We didn't make it to the Top 12

From all the excitement in the previous blog to all low today....

We could not make it to the top 12. It was heart-breaking, disappointing, shattering and the entire painful words one can describe. Not that we have one so many challenges in the past that we should be disheartened. In fact, coming to think of it, i have never one a challenge/prizes/event apart from the school level 100 meter sprint.

I had set so many things on this and now we are back to square one. I am planning to take the day off as i have a bad head-ache since the results are out.

Anyway, I will be doing something soon just to take this off my mind. Somewhere deep inside I have given hopes of ever competing again. Our daily routine is enough to survive I think....

On a sad note, see you all soon...

We are in the TOP 100

Wuuuuuuu... Huuuuuuuuuu

Yipee.....

We are in. Guess all the fingers crossing has done its job for us. We are in and it feels good. This is the first time that i am selected (Even if its the first round) for any event. So many messages, mails, calls to so many events.... and this one worked.... I am happy.

Now its down to working on the paper work.... documents, etc....

Hmmmmm, let me cross my fingers for the next process of selection.

The wait is over

After pondering on the website of the driving challenge for weeks, the wait is finally over. Today, being the last day for people to do something with their profiles. It’s quite weird as it feels that we have nothing to do in the evenings anymore. No more pushing friends to vote, no more running behind office mates to write a testimonial and no more comparing our votes with other to see if anything new has been happening.

Must say, a couple of guys have a good profile and deserve to win. But the fact that we have been there from 22nd June morning post reading the add in the newspaper, makes me believe that we should make it to the top 100. For whatever reason, if I don’t get this, i will feel that the real people, who try things the better way, get nothing.

So lets see, hope for the best and keep your fingers crossed.

The Challenge and the Honey moon trip

Forgot to mention 300 but 400 looks good. It is a humongous challenge to push your friends to Vote and then the stupid website does not send the mail. I have lost over 50 votes just because the mails did not go from the website to my friends. I wish there was a way out....

The good thing is, if i am facing this problem, everyone are.. :)

I will surely push people to get me till 500. i still have not asked my office team to vote, keeping for the last day. 500 votes at least 50 testimonials and in the top 100 would give me satisfaction that i at least stand a chance.

17th is the D day, lets see how things go.

Amidst all this chaos, Anu and i were planning our honey moon and we could not think of many places. Although we have an idea of what we want. something like a beach is for sure (The snow idea has been put on hold), Out of the country is for sure (We can always visit places in India right) and the budget should not be more than a Lakh.... does that sound like a plan????

Milestone 200

Its amazing that we crossed 200 votes at 4 pm today. What a feeling i had. I thought, ok, now we are getting somewhere. It took a lot of courage to check the names list by popularity. We needed it coz i saw that a lot of people were demonstrating last few days of aggresive voting. And boy were we in for a surprise, almost everyone were getting 20-30 votes every day. We needed to do something... Give me an idea fast.... somebody give me an idea!!!

A daily routine

1. Wake up in morning and log in to ee if you got votes

2. Check mail for anything important

3. head to office and think about all the activities for the day

4. Time flies doing something or the other.

5. Check for votes sometime during the day and crib that nothing has happened

6. get back in the evening listening to some hit numbers on the Radio

7. Do something for dinner

8. Hit the bed...

...Such a monotonous life... What can be done to bring a change???

Im sure this question keeps bugging us all. Does anyone have an answer, i would not know. But one thing is for sure, that day is not far when we would brake loose and just do what we have to...

Trying hard to remain in the 3rd Page

It took Anita 2 days, a lot of patience and even lot of calls to friends in order to increase our votes and come back in to the 3rd Page. The top guys are battleling it out by trying to reach 1000 votes and here we are struggling to reach 150. I am note sure where this is going and i am slowly loosing patience.

Give me some hope guys. We are trying our best. I guess its just not enough and surely, such a challenge is just a dream for a 9 to 5 working class member like us.

It has been 2 agonizing weeks to reach 100 votes as of today at the The Great Driving Challenge. Its weird that some contestants have reached 500 to 600 votes. I just don’t seem to attract that many friends or people. Guess there networking must be really good.

I am not quite sure how the top 100 members would be shortlisted. Would it purely be on votes or the content or just the story you place in your travelogue. Either ways, this is one hell of a place to be in right now.

Let me thank you in advance for taking the trouble to vote for us, can't tell you how much Anu and I appreciate it.