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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 11:30 AM
Nov. 26, 2000. Ashu forwarded me an email saying that he has posted my article on Chinese movies for discussions on the web-site of Greater Boston Nepali Community. Curious to see, what GBNC site was all about I clicked on the URL sent to me by ashu and there i found Biswoji's comments on my article. We started defending our views and for the first time in my web-discussion session, i ended up learning a lot.
After that discussion, I started to log on to the GBNC site all the time because I had nothing else to do.I enjoyes reading discussions on safa tempos to literature.. I had just graduated from a college somewhere in the west coast and had moved to DC. I din't have a job, so i would spend all my time going to the smithsonian, reading books and discussing at GBNC site. Once, my roommate (also a friend from my newroad-long-hair, 3 rs cup chiya and bishal bazzar ghuming days) even told me, " ye.. kati tyaha gayera jhagada garchaas.. aaba computer malai le, ma chat garchu". Raju samjhinchas?
In my 2 years (on and off) at GBNC (now Sajha), I made many enemies because of my "politically incorrect" views but on the other hand, i made a few friends. One of them being ashu. I used to discuss with him at the soc.nepa site l when I was in my freshman/sophomore year at school. And the most memorable discussion I had with him on that site (along with other bright and intelligent nepalis) was on the issue of nationalism.
In my 2 years at GBNC, I have had my share of fun. I discussed issues pertaining to Nepali politcs and China and I have to admit that I ended up learning a lot--even from the people who oppposed my views (some went as far as to make personal attacks labeling me a racist on a thread on caste/race issues in nepal). I learned what "critical thinking" is all about and learned to accept criticisms, whether constructive or just criticisms.
As I said in a thread started by oys_chill, sajha for me is a palce where you learn to value diversity (of opinions) without giving up on your stand. This is what it has been for me for the last 2 years, and hopefully it will remain like this for the next 20 years.
For the past few months, i had to use this alias because various factors barred me from using my real name to post in public. also, someone asked me not to post using my real name, and i promised that person i won't.. but that contract too, is over. no longer bound by anything. Free again. But, i kinda like my new nick/alias, isolated freak and will be using it to post messages because this nick best describes me..
In the end, I would like to thank ashu for letting me know about this site and San for all his help all along. Also, my sincere thanks goes to Biswo, NK and others who challenged me intellectually.. forcing me to come up with good arguments.
Also, I would like to share with you all my first ever post on the sajha board (i did not myself post this article, ashu did and my sincere xie xie ni to ashu for that)
here's the link:
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2000/nov/nov26/editorial1.htm
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| soulfree |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 11:38 AM
Isolated Freak??
So you are TRAI from E-Nepal???
I didn't know you went back to NEPAL.
How is it going brother??
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 11:41 AM
yes, that would be me. i am back in nepal, working at a sano-tino HMG job and still hanging here at sajha.
its going great. being back is fun.
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 12:13 PM
ambooo isolated freak jyu? TWO YEARS????
hyallu soulfree bro..long time no see.......soulmate pa ho ki kya ho? eheh....imagine two years down the road in nepalnews and now sajha! got the hang of it...besides nepalnews turning into a pandemonium these days!
Isolated freak jyu, i agree with you. I had never imagined I would learn so much from this site. Hats off to san bro :) As for getting addicted to it, I am a lil scared at the moment. One of the best thing that ever happened to me due to this site is the fact that I have learned to enjoy and read nepali more than ever before. Really does make me feel like what Nepali is all about.my sincere gratitude to soleil, deep, jira, dumbass, and few others......and one of the most interesting learning experience has been to stand by your view like you mentioned. This intellectual stimulation from all the dhurandar sajhaites have changed my way of thinking.....I'd really like to thank them as well.
I hope despite our agreements and conflicts, I hope we all have the same common ground somewhere along the way :).
Thanx for sharing your part of the story Isolated jyu.....after all u aint a freak re kya ajha last ma
oys
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| soulfree |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 03:16 PM
IsoFreak Bro,
Good to see you here. You know Harke bro also, don't you? I think he is also in kathmandu. I was hoping to meet you and other "chatters" in PA Nepali convention two years ago. Harke dai told me something like, you couldn't make it or you went back to Nepal. I don't really remember. Hope you know Harke dai, He is also back in Nepal.
Oys, I am here, as always, but kind of busy these days. Damn Teachers won't give me a break yaar. Perpetual homeworks and papers and exams are killing me. How is it going with you? by the way, I feel the same way you feel about this "addiction" to Sajha. It's great to be in here. Feels like Home.
I used to be a regular chatter in various chatrooms. After I found sajha, I stopped chatting. Anyway, there are nothing much to chat about ... It always starts with ASL, and ends with e-mail and MSN add exchange. They are worthless.
Feels good, to be in sajha!!!
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 05:07 PM
Isolated Freak ji
I have enjoyed your candid comments tremendously..... I have started posting since August 2002 and I agree that, there is much to learn here. I noticed your postings during the recent "upheavels" in Nepal; again, I have enjoyed your wit and humour in your postings as well as out of Sajha!
:)
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| NK |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 06:46 PM
It will be two year this January since I started to "reside" in Sajhaland. I entered through the "Classified" door and I never left. Poor Sajha! But, hey if, if you learned something from me I am glad! Only you know or pramatma knows what possibly you could have learned from NK.
Thanks though.
[being me, I never learn anything from anybody. I don't even know why I bothered to go to college. Never learned a squat there either. I think I am in the same place where I started from. Jaha ko thehi. I need to change my attitude I guess. As they say in New York billboard: "Hey, you never know!"]
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| Jayahos |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 06:53 PM
NK, now happy? Isolated Freak is no more isolated freak now!
IF, I enjoyed your poem in other thread:
najanine nabujhine yo khel kasto
khelai yesto jo nabujhne najanne kasaile
yesaile tyasaile chadera yatna bujhne
aau khelau khel yo kasaile nabujhne
Btw, I never thought that IF has something to do with that co-ordinator of ASHU's Chinese learning table and chinese learner's group in User's group!!
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 06:54 PM
NK: I think I am in the same place where I started from.
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I am glad that you know where you are. I should learn this fact from you. I even don't know where I am, at present, where I was in the beginning, and where am I heading... The Most confused creature in the world.
Trai, I was just wondering what happened to TA.... why is he missing. Now, its good to know that you are indeed with us. Kya hai Mask lagaye pachhi ta chinnai garoh. Dhannai IS lai M-16 nikalera ratatatatat... parera bhutiyena chha ... Aba chai khub sital bho mana ma.
HG
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 07:56 PM
Thanks everyone.. the people I know and the people i don't know for your words.
jay hos: you are one of the few people who liked that poem, so thanks much hai.
sitara: i don't see any wit and humor in my posts. its just plain and dry with occassional poking/provoking people. :-=) (i have changed by TM because sally thought my previous one =) was confusing)
NK: You learn from everyone. What I haveleearned from you is to be Franmk at times and just say, "yeeah this does not make sense at all!" at times and to "try to write" poems .
Soulbro: I know Harke, but there's a difference between friends and mere acquaintances. so, i don't know what he's up to.
And HahooGuru jyu,
ma ta yahi thiye..just had to change my avatar for some reasons. pachi kunai deen bhanchu.. tara tyati bela pani guruji ko post herthe ni..guruji ma taysto M-16, AK-47, SLR lyayera pararrrarraararararaa manche bhtne manche hoina.. malai ta euta khukuri (RUM) bhaye huncha. BTW: Do you know about that sake brand which ahs two characters: male and mountain? kya mitho cha tyo.. tyo khane garum guruji...tyo ra "hamachi" macho!...la guruji malai ni yeso japan tanne milaunu paryo..
aaba guruji ko sajha-manav-adhikar manch ko VP bhayeko le, i hope to learn many interesting things and theories in the days ahead.
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 07:59 PM
hmm i am two months senior to you.. NK.. hhahhha.. yeah, where's my beer?
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 08:52 PM
Isolated Freak ji,
Ok....let me rephrase: your Wryness which I perceive as humourus..... Matter of perception hola hajur!!!
Nevertheless I enjoy your writings!
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| sally |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 11:23 PM
And here I thought our old friend Trai was having enough sense to stay away! Welcome out of the closet (or maybe that should be out of the daraj, given the lack of closets in your current locale.) Gutsy of you ...
But see, you've confused me again! Now I'm trying to figure out if :-=) is a smiling Hitler (yikes, THAT doesn't seem very IF-ish) or a Charlie Chaplin. I'll think of it as Chaplin, which sort of fits Sajha ... a silent movie, part comedy, part melodrama ...
Maybe you could make it ~(>-=) (smiling Chinese Chaplin with pigtail)
or d=(>-)[$$$] (modern Chinese guy with Mao cap on top of his mohawk reading the financial reports)
or perhaps this would better reflect your current incarnation:
[:v{o= (HMG guy in topi with mustache, chatting over a cup of chia.)
Whaddaya think?
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| sparsha |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 08:42 AM
IF urf TA,
good to hear from you. I enjoy reading your postings.
and you have offerered me a beer (in nepal) and i have not forgotten that free offer and will not forget to remind you the offer when I am there. however, if you ever decide to revoke this open free-beer invitation, please let me know in advance. So, i will have enough time to recoup. ;-)
keep on posting.
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 11:09 AM
I had brief discussion with Trai when I was still rookie in Sajha. When you told me and I challenged you about the facts I told you "Half of Mt Everest was given to China only recently". You said you could verify that in some archives in ...... Though you never came back, but, anyway that is a fact, and you don't have to dig more deeper than I think 1975.... If you still wonder my source, then I will only tell my source is more believed by international community in Himalaya's than Nepal Government. Peace :]
I was wondering too where is that fella? Hmm!!! Nice to know you are back.
I wonder how many others are here in Different Mukhouta but ONE SOUL?
Wonder, wonder!
Don't you love this site :]
Only one person must be laughing at all of us the King of Sajha and only one SAN!!!!
- iti
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| NK |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 11:21 AM
Raja of Sajha don't know nuttin' LS(d?). He sits atop, smokes pot, rolls dice and plays God while apsaras play African drums.
Yeah Jay (can I call you Jay? My brother is called Jay too ) I am elated, blissful, cheered, delighted, ecstatic, elevated, enchanted, enraptured, exalted, excited, exhilarated, exultant, fired up, flying high, hopped up, in heaven, intoxicated, joyful, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed, transported that 'isolated freak' may not call himself 'if' anymore! :))
Antonyms of elated: miserable, down, depressed, sad, unhappy, blue [don't you just love me :))]
Ani, Hahooguru(ji), judging from your posting you seem to be the least confused person in Sajhaland. Your lahureko story, your promise not to touch anybody except "that special woman" etc. speak a volume.
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 12:47 PM
sally, thanks for the new trademark suggestions, i guess i'll go with [:v{o= this one. yeah, you can say i am outta daraj or a baksa (box).
Spasha: I keep my words. I'll make it two because the way you've been speaking your mind these days. politics and narayan chaur ma cycle chalauna sikeko kura..with chiso carlseberg or tato bagpiper (you call.. whhat do you want?) will be fun.
Logical Sense: We gave tingari maidan to get make zhou say, Mt. everest belongs to Nepal" when he visted Nepal. maybe we will carry on with this some other time [:v{o=
NK NK NK..flying high, hopped up, in heaven, intoxicated, joyful, joyous, jubilant, overjoyed : on something? [:v{o= , nay, just kiddin'!!
Hahooguru jyu: did you drink that "male-mountain" charachetr bhako sake with tato tato hamachi ko gardhan?
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| Logical Sense |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 03:31 PM
NK, I did not like my initials LS(d?). First I thought you might be wondering to write LSdai, LSdidi, but nooooooooo you are heading to LSD. Ram Ram!!!! Chya Chaya.....Shiva Shiva!!!!
Huncha huncha Isololated Freakji, Mt. Everest ko barema pachi kura gaurula.
(Just a side note: Mukhale Zhou lai 'Everest Nepal ma cha' banera bhanuna lagayera Ko Khusi hune? Nepali Haru? Lata Nepali Lai Batha Chinese Le Bechera Khancha. I would be only happy if he pays the mountain climbing license fees to us when mountaineers climb from north face also. And I would be happy if International border shows that Mount Everest Peak is all in Nepal. )
Anyway, as you said, that discussion sometime later.
-iti
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| NK |
Posted
on 25-Nov-02 05:39 PM
Logical Sense, Fair enough. I won't call you by that name. kan pakade hai?
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