My Country My Pride ...My City ..Bhaktapur

Located about 20 km east of Kathmandu in the Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur is known as the 'City of Devotees', the 'City of Culture', the 'Living Heritage', and 'Nepal's Cultural Gem'. It is one of the 3 royal cities in the Kathmandu Valley. The others are Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Patan.
Bhaktapur is filled with monuments, most terra-cotta with carved wood columns, palaces and temples with elaborate carvings, gilded roofs, open courtyards. The city is dotted with pagodas and religious shrines.
Lying along the ancient trade route between India and Tibet, Bhaktapur is surrounded by mountains and provides a magnificent view of the Himalayas.

Bhaktapur Durbar Square

• Also called Bhadgaon and Khwopa (in the native tongue).
  
  
• Religions: Hindu 92%, Buddhist 7%
  
  
• Castes: Newar 63%, Brahman 10%, Chettri 18%, Tamang 5%
  
  
• Bhaktapur's population is approximately 225,000.
  
  
• Main agricultural production: paddy, wheat, corn, pulse, millet, citrus, guava, pears, junar, haluwabed, cauliflower, peas, beans, cucumber, and pumpkin.
  
  
• Bhaktapur depends on tourism for about 60% of its revenues.
  
  
• No cars are allowed in Durbar Square; no heavy vehicles in central Bhaktapur.
  

  

  Siddha Pokhari,Bhaktapur,Nepal

  
  

  

  Nyatapole,Taumadhi Square,Bhaktapur

  
  
  

Worser and Worser

It's getting worser and worser and people are getting dumber and dumber.

How about those child-proof medicine bottles? What are you going to do about that second muscle relaxer pill?

Or those zippers on half-gallon ice cream containers? They never work!

Or why do you get that stuff on your hands when you open a can of tuna?

Or you visit your friend in a half-million dollar house and he tells you to jiggle that knob on the commode. Hundred and fifty year old technology-Can't they get it right.

Ever try to open an new CD? You'll need a hacksaw to take off the shrink wrap.

Or you go in a restaurant with you wife and the waiter says,"Two"---like the invisible man is with you.

And why do I have to dial 10 digits to call my neighbor on the telephone when four numbers used to do the trick?

Years ago, you had two gas pumps and two guys who would put the gas in your car, clean your windshield and check you tires. Now you have 21 pumps and you have to pump the gas yourself, go and stand in line inside the store until the guy with the stay eye says, "May I help, you"?

And they've changed a lot of the words: you don't have and operation-you have a procedure; you ain't got pain, you got discomfort. Even the finance company got in the game: They told me I was overextended; all I know's I'm broke!

And now you got to pay $2.00 more for a cup of coffee you can't pronounce!

And why does that clerk have to make 57 entries in the cash register when I buy a box of computer paper?

And now they got words I don't even understand. Like Proactive-I thought that was something you put on when you were on a wild date. Or Facilitator-who comes up with this stuff!

And warning lables-before you know it, they'll have warning lable on toothpicks!

I'm tell you, it's getting worser and worser!

Intelligent Design

HARRISBURG, Pa.-In what is sure to be the biggest courtroom clash since the last one, a class action suit had been filed in federal court against the Dover Area School Board for not allowing the teaching of Intelligent Design in school science classes. The twist? This time, it's the monkeys themselves bringing the suit.
In a startling and unprecedented move, several Bornean Orangutans from the Pittsburgh zoo have sued the school district, insisting that Intelligent Design not only be taught in science classes but the theory of evolution be stricken from textbooks
These Orangutans, or Pongo pygmaeus, are offended by the idea that they are related to people, and think Intelligent Design is the best alternative out there.
One of the plaintiffs, Cuddles, explained her position through a sign language interpreter: "That apes and humans descended from a common ancestor is just a disgusting thought. I'm appalled, frankly. I mean, look at you. Massive poverty, genocide, suffering, violence. Look how you treat your kind. People are horrible, horrible creatures."
She continued, "Have you seen some of the porn on your internet? I can't believe humans pee on each other. And don't get me started on the Tuesday night lineup on ABC. Only true barbarians would keep According to Jim on the air. That I'm related to people in any way should be rejected on face value, let alone be taught in science classes."
The details of the apes' replacement theory are still ambiguous. One version of Intelligent Design posits elements of nature are so complex that they must have been created by a higher force. Among some of the more controversial elements of the ape theory include the idea that this "intelligent designer" of the entire universe is actually a 50 foot tall super smart ape similar to King Kong.
Attorneys representing the school board have questioned the true motives of the apes. In a written statement, school board lawyers claimed the suit was just a cheap parlor trick to manipulate the public and avoid the fact that humans and apes are related through evolution.
But the primates remain undeterred. Bubba, another plaintiff in the suit, has similar thoughts- "Man did not come from apes. Gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, we're all united. I mean, have you seen the contestants on American Idol? Ugh. You humans are just awful. Unlike evolution, Intelligent Design makes the case we're not associated with you at all!"
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1987 decried schools could not require creationism to balance the teaching of evolution. This new lawsuit brought on by the apes may eventually make it up to the conservative justices recently appointed by president George W. Bush. As a result the ruling may be different.
Bush even weighed in on the teaching of the possibility that a super intelligent, furry orangutan created the universe. "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."
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Unspoken feelings!!!

I feel so bad abt wat had happened n I regret for wat I could not do in past. I am so helpless abt the things which are happening in present, I am not able to do anything at all. All is happening in front of me n I am so helpless. Why is all happening ? Till when will it happen? Who'll come to help me ? OHH!!! all these questions are coming in my mind everytime everywhere. I cant be quite for a sec . I feel like time is running out of my hands n em just lookin it pass me by.

Wat will happen in the future ? Will it be the same that had happened in the past n wats happening right now. Oh!! em so scared of life. Is life all these stuffs ? Isnt there a way to be happy in life? Love was like a dream which just showed off then gone far away , it went so far that I couln't even see its shadow. Its just gone away from me so far so much far that now em alone. So lonely that I cant see anybody miles away. The silence is so scary, its pin drop silence out here. I wanna scream loud ,cry hard but wat worth of it as I know there is nobody to help, to talk n to be with me.So now I live alone N I'm tryin to forget evrythn that happened in my life . N see Its my life.