Books Are Something Different

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It’s been almost four year since I first got chance to read “Palpasa Café”. I borrowed it from my friend and finished it on one stand. In fact it was him who suggested me to read. And I would like to thank him for lending me the novel that is now one of my favourite, thank you Bnay. At that time it was in every newspaper that Narayan Wagle felicitated by Madan Puraskar for the year for his outstanding work “Palpasa Café”. I liked it so much that soon I bought one, but I lost it later. Some stupid fellow borrowed from me and never return it again. And today also I hate lending book to anyone.

Last month I finished the world best seller “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. And don’t know really what to say about it because I am not a fan of fantasy based novel. But I can definitely say that ours are not bad. Spending free time with books and being with the character at least till the book is open is simply great. I don’t know how many character I went through but it is Drishya who is still fresh in my memories. That doesn’t mean Santiago is not. I also remember mesmerizing Natasha Rostov from War and Peace, Ryan from Five Point Someone, Rishi from Tutor of History and who could forget the great Pelageia Nilovna from The Mother. Everybody wants to do something different and that is what I always try to do in my free time: New books, new character, new circumstances and nevertheless new experience. If any of you are thinking what to do in your free time then why don’t you try being with some of these character who has been so outstanding in the field of literature.

In Nepal, people always hate to read mostly youngsters. They don’t like themselves being with the bulk of books and freak themselves out. They think they don’t like to waste their precious time with books and miss a chance to enjoy with friends, movies and outings. This trend is taking us to nowhere. Just try few hours of your free time to read something and you’ll start liking it soon. You have all time in earth to be with your friends, watch movies, disco or something else and giving a piece of it to books won’t ruin your adulthood. And I’m sure that it will help you a lot later when you start working. It will help you to build yourself as a perfect person. So let’s take a break, look for a book ………… don’t find one? Sorry bro I can’t help coz I hate lending books. Why don’t you go for the bookstores? Don’t worry you will enjoy it. Just give a chance who knows you may be the one to explore the new character like Drishya, Natasha or Santiago in future.

Appolo11 & Danfe

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”That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind” the whisper from an astronaut Nil Armstrong in July 20 1969 just before he steps on the surface of moon was a dream come true for human being. We can see people celebrate this achievement in CNN and in BBC. It’s been 40 years since and now the world is preparing to repeat the history, but in Mars. But in our part of the world, seeing people dying with no medicine from Kantipur, Avenues and ABC is painful. This historic day may not count for we people who are struggling for food and medicine but for mankind it is the day of great honor and success. These achievements encourage us to dream. Once it was the moon, now it’s the mars and in future it might be…… (dream urself).

Some of we may think how we can dream of such things if we can’t even manufacture a bicycle. And it is true in some extent. But what we need is to just dream with different perspective. We used to dream for just dreaming but today let’s dream to make it true. Always remember that people used to laugh at Da Vinci when he made the picture of flying object, people depicted Laxmi Prasad Devkota insane when he dreamt of conquering moon and nobody give a damm to Wright brothers until 17th December 1903(first successful flight). And I don’t mind if somebody laughs at me reading this. Because I believe “people who don’t have dream don’t have much”. And guess what? I’m a dreamer. If their dream can be real and why can’t ours?

It is true that Nepal has never been the place of invention and discovery. Since history it has been roaming around traditions and cultures. Despite that we had made an attempt to keep pace with the world. But now it’s high time we start to walk together not just follow them. The successful test flight of Danfe in December 7, 2008 (first successful test flight of plane made in Nepal) in Pokhara is something that we must be proud of. Thank you IOE guys. Never mind that we are 105 years 11 months and 10 days behind the schedule but some day we are gonna walk together. Today we have our Danfe and one day we can build our own Apollo11. Now we are taking off just 25 meter and who knows we can be the one who will conquer Mars. If Rajendra Bhatta can work in NASA why can’t we? So guys let’s start dreaming. Who knows may be we’re the one to repeat the sentence of Nil Armstrong in Mars.

18th July, Saturday

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Yesterday I listened Yatri written by Laxmi Prasad Devkota and sung by Robin Sharma. I just listen, listen and listen. I don’t know how many times but I’m sure I listened until I was satisfied, until my thirst was quenched. The song really is second to none. Its melody always gives you the feeling of inner satisfaction and the lyrics who dare to comment hauh? I don’t know what Devkota was trying to say but for me it won’t count because I simply liked it and that’s it. I’m crazy for it.

Let’s change a topic, I remember my teacher telling us that “we don’t have any idol of whom we can be proud of and say, see I want to be like Mr.XYZ”. He means to say that there are no great people born in Nepal from whom we can take inspiration, whose philosophy can be our destination. I didn’t think a second and I agreed to him. More than that I never liked thinking about it. Ill system with hopeless administrator, this is our society. And there is no point thinking about it and wasting my time. It’s been nearly a year since we had had that lecture and nothing is changed rather it is worst. Today I want to tell my teacher isn’t Devkota the great? Can’t he be my idol? But I know idols are sweet dream, dream in a sense that when you want to visualize yourself in future just look them. And at present dream isn’t sufficient to success. So my answer won’t satisfy my teacher and I gave up the thought of meeting him and explain about my idol.

Today as a student of Purbanchal University I can do no more than listen these songs and help myself spend some time. It should have been the exam time, I should have been with my books but the notice came stating that ”due to some internal problem the exam is postponed for the time being” and I’m here with facebook, blog, movies and music. It’s already one month since I told my friends and family that I have an exam and I’m still telling them and don’t know for how many more month I should say it. I know they will surely think that I’m a maniac. And guys it’s not me who is maniac it’s the system. This ill system that point out Devkota as Lunatic and send Ranchi. So who cares about it haina ra.

Career Career Career

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Dear friends,

Last few days I was thinking about what actually we can do in Nepal. What are the fields where our future is secure, where we can pursue our dreams? This thought came to my mind when Real Madrid signed the Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo for the record breaking £80 million bid. You know it very well that we Nepali always think that medical, engineering and pilots are the only field which give us status and no doubt money also. Our parents don’t want their children to have other field in mind also. They give these careers much emphasis and pump up our mind so much that we see ourselves in a white apron with a stethoscope round our neck or flying planes. As a result a child when asked what your aim kid, then the answers simply is a doctor or an engineer or point toward the sky. And I’m not amazed in this because I too had a dream wearing white apron. And am sure that you too had the same. This is no more than the childhood fantasy. When time comes to choose our career this will count no more as it is far beyond how things are.

Recently SLC result is out and thousands of youngsters are thinking about their career. The trend of our society is that if you’ve scored distinction then you just join science, first division management, and second humanities and so on. We always make a choice of our career according to our score not with accordance to our dream. In most cases our senior decides what we should be in future. So SLC guys don’t bother about it, just go for what your parent say. This isn’t bad also as every parents want their children futures with flying colors. And I’m sure your parents also want the same. Sports, entertainment, tourism, literature, journalism, research etc that are so renowned in other country are hardly considered as a profession in Nepal. Low payment and lower status of the professional in society are the key issue that tends these job to be a low profile job in our society. So why wasting time thinking about them?

The books that are sold few thousand copies will be the Bestseller in Nepali literature and that isn’t sufficient to earn the living also. Anil Gurung being the most paid player in Nepal receives only NRS 0.32 million annually. Nepali movie made on the total budget of few million rupees aren’t sufficient to make entertainment as an industry. Comparing the stardom of global celebrities like Michal Jackson, AR Rahaman, Tom Hanks, JLo and ours is a witticism. And more than that nobody give a shit about our celebrities. Tourism though having lion’s share in our national economy isn’t risk free. Frequent strikes, unsafe and unmanaged transportation and juvenile communication system is sure to bring your tourism career to a ruin. These are the few examples of contemporary Nepal. Everything we see and everywhere we go nothing is good. Who can think of a career where 70% are unemployed and millions are flying abroad seeking jobs. So either manage yourself in medicine or engineering or find a way out of this hopeless land. Otherwise you’ll be considered as a looser here.

For those who want to fight for their career in Nepal, always remember “LIVE WELL. IT IS THE GREATEST REVANGE".

Wising for the bright and pleasant career.

R’mes
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