एकै छिन सोचौं
Posted: June 27, 2008 Filed under: News/information and opinion 11 Comments »मेरो (एक) मित्रको एउटा कुरा मलाइ सार्है रमाइलो लाग्थ्यो, परिक्षाको परिणाम आए पछी उसको बुवाले सधैं सोध्नु हुन्थ्यो रे : “ए तेरो कति आयो?” मित्रले आफ्नो परिणाम बताए पछी फेरी सोध्नु हुन्थ्यो “अनी तँ सँग हिँड्ने फलानो साथीको नि ?” यदि साथीको बढि आएको छ भने “सँगै हिँड्ने साथीको त्यति आएको रहेछ, तेरो किन कम” भन्नु हुने रहेछ । यदि साथीको कम आएको छ भने “संगत त त्यस्तो रहेछ, अनि तेरो के राम्रो हुन्थ्यो र” भन्नु हुने रहेछ । जे गरे पनि सुख नहुने ।
कहिले कंही मैले नेपालको घटनाक्रमहरुलाई हेर्ने आँखा मेरो साथीको बुवाको जस्तै भयो कि जस्तो लाग्छ । मेरो पछील्लो पोस्टमा RT को कमेन्ट पछी मलाई यो कुरा को आभास अझ बढि हुन थालेको हो । यो कुरामा कुनै शंका छैन कि नेपालमा हुनु पर्ने सुधार हुन सक्ने गतिमा भैरहेको छैन, तर सुधार नै नभएको भने पक्कै होइन । पाकिस्तान र जिम्बाबे मा भन्दा नेपालमा नै बढि स्थिरता छ होला । संसारमा अरु धेरै देशहरु पनि छन्, नेपाल जति पनि प्रगती गर्न नसकेका । तर मेरो मित्रको बुवालाई आफ्नो छोराले धेरै राम्रो गरेको हेर्ने रहर जस्तै मलाई पनि नेपालको उन्नति भएको हेर्ने आतुरी छ । त्यसैले होला “नया” नेपालबाट एकदमै आशाबादी भएको । हो आशाबादी हुनु पर्छ, तर आशाको पूर्णताको लागि समय पनि दिनु पर्छ ।
नेपालको हालसालका खबरहरुमा नराम्रा पक्ष खोताल्ने भए मनग्गे भेटिन्छ, धेरै समाचार स्रोत र ब्लगहरुले नराम्रो खबर नै पस्किन्छन् । कारण: राम्रो भन्दा प्रोपोगान्डा सहितका नकारात्मक खबरहरु नै बढि बिक्छन्, र शायद नकारात्मक खबर लेख्न साधरणतय सजिलो पनि हुंदो हो । तर केही समयको लागि हामी खोताली खोताली भए पनि राम्रो खबर मात्र पढ्ने/लेख्ने कि ? हरेक घटनामा राम्रा पक्षहरुको खोजी गर्ने कि, घटना चाहे जति नै नकारात्मक भए पनि ?
नेपालको भविश्य ?
Posted: June 18, 2008 Filed under: Creeping frustrations, Let the picture speak 8 Comments »मेरो जीवनमा एउटा समय थियो जब नेपाल बन्द वा चक्का जाम हुँदा खुब रमाइलो लाग्थ्यो, कलेज जानु पर्दैन भनेर । आफ्नो लागी हैन बाबु आमाको लागी कलेज गैदिनु पर्ने जस्तो । आहिले आएर म कती गलात रहेछु भन्ने भान भैरहेको छ । यो तलको तस्विर हेर्दा सार्है दु:ख लाग्छ । कसरी नेपाली युवाहरुलाई आफ्नो दाइत्वबोध गराउने होला खै? देशका भविश्यहरु पढाई छोडेर लहलहैको राजनीतिमा लाग्नु सार्है दु:खदाही स्तिथी हो, यि कुराको समाधान नभै नयाँ नेपालको सपना देख्नु मुर्खता हो जस्तो लाग्छ मलाई।
तस्विर सौजन्य: कान्तिपुर अनलाइन द्ट कम
Blood donation in USA
Posted: June 15, 2008 Filed under: News/information and opinion, They call it science 5 Comments »My office organizes regular blood donation event, and last Friday was one of them. I registered for it and went to donate on my scheduled time. Before donation they check for other vital statistics (blood pressure, pulse rate, fever etc), and then you have to answer few questions about your health, drug (medicine) use, travels etc. I had traveled to Nepal last December so the guy filling out my paperwork had to look it up (they had a book with listings for different countries) to see any blood donation requirements for people traveling to Nepal.
There it was said that people traveling outside Kathmandu would have to wait for a year, from time of arrival to USA, before giving blood again. Now it will be only after December 25, 2008 before I can give blood again. Someone arriving in USA, for the first time, would have to wait for three years before giving blood. The point was to see if they had any strains of Malaria. I was quite taken back with the generalization of “outside Kathmandu” so I looked it up in Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) website. They had more specific explanation on Malaria risk “Risk in rural areas at altitudes below 1,200 m (<3,937 ft) in the Tarai and Hill districts bordering India and in the areas of the inner Tarai valley areas of Udaypur, Sindhupalchowk, Makwanpur, Chitwan, and Dang. No risk in Kathmandu or on typical Himalayan treks.” Read the rest of this entry »
Nepal Diary: Kathmandu and beyond
Posted: June 10, 2008 Filed under: My bandwagon 4 Comments »Besides a brief trip to southern belt, my journey back to Nepal was confined to wedding preparation, ceremony, and procedures then after. Some suggested my trip was short (stayed exactly 30 days in Nepal), but I am sure even if I had two more weeks I would still be engaged in ‘after wedding’ procedures. There were a lot of relatives I still needed to go visit. If you want to take my advice, planning a month long combo trip (wedding plus other adventures) to Nepal simply won’t sell. I had thought about going for a hike to Ghandruk but I couldn’t even manage a trip to Kathmandu University at Dhulikhel, perhaps next trip I could spare more time for fun factor and natural beauty which we always took for granted while in Nepal.
Yes we can
Posted: June 3, 2008 Filed under: News/information and opinion, Videos 4 Comments »Today is a historical day for United States, an African American being declared as presumptive nominee for presidential election representing a major party.
Abraham Lincoln had issued Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 in favor of abolition of slavery. In 1968, after Martin Luther King was assassinated there was huge spark against racism. Finally in 2008, Barack Obama will be competing for the highest office in United States of America.
No matter if he wins or not, which I believe he would, he already made history. Who would have thought a first term senator from Illinois would defeat political heavyweights to this nomination. A son of African immigrant father and a Kansas mother, who against all odds went on to study at Harvard Law, but on upon graduation chose to work as a community organizer (not choosing obvious lucrative corporate job). He then got into Illinois Senate, and then on to United States Senate. And within four years in Senate he now is the presidential nominee of Democratic Party.
How did he do it? Simple, he used his bottom up organization skills. He showed that even a lesser known person with correct and positive ideas can excel against all unlikelihood. He rallied people around with his message of change with three words “Yes we can”.
