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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 01:34 PM
Prastut tala ko ghatana ra teen ka patra haroo * kalpanik* hoon..Kasaiko bastabik jeevan sanga mel khaye ma samyog matrai hunecha (re kya!! ;)
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“oiee oys, katti suti ra, gham jhulki sakyo”, my mom’s voice echoes through my ears. Having stayed awake till 3 in the morning watching cricket, I am not in the mood to stir on a Saturday morning. But she continues “chiya kha chitto, daddy aaune time bhai sakyo”I ignore her till I hear the 125 cc Honda Engine roar from silence, with strange apprehension triggering me. I see my mom ceaselessly trying to sort out my clothes scattered around the room. Man by nature is a damn mess after all.
“hyaa maami, chadisyo k, ma milauchu”
“Milais taile, tero bihe nabhai kana yo kotha safa hudaina(maybe she’s right), la herr, nau bajisakyo, nuhauna ja”
“hass hass janchu, chiya ta khana disyo”
time drags on, and I drift back to sleep. Suddenly I hear constant grumbling in my room. I look up and to my horror, I see my dad trying to clean and sort things in my desk (Not again). I pretend to be sound asleep but I can’t ignore his distinct mumbling “aroo ko chora chori ta kasto smart hunchan(yah rite?)…yesko chala bhane yo cha, bholi bidesh ma eklai basna paryo bhane, kalle luga milaidine, kalle khana pakaidine???”(scary thought!!)
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I sprout up in present suddenly stirred. been two long years. I circumspect my room for a second and can’t help laughing (at myself). My room’s still a mess. There are clothes everywhere, the desk is scattered out of sorts.(I read somewhere, “clean desk is a sign of a sick mind”) Well, just that there isn’t anyone to remind me constantly
yet my mom’s voice thunders through this odd silence “tero biha nagari…”
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The stamping of my dad is a fleeting relief. It’s ten am..suddenly I remember there is a lakers game, there’s nothing like watching it live. I rush to the living room and turn on the TV. Lakers down by five; 3 mins to go……….I want this game..please no one disturb me for five mins (speak of the devils!). I hear feet thumping down the stairs invading my paradise.
“Oys, zee TV laga ta, top ten aaucha”
“chup lag! five mins disturb nagar ta, lakers game aai racha” I try to sound as stern a brother can sound.
But the battle is two against one. They rip the remote from me within seconds.
(Disheartened) “tara hijo rati matrai herya hoina ra top ten??”
“chup lag yo arkai. Ja ta nuhauna, ganauna thali sakis”
I shake my head and start off not missing the final laugh from the devils.
“katti na afu basketball player nai banne jasto”(OUCH!!!!) I hear a boisterous laughter
my mom bails me out “khana khayera nuhaune ki?”
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The thought of food is provoking. Its 11 and I am still trying to shake yesterday’s hangover. I drag myself to the kitchen and check the refrigerator. Hotdogs, pasta, leftover, frozen vegetables, more hotdogs..i am trying to find rice…I take a sip of coke and go back to bed. Its too early to do anything anyways, hunger hasn’t really struck. I open the windows, and look outside. Everything looks empty. OH yah! Americans go home every weekend (poor lil things ;) Most international students live off campus. My roomie must be wasted from yesterday..and I am …………..
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“maami, nuhayera matrai khanchu!”
After thirty minutes of grueling meditation, I find myself in “chaut” where I seek refuge from the chores of the house. I can still see Swayambhu distinctly. On a clear day like this one, if I focus, Phulchowki tower is visible giving me a quick recap of my cherished childhood. I hate houses being these close. The first neighbor I see on their veranda, starts with the most annoying question
(Neighbor: Person who knows more about you than you do!!)
“IOM ma niklena hai babu.ani k gardai chau ta aajkaal? K padne bichar cha aaba?”
(can’t u leave me alone when I am up here!!!) “hajur, try gardai chu”
I move to the far corner where I enjoy basking under the warm sun. Down in the “bari”, I see my dad, with his garden hat on manicuring the miniature grassland he made himself with months of hard work. Must have been the shadows, wrong place for rejoicing; I get his attention.
“oye oys, tala bharyang muni baata * woo* le ta. (woo??)
“K woo bhanisya?”
“chado le na(sounding enraged)”
I reluctantly head downstairs with (woo and ???? signs) bombarding my head. I am dazed and confused. There are pliers, kuto, pot, strings, boxes, cardboards, knives, khukuri…ma ta twaaaaaaa!!! now wooo…….must be the pliers..i go downstairs
“ lau thuikka keta, woo le bhanya ta!!”
I follow him back, he picks up the kuto and gives me a resigned look “yeti pani dekhdainas, aado” “bacha ma ta thikai thyo yo keta, ahile ta khattmai bhayera gayo…..”
I am about to lose my temper; my mom bails me out again.
“khanaa khana aija oys!!”
I start salivating as the fume from the kitchen reaches me. I realize then that I am really hungry. Masu, bhat, golveda ko achar with dhaniya, lapsi ko achar..i can deal with the woo episodes later. And I can’t start with my dad . NOT TODAY. I gotta be at suman’s place in an hour or so. Fathers are bankers provided by nature.
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Finally hunger does strike. I look up around my room. My roomie is looking down upon me giving me a bewildered angered look.
“Do you know what time is it?” it is two pm (time for family movie in Nepal i guess, haha!!)
“oh man, I am hungry!!”
“yah exactly, what are we gonna cook today?”
I want to go back to bed. “Give me five more minutes man. Then I gotta take a shower. Then we’ll cook and ………”I am drifting off again
my roomi’s gone already, with the similar disgruntled mumbling.
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| ! |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 01:57 PM
good one....did I say the first visit to the memory lane was good??...this one is good too.... :)
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| deep |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 02:08 PM
Oys,
I also went back in time.
bela bela ma aru pani jaaos. akhir...what's life? marya bholi.palta dui din.
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| strawberry |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 05:41 PM
very interesting. a sad realization came to my mind as i read your article. i am going to miss my family. i am already overwhelmed comfu:(
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| G-MAN |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 05:48 PM
Great job comfs :u
while reading it took me back to the golden years of my life.
hope to see more posting
:)
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| Diva_Starz |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 06:32 PM
Be ignorant of the worth of something we possess and miss it when we loose it...are a part of life...gets into us somehow.
Someone profound has said," we will be always seeking, even if we don't know what we are seeking. So, all empirical search for happiness is an attempt, to regain the happiness that we have lost.."
A nice one comfu with subtle flow of words. Oys's dad sounded so much like mine..caring, but a li'l absent minded one who is lost for words at times " woo (?) leyara aa tah!"....
Moments, moments
Frozen moments
Their implosion will become
My touchstone and my chaperon...
(Bellbuoy, Moments)
Peace
(Bellbuoy, Moments)
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| grumpy |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 09:43 PM
its hard to decide whts going to happen in future..but i really cherish the moments of my past so u did carry on comfy keep up with these
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 09:59 PM
Oys bro ..... took me back to my 70s days ..... I was hung over but I was high ..... clothes didn't lie scattered but broken dreams abound ...... that was then
now: broken internet connections abound, no hung over but ppl hang up on me. (soory bhannay cha-lan chhaina aajkal) ......
Can't relate to that "honda ko sound" .... cuz my dad was long at work when I got up. And can't relate to my mom shouting for cleanliness ..... just hear the daar lagdo soor of my teachers (yeah a boarders since class 1) .....
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| serene |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 10:43 PM
it was nice to see tha sorta articulating words...U r endowed with vision ..ur article made me realize that though we try to keep ourselves too far frm da moments we spent..we cant get out of it..whenever i m obsoleted with da things around me..i feel like to keep myself beyond times..
we dont knw when the time elapses..its not possible to apprehend and rule it by ourselves.Its a destiny's desire.
Anyway! comfy keep it up! still ya can behold da past..i appreciate da way ya feel...i felt abit releived when i read ur article..it refreshed me....i m not exaggerating..remembering those days with my family and my mom being surly ..sometimes."oh! kati phor parchas kotha..saafa garr.."mom arousing me early in the morning..making my dream worse."ooye uthhh school jana aber bhayo..khana kha ani ja"
wud like to read more, if any!
cheers!
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| me... |
Posted
on 08-Aug-02 11:28 PM
Nice one....(am in a lil bit of writing mood so let me go)...I can see reality dripping with every word in your work and I am sure no one else could have put it as flawlessly flowing as you did.... bich bich ma it was pretty funny too...woo ani stuff...gave me the smile I have been wanting for the whole day! I am sure anyone who reads it might not relate to it but it will take them to their respective moments when something similiar happened to them!...
Ok this does not sound like me at all...I will realise it when(if) i later read my own comments....told ya ur article is not going to get supressed! simply because its good!;)
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| pehchaan |
Posted
on 09-Aug-02 05:07 AM
well a really good work...makes ppl wonder things abt life and think what goes within a person who isnt at home and cant visit.... all he has is memories!!well done oys!!
though a very scary thought that we might be in the place of oys but touched something inside the heart and makes you feel for the guy!!
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| pehchaan |
Posted
on 09-Aug-02 05:10 AM
well a really good work...makes ppl wonder things abt life and think what goes within a person who isnt at home and cant visit.... all he has is memories!!well done oys!!
though a very scary thought that we might be in the place of oys but touched something inside the heart and makes you feel for the guy!!
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| Soleil |
Posted
on 09-Aug-02 11:33 AM
Hail! to my bro Comfy from the dark side. Thank you for taking me back to those golden moments. There was a momentary lapse of reason - and I was reviving my past. Very eloquent and impressive. If I write one more word, it would be "Indra ko agaadi swarga ko bayaan" and I would be "jasko singh chhaina usko naam tike". Thanks again bro.:)
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| Nomad |
Posted
on 09-Aug-02 01:30 PM
Comfy…. I really enjoyed the ride on your memory lane. Bravo! You’ve just invented a new time machine that can take us back to our past. LOL…. Unfortunately there is no forwarding button, which I am more interested in;). All I want to say- you certainly possess astounding supremacy to reminisce your past and put into eloquent words. You can sketch an explicit drawing out of your elderly memorabilia and deliver us with clear vision. While reading your article, I felt like I was squeezed into your loquacious time machine and took a momentarily ride back to my 80s and 90s. Phewww!!! No words adequate to describe the joy of that ride.
NEVER GIVE UP... Keep up with your good work:)
Dai!
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| gwatch |
Posted
on 09-Aug-02 04:15 PM
wohhh!!!!...duhhh!!!! wohhhh!!!!... duhhhh!!!!... woohhhhh!!!!.. duhhhh!!!!
jumping back and forth was freakin kool, but i would rather stick with the oldies.. cause that's where most of da fun is :p.
nice going.. gadha bhate murdar... gwatch.... chillllllllll......
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| sam _gamjee |
Posted
on 10-Aug-02 10:33 PM
a thread revived!!
ahhh..gotchya ...just what i was a lookin' for......
somebody said it right...u don't comment on a perfect(......)beauty coz it might impede.....u know- what.!!
chill nice one.
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| Ebony_firefly |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 11:45 AM
HEY COMFS!
hmmmmmmm@ nicely put!reading this i too was overwhelmed with nostalgia.
Personally, west to me is the alter to deride the fane,where simple sufferers like us, bend in trust to win some happpier hours for our future...
YEAH......In our native soil ,we shall breathe once more... shall witness the rooster that crows,smoke that curls,sound of those bells & our thirsty hearts overflowing with our
parents love.
O Lord i can already hear echos through the mountains throng and the native winds blowing my hair through the fields of my dreams....hehehe!
hey comfy!
Walking through your memory lane i could see the artistic fusion of the fragments of recollections of your past and the present .
Nice work..keep it up!
blac_
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 04:32 PM
hyallu everyone,
THanx so much for all your support and encouragement....
I hope after all Memory Lane didnt go in vain :)
MURI MURI DHANYABAAD!!
OYS
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 08:16 PM
Oys bhai ..... you just have this uncanny knack of inviting people to relive their past. .... NOw you talk about Muri ..... you know how many years it has been since I last had crispy muri ..... kahi pani paudaina ..... anyway, thanx for reminding me/us ....
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 08:24 PM
dangg!!!
junkie dai, u should really pardon my ignorance here......muri bhanya chai k ho? artha ko beartha ta lagena???
yestai parla bhanera aaja dekhin yo "nepali dantya katha sangraha (nepali fairy tale collection) padna thalya ma ta......interesting hudo raicha..takes me back to childhood...euta line yaad aayo aghi bharkhar padeko katha ko
"nabhandai chori sukla pachya ko chandra ma chai badna thali" amboo..ghachi sahitya hai?? yesto angriji ma kaha paune?
ok les stilck to the point? wot on earth is crispy muri?
jilla oys!!
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| me... |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 09:12 PM
Muri thaha chhaina? hmmmmm.... its also called golfuki or terai tira "bhuja", aba tyo thaha chhaina bhane description: white, flaky, light , almost looking like sponge rice grains.... generally comes in large bags because being weightless makes it ample in quantity....hahaha tyo pani bhayena just take it as rice crispies, without sugar!
well hope you get it... thats MURI! or maybe also called murai!
:P
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| Memory |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 09:35 PM
Comfy n Numb....what you talkin bout. I am baffled.....muriiiiiiiii.......LOL
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 09:36 PM
haha Oys ..... muri thaha chaina ...... it's like chiura except it's more puffy ...... it's the next best thing to getting a bar coupon ......
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| Diva_starz |
Posted
on 12-Aug-02 10:23 PM
Junkie, its not fair...Talking about puffed rice (muri?), reminded me of my glorious days, being full of mischief. Li'l did we frantic (in fear of getting detention!) jumping through the 12 ft wall just to have those 'muri' mixed with green peas, green chillies, corriander and a dash of lime...and, be all frazzled when reach home. More importantly, can't forget the nice scolding of the old sheepish 'pale dai' if he got lucky to catch us redhanded...followed by long, never endin' lectures about health and hygiene from health teacher accompanyin' with a threat to send complaints to our folks. According to our teacher, the guy who sold all those stuff seldom washed his hands (water scarcity to blame?)...Yikes!
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| ebony_firefly |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 03:12 AM
hello me.....
well ! white ,flaky,light and as u said it generally comes in large quantites reminds me of an acute dandruff problem...i hope you dont have one..
TIMRO, MURI KO DESCRIPTION KO CRTICISE GARYO BHANERA, NADEKHAU NI CHURI...
Hell! i am in a kidding mood today..excuse me for my impertinence..
ehehehehehehe
blac_
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:26 AM
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!
u mean murai..........me... got it right..i think its called murai..and diva..i think u r looking for chana chatpat............mm murai with all the stuff you talk bout........for 2 Rs. not bad at all.....reminds me of after school days waiting for the bus and everyone getting "udharo" from chana chatpat dai....
THanx for clarifying fellas!!
oks lemme get back to dantya kathas...way too interesting..jus can't stop em!!
mmm whoever wrote these, must have been high though...why? maybe i will summarize one of the stories later....haha!!
chill oys
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| dantya katha |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:48 AM
........>mmm whoever wrote these, ....
oys_chill,
Two main nepali dantya katha colletor/editors are Karunakar Vaidaya and Bodh Vikram Adhikari, whose story collections are you reading now? just aquestion:-)
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:51 AM
damn..u got that rite too
its karunasankar baidya..hahaha!! I just read the most refreshing and hilarious fairytale.......I recommend to people who have never tried these before....it will make your day..believe me
chill oys
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| dangg |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:54 AM
Chi chi sarina,
Testo jhapp hune ho? Tyo motte hatti ma ke dhekheu? ali ramro keta lai garnu parcha ni?
On second thought, I guess hot guys didn't give a danggg about you.
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| danggg |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:58 AM
dang, my comments got messed up.
oye, my comment about sarina is not for this thread hai. it was for the that 'one night stand' thread..... check it out, its funny. poor sarina got soo jhapp that she slept with motte 'rican.
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| Memory |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 08:20 AM
Comfs n others, How about "Gucha Kheleko" , "pangra gudyeko", and such stuffs....in this memory lane;) LOL...... Do you have any experience or memory in such things?
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| dantya katha |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 08:20 AM
Karunakar Vaidya has two main dantya-katha collections; nepali lok-katha sangraha and Vishwo dantya-katha sangraha. It seems that you are now reading NEPALI LOK KATHA SANGRAHA which includes JOITINGREY, HITIRE,.... stories. Anyway, long time ago I read those stories in my childhood, now almost forgot. You reminded me now. Good memoires.....
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 08:38 AM
damn dangg!! u shook my memory lane for a while.....my memory lane almost got buried!!
dantya katha bro, u even know the book ...OMG.......yah the book starts with those stories..maybe i will really refresh you with one of the funniest stories from out here...laterzz...
Memory bro, i was thinking bout those.....kacchi, khoppi(used to be damn good!!)...yah pangra gudayeko..(did u know wright brothers did that too in their childhood? haha) but i was saving them for another memory lane? sabbai memories lai eutai mai misayo bhane...tyasko swad nai jancha ni hoina? nways thanx for reminding me those!
ani ebony junkiri dai, kata bilaingg aajkaal?
chill oys
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| Memory |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 09:42 AM
Comfy the Numb....I wanna see those sweet memories in next episode: pangra kudayeko, kohla ma paudi keleko ( with no swimming trunk!!), gucha kheleko, and so on...
Keep this thread alive!
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 09:50 AM
hahah paudi kheleko chai sure.....WITH OR WITHOUT TRUNKS!! police le lakheteko??
mmm jus need to get some free time!!
thanx for yor support!!
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| Ebony_Firefly |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 10:32 AM
hi! comfs and frens..
i am in kind of an introspection..after i read the articlle....just giving you a glimpse of it, below:-
a part of me says...
Past—the dark unfathom'd retrospect!
The teeming earthlings—the sleepers and the shadows!
another part t of me says....
The past—the infinite greatness of the past!
For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
(As a projectile form'd, impell'd, passing a certain line, still keeps on,
So the present, utterly form'd, impell'd by the past.)
.....hell! is there and end to it....
lols...
well comfs,
i have been a bit busy these days..i wish i could stop the time but.....the Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,leaves of Life keep falling one by one.....
IT FEELS GOOD TO READ ..YOU GUYS DOING KURAKANI.HERE.
keep going..
blac_
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 10:51 AM
mmm great to know you are around.........and YOUR STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNesS captivates me time and again!!
A tranquil ride in the clouds for a while!!
mm lemme get back to the fairytales :P of the past !! haha
oys
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 13-Aug-02 07:04 PM
wakka dikka pyakkka ..... kati phara-ra angrajee mah muktak haneko ...... Yeso nepali ma pani bhana sathi ho ......
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| ebony_firefly |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 02:01 AM
affai ta mahadev utttano tang ...kaslai deneey bar....
takna parcha arkakai mukh sunna nepali ma muktak.....
HEHEHEHE!:p
BLAC_
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 11:25 AM
boru tyo ktm ko kabita ma ramro ramro muktak chann :)
tyatai doryaunu parla memory lane lai ki kaso junkie dai??
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| dantya katha |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 11:29 AM
Ani dantya katha ni?
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 11:33 AM
hahahahahahahahahhahahaha!!! aiya..hasayo...
damn still been following my stories :S
hijo syal le rajkumar lai paleko story padeko thiyen.i forgot to bring the book today..its much more fun to read when you are high..really makes sense ;)
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| ani |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 01:27 PM
>>hijo syal le rajkumar lai paleko story padeko thiyen.i forgot to bring the book today..its much more fun to read when you are high..really makes sense ;)
ani,
tyo shyal asal thiyo ki chalakh ra chhattu thiyo?
rajkumar lai shyalle kasari bhettayo?
shyalle rajkumar lai kasari palyo?
last ma gayer kasari katha tungiyo???
uuhi pratikchhyama,
ani
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 01:53 PM
darn "inquisitive" ani..u won't give up eh?
oks hear the story then!!
hamro rajkumar ghar baata bhaging ...... ani chapro ma basna thaling (don't ask why rajkumar ran, its untold)....his food one syal choring all the time...rajkumar making fake wax food..........syal coming and getting glued to it.....rajkumar catching the syal...syal saying, don't hurt me, ma timlai palchu....rajkumar agreeing.....syal taking form of human....going to another raja and asking his daughter for the original prince......raja agreeing..........rajkumar marrying.........syal getting old now........one day syal is angry with rajkumar........telling rajkumari..bad stuff bout him..so rajkumari bhau khojera (TYPIcAL GAL)....ghar leaving...rajkumar lai traggs paring..so syal getting emotional, but being an intu syal.....he going pachi pachi..and saying "oiee, sisnu pani khane ko chori" ..rajkumari showing her arrogance..."ma ta maharaja ko chori"...syal trying to act smart "jus saying sisnu pani khane ko chori, u r not.........similarly....rajkumar is also not"..so rajkumari furung furung bhaing..and returning..and they living happily ever after again
NOW DID THAT MAKE SENSE ...told ya....need to be in diff. state of mind to understand
nyways, for the epilogue:
"jo suning, uslai sun ko garland, jo bhaning, uslai ful ko garland, let the story go to baikhunta, and bhanne bela ma let it come to my mouth "
chill oys :)
(k garnu, deen ta katnai paryo..)
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 14-Aug-02 04:47 PM
ANI BRO,
katha le nidra lagyo ki kaso?
haha jus checking!!
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| dantya katha |
Posted
on 15-Aug-02 06:35 AM
Oys_chill, Thanks for your dantya katha
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 15-Aug-02 01:44 PM
To oys.....
Nice...very nice!
I was wondering if you all remember kabitas from school days......one of my favourite:
Arniko
joonga ko rekhi baseko dina China ma Ayen theyn,
hath ma sipa anth ma maya liyera ayethey....
mandhir rachi kheldathyon basi Bagmati tirai ma.....(something, something).....
eka eka saathi Bagmati mathi hamphali paudan thyon!!!
Although being female, I never did those things :). But those poetries definitely depicted (still does)a picture of freedom, innocence and.........bigtime nostalgia!!!!!!
I confess I haven't read too many dantya kathas...but you have certainly piqued my interest in them.....Thanks!
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 15-Aug-02 03:27 PM
maybe i should start a new thread on dantya katha like mahabharat epic ;) what do ya say fellas...? jus a thought!! while there is time to kill!!
oys
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| danthya katha |
Posted
on 15-Aug-02 03:43 PM
HIP ! HIP !! HURRAY !!! :D
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 15-Aug-02 09:09 PM
firefly ..... chad-kay nai sahee ..... nepali ma tah bhanyou ...... bhujna sajilo bhayo ..... dhanyabad ......
Oys .... Dhantya katha bhana hai ....... not Dhantya story nee ......
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