With disheveled hair, ruffled tie, wrinkled and wet school uniform � exhibiting rebellion and youthful exuberance�we waited by the stationary in Ganesthan waiting for the rain to subside. It had been a long day at school. Vehicles skidded on the road splashing mud and water indifferently to the helpless pedestrians. Streets flooded bringing the pungent smell of sewage for the lack of proper drainage. Monsoon consequences were inevitable in Kathmandu in summer.

�Oyss! Pani rokela jasto chaina. Chiya khana jaam ?� Suraj proposed and I readily concurred. The smell of freshly fried samosas and chops were too hard to resist. We killed time over the hearty meal talking about mundane stuff. Suraj was such a good company. It was his last year at school. It would be lonesome in the busstop from next year. �J hoss! Ramailo bhanya school life mai garnu parcha� he would say once in a while. He became my instant role model when I saw him once , light a ciggie by short circuiting which had absolutely fascinated me.

As we got out of the �bhojanalaya� rain had subsided limiting itself to a teasing drizzle. By the time we got to gahana pokhari, clouds roared once more. Rain began to beat down us. Usually we�d run for cover, but Suraj trotted lazily saying �Hyaa! Bholi sukrabar ta ho ni.� The very thought of Friday gave such ample relief in weekdays. I agreed with him looking up in the sky enjoying the showerly blessings. It did feel good once in a while to get totally drenched.

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�La hera� My mom greeted me at the door �pheri nitrukka bhijera aayecha. Yesari pani ma bhijis bhane ta birami hudainas?� My mom made a reasonable argument.

�Bholi sukrabar ta ho ni� was my weak reply. �la la! Chado luga ferera khaja khana aaija�. She gave me a quizzical look after I told that I had already eaten. �jaha payo tyehi nakha bhaneko hoina. Garmi ma jhada banta lage pachi matrai chetchas taile� she sighed. �la ja luga ferr ta chado. Ma chiya leidinchu."

Sipping warm cup of tea of mechi special and a creamy donut from �Krishna pauroti� breathed a new life onto me. After aimless thoughts for a while, reluctantly, I reached for my �20 kg� school bag. There was tons of tedious hw due the next day. �Hyaa Friday pani hw� I said to myself as if Friday were not a schoolday.

�Saprasanga Byakhya gara!� I read aloud and got an instant headache. I was in no mood to write though I loved writing Nepali more than anything at the time. Suddenly, the lights went out and the neighbors cheered �loadshedding�

�AHH!� I perked up. �Aaja loadshedding po� I stayed in the dark sipping my tea wondering where to start. My sisters stamped down the stairs to claim the only emergency light we had nextdoor. I hated using it. I was always a candle light person. :)
I reached for my little portable FM radio which maami had won in a pack of �everest toothpaste.� FM had made waves in Kathmandu especially to the teens since its recent induction. Bon jovi�s �always� was playing. Suddenly I wanted to do trigonometry. I wonder why maths and music blend together so well.

....contd.

taku ta taku ghwa ghwa ghwa---
hadigauko jatrako baja yaad aayo--

Oysbrole hadigauko nam rakhya chha sajha ma----ghankayo Oys bro le sajha tyo pokhari jatrako bajale ghankako jasto garera---kasto tannna tanera mane khat kudamna man lagi ra chha malai pani---

Oys,
I'm beginning to liken your Shivani to DuMaurier's Rebecca. Seriously, Shivani does not speak or really have an active role in any of your compositions, and yet she seems to provoke your readers' curiosity the most.

As for me, my favorite character in your stories is your mami. She seems really kind and loving and so simple that you cannot help but fall in love with her. She reminds me a lot of my mami.

Thanx everyone. Was very interesting to read all your comments. Its titillating to know many share similar experiences one way or the other. don't get to use computer much these days, so pako bela lekhi halum....

Wateva, last year matra ghar gaako hoina? aba ta mero turn ho, don't u think so? :P

Lizardking bro, chiyapasal chadeko chaina..tara can't listen to those songs in the computer here, hence jus skim through it. Sauji le j hoss babal pragati garya ho. Shivani west ma bhako bhaye ta bhai halthyo ni....if she were chinese especially!

Rosie jyu, your support is always appreciated. Shivani doesn't have a great role cause, my interaction with her was more at a sub conscious level than through actual conversations. Alas! I regret it sometimes. I try to avoid her sometimes in the stories, but then there are few who requested that i am to put her in my story somehow..especially my sister :)

Mindgames, really appreciate your comment. Interestingly, among many common things we share, mero sanu sathi was one of my fav. stories at school. As far as being legend is concerned, only pink floyd is legend to me. Quoting you from other day of that talking song "It doesn't have to end up like this. All you need to do is make sure you keep talking" :)

Angel and sparsha thank you!

Dananah! of course, no can beat you in becoming devdas in sajah these days ;). Sometimes there are thousands of better memories of childhood floating in my mind. I wish at those moments, i had a computer in front of me so that icould type it immediately. but alas! things are different now. As for your nepali lessons, u r doing well. i remember a friend who learnt to speak nepali merely by going to a chatroom :)

meera jyu, I hope i have corrected you by now. yet i choose not to give a "yes" or "no" of her existence as FBI would term it better as "witness protection program" AHEM!

Princeofdarkness, south, sense, redstone (fag:P), n_B, goodkillas, doc bee! glad you enjoyed it. n thanx for your endearing comments.

TMA bro, Since you had started a thread few months back requesting for a memory lane, i hope i didn't disappoint you this ttime. :) your support is always appreciated. Hopefully, sometime around next year, we can meet down under (if u r in sydney) and recollect some other wonderful memories.

Sitara jyu, u make me jealous, but nevertheless enjoy your stay in ktm.

haha Deep bro, sound ta thyakkai milcha. those sound of pipes and cymbal, arent' those mesmerizing. There isn't a greater source of inspiration writing these memories than your own stories revolving around the area deep bro. so u do keep writing.

oops rauniyar ji ta jhandai chutya! aren't you in cT? aaba chai bhet ghat garum hai...middletown teera ta hoina? ma chai ali mathi east teera chu :)

loo back to wooork!

meera,
Yes, Shivani is figment of his imagination and whenever he dreams about shivani he gets rainfall at night (or nightfall to be precise), if you know what I mean...:p

Oys bro having monsoon dreams, rainfalls in dreams? Don't worry bro, That's pretty normal. It's just a part of growing up. You will get over it.

danggg

lol @ danggg.

Rosie as part of your query, I think every one of us dream about 'Shivani' , Shivani comes in varieties.Of course, oys's Shivani is peculiar because he is so sticked with the name. In fact, his memory lane without Shivani is noon navayeko tarkari barabari. Rosie, you must also have some Mr. X making you smile in your delightful thought, caught you? j/k

Bro Shivani pani chaina rye , chiyapasal pani jana napaunye, chinese arye, kina teha basirako ta, ;) LA ko safar kasto vayo ta comfy bro?

Hus ta jai hawos sabaiko

Lizard King

Told u, dude is good.

Oys, if you haven't already done so, do go through some of the works by Charles Schulz (Peanuts). His character development is considered the best in any cartoon strips and I could relate few of your characters development to his own old gang of Peanuts (good old Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, Schroeder etc).

The way you have developed your characters; yourself, your mammu and sister and ofcourse Shivani, is really admirable.

If u ask me honestly, I think there is a lot of truth to the character Shivani (compared to the RED haired girl in Peanuts). Oys sure liked the girl.

Dang! Danggg, you sure it's not a pigment of his imagination?! We do tend to color, shade and shine much when we look through rosy-hued glasses of teenage years, not to mention raging hormones! :P

Hey hey DWI!

Rauniyar ji, Thanks for asking! Nepal couldn't be treating me better. The hustle and bustle of daily life brings back memories. KTM seems suspended in time, only the people change (mind you not the politicians!!!).

Oys bro..
yo devdas naam hatau!!!yo devdas ko ho!!!....hyaaa...
ma devdas hunu chaina and never will i be :o)...
dyam mero pani tanna memories(well guess everyone has :o)..)..but not everyone can write like u ni..and bring us back to ours..:o)...hopefully one day i will be able to write like u about me topahni and sajha ;o)...till then continue to write urs (make TIME!!!bhaney!!:oP) and inspires us hai..:o)..seems like ur memory lane is the only good thing in sajha..esp these days..where everyone can just read and think about their own too..no jagadah nothing..:o)..and well mero nepali wont improve ma give up dey hehe..now i will try to cut down on me roman nepali :o)...(well for today i will hehe alik habit bho..oops sorry told u its a habit :oP...*breathes slowly* one day at a time...one day at a time..:oP..)

lu as always looking foward to ur next writing to that i can go back to one of me old good memories..:o)

Sitara jyu!!! hello...hehe long time bhoying never seeing u..miss your post..:o)..sajha does feel really diff now..(well to me..dunno about the rest..)..anyways ur in Nepal?(actually knew after reading one our ur older post..:oP but alik feelings na daykhaying ni ;o)..shaaram laaying :oP..)...hope ur enjoying there(though u just mentioed u are hehe had to wish u that again ..never hurts to wish again hoina :o)...)..lu hope so see one of your writings too..as soon as ur hols in nepal is over..(how long more ho?the longer the better ni..i mean the hols..for u :o)..dyam i wish i was back home...feeling more homesick everyday)..and wht happended to ur that pc? hehe already 6 feet under ho? hehe...

ok better go..dun wanna keep me reputation of bhak bhaking..:o)..
dyam its a beautiful day...have a beautiful life everyone with beautiful memories..:o)...

gone.....

oys fag! forgot my name nigga?!!!
what the hell! hehe!
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Oys_Chilli ji,

of course am in Connecticut. Fursat bhaie-ma bhet-ghat ga-rouma na ta? Hazur ko basai East ma aa rai, tara kati East bhanya? ME ta hai na hola *smile*.

Anyways keep up your writing? One fine day "Shivani" ji will be a popular character, if you follow your current way of writing. I trust that!

Sitaraji,

aa ho sora aana satya bhannu bha-you - on people change but Kathmandu is suspended in time. Any plans of hitting out outside the city? Like writing something on a family sitting outside the "Chapro" and/or tyo dada ma baji rakehko one and the only Radio Nepal. Give us something interesting. Please!

Uhi Rajeev,
CT, Amrika

Oys bro ko memory lane pani khatarakai huncha..monsoonma Chinese barsadi odhera school padha ga ko yaad aayo....dhobikholama aayeko badhi yaad aayo..badhile kattu bagayeko yadd aayo..ani aamale gharma diyeko jhapad ...ani mero rato gala jhanjhanako adha ghanta samma.. yadd aayo...

please keep on writing..

LizardKing, you got me there. Back in the day, I also had a figment (or pigment lol) of my imagination. And, that was the name I most frequently used when writing stories for creative writing classes, etc. in highschool. I am chuckling right now, as I remember the name. It was S*** Gosh! how chilldish...
Surprising how most of the names of these imaginary princes or princesses usually begin with the letter "S." Maybe, it is just the whispery sound of the alphabet -SSSSSSS

Dherai time bho ni memory lane ko memory na pokhiyeko, ki ma nai sajha na ako. Anyways purano din haru ko jhajhalko, sarhai nai harsha ullash niya lagyo. Kasto aja yaha ni bahira pani pari ra bhayera bore lagi ra thiyo, memory lane dekhna saath ta mun prafulla bhayo. "Monsoon Dreams" filim ko title title jasto, tai pani suhaundo topic cha hai. Ani shivani, ek taka maile ni line hanthe shivani naam ko keti lai. Katai same ta parena??

Ani Sitara di, ke ho testo 1.618 similarity, bujhna sakina ni ho. Math ni garchu, music ni sunchu, aba eso tyam tyam ma maiya haru lai ni smakjhanchu tara "pythagoras" ko kasam kehi ni similarity bhetina ho.

La oys bro lekhdai garnu,
Bal Matlab.

^^^... mero naam Nepali ma... hehe why didn't I think of that before!

Hey hey Dananah; Thank you for your kind words! I believe that you have taken "going bananas" to an art form.... And going it solo seems to be making waves in Sajha!


Rauniyar ji:
you have assigned me a mammoth task...not only do I have writer's block but also, writer's clog!:)


Baal Matlab ji:
Pyathagorus ko kassam le hoina, Marcus Virtruvian ko ra Da Vinci ko kassam le!!!!!!!!!

Anyone wants to take a crack at the Divine Proportions of PHI inherent in Math, Music and Maiyas??? :P

finally! readd it..

greATT! as usual oys...bro..

ani where u been..?? ajkal harako?? :)

ani yah ..hamro ghar ma ni parijat ko phool thiyo :(

Star ji,

tyasho bhai-ee you might just bring your new camera to use. In a way it will mitigate the writer's clog.

Ani, are you meeting and treating Sajhaites down there by any chance?

Uhi Rajeev,
CT, Amrika

Sitara jyu kayko thanks...well i said what i felt..nothing to thank for ni ;o)..
and hehe paagla is paagal...no such thing as theres an artistic way to do it hehe..is there?hehe

anyways enjoy ur hols...is there another sajhaites gathering there? or planning to make one?i think lots of sajhaites going to nepal at this time ..so dyam its a good time to make a gathering i think..:o)...

ok imoutta here..
oys bro...hehe once again..daami....very domi cha timro writing..ajjai ..chiito!!! hehe..

hey Oys bru... nice.. kati pachi sajha ma gatilo article... afno ghar ma ta char wota rose ko bot thiyo... bihana bihana fucha fuchi haru parkhaal chadera fool tipna authey.. ma chahi bihana bihana kukur chodidinthey... fucha fuchi haru lai tyasley khoob lakhethyo....

Ani howz everything in the west??

Yesssssss!!!! FINALLY padhyaaa!!!!

Diyo diyo oys le feri diyo!!! Jeans pant faad ke.. hehe...
Bro, kyaa lekhya yaar, awesome!!! Original ta chadai cha... tyo timing milaako dekhera po achamma laagyo.. eheh... rainfall and kwaanti and parijaat... phew!!! Dincha bro le ni.. hehe... La aba arko jaawosh... and yeah, thanks for writing... Ur writing is one of the greatest reasons for me to visit sajha... Jahile ni taruni ko ke kura garai bho... right??? LOL!!! Early 90's ko kissa hoina bhanya yo??? sounds so familiar kyaa... Loadshedding, FM radio and mahabharat... eh...!!! Thyakkai kalankisthan puryaayo bro le.. :)

Kwanti ta mero pani fav. yaar... Ever tried momo haalya kwaanti??? Kyaa harip hunthyo... shooot, I miss that...