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Wake up world!!

azm — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:25:08 +0000

Composed by: Ashma Aryal (a.k.a. Azm)

Who is taller they ask one another
Competing to reach the sky; rest doesn’t matter
The greenery destroyed; out of sight
Glass, bricks and stones; their unlimited height
no forest not a single tree
Development they say; I don’t agree
No fresh air to breathe
Selfish people; their selfish greed
Poor innocent creatures chased away
Not even left with their home to stay
How ugly would be to think so
Wealthy ones high and the rest low
They should get back to where they belong
Realize that they’re harming others; doing the wrong
The dark areas need more emphasis
Not to focus on what already exists
We want our healthy lives back
Greenery around shouldn’t lack
Dreaming for better lives and better future
No ugly structure but be embraced by the nature

The dusk!

azm — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:56:33 +0000

Composed by: Ashma Aryal (a.k.a. Azm)

Embraced with the farewell shine,

About to fade away;

Yet with a noticeable sign,

Reminiscing the fine day;

The gentle breeze called the silent tree

Alert were all; reluctant for the beauty to leave

How long had the wait been just for her beauty

Now she’s leaving; people afraid of the sooty

The time had to come for this depart

Leaving fearful, restless human heart

No chitter-chatter was sung by the bird

Only the howling wind to be heard

People hid themselves unable to see the awful scene

How she was being swallowed by the monster green

Nothing could be done, power not enough

To destroy the beast was impossible not just tough

The darkened night gestured a star to be born

All excited to see her again in the early morn!!!

Out of words…

azm — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:10:11 +0000

Composed by: Ashma Aryal (a.k.a. Azm)

…………………………………………………….

Trying to gather the words

they seem to be falling apart

hoping it wont get worse

I get back to the start

yet to inspire me they tell

though my stupid writings dont go well

I write some lines and then erase

get lost in my word maze

again i sit and think think think

some words to srtike my mind that’d link

the same words repeat

the paper is ready to greet

I sit dumbfounded in front of the sheet

aware of nothing but the heartbeat

the door opens; distracts me

he comes over not a word can he see

confused; he stares at what I write

the blank page before me empty and white

holds my chin with a smile in his face

“i know you can do it, you’ll win the race”

and then he leaves; shuts the door

whatever I write he’ll always adore

he praises though I write real bad

I feel glad he’s beside; I love my dad!

Dream on…

azm — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:40:58 +0000

Composed by: Ashma Aryal (a.k.a. Azm)

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Somewhat like a fairy tale,

I dream on, and wish it won’t fail

Success is what I look upon

It feels awesome, just Dream on!

I wanna rise and shine

Like a true star, so fine

I don’t limit my dream just till the sky

I dream on! I wanna reach high

People around don’t bother much

They say only in fairy tales are such

I nod my head; I know it’ll come true

A day will come when all will be blue

The dream is that keeps me alive

The wonderful imagination, the wonderful life

They think I’m crazy, but I don’t turn

I live my life and just DREAM ON…

“Objectified” – Jonathan Ive talks about Mac design & Unibody MacBook manufacture

iklash — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:06:15 +0000

People to follow on twitter from Nepal

iklash — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:03:56 +0000

I was thinking to post the list some of the best tweepies from Nepal who must be followed in twitter and suddenly one of my friend posted the top 10 Nepalses you should follow if you’re into technology, so I am sharing the list here also with some additions to it. Thanks Swapnil :)

So here are the list of people you should follow on twitter.

*List in alphabetical order

Alok Thapa @aa1ok

Anjan Shrestha @anjhero

Ashma Aryal @azm002

Deep Sherchan @bexdeep

Bibek Shrestha @bibstha

Freddie Benjamin @freddie_b

Geshan Manandhar @geshan

Kailash Gyawali @iklash

Prashant Khanal @ipras

Bhupendra Khanal @leplan

Mahésh Shrestha @maheshcha

Manoj Chandi Shrestha @manojchandi

Ram Krishna Wagle @rkwagle

Swapnil Acharya @schwafnil

If you feel that you should be in this list, please comment on this post with your twitter link, it will be reviewed and the list will be updated again.

Excerpt from Life, Love, Laughter

azm — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:38:00 +0000

The child never dies in anyone. It is not that the child dies when you grow, the child remains. Everything that you have been is still within you, and will remain within you until your very last breath.
But society is always afraid of nonserious people. Nonserious people will not be ambitious for money, or political power; they would rather enjoy existence. But enjoying existence cannot bring you prestige, cannot make you powerful, cannot fulfill your ego; and the whole world of man revolves around the idea of the ego. Playfulness is against your ego—you can try it and see. Just play with children, and you will find your ego is disappearing, you will find that you have become a child again. It is not only true about you, it is true about everyone.
Because the child within you has been repressed, you will repress your children. Nobody allows their children to dance and to sing and to shout and to jump. For trivial reasons—perhaps something may get broken, perhaps they may get their clothes wet in the rain if they run out—for these small things a great spiritual quality, playfulness, is completely destroyed.
The obedient child is praised by his parents, by his teachers, by everybody; and the playful child is condemned. His playfulness may be absolutely harmless, but he is condemned because there is potentially a danger of rebellion. If the child goes on growing with full freedom to be playful, he will turn out to be a rebel. He will not be easily enslaved; he will not be easily put into armies to destroy people, or to be destroyed himself.
The rebellious child will turn out to be a rebellious youth. Then you cannot force marriage on him; then you cannot force him into a particular job; then the child cannot be forced to fulfill the unfulfilled desires and longings of the parents. The rebellious youth will go his own way. He will live his life according to his own innermost desires—not according to somebody else’s ideals.
The rebel is basically natural. The obedient child is almost dead; hence the parents are very happy, because he is always under control.
Man is strangely sick: he wants to control people—in controlling people your ego is fulfilled, you are somebody special—and he himself also wants to be controlled, because by being controlled you are no longer responsible. For all these reasons, playfulness is stifled, crushed from the very beginning, and then people become afraid of their own playfulness, afraid of “losing control.”

Dashain. Is it for everyone??

iklash — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:13:01 +0000

As well all know that Hindu’s biggest festival “Dashain” is already in along with the ending of Muslim’s Festival “Eid” and everyone is busy with shopping, eating and greeting each other. The shopping malls and roads are usually crowded with people. We are few days away from the main ceremony known as “Tika” which is also known to be as a day of taking blessing from the elders.

But, Dashain never brings good times for everyone, cause for some of them its a disaster and there is a Nepali proverb “Dashain ho ki Dasha”, so this proverb applies to some of the people. Mostly to the people who lost their relatives during the month of dashain and some just can’t fullfill the things that they need to celebrate this festival. Recently, I heard so many bad news about people who lost their relatives and now they are not supposed to celebrate this festival. And, according to the news and reports it has came into consideration that more people lost their lives when this festive season is near specially in Nepal. We can hear so many news on accidents, deaths and all during this season which has been shocking us from few past years.

Sometimes Dashain is not just a nightmare for the poor but to the well enough wealthy ones. Recently I heard a rumor regarding our rising actress “Namrata Shrestha” who started her career in modeling since 1997 and pursued her acting skills from the movie “Sano Sansar” as a lead actress. This dashain has been a nightmare for her which has effected her professional as well as her private life with the release of her sex scandal home video. I don’t have much info about it and I don’t even want to go deeper into it cause I knew her as a model and actress from last few months and I love her acting skills and as a model listed under top 5 models of Nepal. The news got so hyped and the video spread like a fire in the country that it seems like she will never get out of this trauma and there are some people who enjoy insulting someone by giving it so much importance on someone’s one mistake than 100 good things that they had done before, I personally feel that its not her mistake but its their mistake who give so much hype to this kind of things, I think they are a looser for their life. If you have seen the video, let it be, you don’t need to share it with anyone, you don’t have to promote that video and I bet that the one who spread that video over the web has ever bought her movie “Sano Sansar” DVD yet or supported her for the acting she has performed in that movie. If you cannot appreciate the good things about her then you don’t have the right to say anything bad about her also, give yourself a break people, it must has been an entertaining issue for you at this time but for her its the most difficult time of her life. If you cannot help her out of this situation then please let it be, don’t talk about it, keep that thing within yourself and don’t feel so proud that you watched that video and talk about it with your friends, STOP doing that and please try to remove the links from the web.

This post is not intended to hurt anyone but I just felt to talk about the negative side f the people who are promoting this issue all over the country. And I would like to request everyone to stop spreading this with anyone and this dashain let us all wish good luck and best wishes to Namrata Shrestha for her future and hope everything comes back to normal in her life as it was before.

And finally, I would like to wish all my readers a very Happy Vijaya Dashami.

Travel & Ticketing Agents in Nepal sucks and why the companies in Nepal never scales BIG

rkwagle — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:05:51 +0000

Recently while planning my US trip I consulted a few ticketing agents in Kathmandu about the air ticket details: the prices, airlines and transits. The first thing that you notice (only after a visit to couple of them) is, they are not entirely sure what they really offer. It really discomforts me to see a sales man struggling to answer a client’s query. Aren’t they paid for that? The other most significant thing is their inconsistencies with the information they give. The most probable reason: They are all lying and trying to make the customer pay higher if he/she is ignorant about the ticketing information. They lie everything. I have also experienced many instances of booking the bus front window seat and ending up at the ever bouncing back seat. And they keep on lying.

And then I went to this agent (only the third one I visited) and when asked about the fare they mentioned almost 20% cheaper compared to what I was prepared to pay. I rechecked about the airways and the route and everything was same. Hello? Obviously as every normal people I would be drawn to the deal. I reserved the ticket. Five days prior to the flight I went to pay for and collect the ticket. Then all of a sudden they tell me that the rate they gave me earlier was of a different route with transit in Delhi (which I was destined to avoid after my disastrous time on my way to Europe last year). The new rate was still higher than the one I have previously figured. Obviously just 5 days to my flight and so many things to finalize I won’t be running for ticket prices. I got the ticket and paid the price. I thought the worst was over but was proved wrong when I got into Abu Dhabi transit. I was assured by my ticketing agent that I had a hotel booking at the Abu Dhabi transit but later found out that my ticketing agent has left no stone unturned to torture me. The Etihad Airways staff had a hard time convincing that I was fooled by my ticketing agent. How could someone do such to his customer?

The issue here is, do they care about their customer? Not one bit. They only think about making quick money no matter what it costs them. With this mentality they would never get a loyal following. I would never visit that agent again nor would I recommend it to anyone. Someone please tell them the story of a goose that lay golden eggs every day.

So they have pretty much the same sort of customer pattern every day. They have new customer everyday and can never retain their old customer. And without the customer flowing, you never get BIG.