About Dashain and changing lives!!!

My yesterday’s blog post was incomplete. Incomplete in the sense, I portrayed my happiness that Dashain has brought but something about sadness of life was not documented well.

 

I am going home after 6 long years but it seems that my Daju, Bhauju, Didi, Bhinaju, Bhanji (She is not even one year old and I have not seen her), and my Kanchho Bhai can not come home this time in Dashain. I am not sure that whether they will come; but when I called my Mom yesterday, she said that she is also not so sure if they come.

 

The main reason, as I have understood, is that the recent floods have swept the Mahendra Highway in Nepal and there is no connecting transport by road. If that is the case and if this problem persists long, then, it’s sure that they will not come this year. How many people can fly in these inflationing days. Price of everything is going up. No fuel, high cost of Fuel especially ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel) is increasing day by day and I am not sure if Plane touches sky but price of oils has already touched the blue sky. It’s little less this time than almost 4/5 months ago but that is not the relief to common man like us.

 

I have heard that there is boating facility in SaptaKoshi to cross the river but it is very risky and it is generally not advisable to travel by this man pulled boats as safety in these village made boats are next to nil.

 

So? So, I do not think we all family member gather this time. This Dashain is going to be incomplete for us.

But, that’s the part of normal human life. As we grow and as and when our wings come out, we love to fly far and sometimes, it will be difficult for us to come back and fly back to home well in time.

Anyways, whatever happens and whatever is going to happen, I am going home to celebrate Dashain, 2008. That’s all about little sad aspect of Dashain.

 

Now, going to general stuffs about blogging, it was a long hiatus before I started writing again. I feel good to write whatever ideas crop in my mind but the motivation is lacking. I am trying to discipline myself but many times, I am losing tracks. Yesterday night, I read some good, in fact below expectation, entries in blogs maintained by various Nepalese friends. It seems that all are going slow.

 

The idea about writing is diminished by the fact that the reading of books has also reduced substantially. Writing is all about imagination and ideas and more we read various books and articles, the more writable ideas flow in our mind. For imagination, we need a topic on which we can think, the topic with which we can play by creating ideas and extending its limbs. The less we read, the less imagination. I know all this but not able to read that many books these days. Hopefully, I will be able to read something which will not be related to my work. Otherwise, I have been reading only what Tribunal, High Court and Supreme Court is saying these days on various areas of taxation. Hopefully, things are going to change on coming days. That’s all from my side today.

 

Before, I say Good Bye to you, Once again, A very great and happy Vijaya Dashami and Bada Dashain, 2008 to all of You!

Dashain 2008:CB welcomes you!(CB in Home soon!)

I was thinking that I will write a sad story whenever I write another post in this blog. Here was already planned ‘sad story’ and I was ready for it to face it and to place before you, my venerable readers. I was thinking that I will write that I will write that sad story elaborately and pour my heart for the last time to end one chapter of my blog and of my life. Sadly, that did not happen, and my sad story has become very obsolete. What a sad ending!!

 

But, that’s good. I am happy. The sad story was not what I wanted but I was just thrown by tides of times, on the shore of my life and was compelled to write something sad.

 

Fortunately, another tide took me inside that ocean and now, everything seems great, very great and happy in life.

 

To start a great good and happy story from my side, I am coming/going home on 2^nd October, to Jhapa, Nepal and will be back to Hyderabad, India on 14^th.

 

After the five consecutive absence in Dashain for the last five years from 2003-07, I am elated this time to be in home. I am happy to receive Tika and Jamara with auspicious blessings from my parents, from my paternal grandmother, and from my maternal grand parents.

 

When I look back, I feel that I received Dashain ko Tika long time back. Now, I do not even remember how that Dashain was for me. It was a time when I celebrated my Dashain after coming back from Kathmandu where I went to be a Doctor or Engineer. Sadly, I could not be both and I was feeling so low that I did not want to be in Home in Dashain. I was so ashamed to show my face to my parents and brothers who sent me to Kathmandu to accomplish the mission and they used to send a good amount of money but again sadly, I do not remember how I blew them up. So, there was a kind of indignation in me. I was just feeling that I can not be anything in my life if I can not be doctor or Engineer but my every attempts in Entrance examination was not taking me even near to waiting list.

 

At that time, my father understood the kinds of thought in me and used to calling me almost everyday if I booked Tickets to come home in advance as there will be huge rush at the last moment. Sometimes, I told him that I am not getting tickets and finally booked tickets for the day of MahaAsthami, the eighth day of Dashain, Generally, before that year, Dashain meant us from the very first day, from Ghatashthapana. Our School and even Colleges remained close for 15 days and the year of 2002 was the first time when I reached home lately feeling so low in life. I reached home around 3 PM in the afternoon and everyone was waiting for me, especially my dad had not eaten anything and was waiting for me. That moment is still in my head from that day.

 

That year, I did wait for Tihar and immediately after that, I returned Kathmandu. Now, it seemed that being a Doctor is not on my fate, I joined TriChandra College, Kathmandu. I found that college so disturbing that I somehow felt there is no future for me studying there and started running somewhere for any excuse. Meantime, I got a chance to come to India to study Law; I just grabbed it and ran to India without considering any consequences. And the rest of my good and great years I spent in Hyderabad, India. I graduated this year with B.A; L.L.B (Hons.). In the last Dashain I celebrated, I was clueless about my life and no where near my destiny and this year I feel that I have realized my worth and has clear vision and a degree which gives me enough confidence to compete anywhere.

 

A job on hand and some money to put on mother’s hands are bonus for me for this Dashain. I will be heading home on 2^nd October and reach there on 4^th morning and will be back by 14^th as only limited leave available.

 

I wish all of you, who read me, a happy Bada Dashain and Vijaya Dashami.

(To be continued in next post……………)

A post after a long time!!

Is it worth writing? Questions need to be asked these days. Not writing for so many days and being far from blog world for many many months, there is something that tells me that I should write.

But what?

What is there to write at this moment?

Time has changed as it always does. Last time, when I published my blog or when I wrote last time, I was officially a student in a University. Now, I am no more a student.

The status message has changed since then. Now, I am more an executive cum consultant. I have joined a job where I need to advise on various tax issues to my clients.

I recently joined this job in June after being graduated. I completed my University successfully and did pass my B.A; L.L.B (Hons.).

Recently, I had my graduation- Convocation in my University on July 18th. It was nice to see my old friends back in the University, almost all leaving one or two.

I miss those old good days. Missing University and Hotel life.

When I started writing this blog post, I cant remember, but I want to finish it today-14th September.

Life seems to be busier these days. I hardly get any time to do anything on weekdays. On weekdays, I just need to take rest and days are passing just like that.

The job in a way is a rigorous one, that’s what I am finding but there is no alternative as well. I need to stick with it and complete all the tasks on time.

Though we put only 40 hours in our time sheet for a week (8hours*5 days), we actually end up working more than 55 hours per week. There is no alternative to it and I am just getting used to with it and enjoying the job.

My work is based at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India and I work in Indirect Tax Department where I need to advise clients on the issues of Customs Laws, Excise, VAT, Entry Tax, Profession Tax and on issues of dumping and anti-dumping duty.

Today, it feels strange writing this blog after a long time. I did not post anything almost for 9 months. The pressure of study and work was always there but it was more to do with sheer laziness. Being a human beings, the greatest obstacle in our life is not working and being controlled by our laziness. That I hate but unfortunately can not escape from the grip of it.

I am not sure how often I will be updating this page and how often U readers, can see a new post on it. But, there will be a constant endeavour from my side to update it regularly.

After completing my undergraduate, I had desire to study my Masters, LLM but for the time being, it has been stalled. I hope to revive my desire to be student again and go to colleges/ University. Though Lawyers are supposed to study always and our job requirements require it, I am not that able to devote my time fully on my study. I am constantly struggling and struggling.

I am looking forward to great September and half of October. I am flying to Mumbai tomorrow for my training arranged by my office. It is a five days training and I will be back to Hyderabad on 19th Friday nights. Saturday and Sundays are holiday. So, I have great weekdays and weekends. Again, there is another two days Human Resource Induction Training in Hyderabad. That means I need not go to office those days. So, my office days in September are effectively reduced to very few days. In October, I am attending only one day, that is October First and then, head home to Nepal, Jhapa District for Dashain. It is the Dashain that I am looking forward to attend after a long gap of five years. I will be in Home in Dashain and I can’t imagine how great it is going to be.

And this is all from my side about me and my job. Now, forgetting about me and job, generally, life is good in India. But, these days, there are frequent bomb blasts in major cities in India carried out by Terrorists. That really worries us. There are people who are fighting in the name of religion and are really motivated to kill innocent citizens and people who have not committed any mistakes in life. It is sad for us to watch everyday that kind of news and after that the plight of victims and their next kin. There is a strong need to break the back of terrorists. I hope that porous border of Indo- Nepal has not been mis-utilized to carry out these dastardly activities.

Comrade Prachanda is coming to India as Nepalese Prime Minister. We hope that he raises many issues that have put Nepal in unfavorable situation in the past. He should talk on the issues of cross border terrorism, greater economic cooperation, greater cooperation in energy sector, Education, Infrastructure Development and issues of terrorisms. Now, Nepal has enormous task to make country suitable for foreign direct investment and Indian companies are the best suited to expand there. There are a lot of potential gains that we can receive from India.

And, let’s see how the events unfold in coming days. Keep on visiting my page. I will be back with regular updates in coming days, hopefully.