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| M.P. |
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on 05-Apr-03 01:47 PM
M.P.'s Ruminations 5
1. I have often been misunderstood. Once Sanjeev Gupta from the IMF gave a lecture at my college. My economics professor asked me to write a short report on the lecture. I do not mean to offend Mr Gupta but the lecture was the most boring lecture I have ever attended. He diverted almost every question that attacked all the mishaps IMF policies have created in the world. In my report I wrote I was surprised by Guptas expertise in defending the IMF. Far from appreciating the limitations and repercussions of IMF policies in developing economies, spokesperson Gupta regurgitated the success stories that IMF publications already bear. My professor later wrote to me that he had been impressed by my sarcasmreferral of Gupta as the IMF spokesperson. Well, the truth is that I was late for the lecture and from Guptas speech, I had inferred he was one of the IMF spokespersons. Later a friend of mine told me that Gupta actually held a high position at the IMF. He is the director of something.
2. Torpe, my colleague, has lately made a humorous posting at Sebsonline. He has speculated how some of the posters at Sebsonline might have reacted to the war in Iraq. I really liked what he thought of two long-time-ago posters, who also happen to be visitors of Sajha. I present them here and add how some other Sajhaities might have responded to the war in Iraq:
From Sebsonline:
Paschim: Where is V S Naipaul thesedays? I hope he is not in Iraq.
Kabiji: Bihaanai uthe/dhaaraamaa gaye/paani aayo/bomb pani aayo.
Paramendra: Both Bush and Saddam are men. Both are religions: Christianity or Islam.
My speculations:
Sitara: Bush is a good person Hajjjjjjjjuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur!
NK: From today, I shall call Bush a despot!
Isolated Freak: Hint hint&.bomb, Iraq, US. Let me know if you need other hints!
??!: Gunaraj ko Bomb IX
Sajan: Thanks!
3. Talking about war in Iraq, there is one thing I would bomb first if I had a choice: my nails. Does anyone here know how to make them grow at a slower rate?
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| M.P. |
Posted
on 05-Apr-03 01:48 PM
4. I am really bad at time management. I go to bed at around 3 am and I am sleepy the whole day. In a desperate attempt to change my schedule, I estimated the time I spent on various things this past week. Poem: 2 hrs, paid non-academic work: 8 hrs, voluntary work: 6 hrs, lunch, dinner, shower, etc: 13 hrs, travel and miscellaneous: 3 hrs, sleep: 42 hrs, read course-unrelated stuff (news, novel): 3 hrs, classes: 14 hrs (including labs), meet professors during office hours: 2 hrs, Fridays movie: 2.5 hrs, Thursdays lecture on Iran: 1.5 hrs, Thursdays documentary on Croats, Serbians and Muslims: 2 hrs, Wednesdays documentary on North and South Korea: 1.5 hrs, Sundays show of An Ideal Husband : 2 hrs, reply emails: 2 hrs, Sebsonline/Sajha/baalho: 1.5 hrs. There are 168 hrs in a week. So I had about 61 hrs of academic work outside of the classroom. If I look at the Student Councils course recommendation book and total the average number of hours that the courses I am taking right now are supposed to take, it is 80 hrs. %^&* me, what am I doing here?
5. My room is always messy. Very messy. There is only one person at my collegeand that is a professorwhose office is messier than my room. On April fools day, some of my friends wanted to surprise me. And they were going to clean my room. That would have been so nice. But the sad thing is when they got the key to my room from one of the Residence Advisors and opened my room, I was right there in my table using my computer. They had prepared well, looked at my schedule and come to my room. Why did I have to bunk my class that same day?
6. Last night, a friend of mine said he had his girlfriend coming to him. Good news was that there was another girl coming with his girlfriend. On Fridays, my room is like a theater. I thought my friend would bring the two girls to my room for the movie this Friday, too. Now the sad thing: that never happened. He never brought the girls to my room. Now the saddest thing: I had spent about three hours during the day cleaning my room. Damn it! Now I am going to read When Bad Things Happen to Good People .
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| M.P. |
Posted
on 05-Apr-03 01:49 PM
7. My brother sent me 10 pilot-pens last semester. Stupid I am, I opened the pack and put all of them in my penholder. I used or took to class whichever my hands picked first. That was kind of fun. Things have changed now. Some of the pens have no ink. I get up about 20 minutes before the class and by the time I finish my nitya-krama there is hardly any time left to decide which pen writes and which does not. If I remember right, this is the third week I have been carrying all 10 pens in my bag. I mean, I dont want to take a pen without ink and look stupid in the class, so I carry all of them! And I have realised there is at least one another way to impress girls besides cleaning the room and expecting them to come for Friday movies (which, unfortunately, are gentlemen-oriented at times)! I go to class early thesedays and look around to see if anyone is in need of a pen, so I could show my stock to the class. I am sure you have conjectured my intention behind showing the stock, so I am not going to state it here.
8. Calling home has always been fun. When I call my brother in Kathmandu, it is usually my younger sister who picks up the phone. Then she continues talking until either my brother and sister-in-law start shouting at her or my brother grabs the receiver from her. Things were different this time (I have this feeling that everything has started to behave differently ever since I cleaned my room yesterday afternoon)my brother picked up the phone. He talked for a while and then gave the receiver to my sister-in-law. Then came my uncle, then my elder sister, and then my cousin. My younger sister was the last on the line. The first question she asked was, dai, yo phone card maa kati minute baaki chha? Listen girl, your brother is there to study! If he wants to do better academically, the only place he can cut down his time is in his non-academic work. He works less means he will have less money. So you better learn to minimize your guff! Or else&&always stay near the phone.
9. We have heard enough complaints about Nepali movie industry not being able to compete in the international market and also loosing its charm in Nepali market. Dumb are the people working for the industry: why dont they request Baburam Bhattarai (BRB) to play in their movies? At least the members of the Reporters Club will watch BRBs movies! It will be kind of funny to see BRB dancing, though! Guess who would be the villain if BRB was the hero? (Hint: it is not anyone from the political parties).
10. Talking about calling home again, I have a niece who is about 3/4 years old. Whenever I call my sister, my niece cries if she does not get to talk to me at least once. And everytime she does something stupid, which I think is actually cute. This time I asked her, la k chha bhana. La k chha , she replied. I was asking her how she was. She probably thought I was asking her to say la k chha . Last time, she hung up the phone and I had to call again. I am soon going to ask my younger sister if she has told my niece that talking over the phone is free.
M.P.
April 5, 2003
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 05-Apr-03 07:06 PM
following aaron karo?
eheheh, still need some "polishing"... keep up writing and in no time you will be our version of aaron karo!
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 05-Apr-03 07:15 PM
keep up= keep on
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 05-Apr-03 07:25 PM
MP JYU,
thoroughly enjoyed it.......tyo nepe jyu le bhanya jasto "yesto gufff po ramailooo guff" :) i mean.....not that i meant it was guff.....wanna read more of your ruminations .....SACCHI HAU, dharmo dharma!
hey, btw there's one more room that is messier than your professor's [hint: its not anyone you know in real life] and yah, i stopped cleaning my desk the day i read this sign in my supervisor's office
A clean desk is a sign of a SICK MIND
and not to lose my point: thoroughly enjoyed it and please do write more of this pertinent stuff :)
Oys
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