Got SIM?

NTC (Nepal Telecom) is giving out discounted-SIM cards for our young folks. Yes, all you need is a student ID and you get your SIM card for Rs 510. Didn't know we had a lot of young folks in the country. I thought all of them ended up in Amrika and Australia.

The NTC office is swarmed by students. I went to pay the internet bill today and it was like staying in line to buy 'U2' concert tickets. It's a good thing to be a student. You get some stuff for less and if you don't then you can always burn tyres and do some chakka-jaam!

And I guess you can stop using NTC because the network is already out of whack and it's going to get much whackier from now on. NTC blames it on the load shedding. Its towers are not getting enough power to charge. Yes, blame the NEA (Nepal Electricity Authority). And what does the NEA do? Nothing.

Our Young folks either look like punk stars or Avril Lavigne. Some boys and their whacky hairstyles and the harachuku girls. Must be the Korean films! I asked a BBS student, 'so what's next?' and he replied, "I am going to Australia!"

"Maybe I wouldn't have to hang out with the Kangaroos if I had joined the YCL!"

Where are the YCLs? When you are not beating, hitting and spitting someone then can you guys please come to NTC and manage the lines? Maybe, you could clean up the streets instead of cleaning up the industries. Yes, everyone is joining the YCLs. Most of them join to make a dime or two.

And it's not only the YCLs who are having a good time. Our Youth Force (UML) is not far behind. Milan Chakre is still UML's thug-for-hire. He is always busy giving a prep talk to newly formed YF club(s) around the valley.

I guess Don M is still having fun even though half of his body parts don't work properly. It's tough to start a new business in KTM but it's even tougher to sustain whatever you have. A builder friend of mine is always visited by local goondas.

Before, it was like a hafta-asooli but now it's more of a 'give something to charity' natak. Build few houses in Maharjgunj and Chakre, the one-arm-mangled bandit will visit you for contribution. Do something in Thamel and Deep-Yuk Manangey will visit you with his boys from Kavre. And then we have small crooks to worry about.

We can thank the Maoists for introducing the socket/pipe/pressure cooker bombs. Now, everyone is using them to make a point. We can also thank them for their 'give us money or we will blow your head off' racket. Now, even small time crooks are using the same magic formula. Yes, E=MCC not Mariah Carey times 2.

The difference between the Maoists and other political parties : All of our politicians use goons but the goons are using the Mao-link to get richer.

According to Kukhurachor Guptachar Bivag (KGB), the YCL honchos are willing to turn a blind eye to simple goonda-gardi by local dons as long as they kiss Mao's arse. I don't know what that means but the way things are going, reminds me of them 'Congressi' days when all their cadres and link-people had fun!

If the Maoists don't start a new filtration plant soon then there won't be anyone left to do the arse-kissing.

And only in Nepal, do you get a guy from the former rock band, "The Royals" and Prachanda's son doing business together. I hear these guys are making billions.

Well, politics in Nepal is like running a 10,000 mile ultra-marathon. If you get past the finish point, you will make a killing and if you don't ... then bad luck buddy!