Archwired No more!

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I am no orator, as Brutus is
Though I could be one with these braces removed from my teeth
Mistake me not for Miss Beautiful Smile
But you’ll be forgiven if you happen to stare at me longer than required
For the teeth of mine now look like ‘Anar’ but sparkingly white!
In their full length they stand, covered no more
Aligned in a straight line,no room for pores
I’ll smile, laugh, talk. No worries I hold
A million dollar smile I tell you, worth in gold!

‘Tis but my braces that you knew so well;—
I am myself, though not a Archwired.
What are Braces? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. It is not me!
With or without braces. I am still the same.

I hope, I will, archwired no more,
Retain that dear perfection which you hold.

P.S The Tale of the Braces Removal will follow in detail…

( Special Thanks To William Shakespeare!)

Message to Myself

This song goes to everyone visiting this site today(knowingly or unknowingly), everyone who loves this song ‘Message to Myself’ by Melissa Etheridge, everyone who saw around 15 horses galloping in Koteshwor and walking in Baneshwor again, everyone dying to hear this song since yesterday evening because its been repeatedly played in their heads ‘without actually listening to it’, to everyone who is feeling a bit gloomy like the weather in Kathmandu today, everyone who just started the day with a Samosa bite like me or didn’t , everyone looking forward to a great weekend ahead and specially to those who have no one to dedicate a song for them with a message ‘ You can always listen to this song !’

Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s Melissa Etheridge for you!

Unforgotten

UNFORGOTTEN by Lawrence Hope

Democracy is…

After a prolonged absence from the blogoshpere I have finally come across something sensible to blog about. A Facebook ‘contact’ had this video uploaded in his page and after watching it I thought I might as well contribute something by advertising it here . ( Ahem!) Not ‘Only’ because it is ‘from Nepal’ but because it is ‘Good’ stuff from Nepal. Well, this is Tsering Choden’s entry from KTM, Nepal for the Democracy Video Challenge. The list of the finalists is here. And if you go through the credits of the Video you’ll see a lot of names you’re familiar with ( If you are a Hits FM listener). Tsering Choden herself is an RJ at HITS FM. I still listen to her on “Namaste Kathmandu”( The breakfast show you can almost eat!) Yanik used to run a program called ‘The Peace Train’ ( I think a new RJ does the show now). Bipra runs Nepali and English shows alike. Srijan is the Audio guy with a real good voice ( I remember talking to him on the phone a long time back…when I was younger and used to call the station as an enthusiastic listener!).There was a time when Pravat used to run a lot of shows on Hits FM. I don’t hear him these days. But the video in question isn’t about who they are it is ‘what’ they have come out with.

If you are a Kathmanduite who is ‘still’ in KTM as opposed to the millions who aren’t physically present here but spread out all over the ‘web world’ in ‘Nepali youths Do something’ kind of FBgroups ( Sorry, I loathe them!) and wake up every morning to read the news of ‘frequent’ strikes by ‘Okharpauwa’ landfill site people, never-ending ‘Points of Agreement’ between this group and that group including Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Okharpauwa Sangarsha Samiti ( or whatever),leave for work every morning past the stinking garbage, stopped midway on your way to work because ‘Congress/Ma-ley/ Ye-maley/ Maobadi/Yekikrit Maobadi’ ( choose one) is ‘Sangharsharat’ (protesting), forced to leave home two hours for your exams because the city is ‘tanabgrasta’ and yet get stranded in the middle of nowhere among ‘ Maobadis rallying for Nagarik Sarwochata (People’s Supremacy!) and have the term ‘indiscriminate firing’ come to your mind while making your path through the Red Sea, come home to ‘Load-shedding’ and still wake up every morning hoping for a better day then you like me will thoroughly enjoy the video.

Ghent the place to be!

Read this news the first thing in the morning and it had to be BLOGGED. This is a glorious day for Vegetarians all over the world isn’t it? We hope the Non-Vegetarians aren’t sulking either. Why would anyone sulk if someone’s taking a step towards reducing the emission of GHGs anyway? Hoina ta? Way to Go Ghent! Hopefully cities all over the world follow your initiative and start living the Ghent way!

Belgian city plans ‘veggie’ days
By Chris Mason
BBC News, Ghent

The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week.

Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals.

Ghent means to recognise the impact of livestock on the environment.

The UN says livestock is responsible for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, hence Ghent’s declaration of a weekly “veggie day”.

Public officials and politicians will be the first to give up meat for a day.

Schoolchildren will follow suit with their own veggiedag in September.

It is hoped the move will cut Ghent’s environmental footprint and help tackle obesity.

Around 90,000 so-called “veggie street maps” are now being printed to help people find the city’s vegetarian eateries.

Lastly thanks YOU for the link SIR.
( P.S This is not to say that I overlook the livelihood aspects of animal rearing etc. In simple terms hoping the debate doesn’t stray in that direction.)

To you who know me not

As this nation grapples from the shocking revelations of the man who was to usher its people to a new era, nationality, diplomacy, political strategy, lokantra, ganatantra seem fake, trivial and meaningless to me. I’ve lost interest in it, and all ‘interest’ I garnered for the issues not only seem ‘ridiculous’ but rather a ‘feigned interest’ to me now. I did engage in conversations when the issue came up but I’ve had enough of it now. It’s like a bunch of people out there, in some corner of Kathmandu, speeding around with their motorcade supposedly deciding the fate of this nation, my fate, your fate, our fate but they don’t know me. They don’t know you or anyone of ‘us’ either. They’ll never care to. For their ‘need’ for us ended the moment ‘we’ voted for them. We, the ‘aware’ citizens of the nation made a well thought decision of choosing them. So they have their ‘day’ now. Every dog has its day. It’s their day today. When having to choose from a bunch of thugs one is most likely to opt a ‘new’ player who has never got the chance to prove his ‘unworthiness’ I suppose. But when the game is played only among ‘thugs’, one should never underestimate any new entrée. Lesson learnt. A change of team is required. All the old players, each and every one of them should be overthrown. For all of you had your chance and you lost it. You simply LOST IT. Thank you everyone! And special thanks to you Mr. Ferocious, for you were the last straw to break the camel’s back. You were the heaven-sent devil angel whole sole duty was to throw us from ‘frying pan’ into the ‘fire’.

प्रेमको उडान

यो मेरो होइन, बर्नाड स्लिङ्कको ‘प्रेमको उडान’को चर्चा हो। चर्चाभन्दा पनि नामक पुस्तकको छोटो (५०० शब्दको) समीक्षा हो। हुन त यो कुरा मैले धेरै पटक भनिसकेकी छु त्यही पनि म फेरी बर्नाड स्लिङ्क मलाई सबैभन्दा बढी मन पर्ने लेखक हुन् भन्ने तथ्य दोहोर्‍याउन चाहन्छु। उनका प्रत्येक किताब पढेपछि म आफूमा केहि परिवर्तन आएको महसुस गर्छु। करिब तीन चार वर्ष अघि ‘द रिडर’ पढेपश्चात् उनको फ्यान भएकी हुँ। त्यो किताब मैले एवान पुस्तकालयमा फेला पारेकी थिएँ। पछि काठमाडौंका धेरै पुस्तक पसलहरूमा त्यो पुस्तक खोजेँ तर अहिलेसम्म पाएकी छैन। केहि समय अगाडी पिल्ग्रिम्स बुक हाउस ,ठमेलमा मैले स्लिङ्कको ‘होमकमिङ्ग’ फेला पारेँ र उनले लेखेको त्यो पुस्तकको एक मात्र प्रति देख्ने बित्तिकै किनिहालेँ। ‘फ्लाइट्स अफ लभ’ चाहिँ मलाई एक मित्रले दिएको उपहार हो। यतातिरको बजारमा स्लिङ्क पारखी कम भएरै सायद उनका कृतिहरू फेला पार्न अलि गाह्रो छ। तर गाह्रो छ भन्दैमा राम्रो कुराको खोजी गर्न त छाड्नु भएन नि! मलाई यति राम्रो पुस्तक उपहार दिने मित्रलाई धन्यवाद दिँदै यो भूमिकाको अन्त्य गर्दछु। यो लेख गएको शनिबार वैशाख १९,२०६६ को कान्तिपुरमा प्रकाशित भएको थियो।