The bliss of doing “Sewa”

Today was the second day of my YES!+ course and It was too Perfect in all the ways possible. Today we learnt Surya Namaskar and Sudarshan Kriya. And we also had a brief Rock Vajan. IT was mind blowing. Like the first day, today too I decided to walk on foot.  Ever since I started traveling through Nepal Yatayat, there was one way which I was wondering where it would lead me to? I’d asked my bother and some of my friends a couple of times about this way and they told me that it “might” lead to Dhumbarahi area. But as my nature, I was still unsatisfied by their reply. So, today, I knew that no one was going to stop me from  doing what I wanted. And I was far too careless to bother about the time and to wonder on this stupid question myself “what if I lost the way?”.

“Nah…that would be too dumb…I’m not a kid anymore and I can take care of myself better”, I consoled myself.

Then I walked passed this lake named KAMAL POKHARI.

Kamal Pokhari

I sat around here for awhile admired its beauty and then moved on my way back to explore the new way I was going to. I was at the entrance of that road around 10 minutes later. On the left side, I saw a fence and was sure that it was a traditional tap made by ancestors. Here is a photo of it.

But I was too tired. I felt I was dehydrating and needed a drink, an energy drink. During these days I have made a habit of visiting fruit shop and then having a natural fruit drink. So I entered this one with lots of lovely mouth watering fruits.

“Ah….what a relief!!! It almost felt like an Amrit”, satisfied with the drink, I went out of the shop and walked straight ahead. (My head though never is straight when I walk through a new way) I was excited rather than being worried of getting lost and being too late for home (though I have to be home by 8:30 pm when I’m out, so I thought I could make it till then).  Then I stopped by an intersection of roads, with a big temple in front of me (Nepal is a country with lots and lots of temple, You’ll see a temple every 10 or 15 minutes of walk), leading to three places which I had not any idea where they led to. So, filled with this doubt I turned towards the person standing right next to me where the roads led to. The one straight ahead led to “Kalo Pul”, the one on my right led to where I had started from “Kamalpokhari” and last one was to “Bhat-Bhateni”. I thought for a while “Kalo pul is too far I guess and I don’t think I should mess up to much with this freedom thing. For the second choice, I wouldn’t want to get back to the place from where I started, that would be a total waste.” Now only the last option remained, and it was so easily decided.  

I was standing right opposite to this beautiful temple wondering which way to go when all of a sudden my head turned on the left side to see one lady on a wheelchair. She was heading the way which I'd decided to go. I don't know why and from where this feeling emerged, but soon I found myself moving closer to that lady. For reasons I couldn't comprehend, I wanted to talk with her for even a while. I wanted to know about her. My eyes fell at her hands which were continuously rowing the wheels of the chair. I wondered "for how long?" I reached just a couple of inches behind her and asked, "Where are you heading out to sister? Can I walk with you for a while? Mmm I mean I'm heading the same way!(tapai kata samman janu hunchha didi? ma pani yehi bato hindai chhu....baru sangai hidum na hai?)".....I don't know why for some reasons but I felt a little bit uncomfortable having the thought that she might decline me saying that she doesn't need the pity of anyone though my intentions were clear. I had that fear but I had my mind clear and I know that from the deepest of my heart I did not intend to make her feel inferior in any way. All of my fear was gone when she accepted with a simple but one of the most contended smile that is too rare to find in any ordinary human. I knew she had something special, I could read it in her face which was glowing with nothing but smile. It made me smile. I asked her whether she was headed to home to which she replied "Yes".

How Disappointment turns into fun...!!!

                Today, as soon after my college was over, I took a tempo to NEWROAD. I passed through the entrance of new road with a smile. No doubt, I was so much excited about what I was heading for! I took a left turn and reached Khichapokhari...Ah...it was so pleasurable thought I was having! I already had started dreaming about this new MUSICAL INSTRUMENT I was going to own in a couple of minutes, I had even managed to make a mind list of the songs and the melodious tunes I would soon be able to play on this instrument! Far apart from everything else I was glad because it was a new knowledge I would be gaining; another step towards my world of music.

           

          Bearing all these thoughts on my mind, I entered NEW SPORTS AND MUSIC SHOP (the shop from where I'd bought my Italina 5 years ago{2063 B.S}) . I asked the shop owner with great delight “Is there a SARANGI¿”and the reply was disappointingly a negative nod! Little bit upset though, but still I was assured because there were other musical shops too! So I went to the adjacent shop and repeated the same question! And the answer I got was no different than the previous! I went to 3 more shops that were there and I got nothing more than a “No” from all of them. By then I was determined that I would anyhow and from anywhere buy a Sarangi. So I without any delay and further queries or thoughts entered the crowd of New road, I did a whole round of the place but yet nothing was to be found! I again went to Khichapokhari because I thought I missed a shop! this time I took the other side and keen fully scanned through all the hoarding boards! Finally I found DEEP MUSIC. I then went up through the stairs and reached a glass door! I could see the tempting and heavenly collection of GUITARS of variety of brands and designs. Never mind, I was searching for a something else and I would just be dreaming about those sexy guitars. I asked the owner with a mere hope...and yeah he proved me right...there was no Sarangi there either. I got out of there. From there I headed out for Aasan as it could be the only possible place to find what I badly craved for! I was so damn tired and hungry! But I had no time to stop because I was well aware about the superb transport facilities available in our city and especially during the night-time! I flee fast towards Aasan and then took the shortcut through Bhotahiti….In matter of a few moment there I was in the regular “galli” of Aasan where there are a few musical shops. I went to one and put forward my question. The person looked at me and said “Yes, we have!”… “Shall I take it Out?”.  The last time(about a week ago) I’d visited the Shop of New road I’d enquired about the price of it and the person had told  me that it was Rs. 900…..The whole time I kept thinking “How could it be just 900?”…hah…..I got the answer to the question that was hovering on my mind! I asked, “What’s the price?”….. “RS 2500”….WTF!!!!! I was SHOCKED and too much disappointed!! I again asked the person if there were different sizes available and he said there weren’t any other…. L

        

Sarangi - The Beauty of Nepali Music

The Briefer History Of Time

   

Sad and Heavy hearted I turned around and went away towards the Chowk. And the Whole time I was thinking about that old chap in that shop who had told me that the price was Rs 900. Never mind, I reached the chowk. As it’s like my habit that whenever I visit New road or Asan I reach for the wonderful and small “kurauni” shop which is under the sky bridge. From there I bought some kurauni I was still unsure of what I would do of the money I had in my wallet. So I decided to visit the “Education Book House”. Straight away I went towards the Sci-Fi section and soon pondered through the books. I have the habit of reading the feedback or review written at the back of the cover. Then I stopped on a book “The briefer history of Time”…O I remember now, the last time I visited this store about 1 year ago, I’d seen this book and wanted to buy it but I did not have enough money at that time. Since then I had never visited that bookstore. So, either way I was fulfilling my wish. Soon I forgot what happened about quarter of an hour ago. I paid for the book and got out of the store. It was already about 5:30 pm and I tell you that you do not get the transport so easily. You have to Struggle for that, So did I. I watched the vehicles and soon heard the conductor of the micro shouting “Dhapasi, Basundhara”….and it was surely occupied as if a HOUSEFULL. I ran like anything; jumped through the sidewalks, ran through the sidebars and so much more and hurriedly got on to the micro. Luckily, there was small space where I could manage to sit (5% of my body was on the seat and the remaining was on the AIR) but whatever I could rest! I slept there keeping my ears sharp to listen to the conductor saying the names of the places. On one stop, a passenger got off and so I shifted to the back just to find and old school mate sitting right next to me…..ChitChat all after that..But I was content at the end of the day.  

Cartoon; The reason for my Science Fantasy!

      I was such a Cartoon freak in my childhood years, that I watched each and every show on the Cartoon Network. I loved them because of the animation and to the creativity that they held. I am much thankful to cartoons to much extent for evoking this eternal love for science.
   
    I remember once watching a cartoon at cartoonnetwork known as Powerpuff girls when I was a small kid....The episode that made me curious about what happened just when the girls sped up to the speed of the light. At that time I was too young and also I had no interest in science. All I could do was enjoy and laugh watching the animation in sheer amazement and pleasure. But when I was a little much grown up and as I was interested much in classical physics and fictional science, my attention was drawn back to that episode I had watched few years back....let me tell you what had actually happened in that episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h2N_RKwCqk&feature=related

      Powerpuff girls once got out of their school, and as they had supernatural powers, they flew up in the sky. As they were flying, Buttercop challenged for a race to the girls and so she paced. The other two girls also increased their speed to the extent that everything seemed to stop and they could literally see packets of light on their sideways passing slower than themselves(don't know if anything travels faster than the light). Then they returned back down to the earth. Just to their amazement they entered a world they were totally unfamiliar with...in it everything was destroyed, the villans had taken over the city and the most shoking news They HAD DISAPPEARED FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS. How could that be? They had entered another realm , maybe a Parallel universe or maybe they had encountered Time travel, but whatever it was it was my first peak (step) into the world of fascination with science. Fact or Fiction these things may turn up to be, but they are just the things that I Love to think of, dream of and talk of.

      Later, when I was in grade 8, I read an article writen by my cousin Manish Thapa. May be it was my good day because it was just what I had been searching for since I watched that show. The article was about the possibility of time travel. In it, he had mentioned about the twin paradox in which one of the twins stays on the earth and the other sets on a journey at the speed of light just to find out on his arrival that his
brother on earth has aged more than himself. It helped me explain what had happened in that episode I'd mentioned above. Then I started doing research about such things which we call fictional science. Whenever I used to get a chance to meet my cousin I used to discuss with him about it. I often used to ask my elder brother(Aashish bhattarai) about such things. We used to discuss about science fantasies, the possibility of science and all. I started watching Discovery and History since then. All the programs related to science fiction. Even though I understood a very little from what I watched because of the new terms I encountered with...but everytime I watched the documentries and videos, I made sure that I learnt a little bit more than the previous time I had watched the show. Each time I got a new term that I was unfamiliar with, I took the help of dictionary and the internet to find out what it was. I got more deep about these things and I fell love in with it.

        Other cartoon that inspired me were DEXTER and JIMMI NEUTRON. Each and every episode were related to Physics and they always filled me with lots of querries within myself!. They left me bewildered in my world of dreams. One another Cartoon I liked was Ben 10, it was about aliens. The episode "Paradox"...expecially was the most exciting one.

Einstein once said (or maybe not) that we should tell fairy tales to children if we are to make them curious. But I say, Watching a Cartoon worth
watching is also not so much a bad idea!;D
                               
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." -Albert Einstein

My First Most HorrIbLe Bike AccideNT :-0!!

It was on 5th Magh 2068 (20th Jan'11), I was with my two best friends (Deep and Roshan). It had just been few weeks that I had started riding my motorbike (Honda Unicorn 150cc). Though I didn't hold a license, I was free to ride bike in inner roads of my place (Basundhara). That day, the three of us went for travel on my bike to a place we have named "Jomsom danda". We stayed there for a couple of minutes and just after some time Deep had a phone call on his cell phone. It was his grandfather - and Deep was to receive him from some place. So, we hurried back to Deep's dwelling. Then from there we headed out towards Sehanshah hotel to pick up grandpa from there. After this was done, we left for Deep's aamaghar to drop grandfather. 

Perhaps, it was from here the whole of the story started. Roshan was with me sitting at the rear seat of Unicorn and Deep was on his Pulsar. We went towards Krishna Mandir of Dhapasi. I was "Overexcited" while I was riding the bike. Roshan was scolding me not to ride the bike so fast, but I didn't listen to whatever he said. Instead I increased the speed and applied brakes carelessly. But neither of us was aware of what was waiting for us on the way. We reached the turning near Deurali Janata Pvt. Ltd where a big truck was at a halt. I was agitated by the fun I was having by riding the bike. And without any thought I tried to pass my bike through a small space available at the left side of the truck. Half way through the truck the bike was in a control. But, as we passed the half line of the truck a wire hanging from a pole above got winded up on the handle of bike. Instead of stopping the bike and taking out the wire from there...I did it without putting a halt. During this I did not see where the bike was destined to go. SUDDENLY, THE BIKE CRASHED WITH A CAR (Indica V2) which was on the right side of the road. Awe....what a situation it was....My heart started pacing...and I got frenetic! The first thought I had on my mind was to run away...because there was nothing I could think of much at such a weary situation. Nonetheless, to my bad luck, the knob of the leg guard had got stuck on the bumper of the car, so, when I tried to accelerate, more of the bumper got out. OUCH! Immediately after that, I heard a noise from the back. I turned back to see a furious man coming out of the car with red eyes. He asked for my license ....Shit ...and as I told earlier I DID NOT HAVE ONE!!! I tried to take out the knob but it was too late. The man was right behind us ....On top of that, four policemen were headed towards right in our direction like in a filmy way....What a great timing it was! Really pissed me off!!! In no matter of time a huge crowd gathered around and I myself was surrounded by a sea of guilt, dilemma, and questions. I could by a hair's breadth do anything now and could barely answer the questions of the car owner and the police. They asked the bill book as well which too I had not got! I was in a shock. Never been in such an awkward situation before, I had no clue what I had to do and what I had to say. The policeman took the keys of the bike.  The policeman talking to the car owner said, “Shall we settle this in the Police Station or will you two negotiate?". Hell! I was damn sure that I would land up in the jail in a couple of moment. But luckily, the owner was a nice fellow; instead of taking me to jail he chose to negotiate with me and my family. Therefore he asked where I lived, and where my parents were and with whom I stayed. I told him everything. Dad was not in Kathmandu at that moment; it was just mom, me and brother (Aashish) back at home. The policeman asked for the Bill book of the bike. I thought of giving a call to Aashish to inform him what had happened. Deep and Roshan were standing right beside me holding me and just as perplexed and paranormal as I was. I asked Deep to go back to Basundhara on his bike and bring Aashish and bill book as well. He, on the spur of the moment rushed on the way home. While he was gone, I and Roshan were standing there in front of the policeman and the owner and listening to their talks. The police were interrogating the people what had actually happened. Some people (younger) asked me to runaway with the bike when I get the chance. Others came by and told at least something I would have done when I had hit the car. Perhaps all of it made me more unsettled. There came Deep and Aashish. Ahhh….what a relief it was to see them. As soon as he got out of the bike, Aashish came running to the scene and showed the police the bill book of our bike. Deep asked to be back in a moment after parking his bike at home, so Deep and Roshan were out for a while.  

In the meantime, the owner started to have conversation with Aashish. I was listening to the conversation just then my cell phone started to vibrate. I looked up on the screen and I saw it was written “MOM” I grew more scared. I did not pick up the phone for a while. For a second time there was another call from her. I still did not attend the call because I was hell scared of what she would say. Yet again there was a call, however this time I made up my mind and attended the call. She straight away asked if I was alright, later she asked where I was and what had happened. After that she told me not to be worried and told that my aunt and uncle (Sita aunty and Ambar uncle) would be there any moment as she had informed about the incident to them. I was so much relieved and happy that instead of scolding me or doing any such things, she made me more comfortable. Meanwhile on the scene the owner and Aashish had come to a conclusion that police would not be involved in this case and we would solve it out ourselves. “At least now I would not be having a police report”, I spoke to myself in confidence. On that very state of affairs, aunty and uncle arrived on the scene. Form the other side came Deep and Roshan. I felt better as I was surrounded by more of people who loved me and would not let me be in trouble at all. They started negotiating again. As the conclusion had already been drawn we decided to cover up for the cost of the making of the damaged parts. That would be done, but where was the big question here. My brother said it’s better to settle it now. But it was already around 7:30 or something. So we agreed to meet up in the early morning at around 8. The owner took the license and the spectators returned back home. We too returned back home.

 But back at home the atmosphere was so different. Everyone was so tensed and worried. And they were discussing what would have happened. After reaching home Aashish scolded me and asked me why I took the bike to the hill side. I was speechless. After all I was guilty and I had to stay quiet. Then mom consoled me telling nothing would happen. She said whatever happened it was destined to be. Now it’s gone, why do you get worried! But I was so tensed because I know who grieve mistake I had done. And I was well aware it was going to be costly. I ran from home for a while. I just took a walk around to get rid of the melancholy. But it was in vain. I got more depressed. I sat on the staircase of a home on the chowk. I was thinking a lot of things and the one which was more vibrant was “What would have happened if I had escaped from there?” As I was reminiscing everything that had happened back there, one of my friends’s (a girl and surely not my gf) was returning from her tuitions. She saw me there, sitting depressed and totally heart shred and asked me what the matter was. But I was in no mood of talking. She insisted repeatedly on telling me what had gone wrong. After much of insistence and persistence, I told her everything that had happened back there. She smiled and said, “Then why you are so worried!”  And funnily she started telling some jokes. I thought it was foolish but actually it worked. Then Aashish arrived. He asked me to return back home. I was feeling a little better. So, I returned back home. This was one of the worst nightmares of my life…..But it sure taught me a lot of lessons. It is one event that caused me to change so much as I am now. I am Thankful to myself that I rode the bike so carelessly and had the opportunity to have that accident, because it made a very positive change in my life. Now I’ve the answer why I did not run from that place!!!hehe….that is good to be kept secret!!!

Hell!!! Look what I did to the bumper!!I won a BUMPER PRIZE!!!DISASTER!

SO SORRY FOR THAT!!! ;(

Money all gone!!!SHIT!!!

I am a WANDERER !! ;-)

I love wandering to places and site seeing....Moreover whenever I'm free, I walk around places alone and enjoy the crowd....It helps me get rid of the melancholy I suffer with too frequently!!!! That is the instant formula to get rid of the problems you have because when you travel, you get to see so much of things and people.

Visiting the Art Gallery



kolahal...



That bus has been wrecked by  some vigilantes

Regular story in Strikes

hann majja le hann (come on broda u can do it(hehe..))

dharara

hanging tower of bhaisepati

Ekalkatey rukh....bichara(Lonely tree)

Furthermore, you come to know about life apart from yours and also the problems that are more oversize and more problematic than your own. Then you feel much relieved from the tensions you have within. Also, I am a scene-admirer and preserver and I carry a cam along with me almost everywhere I go. So, that means I've tons of snapshots of almost every category which I'll be sharing with you people in this blog!!!! Keep Waiting!! till Then Have Fun Wandering and enjoying what you can see with your eyes!!

I am a WANDERER !! ;-)

I love wandering to places and site seeing....Moreover whenever I'm free, I walk around places alone and enjoy the crowd....It helps me get rid of the melancholy I suffer with too frequently!!!! That is the