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| M.P. |
Posted
on 09-Jan-04 07:38 AM
A collection of random thoughts.
1. Have you ever wondered why there is so much excitement on New Yearýs Eve? People behave as if the world is going to change the next day. ýHey, what you gonna do for New Yearýs?ý After a week, people ask, ýHow was your New Yearýs Day?ý Unfortunately, all I can remember from New Yearýs Day is the hangover I had from the previous evening. After all, the world did change until I got up at 5 pm and realized what a wasted day it had been.
2. Apart from providing an extra reason to drink, New Yearýs Day is good for one more reason: You have something to start your emails with. I have trouble beginning my emails. I am tired of writing, ýHow are you?ý, ýK chha?ý, ýI hope all is well on your sideý and so on. This past year, I saved most of my emails from November and December until January 1. Most of the emails written this week begin with, ýBelated Wishes of the English New Year.ý After copy-pasting this sentence in more than twenty emails, it sounds more like a pick up line to me; you learn one and never change it (until, of course, you hear a person right before you using the same pick up line and getting a slap on his face).
3. This December, almost three years after I wrote a letter in Nepali, I decided to write one again. I cannot believe it took me half an hour to decide whom to write. I talk to my parents and most of my relatives on the phone. So I decided to write to my old friends in Butwalýthe only other way to communicate with whom is to go there. They must have been surprised because I never wrote to them before. But I was more surprised than them when I received an email from one of the friends saying, ýDo you have a hotmail account? Letýs chat.ý Jesus Christ, whom am I going to write if, after two years, I feel like writing a letter in Nepali again?
4. By the way, that letter was seven pages long, handwritten, and included a poem I wrote two years ago and an article written for the magazine being published on the occasion of fiftieth year of my school in Arghakhanchi. I also requested a copy of the book. I hope they are not going to send me an electronic copy of the magazine! I want a hard copy.
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| M.P. |
Posted
on 09-Jan-04 07:41 AM
5. I feel sad that New Yearýs Day falls during the winter break. I mean, who on hell would want to celebrate his New Yearýs Day with Top Ramen, wheat bread and peanut butter? Now, you see there is a reason why international students in college drink on New Yearýs Day!
6. Those of you who are in the U.S., claim to be keeping abreast of events in Nepal, political or otherwise, and talk a lot about politics in this site, can you, without looking at the Nepali calendar, tell me what year, month and day it is today in Nepal? Do not pretend to know if you do not. Thank you for your cooperation.
7. Have you read ýUnity for IdentityýINLS Institutional Life Membership Programý posted under News on this site? Under benefits, no3 reads, ýRight to vote at each others organizationý. What kind of merger is this? If people can vote at each otherýs organizations, why have two different organizations? To me, this sounds more like the World Government some people have been advocating. INLS can convince anybody, but not ANA. End of the story.
8. I just heard that Nepalipost.com will now publish articles written in English as well. Thanks a bunch to all those involved in making this change. I have downloaded three different Nepali-related fonts and still I can not read some of the Nepali magazines. I hope someday all the articles written in Nepali will be translated and posted in English as well. Thanks in advance for this, Nepalipost editors! And I am tired of reading Baburamýs stuff, I will be grateful if you take that off your site!
9. Two notable shufflesýat least from my perspectiveýin cinema industry took place this past year: Aisharya Rai and Bipana Thapaýstars in their respective Woodsýstarted playing in English movies. I sincerely hope that we will soon have Britney Spears and Catherine Zeta Jones playing in Nepali movies. ýAaunuhosh aaunuhosh, Britney Spears ra Rajesh Hamal ko chalchitra ýLahure Bahiniý Jaya Nepal, Guna, Arati ra anne hal harumaa bhabbetaakaa saath chalirahechha, sapariwaar abaswe hernuhoshýý, a tempo going around Ranipokhari carrying a banner for the movie would be saying. By the way, if that was to happen, I would be watching ýLahure Bahiniý, not writing in Sajha at this time.
M.P., January 9, 2003.
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| Nepe |
Posted
on 09-Jan-04 12:18 PM
I was just excited to hear the announcement of Ashu's stand-up in Kathmandu, right here you are with a nice stand-up, M.P. jyu. May be I should call it a post-up rather than a stand-up.
It's been ages I haven't written a letter in Nepali, nor have I received one from somebody. Oh how I miss them.
INLS can convince anybody, but not ANA. End of the story.
I am an occasional volenteer of INSL. And I volenteer to say- yes, you're damn right.
can you, without looking at the Nepali calendar, tell me what year, month and day it is today in Nepal?
Damn, I had never thought I will be slapped this way. No, I don't. This brings me to my long held belief that we better change our calender to the Gregorian. No, we won't lose our identity. Indians did not become less Indian with the Gregorian calender.
Nepalipost already has a first article in English now. And it's from one of our own Sajhaites ! Isn't that exciting ?
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 09-Jan-04 01:07 PM
MP,
I've not written letter in Nepali since long. I used to write Nepali fictions and some of them used to be long, and were also published in Garima/Madhupark etc. A few years ago, I sat down to write a fiction. Couldn't write more than a page.Letter? Who are left there now waiting for my letter? I don't know. Highschool friends have largely forgotten me thinking I've left Chitwan for good. They often get surprised when I show up, and then they ask, "when are you returning?" You at least seem to have one friend in Butwal to write something. Epistolean era seems to be bygone.Way back , in my first year in China, I wrote letters vigorously to my parents detailing how Nanjing people patiently stand in the roadside in the early morning, how vendors sell different foods in streets in the night, and how all kindergarten students seem to have similar height there. The letter used to start customarily as: Sri Pujya Buwaa..Saadar Dandawat Pranaam. Now, I start my small email as: Dear Dad.., I am doing pretty good here...Take care.
To reply your another question, do I remember Nepali date?The answer is no. In fact, in the last month, I didn't even remember Anno Domino. Interestingly enough, I observed a row in Kantipur where people were arguing whether Nepal ever used Bikram Sambat before Chandra Shamsher Era.
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 09-Jan-04 03:55 PM
Hey M.P...
Totally refreshed by your ruminations. What a delight at the end of the week to forget all the woes :).
I had got a couple of "nepal rastra bank" calendars when I came to states...well, perhaps i should jhikao some more.....Once in a while I log into nepalnews to check in nepali dates..jees..this week i was surprised, cause i had no clue end of poush was the advent of january.......my bad! eheh
The first summer I decided to give my parents a pleasant surprise so I started writing a letter in Nepali. First few sentences words flowed easily.....Sastanga dandawat....malai sanchai cha.....after that i got lost......i started scribbling in english and nepali after that :)
MP, what a disappointment..so that belated new year's wish was a copy/paste.....errr.....or the entire email itself?? Now i am beginning to wonder esp. with all those economic guffs? ;)?
Last but not least..despite proclaiming myself as a fosla ;), i have decided to cut down on alcohol. Though I crave for it immensely with folks walking around me with those bottles, I have also learned to enjoy the fools drunkards make of themselves.......damn! I wonder what impression I must have given ..esp to the fairer sex ;). Les see how far I can go this tyam ;)......If it goes too far, i will have to go somewhere n celebrate.....err..perhaps in a bar.
Hope to read more M.P. and thanx for your email!
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