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| ashu |
Posted
on 12-Jan-02 06:18 AM
Just a short note to
CONGRATULATE
a former Boston Nepali
Mr. Aroop Rajouriya
on his being appointed
the Member-Secretary
of
The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC).
Aroop is one of those guys who looks back with fondness and great memories upon his two years in Boston when he was a student of public administration at
Harvard's Kennedy School in the '90s. Plus, he's a greatly helpful and informative guy to do guff-suff with about Nepal and various Nepal-related affairs.
On another note, Aroop's immediate predecessor at KMNTC -- Mr. Jaya Pratap Rana -- has just been named Nepal's ambassador to the US.
Anyway, it's really great to see former Boston Nepalis like Aroop doing all the better in terms of professional influence and career success in Nepal.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Jan-02 07:53 AM
Ashu jee,
Khali aroo ko success ma matra ramayera bhayen
afoo le pani Kantipur ma Photo chhapne gari
kehi success story dekhaidinu paryo.
I mean, I have not been able to find your photographs,
and since you are not letting us see your photograph
mailed/posted from you, we are desperately looking
for your great success for which Kantipur Pub. will
honor you by publishing your photograph in TKP or
Kantipur or Saptahik... I writing all these words
honestly. Really. I wish you all the best in the
year of 2-2 and 2-0....... ???XX?#?$?%?&?
Oohi Timro
HahooGuru-ji
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| sparsha |
Posted
on 12-Jan-02 09:26 AM
I don't know if Aroop Rajouriya dai visits this site but I also woild like to congratulate him.I think I saw him the first time in Feb/Mar. of 1992 in Prabin dai ko apt. in Cambridge (near alwife st.). I think the occasion was Sonam dai ko chhori Nepal ma janmeko khusiyali. I vividly remember the talk on Nepal and economics between Robin dai, Arun dai, and others. I forgot the name of Shailesh dai's brother but I have not forgotten the folk song (actually just two lines) he was singing almost all night (until around 3 AM). "paani muni dhunga ma leu lagyo...herda herdai kanchhi ko jooban chheu lagyo...." he repeated those two lines atleast a hundred times :-). It was a pleasant evening.
In the same evening when Robin dai gave his rosy speech on "better" economy for Nepal and right around conclusion he said if Nepal implements his policies on economy then it will be really "ramailo" in Nepal. As soon as Prabin dai heared Ramailo he said something like, "Ramailo ta baghbazar bata minibus bhaktapur landa PK agaadi tarunaliharu lai pan.......panp garera horn bajayera tarsauda po hunthyo ta".
Anyway, Congratulation to Aroop dai.
BTW, yeh Ashu, as hahoo guru asks when are we gonna see your picture in kantipur or someother papers? I would hate to see your photograph taken in Hanumandhoka, though :-)
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| ashu |
Posted
on 12-Jan-02 12:33 PM
>Ashu jee,
>
>Khali aroo ko success ma matra ramayera
>bhayen
>afoo le pani Kantipur ma Photo chhapne gari
>kehi success story dekhaidinu paryo.
Hi Haahoo-ji
(Is that you GP-ji in your new avatar? If so, I have never thought of you as a haahoo person, but never mind!)
I enjoyed reading your comments.
But I have to be honest with you: my one-line definition of success is
really simple: I want to make the best of every day -- professionally,
personally and intellectually for myself and for all those around me (i.e.
family and friends).
What I mean is: To me, success is living life to the fullest -- with energy,
drive, interests and plenty of laughter. If fame and fortune come this
way fine.
If fame and fortune do NOT come this way , that's also fine.
After all, there are MULTIPLE ways of being a success on one's own terms
and with one's values and principles intact without necessarily following
the herd or without getting one's face published in Kantipur, hoina ta? :-)
Moreover, truth be told, these days, apart from the netas, the only people
who get their faces published in Kantipur are the dead ones -- in
the "sam.bedana" section . . .
>I mean, I have not been able to find your
>photographs,
>and since you are not letting us see your
>photograph
>mailed/posted from you, we are desperately
>looking
>for your great success for which Kantipur
>Pub.
Fair enough.
But I would have preferrred hearing this from, to
add to Paschim's heart-touching phrase from another
thread, "a woman between the age of 23 and 28", but,
hey, I should not push my luck too far :-)
Anyway, worry not!!
My good friend Bikas Rauniyar -- who actually is the
Chief Photographer at Kantipur -- has promised that he will
do my "portfolio" -- whatever that means -- at his earliest
foor.saud. Once that's done whenever, I'd be happy turn the
photos into some powerpoint slides, and email them to you.
This is a deal.
Meantime, let us not forget that the more successful and happy we feel about ourselves, the more able we are to take genuine pleasures in public about our friends' various successes and all the more able to help our friends non-judgmentally through their bad times.
oohi
ashu
ktm, nepal
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 13-Jan-02 12:01 AM
Ashu ji wrote:
let us not forget that the more successful and happy we feel about ourselves
.....
----
Thanks for your replies. I enjoyed reading it.
Well, after studying 21years of formal education
and 12years of "industrial experience", I found
success does not have dead end. Success has
dead on those who move ahead only looking at
the mirror. Success has dead end on those
who head for "success to get public fame"
while cheating themselves, I mean those
who cheat themselves, (faked success), will
find dead end, "Malai yati bhe pugcha".
Saying this much on my success stories.
When I look at mirror, I feel so great that
I had left many peoples and achieved many
goals that I ever dreamt step by step. Sometime,
I even want to stop while looking at the back mirror,
and stop because I came so forward compared to
those whom I left quite behind. Looking at them,
I really find myself very successful.
But, when I look peoples through my winscreen
on the those peoples who are overtaking me
or going in front of me, I feel very frustrated
and hey, what happened to me? Can I catch
the apples these guys are enjoying? And, I am
running behind them or trying to over take them,
forgetting the things I ever saw through my
back mirror. I really feel very frustrated. Well,
in this context, when your photograph will be
published in Kantipur on front page (not on
the inside pages = condolence section), you
will find your destination much ahed. Therefore,
my cyber-friend, why not you, others and me consider
ourselves already successful "Partially?" and share
those experiences. Of course, our goals are never
ending as long as we keep on moving ahead, but,
we can stop our cars in red signals in intersections,
and look the guys who are behind us and analyze
how far we came. ... . . . .
So, who is not successful?
HahooGuru
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| krishna |
Posted
on 14-Jan-02 11:38 AM
>Ashu jee,
>I mean, I have not been able to find your
>photographs, and since you are not letting us see your
>photograph mailed/posted from you, we are desperately
>looking for your great success for which Kantipur
>Pub. will honor you by publishing your photograph in
>TKP or Kantipur or Saptahik... I writing all these
>words honestly. Really. I wish you all the best in
>the year of 2-2 and 2-0....... ???XX?#?$?%?&?
BP and/or anepalikt can help you with Tiwari's pix, if you're nice to them ;) Btw, where is anepalikt? Haven't seen her around lately. Anyone know why?
On the original topic, it's nice to hear that Arup's doing well in his career. I recall some pleasant conversations with him a while back.
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| Ashu- |
Posted
on 14-Jan-02 11:40 AM
Hahoo-ji wrote:
>Saying this much on my success stories.
>When I look at mirror, I feel so great that
>I had left many peoples and achieved many
>goals that I ever dreamt step by step.
Well, good for you.
>Sometime,
>I even want to stop while looking at the
>back mirror,
>and stop because I came so forward compared
>to
>those whom I left quite behind. Looking at
>them,
>I really find myself very successful.
Success is all relative, isn't it?
Writer Gore Vidal has said somewhere, to the effect that:
"It's not enough to be successful yourself, others must fail too."
I am not sure I agree with that.
That said, I don't think of success in life as some fixed, zero-sum issue, where your success means my loss/failure or whatever, where you win at others'
expense and so on and on.
OK, if you want to win an Olympic gold medal, then others must fail so that
you can win the medal. That's straightforward enough. But life is much more complicated than an Olympic sport: Others can win in the game of life,
and so can you, without any loss to any party.
There's this great movie called "Chariots of Fire" ( I strongly recommend it, if you haven't see it yet!) in which success means very different two young runners. To one, success means carrying out God's wishes to the best of his ability (and he does that really well). To another, success is a means to deal with anti-Semitism
that he encounters in his life and at his university.
>But, when I look peoples through my
>winscreen
>on the those peoples who are overtaking me
>or going in front of me, I feel very
>frustrated
>and hey, what happened to me? Can I catch
>the apples these guys are enjoying? And, I
>am
>running behind them or trying to over take
>them,
>forgetting the things I ever saw through my
>back mirror. I really feel very frustrated.
Well, I suppose, being humans, we all do that from time
to time. That's only natural. In fact, most of us make
many of our decisions based on what others are doing.
Behavioural economists have done much interesting research
recently re: how our preferences change relative to what
others prefer.
But my attitudes to this whole thing have been shaped two
ideas.
First, the idea that each of us is given exactly 24 hours a day.
No more, no less. And so, it's up to each of us to make those 24
hours as happy, as productive and as successful in ways that
center us to our whatever values and principles.
Second -- and I, as a Hindu, borrow this from a Jewish story: When
God created the world, he deliberately created an IMPERFECT
world. So instead of bread, he gave us wheat so that we can make bread.
And, instead of houses, he gave us clay and mud so that we can make the
bricks and cement to build the houses, and so on and on.
In Hebrew, this idea is called, I think, "Tikkun Olam", and the world is imperfect precisely because God intended us humans to be his partners to COMPLETE
the works and make this world a better place. And so, there is this deep
purpose of our being on this planet as humans, and perhaps -- without being outrightly religious, one can, I suppose, maintain a religious temperament to make one's life productive, happy and in service of making this imperfect world a little
better in ways one can. Doing that in one's way, to me anyway, is success enough.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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