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.

1. The Kiss of Judas: A betrayal or just misunderstood?

Nothing ends a good “bromance” quite like flagrant, murderous betrayal. A long time ago, a wandering preacher named Jesus was doing pretty well for himself — building up a following and promoting religious teachings — until one of his buddies sold him out to the authorities. In exchange for 30 pieces of silver, Judas Iscariot kissed Jesus on the cheek and, by doing so, identified him to Roman soldiers.

Although Judas double-crossed his best friend for a paltry sum, some scholars argue that Judas is the secret hero of Christianity. The claim is based on a recent translation of The Gospel of Judas, a text written by Jesus’ followers a couple hundred years after his death.

In 1978, a farmer discovered the mysterious text in Egypt and sold it to an antiques dealer. Years later, a National Geographic Society team got hold of it. They restored and analyzed the document, and in 2006, they announced that the text painted Judas as a man of valor. According to their interpretation, he was actually Jesus’ most trusted friend, because he agreed to fake a betrayal so that Jesus could die a martyr and then be resurrected.

Soon after the National Geographic Society released its findings, other scholars started picking the interpretation apart. Chief among them was April D. DeConick, a Rice University biblical studies professor, who claimed the team made some critical errors, including translating several passages to mean the exact opposite of what they were intended to communicate.

DeConick contends that the Gospel says Judas was a “demon” rather than a “spirit,” as interpreted by National Geographic, and that he was set apart “from the holy generation” rather than “for the holy generation.” With just a few tweaks in translation, Judas has gone right back to playing the bad guy. Mental Floss: 6 historical snitches

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2. The kisses you can share with a Quaker

The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, is a small Christian sect best known for rejecting all forms of violence, embracing progressive politics, and dedicating themselves to simple, restrained living. They’ve promoted a more harmonious world by founding causes such as Amnesty International, not to mention lending their name to oatmeal.

So we were surprised to learn that when teenage Quakers get together, their favorite activity is a free-for-all kissing game that often ends in bruising and rug burn. Alternately known as Ratchet Screwdriver, Bloody Winkum, or Wink, the game dates back to the early 1900s.

To play, participants divide themselves into girl/boy pairs with one boy left over to be the “Winker.” The pairs sit on the floor, with each boy hugging a girl from behind. When the Winker winks at a girl, she tries to scramble across the room to kiss him, while her male partner does his best to hold her back. Hilarity (and release of pent-up sexual frustration) ensues.

But not everyone finds this game so hilarious. In 2002, the Children & Young People’s Committee of the Quakers in Britain issued a statement discouraging the game at official functions.

And while that may not seem surprising, the reasoning is. The committee frowns upon the game because younger children and adults don’t get to play, thus making it ageist. Due to their egalitarian values, Quakers seldom segregate by age at get-togethers, and the committee didn’t want the very young or the very old to feel left out.

3. The kiss that proved no means no

Gentlemen, a word: When a lady rejects your advances, you’d do best to listen. Take, for example, the story of Thomas Saverland, an English gentleman who was at a party in 1837 and, as a joke, kissed Miss Caroline Newton by force. In response, she bit off a chunk of his nose.

Saverland took her to court, where the judge found his case more hilarious than harrowing. The judge ruled, “When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is fully entitled to bite off his nose, if she so pleases.” A smart-mouthed barrister then added, “and eat it up, if she has a fancy that way.”

4. The kiss that said “welcome to America!”

At the turn of the 20th century, immigration processing at Ellis Island was quite an ordeal. Immigrants had to prove they weren’t carrying any of a long list of illnesses, mental impairments, or moral defects. If you were sick (and it was curable), then you’d be detained in the hospital until you got better. The whole process could take hours, days, or months. And even then, you could be turned back.

Also, ladies traveling alone and anyone with less than $20 in their pockets had to wait for a sponsor or family member to meet them. If no one was there to greet you, you were sent back.

Of course, all of this was further complicated by the fact that immigrants couldn’t go down to the pay phone and call Aunt Bertha when they landed. Instead, when relatives heard that the right ship had docked, they trucked over to Ellis Island and waited desperately by the Kissing Post — a giant wooden column just outside the room where the final stages of immigration took place. Ellis Island staffers gave the Kissing Post its name because families and lovers were generally swept up in emotion as they reconnected with their long losts.

Today, the Kissing Post continues to be a symbol of hope and togetherness as the pillar that supports the American Family Immigration History Center. If you’re one of the 100 million Americans descended from immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, there’s a good chance the History Center there can help you find a picture of the ship that carried your ancestors. Mental Floss: Story behind the Statue of Liberty

5. The Eskimo kiss: A tale taller than the abominable snowman

Popular wisdom claims that Eskimos rub noses because kissing on the lips would cause their mouths to freeze together. Not only is this completely untrue, but Eskimos don’t rub noses at all.

The myth of the Eskimo kiss was created by Hollywood in an early “documentary” called Nanook of the North, which took America by storm in 1922. To film it, director Robert J. Flaherty recorded real Inuits in the Arctic.

However, in order to accommodate the huge, awkward cameras of the day, he staged all the scenes and built a three-sided igloo for interior shots. Nanook, the main character, wasn’t really named Nanook, and the women playing his wives weren’t really his wives.

As for the term “Eskimo kiss,” that too was constructed by Flaherty to explain how one of the wives was nuzzling her baby. In actuality, the woman was giving her baby a kunik, an expression of affection in Inuit culture. Typically in kuniks, adults press the sides of their noses against the cheeks of their babies and breathe in their scent. Who kuniks whom differs from culture to culture, but it’s never a romantic gesture. Inuits kiss on the lips, just like everyone else.

6. The first guy-on-guy kiss to hit the big screen

Movie experts often credit Sunday Bloody Sunday, a 1971 film about a love triangle among two guys and a girl, with being the first mainstream feature film to depict two gay men kissing. That’s true, but it wasn’t the first time two guys kissed on screen. Apparently, straight men had been doing it for decades.

In 1927, two soldiers kissed tenderly in the silent movie “Wings”, which won Best Picture at the first Academy Awards. When the film was released, no one raised an eyebrow about the scene, partially because kissing in the trenches was remarkably common during World War I.

According to British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Santanu Das, letters and accounts of the war are peppered with stories of soldiers kissing, embracing, and giving each other pet names like “my Palestine Wife.”

Das believes the war succeeded in breaking down the traditional limits on emotional and physical intimacy between men, allowing soldiers to form relationships that went beyond what was permissible at home. While it’s surprising to us today, that Wings scene didn’t even cause a stir in 1920s America. Mental Floss: 5 TV shows that predicted the future

7. The kiss that gave artists their 15 minutes

If it weren’t for kissing, Andy Warhol might never have become The King of Pop Art. In 1963, Warhol was still a little-known commercial illustrator.

But that all changed when he bought a silent-film camera and started shooting his friends and acquaintances kissing in unbroken, four-minute-long shots. The result was a series called Kiss, which took the art world by storm. In fact, New York’s Gramercy Arts Theater played a new “kiss” each week. The series helped cement Warhol’s place in the artsy underground, and it also launched the careers of several kissers.

8. The prepubescent kiss that changed the law

When first-grader Johnathan Prevette pecked his classmate on the cheek in Lexington, North Carolina, he quickly became a poster boy for everything that was wrong with America in 1996.

After Johnathan’s classmate complained to a teacher, the 6-year-old was taken out of class for the day, missing an ice cream party. When the school told Johnathan’s parents that he’d violated the sexual harassment rules, a media circus followed.

Critics pointed to the Prevette case as a sign that political correctness had gone too far, adding that innocent play didn’t deserve such harsh punishments. After all, pundits asked, is a child really capable of sexual harassment?

But while Johnathan was making headlines, another legal battle was raging. A 10-year-old Georgia girl named LaShonda Davis had been repeatedly groped by a bully in her class, to the point where she contemplated suicide. She told several of the teachers at her school, but no one did anything. LaShonda’s parents had to call the police — and sue the school –before the abuse stopped.

Both Johnathan and LaShonda deserved protection under the law, and both cases played a role in molding the current standards. In response to the Johnathan Prevette case, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued new guidelines for identifying sexual harassment by putting the emphasis on common sense and telling schools to take age and maturity into account.

But there was still a big question about whether schools should be accountable for students harassing each other. When LaShonda’s case went to the Supreme Court in 1999, their answer was yes, sort of. The Court decided that schools can be blamed, but only if they learn of the abuse and do nothing to stop it.

9. The kiss that could send you to jail

In the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, there’s a smooching spot called el Callejón del Beso, or the Alley of the Kiss. According to local legend, the alley was once the final scene of a tragic love affair. A young woman and her lover were meeting there to run away together, but when her father discovered them, he stabbed his daughter in the heart. As she lay dying, her lover kissed her hand for the last time, and the alley got its name.

Today, it’s said that anyone who kisses there will have seven years of happiness. Thanks to its romantic history, the alley has become a popular tourist attraction, although that’s starting to change. On January 20, 2009, the ultra-conservative mayor of Guanajuato authorized a new municipal ordinance cracking down on public displays of affection. If he has his way, lip-locking in the open will carry with it a fine of $100 and up to 36 hours in jail.

10. The most Iconic kiss in history

On August 14, 1945, thousands of men and women embraced one another in New York City’s Times Square to celebrate victory over Japan. But two people — a sailor and a nurse — locked lips at just the right moment and became larger than life. More than a dozen men and at least three women claim to be the kissers in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph.

Of the men, our favorite is George Mendonça, a Rhode Island fisherman and World War II navy recruit, who claims he grabbed the strange nurse and kissed her right in front of his girlfriend. In fact, Mendonça says his girlfriend, now his wife, is in the background of the photo.

While the mystery will probably never be solved, Alfred Eisenstaedt has left us with a juicy back story. In his autobiography, the famed photographer writes that he followed around a sailor who moved through the crowd, kissing anything wearing a skirt.

When the sailor hit on a nurse whose white dress contrasted nicely with his dark suit, Eisenstaedt snapped the shot. But he failed to get their names.

Coincidentally, another photographer, Victor Jorgensen, took the same shot from a slightly different angle and also forgot to get the subjects’ names. Jorgensen’s version ran in the next day’s New York Times, but as a working military photographer at the time, he didn’t own the rights to his work. So while Eisenstaedt received glory and royalty checks for his image, Jorgensen simply got a nice clipping to hang on his fridge

Quitting smoking is one of the most important things you will ever do.

• You will live longer and live better.
• Quitting will lower your chances of having a heart attack, stroke or cancer.
• If you are pregnant, quitting smoking will improve your chances of having a healthy baby.
• The people you live with, especially your children, will be healthier.
• You will have extra money to spend on things other than cigarettes.

Five Keys for Quitting

Studies have shown that these five steps will help you quit and quit for good. You have the best chances of quitting if you use them together.

1. Get ready.
2. Get support.
3. Learn new skills and behaviors.
4. Get medication and use it correctly.
5. Be prepared for relapse or difficult situations.

1. Get Ready

• Set a quit date.
• Change your environment.
  1.Get rid of ALL cigarettes and ashtrays in your home, car, and place of work.
  2.Don’t let people smoke in your home.
• Review your past attempts to quit. Think about what worked and what did not.
• Once you quit, don’t smoke—NOT EVEN A PUFF!

2. Get Support and Encouragement

Studies have shown that you have a better chance of being successful if you have help. You can get support in many ways:

• Tell your family, friends, and co-workers that you are going to quit and want their support. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out.
• Talk to your healthcare provider (for example, doctor, dentist, nurse, pharmacist, psychologist, or smoking counselor).
• Get individual, group, or telephone counseling. The more counseling you have, the better your chances are of quitting. Programs are given at local hospitals and health centers. Call your local health department for information about programs in your area.

3. Learn New Skills and Behaviors

• Try to distract yourself from urges to smoke. Talk to someone, go for a walk, or get busy with a task.
• When you first try to quit, change your routine. Use a different route to work. Drink tea instead of coffee. Eat breakfast in a different place.
• Do something to reduce your stress. Take a hot bath, exercise, or read a book.
• Plan something enjoyable to do every day.
• Drink a lot of water and other fluids.

4. Get Medication and Use It Correctly

Medications can help you stop smoking and lessen the urge to smoke.

• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved five medications to help you quit smoking:
  1. Bupropion SR—Available by prescription.
  2. Nicotine gum—Available over-the-counter.
  3. Nicotine inhaler—Available by prescription.
  4. Nicotine nasal spray—Available by prescription.
  5. Nicotine patch—Available by prescription and over-the-counter.
• Ask your health care provider for advice and carefully read the information on the package.
• All of these medications will more or less double your chances of quitting and quitting for good.
• Everyone who is trying to quit may benefit from using a medication. If you are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, nursing, under age 18, smoking fewer than 10 cigarettes per day, or have a medical condition, talk to your doctor or other healthcare provider before taking medications.

5. Be Prepared for Relapse or Difficult Situations

Most relapses occur within the first 3 months after quitting. Don’t be discouraged if you start smoking again. Remember, most people try several times before they finally quit. Here are some difficult situations to watch for:

• Alcohol. Avoid drinking alcohol. Drinking lowers your chances of success.
• Other Smokers. Being around smoking can make you want to smoke.
• Weight Gain. Many smokers will gain weight when they quit, usually less than 10 pounds. Eat a healthy diet and stay active. Don’t let weight gain distract you from your main goal—quitting smoking. Some quit-smoking medications may help delay weight gain.
• Bad Mood or Depression. There are a lot of ways to improve your mood other than smoking.

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.