Thank You BlogAwards.pk, CIO Pakistan and Google
1 - BlogAwards.pk Trophy/Shield/Monument?
You guys probably already know that, this my little tiny place won an award couple of months ago somehow. That was Pakistan first blog Awards managed by CIO Pakistan with help of Google and some other industry giant sponsors like Nokia, Dell, Canon etc. That was and is an amazing initiative and will truly not only help Pakistan blogosphere prosper, produce an awareness among the readers and inspires other to start blogging. This in turn will give a medium to our young generation to express themself, participate in healthy debates, get a load of information and current affairs, spend some quality time on Internet and will also act as an alternative for book reading a habit which constantly declining over the world but at double pace in Pakistan.
Anyways, that is one reason to thank the management of the BlogAwards.pk to initiate an amazing trend but there is another personal one. Yesterday I received the gift hamper form BlogAwards.pk for my blog award that I won. The award was given to ReversSwing.wordpress.com the old shape of this blog. Receiving such gifts is always very exciting specially for me as I never had a luck in these things. Throughout my academic career I was sitting tight on 4, 5 position while trophies were given to only top three in the class. Only few times I managed to find to reach the stage and get a prize etc which I kept at our shelf for many years. Than my luck is similar with other things which involve luck, I have never ever won a prize through lucky draw no matter how small, I never ever got small promotional bonuses companies hide in packing specially in kid’s food item like candies etc. I am also very bad at chance games etc.
2 - Coffee Mug
So all that make these small prizes or gifts very special and I felt like a kid once again yesterday when I woke up and found a courier waiting for me to open it. So I thought why not share this with you guys and show that beautiful gift hamper they managed to send every winner. Great job BlogAwards.pk
- Fist item is kinda shield or monument which is nice one and I guess best of the lot. It has Crystal like RSS icon on top of wooden base with a steel plate which my name engraved in it with other nice things
, amazing isn’t it. - Second is a special coffee mug with a lid and BlogAwards.pk and Naseeb printed on both site, a handy gadget.
- There is a CIO and BlogAwrads.pk specially printed writing pad and event calender. Plus a leather key chain with Google on it. Again good things to have.
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3 - Event Calender and Key Chain
Than there is a black T-Shirt with DELL logo on the back and “I 8ENDED THE 1ST ANUAL BLOGAWARDS.pk” printed on front. I really like the T-Shirt as its fitting was amazing usually people send large size at these occasions but they send me medium which is a perfect fit.
- Last but not least, they send an AJRAK which is a beautiful cultural part of SIND. It is a type of garment which is specially unique and known for its special printing. (More images here). Now that printing has become an art design and has started to appear on many things beside clothes. Interesting thing is some one so genius actually use to wrap the above mentioned Trophy in it to avoid any damage during the courier from Karachi to Lahore, and boy these courier guys handle things so roughly. So another nice thing done.
4 - BlogAwards.pk T-Shirt
All this might not be important for someone out there or they will not find it special or significant but I guess it is for me atleast. And this also showcase that if an idea is executed with dedication and isnpiration could do wonders. Keep up the good work BlogAwards.pk
Sorry to chaps looking for some cricket stuff, this post was clearly not about cricket. But for the change of taste:
- India is playing Sri Lanka in another one too many encounters and at home Sri Lankan batsmen are trashing Indian poor bowling attack on run producing belts. Interestingly in second test Sri Lanka also don’t have the best bowling attack they can possibly have, so Indian batsmen will not waste this chance as Sehwag is already on course of another punishing inning. So match is clearly heading towards a draw and that too a boring one.
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5 - Beautiful AJRAK
Thursday Pakistan is going to take on England in England, not a piece of cake at all. Leeds win was good to go ahead but there is no easy task ahead to go through motions instead it is very steep one.
Some more posts are in my pressure cooker above my head but I just hope I will find enough time to write them down you way, specially I feel a Murali post is must, what a player he is and than of course Pakistan v England test series if not more must be at least as exciting as Pakistan v Austrlia was. So some post on that etc.
For now have fun!
Wow this is cool, I want the mug
Reminds me that I still have to change the permalinks on my blog from RS to CricketVibe. Congrats Maddy, I voted for you (many times haha)
Cheers,
Wes
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@Wes, Thanks, Yea I think bcoz of you and no competitors i won all this
hurray 
Yeah nobody dared to challenge you. Very smart of them
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Hey Mudassir congrats dude….thats so nice to be appreciated some way..
Good going mate.. Keep it up..
P.S. I need the key chain :s
@Rafia, Thanks, I am trying to
Oh sorry I need that too as currently I have 3 very important keys with me which hangs around in my purse freely ready to be dropped or missed any where and thats the state of my life organisation.
But you can have AJRAK but i guess you already must have some as it is common in SIND but here in Punjab it is considered as special gift. So I am thinking of giving it to my lil sister.
Mug is already booked by Wes
So you can choose between Calender or trophy, t-shirt? oh I already used it couple of times.
How is geek thing going?
huh you cant even purchase a single keychain to hold your keys :s
Oh yeah you’re right I have already got too many of them.. Ajrak suits, Ajrak bedsheets and things plus I too want you to give it your sister. Poor girl would be receiving first gift from his miserable brother lol..
What will I do with the event calendar or that trash material(read: trophy :p) so will be praying for your next award then eww..
geek thing is going way too downward .. just wishing to get rid of it :S
@Rafia LOL , you see, thats why I told you it is better to get rid of that geek thing otherwise you are going to end up like this, miserable
By the way wht u want let me know, I should let them know so they can arrange it in next award?
ohK so thats an offer..right ??
I would need to think about that seriously..once a lifetime chance u know
Hopefully, I’ll be the one who gets that shield next year.
. Cheers mate!
-Zain R. Mian
and P.S. Do you have any blogging tips that you would want to share with me, perhaps?
@Zain, here comes another Sports blog and it is about football and a good one. Hit The Bar
Well best of luck mate.
Tips: Well what can I say I don’t even follow any tips myself. I think just write what you feel and what come from inside of you, that will make the content unique and fresh. Copying someone of following a specific common trend will soon vanish you in thousands of blogs around. Update regularly but with quality content, not like me updating too less and with not so good posts. I think you know better than me. Keep up the good work and Welcome to CricketVibe.
Okay, thank you very much (both for the advice and for appreciating my blog). Just one more thing, what do you think are the best ways to attract traffic to a blog (because that seems to be a big problem for me) and how many (on average) views does your blog ususally get daily?.
Thanks,
Zain R. Mian
P.S. Your blog is very good too
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@Zain, well i would say don’t worry about traffic much, just do it for self satisfaction and enjoy it. That will help you produce good content which will bring traffic. But traffic will not come soon it will take some time at least as far as my experience is and I am not good at it. This blog itself doesn’t have much traffic.
One important thing is to be a good blogger you have to read a lot of blogs specially one related to your topics. That will also help you find information etc and will also help you find friends and they will know you and your blog which is an automatic marketing.
Than comment on their blogs but those comments must be related to topic and participate in discussion based on your knowledge not just only copy paste your link bcoz that will not be good. Yes you can link you name to your blog and use it as reference here and there when needed.
All this will take time but if you will keep producing good content you will get some traffic and readers.
Best of luck.
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congrats Maddy pai
@Hammad, thanku Hmaadi pai, congrats to u too
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