A week in one day.

Today was awesome.

Usually I'm not the type of person who loves being busy.

I'm not lazy, I just like having nothing to do, which doesn't seem to happen very often in my life.

But today, after a gloomy and un fun weekend, I had this day. This day with a whole week worth of stuff jammed into one.

But I loved it. 

Oh and whatever happened today happened in Daura Suruwal.

My National cultural dress.

So today started with being a bit late for World Geo, then I decided to go help out at the ISP display table instead of Karate class which seemed kinda impossible in these tight pants.

So I talked to master Briggs.

Had a bit of a conversation with the master when the question where I was from popped up..

I told him I'm from Nepal.

To my surprise, turns out he's been to Nepal once every year since 2003.

We talked a bit about his adventure there and plans to return next April.

After that went and helped set up the ISP table and also with prep for ISA the fashion show.

Then wrote some people's names in Nepali on the back of bookmarks that we made yesterday.

Waiting for the fashion show.

Leading up to which I tried looking for the awesome thing that I call my flag, which was no where to be found. So had to carry a banner with Nepal written on it.

No offence to the person who made that, but I'd rather had had the flag instead.

Anyways, The show.

"It was fun" would be an understatement. It was grand, awe inspiring,  from start to finish.

After the show, helped with the ICBS event "Focus on Brazil"

This was great, lots of people showed up, personally learned a lot of stuff about Brazilian culture, got interested in capoeira, was too shy to go try it when asked for volunteers.

Anyway then got interviewed along with Khidir by Cat.

Then went to the screening of "7 years in Tibet".

I can't believe I hadn't seen this movie, especially since most of the people who find out I'm a mixed Tibetan talk to me about it. About the movie, I'm no reviewer so I better keep my trap shut.

Anyway met Yogendra Dai and Junu didi there too.

Well that's pretty much it. I just wanted to shorten my blogs since I've been ranting too much recently.

Oh almost forgot to mention ISP is now official.

Will be looking forward to the birthday next year.

3 days till break and 5 days till Achala!

So until next time, Shockyab out \m/.

cold november rain...

Sounds corny but that's what happened the whole weekend.

So I was in no mood to go out, Friday or Saturday despite some encouragement from some random people I talked to on the elevator.

So Just stayed in the whole gloomy mundane weekend.

Worked on a presentation, did some school work, worked 4 shifts at Rialto made some greens :)

There was at least some activity on Saturday. We had a momo party for Dhargyal la.

This is Dhargyal la

He's been here for almost a year and is going back to India this winter.

The momo party was at Acha Yeshi's place.

From my place to her's is actually a straight walk, but now there's a humongous construction site in the middle of this path.

And to add insult to injury, it was raining as I mentioned earlier.

And then to top it all off it was dark as death.

Then put in a large pool of quick sand into the equation, and voila ! you get a drowning kid with new converse and clean jeans covered in mud.

Not a pleasant sight.

But I'm still alive so, no worries.

Anyways, went to the momo party, canged to Acha Yeshi's sweat pants and pink flip flops (oh yes i did).

Then its Sunday.

Sunday not really a fun day, just another rainy day-off.

Worked almost the whole day, then took pictures to promote "Focus on Brazil"

I can't believe that was a weekend.

But next week Achala is gonna be here.YAY!!

Hope it doesn't rain the whole week.

Anyway so until next time, Shockyab out \m/

College kicks ass!

College kicks ass!!

of college kids to be precise.

It's been kickin' mine for quite some time now.

I find little time between school work, work work, organisational stuff and a bit of a social life.

That time I spend either wasting on you tube videos or listing to music.

This week started out nice.

No tests, few reading assignments, just 1 quiz and just a little busy preparing for "Focus on Brazil".

The "Focus" series is a chain of events that ICBS (International Club for Business Students) an organisation that I am involved in organizes.

So far we have done "Focus on Japan" 

No complaining. I took it with my cell phone camera. Not too shabby for a 2 mega pixel camera.

And next week is our second event "Focus on Brazil"

We also have a couple of other events thought up, Focus on Russia, which we'll be talked about soon, Focus on Malaysia, Focus on Nepal and Focus on Khidir.

The last one's a gag, just so you know.

These events are basically exposures to the general cultures of these countries, although we try to focus on the business culture because our group is made up of business students.

Anyway moving on.

On monday I was given an unexpected chance to represent ISP in front of NISG which is our school government. I had to talk to them about why our organisation is beneficial to the university and the students. I prepared for it before hand with some much needed help from Khidir again.

The talk went smooth and they said they'd let us know about their decision later in the week.

Before all this, on sunday my friend Shang was working at Smore's the ice cream place, which I just so happen to pass by. On that occasion he offered to surprise me with an awesome cone, which I couldn't refuse.

Can't really say that I was surprised, but this is what I got.

A five scoop monstrosity (which I had already started devouring by the time I took this picture.)

Base scoop of orange sherbet, toped with scoops of coffee, cookie and cream, birthday cake and finally a scoop of heath bar (I think)

It's fun to have friends in high places, hehe.

Speaking of high places one of my friends from Nepal found himself in a high place when he bought a new Ibanez 350DX.

Beautiful :")

BTW the guy who got this is Biplav or Lapey as we call him

I just realized I haven't talked much about my friends from back home.

Will have to dedicate some post to them, miss them :(

Any ways another thing reminding me of home these days are these clouds. 

Iowa does't have mountains. 

I'd be lying if I said I don't miss the mountains surrounding Kathmandu.

Here in Iowa these clouds (which I was too lazy to try and find pictures of) lingering in the horizon give me the false impression of mountains surrounding a valley.

Anyways, coming back to reality

Have a Karate grading tomorrow, and then need to look forward toward next week. 

Which has Focus on Brazil, International fassion show on campus for which I will be modeling (-_-') then the screening of 7 years in Tibet at the International Film festival on campus, then 2 tests,1 paper,1 quiz and also preparations for Achala's visit the week after. 

Holy Crap that's a lot of stuff I need to take care of.

So until next time, Shockyab out \m/

off track for something meaningful.

This is highly unusual of me, getting off my routine and writing another post even though no mentionable current events have occurred since my last post.

Any ways I dedicate this post to La Familia.

Theres a lot of stuff going on concerning my family right now.

First thing. 

This past week in Nepal was Tihar (तिहार) which is also know as Diwali (in India), the festival of lights

.

I love it, the bright lights, children singing Deusi / Bhailo (something like Christmas carols), firecrackers, good food, just the festive feeling in the air and being with the family.

If you want to know more about Tihar here a link to a wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihar_(festival)

Second thing.

Its thanksgiving!! 

And my sister gonna be here in Cedar Falls!

I am excited about this, have the whole week planned, sorta.

Last year I went to North Carolina for thanksgiving and had an awesome time, so need to repay the debt :)

Third thing.

I'm going home!!

When winter strikes its sickest winds, bears its blizzardous (yeah I just made up a word) fangs, I'm gonna pack my bags and be true to the saying "when the going gets tough the tough get going."

This December It's back to the motherland, and accompanying me on this journey is Jon.

This will be the first time for Jon traveling out of the Americas or the western hemisphere.

Gonna be staying there for about 2 weeks, Chitwan, Pokhara, Nagarkot, Dhulikhel, you name it we'll be there.

Last thing.

Construction.

I despise construction and renovation, but my parents seem to love it. 

They are building a new house right now so, they're going to be a bit occupied when Jon and I get there.

I  also recently heard that they are adding a couple of rooms on the roof of our current house for me and Jon to stay in.

 Totally unnecessary, I'd say. But its pretty awesome.

Thanks aamla pala.

Well thats all I had to blab about.

I'll be continuing with this, the next time anything interesting comes up.

So until next time, Shockyab out \m/

lost count, but still writing.

Never had I imagined that I would write so much, I'd end up loosing count of how many pieces I wrote.

Well its all in good fun, spilling my emotions, writing about the stuff that goes on in the life of a not so normal college kid in the middle of the Iowa

Any way, let's pick up from where we always do, Friday.

 It seems like the only stuff I write about is the weekends. But you gotta understand that I'm in college, I cannot come up with witty one liners, jamming my head into an International Relations book.

Any ways, Friday.

Friday was Khidir's 2 year anniversary of being married to the gym. 

For this special day he wanted to rejuvenate the spark with his soul mate. 

So he basically wanted to celebrate it with an intense workout which needed a bit of motivation.

So me and Jerome offered our valuable (NOT!) assistance.

We kept him motivated by doing them along with him, which did not turn out to be such a bright Idea for me, because we didn't have much time to warm up. 

So I ended up cramping my hamstring again. But I still managed to follow the craziness.

Then Jerome decided to run, so me and Khidir went to play some ping pong.

We were later joined on another table by 4 pros 2 Nepali and 2 Chinese.

They were pretty awesome.

While we on the other hand we weren't exactly playing ping pong, it was more like kicking the gods of ping pong in the groin. 

I mean we are Asians, we are suppose to be good at this crap, we were so bad that our game was entertainment for some kids near by.

Moving on, After that we headed to the Mauker Union, the place were things go down, because most of the union is underground. 

Lame? Ah don't complain its 1:20 in the morning, you can't possibly expect Eddie Izzard from me.

Any who, we went to the union where there was a huge multicultural event going on.

The African, Hispanic, and Black student unions combined for a ginormus event showcasing their culture.

We stayed there for a while and then decided to pull off the once failed mission of watching "A Bug's Life" at the Asian house.

We succeeded, so there we were again, watching another Disney classic at the Asian house.

After the movie we walked the ladies home, and thats all for friday.

Saturday started with work, then continued with a well deserved swim. 

Then some school work and work again, 

Well actually today I went to work at UNI catering after a long time. 

I worked for an hour, I t was fun because I got to work with Yogen Dai(Brother in Nepali).

This is Yogen Dai.

After that I got went to a party at the house where Shang, Yujin, UJ, Adam, Randy and the chinese professor reside.

There met a lot of familiar faces I hadn't seen for a long time, experienced a real rap battle, played cards, and then went and got chinese take out.

So here I am, in my room, with chicken fried rice on one leg and my lap top on the other, writing this thingy.

Oh and one thingI forgot to mention Today we started daylight saving, so we wind our clocks back 1 hour, which means it is technically 1 50 right now, even though my watches are showing 2 50. 

Holly crap this is late, better get to bed.

Until next time, Shockyab out \m/