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Thirteenth Annual Weblogs Award nomination

Thank you Susan for nominating my blog for the Thirteenth Annual Weblog Award in the following categories:

  • Best Asian Weblog 
  • Best Topical Weblog 
  • Weblog of the Year

I am truly honoured and humbled to have been nominated.

Please help my blog to be one of the most-nominated by clicking on this link and following the instructions before 27 Jan 2013  for the above categories or any others that are suitable.

How to nominate?

  • Click on the following website. All you need to do is have a valid email address and visit the nomination page.

                          http://2013.bloggi.es

  •  Scroll down, fill in the name of the blog and the URL address.
  • Please type nepaliaustralian in nominee and                     nepaliaustralian.wordpress.com in URL. Your ballot must     contain at least three unique nominees in total.
  • Supply your email address in the form at the bottom.
  • Complete the captcha security words and submit.
  • You’ll get an email (Please be sure to check your spam filter if you don’t get it within few minutes) with a link to click on,. Please click it, and your nomination will be verified.

Thank you everyone for all the support.

2012 in review

Dear friends, readers, commenters, likers, followers and others,

Thank you everyone for awesome 2012. Thanks to your interactions on this blog. Your readership makes this blog worth keeping up and I can’t express my gratitude warmly enough for engaging with me and my posts and helping me reflect continually at different levels and conversing with the quality hearts and minds that you have.

Just sharing  2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Crunchy numbers

15,000 cans of diet soda were consumed at New York Fashion Week. This blog had about 160,000 views in 2012. If these were cans of diet soda, they’d power 11 Fashion Weeks.

In 2012, there were 268 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 363 posts.

The busiest day of the year was November 14th with 1,302 views. The most popular post that day was Kukur Puja: Tihar  .

Attractions in 2012

These are the posts that got the most views in 2012.

Today, I just would like to thank each of  you for your great  support and appreciation which has constantly served as motivation for me and I hope  that you will continue supporting me the same way in future also.

Bring on 2013

Dashain Tika update

So here is the update on my Dashain from Sydney. Yesterday I took a day off from work and stayed home to celebrate Dashain.

I wore my red sari to be in a festive mood and performed the puja at home first.

Then we went to my brother’s place for the celebration.

As my brother’s MIL is in town, she put tika for all of us.  Also I got tika and blessings from all the other elder persons. It was really fun as there were so many of us there.

Then I and my husband put tika on all the younger ones.

It is the first Dashain for my nephew but he can’t put tika on yet as he hasn’t completed his Pasni ceremony. Still we bought him a Dashain gift and it was a cute Jumper from pumpkin patch. He looked so cute with his new jumper on 🙂

We had a great time as we played card and have some yummy food. 🙂

Here are some photos.

Hope everyone is having a great time this Dashain.

How do you deal with negative/rude comments in your blog?

I am sure I am not the only one but everyone who has a blog gets negative or rude comments from some random people form time to time. Today I want to open a platform for everyone who have a blog and reads my blog to share their story.

I have read a few posts from time to time from other bloggers about people who are an individual or group of people constantly writing negative or rude comments on their blog to the point that it makes them upset and angry. I even read that they had a break down after reading the hurtful messages.

I have to admit I do have had a handful of these comments as well but I never published it, I just ignore them by deleting it. I don’t want to encourage them further by responding to their stupid and rude ideas.

The first time I got such comment, I was really hurt. It’s so hard not to have an emotional reaction when someone says something negative/rude about a post you’ve spent ages writing. I let that comment get me because it was directed to me in such a rude way. I really wanted to respond with an equally angry (but not rude) comment but after the initial anger, I realised that these people are not worth my time.

One of the reasons I decided not to publish those comments is because I don’t want them to have the satisfaction of those rude comments being read by many people who read my blog. Also they were made not only towards me alone but were towards Nepali people, women in general or to one of the comments on my post.

I believe these people are just loud mouthed and very negative, full of hot air. For whatever reason, they decided that they do not like something I’ve done, what I said or just take offense at me. They make it a personal mission to attack me in public throwing accusations at me via my blog.

If they have so much time to spread hatred, that is their choice in their life. I decided I should not help them in their mission so I am not wasting any of my time on them. If I have time to write, I better write another post so I can share more with my readers. I know I am better than these rude people so I decided to use my time and words in a positive way than becoming tangled in a stupid war of words.

I have come across blogs where I didn’t agree with the ideas expressed by the author or didn’t like the post. But I believe that if I can’t say something nice, I won’t say anything at all. From the next time, I made sure that I didn’t visit their blog and that is the end of it.

How often have you got rude comments on your blog? How do you deal with them?

100,000 pageview

Hooray!!!!!! One more reason to celebrate!!!

Only last week I celebrated my one year of blogging and now I am pleased to announce that nepaliaustralian has marked 100,000 views. Yes one hundred thousand :). The month of September has one more reason for celebration now.

I’m sure there are other blogs that get that kind of traffic in a month, a week or even a day but for me reaching the milestone of 100,000 feels pretty good.

For a year now, this blog has been my baby and to see it being read and appreciated makes me the happiest person ever.

Here is a list of the top countries  who viewed my blog:

Thank you so much everyone once again for being a part of my journey and I dedicate this post to all you readers.

Thank you, Thank you all!!!