Archive for February, 2008

Glitter like Gold!

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1542 days
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Sumtimes life seems just perfect.Watever inside, who cares! If anythng glitters, it must b gold. One time My mom had gone to market. She liked 1 saree so much n shopkeeper 2 claimed her, its original n paid above 8K only 2 find wth horror tht he exchanged wth damaged 1. Such incidents may hau occured to millions but why we again n again fal 4 outer glitter? Its not just in buyin thngs but also in relatioship. Hav we become blind or r so used to it we dont even bother 2 look? B4 startin any relation, we not only check her or his history but also other thngs like bank balance, fashion sense n blah. Do really these thngs matter? How many out thr gives damn to these thngs. Last Valentine, i was at mobile store where my sister works. A guy came to buy cell n searched N81. He’s sayin his gal wud b angry if he gives anythng less thn tht. Is our luv so materialistic? May b ths luv thngs really gets boomed by glitters. Inside u may b Jesus, u suck but if u r wanna b Prince Williams thn u rock! After all gold shines!

The war in Cricket

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1544 days
by in Young Ideas

It seems cricket rivalry between Australia and India is here to last long.

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After Sydney fiasco, people were expecting may be this whole affair is over, at least for now. But how wrong were we. Again in same Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), another controversy sparks between Indian bowler Ishant Sharma and Australian Andrew Symonds. Televisions replay clearly shows Symond saying something to Ishant after he was bowled out and Ishant replying to him f**k off showing pavilion.
Of course, match referee once again punished Indians but Australians were spared again. Now Symonds claims that he just praised him for good bowling which Indian team denies.
After racism controversy, ugly Australians were once again exposed but ICC, cricket governing organization, has timely and again spared Australians. ICC’s zero tolerance policy towards racism or other legal punishments have only found way to sub-continental players. These are the Australians who invented sledging to provoke opponent players. And they even invented nice term “mental disintegration” technique to back it up. And sad part is when opponent player reacted back to their so called mental disintegration, it’s the reacting party which has to pay. And the Ugly Australians are there, laughing.
It’s really sad that provocation is still there and ICC is doing nothing to stop it. India has shown back it can’t accept such sledging. With it’s financial power, it has already flexed it muscles and forced ICC to change its punishment on Harbhanjan Singh during SCG test fiasco. And it even forced umpires to be changed.
Now the whole cricket world is debating over use of sledging and India’s power. I believe, such sledging should be stopped ASAP and punish all those who ignite the fire. Ignition results fire, if there’s no ignition the threat of fire is no more.
Punish Ugly Australians for their provocation tactics and stop India from flexing it’s muscles. Otherwise, we will loose this beautiful game.
Start with punishing Mathew Hayden who can’t keep his rivalry against Harbhajan off the field and Symond who stirs all. Also don’t spare Ricky Ponting too. If Indians also do same, don’t spare them too.

It’s the Korean thing, silly!!

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1545 days
by in random thoughts

Nowadays Kathmandu is gripped with Korean thing fever. People are flocking to Korean language institute to learn Korean hoping they would be flying to korea someday for work. Not only language thing, but also Korean movies are rocking in Kathmandu and being new hot cake in market.

Korean film

At least i feel that way, may be because many of my friends are Korean film addicts. I got proof that not only my friends but also lot of people are. Last time i was at DVD store to buy some movies and may b i stayed there for around 30 minutes. During that time more than 10 people show up asking for Korean Movies. I asked my store brother, is fever as strong as it seems? He replied, yeah.

but what’s so good about Korean movies? Many people say Korea movies’ presentation is different than typical bollywood movies and are mostly romantic. They are full of emotions and heart-tendering touchy scenes.

So i too decided to watch some, and the result is I too am fan of it. They are sweet, funny and too romantic….. but sad part is, most of them are tragic with similar storyline but different approach. The accent is also sweet. Actress saying “Anyo” is her long stress is too good. Watching them, i realized the reason why they are hot cakes!!

Watch them, you might be next one searching for Korean Movies…. Afterall it’s Korean magic!!

Bias Awards: Oscars will b no different

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1546 days
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In next 12 hrs Oscars will b announced n probably critics’ fav No Country for Old Man n There Will b Blood will b celebratin. If they dont there wil b huge cry. But i really hope n wish Juno would b celebratin one. Its eunny, witty n lovely. But other movies lost my patients.
Nowdays Awards ceremonies hav entirely focused on bloody performances. Come on! B honest! If there’s been no awards wud ppl stil knew abt such movies n see them. I wouldnt hav watched The Queen or Crash if they didnt hav Oscars tag. Last year despite bein excellent n popular, Little Miss Sunshine lost. Very few such instances r thr in awards whn popular movies hav ruled. May b Titanic was last one to do so.
Shuldnt awards also include popular awards for movies we heard abt or luved to watch. Sumtimes I feel Oscars is becomin biased to mainstream movies. Watever the arguments, lets celebrate movies.

UPDATE (Via Computer): Thank GOD, JUNO did win in best screenplay category!!! Here are the list of OSCAR Winners!!
Best picture
Winner – No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

Best director
Winners – Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Best actor
Winner – Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best actress
Winner – Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

Best supporting actress
Winner – Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Best supporting actor
Winner – Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best foreign language film
Winner – The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Beaufort (Israel)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)

Best animated feature film
Winner – Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up

Best adapted screenplay
Winner – No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood

Best original screenplay
Winner – Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

Best music (score)
Winner – Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Best music (song)
Winner – Falling Slowly – Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song – Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up – August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close – Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That’s How You Know – Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)

Best documentary feature
Winner – Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance

Best documentary short subject
Winner – Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother

Best visual effects
Winner – The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

Best cinematography
Winner – There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men

Best art direction
Winner – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
There Will Be Blood

Best animated short film
Winner – Peter and the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Best short film
Winner – Le Mozart des Pickpockets
At Night
Il Supplente
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Best costume design
Winner – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Across the Universe
Atonement
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best make-up
Winner – La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Best sound mixing
Winner – The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Best sound editing
Winner – The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Best film editing
Winner – The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood

identity crisis???

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1549 days
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हुन त म गुरुङ्ग हुँ तर मलाई मेरो भाषा संस्कृतिको बारेमा केही थाहा छैन…। सानो देखि नै काठमाण्डौमा हुर्किएँ यही बढेँ । मेरो आमा बुबालाई पनि आफ्नो सँस्कृतिको बारेमा निकै कम ज्ञान छ । बल्ल अहिले आएर उहाँहरु सचेत हुन थाल्नुभएको छ । त्यसको पनि कारण छ । ३ वर्ष अघि देखि हामी गुरुङ्ग समुहमा सहभागि भयौँ । पुस १५ भनेको ल्होसार नयाँ वर्षको सुरुवात । हरेक वर्ष ल्होसारमा सबै जना भेला हुने एकआपसमा परिचय गर्ने रमाइलो गर्ने गर्छन् । समुहमा सहभागि भएपछि त ल्होसारको खुशीयालीमा सहभागि हुनै पर्यो । त्यही भएर मेरो आमा जानुभयो तर धेरैले न भाषा आउने न पहिरन नै गुरुङ्गको भनेर उल्याएछन् । अनि आमाले गुरुङ्ग लुगा किनेर गत साल चाहि त्यही लगाएर ल्होसारमा जानुभयो । आएर सुनाउनुभयो सबैले गुरुङ्ग भनेर त पत्याए तर भाषा नजानेको भनेर चाहि फेरी जिस्काए । अब भाषा सिक्न कहाँ जाउ भनेर हसाउँनुभयो ।

अब अहिले जातिय मागहरु बढेको छ । सबै आफ्नो सँस्कृतिप्रति निकै नै चासो राख्ने भएका छन् । गत महिना पुख्र्यौली घर जाँदा पनि बाजे बज्यैहरुले मलाई आफ्नो सँस्कृति बुझ्न र जान्न खुब अह्राए । कसरी आफ्नो पहिचान याद नगर्दा दुःख पाइन्छ भनेर उनीहरुले भोगेका कुराहरु पनि सुनाए । सबै सुनिसकेपछि म मा पनि खुब जोश आयो । भेटेका गुरुङ्ग साथीहरुलाई भाषा आउँछ भनेर सोधेँ मलाई भाषा सिक्न सहयोग गर्लान् कि भनेर आशामा तर साथीहरु म जस्तै हरिलट्ठक निक्लिए । त्यो आशाको त्यान्द्रो पनि चुँटियो ।

भाषा जान्ने बुढापाखासँग भेट हुँदा एकछिन सिकेको भाषा मलाई के याद हुनु अलिअलि याद छ सायद भात खायो भन्नलाई कान्चैबा भनिन्छ क्यारे…। सँस्कृति प्रति सचेत त हुन खोजेँ तर अझै पनि जानेको केही होइन…। हरेक वर्ष बर्ग फेरिन्छ । सबैले बुझ्ने भाषामा भन्दा Anima year परिवर्तन हुन्छ । आमाले मलाई कति चोटि सिकाउनुभयो तर पनि मलाई याद छैन । खाली ४, ५ वटा वर्गको नाम याद छ तर कुन पछि के चाहि थाहा छैन ।

म त यस्तो छु तँपाईहरु चाहि कस्तो हुनुहुन्छ नि म जस्तै नाम मात्रको जात हो कि अरु केही ???

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