On the journey

I am still showing no signs of recovery from my subdued ness. Most of the time I don’t even bother to sit down and write, even if I do so, I am running out of words. I guess there is something wrong with this month.

Places I lived before had rich veins of Nepalese Community, so I decided to bring Nepalese in South Louisiana to a common forum by opening a yahoo group called NEPLA. It’s still early days with only 10 members (will add on to that fairly quickly). I had planned a Nepalese New Year 2064 celebration on April 14 in one of the state park close to the Gulf Coast. The place was great, lot’s of water sports as well as fishing opportunities; and there were cabins next to the sea for accommodation. However, I only received apologies, not even a single person willing to go. I guess I would have to call off that plan; nothing is going right for me this month.

Reading news about Nepal isn’t helping either. I remember a bank (I guess Rastriya Banijya Bank) was handed over to a foreign company for the management and now it’s much better in shape, currently they are also talking about leasing Nepal Water Corporation too. Governance is so bad in Nepal, wish we could lease the whole country to Japan for 10 years (I know it’s very unpatriotic to say that).

However, late next month I have some exciting stuffs lined up. I am going to San Antonio for a long weekend. Some of my friends from Grad school have planned a reunion there. There, we will also be going to Schlitterbahn, one of the largest water parks in the world. For that, I had decided to shape up my tummy and get something close to six packs, but my efforts are going nowhere as my tummy is turning up like a keg every day. I have quit drinking beer and soda, and still there’s no effect. May be that has to do with month of March too, perhaps beginning April I can see some effects for my effort.

I am still showing no signs of recovery from my subdued ness. Most of the time I don’t even bother to sit down and write, even if I do so, I am running out of words. I guess there is something wrong with this month.

Places I lived before had rich veins of Nepalese Community, so I decided to bring Nepalese in South Louisiana to a common forum by opening a yahoo group called NEPLA. It’s still early days with only 10 members (will add on to that fairly quickly). I had planned a Nepalese New Year 2064 celebration on April 14 in one of the state park close to the Gulf Coast. The place was great, lot’s of water sports as well as fishing opportunities; and there were cabins next to the sea for accommodation. However, I only received apologies, not even a single person willing to go. I guess I would have to call off that plan; nothing is going right for me this month.

Reading news about Nepal isn’t helping either. I remember a bank (I guess Rastriya Banijya Bank) was handed over to a foreign company for the management and now it’s much better in shape, currently they are also talking about leasing Nepal Water Corporation too. Governance is so bad in Nepal, wish we could lease the whole country to Japan for 10 years (I know it’s very unpatriotic to say that).

However, late next month I have some exciting stuffs lined up. I am going to San Antonio for a long weekend. Some of my friends from Grad school have planned a reunion there. There, we will also be going to Schlitterbahn, one of the largest water parks in the world. For that, I had decided to shape up my tummy and get something close to six packs, but my efforts are going nowhere as my tummy is turning up like a keg every day. I have quit drinking beer and soda, and still there’s no effect. May be that has to do with month of March too, perhaps beginning April I can see some effects for my effort.

None of the citizen can remain uninfluenced by politics, but one should learn to live above the sway of politics. I have tried to shun away from writing political stuffs in my blog, but I couldn’t help myself writing this. I was thinking about visiting Nepal coming December after a long time but such is uncertainty in Nepal that I can’t finalize my itinerary this early. I remember one of my friends had planned his wedding in Nepal, bought his ticket and one way ticket for his bride too, but his wedding coincided with the “Jana Andolan II”. Poor guy had to cancel his ticket and defer his marriage date. These problems of ours are very trifle compared what normal people of Nepal have to go everyday. Isn’t it a basic human right of every citizen to live in peace and have opportunity to do whatever he/she wants (without hampering others)?

One of my friend compared Nepal with a very sick person who just had a major surgery and now is in life support system. Everyone is waiting for that person to get better, but one infection affects after another so there is no progress in health.

Who gives right to some jerks to call ‘Nepal Bandh’, do they think they have people support? No, never. It’s pretty obvious that ‘Nepal Bandh’s’ are successful because of threat to personal belongings than by people support. So how are they different from a terrorist? The people movement of 1990 or last April’s movement were the genuine uprising, where no one asked someone riding a motorbike to get off, no one asked a shopkeeper to shut down his store. Every body whole heartedly came out in street, for the cause of nation, defying curfew. I personally feel declaring ‘Nepal Bandh’ should be made a federal felony.

On the other hand, authorities are such a dumb characters that unless and until some obliteration is done they won’t pay any attention. So what would a group do to make themselves heard? There is a saying ‘too much of a sweet is bitter’ as well as increased exposure to antibiotics will lead to lack of immunity and requires higher dose next time around. Same is the case of ‘Bandh’s’ in Nepal, normal people are fed up with it while authorities wont give a shit to days of ‘Bandh’ unless there is a major violence. The mainstream parties, the so called advocates of democracy and ‘new Nepal’, are fully responsible for it. They used ‘Bandh’s’ simply for their publicity stunts, establishing a culture that everyone is following now.

I am not royalist nor do I believe some group can get allowance from tax payers’ money just by virtue of their birth. However, I can’t accept the leaders blaming the monarchy for their entire letdown. Didn’t they mock Maoist about constitutional assembly and republic set up? Now they are proudly advocating Maoist’s slogans, if they have even an atom of ethics or dignity they should wrap up their political career and head to Kashi. And my dear Prachanda Uncle, do you think constitutional assembly is some kind of magic wand that you wave and all the misery of Nepal is gone? You are not Harry Potter and Nepal is not Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am well educated person with Master’s degree and I still don’t know how constitutional assembly is going to work, how we can impart significant changes that we are dreaming of in constitutional assembly election. If I can’t figure it out how can we believe that a layman in Nepal will understand it?

Like all the Nepalese, all I can do is give my best possible contribution and hope for the best. Unlike after 1990, this time around even after Constitutional Assembly, I won’t be carrying any big hope. I at least hope for democratic, structured and transparent governing body and all the citizens living in peace and harmony.