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US

I love us.

I love Bhunti’s dummm dummm and puiii puiii.

I love when Soniya does her classic “hand on the hip” move when she’s making a bold statement.

I love Menkhu’s bubbly nature.

I love how Anku is always the victim of funny pictures.

I love Karma’s laid back nature and how he’s cool about everything.

I love the fact that Dorjee and myself are always with our cameras wherever we go.

I love how easy going all of us are.

I love the weird telepathic understanding we have between each other.

I love that fact that we all come from diverse educational backgrounds, (one from hotel management, one medical, one architecture, two accountancy and two business) and the amount of things we can learn from each other is ample.

I love the similarities we share in terms of cultural background.

I love how we can take each others phone and know the passcode for each phone.

I love how we’ve seen each other grow and mature.

I love the moments of silence we have when we’re sitting together and the fact that we’re all comfortable with it.

I love how our parents have know each other even before we met one another.

I love how we’re each others back-up, except for Karma, damn we need to find a back-up for Karma.

I love the skype conference calls that we have.

I love us.

Together Again

What are the chances of 6 friends scattered all over the globe coming together ? Very small I suppose.

But the universe works in uncanny ways at times. I feel no matter where you are in the world and how far apart you are from your loved ones, you will definitely meet. The world has never been so connected as it is today. One moment you can be trekking in the scenic patagonia glaciers in southern Chile, and another moment you can be in an corporate office in Singapore writing a report on the minefields in China. You could be paragliding in Nepal one moment, the same day you could be serving a customer in a bookstore in Sydney. That’s how easy it is to get around from one continent to another.

This leads me to our story, the story of 7 friends from Nepal, who went their separate ways to pursue their dreams after high school. Dorjee, Karma to Melbourne, Soniya to Sydney, Anku to Switzerland, Mingma to New Mexico, America, Menkhu to Pune, India and myself to Singapore.During our countless skype conversation we always pondered about the day we’d all be together again, and that day was always thought to be one of our wedding day (That was how low the probability of us all getting together was.)

And now we’r all here except Menkhu who’s having here exams back in India. Each one of us has a story that led us to Nepal at the same time.

Anku was here first sometime in September 2010 after completing his bachelor in Hotel Management from Switzerland, he’s desperately looking for a job overseas but has been waiting in vain. Since Anku was in Singapore before he went to Switzerland it’s been 1.5 years since I saw him.

Then came myself, after my visa expired in Singapore I had no option but to come back to Nepal on 22nd of October 2010 with the hope of going to Tasmania, Australia in Feb 2011 to attend architecture school, but unfortunately I’ve been tested positive with TB and my student visa is on hold until July. Hopefully everything goes well for the July intake. 

Mingma arrived here on the 27th of Feb from New Mexico, America. Technically she does not have any holidays but she came back for 3 weeks to celebrate Losar with her family and loved ones. The last time I meet her was in May 2008.

Soniya had applied for a residency and had made up her mind to come back once it was approved, but she got tired waiting for an answer and came back as well. I have not meet her ever since she went to study back in January 2007, which makes it 4 years 1 month since the last time I met her. 

Karma, Dorjee and myself, we go way back into time. We’ve know each other since kindergarten. Went to the same primary,secondary and high school. Our parents knew each other even before we were born.

Karma came back a week back from Melbourne, too bad he couldn’t pass his university exams and came back to give himself a break. The last time we met was in January 2009 when he was in Singapore for a holiday. 

Dorjee is coming tonight from Hong kong where he lives now with his parents and younger sister.

It seems as if all this was pre-planned, Anku not getting a job, me not getting my visa, Soniya’s residency, Karma’s not passing his exams.

What ever has happened has happened for the good I guess, I am glad we’r all together once again and I cant wait for the road trip to Pokhara this monday. It’s gonna be an EPIC one!!!!!!!!!

God Bless Japan and it’s people.

Being your own Boss

It’s great being your own boss, but attached with it come a lot of responsibility. It’s great because you don’t have to follow orders and you can work at your own free will, you make all the decisions, the materials to be used, the colour scheme, the layout, the graphics, and everything that is involved the the process of designing. But there’s a catch to it especially if your a young inexperienced designer.

When in design school we’r so used to asking our lectures anything and everything when in doubt and consulting them about the design it sticks to us in a way. I’ve now realized the importance of being independent and making your own decisions regarding everything from the initial stages of deriving the concept to the smallest details of the finished product. 

Right now I have no one to ask when am unsure of certain things. At times I get this mixed feeling (scared, nervous, anxious) about the whole thing. Questions like, am I doing it right?, what if it dosent work out?, how is this and that done?, keep huddling around my mind. But I’ve realized that there’s no right or wrong and if something dosent work out, at least you’ve learned something out of it and you probably wont make the same mistake ever again. The important thing is not to be afraid, being a coward gets you nowhere, after all no ones perfect. 

Another important thing I’ve learned on working on my own is confidence. Never show the other party that your inexperienced even if you are. Be prepared and be confident. Show them that your the best at what you do and trust me they will come back to you.