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By Gyanendra Chandra Shrestha

20th July 1919 - 11th January 2008

I met Sir Edmund Hillary at his house in Auckland, New Zealand on 20th September 1996. The words he told me at that time are still humming my ear at this moment of his demise. He told me “ Gyanendra, don’t try to stay here in New Zealand. Nepal needs you and your service. I am the president of New Zealand-Nepal Friendship Association, we already have 62 Nepali families migrated here, I don’t want you to become the 63rd of them”.

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Lumbini, popularly known as the birth place of Lord Buddha, The Light of Asia, founder of Buddhism. This was my second visit to Lumbini, many years ago I was there, and I have some vivid images of that World Heritage site. This trip to lumbini was a short and a quick one.

I heard so many things about this place after it was placed in World heritage site by UNESCO. They said that there is a rapid change and the place looks really beautiful.

I was very much excited to go there once I heard about Lumbini.
 
Once I reach Lumbini I could not stop my emotions, I got impressed by Lumbini. In coming years it will be one of the main tourist attraction of Nepal. I found a huge difference there, when I compared the current lumbini with vivid image I had in my memory when I visited that place 20 years ago. There were some research going on, digging were going on I guess as we saw only the old remains of some building there, the park was not like as it is now, I think there was only one temple, Now they have plan to make each temple from different country and already half a dozen countries have already made temples under their country name. The temples are really attractive. The German and the Thai temples are really WOW. I think Korean temple will look better after it is completed.

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New Year’s eve, it is the day when most of our friends meet all together and enjoy. Yesterday night also most of us joined at my house. Since the guys are getting busy, it’s hard to organize such  get together, but finally we did it this year too.

My dad always joins us and he plays his mouth harmonica and keyboard. He made all of us dance, but before that he played the tempo music of Jingle Bells from keyboard many times, and everyone was singing that song, so finally we decided to give the theme of the last year new years eve party as Jingle Bells, this name was suggested by my friend/brother Sakil.

If Rajesh, Liska were not there, then the party would not have been so success, thanks for them for cooking all the food (do I need t thanks other guys by naming them and what did they do). We really missed some of our friends this year as some of them are abroad and few could not make it because of some problem.

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