Random hits on the keyboard

The hustle and bustle of Dashain has just ended. The festival, at this age, is more about passing cultures to a new generation than buying new dresses. Dashain has been a synonym for new clothes and delicious food for years. Now, the reasons have changed. More than ever, Dashain has been evolving as a time for a family to get together - from aboard and within Kathmandu. It is a break from the cycle of emails and meetings. The lighter email check is a relief. I often wonder about the amount of time we spend on email - reading and responding. I think we all are overdoing it. Anyway, out of email and getting around temples always feels good and relaxed.  This year, Kathmandu has become less empty during Dashain but definitely was not crowded. But the temples were overly crowded - Taleju temple queue was up to Makhan, Indrachwok and bend to New Road. The devotion is impressive and devotees have a huge patience to wait for hours to visit the temples. The VIPs' visits to temples are anno...

  No! not facebook. It is not how much you drank yesterday evening, it is how much you ran this morning. 

She studies in grade 1. She knows a lot about our surroundings - differently that we knew at her age. This generation has different sets of skills. They are expressive and their accessibility to the information has become effortless. The way of education has transformed.  The project works substitute the non formal knowledge we(old generation) got from the nature.  Here are two project works this week.  The bird feeder Dessert theme project work My wife has put a lots of energy on this. For her, this is something she could not put less than her 100%. The kids projectworks are 'projects' - with objectives, deadline and knowledge. They are given to teach something to kids and keep the parents occupied and creative. The project starts with YouTube videos of how to, then shopping of needed items and the energy that go into them, oh my god, we (parents) so much look forward for the next project. To keep this whole process in a ultra positive terms ...

  And here we go.. at 05:22 am, I completed 6.25 kms in 30 minutes, with an average pace of 4.53 minutes per km. Pat on my back.

Hello! I am back to blogging today after a few weeks. The enthusiasm to write a blog brought me infront of my computer several times but I have other 'priorities' (A usual excuses). Finally, I manage time to jot down a few lines about my week - which is well spent. I have a two friends visiting Nepal from aboard. One was my former boss who is non Nepali, who is retired, who is visiting the world and who is going to everest base camp. I show him a little bit of Kathmandu - during Indra Jatra. The city was lively. He and his wife also enjoyed Newari bhoj. He is a very good story teller and here are some of his stories of his travel to the world. https://www.oskarlehnertravel.news/  And I have another friend visiting Nepal who is Nepali born, who now lives aboard - here not exactly a tourist but likes to go around tourist areas. We walked around.. a hill, a tourist site, temples and bars. I know 'bar' is bit unusual. But this was the most important a part of his visit. :) ...