There is this new Caucasian face in the bus whom we completely ignore and go about making jokes like our usual selves – we’re this raucous gang of three, four miscreants who huddle in the last two seats and make conversation on god-knows-what-not all the way home. This new face Read more
This was/is one of my silent resolutions of 2010. Amidst all the hype with the new venture dead centre in Kathmandu, I had my mind set on boycotting the eatery! Why? This resolution gained ground, primarily because I did not want to pay a shit load for Brazilian chicken KFC supposedly Read more
image via wordlink This is Worldlink’s pitch for a VOIP solution -“World Call” that it launched time ago. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the hoarding board on a rooftop in New baneswor, – “What a crappy piece of advertisement!” The slogan “The feel of BEING Read more
Naturally Nepal: a little bit of irony never hurt via http://www.whynepal.com/ I didn’t get the joke at first but was cracking up later! Read the text I am sure you will get it too!
While declaring a “national energy crisis” in Nepal, our government green signaled a plan to develop a 200 MW thermal plant. Generating power eight hours a day for 240 days in a year, the plant will incur a yearly loss of more than Rs 5 billion (which too will be Read more
Honestly speaking, I have never been a current affairs person and matters of the state, politics in particular, has run parallel to my existence, never ever crossing paths. I turned 26 the same day the constituent assembly polls were due. I had half a mind to sleep the day off Read more
I attended the National stakeholder meeting on the “Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia” held yesterday at the Himalayan Hotel, courtesy my involvements with the South Asian Youth Environment Network (SAYEN) and the Youth for clean Air document. The Read more
With a populace mired into haplessness, because of the fuel shortage (among a lot of other shortages) in place and hence a lower amount of traffic plying on the roads, I wonder if our 58th National Democracy Day (19 February 2008) celebrations were any fanfare. I hardly saw any of Read more
This is truly a first for me, and I laughed my arse off (LMAO) when I came across this photo essay. In a conservative Nepalese society, exposing your arse in public is a definite taboo and yet five, among a handful disgruntled protestors, affiliated to “Mano kranti Abhiyan” stripped and Read more
Saturday – the laziest day of the week!! I was supposed to enjoy a lazy weekend afternoon watching Die Hard 4.0 with my friends. Being a mere fifteen minutes away from the theatre, I decided to walk the distance. Off the alley and onto the road, I realised a lot Read more