Himalayana Academy School, Soreng: An institution above all

'Chito khana khanu aija....8 baji sakyo!!' Exactly the words of my mother everyday and I busy multitasking, i.e brushing and doing my other business in the loo. A journey of 4 KM to the school with a 3kg bag on the shoulder didn't seem to matter much as the thought of friends and fun in the school would overpower them. 

As I enter the school compound, little beautiful kids in red sweator would be seen running around the corridors and in the ground making the school look full of life and vibrant.

As soon as I kept my bag in the classroom, someone would ask me, 'Amir, did you do the homework given by D.D. Maam?' 'Lah.....!!' My mouth wide open with fear and I literally start shaking. He would keep his hand in my shoulder and calm me down, 'Aich.... Dont worry... Even I haven't done it.' and gives me a cheeky smile. 'I am glad I wont get punishment alone....' he would add. :)

'Lets go have some lal pathar* instead....' (also known as dhunga mithai or rashta ka pathar). As worse as it looked but Uttam daju's shop had the best lal pathar I have tasted till now. We would stuff our mouth with a black/brown colored gross looking thing and then walk towards our class yet again to see if we get more company for the punishment.

HAS, is a place which is more like a family than school. Teachers more like parents. Everyday we learnt something that wasn't written in books or wouldn't come in the exams. 

As I look back now, I realize that those lessons were equally important. I dont remember who is Akbar or Babar, whether Akbar is Babar's son or Babar is Akbar's son, when was battle of Panipat fought? or formula of (a+b) whole cube, or sin theta or anything.... 

But I clearly remember those pleasant classes of Keshav Sir, Sanjeev Sir, Nima Tshering sir, how we longed to attend their classes again. I remember how Nursery Miss nurtured and fostered the nursery students (which she does till now), those inspiring talks and classes of Geeta Maam, I remember those punishments of Hemant Sir, those comics and tinkles at the school library, those friendship, those little crushes, those debates, singing competition, house quiz, games period, momo and aalu dam at Yogen Sir's canteen, murai ko dalla at the old factory shop, those children day celebration at Jau Tar or Sribadam, those funny dances of teachers at many happy occasions and many little big things.

I understood now that life is not all about the lessons that we learn in classes, not about how much percentage we bring, how much attendance we keep, how good our handwriting is, how many certificates of excellence we receive but many more than that.... 

Life is about learning the secret of enjoying the little big things in life, of knowing the difference between good and bad, how we react to things, being compassionate with the elders and tender with the young, being empathetic with the striving and tolerant with the fool....

In my point of view, education and literacy are completely different. All educated person are literate but all literate person are not educated. Himalayan Academy School gives us education and not just literacy. As its motto says, "Abide in Truth', it teaches us to be good from the inside out.

I am preety sure that if you have spent even a day at this institution you will remember it for a long time. And how lucky are you if you are a part of this school, luckiest if you are a #Himadrian.

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Nepali Poem .Ramailo Sahar... Jhanai ramailo gaon...

शिर्षक: रमाईलो शहर.... तर झनै रमाईलो गाँऊ....

हो साथी,
तिम्रो शहर रमाईलो छ
साह्रै रमाईलो छ
जता-ततै रमझम
पर्यटकको घुँइचो
व्यवसायीहरुको चाँदी कटाई
ह्याण्डसम र ब्युटीहरुको ताँती
त्यो एम.जी.मार्ग, लाल बजार,
टाइटेनिक पार्क, के के हो के के....
पक्का हो साथी,
तिम्रो शहर साह्रै रमाईलो छ....॥

तर त्यो रमाईलोपनमा,
त्यो हुल-मुल, भीड़-भाड़मा
कुन्नि किन यो मन त
यो देखावटीको संसारदेखि केहि पर
मेरो गाँउतिर नै हुन्छ
त्यो पाखा-पखेरा, त्यो धुप्पि-घारी,
त्यो घुम्ती, त्यो चप्लेटी,
त्यो बर-पिपलको रुख,
त्यो आँगनमा खेल्ने ढ़ुक्कुर्र र कलचुँडा,
यो मनै त हो,
आफ्नै गाँउतिर भाग्छ....॥

ती साथी भाई संग
कहिले आँगनमा
कहिले सड़क किनारमा
कहिले ती उत्तम आमाको चिया पसलमा
गफ्फ हान्नुको मजा
यो होटल र रेस्टुँरामा कहाँ आँउछ
त्यो कलाई र हलुँगेको मगमा
जाँड़ खानुको मजा
यो बियर र वाईनमा कहाँ पाइन्छ
यो कफी र केपाचिनोमा कहाँ आँउछ....॥

त्यो बारीको काँक्रा टिपेर
कर्याप्प टोक्दाको आनन्द
यी बजारको ओईलिएको काँक्रामा कसले पाँउछ
त्यो चिप्लो नस्पतीको बोटमा चड़ेर
नस्पती झार्दाको आनन्द
आइफल किनेर खाँदा कहाँ आँउछ....
ती आमाले पोलेको तातो-तातो मकै
नुनको चियासंग खाँदाको मजा
त्यो पप-कर्न र नाना थरी
के के जातीमा कहाँ पाइन्छ....
त्यो बर-धाराको चिसो संग्लो पानी
त्यो बाँसको धारा मुनि बसी
खलङलङ नुहाउदाको मजा
यहाँको ठस-ठस ब्लिजीङ पाउडर गनाउने
सावरमा नुहाउँदा कहाँ आँउछ....
फेरि पलैंटी कसी भुइँमा बसी
हातले माड़ खानुको मजा
यो डाईनिङ टेबलमा, काँटा चम्चीमा
कसले पो पाँउछ....॥

त्यसैले... साथी,
तिम्रो शहर रमाईलो छ
साह्रै रमाईलो छ
तर मेरो गाँउ जति हैन...
मेरो ठाँउ जति रमाईलो तिम्रो शहर छैन....॥

- अमिर भण्डारी

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Grow up sisters..... [16+]

He wont use condoms, you use pills
Why? Because he wants it natural?
(Do you know of ovarian cancer and infertility?)
He gets you pregnant, you have aborted like 5 times.
Why? Because he is not ready!.
GROW UP!

He is tired of natural place for copulation.
He moves to your ass saying its tighter.
Then you begin to leak & smell.
Why? Because you want to please
& not loose him...
GROW UP!

You have been wearing his engagement ring,
for close to 4yrs.
He is not wearing any... Why?
Because he has promised you marriage.
GROW UP MY SISTER.!

He wants a Blowjob.
Yet he wont give you head.
Why? Because he feels you are not so clean there....
GROW UP MY SISTER!

You dress half naked,
thinking you look sexy & hot.
He isn't complaining.
But he has more cloths on.
Dont be surprised when he takes a more decent girl home...
GROW UP LADY.....

A guy dumps you, you wanna pay him back
& all you could do is to sleep with his friend?
and you think this is pay back?
like seriously???
SISTERS GROW UP.....

You think getting pregnant for him
will make him marry you...
GROW UP GIRL....
You become a single mama with 'No Job'
No means for feeding your baby and yourself
So...you leave junior with Grandma &
Go back to the Hustling field
Then you begin to say, "M­en Are Wicked!"
Whose fault?
Please ladies, be wise!
You know you deserve better than this...
Don't always be at the loosing end!!!

- Anonymous

This is a piece that I found on Facebook and really moved me. I think this article must be forwarded and read atleast once by every teenage girl. And more importantly taken positively as an awareness matter. How true, that due to advancement of so called thinking and in the race to be advance, people are going beyond limits. Highly moved by the western culture, they try to adapt what they see and hear in movies, internet and other medias.

Though it is a high time that people change their mentality, but we cannot expect all the people in the world to change theirs at once. All we can do is be careful ourselves, specially girls. 

"Live with dignity and world will treat you with respect......"

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CBSE Results 2013 - Race to score 90+ percentage!

After the CBSE results were declared, all newspapers & Facebook pages started flooding with the names and photographs of the toppers followed by the 95+ percentage that they scored and the wave of congratulation messages followed. It is really great that students nowadays are giving their everything to reach the figure which in our times was a distant dream.

I still wonder, how can one score 98.6%? That is still impossible for me.... In our times scoring 60+ percentage was something great. We would see students making merry and partying at that score. 

Time is changing so rapidly. Competition is increasing at a pace that cannot be defined. The intelligence of an student is measured by the percentage that he/she scores in his academics.

But on the run for scoring 90+ percentage, one thing lingers in my mind. I remember the dialogue of the famous 3 Idiot movie, 'dost fail ho jaye to bura lagta hai... lekin agar dost top kar jaye to aur bhi bura lagta hai....' [We become sad if our friends fail, but we get sadder if our friends top....] How Ironic!!

I have seen unhappy students after scoring 88 or 89 percentage. They and their parents are unhappy because their child couldn't score 90+ or the child of his neighbor won him by 2 percentage. This is really disheartening.

I wonder what will be the scenario when our child will be facing his CBSE board exams. Scoring 100% would be the trend I guess and the one who don't score cent percent would be treated like failures. 

Nowadays parents send their children to tutions from their lower grades, even class 2 or 3 students go to tutions. Coachings, I feel is for the students who are poor in studies but it has become a trend nowadays. You cannot deny the fact that it has made students dependable on others. And some parents and coachers[one who give tutions] treat it as if it is compulsory for all the students. What gets into the mind of these students is that they start developing the habit of depending upon tutions rather than paying attention in class. They start thinking that even if they don't understand the lesson in class, they can learn in their tutions. This habit gets into the students and grows exponentially every year.

Yes, indeed there are some students, who without the pressure from their parents to score big, without coachings score great. They are the students who should be highlighted. The students who are from poor family who cant afford some expensive coachings, they don't have all the time in the world to prepare for the exams, they are to be praised.

I have seen students from villages, as i grew up in a village, students who wake up early in the morning, go to forest to collect fooder or firewood, do household chores, no private coachings, still manage to pass board with flying colors. Though they don't score 98% or even 80% but they and their family are happy that they cleared the examination. But the sad part is that even after clearing the board exam, they cannot afford going to college because of  the financial condition of the family.

They end up either becoming a farmer like their parents did, or the small time contractors. Some of them really want to study, to become a graduate, perhaps the first graduate from the family but alas they cant. There is something called government aided scholarship, but who is there to tell them that something like this exists? And a large section ofthat too is reserved for SC/STs. Only if reservation was done on the basis of economic condition of the people, so many of them would be benefited. Now, we all know who enjoys the benefit!!

Indeed a heartfelt congratulation to all the students who cleared the CBSE exam. But moreover congratulations to those who cleared it without expensive coachings, without some subject teachers in schools and without the late night coffees from their parents during exam days.

Note: This are the personal views of the author. Not meant to harm the sentiments of any!

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Most annoying people on Facebook...

Since when did facebook - "A social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them" turn into a channel through which people shove down our throats posts/pictures that are really annoying but we are forced to like them because we need our posts/pictures to be liked in return.

The following are the compilation of the most annoying people on Facebook.

THE OVER SHARER:

Do we really need to know what you did last weekend? Or last night? Or what are you doing right now at this very moment? Even before one can properly hit the 'log in' button, every nano minute of your friends' lives in on display for the world to know.

Ya, this includes
- the duck face in the movie halls(Dabang2 roxx....),
- the metal sign in the pubs(Chilling wid ma homies....),
- pictures of what food they ate(Waiting for the order at MacD....),
- and later status from their loo(Stomach upset....),
Some people even go one step ahead and post their 'current' location on their pages, you know, just to let the world know that they are at xyz location, eating paani-puri with their BFFs (tagged in the update, ofcourse).

ATTENTION SEEKERS:

Its true that everyone is seeking attention on some level but these guys use the most cringe worthy tactics. Like taking the quiz, 'Which bollywood actress do you look like?' Facebook applications says you look like Katrina!! Well, then you definitely do 'coz FB is never wrong. Or even worse 'Who have a crush on you?' yuck...

Or posting the lyrics of Avril's or Taylor's song so that everyone asks you 'Is everything ok?' Or posting some vague philosopher's quote because you are so intellectual, which a 100 people will 'like' because they are also intellectual.

Worst offenders? Dramatic exes, who, when arent busy tearing apart their former loves on their walls are busy changing their relationship status. Since this isn't a ______ movie and you arent Tom Cruise and ______, we seriously dont give a damn.

ONES WITH MARRIAGE TIMELINE:

Its been proved that married people are the most hyperactive FB users, effectively turning the website to shaadi.com. Logging on means having to face the onslaught of wedding & honeymoon pictures and worst of all, wedding countdowns. Did you know that marriage isn't official until your relationship status says so and a thousand people like it and comment on it, like 'cool bro' or 'congrats'.

FRIENDS MAKER:

Its really great to make new friends on FB but what if you find yourself as one friend among their 9871 other friends? Do they feel that there is some award that they are gonna get if their friend list is the largest in the FB community? God knows!!

ONES WITH DUCK FACES:

We all know that face, right? The one that every girl makes whenever there's a camera in the room. The one they think makes them look like Angelina Jolie but they actually just look like ducks.... or even worse, fish!! The duck face is usually accompanied by equally painful looking body contortions and black and white photography.
Dont tell me you have seen a boy's picture with a duck face? Really? M already sick....

ONES WITH BABY PICTURES:

They are cute ofcourse and its really nice if there are some pics on FB. But it really gets boring after the 101st picture, when you run of your awwwwws. And the worst one, having a FB account for their babies through which they send you friend requests? There's just a thin line between cute and creepy, and your baby just crossed that line by commenting on my pic.

DAILY WISHERS:

What if someday you log in and you see all the 1200 friends of yours, posting their status, 'Good morning friends!' 

These are the people who dont forget to post 'Good night, friends....' on their walls before they goto sleep everyday. But even after an hour you find them online, replying to the comments on their post 'Good night to you too!'.

ONES ON RELATIONSHIP:

Wasn't he/she 'in relationship with' someone else yesterday? and with someone else a week before??
Why doesn't FB provide a feature where the people can show the list of their exes who they were in relationship with in the past(If you are already showcasing everything in FB then why to hide this one, isn't it?)

Ok we came to know that you are in relationship with xyz(if you really think that we care), and we believed it, but is it necessary to post a pic of you hugging her or worst, kissing her??

Note: The characters depicted above are purely original. If it has resemblence with any living person, then it is just a fact.

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Looking for a job....

Recently, I came to know that I am getting old. Am I? Really? [My GF will hate me for writing this.... :)] 

Not that my face grew pale.... it must be due to the exam tension.... neither because of my excessive hair-fall, that too must be because of the cheap hair gel that I burrowed from my friends [hahaha.....].

I think now its time to do something.... a job maybe. As everyone in our class were talking about their dreams and future, at one point I took out my ID-card to confirm, was I really doing Engineering? It was an amazing feeling to know that there are very few who aim to become Software Engineers someday. Some wants to prepare for some Navy Exams, some going in military, some pilots and so so....

After listening to all this, I wonder why the hell am I with them crying, "I want to be a Software Engineer'. Infact, if I ask myself, I wonder if thats really my dream. 

So, I open a notepad [who grabs a pen and paper to write thoughts nowadays....] and start thinking and jotting down what do really want to do?

Though the list was going on and on, but some points really came from my heart :

1. I love to work with people more than machines and papers!!
2. I love to be with my family and friends
3. I love to be respected, to be loved and cared for.
4. I love inspiring people and being inspired.
5. I love making new friends and meeting new people more than dieing in a cubicle!!
6. I love travelling and seeing new places more than being stuck in the same environment for life!!
7. I love to learn new things and grow everyday..
8. I love freedom of time and money.
9. I love to see people excited about each others’ success and happiness
10. I love to see people completing each other than competing with each other..
11. I love to be my OWN boss.
12. I love to be in positive environment and develop positive environment around.
13. I love to be honest, compassionate, kind-hearted, generous, i.e., HUMANE..
14. I love to be successful by helping others for the same. “WIN-WIN”
15. I like to keep life-time relationships.
16. I like to bring “the GIANT within us”

17. I like to serve the people, the country and the humanity.
18. I would LOVE to LOVE and spread LOVE and get LOVE.

Now tell me..... what in the world will fulfill atleast some of my points above?

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Reviews on my dream car

I remember the day when we were discussing our dreams. It was my turn and I said, 'I dream to own Bugatti Veyron someday!'

'Hmmmm..... whats the price?' Sir asked me.

I erred and replied 'Around 14 Crore!'

He stared at me with mouth wide open for some seconds and then wished me luck. But I know his 'best of luck' gonna get wasted....:)

Now, what is this car all about?

Any car lover would know that Bugatti Veyron is the most expensive modern car in the world. It leads the road with the maximum speed of up to 431 km/h which again makes it the fastest car in the world at present.

This car is designed by German Volkswagen Group and is said to be produced by Bugatti Automobiles. Read More....

But is this really my dream car?? Ummm..... no yes! but just my dream car. By the word 'dream', I only and only mean dream. I have dreamt of driving this car (with my gf by my side) many times.... but owning it in reality brings a chill to my spine.....

For: The sound of the engine will make everyone go crazy.... and even blinds will see you on the run. 

Against: It will make a very very big hole in your pocket.... not just hole in your pocket.... your bank accounts would go empty and you would be loaned an amount that even generations wont be able to pay!!

The next car on my list is one of the sweetest car in history. I saw this car in one of the showroom of Volkswagen that is located on the way to Begumpul from my place.

As I was sitting on the staff seat of the auto and chatting with the auto-wala and trying to convince him that Sikkim is a state that belongs to India and not Nepal, I saw a little yellow car in the showroom of Volkswagen as we passed near to it.

At first I thought that it was some kind of childs toy but later I googled and found this car to be called as Beetle.

Now, what is this car all about?

It is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen again. It is a vintage car that has been manufactured from 1938-2003 with lots of modifications and newer features included in every next design. More than 21 Million such cars have been manufactured till date. Read More....

No matter how ugly the name bettle sounds, it is as sweet as anything. The car looks girly and very sexy too. A best car to be gifted to sister or girlfriend..... isn't it?

The starting price is around 21 Lakh. Seriously guys, I have started saving money for this car... :)

For: Cutest ever.... you will love the compliments from chicks.

Against: Too girly.... guys wont get a chance to drive this car as womens will find themselves too over powered with the car key in their hand.

[Note: The reviews written above are based on my personal views and are meant for fun purpose only. I dont guarantee the correctness of the information provided above.]

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