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The Nepal Digest Wednesday 15 June 94: Ashadh 2 2051 BkSm Volume 28 Issue 4
Today's Topics:
1. TAJA_KHABAR:
Arun III Delegation in US
Teaching Safe Sex in Nepal
2. KATHA_KABITA:
Yeti Song
Brahmacharya in Crisis!
3. KURA_KANI:
I. Social Issues
Teachings of Buddha
II. Politics
Re: Nepal Ko Kabzaa Kiya - Phone Prompts
4. ENTERTAINMENT:
Movie Reviews - Little Buddha
5. JAN_KARI:
Driving License
6. TITAR_BITAR:
Yatra Barnan - Glimpse of Nepal Part V.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 10:46:00 -0500
Forwarded by: "Sirdar_RJS_Khalifa" <a10rjs1@corn.cso.niu.edu>
Subject: yeti_song
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
YETI SONG
(Marlin Spike Werner)
Beyond the Ganges River
In the mountains of Nepal
There lives my hairy yeti,
She's the fairest of them all.
She's lissom and curvatious
And as Yeti's go, she's tall
She's my hirsute mountain beauty
She's the fairest of them all.
Full my heart and gone my reason
We have love for every season
She's my own, my hairy yeti,
Fairest of them all.
Her hair is like angora
>From the first cold nip of fall
But in summer, when she's moulting
She has nothing on at all.
Her smile is lost in hairiness,
Her nose is cute and small,
And her eyebrows are so shaggy
I can't see her eyes at all.
Full my heart and gone my reason
Love finds fire in any season,
She's my hairy yeti,
She's the fairest of them all.
High up on Sagarmatha
When the cold is hard and blue
And the wind is icy needles
And I'm frozen thru and thru
My ever-loving Yeti
Takes me up in her embrace:
The warmth of her four bosoms
Draws the frostbite from my face.
Full my heart and gone my reason
Love finds fire in any season,
She's my hairy yeti,
She's the fairest of them all.
She wraps me with her coziness
Against the chill monsoon,
Or we sit in summer twilight
Singing lovesongs to the moon.
She's an international heroine--
Holds Asia in her thrall;
She's an undisputed citizen
Of China and Nepal.
Full my heart and gone my reason
We have love for every season;
She's my own, my hairy Yeti,
She's the fairest of them all.
Alternate CHORUS: Salute the flag and throw confetti
China made the first spaghetti
She's my own, my hairy yeti,
Fairest of them all.
Copyright 1982,
by Marlin Spike Werner
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Subject: Nepali prompts when calling Nepal
To: <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
From: Sanjay Manandhar <sanjaym@sni-usa.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 13:02:20 -0400
Dear Readers,
As far as I know, most of the foreign prompts when calling
foreign destinations come NOT from the foreign telephone switch but
from your LOCAL switch.
Hence, if you want to fix the "Hindi" prompt problem, the best
way is to contact your international carrier (e.g. AT&T, Sprint, MCI,
etc.) company and tell them that the lingua franca of country
code 977 is not Hindi, but Nepali and that YOU are willing to make
arrangements to find a suitable voice expert (they will not accept just
anybody's voice prompt). A would suggest a business letter to the
Customer Service Representative should work, especially during these
times of cut-throat international service competition.
Ideological tirades don't help. Pragmatic business solutions
go a long way.
Regards,
Sanjay Manandhar
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 15:16:02 EDT
To: a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Nepali Driving License=International D. License=Mass. Driv. License???
From: isha@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Isha Sharma)
atuladhar@vax.clarku.edu wrote:
: Nepali Driving License: What good is it in Massachusetts?
: ==========================================================
: I have a valid Nepali driving license. Is this the "international" driving
: license one can use to drive legally in massachusetts or US?
: The RMV was telling me such a license must be verified by the embassy or
: consul of Nepal. Is there a consul in Boston who can do this, what is the
: process and address or phone numbers?
In Nepal, they have started giving a standard driving licence with both
Nepali and English words in it. It is ID size and laminated. I am not
sure whether it is international or not!
For yor information,
here are some excerpts from the Licensing Rules and Procedures, Mass.:-
"- Upon becoming a Massachusetts resident an out-of-state or an out-of-
country driver must obtain a Massachusetts Operator's License and
Registration(number plates). Applicants applying who present a
license which has not expired ....(for US states and territories only)
may be issued a license provided: ( conditions given)
"- Applicants transferring an out-of-country license to a Massachusetts
license must take a written test and a road exam. The road exam
shall be waived when an applicant is converting a license from a country
that is party to the "Convention of Road Traffic of 1949".
"NOTE: Any driver's license not in English must be accompanied by an
original translation certified by a bilingual notary public, or by
a teacher at an accredited college or university. Any driver's
license from a foreign country listed on the "Convention on Road
Traffic of 1949" must be accompanied by a statement of validity on
an original letterhead of the home country's embassy or consulate".
According to the above rules, no matter whether you have an international
license or not you have to take a written test. You can only get
the road test waived, if you fulfill all other requirements.
A German friend bought and registered a vehicle but did not convert
his German driving license because of all the troubles,
and operated it for two semesters, as a non-resident is
allowed to drive temporarily with his original license.
However, he had to pay a very high premium on insurance for his car.
Therefore, though I had a Nepali license, I thought it wiser to
take the exam. Insurance company considers for the years you have
been driving and gives discounts if you present them your
Nepali license. However, you must have a MA. license.
Therefore, I would like to advise you to go for one.
Go and get a free copy of Driver's License Manual from the RMV
before you go for the written test. They ask all questions
from the book only. Prepare yourself for the parallel parking,
this is probably the only thing Nepali drivers are not familiar
with. You will easily pass the other tests. Just be careful and
never try to show off that you are an expert driver. Because one
person who drove for years in Saudi Arabia is said to have failed
b'cause she drove with only one hand on the steering.
Hope that this will help you!
-NAGENDRA
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Date: June 13, 1994
Forwarded By: Rajpal J. Singh <a10rjs1@mvs.cso.niu.edu>
To: The Nepal Digest <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Brahmacharya in Crisis!
Brahmacharya in Crisis!
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"And he took the vedic message accross the seas,
Boldy, confidently and charismatically, he delivered,
The cosmic truth to the citizens of every creed ...."
Such BRAHMACHARYA was Vivekananda ... my mom continues,
Such control he had over unwanted desires .... my mom stresses,
And he accomplished all this in his bachelor-hood .... my mom smiled,
Such a role-model, you oughtta follow .... my mom concluded,
I was barely eleven years old!
Too busy playing soccer and hide-'n-seek
The only stimulation I was aware was during the morning flushings;
I well remember the giggles in the Junior-high
As we flipped through the pages under chapter human reproduction,
"Linga, Birya, Yoni, Sambhog" - all sounded like "sahityik" words
That I used to struggle during my Nepali and Sanskrit classes.
High-school days, as I recall, filled with curiosity
Afraid to ask, limited to my friends and cheap Indian romance books;
How we used to sit back on the soccer field and joke about it.
And how one of us would acknowledge of self discovery -
Victims of tease and sudden burst of laughter - as we all agree.
University days encountered with sporadic copies of Playboys
Wondering how our counterpart (women) thought of their sensuality
And some more adult movies with friends on the VCR -
I thought to myself - yeah, I know what human sexuality is.
Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, a cool slogan then it was -
Heavy metal, sex pistols, Holywood movies and strip tease,
Suddenly has left me overwhelmed with intense desires -
And I can't sitback but think - You misled me, didn't you?
I know now - my BRAHMACHARY is in deep CRISIS!!!!!!!!
- Sirdar_RJS_Khalifa
June 13, 1987
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 15:31:12 EDT
To: a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu
From: anon29b8@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Anonymous)
Subject: L.B. Review
THE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA
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Just what the original teaching of the Buddha was is a matter of some debate.
Nonetheless, it may be said to have centered on certain basic doctrines. The f
irst of the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha held, is suffering (duhkha). By this
, he meant not onl
y that human existence is occasionally painful but that all beings--humans, ani
mals, ghosts, hell-beings, even the gods in the heavens--are caught up in samsa
ra, a cycle of rebirth, a maze of suffering in which their actions (KARMA) keep
them wandering.
Samsara and karma are not doctrines specific to Buddhism. The Buddha, however,
specified that samsara is characterized by three marks: suffering, impermanen
ce, and no-self (anatman). Individuals not only suffer in a constantly changing
world, but what a
ppears to be the "self," the "soul," has no independent reality apart from its
many separable elements.
The second Noble Truth i that suffering itself has a cause. At the simplest lev
el, this may be said to be desire; but the theory was fully worked out in the
complex doctrine of "dependent origination" (pratityasamutpada), which explains
the interrelation
ship of all reality in terms of an unbroken chain of causation.
The third Noble Truth, however, is that this chain can be broken--that sufferin
g can cease. The Buddhists called this end of suffering NIRVANA and conceived
of it as a cessation of rebirth, an escape from samsara.
Finally, the fourth Noble Truth is that a way exists through which this cessati
on can be brought about: the practice of the noble Eightfold Path. This combi
nes ethical and disciplinary practices, training in concentration and meditatio
n, and the develop
ment of enlightened wisdom, all thought to be necessary.
For the monks, the notion of offering extends also to the giving of the DHARMA
in the form of sermons, to the chanting of scriptures in rituals (which may als
o be thought of as magically protective and salutary), and to the recitation of
sutras for the de
ad.
All of these acts of offering are intimately involved in the concept of merit-m
aking. By performing them, individuals, through the working of karma, can seek
to assure themselves rebirth in one of the heavens or a better station in life
, from which they
may be able to attain the goal of enlightenment.
The Academic American Encyclopedia, online edition, Grolier Electronic
Publishing, Danbury, CT, 1993.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 15:31:49 EDT
To: a10rjs1@cs.niu.edu
From: anon29b8@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Anonymous)
Subject: L.B. Review
LITTLE BUDDA
by Roger Ebert
* *
Prince Siddhartha ...... Keanu Reeves
Dean Conrad ............ Chris Isaak
Lisa Conrad ............ Bridget Fonda
Jesse Conrad ........... Alex Wiesendanger
Lama Norbu ............. Ying Ruocheng
Miramax presents a film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Produced by
Jeremy Thomas. Written by Mark Peploe and Rudy Wurlitzer. Based on a story by
Bernardo Bertoluccci. Photographed by Vittorio Storaro. Edited by Pietro Scalia
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