Review of "Babel"

After coming to Dhangadi, the most difficult thing for me was spending time during the weekend. And if I miss Pokhara on any day then it was especially during the weekend…especially the swimming in Begnas and Pame, bike ride to Sarangkot and hanging around in chipledhunga and infront of Binayak store with no any reason. Oops…..how carefree were those days………… but after coming to Dhangadi all those beautiful moments were gone…………...neither here are any such beautiful places nor I have any good companion…….…for me the only thing to do during the weekened was either facebooking or watching movie. So during my last visit to Pokhara I bought lots of DVDs from “Music Mania” to watch during the weekend. There were almost around 30 – 40 DVDs. I had thought they would help me for at least next six months…but guess what I finished them just in a month. Sometimes for the whole day during the weekend there was no any thing to do so my routine was just sitting in the room and watching movies. But among such list of movies there were only a few I enjoyed and some movies I didn’t even completed because I didn’t like to watch till the end after watching for 15 minutes.

But one of the best movie among these was Babel….it was very good and was surprised after watching this movie …… the only thing that came in my mind after watching the movie was “Oh my god ! how can someone be so creative and link the stories in such a way”…..yeah the movie made provided me a huge refreshment and I couldn’t stop myself from writing the blog.

The movie is shot in four countires Morocco, Japan, Mexico and America. The greatest thing I enjoyed is the plot created which links the event in one country to another. In Morocco a bus carrying tourists is shot by two children who are looking after goats. They actually wanted to test how far their newly bought rifle hits and they target at the tourist bus. Among a American couple in the bus the lady is hit by the bullet on her neck. The search for how the rifle came takes the story to Japan. A Japanese hunter who was once in Morocco gave the rifle to his guide while returning to Japan. This Japanese man has a deaf and dumb adolescent daughter who is eager to break her virginity. While all her friends are dating with guys and having fun she has no any male friend and when guys know she is dumb they avoid her, this makes the girl frustrated. The story plot of the movie also revolves around USA and Mexico. The couple who were shot in the bus in Morocco have two kids in their home in USA and a Mexican maid is looking after them. The maid wants a leave for a day to attend her sons wedding in Mexico but she finds no one to look after the babies. So she takes the babies to Mexico along with her and the kids also enjoy the wild Mexican party. While returning to USA from Mexico the driver who is drunk gets into scuffle with police. Finally the couple shot in Morocco is rescued to USA with series of failed attempts.

The most interesting part of the movie is getting to know about life in rural part of Morocco and getting acquainted with wild Mexican party. The sexual desire of a deaf and dumb Japanese adolescent girl is well portrayed in the movie. The love and care shown by Mexican caretaker to the American kids is portrayed very well. It was horrible to watch the way a vetenary doctor in Morocco sews the neck of American girl hit by bullet.

The best part of movie is it gives a multicultural taste. The movie is worth watching and is a good time pass.

Back to blog after a year

I was once addicted to it. It was my hobby, it was my passion and one of my favorite time pass (another favorite time pass was facebooking). At that time I was doing my MPH and I used to have lots of free time…….the college life..it was simply the best…..so one of my daily job after returning from college used to be blogging…….don’t know wh yi gave it up…..but it has been more that a year since I stopped blogging.

At that time it used to have lots of fun through blogging…...i even met with many bloggers and we used to be good friends…though we have never met each other it was like a routine for us to go through each others blog and post the comment……..i don’t know where these friends are now….

Few months back I joined new job…….…..there were lots of deadline and lots of work and never had time to return to blogging……..suddenly last week in a staff retreat I was awarded blogger of the year…....i never expected such award and at a point I felt ashamed as well, because it had already been around a year I had stopped blogging and I was being awarded the blogger of the year… “are they kidding me with this award……” t I asked to myself......I thought..it’s a praise for me to start blogging again……...then I made a commitment that I should start blogging right now….

There are few advantages of blogging…the first and the most important tthing is that blogging is like a auto suggestion for you. Sometimes when you are too sad or to happy then just type a small paragraph and post in a blog. You will feel relax. It is just like capturing the best moment in camera…..another good point in blogging is that if you want to be a successful person in life then you must be a blogger…..ha ha ha…might be funny…but ya its true…..if you read the biographies of the most successful persons in the world they you will find two most common habit in all the successful persons in the world one is the reading habit and the other is writing the daily journal. So everyday before going to bed take a diary and jot down the activities of the day in a narrative way that is a key to success in life……….

Paa……it could have been better.

I don’t know whether it was my high expectation or whether the movie itself was not up to the mark, but I was not much satisfied after watching the movie. After watching the movie, I was feeling like something is missing. The only thing that came in my mind after watching the movie was it could have been much better than this……..After watching the promos of the movie I was making my own expectations from the movie Paa. I was thinking this movie must be of same standard like “Black” and “Tare Zammen Par” and I can confidently say that this movie (paa) is not up to that standard.

The movie is about a child suffering from a rare medical disease called progeria in which the growth of child is five times more than his normal growth. The movie has well portrayed the son father relationship and it is the strongest part of the movie. The shortcoming in the movie is it has tried to show politics and love as well. The movie I think is also suffering from the old concept that there must be some songs in a movie…….so the unnecessary songs has got the space in the movie.(some may find it good, but the songs were very boring for me). The confusing characters of Abhishek Bachan first as a lover boy, then as a politician and finally as a good father is the thing I didn’t like in the movie. Instead of that it would have been better if the director would have sticked to son father relationship. The most enjoyable part is real life son (Abhishek) playing as reel life father of his real life father (Amitabh). I call it a perfect tribute from son to his father. Another weak part of the movie is that the face of child suffering from progeria (Amitabh Bachhan) has been too disfigured……..it could have been made much better. I read in news that a lawyer in India has even filled a case in court against director for making the face too much disfigured and humiliating the disabled people. I don’t know who wins the case but I only know that the face also could have been made attractive and better. Despite all these shortcomings the acting of Amitabh Bachhan is superb, some lessons about entrepreneurship and vision India are appreciable and Vidhya Balan has done full justice to her character.

If there were no any song and it had stuck to the son father relationship……..the movie would have been far better. However the movie is worth watching………..

टाला टुली बटुली कती राम्री पुतली

टाला टुली बटुली कती राम्री पुतली. We all of us must have read or at least heard this rhyme during our childhood. For most of us it is nothing more than a rhyme. But youths from Alternatives (a youth led organisation in Pokhara) were so moved by this sentence that for them it was more than a rhyme. They sensed some enterpreneurhsip culture in this rhyme and it gave rise to a programme called Tala tuli batuli kati ramri putali.

The programme is very simple and easy but it worths a billion dollar. As per this programme the Alternatives team went to Bal Mandir school and gave orientation to the students there on entrepreneurship. The students then had to prepare some goods, toys, decoration items or any other useful things from something being unused or thrown out. There were motorboats, bicycles, houses, dolls etc prepared by students from unused things. All the creations from students were evaluated by a panel of judges and the top five were awarded with prizes.

I have read somewhere “Even a stopped clock gives right time twice a day”. So nothing in this world is useless. The only thing is we need to have skills to use it. This was the main theme of the programme "Tala tuli batuli kati ramri putali". And the students of Bal mandir of pokhara have proved it. The students contributed in reducing the waste as well as the entrepreneurship culture has been incorporated in them since their childhood. If this programme is run in all schools it helps in reducing the burden of waste in our society and keeps our environment clean where as on the other hand it helps students in creative thinking and proliferates entrepreneurship culture in them since their childhood.

Don't Quit

When things go wrong
as they sometimes will

When the road you are trudging seems all uphill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you have to smile but you have to sigh
When care is pressing down you a bit
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow

Success is failure turned inside out
The silver tint of the clouds of the doubt
And your nerves can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far
So stick to the flight when you are hardest hit
It’s when things seems worst you mustn’t quit.

(This is a poem from Shiva Khera’s book “You can win”. This is a poem which always gives be courage to challenge the situations through which I’m going right now. I just love this poem and whenever I go through it I get new courage and strengths especially in time of difficulties. Actually it is through this poem that I got title for my blog)

Time to rethink by all Public Health Personnels

I have just finished my Masters in Public Health (MPH). When I appeared in the final exam of MPH I have written many times that “Nepal is one of the countries to show highest progress in child mortality reduction, Nepal is likely to meet the MDG target of reduction of child mortality by 2015 and so on”. I have written these lines in good handwriting during the exams so that I may secure good marks. I have reiterated these lines many times in my class presentations and I even read these lines many times in many publications. And after few months when I go for job in any NGO/INGO/Government Organizations and when somebody asks me “What do you know about Child Health status of Nepal?” then again I have to repeat the same false lines that “Nepal is one of the country to show highest progress in Child mortality reduction, Nepal is likely to meet MDG goal of Child mortality reduction……blaw blaw blaw….”. I bet if you randomly draw five books from my cupboard at least in three of them you can read somewhere that Nepal has made huge progress in child mortality reduction.

Oh no………..I’m tired of it. The reality is, Nepal is a country where 150 children die of Diarrhea just in one month. When I share this story to my friend abroad he doesn’t believe it and says “Children dying of diarrhea in this 21st century……..Common guys where are you?” He doesn’t believe me and I have to send him links of news in the web.

I’m Public health personnel in a country where 150 children die in one month just because of diarrhea. And I become very happy on passing MPH in first division…………….shame on myself. If the hundreds of children die of diarrhea does it matter whether I pass or fail MPH, does it matter how much I earn by working in a NGO/INGO, does it matter how much marks I secure in exams. No I haven’t passed. I have failed. All public health graduates in this country have failed. All medical personnel of this country have failed and all paramedics have failed. All NGOs and INGOs have failed, the health system of this country has failed and all UN agencies in Nepal have failed.

Few days ago there was a kidney day and it was celebrated in my college by organizing a programme. There is no any doubt, it is good to raise awareness on people about their kidney, but what is the need of this country? Do we need a Kidney Day or Anti Diarrheal day?
Recently the Prime Minister (PM) himself visited the diarrhea affected areas and promised to give Rs 10,000 for every family who has lost a child due to diarrheas. What a stupid idea again…….? Instead of this if the PM had spent just 10,000 per VDC on raising awareness on diarrhea and provision of clean and safe drinking water just before the beginning of rainy season then all those children would have been saved. But…..who cares……………..this is Nepal and one gets attention here only after one dies and the PM also needs some good stuffs to gain popularity.

But again………………what am I doing to prevent the diarrhea……. Just writing this article and putting blame on others doesn’t solve the problem of diarrhea in Rukum and Jajarkot……….….I need to do something, otherwise even though my academic degree show I passed my exams I will be a failure in real life exams.

Exams are not yet over

Hurray ….the exams are over now. I will be having lots of free time. Now I can chat with friends for hrs and now I can spend hrs on facebook. In last two months my whole daily routines were crashed due to the exams. Neither I could update my blog nor could I chat long with friends….But now……wow…lots of free time……..While I was preparing for the exam I had made a list of to do things…..I can now complete them.

But how were the exams. Leave it man…………you have just completed them…the results will tell. But during the whole exam period one thing always hitted me hard “ ……..had I gone extra mile……had I read little more during the free time…….” I think this happens with all in every exam. You are never satisfied with your preparations……… you always regret in the last hours of preparations. “Why didn’t I go through detail on this chapter when I had lots of free time? Why I went to that party…….instead of that if I had gone through this chapter………? ” So and so……..You regret very much for each and every minutes you wasted. The regret becomes much severe if there comes a question in exam from the chapter you haven’t read thoroughly. You know on which book and on which handout answer of this particular question lies but you don’t know what the answer is. At that moment the only thing you can do by sitting on the exam hall is biting your pen and regretting the time you have wasted.

And another problem that I faced is when you are preparing for exams you feel like watching TV, you feel sleepy immediately after having dinner and you feel like going to movie with friends. And at that time you think if there were no exams………………… And today exams are over and guess what. I don’t feel like sleeping………… “Ajha jhan exam sakiyeko din nindrai lagdaina…….”. What to do…….I don’t have sleeping tablets. A good idea………….I went to my cupboard took out a book of epidemiology then started to read. Guess what happened……..I felt asleep in five minutes……………..A good replacement for sleeping tablet

But are my exams over………….? Oh no…what a silly thought I had. Still I have another six months to work on thesis. I think this will be tougher than my theory exams. Besides……….how can anyone’s exams be over just by appearing on a month long written exams ………….I still have many exams to appear ahead in my life………I will be having exams in each and every moment of my life. There will be someone, somewhere always evaluating me based on my performance, based on my language, based on my communication……so and so. Then how can I say that my exams are over. It was my foolishness to say exams are over……….finally I have reached the conclusion that exams are not yet over……………