New Website!!!

New Website!!!
I just started a new website writing article about music..especially the metal scene. hope you guys like it . The link is as follows below
http://metalmelody.com/
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New Horizon

That Scent!
that pungent scent, which linger in your clothes that day after you've been awake the whole night. I feel my clothes cling to my bare skin as if i had been swimming the whole night. Was I swimming or sweating?
I don't want to open my eyes. I hear faint rustling on the side, while the tiny grains of sand brush up against my face. I was not in the comfort of my bed.
No!
I wasn't in my room or in my bed. I can feel the warmth of the morning sun touch my toes. I don't want to but i open my eyes slowly . Mentally preparing myself for what i hoped to be a dream.
It has to be a dream ! This can't be real ?
The Beach.....
Or atleast what seemed like the Beach . I can feel my cheeks lying flat of the soft textured fine grained sand. The green of the trees immidiatly reach my eyes. I can hear the soft howl of the wind blowing and with it the raspy back vocal of rustling leaves, as if trying to orchestrate a soft lullaby to induce me back to sleep.
The entire atmosphere felt like a sleeping drug. I would have traded my leg for a soft pillow right now. but wishful thinking isn't going to help me any way. Realization slowly started seeping in that i must get up ....I can't lay down like this any more . I must know where i am ..I must know what i did.
I dig my toes in the sand . The warm sand, i feel it urging my to stay , to not leave its company.
My palms are faced up as i lay faced down, coming to the resolve to finally get up . I curl up my fingers in my right hand , then my left. I feel the sensation of blood rushing to my fingertips. I curl my hands bringing in it closer to my face, while i move my head in syncronious manner to the other side , half expecting another creature to be sitting there ... gawking at me .
It pierces me !!! the sharp sting of the suns morning rays coming directly at me drowns me in regret, as my face cringes and reveals what i feel are the wrinkles on my face.
Support on my right hand , i bring my left had towards my face. With one swoop i brush off all the natures exfoliators.
Bringing both my hands to be face down . i redirect all of my energy to the palm of my hands . With one strong push this lopsided land was right side up .

What to expect and how can we help Nepal after the Earthquake!!!

If you just want to give donations to help Nepal in its time of need , please go to the bottom of the page.

Before we start on whats going on in Nepal let us look at the repercussion of the Earthquake in Nepal. Nepal is a small Landlocked country surrounded by India and China. Divided into approximate three equal geographical regions, accessibility and  help cannot be equally distributed throughout the country because of the restricted transportation system in Nepal . Even if the earthquake has gone away with recurring aftershocks, the redevelopment of the country now is on a extremely difficult path.

HISTORY OF NEPAL GEOGRAPHY:

Nepal is geologically a very young landscape, being formed after the floating Indian subcontinent crashed into the Asian continent. This action of the floating Indian tectonic plate crashing with another continent gave rise to the great Himalayan region of Nepal , which also resulted in the worlds highest mountain , Mt Everest. The movement of the Tectonic plate is prevalent to the present day , and as one tectonic plate slowly climbs over another (Subducting), it forms the unique landscape of Nepal. Due to the continuous movement of the tectonic plates under the surface , one solid block of bedrock moves on top of the other (in layman's terms). With the slow movements of plates over time , the plates on the top would have a self weight which cannot be supported , when the self weight becomes higher than the strength of the groundrock , a violent fracture in within the plates , the vibration of which ripples to the surface. This eventual Fracture is the primary cause of Earthquakes in Nepal
(Youtube link to  How Earthquake Occurs)

The continous movement of the tectonic plates also means that the Geology of the country is relatively young compared to other countries. The surface you see now used the be soft clay under the ocean bed which was slowly moved up .Therefore from a geological point of view , most of the surface that is apparent to the naked eye is a weak structure.

BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE:

With rivers and mountains alike, most of the roads, paths, bike paths, walking trails are carved on the side of the hill. Seventy percent of Nepal's surface covers hills and mountain. On regular times, speed of the vehicles itself is very slow due to the Topographical condition. Floods , landslides , poor construction material makes continuous maintenance of the transportation system in Nepal to be a very difficult job in itself.

CURRENT SITUATION

Now lets look at the situation post the Earthquake. this natural disaster rips out the land from beneath us.Makes essentials for human life inaccessible. running water, roof over ones head, and a warm bed to sleep soundly becomes a luxury . Even if Financial and other aide for immediate help reaches Nepal at this time , disbursement of those assets will not be an easy task. Trips throughout the country and within individual cities will be next to impossible .  But even a little help means a lot in this moment of need.

Let us see what we can expect in the next few days after the earthquake. Most of the major Metropolitan cities are located in the hill. There is a dense vehicular population in Nepal, but the fuel for all of these vehicle all come from India. Being a landlocked country , relief for the country is not easily available. Not only fuel , but most of the food and other daily utilized items are imported. This dependence in outside imports makes life in Nepal relatively harder. Scarcity of fuel is something that the Nepali people live on a daily basis, with hiked up fuel prices compared to other countries is to be naturally assumed. Rescue and other operations will be expected slow, due to road conditions and the scarcity of the fuel.

Water conveyance system is all underground, so it is expected that burst pipes will result in majority of population not having access to drinking water itself. On average the local bodies involved in maintenance of these facilities take a long time. But when all of these malfunction occur at the same time it can be expected that the repair work is going to take an extremely long time.

Food will be rationed and stored and prices are expected to rise,due to the cutoff in supply. Even though the current events are disasterous and horrific. Difficult times of recovery are still to come.

At this time of Difficulty we can only pray for the people who have to through this ordeal.
As of now, 4/27/2015, the current number of fatalities is around 3800 with many more to come. I would like give access to some of the links below to some International Non Govermental organizations(INGO) and Non govermental Organizationa(NGO), which are the bodies who take up responsibility to help those who have fallen victim to this natural disaster.

Picture courtesy of: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nepal-earthquake/hundreds-killed-nepal-earthquake-n348251

This particular website is to check legitimacy of of Charitygroups so that you don't fall prey to the scammer:http:Charity Navigator
                        BBB Better business bureau

The Links of relief work site:

Nepal Red Cross Society

British Red Cross Twitter

Planusa.org

Save the Children

OXFAM America

CARE

MercyCorps

https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/1240508?fb_action_ids=10153186231312597&fb_action_types=indiegogo%3Acontribute

World Food Programme

UNICEF 

These are some of the organizations that i have found out .
If you think you’ve been the victim of a charity scam or if a fundraiser has violated Do Not Call rules, file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. Your complaints can help detect patterns of wrong-doing and lead to investigations and prosecutions.

Why is it harder for Smarter people to explain to stuff to challenged people like me!!!

I have come to realize that it is harder for smarter people to explain stuff to me than for me to explain stuff to them . Then i think why is that ???
Well the answer is very simple, when i understand something , i explain it the way that i have understood it . And i usually have to break it down into smaller rudimentary simple parts so that i can understand it myself .
For smarter people they understand concepts in their complexity , and the explanation given to simper folks turn out to be just as bad to begin with . So the end result turns out to dumbfound us just as much as the original explanation. whereas when we simple folks explain stuff to other , they will be getting a simplified version , which can be grasped in a second. which in result makes them feel smarter.
What do you think? Was that a simple explanation?
:)

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Focused on work ,no time to twerk
Old time friends , pray for future
life is a journey,one long trek

Russ Martin Show: how it’s more than what it is.

Russ Martin Show: how it’s more than what it is.

There are a few things in life that change your life without you knowing it, or stopped your life from changing.  Change can be a good thing or a bad thing, getting a promotion or a new job is a good thing, getting in a car accident and lying in a hospital bed is an undoubtedly a bad one.

Russ Martin Show is talk show featured in the Dallas radio station 97.1 The Eagle Rocks. A four hour long program, where on normal days four guys (Russ, Dan, Alfie and Clo) discuss about the news, points and views. Recently there was a girl intern for a short period of time, Kinsey.

The show itself is highly controversial, with raunchy topics, crude language, and rude behavior.  They provide their atheistic views, and to the point blunt statements.  With a huge fan base following and equal following of people who are against their point of view.

Today I am not going to discuss about their show, but how this affects my daily life.

Shocking as it might sound to the readers right now, I must say that driving in the busy roads of Dallas, I would probably be involved in an accident a long time back if it was not for this particular show. I started my current job about a year back. I work in the construction, so I need to travel a lot. When I started the job I had just returned to the States from my visit back home. Recently applied and got my American drivers license.

A new truck came with the job. Driving around town with a vehicle with automatic transmission was fun. But combining that with traffic was, boring!!! And with boredom comes the inability to stay awake.  With short hours of sleep at night, I used to feel sleepy when I drive. To counteract the effect, I used to listen to the radio, listen to music. The only problem, I listen to music when I go to sleep. So what do I start? I start singing with the songs, with no avail. I used to still feel sleepy.

There used to be days of driving where I just had to scream with the songs just to stay awake. One day I got a can of coke from a jobsite. And I was drinking that right before I headed back home. The sugar laced with caffeine did the trick that day. Amazingly this drink which was created in the earlier part of the 20^th century as a medication could also counteract the effect of my drowsiness while driving. But I regretted that, because a few years back when I used to work at McDonalds, I’m pretty sure the 30 pounds I gained was because of the two huge glasses of coke I was drinking a day, when I worked there. I didn’t want to gain the weight that I had struggled to lose the past year.

But I had to drink the coke, because I didn’t want to start drink energy drinks and go from bad to worse. After a few weeks my body acclimatized to the magical drink, I was again starting to feel droopy even with the elixir of wakefulness. I started to sing while driving with a coke in my hand.

On one of these days while driving, being stuck in traffic, I was bored out of my mind.  I started to switch the stations on the radio. Suddenly, from the barrage of different station with music playing, one came up which had some guys talking. One of the first words I heard was the B**** word. That instantly grabbed my attention out of lethargy and snapped me back to reality. The guys were talking fast, talking what they like, and didn’t give a damn about what anyone else thought about them. The show was controversial, but it was very interesting.

Being out of stupor, I realized that the quick witted show had brought me out of my sleepiness.

From that day onwards I listen to the show religiously, that’s funny because the show basically has four atheistic guys who trash religion so devotedly.

Now, why is the show more than what it was intended to be for me?

If it was not for the show, my unusual sleeping pattern would have taken its toll. Some of the following things would have happened to me:

·        The scariest: I would be involved in a traffic accident.

·        The guiltiest: I would be hooked on Coke or other energy drink to stay awake, and gained the 30 pounds and some more which I had worked hard to lose.

·        The most expensive: I never used to have dental problem, but after working in McDonalds I had six of my teeth to be worked on, I’m pretty sure it’s because of the sugar in the drink. Getting back on the drink, I’m pretty sure that would be a recurring thing, and dental visits isn’t cheap in the states, neither is it pain free.

Because of the show I believe that I am more alert now while I’m driving. I haven’t been in an accident, and I haven’t had any health problems.  This means the show has unknowingly reduced my expenses, and stopped my health from deteriorating.

There are a few things in life that change your life without you knowing it, or stopped your life from changing.  I would like to thank the Russ Martin show for keeping their show so lively, cause mine could have turned for the worst, and you only realize about it when you reach the end of the turn.

Nabin Rajbhandari

Coke!!! My Love-Hate Relationship.

A multi-billion dollar mega business would aptly describe the business which was initially started in 1886.  It success being so large that it was once believed that ‘ok’ and ‘Coke’ were the two most widely recognized words in the world, although searching the internet,  I couldn’t find a study to validate this claim. It was however recognized as the world’s most valuable brand in 2011. The fact remains and when you say Coke or Coca-Cola a distinct image comes to mind.

Hard to imagine that the company, Coca-Cola, was founded more than hundred years ago, and since its beginning it has spawned a legion of other products and copycat companies.

Invented by a colonel of the American Civil war who was looking for a substitute for his morphine addiction, people don’t realize the background, the pros and cons of the company. Did you know that the term coca in Coca-Cola comes because they used the some minute coca leaves, not to be confused with cocoa which is used to make chocolate. Coca is the same plant from which cocaine is extracted. Well, the company claims that they substituted Cocaine with caffeine for health claims but still uses a minute amount of fluid extract from the coca leave which is not addictive.

Coca-cola was initially made over a hundred years ago as a patented medicine….a mixture of coca , wine and other stuff , which could cure a variety of ailments like cough, cold , morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Can you believe that? How the world has changed right.

Now the modern formula of Coke claims to have caffeine, high fructose corn syrup, phosphoric acid, other ingredients and carbonated water; carbonated water was also initially thought to be a cure to many health problems as well.

Bottom line … most of the people around the world like Coke!!!

So what is my love hate relationship with Coke?

In my earlier days Coke wasn’t a part of my daily diet , I didn’t go searching for it , but I didn’t avoid it when it was in front of me . It was just ‘there’ for me.

Then a couple of year ago, I started working in McDonalds; another high-powered industrial name.  McDonalds, with its fast food services, have been infamously accused for its health problem. Basically: Obesity. I worked in McDonalds for little over 4 months. At the end of the four month period I was shocked to find out that I had gained approximately 40 pounds or 20 kilos. Shocking right?

Yes, blame McDonald and their mechanically produced product for my weight problem. After leaving McDonald (not due to the weight increase) I came back home.
6 months after my return I went to the dentist and found out that several of my teeth were damaged and eaten by germs. Oh the horror.... sitting under the limelight on the dentist chair

A year went by, I blamed McDonalds for all my woes. Then another year went by and I forgot about everything. Later I came across a book ‘Atkins diet’, it said in that book that when you consume sugar or carbohydrate, it turns into glucose which, if in excess within a body, converts to fat. So I went on a diet …. No sugar or carbs. What was the result you ask…I lost 35 pounds or 16 kilos in 3 months. 11 kilos or 24 pounds in the first month.

Then it hit me like a flash of lightning, when I worked in McDonalds, I used to eat burger every day, but I also had access to unlimited supply of Coke. While you were on a budget to the number of burger you could eat at lunch, I had access to unlimited supply of Coke, so did everyone who worked there.  I nearly had an average of 2 lit Coke every day. With so much sugar or sucrose in Coke (10 teaspoon in 400ml), of course I was bound to have dental problems, it turned out that I was also the root to my weight problem.

So I cut out Coke from my life. At this point you are probably thinking …..Great!!! I was thinking that as well.

A couple of month ago I had a health problem, non Coke related I assure you. I started coughing one day, and it just didn’t seem to go away. I was coughing all the time. First I went to the pharmacist and got a bottle of cough syrup, then another bottle, then another, finally went to the doctor and got anti- biotic. The cough was reduced a bit, but it wasn’t gone. It lasted a month. Thanks to Wikipedia, I had read Coke was initially invented t cure many ailments. So, one day when there was a bottle of Coke sitting on the table, in the middle of my coughing fit I grabbed a glass of the room temperature elixir and drank it. Next day, I was sad to say it but my cough was gone. Similarly it worked for my cold in another occasion. I know that itdoesnt have cocaine in the drink anymore but they still have fluid extract of the coca leaf.

I was like “damn!!!”. Coke again found a purpose in my life

Life continued….

I got a new job. The new job required that I travel a lot in my truck. Late nights and early hours made me droopy and sleepy when I drove. I was scared, it is quite deadly in the highway of Texas, if you sleep and drive, I believe that it is more dangerous than if you drink and drive.

He he

Anyways, I tried energy shots when I was really tired, but I didn’t like them. I tried drinking a lot of water, but that didn’t actually help.  Then one day in one of my drowsy state at work one of my colleagues gave me Coke, to my surprise, the coca extract, sugar and caffeine did wonders to my drippy state. Now that I think about it I regret those days when I dozed off in class in front of the professor and in the first row nonetheless, when it could have all been avoided by drinking just a little Coke.

Through various trial and error life experiences, I have come to realize that my love-hate relationship with Coke will always be there. Love it at times, hate it at times!!!

Either way, it’s always there.