quick update…

I was actually planning to post a proper entry but now I can only manage a quick update as I have to leave in 15 minutes to catch a train to London for tomorrow’s Bhaitika. First a few words on changes to my blog. Regular readers might have noticed the disappearance of a couple of larger thumbnails from the left sidebar of this blog – one showing the latest entry in my photoblog, and another, a slideshow of thumbnails from my picasa web albums. I have decided to remove both of those as I noticed a significant delay in loading this blog when they were on. I am gutted, especially, for having to remove the thumbnail showing the last entry in my photoblog. Thats was such a nice feature, and I must thank Taly again for providing me with the php code to make that happen. Sadly, I won’t be using that code again until I find a way to load the blog faster with the code on .

Momo, Pisco Sour, Nepali Songs, and Yorkeli Bros…

I was tired (and sleepy) all day that day. I even came home early from office to take a nap. Just as I woke up from my afternoon/evenig nap, I received a call from a Nepali dai here in York. There was a Momo party at his place and I was invited. I was too tired to walk nearly half an hour to his home or even to get myself on my bike for a 10 min ride. Obviously I tried to avoid going and said I was tired and just wanted to stay home. He said he would come and pick me up, which meant I couldn’t say no. So I agreed. Although a small gathering of only a few Nepalis, the house was buzzing with noise already. They already had a round of Momo (appetiser it turned out later!), and were enjoying Pisco Sour, a Chilean (some might call it Peruvian) drink and the guffs. Whenever there is a Nepali gathering, the guffs usually seem to centre around the political and economic situation of the country, and this was no exception. Once in a while somebody tried to talk about something else, like music and television, but those topics also eventually led to the commentary on economy or politics.

a post about nothing…

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
– Jules Renard

Well, where to start? It’s now been more than a month since I last posted an entry here. There isn’t any good reason for writing nothing over this period – I was just being lazy really. Instead of writing something, I was either watching telly or reading books (some related some unrelated to my work), and sleeping early and sleeping longer hours! I haven’t even been leaving comments on the blogs that I visit and read regularly (SORRY), even writing a few lines of comments has been difficult over these four and a half weeks. Anyway, I wouldn’t like to go into the details of my daily routine (well, most days are routine less; I do things when and as I like!). Randomness seems to be my thing…

This post is sort of clarification for my absence from the blogosphere for these four and half weeks. Regular visitors might also have noticed that I hadn’t updated my photoblog until two weeks ago. I actually have a very, well, good reason for it. I decided to upgrade my equipment – ordered a new digital camera (spent quite a bit actually) and I had been waiting for it to be delivered. And I just couldn’t get myself to go out and take snaps from my old camera while I was waiting for the brand new camera to arrive. Now that the camera has arrived (and I have already posted 3-4 snaps taken with it), hopefully, I can get myself to take more photographs more often so that I can at least post a couple of pictures each week. Let’s see… Also, I plan to be a bit more serious with my photography (I guess I have to after spending a fortune on my new camera!)