she came to class, there was no formal introduction with the students and somehow she just started calling me Ms. Thapa. In our class there was one girl, whose name was Ms. V Thapa and she was a mix of Mahastrian mother and a Nepali father, and though she got the surname from her father, she had more of her mother’s genes so she looked more like a Maharashtrian girl. And this sanskrit mam, assuming that there was one girl from Nepal, assumed that it must be me.. because of our asian looks and from day one she started calling me Ms. Thapa.. she used to point towards me and say.. yes Ms. thapa, read that sholoka or translate that sentence, and days passed with her calling me Ms. Thapa all the time.
Let me also add to the fact that this Ms. Thapa was actually our senior who had failed in her class and got demoted and came in our class, whereas I was the bright student in the class, always used to come 1st in my section. So a few days after we had our first unit test and that day I remember, Mam S, came to the class and she was very very upset. As soon as she entered the class, she said.. “Ms. Thapa, I thought you were a very good student and you used to do so nicely in the class and in the written test, you have done so badly, you scored so less.. and she kept looking at me and saying that” and then she added.. ” Well there is one more girl, Asha, she has done really well in the test and she got the highest marks” and she was then distibuting the test paper and was calling out the names of the students, for the first time. So when she called Asha, I went to collect my paper and Mam S was shocked.. she was like.. why are you coming… I replied, Mam’ I am only Asha. And she was like.. then who is this Thapa and that time the actual Ms. Thapa came and Mam S.. got very angry.. she was saying, why you people did not tell me earlier.. she said, I was always calling you Thapa, and you never said that it’s not you.. and I replied, M’am you never gave a chance. From day one, you just came in and assumed it was me.. and so I also kept quiet… and from that day she started calling me ‘ASHA’ !!
Seo-Keywords-Ranking
One of my resolutions for 2008 was to do regular posting on my blog and make it more popular. So here I am thinking what to write today. Today there is no post, just figures to look at and I am happy to look at these figures. My SEO knowledge and work on the site is paying now and with the start of 2008, I am seeing an increased traffic on my site and also an increase in the earnings. Check out the image which shows my baby site’s keyword activity for 3 hours. Most of my traffic is from organic search and returning visitors or visitors recommended by the parents who frequent the site so often. It seems the site is doing really really well in mos of the keywords I aimed for and they are all ranked on first page and most of them on 1st and 2nd position.
