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Down with you NEA

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After 4 days of trip powered by generator, I had forgotten that load shedding exists. Today’s load-shedding time was till 7 PM and I was hoping there would be power so that when I reach home I could read some emails or flirt with some people (alright later one is untrue). But there was no power. My mom said that power came and went twice. Finally it came back and I opened the browser, typed www.gmail.com and then again it went pop. No it hasn’t come back. My nephew came to me asking for telephone no. of Nepal Electricity Authority. When I asked for the reason he replied, “to scold them. They were supposed to give us power. Look over there, there in the tower like Eifel (he was referring to broadlink’s tower) there is always power. And we don’t have it. We need to scold them”.

I agree with him, totally. NEA you suck, you are embroiled in corruption and everyone knows it. Irony no one does anything to you.

I hear my sister cursing NEA, “At least give power when it’s our time to get power. What are you doing, just want to kill you” and my mom is saying, “it’s just like living at village, who says we live in Kathmandu, the capital”.

Update: Now lights have come but the voltage is really really low. wtf, i don’t know!

gossip: here and there

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When you hear how system works in Nepal, your reaction would: Really, amazing!

I got chane to talk with a person who is involved everywhere and when i mean everywhere, i really mean it. He is a journalist, HR activits, NGO activist, consumer’s right activist, political activist and god knows what. Even he admits he is involved in 22 different organization: 22 can you believe it?

We were talking about how things work in Bara, he candidly told me one surprising story. Since he is also involved in consumer’s right, they raided various traders to test quality of products. Quality controller, local consumer right’s activitis and traders have made mutual agreement that the products will have imprint date of manufacturing date. But there will be stikcer with new dispacting date as manufacturing date while dispacting products to the market. They come up with this idea so that products could be sold in market easily and evade legal hassles if caught red handed. All of them, including government and consumer rights activits, were more concerned about traders than consumers itself and it’s surprising. Bad, Dabur used same techniques but still found itself in hot water with their real juice. Remember the fiasco?

When there’s some hassles with the quality of products, bucks (depending on people involved) would do it’s magic. Everyone gets their share and be happy: and we consumers would be the unhealthy and unhappy folks.

No wonder why we are one of the coolest people in the world as mentioned by CNN. Such practice go unchecked but still we are  happy and enjoying those products.

https://outlook.international-alert.org

Happyness

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Many people complain, “Fuck, my life is ruined. Why can’t I be bestowed with happiness?” and this always leave wonder: what is happiness? Why people are not happy?

If you ask to define myself, I would always say: I am just a happy-go-lucky one. I find happiness in every simple thing that is around me. Watching stars in the night, reading book, throwing away stuffs I don’t like, watching tv endlessly, losing self in imagination, chatting endlessly on same topic till I get tired, jumping on the bed, fighting with my nephew…. what doesn’t make me happy? You might hit back with long lists of problems but my solution is: one day or other day, problem will hit you anyway then why to be unhappy thinking about it now when I have to be sad that day anyway? Cherish life as long as you can.

Even when I am sinking in sea of misery, I find reason to cheer and smile. I always compare myself with worst scenario and I feel happy that I am not facing such worst case possible.

In my opinion, the key to happiness is living the moment. If you start worrying about tomorrow, the endless list will never end and you will be always sinking in and in. so STOP worrying about what will happen next but see what is happening now. Try to smile and enjoy the world. Then you will find your happiness because happiness is a state and it’s HAPPENING now.

In the meantime, go check out this blog: http://kastoramailo.wordpress.com/ and be happy J

a waiting traveler.

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a waiting traveler., originally uploaded by Rabin Gurung.

just want to pack my bags and leave away to far far away!! Sigh.

Those days!

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Paris from Eiffel 6, originally uploaded by srux2001.

Just want to hide behind the chaos and greatness of Paris, again :(

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