My ode to flowers

Because nothing helps you forget the pain you are in, like flowers. 

I created these simple flower cards to make my day and hopefully it will make your day as well. Although too much fluorescent effect on these might smart your eyes for a while. Beginner photoshopper.

Feel free to use them as you like. I wont be copy righting them or anything. If you want the large size (ever) for print or put up in as your desktop wallpaper, simply leave a comment or msg me, and i will provide them for free. I'm too tired of protecting photos.

nerd Mother's day enveloped in big talk(fit for Urban dictionary)

I think human beings human beings are a victim of their own intelligence and brain power, the one thing that they keep priding about in themselves. Me included, they never fail to mention this that they are more highly developed species of all with the capacity to empathize, and other superior power.

This very power that lets us be so superior grips us forever and never lets us be free.  Its too complicated. We, human beings, carry the burden of being superior. We carry all the love, all the hatred, all the regret, all the longings and hopes, all the aspirations and rage, that we can never simply forget or undo. Too much complicated brain that will never stop working until your whole machine stops. "With great power, comes great responsibility". With great responsibility, comes great burden.

A woman, once she becomes a mother, can never forget her child. The love of a human is so strong, the brain is so superbly charged to love and feel that love, that a mother will never forget her child. They grow, and become old, and retain nothing of the innocent vulnerable kid that they once were but a mother will always love. Her superbly functioning brain is incapable of not loving.

one of those days when you want to be so "philosophical"

So many ideas come along, get around my brain, keep me awake all night sometimes, agonize me all through the day until finally they give up and limp away into oblivion. Never to be remembered again. If by some chance, it was thought of, that would be when the talk would be of the dead, the long gone.

So many people are jealous of me. I am jealous of many more. Yet jealousy from either side makes no sense. Everyone who has known life enough knows that it doesn't make sense to be jealous of anyone. Everyone's life has a few shining moments. Everyone's life is messed up. Basically everyone's life is just that. Life.

The Shangri-La Less Travelled

(Also published with huge edits in the Kathmandu post as a photo story, follow this link.)

Before your eyes is a breathtaking view, probably one that falls among the most spectacular of nature's creation that you are ever likely to witness. In front of you is an enchanting lake whose colors you have not quite been able to put a name on. Blue, purple, turquoise, brown, black...! Lake Phoksundo keeps changing its shade and there's a different color wherever you put your eyes on. The lake is surrounded by massive picturesque cliffs that juts towards the sky as far as the eyes can see. On top of everyone of them is sheer white snow that seems like a finely adjusted cap with little rivulets running down their crevices. And beyond these cliffs are real snowy mountains. The Kanjiroba range stretches leisurely all along the Northern side of this already compelling view. Now, unglue your eyes for a while and turn your back. What do you see? A dream like little hamlet with thatched little houses sitting in a gentle sloping meadow, ancient stupas spaced all over with wind blown colorful flags atop them, and jaw dropping white mountains completing the circle of paradise that you are in. If you were searching for a hidden Shangri-La seek no more for your quest ends in this little enclave of nature. If you forgot for a while where you were, you are in the Shey-Phoksundo National Park of Dolpa district and right now you are enjoying an unprecedented view of the Lake Phoksundo through your vantage point at Ringmo village. 

In front of you is an enchanting lake...

Funny Man who knows the truth

I wanted to make the title of this post "Funny Man Ben Ayers" but then I thought it might not go too well with him considering the serious stuff he is doing, and it would also sound like a post where I would be ridiculing him or for people who don't know him, it might sound like i'm babbling about some comedy actor from Hollywood.

And with this disclaimer, I will chatter a few lines about a man who I found have really impressed me. It is not easy to impress me, ask my boyfriend. He knows how hard it is to "impress" me. He climbed half the Everest, left his job and even found a flat in Kathmandu. None of which impressed me. Not at all. Ben Ayers might be the only person who actually made me say "well he is cool" from deep down inside me. After my 20s,  I altogether left the habit of being impressed, being swept away by ideas, by personalities and  big talks. In a nutshell, I became a cynic and am to this day. People who have dealt with cynics know how hard it is to impress a cynical person. Even if they are impressed, they will never say it out loud. To openly endorse someone as being impressive by a cynic. Now that's BIG. And that's what I found this person to be. Ben Ayers to be. BIG.

Big as in great, big as in expert, big as being someone who knows what he is talking about. Someone who has understood the difference between the projected image of Nepal and the real Nepal. He is an American working in the field of development in Nepal, for over a decade I guess. Otherwise in less than that time it is hard for anyone to understand the Nepali mentality and reality to that bare naked level.

Why is he funny then? Because he knows all the slapstick way in which jokes are made in Nepal. He touches the real crux of Nepali funny bone. Oh he knows what he is talking about. He laughs along with Nepali people. Because he is also one of us now. Those slapstick way of joking really tickles him as much as it does us.


The only downside might be that he has acted in a Kollywood(Nepali) action movie. Ewwwww.