Its a 90s Nepali Kids things ....

As a kid back in those days, we have few of the common things that everyone brought up in Nepal understands. Here are seven of the Nepali childhood  Clichés  that all of can easily relate to . If there are any please mention it to the comment below :)

1.    Sing Rato Tika Nidharma every time we play Antakshari.

Ever since I remembered playing Antakshari , Raato tika Nidharma talakka talkiyo has always been sung once in the game , it is the one song that we never miss to sing . Our very own song.  Then comes  Rato Rani fule jhai sajha ma….. and   Paan ko paat maya timlai samjinchu din ko raat Marshyandi shalala..

 2 Saturday is our compulsory Bathing and Meat eating day.

Even though we always waited for Saturday because it used to be our only day off (most of ours) and the day to eat Masu , we always had to take a compulsory shower on a Saturday . after which we could enjoy the Hindi movie sessions in Nepal television .

 3 Dashain meant that we have to have brand new clothes .

Well whenever we thought of Dashain we thought that we have to brand new clothes. We consider it our most beneficial day where we wear new clothes, eat good food and even get money . Bingo, we all love Dashain. (especially girls )

 4 We go Temples on our birthday.

Bathing and going to temple is compulsory on our birthday. we feel all of a sudden very religious and we feel a pool of blessings coming for us on our birthday . like all the gods are showing favouritism to us , in return we also become very open hearted and donate money and food as well. After all its our Happy Birthday :D

5 Momo love. .

There was a time when the basic idea of going to a restaurant was to eat momos. Just to eat momos. When the idea of celebrating occasion was to have momos. Like , it’s a Nepali new year , “my mommy made momo and we enjoyed it for Happy new year ”  or “my cousin sister returned from hostel and we had a momo party”

 6. We loved orange balls and Lacto fun

The reason we loved orange balls were because it tasted great,plus we could literally get 4 for a rupee,  .only thing affordable to us. And how can we forget our own lacto fun and its wrapper. We literally used to stretch it out till we get it as long as our arms and then what next??? Well from where I grew up if we made three of those , we could get 1 for free.  In those days if anyone allowed you to have a chewing gum was a great deal of trust, “remember honey you are supposed to chew and throw it not swallow it” were the strict instructions.

7.  Watch meena cartoon and moomin

The funny like that said “Radha o Radha Kina na boleko “ is from Meena cartoon and we all loved our very own parrot Meethu  and his famous lines like “Charpi gaye pachi, khana khanu vanda agadi ani kehi fohor chalayema sabun pani le haat dhuni garau”, and we loved Moomin as well. Till now many of us have no idea what animal Moomin is (even I got no clue) but we all loved the cartoon , politeness of the family and our Little Sanu Maya with her over the top attitude. 

Empty Mind

Currently I have an empty mind. I think of things then I prevent myself from going too deep on the matter. Then I think of another one and same thing happens.

I see the news of the acid attack, I feel sad now I surely want to stand up against it. But is the dress really blue and black or white and gold? I have already changed my mind. I really don’t know what is wrong with me or maybe everyone feels the same.

But my mind is so empty. Now as I type I will not bother to re read the lines again because if I do I will not even remember writing them .  I have not being doing drugs . may be I'm getting old or crazy.

There are so many things to worry about and I want be indulged in it but I see no perfect option for me. Then again I think lets be selfish and enjoy the life carefree and still I cannot do than too.  I am surely losing my mind over it.

I want to find a job , maybe that will help me focus a bit on something. But what job? Where? I feel  ashamed of asking my parents for money every time, but there is no other options.  If I ask them for permission to do a job they will say NO for sure.

They say no a lot , ‘can I join politics? And go to the rallies?’ “NO”, ‘can I work out somewhere, I sit idly at home all day after college’ “NO”,

They surely say NO a lot maybe it because they are afraid that I might be unsafe , that I be thrown acid on me, or kidnapped or abused.

My mind is so empty, I sit idly staring at the internet all day and worrying if the dress is blue or whatever. I know many things and yet I know nothing. I have stopping competing with the world nowadays, I have never started listening to Ed Sheeran , and moved back to the Beatles.  The fancy  new boy band doesn't impress me now, I like Pantera better.

I am twenty years old. A youth.  Instead of indulging myself in some work. I have an empty mind. I have no idea about what am I typing now.  And I am having a serious identity crisis.  

Better An Ignorant than a Hypocrite !

I am one of the thousands of ignorant youths of Nepal. Right now I am more concerned about the ways I can be celebrating the New Year. The last time I thought about my country was when the elections were running and I got the chance to vote for the first time. Oh wait! no, it was the last time when I thought anything good about my country. I had hopes that my vote will matter and I would be giving my part of contribution towards the development of Nepal. 

Soon after that I had jotted down the bad points about it so that I could convince my parents, family and friends on Nepal Is not a secure place, and that I should be allowed to go abroad for my further studies. I don’t know how I failed on that and got STUCK here for few more years. 

So let’s restart my intro: I am a Nepali youth; sometimes I volunteer in some NGO because they pay me, at least with certificates; other days, I ignore the text messages sent by Nepal Telecom asking me to give a hand for Bagmati Cleaning Campaign.

I post pictures saying animal cruelty is bad and pretending to be against it, at least in these social media platforms I am against animal cruelty. The real life case: yesterday I asked my maid to throw a mug of cold water on the kittens that were disturbing my sleep by making too much noise. 

Sometimes I think I am a good person. I try my best not to use plastic bags. I leave my seat for some elderly people in a public vehicle, I pick up wrappers off the road and put them in a garbage can.

On other days, all I do is talk loud, talk big and just keep on talking... These days at night I think I fear that I have become a "Hypocrite"...
Sometimes I think it is better to be absolutely ignorant than to know something and act very less but talk too much. So let me go in a new path now, I want to do something, my new year plan is to make a difference, I won’t say that I will act immediately on it, I’ll wait for the right time when it strikes me. When I feel triggered. But more than anything, till then I will think more and definitely talk less!!