Where the sour turns to sweet

Where the sour turns to sweet, originally uploaded by Rune T.

Awesome Phtography by Rune T.

Nepali typical poem

I got this forwarded email from my friend Pramod Rimal. As he has not mentioned the name of the writer... I suppose some will know about it . Then I will post his name as well in my blog.

कालीले I love u, भन्दै भनिन

खैरिनीले झन, गन्दै गनिन

Mexicon ले Hug गरी, गाला सम्म दलेकै हो

थरुनी जस्ती Ethiyopian देख्दा, तेस्रो नेत्र नि बलेकै हो

Department बेग्लै, भेट्नै गारो

त्यस्को English नि, बुझ्नै सारो

मन त बिस्तारै मिल्थ्यो होला, पाईला कसैको सर्दै सरेन ।

अनि त के पर्नु लभ, पर्दै परेन ।।



नेपाली केटीलाई New mexico, थाहै छैन जस्तो छ

Class जाउँ कालो face,बाक्लो जुँगै सस्तो छ

एक दुई वटी Local खैरिनी,आक्कल झुक्कल देखेकै हो

कपडा लाउनै अल्छी गर्छन्, हाम्रो खप्पराँ नि लेखेकै हो

Coffee बोकी skateboard चढ्नेले, खै हाम्लाई के गन्लान् ?

जानै मानेनि चुरोट तान्नेलाई, बा'ले बुहारी कसरी भन्लान् ?

यस्तै सोची खैरिनी ताक्ने, छोराले आँट गर्दै गरेन ।

आँट्न र ढाँट्न नजान्नेको, के पर्नु लभ पर्दै परेन ।।



Gay भन्छन् रे सँगै हिडे, केटासँग हिड्नै नपाइने रैछ

ईज्जतै धान्न नि हात समाई हिड्ने, एउटी तरुनी त चाइने रैछ

Bike को त कुरै छाडौं, car किन्न नि डलर मरु

Hight तन्केन Body फुलेन, बुढेसकालमा खै के गरुँ ?

दिनहुँ नुहाई zatak नै छरे नि

खौरेर दारी, सिनित्तै परे नि

English छाँट्न पर्ने देशमा, नेपाली गफले कामै गरेन ।

अनि त भुत्रो को पर्नु लभ, पर्दै परेन ।

Sakela Ubhauli 2009

Day before yesterday, we Kirat(Rai and Limbu) celebrated the main festival Ubhauli here at Steel Park Sydney. This Udhauli festival is called from different names from different groups. Such as Rai call it Sakela, Limbu call it Chasok Tangnam, and other might call it Bhume, Folsyandar etc.

This is celebrated two time in one year. Ubhauli is celebrated during the full moon of April/May to denote the commence of cultivation and farming where as Udhauli festival is celebrated during the full moon of November/December thanking gods for giving nice crops and harvesting. The program was organized by Kirat Ykthung Chumlung and Kirat Rai Yayokkha. It has been organizing the program every twice in a year. Chitra Tumbahangphe became the Silimangpa of Limbu. Chyabrung dance was also performed in the event. Dhol and Jhyamta were also used during dancing. The style of dance movement called sili were different for different ethnicity. Many kind of sili were performed including Chamling, Bantawa, Bahing, Limbu and Lohorung. Many attendees were dressed in cultural style. The women wore Chawbandi cholo and Guneu with patuka. The men wore Dhaka topi and daura suruwal.

The event went quite well except some misunderstandings with fooding of typical food like pork meat, beaten rice with Jhand (special kind of liquor of Kiratis). It was a great fun to be the part of the event.

सोई सोई ला हो हुर्रा हा हा ................. !

Updating from Australia

I know my blog is nearly dead. It is always not good feeling to know that I haven't update my blog for a long time. But situation is just like that I have moved to different location and the tension over here is more important then to update a blog. But I am not making excuses I will definitely do it whenever I got time.

Ready for reflection!

Ready for reflection!, originally uploaded by Ashish Lohorung Rai.

That's me shooting being reflected from the goggles of my friend Sulochan Wagle during Kapan Gumba visit.

Sakela, Udhauli and Ubhauli of Kiratis

Today is the Udhauli festival of all Kirati people. It is believed that from this day the winter season starts. So people, birds and animal migrate from cold regions to warmer regions. This kind of migration occurs twice in a year. The celebration of migrating downwards during this season is called "Udhauli (उधौली)" and the celebration of migrating upwards during the season of Baisakh (April or May) is called "Ubhauli (उभौली)".

Kirati people performs a speacial kind of dance called "Sakela" in this event playing various muscial instruments like Dhol, Jhyamta etc and wearing "Chhit ko Guneu" (specially patterened cloth) by Kirati women. This event of Kirati people has also been stated in Mundhum (holy book of Kirati people). This event is also called "Bhumi Puja" (Worship of Land) where Kirati people worship mother nature asking for good cultivation of crops during the season of April and thanking the god for giving good crops during this current season.

The legend of the celebration of Sakela as stated in Wikipedia is as follows:

The celebration is connected to many myths. According to the Kirat Mythology, it is said that before the marriage of Sumnima and Paruhang, Paruhang used to live in the heaven .One day, he saw beautiful Sumnima on the earth and fell in love. He made a beautiful comb, sent it to Sumnima who wished wed him.

Four children were born of them after marriage. But Paruhang left Sumnima in a hut on the bank of Dudhkoshi River and did not return for long time. One day, she saw a creeper on a stone while she was in search of food for her children. She tasted the creeper and it was full of power and happiness. She brought the creeper and made Buti, an intoxicating religious garland, and kept it safe. The Buti inspired everybody who saw it to tell the truth of her/his life. Paruhang returned suddenly. He tried to counsel angry Sumnima. She gave the Buti to Paruhang. This immediately made him glad and he started to tell what he had done. He had spent the time looking at the heaven and the earth from the top of Chomolongma (Mt. Everest ). He also said her that he had meditated, and visited the whole universe. Paruhang promised not to leave her, which made Sumnima dance with joy. It is believed the dance is the 'Sakela Dance'. For this reason, tradition is also that young boys and girls comes to participate this dancing festival to meet each other and find their love.

तपैहरुलाई यो चाड कस्तो लाग्छ ? कमेन्ट गरेर आफ्नो बिचार दिनुहोस । हैप्पी सकेला....!!

Constructive design criticism of suzannefranco.com

Suzaane Franco has been running suzannefranco.com and recently became second in the competition named Blogging Idol 2 after a tie breaker getting equal marks of 3, with the first Happy Schools Blog. Being a mother of three kids she enjoys internet marketing which she has been doing for about eight years. Living in Texas Hill country in USA, she has hobbies of beach, river, lake, pool, boating, traveling. She also enjoys playing Tennis very much.

So why she loves internet marketing so much? Let's read in her own words:

I believe that Zig Ziglar (love him!) had the right idea when he said, “If you help enough people get what they want … you’ll get what you want.” I want to build and run a successful online business. And I truly believe that if I help others build and run their own successful online businesses (which is just totally in my personality anyway) … I’ll reach my goals too.

Recently I have commented in Blogging Tips about the design of her blog could be little more attractive. She replied me saying she likes constructive criticism very much and love to get any comments from anybody. So I have come up with this idea of posting this blog with the commented version of the design of her blog site. Though there could be other things to put up more I would be glad to see those comments because this is just my trying. Any kind of comments are warmly welcome because these comments are not full and final.

Here is the commented version of suzannefranco.com.



















NOTE: Any kind of comments are highly encouraged to apply. I hope you all reading this blog you get some ideas of designing. Do you want to share same kind of stories? Just email or comment me. I will be glad to get support and ideas from you too. I will be happy to suggest you and help you in anyways I can as a web developer.

Search songs and music albums by hacking Google

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Well wondering how can you hack into Google search? So let me tell you just copy the code above and paste in the Google search. Edit the BANDNAME and SONG with your list of choices and hit ENTER.

That's it! You get a long list of downloadable songs and music albums. Want to try more?

You can change the wma/mp3 to the extension you like eg. zip, jpg, gif to search with more variations. If you want to know inside out of the above crazy string then follow the following links:

• http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

Or if you want to search with much cleaner interface then try these ones:

• http://g2p.org/
  
• http://www.skreemr.com
  
• http://humanbagel.com/music.php
  

Warning: Personally I am not responsible for any kind of damage using the above code by someone else. I suggest to buy a copy of music album before you are downloading any songs.

Happy Dipawali 2065

New Tihar has come again with new hope and new enthusiam. I wish all the great wishes for this festival. I got this from Gajendra Lohorung. Check this out:

बिहानी उज्यालो लाई पर्खन्दै अन्धेरी रातमा रुमलिये पनि, झरणालाई नियालेर नि तिर्खाईमा तड्पिए पनि, सहसको बाटो परिवर्तण नहोस् यात्रा निरन्तार चलिरहोस हुरिबतासको लहर जति नै बेगले चले पनि, कर्मको दियो आटुट बलिरहोस, सुभ दिपावाली को अबसरमा सु-शब्द सुभ कामना।।।  

Happy Dipawali 2065 to all !!

World Indigenous Day 2008 celebrated

Gone 9th August was the most remarkable day for the indigenous people (IPs) all over the world. Here in Nepal many different IPs related organizations including our Lohorung Yakhkhama Yuyong (Lohorung Women Organization) also took part in that event. LYY has exhibited food stall and Dhaka cloths at Dasarath Stadium during the event period of three days. That day was the last day of a week long event where many different types of games such as Badminton, Traditional Archery etc were held.
The final day started from a rally at Khulamanch, Ratnapark where many indigenous peoples gathered before setting off. NGO-Federation of Nepalese Indigegnous Nationalities (NGO-FONIN) had been organizing "Singnature Campaign". Finally about two kilometers long cloth signatured by different people of the Kathmandu valley were asked to carry by the people taking part in that rally. It was really a unique and fun experience for me to help them to ask different people at the roadside for asking to do signature and distributing pamplates.

The rally enden at Dasarath Stadium where many political leaders gave speech about indigenous peoples including the speaker of the current house of representative Mr. Subash Nembang.