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I am feeling bored….very bored…and have got nth to twitter about. (Oh btw twitter has been my new addiction and according to Twitter Grade, am in the list of Elites of Kathmandu hehe)

Oh one thing: Interestingly one of my friends returned from Australia after around 2 or 3 years. He had inherited this little bit of ae (mark this: that’s what I say to OZ accent lol) accent. No no, I don’t have problem with the ae accent. We were chatting about this and that: and in every sentence he says: Oh this doesn’t happen in our aus.

We have 14 hours of load shedding: This is unimaginable in our Aus.

Pollution: Our Aussie government would have been toppled.

Protest, bandh: In our Aus, Are you kidding?

Murder, theft, kidnap and other crimes: No way in our Aus.

The only problem he has is: He’s immigrant who doesn’t have any rights. He can’t even work there more than 20 hours legally and still he calls Australia “his”. Ha! have you heard such hilarious joke? (still can’t stop laughing )

Oh, did I tell you: after landing in Kathmandu, he got sick because of pollution, and even drinking water didn’t suit him. So he’s now in mercy of mineral water. (For nearly 19 years, this same water and climate nurtured him and now!!!)

People are talking about 7^th wonders of world. And if they searched 8^th one, he would sure be on top list.

Oh may be he doesn’t get sick in his Australia. But poor soul, he’s in my Nepal

(Wondering: is this the Change? If it is, then I bet, Change is coming to Nepal)

BBC is under immense pressure from political and right groups for deciding not to air charity appeal for GAZA claiming it would undermine it’s impartiality. DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee), an umbrella of various aid groups including Action Aid, British Red Cross, Care International, Oxfam, Save the Children etc. had asked BBC to air it’s appeal for Gaza people.

Ha! what BBC is talking about? Impartiality? Have we forgotten Iraq war? BBC very fondly played US/UK propaganda and now it’s talking about impartiality? And don’t you think BBC has already taken side by deciding not to air the charity appeal.

People of Gaza needs supports to rebuild their lives, houses, society etc. destroyed by Israel. Now in such humanitarian crisis scenario, BBC talks about impartiality. What comes first? Humanity or impartiality? If impartiality always come first, then why do Geneva conventions binds all countries to protect injured enemy? And if airing charity would make BBC lose it’s impartiality, does it mean Red Cross and Save the Children have already lost it’s neutrality?

Apart from this in another disturbing news, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said that Israel will protect from prosecution any of its soldiers accused of war crimes in Gaza. What does this mean? You can do all the atrocities and be safe from justice? Then why prosecuting many generals/armies/leaders from Yugoslavia or Cambodia or Liberia or Sudan or any other country who has committed atrocities? Then Nazis should also have been spared. After all, all they did was to protect their country, their power, their pride, their i-don’t-know-what-else.

Justice should prevail, and that too equally for all.

Around 10 years back, when i was around 12 yrs old, i had struggled so hard to watch one movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. I had spent precious 125 rs for a ticket though the ticket price was mere 40 or so. 10 years after, am again watching ths movie on cable (yet bloggin usin cell, ). Then i had liked ths movie, now laughing at its fashion, choice of colors, and so many things. Hehe sometimes its fun to watch old movies.
Oh btw may be Chadni Chowk to China includes dialogue saying Lord Buddha was born in India, which is not true at all. He was born in Nepal. No No, m not trying to be nationalist but just advocating truth. I believe truth should not be twisted

So Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th President of U.S.A. Finally after 8 years of miserable Bush era, a new hope has entered the White House.

He has broken the racial division, but still there are lots of other hurdles. The freedom US talks about is still to be met. Still people are discriminated for their orientation, religion and views. I hope this would be broken as well.

The world hopes that his administration would be able to transform the current financial crisis to financial boom. This crisis has even started to affect country like ours. His foreign policy would end the war and bring peace in the middle east and elsewhere around the world, US would take steps to control climate change, increase aid for developing nations and help to control epidemic of various diseases.

In summary, we all have high hopes/expectations from him. Would he be able to deliver or not, it’s yet to be seen. When there’s high expectations, chances of failures are also high. I hope he won’t disappoint us.

• Listening to songs and draining out my cell’s and MP3’s battery and again waiting for power to come back so that I can charge it again.
• Following proverb: Early to bed and early to rise (god knows about other half)
• Searching for electricity and roaming around the city.
• Yawning endlessly and wondering what I could do in such situation.
• Reading books
• Wondering what’s happening in blogosphere and feeling bad I can’t follow properly.
• And above all: Feeling happy whenever I see electricity (mark it anywhere that is)

What about other Nepali fellows? What are you upto?

Thank you policy makers and politicians, we have 16 hours a day load shedding.

Wondering what should i do in precious 8 hours??

I am cleaning up my dear PC. It’s been as messy as my bedroom. So while cleaning up, I found so many things, things which were dear to me once; few published articles, few half written ones, old pictures etc. Reading those articles, seeing those pictures again, brought memories and with memories a smile in my face.

I am listening to those songs I used to love many years back, searching every possible pictures and smiling remembering those events. One particular in my hand right now is taken at Shivapuri while we went there for swimming. It was January and temperature must have been around 10 °C. You can imagine how cold water must have been. But we dived in and came out within a second being numb. May be that was adrenaline effect.

Another is taken at Kirtipur. It was June and raining heavily, but still we went out. When we returned home, we were drenched. Not only pictures, I also found blueprints of some of our early ventures. We didn’t know how to do budgeting, so result had been inflated and messy budget. And hurray: we didn’t get that project hehe I found designs of some village e-commerce project. We got the project, but could never finish it. Still I wonder what went wrong there.

I still remember the craze of titanic pose (I have few pics of myself too ), those boy band songs (Remember Westlife, NSYNC, BackStreet Boys??), Britney Spears, Harry Potter-mania….. And how could I forget Eminem . All of them are like dreams now.

Ohh, I wish I could be back in that time

Lemme start this post with bad news. The laptop would cost me around $350 and I don’t understand how it would cost me that much. It was just a pin that was dislocated and they are talking about changing whole board. For time being, they have taken out the charger pin out of the laptop and it’s hanging like “Hanging Garden”.
But on the good news: I spent my new years eve at bar drinking with my friends and then on new years day, went out with my friends to far away hill station to celebrate. I spent around 4 days there.

I loved that place because:

• There was no load shedding, Not at all.
• There was 24 hours water system. (Phew, and we think it as a rural area. Shame on us)

But interesting thing was: the bus ride. I had scary ride of my life as we discovered that headlights were not working and the road was narrow and winding, to summarize a very scary one, believe me. We didn’t have choice than to keep on travelling or else we would have been stranded in middle of jungle. One of my friends had torchlight and she gave it to driver so that he could see the road, but to our dismay, conductor used it to collect fares and show passengers their seats.

Local people were so comfortable with the situation that instead of being worried about the bus, they were worried about their seats. Ride of 12 km of winding, narrow road took more than 45 minutes. Finally when we reached our destination, we felt like we have conquered over probable accident.
After 4 days of good times, I am again back to same problems: no power, water shortage, traffic chaos. Wish I could migrate to that fairy land again.

This is not a HDR picture. Image was adjusted using Lightroom. Created by increasing blacks and fill light.

Pics: Various sources from net. (I will post my own pics later)