Here and there

Taking a break from my Nepal Diary series, I wanted to write something new. I will definitely be continuing with my Nepal Diary later.

It’s a Mardi Gras season here, I won’t be going to New Orleans but I plan to attend all possible parades in Lafayette. I will gradually post parades pictures later. Meanwhile you can refresh your memory on Mardi Gras by checking my earlier posts. Check this link for my post on New Orleans Mardi Gras, and check this link for post on Lafayette parades.

Nepal is making new headlines here in US, not for our unpredictable politics but for disappearance of 100 Nepali workers from a DVD packaging plant in Alabama. They not only disappeared, but were able to vanish the furniture’s and utensils from their apartment too. Check this link if you are unaware of this news.

Talking about Nepal again, 46 hours of load shedding: can you imagine that? I guess, one day a week there is absolutely no load shedding, and rest six days has maximum of 8 hours and minimum of 7 hours a day to account for 46 hours/week load shedding. Well if rivers keep drying and demands keep rising there will come a day when Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) can only provide 2 hours of electricity a week. In that 2 hours you have to charge your cell phone, charge your Inverter (very popular in Ktm now days), find your missing ear ring which got dropped in the corner where the sunlight doesn’t reach etc. On a serious note, I know Nepal has sufficient Hydropower to overcome all its demand, but is hydropower the only option? I believe we need to start venturing on other options too. How about developing our own Nukes ?