Bits and pieces

There were many bits and pieces of information I could have written after September 10th but the precious blogging time always eluded me. In other words this also explains how hectic this semester has become, even in its early days. These are the short description of some of those bits and pieces that I would have loved to share with you in detail.

Environment

Naturally, Fall is going great. Weather is warm and pretty. Green grass, sky-blue sky, bright yellow sun, colorful happy people, broken white-bright moon and millions of stars, I am enjoying absolutely everything. But the things which are spreading elegance are leaves. Green leaves, Red leaves, Yellow leaves, and falling leaves. Leaves of all categories are adding beauty. Falling leaves are much better than falling rain and way much better than falling snow (which is not too far away). I must thank nature god for everything.

Continued tradition

Sometimes in sports (like in any other field) tradition are followed and maintained dramatically. There might be some dramatic twists but the end results remain the same. Yes, I am taking about recently concluded Twenty20 cricket world cup. South Africa again maintained their choker tag. They lost only one match in the tournament but could not even reach semifinals. They continued their tradition of getting out of the major tournament under most dramatic circumstances. New Zealand followed their tradition of losing semifinals to Pakistan. NZ played really well until they met Pakistan in semifinals. And one tradition which was maintained twice in the tournament was Pakistan losing a world cup match to India. Overall Pakistan has won more matches than India in their head to head encounters but in world cup Pakistan is always the loser and it was continued even in the short format of the game.

American adoration

People, especially from the developing country (or say “Third world” to be more straight forward) never get tired of glorifying America and Americans. Most of the times they are correct and many systems (or institution) from third world country never even come close to comparison with their American counterparts. But what I do not enjoy is, sometimes people get so carried away in American adoration that they get pretty close to becoming servile flatterers. I recall one incident when somebody was comparing Nepalese children to American children. According to that person American child are so cute, clean, smart, lively, logical, well mannered, astutely acute …. Blah blah blah and Nepalese child are so disheveled, vile, filthy, boorish, ill mannered…….Blah blah blah, as if that person was never a Nepalese child and was directly dropped as Nepalese adult (which S/he currently is) from the heaven over his/her parents roof ( “By Mistake” S/he might rue)

Raman - One of the cartoon caracter that I used to read in my childhood

Can U guess the conversation ?

Fall Reloaded

Well I am back, finally after a long long break, Longest since I started blogging. There were too many minor events, majority of which I am unable to recollect precisely right at this moment. I was planning to write on few different things but just could not manage time. Summer just went past. Money wise it was Ok, Work wise- Good, Weather wise – Great, Design wise- Bad. So on an average my first summer in Brookings was pretty good and most of the times I enjoyed it. I was pretty excited to be back to school on 4th of September and I still am. It was nice to see new excited faces and old happy and some satisfied (may be with break) faces.

Also in my personal news is my “old looking new car”. Old looking because it in fact is really old. Its 14 yr old, Mazda Protégé. New because it’s a new addition to my life. I never had a car before and may not have a truly new one for some yrs to come. Being the only car I have ever driven it automatically qualifies for the position of “Best car” I have ever driven. I hope many interesting things to unfold this fall and except the excitement loaded by the reloaded fall will last long.