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NIGHTWISH - Storytime (by NuclearBlastEurope)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:09:57 +0545

NIGHTWISH - Storytime (by NuclearBlastEurope)

Even after reading all the good things people have to say about...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:12:00 +0545

Even after reading all the good things people have to say about this movie, I haven’t seen it. And thats not because I don’t like the movie, but because I love it. And I just feel good about not having seen the movie yet :)

If you come from New Baneshwor area and have office/college around Bhatbhateni/Naxal/Garidhara like...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:37:49 +0545

If you come from New Baneshwor area and have office/college around Bhatbhateni/Naxal/Garidhara like me you can aparently get away with any traffic jams or signals. You need to take this route:

Baneshwor-Anamnagar-New plaza-Kalikashathan- Charkhal - Kamalpokhari - Police Headquarter.

I’d been taking this route since last month and I haven’t seen traffic jam at all. It takes me almost 25 minute to reach office if I take maitighar-putalisadak route during 10am hour. The above route only takes 10 minute or even less.

So, I’ve found new way of cheering up if I need some break from work. Its funny how...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:14:47 +0545

So, I’ve found new way of cheering up if I need some break from work.

Its funny how people interpret songs. And this site called songmeanings.net is where you can read them all. Not a big fan though, I’d been listening RHCP’s latest album and wondered what really is the song “monarchy of roses” about.

This one’s pretty interesting:

To me it very obviously is about the Holy Rosary of Catholicism! Every lyric in this song (including the names)supports this theory. It also isn’t the first time the Peppers touch on religion…(think Shallow Be Thy Game, Wet Sand, etc.)

And this one also makes sense:

You could take this as a comment on the nation’s preoccupation with College Football.Hear me out.The first thing that clued me to this was the opening line. “Crimson Tide” is the mascot of the University of Alabama athletics. They also have some of the most passionate fans you will ever see.”Several of my friends wear the color of the crown.” This could point to friends who support different teams, indicated by the school colors they wear.”Mary wants to build it up… Sheri wants to tear it all back down.” This could point to one fan obsessively supporting a team, while another fan wants to see the team fail.”The Monarchy of Roses”, “We all want the rose, you know.” What team does not want to go on to win the Rose Bowl.Anyway, that’s one thought I had on it.

And here’s another interesting/funny one:

the song is about anthony’s love for motorcycles and it is told from the perspective of driving through LA with different people. “several of my best friends wear the colors of the crown”

So basically, when everyone loves a song, it doesn’t really have to mean anything specific. Its good as long as it sounds good.

So the Biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:48:05 +0545

So the Biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for “young woman” into the Greek word for “virgin,” which was a pretty easy mistake to make, since there is only a subtle difference in the spelling. But back then it was the “virgin” that caught people’s attention. It’s not every day a virgin conceives and bears a son. So you keep that for a couple of hundred years, and the next thing you know, you have the Holy Catholic church.
-Franky Four Fingers

fuckyeahmovieposters: Chinatown

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:25:14 +0545

fuckyeahmovieposters:

Chinatown

suicideblonde: Fight Club

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:12:00 +0545

suicideblonde:

Fight Club

Before you come to any conclusion, please understand that its an...

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:36:50 +0545

Before you come to any conclusion, please understand that its an advertisement for Mr. Leggs from ummm, i don’t know, maybe 1970s. It reads following:

Though she was a tiger lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her. That noble styling sure soothes the savage heart! If you’d like your own doll-to-doll carpeting, hunt up a pair of these he-man Mr. Leggs slacks. Such as our new automatic wash wear blend of 65% “Dacron” and 35% rayon-incomparably wrinkle-resistant. About $12.95 at plush-carpeted stores.

I almost stopped watching movies at home now. I haven’t return the DVDs that I rented 6 months...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:39:09 +0545

I almost stopped watching movies at home now. I haven’t return the DVDs that I rented 6 months ago and I’m not sure if I already watched all of them.The old man in DVD store is probably going to kill me or maybe he forget about those DVDs. I seem too busy.

I don’t understand why do some people work too much. Some people work literally all the time. For instance, this teacher in my school, he teaches there in the morning and then work as a full time software developer in another company. That why they are either too fat or too skinny. Both physically and mentally. Instead of start working at 6 am in the morning they should spend some time reading newspaper or maybe doing some exercise. They’d maybe then realize that its bad to make of joke or every question a student asks. They’d maybe then realize that a teacher actually need to know how to ‘teach’, being expert on the subject isn’t just enough.

After bashing college education for a long time I’ve started to realize that its not all that bad. Its actually a good thing.

Well, the second paragraph is about this particular teacher who teaches all sorts of programming language in my school. He never answers a question straight, without ridiculing the student who asks the question. Like:

Student: Can we do it like this sir?

Teacher: Who said you can do that?

Source: spokeart

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:08:17 +0545

Source: spokeart

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Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:52:47 +0545

I thought I turned 23 until yesterday but I wasn’t sure. So I sat with my sisters to calculate...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:38:00 +0545

I thought I turned 23 until yesterday but I wasn’t sure. So I sat with my sisters to calculate and it turned out I actually turned 24. I felt better because 24 is better than 23:) I almost hate being young. I hate it when people say ‘you’re young’. Sometimes I wish I were like 28 or so. I know it might sound like that little 3 years old daughter of my friend who thinks she is not a kid but ‘ठुलो मान्छे’ but its not like that; 24 is not young. Not that I’m desperate to get married and have kids all that but when I see my friends who are like 28 or so, I feel like I have long way to go. I’ll have to wait 4 more years to be 28 but then they’ll be 32 :) I just envy being older.

People say, being young is easier than being old, being young means you can get away doing few things, you have few responsibilities and all. I hope they are wrong because I don’t think I can handle anything else. I’m already overused :)

There are few things I wish to do before I turn 25. I want to grow my company to 8 people. We’re 4 now(going to be 5 next week). I want to fall in love for real once again. I want to get out of college. I was to learn to play flute. I want to get an Iphone. And I want to learn to speak french. Of course I’m not going to be able to do all of these but I’m looking forward to all of these things.

And there are few more things. Like buying all the albums of Kutumba, bungee jumping, getting vintage movie posters of Taxi Driver and Pulp Fiction. I wanted to do these things since I was 22 but I haven’t been able to do them for no reason at all.

And then there always are those bigger things I want to do in my lifetime.

I saw my Facebook wall the other day and I was overwhelmed. There were a lot of birthday wishes. My friend said people love everyone on their birthdays but I believe that people love me all the time :)

Mt.Everest: Not My Pride

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:04:00 +0545

Appa Sherpa has scaled the Mt. Everest for more times than any other in the world. He once again made it to the summit in his latest adventure just some weeks ago.

Yeah, it’s a matter of pride to reach up to the highest point of the earth’s landmass. Only few can achieve this feat and so far, Sherpas have excelled on this regard.

Mt. Everest has been hailed as a national pride and Nepalis boast it as their ‘only identity’ to get them known in the outer world. Mt. Everest along with Buddha and once a term ‘Heroic Gorkhali’ has long been a symbol of ‘national identity and pride’. After the so called ‘abolition’ of monarchy, Mt. Everest has even replaced the king in the front face of the currencies.

But, I don’t conform to this idea. I believe, only those things that we (can) create, make, invent are our true pride. We didn’t build Mt. Everest, we didn’t invent it, we didn’t create it, we didn’t make it. It’s a thing the nature gave us gratis. Not a single drop of sweat is shed for it. No labour, no wise minds, no technology, no other forms of human excellencies. It’s given us FREE and we Nepalis are ‘exploiting’ it for our advantage. It’s half-witted to boast a thing that we never laboured for, but got gratis.

France prides itself on Eiffel Tower. Malaysians pride on their economic boom, big cities and structures they constructed in past 20 years, including once the world’s highest twin-tower of Kuala Lumpur. People of Dubai boast ‘Burj Dubai’ and the city itself. America boasts it’s space technology and skyscrapers (most famously decades-old Empire State Building and until 2001, twin WTC towers) in New York. Likewise, Indians see their pride heightened on Taj-Mahal and Bollywood. UK boasts it’s Tower Bridge, Stonehenge and Westminster. Blitzing Bangkok is Thailand’s pride. And so on…

It’s not that they don’t have any such natural wonders that they really could rely upon to be proud of. But, the thing is that it’s ridiculous to boast natural things that we’ve given ‘free’.

What’ve we made so we, as other aforementioned countries, get ourselves proud on? Nothing. Nothing yet. Beautifully crafted temples and other artistic wonders in Kathmandu have now become a history. We could have boasted our ancient artistic treasures, because, so far, I think we’ve not yet excelled in scientific and technological fronts. But, no such treasures are now intact. They have already turned decrepit.

We couldn’t even save the beauty of ancient Kathmandu. Sprawling suburbs have already cast a blight on the beauty of the once beautiful city.

This is worst that we take things, our ancestors left for us, for granted and that’s why our ancient treasures have fallen into a state of dilapidation or devastation.

Let’s achieve a remarkable feat, like those nations did with theirs, so we could exude our pride. Let’s not make Mt. Everest a ”scapegoat” for our pride. Set this poor thing free and let’s go for a hunt for a feat that could represent our pride. Mt. Everest has been so ”easy and free way” to get ourselves known in the outer world. It’s a matter of gross shame to present Mt. Everest forth to veil our notorious poverty and incompetence.

I know, Mt. Everest is one of the greatest natural wonders but linking it to one’s pride is just absurd and I don’t pounce on it.

Moreover, exact location of Mt. Everest is disputed. Both China and Nepal had been claiming Mt. Everest lies in their territory.

So, I don’t preen myself on the Mt. Everest. Until and unless we Nepalis achieve any remarkable feat, it’s just a thick idea to pride ourselves on such poor thing. For me, it’s just a mountain, no such thing of pride.

-Copied from a friends blog without his permission.

It was published in his blog on June 7th. Just wanted to share it. Can’t point you to his blog for some reason.

So, I was wondering what have we really made here of which we can be proud of? Literally nothing? I am not a cynic nor I whine all the time. I always fight people who go abroad and talk there-is-nothing-in-nepal things. I even refused to go abroad when my people suggested. I am actually the one who prefers to say “We are yet to make something of which we can be proud of” rather than to say ” we don’t have anything to be proud of” because the first one sounds less pessimistic. But sometimes I am so hopeless that I can’t take it anymore.

I can no longer be calm saying “we are yet to choose a new prime minister after 5 prime ministerial election” while the fact is “We could not choose the prime minister even after 5 prime ministerial election”. I can not stop laughing at incompetent CPN-UML for their Tatastha drama and I can not stop feeling sorry for Maoist for not being able to win other political parties heart even after being largest party in constitutional assembly with tremendous support from the public. And I can not stop feeling sorry for them for their internal war on the superiority. I am starting to feel that CPN-Maoist is going to be another CPN-UML in next few years.

And above of all, I can not stop feeling sorry for us, Nepalese people, for being fucked up by these so called leaders since last 60 years in the name of democracy. I am not counting thousands of years before that because they never promised anything to the people which is a lot better than not giving anything that is promised.

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:29:00 +0545

Firefox is awesome software. I haven’t used any other browser since I came to know about this but it started working differently lately. One of the most important features I like about Firefox is that I can simply type in the search term in the address bar and it takes me to the Google search page. And if I am lucky enough with my search term, it actually takes me to the actual web page I am looking for. But it is taking me to ask.com search result since some days. It’s just too unfair.When I type “yahoo answers” it doesn’t directly takes me to answers.yahoo.com anymore.It rather takes me to a crappy search result page of Ask.com. I am sure I didn’t configure it in that way, I wasn’t even sure that Ask.com still exists until this incident. I remember upgrading Firefox few days ago. Now I suspect that Firefox itself is the culprit. May be they have changed their default search provider. But I wonder why would they want to do that. Do they really think people still use any other search engine than Google? Or does Ask.com pay them more than Google does? I doubt that.

I would rather use Internet Explorer with Google rather than using Firefox with fucking ask.com.

Everything else except Firefox was fair to me last week. Weekend was especially very good. I met some new people and had fun with all of them. Things went unexpectedly/surprisingly good with some of them ;)

I am going to quit my day job to concentrate on my studies. Well, that’s could be a lie :)...

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:32:00 +0545

I am going to quit my day job to concentrate on my studies.

Well, that’s could be a lie :) I’m moving on to something else.

I know this announcement is going to drive some of your crazy, I’ve already received some hate mails(almost) from some of my well-wishers ;). They can’t simply understand why would I want to quit a very well paid, respected job while I can do both(work and study) side by side. But people,let me tell you how my typical days goes:

- Wake up at 6:30.
- work on the t-shirt site and a pet site for about 1.5 hour.
- go college at 8:30
- off to office at 11:00
- return home at 7:00
- work on other projects for another about 3 hours(dinner in between)
- sleep at 11:30

If you calculate Its like 16 hours including college. College is the hardest thing I’m doing now. I already have 3 backpapers from my first semester. If it goes like this I’ll have 18 backpapers when I leave college. I will have granddaughters teaching me writing those papers. So If I sleep 7 hours then that will be 23 hours. I spend 1 hour that is left on bathroom. Seriously ;)

See? Don’t you feel sorry for me? I am working too much. I literally work all the time except those 7 hours at night and 1 hour at bathroom. I work in the morning, I work all over the day and I work in the night until I sleep.

College initially was never really that important but I’ve changed my mind. I have already paid for almost half of the college duration so I just can’t let go of that money. Its just few hours in the morning. If I take all the classes it won’t be hard . I can still maintain hundreds of other things after college for money. Even though I have a very well paid day job (at least for my level) I am not too busy there. So I won’t miss it much I think. The thing is, I like to feel very important if I am working on something and I can let go of the position where I am not really important. In other word I am not completely happy about my current work.

I won’t be doing any day job for next one and half year after this.

Chat with a random girl

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:23:00 +0545

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Girl: Ok cool, hey I need to go
Me: ok, take care
Girl: you too
Me: hey wait, I think I know you
Girl: how come?
Me: Did you parents have a restaurant in Kupandol?
Girl: nope, never
Me: Oh, wrong call. sorry
Me: lol
Girl: what now?
Me: Nothing, I am laughing at myself
Girl: laughing at yourself? because the same old trick to impress a girl didn't work?
Me: Hey, not really. I remembered a girl named Silpa who used to live around you place and her parents had a restaurant near my college in kupandol, I wouldn't want to impress just a random girl I met in a chat room
Girl: A guy wouldn't want to impress an attractive girl?
Me: Of course I would want to impress an attractive girl but a 'random' girl I met in a chat room won't be attractive by any means..
Girl: ok fine, really got to go, take care
Me: take Care

tales of two girls

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:08:00 +0545

A friend of mine returned from Malaysia last week. She was about to go India right after a week. She wanted to hangout with me. So we went to places, in the evening. Thamel, New Road, Kingsway and other places. In 3 short meetings, she tried to make me realize that I am living in hell. And that we don’t know how to live and that we’re so backward and many other things. She did not directly that that of course but she tried. She is my friend, so I hate to say that I hate the people who act like they belong to some other country just because they’ve spent some time there and whine about how bad the country is how bad is it going to be. She’d been in Lankawi for barely one year and when she returned Nepal, she was saying “things are not like this in ‘her’ place”. As if that is where she belongs.

She is not the only one actually. I have many friends living in USA, Australia and other country. Everytime they come down here, they not only whine about the situation here but curse us for our bad waste management sytem, for the traffic problem, for lack of water and for the political system. They curse us for giving them hard time during their a month long visit.

“Poor Nepalese are never going to learn these things.”.

That is the exact line she said.

I wanted to say that why don’t you brilliant minds just stay in Nepal and manage the waste properly, make roads and get into politics and make it better? Otherwise why don’t you just forget about us? Just stay where you are and serve your ‘place’. Isn’t it your duty to make it better if you call yourself Nepalese citizen? You could at least just let it be if you can’t do anything. But I am too nice to say that to a girl in her face :)

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And about my ex-girlfriend. Her result published yesterday. She called me to ask if I could help her to see the result. I was in theater so I didn’t answer. Then when movie finished and I came out of theater I called her to ask whats the matter, she said her result is published but she doesn’t want my help. She said her friends will help her. And also said that It doesn’t really matter to me whether she passes or not. And out of nowhere she made fun of my bad habits and said that I’ll loose everything in my life someday. That didn’t hurt me. That rather made me wonder had I really been with the right girl for last 3 years and had I really known her? I still have the line “I am in love with the probably the sweetest girl” in my blog’s header.

So, I watched the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. Being grown up in a village I got access to...

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:26:00 +0545

So, I watched the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. Being grown up in a village I got access to Hollywood movies only after coming to Kathmandu for high school (I rarely missed any Nepalese movie though when I was in last grades of school). Its been 6 years and for the last 1 year I’ve been watching all the classics and critically acclaimed movies.( Btw, I actually bought the DVD, not rented, and for full NRS. 200).

So Pshycho, I found the movie just like any other drama movie until Marion reaches Norman’s motel.I loved their conversation during the dinner, the way Norman talks sometimes quite romantic and very angry. And then it blew me up with the famous shower scene. This must be one of the very rare scenes on any film that actually scared me. I saw the same scene at least 5 times and I want to see it again and again.

But, besides the shower scene I didn’t see anything special when I first saw the move. It starts from an ordinary crime drama to a incredible gory murder scene and then an awesome psychological story but then I’ve seen that all the time. And then I wondered how can a movie that is called masterpiece all over the world looks just another Psycho thriller to me? As I said I’d been watching all the highly rated classics all the time, I find some of them just average. I never appreciated these movies like RGV appreciates Pshycho except for few movies like Pulp Fiction, Sin City, reservoir dogs. I mean of course I enjoy these movie but I just don’t find them as incredible as others do. Only after I read that article by RGV on psycho, then realized the reason. The reason I do not find these movies as incredible as others find is that there have been made hundreds of clones of these movies. I have definitely seen more than 5 other movies on the same story as psycho and with equally brilliant techniques. Its simple, when you’re happy about the present you forget the history.

I watched Psycho once again after reading RGV’s article on the movie. Now I realize why Hitchcock is talked about so much and then I agreed pshycho is one of the best movies I’d ever seen.

the breakup, unwanted exams and my goddamn eyes

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:53:16 +0545

Big news!

I broke up with the girl whom I was seeing since last three years. It was supposed to be a mutual breakup but few days after the breakup she blamed me and said that I betrayed her. Had I know that she’d say such irresponsible thing, I would have never get involved with her in the first place. Because both of us thought we’re done with each other and we do not have the wonderful future we imagined earlier. In these 3 year, this is the first time, she’d said something bad at all. Otherwise she was probably the finest woman I’ve ever known. Needless to say that I’m very frustrated and am unable to realize whether we did good or bad.We’ve been in on and off relationship in the past but this one very much looks the final breakup. Sometimes things changes so suddenly you don’t even realize how much you’re going to get hurt the other day.

Exams.. gawd, I had to give up college rather than the girl (which were not options for each other unfortunately). I skipped exam again which I’d skipped in the first semester. I choose to not to sit in rather than being clueless and leave the exam hall within half an hour or probably try to cheat in which I’m really bad.My sisters had no idea what I’m doing. They wanted to shout at me but they don’t anymore. But I know what I’m doing, so chill! Yes, I do know what I’m doing.

All things are coming together, all the bad things. First breakup, and then the exam, my bikes having problem again(and i don’t have time to take it to the mechanics) and my eyes are hurting. I went to the hospital last week and had been putting some drops. But I can easily forget all kind of schedules like exam schedule(did I say that I forget date of one of the paper of my board exam last semester?), medicine schedule etc. I’ve been forgetting to use the eye drops almost everyday, no wonder my eyes are taking ages to be alright. I feel like some bugs into my eyes but there’s nothing.

So, as I said in my earlier post, I’ve been listening quite a lot of South Asian rock/fusion...

Mon, 31 May 2010 21:09:00 +0545

So, as I said in my earlier post, I’ve been listening quite a lot of South Asian rock/fusion bands including Indian Ocean, Agnee, Junoon and artists like Ali Azmat, Rabbi Shergill. All these are great musicians but I can’t stop listening Agnee these days. These two tracks, “Shadho Re” and “Kabira” are SUPER songs. Both are based in Kabir’s Dohas(poems). Kabir was 15th century mystic poet. What makes the songs very ecstatic is the lyrics of the song and voice of Mohan . Everytime I hear these lines I get goosebumps. Here are few lines of the songs:

“Saat Janam ke Sat Pher hai
saanp sidhi hai bhai
yam ka dand mund mein lage
dhari rahe chaturai”

Not that I am into religious philosophies and all that but there is something amazing in this line which makes me listen this song again and again.

Sadho Re is about Death if I’ve understood it correctly. And the death is nothing but “change”. It explains how simple Death is and inevitable it is. Everyone and everything in the world has to die and nothing can escape this system. Only one thing that remains is the name of the substance. Here’s the lyrics:

Sadho Re, Ye Murdo Ka Gaanv

peer mare, paigambar mari hain
marr gaye hain zinda jogi.
raja mari hain, praja ,ari hain
mari hain vaid aur rogi.

chanda mari hain, suraj mari hain
mari hain dharti aakasa.
chaudah bhuvan ke chaudhri mari hain
in hoon ki ka aasa.

nau hoon mari hain, dus hoon mari hain,
mari hain sahaj athaasi.
tetis koti devata mari hain
badi kaal ki bazi

naam anam anant rehat hai
duja tatva na hoi
kahe kabir suno bhai sadho
bhatak maro mat koi

This song roughly translates to:

Oh Good Men, this is the Village of the Dead

The Saints Have Died, The God-Messengers Die
The Life-Filled Yogis Die Too
The Kings Die, The Subjects Die
The Healers and the Sick Die Too

The Moon Dies, The Sun Dies
The Earth and Sky Die Too
Even the Caretakers of the Fourteen Worlds Die
Why Hope For Any of These

The Nine Die, The Ten Die
The Eighty Eight Die Easily Too
The three humdred and thirty million Devas Die
It’s a Big Game of Time

The Un-Named Name Lives Without Any End
There is No Other Truth
Says Kabir Listen Oh Good Men
Don’t Get Lost and Die

Kabir’s song are sung by many other artists including Indian Ocean, Kumar Gandarv, Jagjit Singh etc.