Democrary Day is not celebrated as before because people are suffering all the things everywhere right now. We are not able to celebrte the Democracy Day propely due to crises of petrol, dieasel, kerosian, water, electricity etc. Similarly, we use to go Tundikhel in order to celebrte the Democracy Day before. But in the Democracy Day of 2008, there are not many people in the Tundikhel due to the lack of transportation.

As there is nothing in the Capital, can you imagine that what is the situation in the out of vally?  

There is no any news of 58 Democracy Day in web site of government till Prime Minister's speech till 2 PM on Democracy Day. There is  only the speech of Prime Minister of the year 2063 in web site of Government. Why Government staff do not update the website of this year 2064?

We dont have electricity, petrol, koresian, gas, water, network, employment, security - as a whole notting in Nepal. Thus we are suffering all the things.

For me Old Nepal is far better than the New One. Imagine how Nepalese people are sufferring!

All industry, factory, project, school and office is shutting down due to shortage of fuel crises.

The government should bring a contingency plan to provide fuel soon, otherwise the situation of Nepal will be worse day by day.

In your opinion who is responsible of all these things?

Make $100 per day working from home in 6 months.

Investment over 6 months: A little over $100.

Ok, some of you will say that's  BS.
Some of you will say there is a catch.
Some of you will say that it is definitely possible.

Tell you what.
You are all correct.

I have been working out of my house in my shorts for over 7 years now.
I managed to do the $100/day working from home in 6 months. I must say it took me more than $100 in 6 months, though.

You see to make money working from your home you just need one thing. Well you need more than this one thing. But this one thing is the most important. The other ingredients for success will come if you have this one thing.

It's called - dream. 

I used to work at Morgan Stanley as a project leader. Financially, I was doing great. But deep down inside, I wanted to do more. I wanted to be able to go to work whenever I wanted to and sleep whenever I wanted to and go to movies whenever I wanted.

Morgan Stanely told me that I had to sleep by midnight to be able to get to work by 9am.

To cut the long story short, you need to have a dream, a vision so big that it scares you. Your dream has to be so big that you can't sleep at night because it makes you wonder if you are crazy to set your goals so high.

Some of you must be thinking what is this man talking about?

Why doesn't he just get to the point and show us the nitty-gritty details on how it's possible to make $100/day working from home.

Let me tell you a secret.
The technical details are going to be useless to majority of you if you don't have a strong enough dream.

You might be able to do it without a dream. Kudos to those of you. But my experience says it's going to be damn hard for most of you without some clear dream.

I couldn't have done it without a strong enough dream to make me work harder when everything told me it wasn't possible.

BTW, $100/day is not the max you can make. I just used the round number as an example.

I have to apologize now. I know I got a few of you interested. But I need to know if you  are really interested. Please come back and comment to let me know if I should speak further.

If I see a few of you interested, I willl tell you more.

Otherwise, this blog post is just another graveyard.

ciao

vj 

In a society like ours where we have been trained to play various societal roles since our childhood all through our life, do you think marriage is just another responsibility we have been expected to take up? How important is marriage to you?

Someone Said - "Marriage is a life made complete, two better halves made one.It's an essential bond which enhances the betterness of society, though it sounds just like a responsibilty and a mere societal rule"

I finally decided to write a blog after VJ begged me.

OK he didn't beg me, but he managed to persuade me.

Some of the BS I am about to rant here isn't even going to make sense to a lot of us. Hell it doesn't make sense to myself sometime.

So here comes my first post.

Facebook, the current granddaddy of all social networks pissed off a lot active users. I am not talking about the majority that send emails, write on the walls, play a few games, look at photos of chicks (if you are a guy, or a lesbian) and all the kiddie stuff.

I am talking about those that east, sleep and sh... Facebook.

One 1: I noticed sometime back that Facebook had started allowing feed for some content for external use. Basically, what this means is that you can use Bloglines or some other reader to read someone elses status updates. That's all dandy.

Here is the problem.

What if someone publishes it to a site ?

I am a privacy freak.

Again, this is not something that bothers most Facebookers.

Two 2: First it was Friendster, then it was MySpace and now it's Facebook.

Whereever there is free traffic, there is a lot of quid. Blackhatter (spammers), open their vulture claws and attack.

Facebook's opening up API for programmers was a mixed blessing. The very reason it's growing could be the reason for it's fateful day...sorry I meant fatal day.

The notification fraud as they call it comes from various applications like My Questions and Superwall. My Questions application, for example, can email your friends questions that you never asked. Both these applications have around 5 million users.

It's wicked because the programmer can actually display advertisements through his applications when he/she wants to. In some instances, if you add an application, you are seeing one thing and others are seeing something completely different.

It's adwares all over again.

I won't be surprised if it's 180Solutions, Zango, eZula, Cydoors and the likes all over again.
Instead of Kazaa and eXeem, it's Facebook now.

Facebook has tried to fight back, using some new FBML (it's their own Markup Language).

Good luck to them. May be I should start a "SaveYourFaceBook.com".

ok

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she could see everything, including her boyfriend.

Her boyfriend asked her, "now that you can see the world, will you marry me?" The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too, and refused to marry him.

Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying..... "Just take care of my eyes dear." i'll always love you forever..

I met this white American lady at a Nepali party recently. She told me how she liked the Nepali food at the party but wouldn't touch the meat.

She told me she was an active animal  rights activist. Then she told me to visit the PETA website and checkout a video called Meet Your Meat narrated by Alec Baldwin (who is also an animal rights activist).

I urge you to look at the video.

So right now click this link and watch a video called Meet Your Meat

Here to make it easy I have embeded a Youtube version of the video here.

or just search for "meat" in the search box at the top of any page in  NepalNepal.com

"There used to be time when people saved their virginity till marriage. But this concept is changing now as many people have physical relationship before marriage. What do you think about this and what is your personal choice?"

Some one say - People who are virgin think that being a virgin is like being a god (they are backbiting about the one who are not). But once they lose their virginity (before marriage) their view about virginity changes. Ha-ha funny. I think sex before marriage is not bad, but doesn't mean you can go around and have sex with everyone. One should never forget about safety methods and end up with pregnancy or STDs.

***what is your personal choice***

Farrah Fawcett died on the same day as Michael Jackson. If I am not mistaken Patrick Swyze was admitted back to the hospital.

However, for most people Michael Jackson was the only news. Most of my family don't know who the who the other two are.

Michael Jackson was more than a quick celebrity phenomenon. I totally believe he changed the music industry. I personally remember listening to Boney M, Tina Charles and Beatles back in Nepal before Michael Jackson's Thriller came out. His music and the moves were completely different. He brought the moonwalk into limelight and fueled the breakdance movement.

He might not be a math or science genius, but he certainly was a genius.
A music genius.

Anyway, I put together a couple of videos that I personally felt were worth mentioning.

NOTE: The links will open in a new window.

Here is the 911 emergency call video.
http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=464

Here is Thriller.
I remember people in KTM wearing the red jacket (was it called LT jacket ?) when Thriller came out. This was a time when most people in Kathmandu did not have a TV/VCR. My family didn't.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=460

Here is the Munich Tour.
The song is "You are not alone".
Check out the fans - crying and fainting.
http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=465

Here is the Liberian Girl.
The video itself is a unique idea for it's time.
It shows a lot of well known celebrities incuding Whoopi, Speilberg, Dreyfuss, Tom Selleck, Dan Ackroyd, Travolta, Ralph Machio, Wierd Al, Hulk and of course Bubbles the Chimp.
http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=462

Here is the Dirty Diana.
One of my personal favorite. It's almost a semi-rap and rock.
I don't think there was anything like this during that time.
Michael is the grand daddy of Limp Bizkit and 3 Doors Down. ;-)

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=461 

Here is his involvment in USA for Africa with Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder etc...
USA for Africa raised close to $100 million for famine relief in Africa.
The song is We Are the World.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=459 

An now my personal favorite.

Man in the Mirror.
...if you wanna make a world a better place,

take a look at your self and make the change...
Could not have said it better !

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=463

On a more sentimental note here is  Heal the World

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=457

Beautiful lyrics.

Speaking of lyrics, all the songs mentioned lyrics on the the side.

Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009)
May his soul rest in peace.

OK, alright....where do I begin?

The US economic decline...terrorism and of course, a lot of conspiracy theories on how USA is about to collpse...

Among all the cocktail discussion topics, one has surfaced that caught my attention.

The Wall Street Journal, had a post right towards the end of 2008 (Dec 29th to be precise), titled

"As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S."

Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst and currently dean of  the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats (I don't know how important that means in terms of credibility), predicts that the United States of America will break into terrorities in the year 2010 !

Ha.

Could this really happen?

I am no expert on the subject. Frankly, to me, its's nothing more than something to discuss to kill time in a party and then forget about.

Here is a video interview of Mr. (or Dr. or whatever he is) Panarin.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewVideo.php?fileID=449

Here is his prediction on the break up of US in picture.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewPhoto.php?fileID=1683 

Please feel free to comment.

Mine Valentines' Day Message to my love one

I always miss you when you suddenly left from this world and leave me alone. I always remember you. I sometimes try to forget you when I'm working or I am with my friends and relatives who are really close to me. I got some staffs in my office who I feel them as my child. I love them as my close ones. And I know they also love me as their mother. So I am happy while I am with them.

Another thing, you did not like weeping, you like laughing and cheerful every time. So I never weep in front of other peoples. But when I am alone, then I will weep especially in morning and night while I remember you. I am sorry, some time I can not control it. What to do? Again sorry sorry... and forgive me.

I know, no body like to share sadness, every body likes to share only happiness. So I will try to share happiness to others. This is one of your theories also. Don’t' worry about me, I am happy and safe here with my sons, our family, close relatives and close friends. Because they all love me and they always care about me.

Our Son told me that "Be Strong" because he believes his Dad is always with us. He always told me "Don’t' worry mom, we are not victims like others". Dad made everything easy to survive in our life. Lots of peoples in this earth who don't have the comforts like we do have

I know life is not “Immortal”. Every body should Die when he or she born in this world. I would like to pray to God that gives me power to bear the absence of you in my life. And I want to meet you in our next life also as a husband and wife. And I know where ever you are God is always with you and he will be with you.

As always I miss you a lot.

My Dear Mother (Ama)

"Mother" is a very familiar word to our tongue. If we are in any trouble or even we get a small wound, the first word we utter is "Mummy!" or "Ama"! This happens because the closet person to our hearts is our very mother. Even a new born child first learns to say "AMA" or "Mum". This is all about mother. No words in the dictionary can actually define mother. She is so great that it is just impossible to describe her in words.

It is said that "God could not be present everywhere in this huge world, that's why he created mother". Mother is a special version of God, thus mother is as respectable as God. She makes a Nile of love and affection flow in the heart of her children. While playing she is a companion, while doing homework she is a teacher, while taking decisions she is an advisor, overall she possesses all the qualities of a best friend. She bears every grief and every sorrow and makes us get rid of our tears. She is always the most important sources of inspiration for us. She is the role model in our life. Finally, we can just way that mother is everything?

A line for my mother is, "You showed me this beautiful world, gave me all privileges, and gave me all the happiness. You taught me to smile in every sorrow. When I was worried, you calmed all my fears, when I was in trouble you did listen to me. Now, I offer my hearty gratitude to you. I love you Mumma or Ama".

So firstly i used to think that every thing is fair in love and war. But now i think that its not true. How can love be compared with violence. Can love be weighed on same side as pure as love?

I search my heart and i found answer on it cant. War brings destruction,hatred and evil in world. Unlike love brings feelings of warmth closeness and togetherness. War can never replace the goodness of love.

Love is god in contrary to war which symbolizes devil. How can you be happy when you get a love by cheating. So i think we need to stand up and be brave to tell the truth and face its consequences no matter what you get. Because in love love is not only getting but also sacrifice.

Existence of God

Do you believe in God? Some one asked me once. I do, I replied instantly. Have you seen God? was the next question. I tried to answer but this time I could not. I have never actually seen God. But I have read holy books and watched various mythological serials and movies. I visited different temples and worshipped the idols. I have attended many religious ceremonies, perform numerous rituals, and celebrated several festivals. I have grown up hearing about God's great deeds. Therefore, I believe in God.

Where does the God that I believe in life? "God dwells in that tranquil heaven which is a beautiful place full of angels", somebody pointed towards the sky. "You will be able to go there after your death if you are pious and generous enough and of course, if you have sons and grandsons and haven't committed any sins."

Therefore I believe in heaven. This is a precise picture of general credence. But is it the ultimate truth or does reality stretch far beyond it?

For me, God is a belief; a faith. I feel God's presence within me all the time. In short, I am a complete believer in God. I don't know whether God looks like or where is this place called haven. But I do know that every religion in the world gives the same message i.e. love and peace.

Everyday we hear about violence in the name of religion, class, caste, color, and gender. Every hour the human race is being fragmented by human being fragmented by human beings themselves.

Every moment we come across some brutality which forces us to think, "Are we really the most civilized beings on earth?"

God is that one supreme power that is believed to have created and ruled the world for ever. That, I think, is again a matter of conviction. If you believe that there is God some where who is watching over you, then God exists. If you feel that there is someone who can help you when all the hope is lost and it is the same someone who will punish you when you do something wrong and reward you when you do something noble, then that, for you, is God.

Now some questions arise. Why not create a "heaven" during our lifetime instead of seeking for some unseen one later? Can't we make our own beautiful earth a "heaven" by filling it with love, peace, and joy? Everybody is equally loved and nurtured by Mother Nature. So why waste our time hating and killing each other so selfishly?

Lastly, the whole idea is not about showing oneself superior to others every time.

It is neither about being conservative and superstitious nor irrational and irresponsible. Everybody thinks about one's own good but for a change, why don't we try and think well of others? And if we can't do that, then at least, can't we stop thinking ill of others?

What is the right job about?

A right job is more about getting satisfaction out of it rather than big money. A good job is a job that keeps you happy. Money, benefits and a well furnished office mean nothing if you aren't happy at what you do everyday for a living. Does your job have the following basic attributes for happiness at work? If not, you might want to look out for other options.

1. Food
2. Cloths
3. Shelter
4. Sex

Yes, I am practically ok with Food, Cloths and Shelter but where Sex is.

Believe it or not, I am 28 and still virgin. Yes I also tried for the 4th basic needs - SEX but failed. Sometime I asked my friend Binod when I am available to have my 4th basic needs, he replies to be patience.

I watch English Movies, normal not XXX, where my taught study fit. I can sense in the developed countries it perfectly fit.

I think in developing countries like Nepal, Sex is replaced by the Relationship. We have a month in a year, full with festivals in which we enjoyed with our relatives. In developed countries freedom is the major, but here we worried if any relatives are out of contact for the long time as well as if any of our relative doesn't contact us here in Nepal. As a whole from my context "Relationship Not Sex is the Basic Need". But it doesn't mean that I won't sex in my life time. Yes, it's the natural phenomenon, I will also marry, have sex and have a baby.

In Nepal, till school life, teacher hides about the Sex as the basic needs. And in the college life they flash about the Sex.

If sex is the basic needs how I am alive till 28 years in replacement I think its tough for me to live without relationship.

At last, here in Nepal if education system teaching that Sex is the basic needs then please teach student that is not practically possible in Nepal. It's only a theory in Nepal.

Dear Husband BKS,

Saying I love you forever is the best gift for you. I don't have anything to give you except my love.

I don't have the words to experss my love for you, what I do have are wishes to be in your side always, doing all I can to make you feel loved and wanted, the day & every day. ... I love you forever.

The pain I suffer when you are not with me. Your support meant everything for me. Ever did I listen to your voice & felt  the  depth in it. You taught me Love is "AMRIT" for all.

My best gift for you I Love you for ever.

Your Shyamu

Scary but this is in New Jersey, the state I currently reside in.

A couple names their 3 kids, Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie ! These are small kids, by the way - 3 years old, 1 year old and 8 months old, I believe.

The children have been removed from their homes by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services.

Of course, it's free in America to name your children whatever you want. So the custody was certainly not based on how the parents named their kids. But any parent who names their kids after Nazis have serious issues and are already putting the children's future in jeopardy.

The parents, Heath and Deborah, claim that they do not want their kids to be racist and that they want the kids to learn to love. That so full of s#%^&.

Yesterday, I told my 5 year old son, "The Hare and the Turtle" as the bed time story.

As you all know, the hare takes a rest during the race and falls asleep while the turtle slowly and steadily moves on until he finishes the race and wins.

So at the end of the story, I asked my son.
"So dude (yeah I call my son dude sometimes)...
What's the moral of the story ?"

As you all know, the moral of the story is

"Slow and Steady wins the race."

He didn't understand what I just asked him. So I went over the story in a little more detail.

Here is his answer after I explained again.

"Dada,... the hare should not sleep while racing !"

OK ???!!!

I gotta say that got me thinking a little.

The indsustry that I am in is a cut-throat industry. Rules change, laws change, new tough competitors show up every day.

I have tried the slow and steady method and I must say it ain't easy.

Steady may be ...        but slow?   No way Jose !

I remember the exam times when I was in school (I went to Budhanilkantha School).

After 9 pm when the lights went off, we were meant to go to sleep.

There were a bunch of us, who would run to the bathroom (the only place where the light would be on all night) and study there.

That's right. We used to read our books in the bathroom late at night, because that was the only way to make the teachers think we were sleeping.

It makes me laugh thinking about it.

But things haven't changed much.

I still work till my eyes drop off into the keyboards.

My son was right.

The moral of the story should be

You cannot sleep if you want to win the race.

OK...that's it.....let me go get some coffee now.

I don't even know if there really IS a Jack Handey, but everyone who has seen Saturday Night Live (Live from New York).....well....in the past...I don't know now.....has heard of Jack Handey and his famous one liner subtle quotes that were called Deep Thoughts

Anyway,  here are some of my favorites.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey 

1.
It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. 

2.
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite.
Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone.
"Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." 

3.
Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out. 

4.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:

"Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind".
What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

5.
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. 

6.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. 

Feel free to throw in more...

vj 

Why exceedingly qualified persons leaving their own "NEPAL"???

What are the reasons, why highly qualified and educated persons such as doctors, Engineers, and professors leaving their own country (NEPAL) to US and Europe?

As Doctors, Engineers such as Aeronautical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Professors, and other highly qualified persons who can run any businesses, Hoteliers, etc. leaving Nepal when the country need them??

Is it Worst situating of the Country?
Or is it because unsatisfactory job and place?
Is it the Environment of the country?
Or environment of their families life
Are they Unsatisfactory of their income?
Or is it the Political situation of the country?
Or they feel no security in their life?
Or is there anything???

If the highly qualified peoples leave the county then what is the condition or future of our country?

I think our country's condition will be paralyzing soon. So, please suggest me how we can save our Motherland? And how we can develop our country without the major forces of the country?

Anyhow, we should have to make our country better.

As Late King Mahendra had told to the people that "Ma Maray pani mero desh banchee Rahoos" (Long Live my country whether I'm not alive) which I like very much and everybody should give thought about it before they leave their country.

Looks like 2008 has become a year for American celebrities becoming pregnant or giving birth.

The 2008 Academy Awards had 3 gals showing up with baby bumps.

1. Nicole Kidman

2. Jessica Alba

3. Cate Blanchett

And the winner is.....Cate Blanchett !

Sorry, I was speaking of who was the "most pregnant".

Well Cate was nomitated for best actress and best supporting actress...But she didn't win either.

+ Nicole Richie gave birth to a girl (Harlow) on Jan 11

+ Christina Aguilera gave birth to a boy (Max) on Jan 12

+ Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins - a boy and a girl.

+ Jaime Lynn Spears, little sister of Britney, is pregnant.

+ Halle Berry is expecting a baby soon.

I am pretty sure there's more but I don't know of them.

In fact, I didn't even know of the ones I mentioned above.

Thanks to my lovely wife, who keeps track of what's going on with who in the world of celebrities...

OK...I lied..my wife knows a little more than me for sure...but I got most of the gossip from some juicy magazines in the supermarket stands.

adios,

Prashant Tamang - I love You

Importance of Friends in our life

I think, friends are most important persons in our life. We need friends in our life at any stage, like child hood, young and old stages. There are many kinds of friends, such as school friends, college friends, neighbour as friends, official/working friends, political friends, as well as friend as a life partner(spoush). If we have a spoush as a good friend we can be very happy and sucessful in life.

Friends plays vital roll  if we wants to be a  good human being. We can learn many things from our friends. We can get good knowledge, good experience, good ideas, good education, working system etc.

We  needs friends help at work, study, travelling, enjoy (entertainment) as well as in our happiness and sorrow moments of our life. Thus friends roll is big in our life. But we should choose right person to make a friend.

One thing most peoples try to not make friends with the bad habits, or simply not a good human being. But my sugession is we can try to change the bad habit of our friends to good habits. If we do so then its the good friendship and we can change at least some peoples to a good human from bad one.

So we can not alive without friend like fish can not servive with out water. My conculsion for friendship is that we can be a sucessful persons if we do have good friends and they support us in our life.

Are you male or female ?

To find out the answer, look down .....

See how you are computer freak

Observe this 3D Picture Carefully,
and try to find a Person.

Don't cheat by scrolling down and looking at the answer.

Unable to find the person?

Actually he is swimming underwater....
You'll be able to see him after he comes to the surface again!!

It was just a co- incidence that both of us father's were teacher. First she got chance to speak. She spent her five minute to describe her father. Her father was math teacher, busy all the time, surrounding by students. I was also one of math victim. When the time checker let her know that time was finished then she remembered she had yet to speak about her mother.

Like her, I too started talking about my teacher father. My father teaches Education for secondary level. His math is also very good. He is known for his good teaching and strictness in school. He is not busy as her father is. I hardly could talk more about Dad because I had so many things to tell about Mummy. My mother was always busy. Even at night she had work to do. She would wake up at 6am that time my father would be sleeping. She would cook, clean, get ready to my younger brother for school, look after cow, and so and so.

In the afternoon, she hardly could manage her time for tea. She would work in the field and wanted to harvest lots of vegetable. She wanted to make money by that.

In the evening she had to cook, and she had to sum up entire day's work. My tired mother always tried to get some sleep during break of tele serial.

I asked five more minute to speak but didn't get. Though five minute was not enough to describe about my mother, I just wanted to add some more about her. At the end I spoke, My mother is not house wife as my friend said her mother is, my mother is home maker.

Despite judge blamed me being feminist, I won the prize.

I am not writing here to let you know that I had once owned the prize taking about my mother. Keep reading, I want to tell you something else.

Long time back I met my friend. Now she has two children, I have one. She is not working anywhere, same here. We asked each others well being and I asked, So you are free these days?? Completely housewife???

She looked serious and told, I am very busy these days. And let me correct you, I am not housewife, I am home maker and I want you to use this word for me. Don't dominate me by saying housewife. Today I bet you, I would win the first prize if we again speak.

I just took a big sigh when I wrote those lines. She now felt the differences of the word. Specially in our male dominated society we think household things are nothing. And they never feel what a woman gives to family if she is not working in office.

A lot of work I do has dealings with search engines. So I try to keep up-to-date with what's going on in the Search Engine arena.

With Google growing so big and leaving Yahoo and MSN behind in the dust, I had a feeling that Mr. Gates and his bulldogs have had their eyes on Yahoo.

Personally I don't see how else they could even compete with Google.

So here it is in TechCrunch.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/wow-microsoft-offers-446-billion-to-acquire-yahoo/

You can Digg some here.

http://www.digg.com/search?section=all&s=microsoft+yahoo

BTW, I do not in anyway believe that Google is the best search engine in th world. In fact, I dare to say comparing Google with Yahoo or MSN is akin to comparing apples and oranges. The algos of all three of these search engines change almost every month, and their focus seem to change every now and then also.

Ultimately, it's almost always about the bottomline. With internet usage pattern changes (eg, move from MySpace to Facebook among college students), all 3 search giants will change their way of doing business and you will see the difference in the SERPS (search results).

I wonder if they will call it a Yahsoft or a Microhoo?
Naah. It doesn't sound too cool. May be they should survey at Facebook to find out what the best name would be.

Speaking of Facebook, I won't be surprised if Microsoft ends up buying Facebook as well.

Time to call your stockbroker.

My dad passed away on Nov 24th 2005.
He was in US with my mom for a week only when he had a heartattack.

He had come to US with my mom to meet a new comer in my family - my 2nd son (my wife was due the next month).

He was not only my dad but also my best friend (we could talk about anything like friends). He was my mentor. Although not highly educated, he was very wise. Many of my beliefs were shaped by him.

It's very unfortunate that he never got to see his 2nd grandchild.

Anyway, I have my 2nd son now and he is 2 years old.

As he started growing, I started noticing a startling similarity to my dad.

I am talking about looks as well as behaviour.
His facial structure, the body, the ears......
My mom and several other relatives feel the same.

At 2 years old he likes to sweep the floor and use the vacuum cleaner.
My dad kept the house tidy all the time.

My older son doesn't share candy (chocolate) that easily.
My younger one likes to go around feeding everyone.
My dad was extremely giving himself. I am not talking about someone who can't say NO. I am saying he genuienly liked helping people in need.



Although I don't believe in reincarnations, I hold some reservations.

In anycase, it's kind of nice to think that perhaps I am with my dad again - except now he is my son.

vj

The current helath system is deeply underfunded, unequally distributed across different places and, therefore, broadly unresponsive to the health care needs of the majority of the people.

To say that the ongoing deaths inJajarkot, Rukum, Salyan and many other districts were causedby diarrhoea is to tell a severrely truncated truth. In fact, if we do not explore larger forces which give rise to these epidemics, we will exculpate a host of other actors that have created the conditions for their recurrence in the first place. Reports appearing in the media have definitely brought the plight of people to the public. But, we do not see them going beyond the immediate facts. To further say that a lack of good sanitary habits or hygienci behaviour caused the epidemic is to blame the victims. Not that this isn't true. In fact, unwashed hands, indiscriminate defecating, unclean water sources, unhygienic handling of food at home lead to diaarrhoea andoher diseases. However, these factors themselves are shaped by larger forces that shape the condition of people's lives. When these are invoked adnauseum year after year, there is something seriously missing.

The chronic hunger, lack of access to clean drinking water and nearly non-existent health service system have together ensured the regularity with which epidemics have been striking the people in much of the western mountain regionin Nepal year after year. The deprivation has roots in a complex factors that have shaped the distribution of resources among people; the public priorities of the state; and faulty developmental paradigms tht major internatonal dono rs have been promoting in Nepal for decades. The health care saytem has no different story.

The immediate epidemic crisis has shown the deeper malaise that has chronically beset our public health care system. The current system is deeply underfunded, unequally distributed across different places and therefore broadly unresponsive to the health care needs of the majority of the people. When epidemics strike, they are either ignored, banished as unwanted facts or, when things go disproportionately out of control, and it's hard to avoid the constant barrage of news, then the near dysfunctional health care system scrambles together a motely crew of medical personel located incity centres. The discrict public health personnel of Jajarkot, for instance, had been talking about the impending epidemic for several weeks. It took over a hundred deaths tomove the Health Ministry, Defene Ministry and Nepal Army.

The deeper root of the malaise lies in abysmal lack of system approach to building a public health care system in Nepal. For a long time, disease erdication programs dominated the public health care delivery activities. Vertically organized, these programs were not geared towards building a functional, comprehensive system. Buoyed by the successful eradicationof smallpox the underlying belief until the 1980s was that somehow magic bullets would be enough to eradicate the diseses.

Rampant privatization of helath care became the order of the day after the adoption of stuctureal adjustment policies in the mid-1980s. In Nepal's case, privatization was not so much about the dismantling of the existing publi health cre system as the stagnation of the process of building it. Whatever investments were made in the public sector was done on a crudely ad hoc basis. Lack of oversight and popular participation ment that any infrastructure building of health care system, the procurement of supplies and maintenance were deeply mired in corruption and embezzlement. In the 1990s, while there was a spread of institutions, these were aimed at delivering an extremely truncated set of services. The emphasis had been not on the delivery of comprehensive services, but relegating much of health services, to the privae sector, with public setor entrusted with a few limited set of residuals such as 'awareness' raising and distribution of vitaminA capsules. All this went hand in hand with profound level of privtization in the medical eduation sector. Paramedical training centers in the public sectors vecane victim to neglect, while private sector medical education mushroomed, without any effective oversight in quality.

MBBS teaching also underwent deep transformation. The need for accreditation pushed the community oriented approach thatNepal had pioneered inthe context of Alma Ata's Health for All by 2000 declaration. Medical education increasingly began to the focused on specialization. The result has been the production of doctros who, normally, do not want to exit the lucrative urbanmarket for their specially services. By now, we have a severely dysfunctional public health care system juxtposing the sea of private prctices limited to the urban centers and catering to those with thick pockets.

The current emergency situation definitely requires emergency response. The istribution of medicine to the epidemic vicits, transportation of health personnel for emergency treatment, and supply of water cleaning tables on war-footing should not blind us to the fact that these are adequate responses inthelongrun. Unless, we work towards buildingaviable comprehensive health cre system' provideclean drinking water; and ensure food security, these epidemics are going to recur. Rummage through newspapers, and it does not takeus long to discover that this year was not the exception.

But these things cannot happen without a massive citizen's campaign for health. Public health care budget has to be increased towards building functioning, comprehensive care in western districts in Nepal. This has to be backed up by campaigns for clean water and foodsecurity in the region.

Ultimately it calls for radical remarking of our public priorities. We have to press for transfer of resources from unnecessary military sectors towards health care and clean water.We have to push for immediate halt of any new recruitment in armed forces and use available resources towards building health care and other essential public systems. The ongoing violene in the country might provide a ruse for further bloating the security sector, but we have keep in mind that no amount of police personnel can ensure security in the absence oftransforming the broader conditions of life. Not do do this is to ensure that these epidemics will recurperiodically. Crocedile ters may be shed by our politicians and generals; photo-ops could be organized for the militay medical personnel in helicopters. But there will be no fundamental shift in people's lives.

House: Dreaming about your home can be especially illuminating about your life. Much depends on the room in which the dream takes place (see below). Also, pay attention to the state of the room. For instance, a messy area indicates a need to clean up your act - a cluttered room denotes too much going on in your life and the need to prioritize and get organized. A barren room can mean you're not taking enough time for family or for activities that nurture you. Additionally, dreaming of an unknown house indicates talents or issues you're currently unaware of or are in the process of exploring (great time for therapy!).

Living room: Reveals the state of your everyday life. Note the people in the room - they may play an important role in issues or activities in your life. Strangers can symbolize unknown aspects of yourself that you're connecting with.

Dining room or kitchen: Reveals clues to your health, especially pertaining to your diet. Note what you're eating (healthy food or junk?) and the state of the room (filth indicates the need to revise your diet).

Bedroom: Reveals the state of your sexuality. Are you happy in the dream? Frustrated? Cleaning the room means you're working on achieving a healthier sex life. Bedrooms can also reveal concerns about privacy/boundaries (are you being watched or intruded upon in the dream?).

Bathroom: Assuming you don't need to pee (literally!), bathrooms indicate a need to eliminate unneeded or harmful physical, mental or emotional stuff, such as possessions, people or negative attitudes.

School: Symbolizes learning. Are you learning your lessons in life, or doing the same mistakes over and over again? Dreaming of an elementary school points to a lesson about your childhood. Dreaming of a university indicates you're learning at a higher (perhaps more spiritual) level. If you dream of a university and you're a college student, the dream may be a commentary on your classes (are you overwhelmed? distracted? doing well?) and goals for the future.

Place of worship: Indicates the state of your spiritual life. A beautiful place or feeling denotes you're on a strong spiritual path. An ugly place or negative feeling indicates you're too caught up in the material world. Or you may feel spiritually restricted by others telling you what to believe.

Post office: Can symbolize a psychic message trying to get through to you. Or perhaps you're not "getting the message" about an issue in your life.

Office: Symbolizes your work. The condition of the room, activities taking place and the people involved can reveal if you're on the right track, or need to head off in a different direction.

I am sure many of us have already seen the movie Pursuit of Happyness.

If you haven't, you should.

I was watching a CNN interview of Chris Garnder, the real man who was played by Will Smith in the film.

What caught me was what he said. I have heard this many times from other successful people but he put it very nicely.

The movie showed only one year of his life but he went through hardship for many years before reaping the seeds he sowed.

The secret of his success ?

In the man's own words : Passion !

It's not something you can learn in colleges. It's not something you can buy.

My favorite scenes in the move:-

a. The young child's joke about the drowning man. 

b. The sleeping in the bathroom scene (the cave ;-))

c. The part where his son drops his favorite toy, but can't pick it up because that would mean they would miss the bus and not be in time to get a bed in the homeless shelter.

Anyway, if you haven't seen the movie...SEE IT. 

Here is a video about him (not the CNN interview) 

Going Thinner

The new fashion statement is - thinner! Whether it is the ladies or the gentlemen, everybody has a strong desire to look to look chic and cool. There are three major ways to do it - 1. Going thinner, 2. Going thinner, and 3. Going thinner. See?

It's as simple as that!

Gone are the days when a stout build was considered to be healthy. Today, we get to witness an entirely different scenario. Whenever we switch our television on, flip through the magazines or surf the net, we surely come across skinny models and actors dressed in glamorous attier. This is enough to lure the multitude and make them folow the latest' thin culture.

The craze is so great that scores of people almost starve themselves, trying to reduce their weight. There are several others who end up suffering from various mental and physical complications like anorexia, acidity, exteme weakness etc. Some people start fasting excessively. hoping for good omens as well as a perfect figure while those with big bucks do not hesitate to go under the knife to achieve a slender frame. Gaining a few extra kilos becomes a metter of so much concern that many would not think twice befoe bargaining their sound health in order to get a leaner form.

The rage is not limited to the youngesters. It is equally appealing to the older generation too. The reasons for their going thinner, however, may be a little bit diffreent. They offen want to get into the slimmer side of the world from the health point of view. After a person crosses a certain age, it is believed that h/she should start keeping a sharp watch on the ruthless needle of the weighing machine if they wish to lead a hale and heaarty life. Alas! At the end of the day, the food meter goes down and the same old story of physiological and psychological difficulties similar to that of those belonging to the younger age group begins.

On a more somber note, going thinner is not awful or avoidable. In fact, it should be encouraged since it definitely ensures good health to a certain extent and keeps us way from the danger of high cholesterol and obesity. Moreover, there can be no second opinions about the one fact that an athletic build looks much better than a plump one. Nevertheless, it should also be kept in mind than even sugar starts tasing bitter if taken in excess. So, while trying to lose weight, dit is better to go slow and steady. If possible, consulting a good dietician would not be a bad idea. Aerobics and yoga are very popular choices at present. But balanced diet is a schedules are an even bigger no-no. Cosmetic surgeries should be performed only undr the strict supervision of an expert.

So, the next time you decide to get rid of your larger sized outfits, please remember not to forget the pros and cons of going thinner!

For me:

Love is "Rose" in Success.
Love is "Thorn" in Tragedy.
Love is "Leaf" in Compromise.

Summary, Love is "THE ROSE FLOWER".

For you:

Love is ??????????????????????????????

108 Names and Meanings Of God 'Lord Ganesh'

01 -- Akhurath -- One who has Mouse as His Charioteer

02 -- Alampata -- Ever Eternal Lord

03 -- Amit -- Incomparable Lord

04 -- Anantachidrupamayam -- Infinite and Consciousness Personified

05 -- Avaneesh -- Lord of the whole World

06 -- Avighna -- Remover of Obstacles

07 -- Balaganapati -- Beloved and Lovable Child

08 -- Bhalchandra Moon -- Crested Lord

09 -- Bheema -- Huge and Gigantic

10 -- Bhupati -- Lord of the Gods

11 -- Bhuvanpati -- God of the Gods

12 -- Buddhinath -- God of Wisdom

13 -- Buddhipriya -- Knowledge Bestower

14 -- Buddhividhata -- God of Knowledge

15 -- Chaturbhuj -- One who has Four Arms

16 -- Devadeva -- Lord of All Lords

17 -- Devantakanashakarin -- Destroyer of Evils and Asuras (Demons)

18 -- Devavrata -- One who accepts all Penances

19 -- Devendrashika -- Protector of All Gods

20 -- Dharmik -- One who gives Charity

21 -- Dhoomravarna -- Smoke-Hued Lord

22 -- Durja -- Invincible Lord

23 -- Dvaimatura -- One who has two Mothers

24 -- Ekaakshara -- He of the Single Syllable

25 -- Ekadanta -- Single-Tusked Lord

26 -- Ekadrishta -- Single-Tusked Lord

27 -- Eshanputra -- Lord Shiva's Son

28 -- Gadadhara -- One who has The Mace as His Weapon

29 -- Gajakarna -- One who has Ears like an Elephant

30 -- Gajanana -- Elephant-Faced Lord

31 -- Gajananeti -- Elephant-Faced Lord

32 -- Gajavakra -- Trunk of The Elephant

33 -- Gajavaktra -- One who has Mouth like an Elephant

34 -- Ganadhakshya -- Lord of All Ganas (Gods)

35 -- Ganadhyakshina -- Leader of All The Celestial Bodies

36 -- Ganapati -- Lord of All Ganas (Gods)

37 -- Gaurisuta -- The Son of Gauri (Parvati)

38 -- Gunina -- One who is The Master of All Virtues

39 -- Haridra -- One who is Golden Coloured

40 -- Heramba -- Mother's Beloved Son

41 -- Kapila -- Yellowish-Brown Coloured

42 -- Kaveesha -- Master of Poets

43 -- Krti -- Lord of Music

44 -- Kripalu -- Merciful Lord

45 -- Krishanpingaksha -- Yellowish-Brown Eyed

46 -- Kshamakaram -- The Place of Forgiveness

47 -- Kshipra -- One who is easy to Appease

48 -- Lambakarna -- Large-Eared Lord

49 -- Lambodara -- The Huge Bellied Lord

50 -- Mahabala -- Enormously Strong Lord

51 -- Mahaganapati -- Omnipotent and Supreme Lord

52 -- Maheshwaram -- Lord of The Universe

53 -- Mangalamurti -- All Auspicious Lord

54 -- Manomay -- Winner of Hearts

55 -- Mrityuanjaya -- Conqueror of Death

56 -- Mundakarama -- Abode of Happiness

57 -- Muktidaya -- Bestower of Eternal Bliss

58 -- Musikvahana -- One who has Mouse as Charioteer

59 -- Nadapratithishta -- One who Appreciates and Loves Music

60 -- Namasthetu -- Vanquisher of All Evils and Vices and Sins

61 -- Nandana -- Lord Shiva's Son

62 -- Nideeshwaram -- Giver of Wealth and Treasures

63 -- Omkara -- One who has the Form Of OM

64 -- Pitambara -- One who has Yellow-Coloured Body

65 -- Pramoda -- Lord of All Abodes

66 -- Prathameshwara -- First Among All

67 -- Purush -- The Omnipotent Personality

68 -- Rakta -- One who has Red-Coloured Body

69 -- Rudrapriya -- Beloved Of Lord Shiva

70 -- Sarvadevatman -- Acceptor of All Celestial Offerings

71 -- Sarvasiddhanta -- Bestower of Skills and Wisdom

72 -- Sarvatman -- Protector of The Universe

73 -- Shambhavi -- The Son of Parvati

74 -- Shashivarnam -- One who has a Moon like Complexion

75 -- Shoorpakarna -- Large-Eared Lord

76 -- Shuban -- All Auspicious Lord

77 -- Shubhagunakanan -- One who is The Master of All Virtues

78 -- Shweta -- One who is as Pure as the White Colour

79 -- Siddhidhata -- Bestower of Success and Accomplishments

80 -- Siddhipriya -- Bestower of Wishes and Boons

81 -- Siddhivinayaka -- Bestower of Success

82 -- Skandapurvaja -- Elder Brother of Skand (Lord Kartik)

83 -- Sumukha -- Auspicious Face

84 -- Sureshwaram -- Lord of All Lords

85 -- Swaroop -- Lover of Beauty

86 -- Tarun -- Ageless

87 -- Uddanda -- Nemesis of Evils and Vices

88 -- Umaputra -- The Son of Goddess Uma (Parvati)

89 -- Vakratunda -- Curved Trunk Lord

90 -- Varaganapati -- Bestower of Boons

91 -- Varaprada -- Granter of Wishes and Boons

92 -- Varadavinayaka -- Bestower of Success

93 -- Veeraganapati -- Heroic Lord

94 -- Vidyavaridhi -- God of Wisdom

95 -- Vighnahara -- Remover of Obstacles

96 -- Vignaharta -- Demolisher of Obstacles

97 -- Vighnaraja -- Lord of All Hindrances

98 -- Vighnarajendra -- Lord of All Obstacles

99 -- Vighnavinashanaya -- Destroyer of All Obstacles and Impediments

100 -- Vigneshwara -- Lord of All Obstacles

101 -- Vikat -- Huge and Gigantic

102 -- Vinayaka -- Lord of All

103 -- Vishwamukha -- Master of The Universe

104 -- Vishwaraja -- King of The World

105 -- Yagnakaya -- Acceptor of All Sacred and Sacrficial Offerings

106 -- Yashaskaram -- Bestower of Fame and Fortune

107 -- Yashvasin -- Beloved and Ever Popular Lord

108 -- Yogadhipa -- The Lord of Meditation

I personally never invest in the financial market and don't know much about it and frankly don't care much about it (at leaset for right now).

But the recent talk about how the loud-mouth (literally) guru Jim Cramer's words of investment regarding Bears and Sterns wasn't much of a "Booya", got me blogging about it.

Mr. Confident sounds very errr.... confident, leading to an unequivocal reliance on his 'theories' by many.

I am not going to go over the news in detail. Just check out these videos.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/youtubes/videos/index.php?vID=51 

and

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/youtubes/videos/index.php?vID=50 

 A romantic gesture of giving an expensive engagement ring turend into a disaster in London.

Read it here.

 It had seemed a romantic and highly original way to propose to the love of your life with a £6,000 diamond ring.

Lefkos Hajji, 28, wanted to make his engagement one his girlfriend would never forget, only to have his dreams cruelly snatched from his grasp by a gust of wind.

Balloon lost in sky with diamond
A ring like that Mr Hajji lost

Rather than simply dropping to one knee before Leanne, 26, he told a florist to put her engagement ring in a silver helium balloon.

But no sooner had he left the shop when his plans backfired spectacularly and the balloons blew away - taking the ring with them.

Keeping his prize in sight, Mr Hajji, from Hackney, London, pursued the balloons for two hours in his car across London before giving them up as lost.

He told the Sun newspaper: "I couldn't believe it. I just watched as it went further and further into the air.

"I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me.

"I though I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question."

While Mr Hajji hopes the ring will still turn up, his girlfriend, as he suspected, was apparently less than impressed.

Florist Helen Savva, of Cockfosters, London, told the newspaper: "I thought he was taking a risk. I said, 'I hope you hold onto it'."

 
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/14/nballoon114.xml

A new year's resolution would be a wonderful excuse to quit smoking. A lot of many others will also no doubt have the same resolution. Even if you've tried before and not succeeded, don't worry, statistics has shown that on an average, smokers have tried for four times before finally succeeding to quit the stick. If you really want to cure your nasty habit, you should reinforce your resolution with some preparations.

First and foremost you'll need to develop a strong desire to quit smoking. It's going to be a hard long journey so you'll need encouragement and support. Keep your friends and family for moral support.

Is there any place that you're accustomed to smoking at?

If there's any place that you can't just be at without having a drag at the stick, avoid that place altogether until you're completely over it. You also want to avoid being in the company or around people who smoke.

Find another habit. Many people switch to chewing tobacco or parag while giving up smoking. While it may work for most, these aren't healthy alternatives. Some end up acquiring a new habit without losing the old. Every time you feel like smoking try something less harmful like a chewing gum or some candy or even drink a glass of water.

Get Busy: Keep your mind off cigarettes and keep it busy with something to do. Go for a walk or do some breathing exercises. Your lungs will feel better. Whenever your fingers feel like holding a cigarette, indulge them in something more productive like needling, gardening or a simple board game.

Think Healthy: Take up some form of aerobic exercise and stick to it. Indulge in some sporting activity or enroll yourself in some dance classes. If you become more health conscious, you'll find a stronger reason to quit smoking.

Think positive: Smoking can have some painful withdrawal symptoms, which only weaken your resolution to quit. For the first couple of weeks you may experience temporary withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, irritability, tiredness, and trouble concentrating. Take this as a positive step towards recovery. Think yourself successfully getting free of the habit and you will definitely succeed.

The gurkha with a khukri
But no enemy
Works for the United Nations
And yet gets shot at
In missions he doesn''t comprehend.
Order is hukum, hukum is life
Johnny Gurkha still dies under foreign skies.

He never asks why
Politics isn''t his style
He''s fought against all and sundry:
Turks, Tibetans, Italians and Indians
Germans, Japanese, Chinese
Argentenians and Vietnamese.
Indonesians and Iraqis.
Loyalty to the utmost
Never fearing a loss.

The loss of a mother''s son
From the mountains of Nepal.

Her grandpa died in Burma
For the glory of the British.
Her husband in Mesopotemia
She knows not against whom
No one did tell her.
Her brother fell in France,
Against the Teutonic hordes.
She prays to Shiva of the Snows for peace
And her son''s safety.
Her joy and her hope
Farming on a terraced slope.

A son who helped wipe her tears
And ease the pain in her mother''s heart.
A frugal mother who lives by the seasons
And peers down to the valleys
Year in and year out
In expectation of her soldier son.

A smart Gurkha is underway
Heard from across the hill with a shout
''It's an officer from his battalion.
A letter with a seal and a poker-face
"Your son died on duty", he says,
"Keeping peace for the country
And the United Nations".

A world crumbles down
The Nepalese mother cannot utter a word
Gone is her son,
Her precious jewel.
Her only insurance and sunshine
In the craggy hills of Nepal.
And with him her dreams
A spartan life that kills.

I know everyone want to send Free SMS to our friends or Family members in the same country or in the abroad. So here is a site where you can send SMS (420 character) and MMS. It is a pay site but you can send 3 free SMS for signup.

 With SIMSOR - SMS everywhere, you can:. send SMS text messages, multipart SMS (up to 420 chars) and WAP-Links incl. delivery acknowledgement worldwide. ...
www.simsor.de/home?method=process⟨=en

I like reading about Facebook, although it is not my favorite Social Networking site.

I think Facebook likes to call itself Social Utility and not a Social Network....but to me it's a the same thing.

Check out a discussion on our fourm.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/orca/#action=goto&topic_id=118 

Anyway, I can't find the article, but one reliable source estimated in 2007 that close to half of the corportate network in US has banned Facebook from being viewed.

I can understand porn or gambling being banned by corporations. But Facebook ?

Two things jump out at me from this report.

#1. Facebook is very popular.

#2. Facebook is seen as a waste of time by major corporations.

Although it was in 2007 one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 sites (not the fastest...one of the  fastest), 2008 has started off with some negative press for the company. The growth rate is slowing down according to Feb 08 report .

Here are the key reasons why I believe Facebook will slowly see a decline in 2008.

Some of my closest friends and family members are big time Facebook fans and I have no doubt they would blindly disagree with me.

But altough I don't have a solid data, I have studied the historical trend in this market to a certain details.

BTW, I am not saying Facebook and the likes are just going to disappear. I am just saying that they are not viable in the long run. 

So here are the reasons again:

1. Facebook is too broad.
Niche  always  rules over  general sites when it comes to  community  portals.
If you are a Nepali, you are more likely to find Nepal and Nepali related info in niche sites like NepalNews, Sajha, eKantipur etc...

NepalNepal.com is not even 2 months old. So most people don't even know of our existence.

2. The use of applications (Write on the wall, get bitten by vampires, send a kiss, take a quiz etc...), is slowly going to wear off.

Yes...I am saying it's a fad.

Just check how many groups there are in Facebook that complain about applications. 

3. Google befriending MySpace (don't ask me.... there is a whole corporate politics there)  

4. Competition

Social Sites are popping up on the web everyday. Most will add no value. But there will be a few that will create an Exodus from Facebook.

For example, if you wanted to discuss Real Estate, where would you rather go?

Facebook ? MySpace ?  or........ActiveRain.com 

ActiveRain.com has less than 100,000 members, but the quality of discussion there when it comes to real estate is a great grand daddy or what you can find in Facebook.

Let's see what the future holds for Facebook in the corporate eyes.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the current situation in nepal. We have fuel
crisis, we have 8 hours load shielding daily, terai(western part of Nepal) is closed,

people protesting everyday, price of daily consuming goods is rising day by day. There is nothing interesting happening to mention.

We come to listen to news about political leaders giving speech about upcoming
constitutional election, they visiting to different regions of Nepal.
On the other hand we hardly hear any news about King Gyanendra. May be he had given a speech addressing all Nepalese people on the occasion of Democracy Day but media didn't   thought it would be appropriate to air it.

Any way the questions that doesn't satisfy my curiosity are :

• Will the king step out of his position?
• Will he be a ceremonial king?
• Will there be constitutional election?
• Will there be a President after that?
• And, what would be king planning to do next?

Oh, I just keep on thinking "Aba Raja Le K Garlan?"(what would the king do next?)

Well, if anyone can predict, please leave your comment I would be more than happy to

know.

I think a woman should do many things in her life. She should  have good quality as a human as well as  she should have good  knowledge and  good nature to be the greatest  woman. It is much better, if she is well educated and very qualified woman if she wants to be a good mother. She should keep patience and take care as well as love her child in her life. She should give well education to her children. It is just not only her duty to give  the birth. It is necessay the woman should good for her child and she should take good care to her Kid. It depands on her hand to build good child.

A woman also need her husband support in her life as well. I think her husband also  have big roll to make their children good in future.  So childrens are depend a lot on both of them.

If a boy and girl have bad manner or bad habit like drug addiction or make bad friends cricle etc.  At that time  woman as a mother has big roll of  power to built a good character  or bring good way.  And  a woman may get something sweet return in  her life from her children.

For the happy family life, there should be mutual understanding between husband and wife. So women should help her husband as far as possible.

Every woman says that they want to die before their husband. Because if they do, men cannot organize  the household activities.

Therefore a woman is called "The Greatest MOM" in the world.

INTERVIEW WITH PREETY KAUR ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET

What do you frequently love doing on the computer (when not using the Internet)? How much time do you spend in front of the computer in a day in general?
Well, when not using the Internet, I do nothing on the computer. I use it only if I have to write letters or documents. And sometimes I go to Photoshop and play with the pictures I have. But if I'm using the Internet and if I have no work, I can stay the whole day going through websites, chatting with friends, checking mails, blah blah blah.

What software do you use most often for your music and other purposes?

I don't use any particular software as such.

How about surfing the Internet? What topics or subjects do you mostly look for on the web?
I mostly go for music sites, like those about the history of different genres of music, from where and how it originated, and I also go to Mariah Carey sites just to see what's new in her store and what she's doing. (Hahaha...)

Are there any websites you visit regularly?

I don't go for all the websites but I have been to Nepali websites sometimes to check what is happening in the Nepali music industry. For example, I go to fursad.com, dcnepal.com, parichaya.com and cybersansar.com.

Tell us something about your personal website. Do you have one or plan to launch it anytime soon?

I don't have any personal website so far, and I haven't yet planned for it, either.

How keen are you on gadgets? Which gadget fascinates you the most?
Mobiles! I'm very keen on them.

What gadgets are you using at present?
I have an X-Cingular 8125 cell phone and an MP3 player.

How frequently do you go for the latest models in the market? Is there anything else you wish to have?
Well, I don't go so frequently after them, but I'd love to have all the latest phones. (Hahaha...)

Have you taken any course/s in computer?
Yes, I had taken one a very long time ago, but now it's all erased from my mind.

For you, what is the one biggest plus and minus point of technology?

I think technology is the blessing we have in our lives and in this world. It has made this world very small. And talking about the minus points, I think there's no minus point in it. Let's say, can you imagine yourself without cell phone if you are a businessman? The answer is no. Can you imagine yourself without computer and Internet if you are in the IT profession? The answer is no. Yes, the only one minus point is that laziness will take over. (Hahaha...)

Hope that all the problem will be solved currently. but, it is not the solution. If people will pay the high prices then one has to get the pure petrol.

The schools have closed down just a day ahead of the nationwide closure of schools as announced by Nepal Educational Republican Forum (NERF)School operators say they were forced to give the students holiday as most of the buses that ferry them to school are in serpentine queues in front of petrol stations in the valley.

The problem has resurfaced at a time when little over a month is left for the crucial School Leaving Certificat (SLC) examinations.

An example of religious harmony in Nepal.

This Padmasambhava idol of lord Buddha is taken out of the Tarke Gyang monastery only once in a year, on the day of Dashami (10th and most important day of Dashain festival), according to the head monk (lama).They say traveling is learning. I feel that's right. You learn about so many things while traveling new places. About cultures and people. When we reached Tarke Gyang, village in Helambu region, we saw a ceremony in the Monastery there. What's that about? We wanted to know. "It's our Dashain," said the main monk (Lama) who was performing the ceremony. "You guys celebrate Dashain in your own ways and we celebrate it in our own way." He was taking us as Hindu. Dashain is the biggest festival of Hindus and is considered national festival in Nepal though many would like to counter this "consideration". I had always known that Hindu and Buddhist religions are so interrelated in Nepali society that their followers live in harmony. Buddha was born in Nepal and Hindu religion considers him an incarnation of lord Vishnu. Hindus celebrate Buddha Purnima (full moon day, the day Buddha was born and got enlightenment) and Buddhists also celebrate many Hindu traditions. I used to think not until long ago that there was actually no difference in these two religions because of the way followers of these two religions enjoy such a nice relationship. As I have mentioned in my Interests page, I am religiously secular person and I respect all religions equally. So the Dashain celebration in the Tarke Gyang monastery was an example of religious harmony for me. "Hindus sacrifice many animals during the two days of Maha Astami and Maha Nawami (eighth and ninth day of 15-day long Dashain)," said Kanchha Lama, the head monk of the monastery. "And we fast on those two days and prey for the soul of those animals killed in those two days." And a young man added: "Hindus put tika from their seniors. We receive tika in the evening from head Lama."

HILLSBORO - The story of Cheap Tiffany Jewelry Tehan, then Tabor, hasn't reached the same clamorous level in her hometown as it has in Xenia, Beavercreek or on the national media stage.

"Nothing surprises people anymore," Jerry Cummings, 68, said at Magee's diner on Friday, April 23. Discount Tiffany

Folks all over this town in southwest Ohio's Highland County said they weren't shocked by the news of the local woman running off to Florida with Tre Hutcherson of Dayton, but were surprised by the national media's fascination. Discount Tiffany Jewelry

"It's been the talk of the town," said Brenda Merida, owner of Brenda's Barber Shop. "But all I know about it I've learned from the TV and the paper."

For the most part, the national media stayed away from Hillsboro, where Tehan's parents live. "The Today Show," "Good Morning America" and others videotaped stories in Beavercreek and Xenia. tiffany bijoux

The Hillsboro Times-Gazette and the Highland County Press covered the story, but the town is located at an odd crossroads where some areas get Cincinnati news, some Columbus and a few Dayton. Merida said she first heard about the disappearance when she saw Chuck Tabor on TV.

"I thought maybe it was someone at his church, but then I saw that it was his daughter," she said. tiffany bijoux franceMany residents said the focus of most talk has been on the trouble this situation has caused for Chuck and his wife, Susie Tabor.

"People around here worry more about the family and what they went through," Cummings said.

Waitresses in Magee's wondered how Tehan could have left her 1-year-old daughter and why she didn't save her parents the stress by leaving a note or message.

"Last time I checked, as an adult I can take off if I want to," Cummings said. "But she could have told them not to look for her."Others in town were less forgiving, saying Tehan should be arrested for costing the police and FBI money and time. tiffany sterling

The news that authorities located Tehan and Hutcherson in Florida quieted the chatter even more. A few errant posters featuring a then-missing Tehan survived late Friday as the town seemed to return to more pressing topics like unemployment.

Cummings said with all the bad news in the world, a case of a woman running off with her boyfriend just doesn't have much shock value. tiffany sterling silver

"You just start to tune it out after a while," he said.

The influx of donor money means that we have been trained to expect everything to be paid by outsiders

A few week ago, while on the way to Drubar Marga from Battisputali, social scientist Hari Sharma asked me, "Who pays for your work?" I was quite puzzled as we were talking about a different subject. I remained quite puzzled as we were talking about a different subject. I remained quiet. As we had grown close over the last few years, he was well aware that I wanted to promote mental health issues in Nepal, and that ny work was paid for by no one.

Breaking the silence, Hari put forth a few more questions, "Do you believe that work that has been paid for, particularly in developing countries, is bringing desired changes? Can paid workers become real change makers?"

Before I had time to answer him, Hari, becoming a little emotional and philosophical, asked me if I had ever thought of whether anyone had paid the Buddha, gandhi, Martin Luther King, Einstein, MotherTeresa, or, currently, Obma? Still, their work has shaped or consciousness and growth through centuries.

Over the next few weeks,I became obsessed over these questions. The bleak picture of our society frequently came to my mind. I also remembered the people, institutions, and governments around the world who are paying us to bring about change. But everyday reality tells us that our society is not improving collectively. We are divided and deteriorating futher. It seems that we have failed to manage the resources that donors are generously payingsus to bring about change. Where does the money go? The answer is not easy; however, I will attempt to talk about this issue differently, but seriously.

As a donor-depentent country, we are nurturing a culture of expecttions of aid without being aware of the long term implictions, While walking aroungd and taling to people, it sounds to met that we are being trined to expect everythig to be paid for any outsiders. We feel comfrotable in nurturing our hopes in a foreign hand. It seems we can do nothing on our own; rather, we will do something only if some on else is paying for us. Can we ever count such a mind-set as a long-term loss?

Psychologically speaking, our entire society is turning to slavery by handicapping ourselves through these expectations. Tragically, we have also lost our imagination, alongwith the faith we had in ourselves. If we ask the questions- are we creating any hope for the country? What future are we leavingfor our future generations? -there are no answers; rather, only uncertainly.

Talking about donor resourees, Iseea fundamental fault in the huge portion of resources being spent in duplication of work rather than being spent on developing concerted advocacy efforts to strengthen the state and make it more accountableto guarantee basic needs and rights of its citizens. I am not against the involvementof non-government agencies and the private sector the social sector, but my concern is about the system that we are developing with donor resources? How are we helping ourselves in the long run?

We are also not making any efforts to create a responsible state that fulfills its basic responsibilities towads its citizens in geneal and towards marginalised communities in particular. The social, economic, and medical conditions of many marginalised communities, including people living with mental and physical disabilities, can betaken as an example.

In any developing country, current scenarios continue to resent an outlook where donors continue to pay and the state continues to fail to imporve is service system. Time continues to pass. Generations come and go, but the cycle continues. It is frustrating to be born in the third world. It is humilating to love with poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, disabilities, and mental illnesses. It is painful to know that at least go percent of people suffereing from mental and physical disabilities in the third world are poor, illiterate, and unemployed. what a hell of a life!

Generally, to avoid these serious questions, people usually say that there is still a long way to do go. But I don't believe in that. If we cannot show will power and commitment today, we can never go the long way. It may sound impractical, but I believe that without creating a society and a state that takes ownership of the marginalised -even in the absence of donor support -we can never expect a sustainable and equaitable development. Iam concerned that in the absence of state support and care, millions of people living with disabilities suffer permanent career, socia, and cultural damages, never aspiring to catch up to the opportunities their counterparts not living with any disability may get.

At the sametime, I don't see NGO and theprivate sector making adequated efforts to bring such issues into the larger social concern. Therefore, it is important for us to create a socially-inclusive message to motivate society to act in favour of the marginalised.

Can money alone finance our aspirations? Is donor money the only means be helping our state, society and ourselves? What about our moral valuses, mental health, and the dignity of being a Nepali? do we believe that change comes this way?

I do not believe that it is enough for us.

Well I am a female, obviously. And in a time and place where women can pretty much do what every man can do, yes, I play the guitar. Actually, I have been playing the guitar since I was seven. Thanks to my father who never failed to encourage and support me in anyhting thst I want to do. Well, after all, I just can't drown myself in school assignments all the time like writing essays and projects. It is healthy to take up a hobby every now and then.

Lately, I have been thinking of forming an all female band but my best girl buddy, Jane, thinks I am just joking. But I just have to win her heart for, I tell you, that girl can sing! Unfortunately, my musical skill is limited to playing the guitar so I just have to get her to do the singing part instead. Or no one would get me for a gig, for sure.

Our relation is getting cold.....don't know if it had heated up to its maximum level or not. It all started with the mere assumption of mine that you loved me. I adored you so much, that is what I feel. You have never accepted either you loved me or not. It was just my assumption, from where all this started. Now, I don't know where has it reached. I don't have a clue if you feel the same as I feel or not. I don't know if you miss me as I miss you or not. This feeling is killing me. This is not what I wanted , its all being opposite of my desire. Still we talk, we listen to each other, I care about you, don't know if you do so about me or not. I don't know, how will this relation continue or end. I am so perplexed,...so confused. What I know is its getting cold, not warm as before, if it was warm to some limited extent. I feel bad that I started all this with a mere assumption...just a mere assumption..........that u loved me.

I thought you are all what I needed, never bothered to ask you, or waited till you tell that to me. I just assumed that you feel the same way as I feel, and shared my every moments, every day lights , every nights and every evenings with you. You laughed together with me, when I cried u persuaded me, when I was low, you made me feel high....that all made me assume that you feel the same as I feel. But never bothered to wait till you say all that to me...and I shared my days and my nights with you, looking at the sky, counting the stars together....but you never bothered to say that you loved me . This is creating a hole in our relation now, from where all happiness of being together is being leaked slowly. I have ceased to see intimacy in your eyes, you have stopped to hold my hands when we are together, alone and apart from the whole worldly chaos. But still we share the nights and days even though they are not same as before. Nights have started to get long now , days are being passed with the fear of approaching long and cold night. And this all stared of my mere assumption that u loved me.

Now, you are far from me. When I tell you how much I miss you, "ohh" comes your reply. With each passing days, I feel happy that the day of our union is coming near, but that would not make any difference to you. I wait the whole day just for your miss call, but finally I had to remind you that you could have just flashed me. We still talk for hours in phone, talks of our career, talks of weather, talks of families but never had any intimate talk of our relation, you have never , ever expressed the three magic words from your lips, infront of me. This act of yours is killing me....and this all started with the mere assumption of mine that u loved me and I loved you.

When I first heard about the hit-and-run that killed six people at Ratnapark last Wednesday, I was left wondering what kind of a sick person would do such a deed. But when it later emerged that it was not a deliberate incident but an accident, I began to think about the driver.

Now we lern that Biplav Man Singh was not new to crimes. He had apparently been arrested in the past for possessing drugs and sharp weapons and for his involvement in gang flights. These developments have made me think even harder: How many other Biplavs are out there, in our failies, in our society? Just think! He may be your brother, a cousin, your neighbouror just an acquaintnce.

How many boys in your neighbourhood do drugs, possess some kind of weapon orare eregularly involved ingang flights? Most likely, you know some one who is guilty of one orall three offences.

Especially in urban areas, boys are under huge peer pressure to be involved in these acts. Drugs-because your friends consider it cool; gang fights -becaue you have got to stand up for your self; and weapons-because onceyou are involved in the above two; you've got to have protection. Boys give into these temptations because they want to be cool. They cannot lettheir friends make fun of them. Others do it simply to fit in. Similarly, drinking and somoking are also part of the growing up package. Either they do it or else they suffer.

We all know wht happens to a boy who won't do these things: hegets anick-name of namarda (sissy) . He is not admitted into the happending group, not respected by peers and treted like losers. Grownups often should at youngsters: "Aren't you man enoughto standup for yourself? Can't you even say no to your own friends?

But let's face the truth. No they are not man enough. Or more truthfully, we have not taught them to be. Have we ever sat down with our growing kids and talked man-to-man about the problems they are going through? have we ever advised them and encouraged them? It is precisely because we cannot communicte with grwing children that they seek our friends. And for boys, friends often come with the above mentioned baggage.

It is hardly news if a young mancame home reeling drunk, is into drugs, gets into gang fights or was sent to prison one ortwo times.

In Biplav's case, his drinking proved to be fatal in ways he could never have imnagined. It could have been any one on that fateful night, any of the numerous Biplavs that have been emerging in our society day by day.

All of Nepal's crises are put in the pale by te true silent emergency of our times: Hunger

So the rains are upon us, finally. The hard, cracked earth hisses and eases to mud, the dust is scrubbed out of the air, and the mountains that make the Kathmandu Valley move closer, humming deep green. Life is transformed; we have water to wash and light to live through the night. No more bucket showers if we can help it, no more dashing to charge ou rphones and laptops. We even have the freedom to move about, in the absence of bandas that chokeoff our freedom and our fuel. It's soething to feel good about.

But has life really changed, or are we simply moving into the next phase of our annual cycle of inconvenience? The rotting wet rubbish on the streets of the capital is a timely reminder of the state of Nepal. The streets themselves are pockmarkedwith theneglectof thepast year, and too late wheelbarrows of gravel come tumbling. The petrol situation is hostge to the whims of those enforcing bandas, many more of which we will endure. The rains themelves, so long awaited, are alrady stretching the capacities of the temporary Koshi embankmens. We may have electricity now, but there is nothing to indicate we won't be groping around a deeper shade of dark next winter. Politics is set to lurch along ina constant state of irresolution, guaranteeing tht everything else will drag along in its wake, in a perpetual state of emergency.

Constitution-writing is key to securing the future of our nation. But thepresent, for those we have entrusted his future to, appers to consist ony of what goeson in Parliament (when it is going on at all) andin inter, intra, infra and ultra-- party meets -- in other words, the political struggle for existence. Meanwhile, a far more deadly struggle for existence. Meanwhile, a far more deadly struggle for existence is being played out far from the gaze of local and international media.

I'm not talking about bandas, 16-hour black-outs or the nagbelis of water and petrol quenes. These inconveniences won't kill the denizens of the Kathamandu Valley, as much as they stifle vitality and cramp livelihoods. I'm talking about the ongoing humanitrian crises that don't make thepapers or your average weddingparty conversation quite so often as the latest cabinet reshffle. When was the last time you discussed the Bhutanese refugees our the Koshi flood victims?

Yet even these crises are put in the pale by the true silent emergency of our times. Hunger. I am ashamed to admit that I have misrepresented my country to curious phareners on several occasions inthepast. "Yes, of codurse Nepal's poor , " I might have said, sipping a glass of wine in some western urbn agglomertion. "But at least people don't starve there. It's not like in Inida. "Implying that Nepal is better off simply becausewe don't have 7-star hotels sharing real estate space with slims. What nonsense. What difference does it make to a hungry manin the fr west whether someone in Kathmandu spends 500 rupees of 5000 rupees on a meal?

I had long been aware of the annual food short-ages in Humla and Jumla. But what this really this has been taking place, some how escaped me. Why was this so? You may dismiss me as out-of-touch and ignorant if I tell you that when Richard Ragan, the head of the World Food Programme in Nepal, informed me his organistion was currently feeding 3 million Neepalis -- that's 10% of the population -- my first reaction was" What?" It was news of me. Here we are , after 50 years of donor-driven development: Life expectancy is 63 years (up from 41 in 1971, NDHS 2006), the infant mortality rate is 51 per 1000 live births (down from 140 in 1976, NDHS 2006), adult literacy has crossed 50% (up from 24% in 1981, CBS). We've come a long way, no question. Yet we are still struggling to stave off malnourishment or even starvation for 1 in 10 people in 40 disticts across Nepl. I don't excuse my own ignorance . But I do blame this ignorance, in part, on the Nepali media's silene onthehungerpangs that grip the country every year. The very hunger that, beingt the root of the Maoists insurgency, continues to propel the political instability we solike to gripe about.

The World Food Programme itself recognises the consequences of media blackouts, and has been working to disseminate stories on the ongoing crisis. After all, as Richard pointed out at a talk for the Cultureal Studies Group Nepal at TheShanker Hotel, "what we would like best is to pack out bags and leave. "This will only happen if chronic hunger disappers, once adequate measures are put into plae that"give the hungry person a fish and teach him how to fish. Implementing these measures requires funds, and donors andgovernments are far more likely to pay attention if the media leads the way.

Which is why I wrote on hunger, hoping to draw myself and yourself out of th self-obsession so chracteristic of those living in the capital, a fault that has proven fatal to the Kathmandu, Valley time and again. Ialso wanted to draw attention to the good work for the future that is being done far, far away from the front pages of our dailies and the back rooms of our netas. If we are to move towards the future we envision in the constitutionto come, then we have to learn from the consequences of our Valley-centrism, andso avoid being the proverbial kawa ko bhyaguto, who knows not what moves ouside of his line of vision, and cannot see what is coming.

Happiness

External success and comfort cannot make one happy unless one has inner contentment

Modern life is a struggle for money, comfort and luxury. Instead of bringing happiness, such life invites anxieties. However, one day every body will realise that material things are of little value when compared to the mental or spiritual joy that comes out of detachment from worldly things.

Human lives constitute moments spent in a million ways. Some are spent earning for maintaining livelihood and others for love, peace and happiness. Whether we live in a decent building with servants and wealth or struggle to manage the rent each month, it is in our power to be satisfied and lead a happy life.

In fact, happiness is a perfume which one cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on oneself. Buddhism teaches us to adopt rightous means to gain happiness, without causing suffering to another person or living being.

If one wants to live happily, one should allow others to live happily. Unless and until one learns to live according to these noble principles, one cannot except happiness in the world.

Actually, all human beings face and share the samed fate due to ignorance of the true nature of life. One often weeps wails. One smiles and weeps again.

For happiness one should not expect gratitude from others. "If we want to find happiness, let us stop, thinking about gratitude or ingratitues, " says Dale Carnegie. "It is because ingratitude is natural like weeds; gratitude is like arose which is to be fed, watered, cultivated, loved and protected."

Where do we look for happiness? "Within you", says Lord Buddha. Of course, happiness is a state of mind. It cannot be found in material things like wealth, power of fame. Those who possess wealth will be disapointed when they discover that money cannot buy even a grain of happiness.

It has been my observtion, says Abraham Lincoln, "that people are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. "In reality happiness is the most desirable state of being. It is not something which simply happens. It is a state f consciousness that does not depend on the physical appetites and passions.

One cannot hope to gain happiness by simple praying. One has to work to gain such blessings. Beyond doubt, belief in god and prying for blessings is useful, but they are not all. Nobody can be happy unless he or she is content with him/herself. Actually, happiness is only possible through mental divine, nature. Perserverance, strong determination and persistent efforts will help to achieve such quality. Therefore, if one aims at gaining permanent happiness, one should be devoted to reuglar meditation.

This was a wierd 'missed connection' on Craigslist.

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Here is a snapshot in case Craigslist takes it down.

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It's all global now ain't it.

London sees it's share or violence outside the Israeli Embassy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1111203/Protesters-clash-police-100-000-strong-London-Gaza-demo-descends-violence.html

According to a recently conducted study by an NGO in Nepal, the typical rape victim is between 15 and 35 years of age. Divorcees and women separated form their husbands are raped more frequently than married women because they are likely to go out alone. Divorced and women separated from their husbands are often raped by their ex-husbands as "punishment", whereas single women face the danger of date rape.

Females of any age may be the victims of rape. We have all heard of disgusting, stomach-churning cases in which babies and toddlers have been raped while rapes of even old women as acts of revenge or during times of war are reported.

Rape can certainly take place anywhere in empty parking lots, blind alleys, secluded streets, parks and construction sties. Rapists tend to hang around places where large number of women live, work, and study. This includes hostels, libraries, college campuses, office blocks, etc. Victims are not chosen on the basis of attractiveness but on the basis of availability, accessibility, and vulnerability.

The goal of rape is rarely sex. It is a complex act motivated by a variety of causes that have their roots in the dark underbelly of society and in the twisted psyche of the rapist. It often expresses rage and frustration. The rapist wants to prove his strength and power, and his ability to control and exploit. He often harbors a lot of hostility toward women because of his own childhood. He is often a person with low self-esteem and uses rape as a way to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy.

Again rapists are rarely total strangers and women are often raped by men they know. Courts are also now recognizing that even husbands can rape their wives, rape being defined as sex that is brutally forced on an unwilling woman. So when husbands use force to have sex with unwilling wives, it is indeed rape and an extreme form of domestic violence.

So many women are often not safe even in their own homes. Not only can a member of their own families rape them but outsiders can also break in and attack them. No, rapes do not take place only in dark and deserted places.

The greatest misconception about rape is the "she asked of it" theory offered by the defense lawyers of the rape accused. But rape victims rarely, if ever, include provocatively dressed women or those who behave in an 'inviting' manner. Even the most virtuous of women can be raped, just because she is a woman.

The police, defense lawyers of the rape accused and even judges often argue that a rape is not a rape unless the victim bears marks of violence and torture on her body. Otherwise, the sex was possibly consensual, they argue. But they are wrong. Fear can make a woman submit and the threat of violence, mutilation, and death can make her freeze and even lose consciousness.

We have heard of children dying because they imitated something they saw on TV. But do you know that the negative effects of TV spread over many aspects of a child's life?

In most houses, TV remains on for most of the evening. Unfortunately, watching TV often has a negative impact on children.

Children are particularly vulnerable to TV because they do not fully understand that TV is a make-believe world. Most of us have read reports of young children injuring themselves, even dying, because they imitated what they saw on TV without realizing the danger involved in such acts. They were merely stunts performed with special camera effects. Even a child who does not try to imitate something dangerous is influenced by what s/he sees. The fantasy worlds on television, whether soap operas, cartoons, movies, or fashion shows, are fascinating and addictive. They become an escape from routing activities like studying plying and working.

Next time you watch TV; note the number of advertisements for unhealthy foods like colas, chocolates, sweets, instant noodles, fried snacks, and fast food outlets.

Almost all show slender beautiful women and active, cheerful children eating junk food and looking healthy and happy. Children watching these advertisements start believing that such food is good and healthy besides being tasty.

Most advertisement treats food as emotional symbols. So a child may want a chocolate bar that denotes love and caring, or a brand of chips that denotes fun or a particular brand of cola because it is the drink of the child's favorite film star or cricketer.

Another problem is that watching TV is a sedentary activity. Children watch TV indoors and tend to take snack while watching it. Combined with poor eating habits, excessive TV watching leads to over-weight and obesity. In his book How Television Poisons Children's Mind. Miles Everest points out that we normally don't allow our children to talk to strangers, into their minds and souls everyday and letting them set the standards of right and wrong for our children.

To reduce the negative effects of TV, parents should it with the child who's watching TV and make comments to explain the back-ground of the show on screen. For example, for who depicting stunts, explain how the stunt is actually a photography trick and uses doubles and dummies. Support what you are explaining with examples the child can understand.

Remember, TV can a valuable medium of instruction if used carefully. Through programs about other countries and cultures, scientific discoveries and inventions, nature and the universe, TV allows us to view different aspects of the world which we cannot view otherwise. It is up to us to use TV within limits so that children benefits form it instead of getting addicted to it thereby losing their whole-some perspective on life.

At lest four strikes, Valley or Nepal bandas in one month and many more in the making! As if the rest of the country felt left out in the Kathmandu Valley-only transport strike on Saturday called by student unions and transporters unions.

Starting Sunday, the entire country could be hit by Chakka-jams and Road Obstructions if transport entrepreneurs have their way and the law continues to look the other way.

The transporters and students will have additional company beginning Sunday - petroleum dealers and petroleum-product carriers, all of them contributing in their own ways to make life more difficult for the man in the street.

Besides, eight student unions affiliated to political parties and transport unions like the Federation of National Transport Entrepreneurs (FNTE), Nepal Petroleum Dealers Association (NPDA), and Federation of Nepal Petroleum Supply Entrepreneurs (NPSE) will also join the fray Sunday.

Of late, venting one's ire on the street has spread like a plague throughout the country. The strike callers are of all varieties - from the aggrieved relatives of those killed in road accidents to transporters to students. It does not matter that a Banda or Chakka jam announced at the last minute leaves stranded people on their way to work, while setting out on some emergency task, taking someone to hospital, appearing for an exam, traveling the high-way, or simply returning home.

The latest round of strikes started with the government announcing a hike in fuel prices and the resultant raise in public transport fares. The government proposed an across the board hike of 25 percent for public vehicles (but with three-wheelers and micro buses to decide fares through competition) against a 35-45% hike demanded by transport entrepreneurs. Transporters and people employed by them usually park their vehicles astride the roads to prevent all vehicular movement. "If the government fails to address the entrepreneurs' demands immediately FNTE will halt vehicular movement for indefinite period across the country form Sunday," FNTE warned Saturday.

Student who have been enjoying a 33 percent fare concession are also up in arms. They now demand a 50 percent concession. The government's decision to raise the concession to 43 percent is not percent is not enough, the students say, (The 43 percent concession is also applicable to the Jana Andolan injured). Transporters, of course, oppose this additional hike. On Friday, the students vandalized vehicles at some places and burnt tires in front of colleges in the capital. More such spectacles are expected on Sunday.

"We will continue our protests unless our demand for 50 percent concession in fares is met," said the eight students unions after a joint meeting, Saturday. Today was the fourth consecutive day of protests by them.

On Saturday, petroleum dealers padlocked Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) deports across the country NPDA that had announced nationwide agitations from Thursday, demanding the government ease the supply of fuel at the earliest. As a part of the protest, NPDA has announced a halt to the purchase of fuel from NOC deport from Sunday and to the sale and distribution of petroleum products from Monday. This will ensure lengthier queues in front of government-owned fuel supply stations.

Similarly, the Federation of Nepal Petroleum Supply Entrepreneurs (NPSE) on Saturday decided to halt petroleum supply across the country from Sunday. Issuing a statement NPSE said all tankers supplying petroleum products will stop operating until and unless the government increases fares for tankers.

With all sides determined to have their own way, get ready to walk to your destination. The sick and elderly travel at their own risk!!!

Alcohol Cuts Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

People who drink alcohol are less prone to the sometimes crippling disease called Rheumatoid Arthritis compared with non-drinkers, according to a Scandinavian study published on Wednesday.

It happens when the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation and damage to the cartilage and bone!

A mixture of environmental factors, especially smoking, and genetic heritage are the deemed csuses of the disease.

The authors, led by Henrik Kaellberg of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, note previous research that suggests alcohol interferes with inflammatory processes that trigger heart disease.

Doctors advising patients about the disease say they should urge smokers to kick tobacco, but not necessarily to stop consumption of alcohol in moderate quantities.

High consumption of alcohol, while apparently protective for rheumatoid arthritis, is itself linked with many other health problems.

The paper appears in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, a specialist journal published by the British Medical Association (BMA).

What is acquaintance is if not coming close

what is friendship is if not sharing things....

Kudos to the fast growing technology that the world is just a click away from a mouse or a tap of a button.Its intricate but its rational.Its limited but its reasonable.

Had it not been for the IT technology ,I would have lived the most boring phase of my life here in not-so-happening city of China.Girls there are aplenty but their is only a place for soulmate.And,I have resorted to this IT thing as my passion,my love and my soulmate.However,its the first time I am drafting a blog in the wee hours of a rainy morning which is a harbinger for another boring day in this wretched place.

But,I am loving the rain -its smell ...its not as offensive as the Kathmandu air but it lacks something.I cant fathom what it is.And,I am not a deep-soul thinker to go ways to find out what is missing.
To be simple,I miss an Umbrella and my soulmate to walk me through the rain.
For this reason IT though global,though loved is limited.I can't make it tangible to her -the rain..the drops touching my skin.

Just have few songs on my mind which still dont suffice for this moment- close to you by carpenters and hanging by moment by lifehouse.

It was a self preservation thing but couldnt resist the temptation of writing in a nepali blog.I have faith here just like i harbor that colossal faith in my love.

DEFINITIONS

Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.

Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her master.

Divorce: Future tense of marriage

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power...

Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.

Classic: books which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet".

Arranged Marriage: Similar to object oriented programming approach. We first fix the candidate and then try to implement functions on her. The main object is fixed and various functions are added to supplement the main program. The functions can be added or deleted.

Love Marriage: It is a throwaway type of prototype as client requirements rises with time thus it is a dynamic system and difficult to maintain.

Arranged Marriage: Requirements are well defined so use of waterfall model is possible.

Love Marriage: Family system hangs because hardware called parents are not responding.

Arranged Marriage: Compatible with hardware Parents.

Love Marriage: You are the project leader so u are responsible for implementation and execution of PROJECT- married life.

Arranged Marriage: You are a team member under project leader parents so they are responsible for successful execution of project Married life.

Love Marriage: Client expectations include exciting feature as spouse cooking food, washing clothes etc.

Arranged Marriage: All these features are covered in the SRS as required features.

Love Marriage: Acceptance test possible you can try before you Buy.

Arranged Marriage: Product is sold on an as is where is basis, Product once sold will not be taken back!

Are we westernizing?

What we don't realize is that just doing all of that doesn't make us modernized. The problem is, at heart most of the so-called "hip" teenagers are downright conservative. Domestic helps, for example, are still servants to them whom they can order around and speak to them in anyway they want to. That's not what Westerners do. They respect every job: a lawyer wouldn't look down upon a waiter and a doctor wouldn't think a house-helper's job was trivial. Some of us actually dare to think that acting superior to our helpers makes us cool! It's ironic how we thin we're westernizing when we still categorize people according to what job they do.

Modernizing isn't about learning the latest fashion and knowing that skinny jeans are in. It's about learning the actual contemporary values and perspectives.

And then there is the fact that some of us think we know everything because we know what Angelina Jolie wore to the Oscars. Who cares about who won the CA polls back home? Or how many people died in the recent China earth-quake? Knowing what happened in the Heroes season finale and how many pounds Kareena Kapoor lost is just enough.

Now isn't that what we call being modern these days? It hurts to think that half the teenagers in Kathmandu will probably answer "yes". We will truly westernize when we become internationally aware and know what's happening around the world. It's not bad to know what celebrities are up to; after all they do entertain us: but it also wouldn't hurt to know that the world petroleum sources will finish in the next 42 years or that Everest might be decreasing in height.

The last slap to the word modernization is how we think anything is fine, just as long are it's who's doing it. It might be okay for us to run around a swimming pool in a bikini but if our mothers dare to keep salvaar-kurta aside for a day and wear jeans instead god help them! Now what kind of modernization is that? Either we should all wear traditional clothes or we should all wear whatever we want. Why this restriction and discrimination with age? Us teens aren't the only ones allowed to live life to the fullest. We are embarrassed if our parents do anything and we have the nerve to think we're Westernized!

I hope with time we will realize the true meaning westernization.

Buddha

Today we are celebrating Buddha Jayenti but we have forgetton what buddha said. The simple but effective way he taught us to live happily with blissfulness. Buddha teaches us how to live. He simply teaches us how to bere here in this world, how to be here alert, conscious, mindful.

Some wise words buddha say......

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is

everything. What we think we become.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea

that exists only as an idea.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild

beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on

the present moment.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness

the best relationship.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create

distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least

we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get

sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of

service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates

people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant

relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the

candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of

Unity are already two.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I

have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common

sense.

Yep. This is Thomas Beatie.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/viewPhoto.php?fileID=1495

Thomas, 34, is due to give birth to a girl by caesarean on July 3.

He grew up female in Hawaii, but became a man in his 20s.

OK here is a video.

"No" to Dowry

Early marriage, illiteracy, and lack of laws against domestic violence are adding to the woes of Nepali girls who are mercilessly tortured and harassed after marriage for not bringing lots of Dowry. Although the constitution deems dowry as being illegal, it is wrongly assumed to be an essential requirement during marriage and a matter of prestige in various parts of the country, especially in the Tarai Regions of Nepal. How many families in the Tarai get their daughters married off without a hefty dowry? Why does society restrain Nepali girls from asserting their right to a dignified life? How frantically do newly married brides struggle for respect and identity, but are tortured if they fail to satisfy the greed of their in-laws. That the ugly practice of dowry could be challenged by the bride, her family, and society alike was felt after the case of Babita Pokharel came to light.

A plus-two student studying in the local high school, Babita was returned to her maternal home for not bringing enough dowries during marriage. It was sheer good luck that the locals came to her rescue after the National Daily Newspapers carried a news story regarding the treatment meted out to her by the groom's family for mistreating the bride. Similarly, they were forced to return the items that Babita had brought with her as dowry. Babita's case reflects the plight of hundreds of Nepali girls who are married off at an early age. Nepali society prefers sons over daughters. A female child is considered to be second in line to her brothers, and lacks access to nutritious food, good health, and basic education. While sons are taught to be bold and assertive, daughters are tainted to be meek, shy, and unassertive. And, as young girls are preferred over older ones, girls are married off at an early age. Early marriage coupled with inadequate socialization and illiteracy makes women vulnerable to various social ills such as physical and mental abuse cannot satisfy the greed of the in-laws. Meanwhile, the perpetrators of the crime go free due to the absence of laws against domestic violence in general, and abuses related to dowry in particular.

Unfortunately, the state has never accepted the fact that stringent laws need to be framed to punish both givers and receivers of dowry as well as perpetrators of violence against women. Besides, the public is completely unaware that com-modifying girls in the name of giving and receiving dowry are a social crime. It is the duty of the government to ensure the rights of women before and after marriage. After all, the Interim Constitution implicitly mandates equal rights for both men and women, irrespective of their marital status, besides, social boycotting of dowry givers and takers, promoting court marriage and qualitative education for girls could minimize dowry system. Last but not the least; it is the mentality of the individuals towards dowry that must change.

Motherhood - What a Beautiful Word

Every year we go to a great length to celebrate motherhood. But, what happens all through the year is pretty much what has transpired down the ages, with a few modifications necessitated by the changing face of motherhood. Even today, mothers are either deified or devalued or subjected to contemptuous indifference.

However, though traces of the stereotype remain, it must be admitted that motherhood has today evolved to encompass much more than a domestic orbit. In its more dynamic avatar, urban motherhood has, to a noticeable extent, affected the demise of the self-effacing and self-flagellating creature of the kitchen and the nursery, and the birth of a confident entity capable of meeting every challenge the larger areas as throw up.

To achieve this, mothers have had to load-shed, defy the patriarchal construct of the selfless giver, destroys universalized concepts and question orthodox legacies of maternal behavior. One voice reiterating this change is that of mothers going blue in face declaring that they are friends to their children, perhaps to emphasize that they are a far cry from the pedantic, molded-to-order entities their own mothers were compelled to be. While it is a welcome development making the mother-child relationship more egalitarian, I personally feel it limits the scope of motherhood.

Our outreach as mothers is far greater. We are guides, caretakers, breadwinners, and what not. By refusing to stay trapped in the mothering role, we extend our warm maternal qualities to the wider spectrum of art, science and the environment.

But despite the enormous payoffs, there is no mistaking that the grinding drudgery still exists and so also the disillusionment when confronted with the brute realties of child rearing and the price we pay to stay moored. We still have to contend with internal contradictions between the ideal and the realistic, the past and the present. What's more, we insist on biting off more than we can chew, aspire to super-woman status, are reluctant to delegate, obsessed with perfection, and unable to ease the burden of expectations. This is inimical to our interests and we return to the point from where we ventured to empower ourselves.

By echoing other's thoughts and speaking in a voice not our own, we allow ourselves to go to seed, looking for gratification and appreciation in the fact that we are taken for granted. In this, we run the risk of being marginalized later in life and ending up as disappointed and decrepit empty nesters with no individuality. We must guard against this at all costs, because if we obliterate ourselves for the sake of our children, we can never give them the sense of identity they need or be exemplary role models.

There's no martyrdom or merit in uncalled for self-sacrifice. In fact, it takes greater courage to embrace and safeguard our autonomy. This mother's day, let's add the redeeming quality of self-sufficiency and balance to our existing stores of unconditional love. What better gift we can give ourselves and those we live for?

WORLD'S BIGGEST LIES EVER

• The check is in the mail.

• I'll respect you in the morning

• I'm from the government, and I am here to help you.

• It's only a cold sore

• You get this one I'll pay next time

• My wife doesn't understand me

• Trust me I'll take care of everything

• Of course, I love you.

• I am getting a divorce

• Drinking? Why, no, officer

• I never inhaled

• It's not the money; it's the principal of the thing

• I never watch the TV except for PBS

• ... but we can still be good friends

• She means nothing to me

• Don't worry, I can go another 20 miles when the gauge is on "empty"

• I gave at the office

• Don't worry, he's never bitten anyone

• I'll cal you later

• We'll release the upgrades by the end of the year

• Read my lips, no new taxes.

• I have never done anything like this before.

• Now I'm going to tell you the truth

• It's supposed to make that noise

• .then take a left. You can't miss it

• Yes, I did

• Don't worry; it's OK - I ‘m sterile

A 73-year-old woman Dukhi Damini of Jamuni VDC-8, was murdered on Wednesday night after a gang allegedly raped her. SP Raj Bahadur Bista at District Police Office Bardiya said that the gang of three youths raped her while she was sleeping outside her home on Wednesday night and subsequently murdered her. Lokendra Rasaili, 21, Karna Bahadur Sunar, 21 and Tul Bahadur Sunar, 20 of the same village were arrested for investigations over the crime, police said.

By Tristan Bruslé

With 266,000 people, and 100,000 more to come in 2008, the Nepalese in Qatar are about to become the first foreign community in this tiny Gulf country. They are also the first concentration of Nepalese outside Nepal and India. As soon as one steps off the plane from Kathmandu at Doha airport, one is struck by a certain kind of familiarity with the airport staff. The visitor to Qatar wonders at the number of young men speaking khas kura or wearing "Nepal" branded caps. In the streets of Doha, in shops, in shopping malls, in offices, in restaurants, on building sites, the Nepalese toil to earn their living and help their family at home.

Workers arrive in Doha wearing manpower agency caps.

Thanks to it boasting the second gas reserve in the world, Qatar is a fast growing economy which needs low skilled workers. All unqualified jobs are done by foreigners, and especially by the Nepalese, who, nowadays, are the most sought after compared to Indians or other nationalities. The Nepalese's reputation is excellent: they are said to be hardworking, honest, cheap and not prone to complaining. Unfortunately, this means that the Nepalese are an easy target for con men, be the Dalals from Nepal or employers in Qatar.

Photo: After breaking both legs at work this young boy has been staying in his room for two months, living thanks to the help of his friends.

It is non uncommon to meet desperate workers who have not been paid for months or who have been abandoned by their company after being injured at work. It also means that their basic salary is lower than that of other nationalities. However, the more educated Nepalese complain that the Nepalese image is too much associated with that of an unskilled worker. Nonetheless, the number of qualified Nepalese rises every year: there are about 100 executives from Nepal in Qatar.

Unskilled workers are usually put up in labour camps that is buildings rented by their company. The biggest concentration of labour camps is the Industrial Area, near Doha. Hundreds of thousands of men live there in camps where living conditions largely depend on the care the company takes of its workers. Some camps are well maintained, and even provide table tennis and snooker facilities. But the majority of them are overcrowded (up to 16 men to a room with three tiered bunk-beds), sometimes dirty and not suitable for men spending years abroad.

Cleaners in the up-market Al Khor Community.

Life in a camp is monotonous. Everyday except for Fridays, workers are taken to their work site by company buses. For lunch, tiffin boxes filled with Dal Bhat are provided. At the end of the afternoon, when the workers come back to their camp, some of them begin their second job, called part time, which consists in being a servant in private houses. At night, after another plate of Dal Bhat, it is time to play cards or watch the latest Nepalese movie. These days Muglan is the favourite one. Friday is the only day when workers have time off. Some wash their clothes and rest all day. Others go to Doha. The favourite destination is Nepali Chowk, a temporary place created by the Nepalese in the centre of Doha. Here, thousands of men gather, meet their relatives or villagers, have tea and buy the latest Nepalese movie or songs. Homesick men can also buy Nepalese Paan, Khukhuri cigarettes and "Top of the world" T-shirts. The atmosphere is like that of Ason Tole during the rush hour, be it for the total lack of women and temples... From the Nepali Chowk, many workers head for one of the six Nepalese restaurants where Momo, Dal Bhat and Sukuti are to be found. A sense of familiarity and of being together is important for those who struggle in a foreign land, away from home and family.

Runnig an internet café and enabling workers to call home on low rates. Selling Kantipur as a part time job.

Waiters in a Chicha (Qatari type hooka) bar. Bhim and friends at the Tourist Hotel.

At Mehaman with Kandel brothers. To eat the best Momo in town go to Sagarmatha restaurant.

Baje, the most ancient Nepali restaurant owner, will always serve you a typical Dal Bhat. Samudrako cheuma.

Cleaning a kinder garden (photo Ramesh Regmi)

Dangerous jobs are for Nepalis.

Taking a rest on a construction site.

Back from work in the company bus.

Nepali musical shooting in Al Khor.

Sending money home is like a Kushiko Khabar (happy news).

National emblems at the Nepali restaurant in Al Khor.

Inside the Nepali Bhansa Ghar Restaurant.

Nepali feature films and Nepali pan are available at the Nepali Chowk.

Nepali chowk is the place to be on Fridays.

Latest news and music from Nepal are found at Machapuchhre music store.

 
Waiting for the bus to come. Going to part time job requires a bicycle.

Between home and abroad : Qatar royalties, Shiva and Nepal map. A camp under the February sun.

"I am from Kaski and this is my bed". Living with stars.

These newly arrived young workers have not yet decorated their room. "Look, I've got a brand new mobile !"

Laughing with friends in a camp. "Our country name is written on our room door"

Dal bhat taken in the camp room.

Dal bhat taken in the camp mess. Proud to be a Nepali in Al Fardan area, Central Doha.

Al Khor famous "Sandhya group" welcoming the author.

Taxis drivers take a break to read Kantipur.

Nepali posters are stronger than law.

Doha, Qatar.

April 23, 2208, Wednesday, marks the second anniversary of Loktantra Diwas (Democracy Day) and the government has made elaborate plans to celebrate the day with much fanfare.

But those who risked their lives for democracy have been left high and dry.

Many people injured during Janna Andolan-II (People's Movement in April 2006) have complained that they are still deprived of the promised and mush hyped compensation largely due to indifference of government officials.

On Tuesday afternoon at Pulchowk, over a dozen youth were searching for government officials in the committee for Treatment and Management of Injured People during Jana-Andolan.

Time and again they allege, official's are absent from office, and of those who do come to the office give them the stock answer "come tomorrow". But that "tomorrow" ahs not yet come for them Before the April 10 constituent assembly election, the injured has done the rounds of the office for months but to no avail. This time too, they came soon after the election.

Parshu Ram Bisworkram, whose eyes, legs, and hand were injured in Jhapa protest, is still to get compensation despite having provided essential documents to the Committee providing himself an injured person. "Each time, government officials tell me to come after a week. I have visited here many times seeking the attention of government officials, but to no avail, "says Bisworkarma.

Another youth Rajendra Lamichhane, 23, who hails from Gorkha district, ahs also visited this office six times for compensation that the government had announced for those injured in the historic uprising against King Gyanendra autocratic regime. "There is not budget, come next time, "he has been listening to this every time he comes here. These are only representative cases, according to Kashi Rimal, one of the officials in the Committee. So far, around 2,300 injured out of 7,000 have received compensation. Of the number, some failed to be genuine injured persons while others have never visited the Committee.

The government's initial allocation of Rs.30,80 millions as compensation has already been used up, Rimal says, Rimal says they could not provide the announced compensation due to budget crunch after the Ministry of Finance stopped allocating money to this office. On the other hand, head of committee, Suresh Adhikari, under-secretary, who was Nepalgunj. No one has replaced him so far.

Reason why I never visit a 5 * Hotel

Question : ' What would you like to have ..Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo, or Coffee?'

Answer: 'tea please '

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Question : ' Ceylon tea, Herbal tea, Bush tea, Honey bush tea, Ice tea or green tea ?'

Answer : 'Ceylon tea '
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Question : 'How would you like it ? Black or white ?'

Answer: 'white'
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Question: 'Milk, Whitener, or Condensed milk ? '

Answer: 'With milk '
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 Question: 'Goat milk, Camel milk or cow milk ?'

 Answer: 'With cow milk please.
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 Question: ' Milk from Freeze land cow or Afrikaner cow?'

 Answer: ' Um, I'll take it black. '
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 Question: ' Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey? '

 Answer: 'With sugar'
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 Question: ' Beet sugar or cane sugar ?'

 Answer: 'Cane sugar '
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 Question:' White , brown or yellow sugar ?'

 Answer: 'Forget about tea just give me a glass of water instead.'
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 Question: 'Mineral water or still water ? '

 Answer: 'Mineral water'
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 Question: 'Flavored or non-flavored ?'

 Answer: 'I'll rather die of thirst

Is Divorce  Necessary?

A section of the female population does not have marriage as the goal in their lives. When they do get married, they want everything on their own terms and are unwilling to make any kind of compromise. In any relationship, let along marriage, mutual respect, understanding the emotional needs of the other person and a desire to make the association work, even with some compromises, is the basic ingredient for a lasting and fruitful relationship. Marriage is no different and needs the same effort.

A divorce does not bounce suddently for any couple. Liasion decline, antipathies boil without communication, one partner or the other gets constantly hurt and one day takes the final decision of going for a divorce. Steps can be taken to rectify situations before the final act if the rot has not set in too deeply. Communication and a desire to resolve the situation is often the key to a solution at this stage.

If you find your marital life is developing cracks, do not let them get wider in silence. Attempt to save your marriage, be it an arranged or a love union. Find a neutral person, a distant relative or a friend who can speak to both of you frankly and point out the errors to both of you without prejudice. If you are not lucky enough to have such a person in your social circle,  while the chance of recovery of your marriage is still strong, find a good marriage counselor and attend sessions together.

It is quite possible that you still love and respect each other but a misunderstanding or imagined slight is leading to a confrontation without either of you taking the first step to resolve it.

Even family courts in Nepal are providing better counseling services now. It is amazing how issues simmer for years. Couples today spend less time together and pressures of modern life are very strong. The buffer of the joint family is gone. Often, the desire to hurt the spouse is basic reason for wanting a divorce. If couples are not emotionally involved else where, with a few sessions, they talk and are very often able to sort out their difference. That is when I find personal satisfaction in this otherwise painful job", Aarati, a conselor in the court said.

Albeit your marriage has, sadly, crossed the fence of a reclaiming likelihood, do not use it as device of punishment. Remember that prolonged battle in court is a double-edged sword, which will damage both parties. Dishonest lawyers will only fan the fire, but it will be your valuable years, and money, that will be wasted in ongoing legal altercation. 

Punctuality not a cup of tea for Nepal Government Employee

By the time Supreme Count Justice Tahir Ali Ansari rejoined his bence on March 18, it was already 3:12 PM, or 42 minutes after the afternoon tea recess.

Taking his seat, Ansari neither apologize to Senior Advocate Ganesh Raj Sharma and other lawyers, who were waiting for him desperately, nor did he give any reason for the delay.

But Justice Ansari's is no exceptinal case. Almost all the justices fail to show up in court on time.

The Post did a reality check, with random recording of the working time of judges for one week and observation of work at the benches for a month starting from February 26.

During the study perood, this daily found that judges rarely showed up at their respective benches before 11 am although the apex count opens at 10 am. Some judges came to their bench as late as 11.54 am. On February 27, Justics Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Kalayan Shreasha turned up at 11.54 am. After joining the bench, they postponed hearings in 21 cases, citing lack of time that particular day. Justice Rayamajhi is the senior most justice of the apex count after the Chief Justice.

Similarly, Chief Justice Kedar Prasaad Giri came to the bench at 11:52 am on February 26. As the Chief Justice entered, a lawyer who was talking to the Post outside the chamber commented, "This is judicial bureaucracy."

During the review period, this daily found that judges in general remained at their benches till 1:30 pm when the hour long tea break at the apex court begins.

As in the mornings, judges were found coming to the benches late aftet the tea break also. The judges generally do not resume hearings before 3:45 pm though the tea break is over by 2:30 pm.

Similarly, the benches generally close as ealy as 4:30 pm even though harings scheduled for a particular day are not finshed. Some judges close shop as early as 2:47 pm without finishing the day's work.

For instance, on March 27, Justices Ram Prasad Shrestha and Damodar Prasad Sharma colsed the division bench at 3:40 pm and also did not take up hearings at the single bench though that is what they were supposed to do. Shrestha was supposed take up five cases and Sharma four cases at their singly benches.

A classic case of unpunctuality was exhibited by Justices Ram Kumar Prasad Sah and Gauri Dhakal on March 2. They closed their division bench at 2:47 pm, citing lack of time. The bench deferred 14 cases, including one concerning Shova Rana.

Rana, who was in court since morning, was obviously disappointed to see her case deferred yet again. "They postponed the hearing though they had eoough time. Had they come on time in the morning, my case would have been finished,"said an infuriated Rana, whose case had already been deferred thrice.

Attempts by the Post to get a comment from the Chief Justice failed. After a long wait for an appointment, the Chief Justice replied, through Supreme Count spokesperson. Til Prasad Shrestha, that he did not want to talk to the media. Shrestha said he could not comment on the performance of the judges.

Coincidently, the performance of Supreme Court judges has been declining in recent years. According to a report of the Supreme Court, the average per judge case disposal has declined progresively since 2004. The per judge annual disposal, which was 681 cases in 2004 declined 2654 in 2005 and 601 in 2006.

The sane report has recommended that the court create more hous for processing and hearings so as to address the Suprime Court backlog of 13,476 cases. The working style of the justices amply i ndicates that the report has not been taken seriously. 

Thoughts are something which really makes a difference in our life. This is something what makes us define the life. Like what we think will makes us feel in that way wheather it is true or not.

There are many circumstances in life when we feel that the life is so bad and there are also those circumstances when we feel that life is too good. Its all about the situations what makes us think in that way. But the thing I want to say is that , this so called life is all about our mind.What we think is life for us. For example: if someone is having a problem he/she will think that this life sofull with sufferings and all bad stuffs.But for someone who is enjoying life may think that the life is beautiful.

Thats the thing what we have to keep in mind. Life is just an imagination how we take it. Its all the mindstorming what makes us think life is good or bad. So, this is what we have to control. Everyone should be capable of controlling their thoughts. The question may arise "How anyone can control the thoughts?" Ya its true that noone can control the thoughts but we have to help ourselves. Helping ourselves means to think about the good things that happened in the past and hoping the positive result.

I had also been in so much brainstorming. I mean thinking too much. I always used to think the bad results which could happen by chance. This could sound funny but I think most of people does that. Truely saying this may be good sometimes but not always. Thinking positively is good but sometimes thinking negatively could also makes good decision.

Words are Words!

The most selfish 1-letter word is "I".
Avoid it.

The most satisfying 2-letter word
is "WE". Use it.

The most poisonous 3-letter word
is "EGO". Kill it.

The most used 4-letter word is "LOVE".
Value it.

The most pleasing 5-letter word
is "SMILE". Keep it.

The fastest spreading 6-letter word
is "RUMOUR". Ignore it.

The hardest working 7-letter word
is "SUCCESS". Achieve it.

The most enviable 8-letter word
is "JEALOUSY". Distance it.

The most powerful 9-letter word
is "KNOWLEDGE". Acquire it.

The most essential 10-letter word
is "CONFIDENCE". Trust it

The Nepali Embassy in Saudi Arabia has again appealed to individuals to donate money to save the life of Dolma Sherpa, who has been handed down a death sentence by a court in Kuwait. Hamid Ansari, Nepal's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said that sufficient funds have not been available for arranging a defense lawyer to represent her and pay compensation to the family of a Filipino woman whom Sherpa has been accused of murdering.

"There is a high chance of a final verdict from the appellate court within a few days," Ansari said in a statement.  A bank account has been opened in the name of the Nepali embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to collect funds. Sherpa, who hails from Sindhupalchwok district, was a domestic  in Kuwait and has been languishing in jail there for the past few months.At least Rs 5 million is needed to arrange a lawyer and compensate the victim's family. The Nepal government has provided Rs 400,000 as seed money and Rs 300,000 has come from the Association of Non-Resident Nepalis.  Indivi-duals wishing to help can contribute to the account at Al Rajhi Bank, Riyadh.

Meanwhile, as part of a ‘Save Dolma campaign', Maiti Nepal has also opened a bank account at Nepal Investment Bank Limited, Kathmandu. The account number is 5490040 with NIBL NPKT as the Swift Code, said a press statement issued by Maiti Nepal.

Justic for The victims of the decade-long conflict in Nepal

The victims of the decade-long conflict share a common doubt that the state may not provide then justice. This seems to be genuine concern. Indeed, the politicians who think that a blanket amnesty  will secure the peace process  are mistaken as what they are saying is contradictory. First, a general pardon is not something that the state can grant , it is the right and choice of the victim. The state can only facilitate a reconciliation or encourage the sufferers to forgive by providing them an attractive compensation. What the victims really want, according to a recent study report, is justice, which means punishment to the perpetrators. A blanket amnesty is, of course, not acceptable. It would only promote impunity and an even stronger sense of revenage among the vicitims. This would mean continuation of the conflict. But this is waht seems to be in the offing.
 

The government is already heading on a risky path to amnesty. In an attempt to bypass the concerns of the victims, it formed a Truth and Reconcillation Commission (TRC) and its so-called High Level Commission for  Desappeared Persons without consulting and involving the major stake-holders - the vicitims, the National Human Rights Commission and the UN, among others. Howerver, these bodies could not be established before the CA polls because of the widespread criticism for going contrary to international standards. They require that any truth commission be independent, impartial,, competent and free of government interference. The TRC was indeed nothing less thatn a purely political group. It ignored the victims'  demands for justice and focused more on creating conditions that could force them and the perpetrators to reconcil. The TRC stated that those who were not ready for a reconciliation would be ineligible for compensation. There were similar weaknesses in the High Livel Commission for Dispperred Persons.

Given such a week stand of the government, the vicitims" response that they were not going to let anyone walk free is justifiable and anticipated. For instance, the recently relased report of the International Center for Transitinal Justice(ICT) shows that a majority of conflict victims do not agree with giving a genral pardon to perpetators on the pretext of making the peace process "successful". The major concern of the sufferers and those on the side of justice is that the government show a strong commitment to end impunity. Only a few bold steps will convince the victims that the governmetn is firm on delivering justice. It should form a truth commission through a wider consultative process involving the civil society, human rights bodies, the victims, the UN and other stakeholders as suggsted by the ICTJ.

I love this song. Reminds me of my dad.

My dad was more than just a father to me. He was my best friend.

 "There used to be time when people saved their virginity till marriage. But this concept is changing now as many people have physical relationship before marriage. What do you think about this and what is your personal choice?"

Virginity is a strong factor that associates with trust and if there is no trust there is no relation in good sense. Most men and women are making themselves prostitutes in other sense in the name of modernization and free thoughts. What will you feel while you hear your wife/husband had a physical relation?....Then you must know the importance of virginity. Everyone else will talk back and stand inside you regarding that thing. Actually virginity is great gift of nature or god.

This activity can make you a multimillionaire with very little effort. A 25-year-old making $40,000 a year who invests 10% of their salary into their 401k plan would have $1.9 million when they are ready to retire (assuming 10% average annual return). Now, let's that same person receives a 5% raise is received every year. That 401k plan is now worth $3.2 million. Would you be able to live comfortably off of $300,000 during retirement? That's what you could expect to earn just off the returns on that nest egg. Note that this does not even take into consideration employee matching benefits that would also boost your 401k. This is free money you could be leaving on the table if you are not taking advantage of your company's matching program.

Time is the investor's best friend when it comes to building wealth and making your retirement account grow. The sooner you start contributing toward your 401k, the more money there will be at retirement. Compound interest is so powerful that the time variable probably pays a bigger role than you think. The person above, for example, who's making $40,000 and starts contributing at 35 will only have $1.1 million - a difference in nearly a million dollars.
Your 401k makes it easy for you to invest like a millionaire and put your money directly in an investment account before you are taxed on your income. Self-made millionaires are experts at minimizing their income so they don't have to claim as much on their taxes. Since your 401k acts as a tax shelter and contributions are pre-tax contributions, you pay less taxes on your take-home pay, invest with tax-free money, and assist in remaining in a lower income tax bracket altogether.

These are just a few benefits of taking advantage of your employer's 401k plan. Get started now if you haven't already, or push as much money as you can if you are already enrolled in your company's plan. At the very least, take full advantage of your company's matching program so you are not passing up free money.

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If you\'re tired of having a slow computer that crawls to a halt whenever you open up multiple windows, here are 7 tips guaranteed to increase the speed and performance of your computer.

1) Disk Defragmenter

This comes free with Windows. By analysing your computer files and defragmenting, this puts the files in your computer in order so that the accessing time reduces for the hard disk.

2) Remove Startup programs

Ever experienced long booting times? That\'s because every time your computer boots up, it has been instructed to load up a software application. Use RegClean to see what these files are and delete them.

3) Turn off visual effects

By going to your control panel and system, you can turn of the visual effects of your computer. Less resources spent on glamour goes to speeding up the opening time of your folders and internet explorer.

4) Overclock your PC

This one is for the pros. Overclocking your PC will give you boost to your computer\'s speed.

5) Registry Cleaner

A registry cleaner scans for errors in your registry. Your computer registry contains information about your computer and certain data that is no longer required in your computer which is linked to a software stays in your registry even though the software has been uninstalled. The more clutter you have in your computer the more work your hard disk needs to do.

6) Get more RAM

The more RAM, the better. Try to have at least 1Gig of RAM, this will certainly increase the speed of your Microsoft Windows, Excel, Photoshop applications and allow you to open multiple windows without a decrease in speed.

7) Use Reg Cure or Reg Fix

These are the top of the line registry cleaners that clean up the obsolete data in your computer. These registry cleaners scan for errors such as COM/ActiveX Entries, Font Entries, Shared DLLs, Empty Registry Keys, Program Short Cuts that no longer exist and removes them. An additional resource to turbo charge your PC can be found at http://fixbluescreenofdeath.blogspot.com/

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Big environmental organizations collect these empty cartridges and then sort out the good condition ones before selling them to other printer cartridge manufacturers. Once these third party manufacturers receive these empties, they will start remanufacturing them before distributing them to the market. Now, these recycled inkjet and laser cartridges are not cheap, if you compare them to the new compatible brands.

Therefore, we can assume that third party manufacturers are willing to pay a decent sum of money to organizations that are collecting these empty plastics on their behalf. The simple truth is more and more companies are starting to look into this niche market in a way to profit, at the same time being recognized as an environmental supportive business. Big TV ads and other media campaigns are shown across the globe each day all asking people to recycle their printer cartridges.

You may recall seeing one recently yourself and thought what a great organization this is. Don't thank them yet, because you're actually giving these companies easy money. However, this doesn't mean you should stop throwing away your empties to supportive organizations. You are still doing the right thing recycling, at the same time helping the environment. It is also very important that we all remain this way.

What you should do however is look for organizations who can offer reasonable incentives for your empties. There are tons of them around and it's not unsual to find a cartridge collecting company that will pay you good dollars for your particular model. Let's face it, printer cartridges are expensive enough. Everyone wants to help the environment, but if companies are making a big profits from collecting our empties, why shouldn't we get something back for supporting them?

It is Boys That Are Discriminated Against, Not Girls!

Are men not able to contribute as much as women? Are they not equally important?

Bebo is a Social Network like MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, Facebook, Xanga, Xing, and of course our NepalNepal.com

Today, AOL bought it for US $ 850 million.

That's more than the price MySpace was bought for by News Corp. MySpace sold for $580 million.

It is believed that the retention power is higher in Bebo than in MySpace or Facebook.

Bebo (stands for Blog Early , Blog Often according to WikiP..), was started in the early 2005 by a husband and wife team.

It's not surprising to see a net venture get to a billion dollars worth these days in 2 to 3 years time.

MySpace is still the biggest right now but is slowly dying. Facebook seems to be the new kid on the block.

With the API provisions from Google (OpenSocial), I won't be surprised if Facebook faces a dealth also.

The 15th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been scheduled to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from July 27 to August 3 this year.The last summit was held in India in April last year. According to the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry, the summit will be chaired by Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh before handing over the chair to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The SAARC summit was initially planned to be held in Kandy but citing security reasons, Colombo authorities shifted the venue.

Neplease Government Vechicles get drumped young

A Nepali Government owned Mitsubishi Lancer parked under the open sky is covered by a thick layer of dust. It has stayed immobile inside the premises of Singha Durbar, the main Government offices premises, for over a year view minor and the black Mitsubishi is corroding under heat and rain.

According to Home Ministry officials, Deputy Speaker Chitra Lekha Yadav used the luxurious car registered as BA 1 JHA 5529 in the past. For a year, she has not cared to maintain the vehicle despite receiving money for this proposes.

Mechanical Engineer said the engine of this vehicle has been badly damaged as the vehicle was used without changing engine oil for a few years.

Two expensive cars from Toyota Motors have also been dumped inside Singha Durbar for over a year now. One of the vehicles (BA4CHA 6050) was used in the past by Joint Secretary of Home Ministry and another one (Ba4Cha 7735) by the Chairman of Law Reform Commission. Both vehicles were rendered useless due to the same reason: no change of engine oil.

These vehicles only represent the tip of the iceberg though. Most government vehicles have similar problem said Puspa Shrestha, who looks after vehicles of the Home Ministry. "The government has no budget to repay all vehicles," said Laxman Bahadur Thapa, under Secretary at the ministry.

Owing to lack of timely maintenance, most government vehicles end up prematurely useless and are auctioned at the price of scrap metal.

Recently, the Home Ministry selected 30 vehicles, including Toyota Land Cruiser, Nissan, Suzuki, and Mitsubishi cars and dumped then at an open garage to auction at the market price of iron.The Ministry has almost completed the process for an auction, said Thapa.

But the selection of vehicles for auction has also come under question. Some of the vehicles have proved not entirely useless. Two of the vehicles selected for auction by the Home Ministry were recently sent outside the valley for use by government officials in Rolpa and Gorkha according to Thapa.

Even engineers of Heavy Equipment Division, Minbhawan, who recommended that the vehicles be auctioned off, have been demanding those vehicles for use by officials.

According to record of past auctions obtained by the Post, 48 expensive vehicles including Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Toyota Land Cruiser were put on auction in similar manner by the Home Ministry in 1996 BS, after being left without repair for years.

Back then, a Toyota Land cruiser (BA-A-JHA 1717), bought at the price of Rs.44 million was sold for Rs.260, 800 while another Toyota (BA-A-JHA 1153) was sold for Rs.60, 000. Similarly, a Mazda (BA-A-JHA 1153) was auctioned at Rs.58, 000 and a Benz car (BA-A-JHA 833) car Rs 50, 0000. Records say the vehicles were auctioned as they consumed too much fuel, needed engine overhaul and denting and painting. Some vehicles were auctioned off without any specific reason.

To repair old vehicles, the government needs to spend from Rs.100, 000 to Rs 200,000 said engineers. However, the ministry has been planning to buy at least 15 new vehicles instead of repairing old ones.

Thapa admitted that the ministry would buy new vehicles. When asked about the damaged vehicles, he said there wasn't sufficient budget to repair them.

In total, the home ministry has 138 vehicles. Of them, 19 are not in operation. On record, the ministry spends hug amounts on maintenance and fuel. In the last eight months, over Rs.3.6 million has been spent on fuel and over Rs.1 million on maintenance.

A staffer service with United Nations Mission in Nepal committed suicide in his

rented apartment at Kathmandu Metropolitan City -3, Kapanmarg, Saturday

March 8,2008 evening. 

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Bikash Raj Khanal, Chief of

Metropolitan Police Circle Ofice, Maharjgunj, the person committing suicide has

been indentified as Russian national Evegeny Alexanddrov, 50, a helicopter

engineer.
 

The suicide comes five days after three of his colleagues -- Dzmitry

Malyshau(Belarus), Nikolay Yamshshikov (Russia), Sargey Oreshenko (Russia)--

died in the tragic  helicopter accident in Bethan VDC in Ramechhap district.

DSP Khanal said Alexandrov and five of his colleagues including those killed in

the chopper crsh had been living for the past one year in the house belonging to

one Dipak Khatri on rent. Alexandrov was mentally disturbed since the day of

the accident.

Found this interesting article on how a small group of Indian women work as surrogate mothers to American, British etc couples who are infertile.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-30-surrogacy_N.htm?csp=34 

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Most important things in Life

The most useless things to do: -                                    WORRY

The greatest joy: -                                                         GIVING

The greatest loss: -                                           Loss of Self Respect

The most satisfying work: -                               Helping Others      

The ugliest personality trait: -                             SELFISHNESS

The most endangered species: -                           Dedicated Leaders

Our greatest natural resource: -                           Our Youth

The greatest "shot in the aim": -                            ENCOURAGEMENT

The greatest problem to overcome: -                 FEAR

Most effective sleeping pill: -                          Peace of Mind 

The most crippling failure disease: -                  EXCUSES

The most powerful force in life: -                       LOVE

The most dangerous pariah: -                           A gossip Monger

The world's most incredible computer: -            BRAIN

The worst thing to be without: -                                     HOPE

The deadliest weapon: -                                                The Tongue

The two most power filled words: -                   'I Can'

The greatest asset: -                                           FAITH

The most worthless emotion: -                           Self Pity

The most prized possession: -                           INTEGRITY

The most beautiful attire: -                                 SMILE

The most contagious spirit: -                              ENTHUSIASM

MSN just ran a story about a lawn care company in Tennessee that uses girls in bikinis to do yard work. The owner charges a "premium" for the service, and apparently business is booming. So what other businesses and services could benefit from a little blatant sexual exploitation?

Dentist - Everyone dreads going to this drill-happy sadist, but every guy on the planet would look like Matt Dillon in "Something About Mary" if the work was done by G-string wearing (insert butt-floss joke here) dental assistants instead. Our tooth enamel would be worn down to the nub from the monthly cleanings we'd be getting.

Flight Attendant - Airlines in bankruptcy? Pilots on strike? Never again. If there were hot flight attendants in bikinis roaming the aisles We'd leave road transport in any way.

Plumber - When have you ever heard a guy say, "Thank God, I have to call the plumber"? Exactly. But if it was Madame Suzette's Thong and Wrench Plumbing Service, we'd have a leaky pipe every weekend.



Tailor - If we were getting our inseam measured by a young hottie in a handmade crocheted bikini instead of some old guy who smells of chalk, we'd have EVERYTHING custom fit. Jeans and boxers included.

Car Mechanic - She could tell me it was Rs.10,000 to fix the falangilator that separated from the juwassle valve and I'd pay it. No. Questions. Asked.

Urologist - Think of how much more excited you'd be to hear the words "Drop your pants and bend over the table, please..."

College Professor - You could hold classes on The Hidden Symbolism in 14th Century European Tapestries at 6am and there wouldn't be an empty chair in the room.

Librarians/Bookstore Clerks - Who says guys don't read books? We'd be reading nightly if the nice librarian in the t-back and sexy black-rimmed glasses would just show us the finer points of the Dewey Decimal System.

Butcher - Hot girls in bikinis. And meat. Screw my cholesterol. Someone check my pulse, I'm in Guy Heaven.

Bank Teller - No other reason than we would love to hear a beautiful, nearly naked woman ask us if we would like to leave a deposit.

Postal Worker - Forget email. We'd be snail mailing everything. One letter at a time. Long lines? Incredibly slow service? Yeah, so? It'd give a whole new meaning to the term "going postal".

Re arrange the letters and see the results, they are amazing

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET\'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z \'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

Ever seen fainting goats.

Here check this out.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/youtubes/videos/index.php?vID=45

and while you're there check out this dog as well.

What a joker.

http://www.nepalnepal.com/Social/youtubes/videos/index.php?vID=46

Tomorrow (Friday) is the 29th of February and there are lots of special stuffs on this day.

No 1 is this day only comes in 4 years gap. So, if I born on 29 February then I can divide my age by 4 and I can always sounds younger than what I'm (BTW this is the great stuff for gals who always wants to hide their age.)

If you have any thing more for this day then let me know.

I have one more thing to say to all the members of nepalnepal.com that Feb 29 comes once in a four year so enjoy the day, make yourself happy and give others the happiness and love so they can enjoy this day as well.

Now, writers of religious services write rite, and thus have the right to copyright the rite they write.

Conservatives write right copy, and have the right to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric might write right rite, and have the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright would be right. Then it might be copy good copyright.

Should Thom Wright decide to write, then Wright might write right rite, which Wright has a right to copyright. Copying that rite would copy Wright's right rite, and thus violate copyright, so Wright would have the legal right to right the wrong. Right?

Legals write writs which is a right or not write writs right but all writs, copied or not, are writs that are copyright. Judges make writers write writs right.

Advertisers write copy which is copyright the copy writer's company, not the right of the writer to copyright. But the copy written is copyrighted as written, right?

Wrongfully copying a right writ, a right rite or copy is not right.

I used to visit Amsterdam (the Netherland) once in a while to meet some friends there. Of course, while I was there I would enjoy some of the amenities that the city is well known for.

For those who don't know what Amsterdam is famous for, let me explain in 3 words.

Sex and Drugs.

Amsterdam is probably the most well know city in the world where you can get sex and drugs - legally. Well at least its the closest one from London. You can ask a policeman where the nearest place to find some 'ganza' or a 'lady of the night' is and he will tell you.

Recently, it seems they are changing their laws. The government seems to think that sex and drugs bring in a lot of crime.  Well they could be right, but it also could cause a lot of job loss.

I have heard that almost half the tourist in Amsterdam are men from UK.  May be I should start a group to fight for our rights.

I feel sorry for all the job losses if it were to happen. I have heard some of the girls there make over 1000 Euros a day. But jokes aside, this is going to impact everyone from the taxi drivers to the hotels to perhaps even KLM.

I will keep my fingers crossed on this one.

Valentine's Day is here and all the boys are out figuring a way to please their girls.

I want to talk about the 15 years old to the 25 years old boys writing to girls in general. I am not talking about other age groups or about Valentine's day card to family and friends.

I am sorry, but I want to be a little cynical here.

Ladies, you can throw rocks at me later if you want.

My guesstimate....90% of the boys are not out figuring a way to find true love or ignite a life long love. They are either trying to get laid (...hopefully, eventually) or simply get a girlfriend for romance or to look cool (look good) in their social circle.

Boys at that age are physically, chemically and psychologically not ready for a long term relationship.

...Please... before someone barks back at me...I am talking about most boys (NOT ALL..There are some who are true Romeos, of course).

So what's up with these Valentine Day cards??

They use the word "LOVE" like a cheap word, and of course, people who use it use it the same way - cheap.

I think the phrase "I love you" is probably the most misused phrase in the world.

I know what love is. I have been married for over 10 years now and have 2 children. But when I was much younger, I thought I was in love at times. In reality I wasn't. There is a term for it. It's called infatuation. It feels very real and you feel like you cannot live without this person.

Sorry I had to be such a spoiler on this special day.

Go ahead and believe what you belive.

What I said is simply my opinion. Just my 2 cents.

But I leave you with this litlle joke.

Boy: Do you have a Valentine's Day card that says "I love you and you only." ?

Shopkeeper: Of course, here it is.

Boy: Could I have 50 of those please?

Oh, I actually have a cousin who was born on Feb 14th. She is the only one that I personally know with a birthday on Feb 14th.

Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine's Day Angei.

During the Royal Massacre in 2001, I waited almost a day to hear the news on the radio (not TV). But nada...Nothing.

"You give us 22 minutes and we willl give you the world.", brags the 1010 AM news channel on radio.

But, one of the biggest news in Nepal that year was not even mentioned in the only all news radio station in New York City.

I was very disappointed and lost my trust in the American news media once again.

Anyway, forget what the main media knows about Nepal...How about what the general American population know ? 

So I decided to digg up. 

So here it is. The most popular news that popped up when I typed in "Nepal" on Digg.

#1. Man Arrested For Stealing and Selling 500 Kidneys 

#2. Nepal Buddha Boy 'sighted again' 

#3. Nepal Airline Sacrifices Goats to Appease Hindu Sky God.

When I sorted by the number of diggs, I found  just 6 that were over 500 diggs.

I am not saying this is bad (or that it's good.). I am simply sharing what I see.

But I would like to see the day, when a regular Joe tells asks me if I am from Kathmandu or Pokhara, after I tell him I am from Nepal.

Nahhh. I don't think it will ever happen. 

The delegation, which was there to decide on the fate of the London-based Nepali embassy, comprised secretaries and top officials of foreign and finance ministries. The delegation has already returned to Kathmandu after completing its week-long visit.

Thought some ladies might be interested on some selfdefense techniques by Dr. Ruthless

They said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.

From May, those selling on eBay will not be able to leave unfavorable or neutral messages about buyers.

The move, which will affect users worldwide, has angered many sellers. Sellers say it will leave them unprotected.

So I love to have some of yours feedback about this on this blog post.

The real working hours of my office is:

6 days - 10 AM to 5 PM
1 day - Weekend

But because of LOAD SHEDDING see below what happen.

Sun - 10 AM to 5 PM
Mon - 10 AM to 5 PM
Tues - 10 AM to 5 PM
Wed - 1 PM to 5 PM
Thrus - 2 PM to 5 PM
Fri - 9 AM to 3 PM
SAT - 10 AM to 2 PM

There will be no WEEKEND to meet my GFs. May I gonna loose them? O No.

I think LOAD SHEDDING in our country is like running the nation by Army.

Let's wish to have this problem solved as soon as possible.

Kidney traffickers snaring poor peoples of Nepal

More than 70 worker have already sold their kidneys in India who are working in carpet factory in Jorpati, Kathmandu. They sold kidney for just Rs.25,000.00

It was an attrcative offer for them whose income as a carpet factory worker of Jorpati, Kathmandu was barely enough to feed their families.

Many individuals end up parting with their kidneys in India without their consent. According to factory worker's, many Nepalese are taken to India with jobs, only to be duped later into parting with their kidneys. Kidneys sold by or stolen from Nepalese fulfil the needs of rich Nepal's also, kidney traders are found hanging around dialysis Centers in capital in search of clients.

Nephrologist Dr Risi Kumar Kafle said that ever 100 Nepali patients return annually form Indian hospitals after receiving successful kidney transplants.

Dr Kafle said that those are however the recorded cases only the real figure must be much higher. According to him, a patient spends some where between Rs 500,000 and Rs.1,500,000 in Indian hospitals for a transplant.

Charikot, Dolakha, March 29 - The birth of a bizarre-looking baby in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, on Wednesday, drew a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight.
The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot.

The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth, Suntali, the mother, informed. It was taken to the hospital after its death.

The news about such a baby being brought to the hospital spread like wildfire and there were hundreds gathered at the hospital to have a look. The police had to be deployed to control the crowd.

?We wouldn?t have been able to save it, even if it had been brought here alive,? said a nurse attending to the mother at the hospital, ?This is an extremely abnormal case.?

The ?baby? weighed 2kg at birth and was born after the normal nine-month gestation period.

Suntali, already a mother of two normal daughters, was not suffering from any illness during the pregnancy.

Nir Bahadur, the father, says he does not feel any remorse for the newly-born baby?s death. ?I am happy that nothing happened to my wife,? he said.

 Few words for life partner...................

Find a girls who calls you handsome instead of hot..who calls you back, even though you just hung up on her..who thinks you are perfect even though she knows the worst things about you..who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the girl who kisses your forehead..who wants to show you off to the world when you are in a t-shirt and sweats..who holds your hand in front of her friends..who never raises her voice at you...who thinks you're just as perfect without nice dress up..one who is constantly reminding you of how much she loves you and how lucky she is to have you...the one who turns to her friends and says, "thats him."

TEAR....someday

The other day, I met a friend of mine who used to work on this restaurant that used to be in the higher decks of one of the towers of the World Trade Center. The restaurant was called Windows on the World. This guy was a waiter there a long time ago. He told me that the head waiters over there used to make over 6 figure income per year.

That's at least over US $ 100,000.

Anyway, here is some info I dug up.

The Freedom Tower that's under construction at Ground Zero in New York City is going to have the a Windows on the World Restaurant again.

From what I have read, the Freedom Tower is going to be 1,776 feet tall and the restaurant itself is going to be on the 100th and 101st floors.

I think I heard 5 more years for the completion of the tower on the radio. But I could be mistaken.

The "Falling Man" (Jonathan Briley) during the 911 is said to be an employee at the Windows on the World.

Everyone in the restaurant including  over 70 staff died when American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower.

Love is very strong affection in this world. "Love" The Best way to denote Love is to love each other. Animals and creatures of this planet always love each others. Love is most important in our life. Without love human being cannot survive in this world. There are different kinds of love as parents love; husband and wife love, brother and sister love and children love and friends love etc.

Other things we can handle to drug addiction or others addiction habits also taken care by love. So love is Medicine also.

We can define love in many ways and terms. For that you can also add your definition of Love.

Top Ten Sexiest Sportswomen

Here is the 10 sexiest sportswomen which I Like, I hope you will also like it.

# 1
Maria Sharapova (Russia) Tennis

Russian professional tennis player and model, born in April 19, 1987. She is a former World No. 1 ranked player and, as of January 8, 2007, is the second ranked female tennis player in the world. As of the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete.

# 2
Anna Kournikova (Russia) Tennis

Retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Russian-born Anna Kournikova left Moscow at the age of 9 to come to Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Academy in Florida, USA, was the world's topped-ranked junior at the end of 1995. She became one of the best known tennis players worldwide, even among those who do not follow the game. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google.

# 3
Gabrielle Reece (USA), Volleyball

A professional volleyball player and former fashion model. Reece was born in La Jolla, California in January 6, 1970. She accepted a volleyball scholarship from Florida State University (FSU), inducted into the Florida State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997. Since graduation she has played on professional volleyball tours. Reece has also appeared on the covers of several magazines including Shape, Women's Sports & Fitness, Outside, ELLE, and Life. She also appeared on the cover of Playboy, with an accompanying pictorial, in January 2001. As an Elite model, she could command a per day rate of US$10,000.

#4
Amy Acuff (USA), Track & Field
She is a aggressive high jump competitor, competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of USA Track and Field and is a 3-time Olympian. Her personal best is 2.01m, which she achieved in Zurich on 2003-08-15. Acuff is also known for her career as a model, including multiple cover appearances in Esquire, Maxim, FHM and Playboy.

#5
Malia Jones (Hawaii, USA), Surfing
Malia Jones was born on March 27, 1977, in the north shore of Oahu Hawaii. She is of Hawaiin, Spanish & Filipino descent. Malia began surfing at the age of three when her mom put her on a surfboard. She began to compete competively in her early teens and by the age of 15 she won the US Amateur Surfing Championship. While competing, Surfing Magazine spotted her and asked her to model and thus a second career was born. Since then, she as appeared in over a dozen magazines including being named as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine and one of America's 10 Sexiest Athletes by Esquire.

#6
Gretchen Bleiler(Ohio, USA), Snowboarding
Gretchen Bleiler (born on April 10, 1981 in Toledo, Ohio) is a professional halfpipe snowboarder and pioneer. She is said to be one of the most accomplished female snowboarders in the world. Gretchen aspired to compete in the Olympic Games from a very young age, and found her passion in Snowboarding at age 11 (1992). She has been riding ever since, became professional in 1996 and is currently recognized as a role model and pioneer in the sport. In the pre Olympic season she won four of the 5 US Olympic halfpipe qualifiers and is also a two time X Games gold medalist.

#7
Tanith Belbin (USA/Canada), Figure Skating
Perhaps the most beautiful skater in world competition, Tanith Belbin is a talented ice dancer who partners with Ben Agosto to give the United States an elite team on the world scene. Born in Canada, Tanith began skating at an early age while also modeling and acting. The ice was her true calling, however, though her multi-talent will surely make her one of the most popular figures in skating in coming years.At the Turin Olympics 2006, Belbin and Agosto won silver in ice dancing, the highest Olympic result of any American pair in the discipline, and the first American ice dancers to win an Olympic medal in 30 years. They went on to win the bronze at Worlds.

#8
Natalie Coughlin (USA), Swimming
One of the most well-rounded swimmers ever, Natalie Coughlin combines power, speed and beauty. One of the poster faces of the 2004 US Olympic team, Natalie bought pride to her nation with her performance, she won 2 gold medals, 2silver medals, and a bronze medal. Natalie Coughlin is the first woman to break a minute in the 100-meter backstroke. In all, Coughlin broke three world, seven American and three NCAA records during the 2002-03 season.

#9
Sasha Cohen (California, USA), Figure Skating
Born on October 26, 1984, in Westwood, California, Sasha Cohen is an American figure skater. She is the 2006 U.S. National Champion and 2006 Olympic silver medalist. Sasha Cohen made her mark as the female skater to watch in the future. With her porcelain doll beauty and her daring skating style, Sasha defines feminine grace on the ice. During December 2006, Cohen announced that she needed "a little down time from competing" and that she will not defend her US Figure Skating Championship title in 2007. She again stressed that her "major goals" are the 2009 world figure skating championships and the 2010 Olympics; "I know I want to be in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics."

#10
Michelle Wie (Hawaii, USA), Golf
A golf prodigy, Michelle Wie brings the same kind of excitement to the LPGA that Tiger Woods brings to the male brand of golf. She is now a professional American golfer, who has gained attention for her many attempts to make a cut at a PGA Tour event. In 2006, she was named in a Time magazine article, "one of 100 people who shape our world." She has been accepted to Stanford University and has said she will be enrolling in fall 2007.By the end of 2006, her first full year as a professional, she had missed the cut in 11 out of 12 tries against men, and remained winless in all 33 professional women's tournaments she had entered, the last 9 as a professional.