Posted by: Ajapa on: September 1, 2009
If I had to grade this city against Harry Potter’s Ordinary Wizarding Levels (OWLS) standard, I’d give it an exceeds expectations. I had expected to be utterly homesick, dismal and regretful of my decision to be here. On the contrary, I find myself perfectly content if not blissfully enchanted. I’d expected myself to miss the [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: July 16, 2009
You studied and studied to become oh so learned
Yet you never took the time to study yourself
You ran and ran to the temple without fail
But never bothered to enter your own heart
Everyday you fight Satan
But you never fight your own self (ego)
~ Baba Bulleh Shah
This according to my dashboard is my 100th post. I want [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: April 27, 2009
I sneak in a poem at work.
I sneak one in the bathroom.
Its a strange little quirk
this poetry and rhyme,
but I sneak it in nonetheless.
I’m not a master raconteur
nor the lord of a paintbrush.
I’m not even a proper poet.
I just sneak in poems.
I’m just a sneak-er of a poem or two.
They’re not supposed to know
that the [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: April 12, 2009
saas gaari deve, dewarji samjha leve, sasuraal genda phool
saiyaan chhed dewe, nanad chutki leve, sasuraal genda phool
Folk songs have an undeniable truth to them and the truth is presented in a way that is comprehensible and likable to the populist mindset. “Sasuraal genda phool” to me signifies the completeness of marriage, like the beauty of [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 27, 2009
I was always after dreams, all sorts of dreams; acting towards them, chasing them and experiencing them. Some dreams I’ve had and sometimes still do are what I like to think are small dreams, easily attainable but with bigger prices to pay and others are big ones hard to attain and also with some small [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 26, 2009
As I head off to college I hope for the the following things to happen as soon as possible… they’re mostly women’s stuff:
1. I hope my best friend gets her first kiss so that she can call me up excitedly and tell me about how it goes
2. I wish my sister gets her period [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 18, 2009
My dear Mr Best,
I’m utterly tired of working
but I don’t seem to get enough of writing.
And though I know you’ve done me wrong
I sit here and try to write you a song.
You see sir, poetry is not my thing
yet I wish desperately to shout and sing
about your name being Mr. Best
but you being worse off [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 10, 2009
Somehow, I feel like a year came to an end. Perhaps its because I am able to look at a certain mass of time that has gone by as a whole and link one event to another and learn from them. The best gain this year was that I could write as regularly as I [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 6, 2009
About two hours ago. Behold me standing at Pulchowk feeling extremely lonely after a perfectly enjoyable gathering/shopping spree with friends. I’m in the verge of tears and a million questions pop ino my head at once. Goodness if I could only stop thinking so much. Am I wierd? too weak? why am I so lonely [...]
Posted by: Ajapa on: March 5, 2009
I was thinking of blogging for money and I stooped short. Because I came across a lot of money through my Rural Education Development expertise. I opened The Black Swan in late 2006 with the intention of puring my heart out to the world with the hope that I’d be heard one day and my [...]
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