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Today is the third day of the festival Tihar. We celebrated it by worshiping the goddess Laxmi, the god of wealth. I have captured some pictures of this festival from the streets of Kathmandu. It is really fun to see lights all over, Kids playing Deusi and fireworks and elder people busy with shopping.

But this year something made me sad, please see the pictures below and know why I am sad. There is just one picture that made me sad, other pictures are the one which might take some of my friends abroad to past, their childhood and make them think what they are missing.

Girls Playing Bhaili, This is one kind of fun that kids have in Tihar

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When I heard this word “ROOM TO READ “, I thought it must be a library. I heard this word for the first time when it was going to donate two computers to “Pawan Madhayamic Vidhalaya”, Parasi which was established by my grandmother late Pawan Devi Shrestha. She has not just established this school, but she has also written a novel called “Pratigya” quite many years ago. We did not know that she is the first Nepalese woman to write a Nepali novel from mainland Nepal. Anyway, I will be writing about her soon in my blog.

Let’s talk about Room to Read. Well, we all must have to thank Mr. John Wood for his hard work, devotion and love toward educating the world to change the world. In his book “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” he has written about all the hard times he had to faced, why he was inspired to leave Microsoft to change the world and how happy he was when he saw his dream in reality.

Initially, he wanted to help the school in remote areas of Nepal and established this organization. But now it has become a global organization which is working towards changing the world, to educate people, to change their life style and most importantly to make their life easier through good education. Many poor people from so called 3rd country like Nepal, Vietnam and African countries are benefited by this organization.

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This picture was taken on the Rally day of nepal sambat 1128

I hope the person on the picture is noticed by most of the Kathmandu valley’s people. He is seen at different places of Kathmandu. Last time when I saw him was near the Naryanhiti Royal Place just by the side of a banner which was there place to wish the Queen Komal on her birthday. Was he there to wish the queen’s on her birthday or to celebrate the Democracy day? Both queen’s birthday and democracy day are on falgun 7.

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Swayambhunath temple is one of the popular tourist destinations for external and internal tourist and both hindu and buddhist devotee. It is also known to external tourist as monkey temple. We can see lots of monkey there. These monkeys are very mischief, they try to grab the bags of visitors some time they even attack the visitors, but some time you get some good entertainment from them.

Yesterday morning I was there to worship ajima maa temple next to swayambhunath temple. I was lucky to capture the interesting act of one monkey. This monkey was trying to drink the water from the WORLD PEACE POND situated there at the footsteps of the temple. I quickly caught this action on my camera. I hope you guys will love these pictures.

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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 successful. Thanks for them for cooking all the food (do I need to thank 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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Last day of the year, my friend Sameer asked, “aren’t you going to write something in your blog?”, I said what to write, I have nothing in my mind right now. He suggested me to write a review on the year 2007. I did not give a second thought and straight away told him; ok I will write and post it.

Let me start with why I wanted to start my blog. I always wanted to give my views, share my idea and give comments. I even talked about making such website many years back, but due to some technical problems I could not make such website. Finally I thought of making my own website www.sangesh.com.np this year and start blogging.

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