Reading on and on and on!

Reading is my passion and here is my story about it. It all started at a young age when I started reading Tinkle Comics.I don't remember who gave us(my elder brother and a younger sister) our first copy of Tinkle comics.Maybe it was our father or maybe it was my aunt.Whoever it was we were hooked on to it.In the later years both my dad and aunt bought us a number of comics.But My dad was the one sole person who influenced us to dig more into this reading.He told us countless stories from the novels he read and these stories were wonderful and as a kid they fascinated me a lot.This slowly developed in me an urge to start reading novels and all this culminated in one fateful day when I borrowed from our awesome school's library in my seventh standard, my first novel 'King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table' from the truly 'Great Illustrated Classics'.The book was great and the tales of ancient knights interested me and I rushed back to library to take my second novel,HG wells' 'The Time Machine'.This was the start of a truly memorable period of my life when I borrowed one book after another.I completed the whole 'Great illustrated classics' series soon.
Now I was well and truly hooked and one book followed another.As I grew up I found new authors and new books.In my 9th class I read 'The Da Vinci Code' which helped me bag the first prize in the Best Reader Contest which was held annually in our school.This started an uninterrupted phase when I bagged the first prize for four consecutive years till I passed out of my junior college in my 12th.
On the way I read books of many authors some of whom are Alistair Maclean,Micheal Crichton,Robert Ludlom and Frederick Forsyth.The names mentioned are also my favorite ones.
Every now and then a book comes along and it influences you in different ways. 'The Da Vinci code' was one for me,then two months back I read 'The Fountain Head' by Ayn Rand.most of it,I admit,went above my head but nevertheless it proved to be an interesting read.The philospohy of the different characters with their actions were something completely new to me and it started a chain reaction to read books of a different kind. Iam following this new thought and I am in the lookout for new books to read.

My Favorite Novel-Icon by Frederick Forsyth.
Favorite Author- Frederick Forsyth
Favorite Horror Authors- Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce

Me,Myself and me again!

This is my first post in my fourth blog and this post is going to be all about me.I used to avoid these 'about me' sections but here I am not going to hold back.Let me warn you that I am going to indulge myself here and this might become a tad bit boring for the reader,in the off chance that somebody does read this.So apologies.So,with my warning note and without further ado,here it is.

My Educational Background.
Right now I am pursuing my PG in Thermal Power Plant Technology in Jindal Institute of Power Plant Technology in Raigarh,Chhattisgarh.
I have a BE in Mechanical Engineering and got my BE from Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology,Hyderabad which is affiliated to Osmania University,Hyderabad.
I am happy to write that at the point of my writing this i have been placed in Jindal Power Limited.My job will start from september next year.

Now,getting down to the real or main part of this post.
I love reading books and travelling.These two are my greatest passions.Apart from these two anything related to History,Adventure,International Politics,Heritage Buildings,charity and a little bit of Geography catches my interest now and then.And oh,i nearly forgot I am a HUGE, HUGE fan of Korean Movies.

Coming to Travelling, I am interested in adventure travel,history inclined travel and nature travel.'The more unpredictable a trip becomes, the more fun it is',is what I believe.I have been to many places in India and many remote but interesting places in Andhra Pradesh.I have many travel plans for the future and hope to complete them all.

The kind of music I listen to- Trance,Kpop,old hindi songs,electronic and the usual movie songs.
Movies- Mostly English.Sometimes hindi and nowadays Korean too with an odd Iranian,Tamil,Kannad,French,swedish and Telugu thrown in.

I write four blogs, one on Heritage of Hyderabad,one on my travels,one about our group of friends and the last is the one in which I am posting this.

My biggest achievement taking into account all the factors, is being the Captain of the winning team in the All India Quiz Contest held at Youth Festival of Atomic Energy Central Schools (the branch of this school where I studied was in Manuguru.It has branches all over India).That was a big day in my life and it changed many things for me.My other achievements of which I am quite proud of are
-winning the Best Reader award given to us in our school,for four consecutive years.From my 9th to 12th.
-Starting a magazine and becoming its Editor while in College.
-Starting a Students' Activity Club.
-Starting a club with my friends and schoolmates for pursuing our hobbies.

Some of the titles my friends and acquaintances have given me are,this is right from my childhood, 'Role Model' 'Mr perfect' 'Mr Adventurous 'the initiator''Walking Encyclopedia 'Master Shifu''Mr Cool'and also 'the old man' I don't take all of this too seriously but I am human and it feels good when somebody calls you these,apart from that 'old man' of course.

There you go! I have let go of everything now! Feels good!
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