Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

The definition of lie that I got from Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is:
lie n., v., lied, ly·ing.
A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

I used to lie too when I was a kid but that would be instantaneous lie like I used to lie to my teachers. Sometimes I wouldn’t know the answers of certain questions so I would be unable to finish my assignments, and when the teacher asked for my assignment, I would simply lie by saying, “Sir/Ma’am! I forgot to do it or I forgot to bring my assignment.” It was so easy answer, and of course I would get some kind of punishment for my lies but there was a reason behind that lie. If I would have said I don’t know how to do it, they would have punished me even more coz the fault was mine as I must have not concentrated in the class. May be mind was at a different location at that time. Well there was a reason. As I grew older, I lied to my parents to go outside and play. I would play certain games, which I wasn’t allowed to, and when asked if I did that kind of stuff, I would simply say, No. I didn’t. And in my adolescence the lies were even more deliberate. I would only lie when I need to but soon I began to realize that lying is never good. It would hurt people knowingly/unknowingly. So I started hating lies and liars.

There were times when people closed to me lied. I would know when they lied but I had to keep my mouth shut in order to save our precious friendship. I have lots of good and bad experiences where people have lied to me. One question that always bugs my mind is, “why do people lie?” Most of us would say people lie for a reason and for their benefit. I agree on that statement as well, but as I experienced it, I found out that people do lie without a reason as well. I don’t know if to address them as psychos or insane or whatever but I have found so many people lying without a reason. May be they find pleasure in lying, may be it’s their mischievous behavior that puts those act of lying and playing with other person’s feeling and life. I still haven’t found the answer. Why would people lie?

He scores flying in the air, he dunks flying in air and slams it home, he dribbles and before you blink your eyes he is there for the hoop, he belongs in the air may be that is why he is well known as “Air Jordan.” Yeah, I am talking about the greatest player in the NBA history, our own MJ, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. He was born on January of 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated his High School from Laney (Wilmington, N.C.) and his College from North Carolina. He was drafted by Chicago Bulls in 1984 (third overall). He is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs over 216 pounds. It was his one of the Slam Dunk Contests performance when he dunked the ball from the foul line and earned his name as “Air Jordan” and “His Airness.” He really had unique combination of fundamental soundness, grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability, and an unquenchable competitive desire that lead Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. He was just extraordinary.

Nepal also holds the title of the second highest hydro-resource country. Nepal is considered as Himalayan country as there are lots of Himalayan ranges and mountains such as Mount Everest, Dhaulagiri, Lamtang, Machhepuchre, and lots more. It also has hilly region and terai region as well.

So with all these resource it has lots of hydropower. Well I don’t know whether to say if we got it or not, as we have load-shedding going on throughout the year. We do have lots of resources but the government is so poor that it has not find the way to install enough hydroelectricity power plants. It is such a shameful and surprising thing that we don’t even have enough of electricity being the second country for the water resources. The winter goes like a disastrous time. Cold and freezing mornings and chilly evening are just the feelings we have even staying inside our houses, as we don’t have heat and power due to lack of electricity. Few months back, they had load-shedding of nearly 6 hours a day. Me, even being a young man of my age, find the weather to be intolerably cold and chilly. I just cannot imagine and wonder how the old people were able to survive the cold and chilly nights. I also wonder what would have happened to the children who are forced to read in dim emergency lights. What kind of effect would they have to their eyes and their health due to this scarcity of electricity? What would the people do who cannot afford electricity backup but have to work during those hours? Our government still has published news stating the load-shedding will still be in act in years to come.

Not only the electricity problem, we do have drinking water problems as well. We have to wake up at 1-2 o’clock at night in order to fill up our tanks with drinking water. Well that too if you have water coming out of your tap, because most of the people do have the tap but the water never comes out of it, only air does. It sounds funny but that is the truth. There are some areas where the water never reaches. Government have made some effort in providing water to those areas by sending mobile water tanks and providing drinking water or you may say undrinkable water, as the water contains so much of foreign bodies that you don’t even find it good enough to wash your face.

Just wondering and thinking of these problems, I just wonder if we really are the world’s second highest hydro-resource country. I feel like if even we hold that title, they should reconsider and take back the title of being the second highest hydro-resource country.

Medical Transcription basically deals with the patient’s report in any hospital or clinic. The busy schedules of doctors in any medical institute has to get time for dictating the files of their patient in order to make one orderly format of their past history and tests that they undertake. So basically, the docs dictate their patient’s report in a Dictaphone or any other voice recording software and send them for transcription. The medical transcriptionist (MT) then type those records into the word processing program. The MT should posses good written English with all the grammar, punctuations, and good vocabulary. They should have good knowledge of medical terminology and should go through trainings that deals with the medical field. And lastly the most important part, they should possess good hearing skill. They should be able to understand and pick up various accents as Hispanic, Indian, Chinese, etc. as most of the files comes from the United States of America where there are people from all around the world living there.

It’s quite tough job being an MT, and the statistic shows that there are more jobs and less MTs in this world. May be due to the lack of knowledge or due to low pay but people don’t seem to interest in this job. Well talking in the preface of Nepal, it is 100% lack of knowledge. Most of the people don’t even know that the world medical transcription means, and it is hard describing them about how the job is done. It is quite a bit of money-raising business if we think seriously over the underdeveloped and poor country as ours, and it is the win-win situation of the work is done from here or any other south Asian country due to the time difference and the low wage rate in such areas rather than the Western areas. That is why it has been growing over Eastern areas these days.

Well that is about medical transcription, the job that I basically do for living. Currently, I work from home, and this is the kind of the job that do and love to do.

Like everyone, I too love the place that I was born. It was a small town called Hetauda here in Nepal. There was a place called Sano Pokhara where I was born. It is not a big city though but it got some beautiful natural sceneries; beautiful green hills surrounding the city and as always beautiful river, Rapti River. The border of our neighbor country is not so far from Hetauda. It’s near Birgunj (Nepali side) and Rakshaul (Indian side); that’s the border.

Hetauda was so much well know for its humidity. The temperature is too high up there. It is believed that in the long past, people from the prison were who had been prosecuted to be killed are left there and soon after some days they die from the flu because of the high temperature and malaria. Well that’s that I heard from my grandfather and some elder person. No written proof of it is found though. Well it is still warm up there but there is no flu there, malaria has been eradicated from there as well. The population there has now been increasing year by year. And now, since the maoist problem has resolved, lots of people are returning there.

Though I have no memory of that place while I was born there, but whenever I go visit that place, I find so much peace deep within. After all, it’s my birthplace.

After quite a time, finally, I am back into blogger to post some thoughts of mine. Well lets start this thing we have in a different way.

Since my best interest is in sports, mostly basketball, today I am going to write a blog in a totally different, full of action, and adventures way, well of basketball of course, the main focus being NBA (National Basketball Association).

To know about NBA, you must be familiarized by the term Basketball. Well basketball is a sport in which there are two teams of five players. Each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a hoop, also the basket, under organized rules. Points are scored by passing the ball through hoop from above. The team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball is advanced on the court by bouncing it, which is called dribbling, or passing it between teammates. There are certain rules and violations in it. Any physical contact during the game which is disruptive is considered as a foul.

Basketball is played both indoors and outdoors as well. Mostly basketball games, mostly great tournaments such as NBA are played as indoor sport, while it also has become exceedingly popular as an outdoor sport among groups of people in the small cities.

Though I am not that religious but I do respect all Gods of Hinduism. As I live in Nepal, I was brought up in Hinduism environment and told about lots of Gods and Hinduism. They believe that there are “Tettis Koti Devata” that means “330,000,000 Gods.” Quite a lot of Gods, isn’t it? Yeah. Hard to believe but that is what written in big old books of Hindu Gods. Amongst all of them the first one comes Ganesh. Well there is a story that the God of the God, Mahadev, had two sons, and he made this contest of roaming around the universe and whoever comes first shall get the title of being worshipped as first God whenever people have some puja (worshiping). His two sons were first Kumar, who is young and skinny type and his ride was Mayur (peacock) and Ganesh is fat and has a big belly and his ride was Muso (Mouse). So it was quite certain that Kumar is the winner. So as soon as the contest is setup Kumar goes on flying in his peacock, Ganesh just stood up in front of his father, Mahadev, and mother, Parvati. Then what he did was just traveled around his mother and father. Then, Mahadev became proud of his son Ganesh’s wisdom, because Ganesh knows that for a child his mother and father means the universe and he just roamed around them. Clever huh? So from that day whenever we have any rituals the first God we worship and do puja is of Ganesh.

Well there are lots of statues of Lord Ganesh in our country. May be 1000s of them, but since we are mostly around Basantapur, our hangout place, I mainly worship Maru Ganesh of the place called Maru. Maru means “lack of something” in Newari language, and here in Maru Ganesh’s temple the word maru represents the lack of “gajur” (the pointed pinnacle at the top of the temple). I don’t know the exact date but somehow some of my friends and I began to call him, Ganesh Dai. Dai means big brother in Nepali language. And mostly when I got to pray for something I pray to him. Well actually these days I don’t pray for myself, but I pray for my family, my loved ones, and my friends who are in need of his blessings. I am not an atheist but I am not really that much into Gods. I know there must be some presence or something like that I just believe in myself rather than anyone or anything for that matter, but yet as they say you remember God when you are in trouble or in need, and whenever I do, I remember my own big brother, my own Ganesh Dai.

I know this name, Da Ugly Devil, might freak out lots of people, and mostly my site’s name too is www.dauglydevil.com. But it is not like devilish or anything. It is something that I represent myself as. And no I am not that pessimistic and find myself depressed of the fact that people call me da ugly devil, moreover, it makes me proud because that is what I am. I know I am ugly and my home sure looks like hell, so I call myself da ugly devil. One of my best friends, Flor, and I had this kidding discussion of whom being the devil and actually at the end I became her lil devil, and so from that moment I named myself da ugly devil. Before that incident, I used to name myself as the ugly beast. I gave myself that name for my other best friend, Kriti. So that is where the name dauglydevil came from. You can see my other profiles in myspace, hi5, and zorpia as well.

This site www.dauglydevil.com is fully prepared and dedicated for my passion of blogging. Actually, my friend Sameer, who owns Addicted to Sports and Arsenal Football Blog, inspired me for this blogging job. He has been doing for more than seven or eight months now, and it really is quite an interesting job where you get to earn and enjoy the net at the same time. Since my favorite time is when I m mostly around internet, I too decided to do this blogging, and actually Sameer really did help me a lot for this site too. He has paid for the domain registering of this site. We had so much difficult time choosing the name for the domain, and finally I thought why not give a name from which I am being popular these days, so I thought of giving the name as www.dauglydevil.com. I hope I would progress a lot in this blogging business. All my friends do pray for this devil, your one and only Da Ugly Devil!!!