पैसा र सुख

'Who said money can't buy happiness?' निकुन्ज दिदिले भन्नु भयो 'आज मैले दुइवटा सल पाँए र म एकदम खुशी छु।दुई वटा नचलाइएक सलहरुलाई फेरी रङ र बुट्टा भरेर पुरनो सलहरुलाई नयाँ बनाएपछी उहाँले त्यस्तो भन्नु भएको थियो।


यसोदा दिदीले 'Sometimes money buy happiness' भन्न नपाउँदै गितिका दिदिले 'Money can buy happiness almost every time' भनिहाल्नु भयो।

पैसाले कहिले सुख दिन्छ त कहिले काही दु:ख। साँच्चै यो पैसा भन्ने कुरा, हुँदा पनि नहुने नहुँदा पनि नहुने चिज रहेछ।

बाघ र बुवा

यो घटना हामीलाई बुवाले एकदम हाँसो उठ्दो पाराले घरमा सुनाउनु हुन्छ। म त यती हास्छु कि मेरो जहिले पनि यो घटना सुन्दा पेट दुख्छ।

एक पल्ट हाम्रो बुवा गाउँ ( संखुवासभा)बाट काठमाण्डौ आ उँदा तुम्लिङ्टार एअरपोर्टमा मान्छेहरुले बाघको बच्चा समातेका रहेछन् । अनी उनिहरुले त्यो बाघ लाई के गर्ने भनेपछी काठमाण्डौ पुगाउने भनेर एक जनाको जिम्मा लगाएर पठाउने निर्णय गरी बुवा सँग पठाउने भएछन् । उनिहरुले एअरपोर्टमा हाम्रो मान्छे आँ उछ भनेको हुनाले बुवाले पनि ल म पुर्याइदिन्छु भन्नु भएछ।

काठमाडौं एअरपोर्टमा ओर्लिदा त कोही पनि आएनछ। त्यो शनिबार को दिन् रहेछ। बुवाले अब के गर्ने भनेर त्यो बाघ को बच्चालाई डेरामा ल्याउनु भएछ।त्यो पनि ट्याक्सीमा। बुवाले त्यो बाघलाई भोक लाग्यो भनेर बिस्कुट र दुध खान दिनु भएछ। आईतवार पनि छुट्टी भएकोले त्यो दिन पनि दुध र बिस्कुट खुवाउँदै पाल्नु भएछ।

सोमबारको दिन बिहानै ट्याक्सीमा फेरी बन बिभागमा पुर्याउन लग्नु भएछ। तर बन बिभागको मान्छेहरुले एता लानु उता लानु भनेर हैरान बनाएछ। बुवा त बाघलाई बोक्दा बोक्दा दिक्क लगेर बाघ लाई त्यही छोडेर हिंड्नु भएछ। बुवा हिढ्दा हिड्दै भन्दै थियो रे" ए ए कस्तो मान्छे रहेछ। पर्खिनुस् त" केही नसुनी उहाँ फर्किनु भएछ।

आर जे अनी एफ.एम

'तपाइको मनपर्ने लेखक को हो?'
'लक्ष्मी प्रसाद देवकोटा'
'लक्ष्मी प्रसाद देवकोटा को किताब पढ्नु भएको छ?'
'पढेको छु'
'हेर्दा त पढ्नु भएको जस्तो देखिनु हुन्न नि!''साँचिकै तपाईं किताब पढ्नुहुन्छ?'
'पढ्छु'
'तपाइको मन पर्ने गीत कुन हो?'
'.....''यो हाम्रोनै गीत हो'

' ए तपाईं गीत पनि गाउँनु हुन्छ?'
'हाम्रो ब्यान्ड छ र म गीतार बजाउँछु'
'मान्छे चाँही बजाउनु हुन्न?'
'त्यस्तो होइन'
'हेर्दा त मान्छे बजाउनु हुन्छ जस्तो छ नि!!'


यो संवाद अस्ती को व हत पुस्तक प्रदर्शनी मा कान्तिपुर एफ.एम ले गरेको लाईभ कुराकानी हो। यस्तो प्रकारको संवादमा श्रोताहरुले कस्तो प्रतिकृया दिने?

'I found a note book'

I got chance to learn many things in documentation centre beside my work. Books became my teachers and a window to peep the world.

I visited Singapore, Canada,remote parts of the village through those books in Documentaion Centre.

One day, as usual days I was organising the books, I found a note book. I became curious towards this document because it was hand written.Otherwise all the books are printed.

The other factor that attracted me to look this particular note book was the beautiful handwriting of the writer and the language.

When,I scrolled down my eyes to this note book I found its language very interesting.The language is very direct. We can feel Nepali sound while reading it.The grammars are not correct( Although I am weak in English I could feel it).

Later I came to know the name of writer. Her name is Archana Thapa. She was a married women which I came to know after reading her notes. Where is she? What is she doing? I don't know anything about her.

But the message of the notes are very important to us as they reflect our real society.

A part of her notes goes like this:

Nov 20th Thursday
Female,18 Yrs, Kumal, Barah Gaon

[she is daughter of Dhan Bahadur Kumal]

She is studying in class 8.Before she got typhyoid thats why she was delayed in her study. In her class there are 79 students. Out of them 12 are Kumal. Her sister is studying in class 7 and in her class there are 35 Kumal. When I asked her about reason of decresing number of Kumal Students in higher class. She told one of the main reason is due to early marriage. Boys and girls at 7/8 class get marriage ownself(elope)then leave school. She said such kind of social disconstruction was in practice in her society since long ago.She told but her parents don't want to marry her soon. They always encourage her to study & they had told her they would expense in her study even by selling land,She told although her mother is illiterate if they didn't study she scold them.

on my question about behavior of teacher with Kumal Students, she told their teacher never encourage them.Bahun Chhetri students are good in studies than Kumal because they don't have to do household work like them.Also they take extra tution,coaching.But Kumal can not afford extra money on tution, coaching. Bahun Chhetri students understand lesson easily but kumal students are dull $ can't understand their lesson.But they don't tell their teacher about this due to fear and shame because otherwise teacher scold them . Their teacher usually scolded them saying"when can we improve by teaching rotten like you".and also says"what will you do by study,you can't do anything". She said .so she doesn't like them she said.

One time her Bahun chhetri friends told why they kumal comes school.They don't study. They (kumal) come only to disturb them.Then she discussed with her kumal friends and they together quarreled with them saying why they (Bahun,Chhetri)come in Kumal area, go in their own area. After this they hesitate to speak ill of Kumals.

She said nowadays Kumal are improving in education.4 Kumal are studying certificate level outside from Naukilo.

My Orchids

I got a new orchid plant, in my list of orchid collection this month. I must thank to Am dai who brought me orchid although it is hybrid, from Illam, a place famous for orchids.

Now I have seven different kinds of orchid in my home.

The first orchid is from the Dakshin Kali which I bought it in Rs 30. It grows in a pot. When it bloomed for the first time, I didn't like it becoz of very small size. Its size was similar to paddy's flower.But it bloomed very nice this year. The flower's were so attractive ,white flowers.

Second one is from a temple near home. It was an one year ago when I visited that temple, a huge tree was lying in the way to the temple. and it was covered with orchid plants. I took it out from there and brought a lot at home. It hasn't bloomed yet but I have seen its flowers. It's colour is dark purple.

Third and Fourth, It was also brought by a friend of mine from Sankhuwasava last year. I like to thank him as well. One one of the orchid bloomed in the same year. It's colour is light purple and it is growing tender leaves these days.Other plant is in the stage of 50 -50. I don't know wheather it survives or not.

Fifth and Sixth, I bought it from new road. The plants were so shiny when I bought it but it is also in the stage of 50- 50.

Seventh is from Am dai. I don't know about its flower.There are four buds in it. I think It blooms next week.

My Dream about Orchid

• To collect as many orchid as possible and make orchid farm especially of non hybrid orchids.

I wish I had a digital camera with high power of Zoom lens so that I could capture all the flowers and show all of u.

Old, New Laptop

I am posting this article through new laptop. Actually it is old but new to me. This laptop is donated by two Canadian Volunteers before they left Nepal. May be it is outdated laptop in Canada.

But it is new for our office and me becoz the old laptop was very old. I think it is of 60s!!! The screen was so conjusted and fonts were...... Leave it.Past is past.

I always have to work in Documentation centre so they provided me this laptop. There is no desktop computer in Documentation Centre. Although I am only for few days in this office,this will be my laptop until I work here.

Time to work!! otherwise the scolding of supervisor.

The search about this laptop in google

Compaq EVO N1000c Pentium-IV 1.7 GHz
Intel Pentium 4 - 1.7GHz Mobile Processor / 256MB RAM memory / 30gig Hard Drive / 15" TFT LCD / DVD/CD+RW Combo DriveWiFi is included / 56k Modem for dialup / 10/100 LAN for Cable/ DSL / Integrated Sound with dual JBL speakers16 Million True color graphics / Both Touchpad & Trackpoint Mouse / Ports: - 1x earphone, mic - 2x USB Port - 1x LPT (Printer port) 1x SVideo out port - 1x VGA Out for external monitor (HD-15) - 1x Infra Red - 2x PCMCIA Slots Working Battery / Compaq AC Adapter/charger / Windows XP-Professional Installed

The search of old laptop in google

Compaq Evo N160
Pros
Slimline design
Solid performance.
Cons
No built-in wireless networking or infrared connectivity
Only one PC Card slot.

Key Specs
Processor manufacturer: Intel
Processor model: Mobile Pentium III Processor-M
Clock speed: 1 GHz
RAM installed: 128 MB
Hard drive size: 20 GB
Graphics processor: ATi Mobility Radeon
Graphics RAM: 8 MB
Display diagonal size: 14.1 in
Dimensions (W x H x D): 32.5x3.3x26.3 cm
Weight: 2.9 kg
Operating system: Windows 2000 Professional

बुद्धको किरण

आज बिहानै बुद्ध पार्क् मा घामको किरण बुद्धको पछाडि परेको हुनाले बुद्ध ले प्रकाश छर्नु भएको जस्तो देखिन्थ्यो।

कति आनन्दायि थियो त्यो क्षण, साक्षात् बुद्धले सान्ति छर्नु भएको जस्तै।

त्यति बेला मेरो मनमा एउटै कुरा आयो'यदि म सँग क्यामेरा भएको भए'

अशान्ती हुनुको एउटा कारण

यो एक महिना अगाडिको कुरा हो। मलाई स्वयम्भु मा बत्ती कसरी बाल्छ भनेर कौतुहल लागेको हुनाले तेही कौतुहल मेटाउन बत्ती बाल्ने ठाउँमा गएँ।

त्यहाँ गएर बत्ती बाल्ने एकजना महिलासँग कुरा गर्न खोजेको उनी त एकदम रिसाइन्।किन रिसाइन त्यो त थाहा भएन।अनी म त्यहाँ बाट हिंडे।

तल आएँ। त्यहाँ पनि बत्ती बल्ने ठाउँ रहेछ। यहाँ चाँही मज्जाले सोध्नु पर्‍यो भनेको त बत्ती बाल्ने बुढा मान्छे त एकदम रिसायो।

त्यस पछी मलाई के लाग्यो भने नेपाल मा शान्ति नआउनुको एउटा कारण बत्ती बाल्नेहारुले रिसाएर बत्ती बाल्नु पनि हो जस्तो लाग्यो।

२०६४ को तिहारलाई स्वागत अनी बाइ बाइ

तिहार पनि हिजो बाट सुरु भयो। हिजो काग तिहार। खोइ काग को पूजा पनि गरिएन!! कागले ल्याउने समाचार अब त फोन र ईन्टरनेटले ल्यैहाल्छ।

अनी आज कुकुर तिहार। घरमा कुकुर छैन तर आमा ले भुस्या कुकुर लाई पूजा गरेर खाना दिनुहुन्छ कि थाहा छैन।

भोली चै रमाइलो हुन्छ। देउसी खेल्न जानुपर्छ। तर देउसी खेलेर पैसा कमाउने चाँही होइन, पैसा तिरेर आउनु पर्छ। हाम्रो लोहोरुङ समुदाय ले सामुहिक देउसी खेल्छ। हामी लोहोरुङ हरु भेला हुन्छौ अनी गीत गाउँदै नच्दै पैसा उठाएर लोहोरुङ्हरुको कोषमा जम्मा गर्छौ।

यसपाली तिहारमा म्यारिज खेल्ने भनेको खोइ के हुन्छ हेरौ। दशै मा त सिक्दा सिक्दै राम्ररी खेल्न पनि पाइएन। सिक्नु बित्तकै खेल्दा पैसा पनि हारिदो रहेछ।

तिहार को रौनक त मज्जाले नै छाएको छ। टि.भी , रेडियो, एफ.एम मा तिहारको धुन पनि बज्न थालि सकेको छ। एक दुई लाइन भए पनि ब्लग लाई तिहारमय बनाउनु पर्‍यो नि। कि कसो??

भईलेनी आयौं आँगन

बढारी कुढरी राखन

हे औंसी को दिन

गाइतिहार भईलो

भन मेरा भाई हो

देउसिरे

राम्ररी भन

देउसी रे

स्वर मिलाई भन

देउसी रे

मलाई त यती मात्र आउँछ!!!

About grandfather again

Today, early in the morning my mom came to our room and started weeping. She said,'My father is ill and he is paralysed'.

My whole body freezed by hearing this and I became blank for a moment.

We came to know that our grand father is hospitalized in Dharan and my uncles are taking him India for treatment.

I immediately remembered the post of my article about him few days back and questioned to myself what was that??

कविता

मलाई कविता लेख्न मन पर्‍यो
साँच्ची मलाई कविता लेख्न मन पर्‍यो
कविता त मैले नलेखेको होइन
दुई तीन वटा जती लेखेको छु
सानै उमेर मा लेखर के भो
मैले मेरो कवितामा मन को बह पोखेको छु
आज फेरी कविता लेख्न मन पर्‍यो
त्यही भएर त यो कविता लेखिरहेको छु
र मेरो मन को बह पोखिरहेको छु।

नेपाली मा ब्लग सुरु

मलाई आज एक दमै खुशी लगिरहेको छ किनभने आज म नेपालीमा मेरो ब्लगमा पोस्ट गर्दै छु। मलाई नेपाली मा पोस्ट गर्न त पहिले देखी नै मन परेको हो तर कसरी पोस्ट गर्ने थाहा थिएन। मैले मेरो दाई अशिश लाई सोधेको पनि हो तर मैले बुझिन। म कम्प्युटर को नन् फ्रेन्डली युजर हो। मलाई कम्प्युटर चलाऊद धेरै कठिनाई हरुले सता उछ । तर अचम्म लाग्ने कुरा चाँही मेरो कम्प्युटर मा जहिले पनि A आ उछ ।

अर्चना दिदी को blogsite मा भएको युनिकोड मा गएर थाहा पाये। अनी अशिश ले' त्यहाँ लेखेको लाई त copy paste गर्ने हो 'भने पछी बल्ल बुझे। अनी त कहिले नेपाली मा post गरु गरु जस्तो लाग्यो।

मलाई नेपाली एक दम मन पर्छ किनभने म स्कुल मा हुँदा नेपाली मा कहिले पनि फैल भ इन। नेपाली मा फेल हुने स्टुडेन्ट धेरै हुन्थे। 40 जना मा १३, १४ जना मात्र pass हुन्थ्यौ।

तर आज फर्स्ट टाईम पोस्ट गरेको हुनाले होला, अफ्ट्यारो पनि लागिरहेको छ र साथ् साथै रमाइलो पनि।

Man Bahadur Majhya: My Maternal Grandfather

My mom is fond of telling her childhood days to me becoz we spent so much time in Kitchen as compared to my brothers and sister.

I remember every incident that she start to tell from its first line of starting. But I have to listen her as enthusiastically as I am hearing for the first time. She scolds if I didn't listen to her. If not, she says now you are big enough not to listen to me. No body cares to me as I cared all of u so much.

She tells about her father, mother, sister, brother,Kaka, kaki, phupu, boju and the villagers which she remembers.

My grandfather had a large joint family. He had 5 brothers and 3 sisters. He took all the responsibilities to grow them up. He was the second son but he fulfilled as a role of first son.
My grandfather's eldest brother was an Indian army so he stayed out of home all the time. My mom said that he didn't like the job of 'Majhya' to collect all the revenue of that area and give to government. so he asked my grandfather to do all those jobs.

My great grandfather, Prashad Majhya was a drunkard so he couldn't do his jobs as 'Majhya'. My great great grandfather was a successful Majhya so he taught my grandfather to do all the jobs of Majhya in the village. After the death of my great great grandfather my grandfather at the age of 16, took all the responsibilities of majhya.

My great grandfather left my grandfather in so much debt. But by his effort, he paid all those debt and kept his family a happy family.

I know only the surface part of his life. But he is more than what I know about him. He is a real social worker. He has contributed a lot for his village'Madi in sankhuwasava'.
Some of the contributions are:

• Established a school in Panchayat system. There was only two school in whole Sankhuwasava district at that time. And one was in his village
• He is the one to establish water mill in the village.
• He brought electricity in the village
• He along with my grandmother ( keshar maya jimee) started kitchen garden for vegetable for the first time in the village
• He started Cardamom or Elainchi farming to the village. People in that area still make a lot of income with this farming
• He managed proper water system in the village
• Improved paths of the village
• Improved bridges in the rivers
• Established a boarding school in the village for the first time for good education
• Started Tea garden but couldn't succeed becoz of Maoist Problem.

Now he has only one vision that is to join the road to that village.

He is now in his early 80s but he is as active as he used to be. He is a man of simplicity. He never thought himself as a Majhya but as a man who is always ready to serve other.

I believe, he got all this success because of the contributions my grandmother made as well.