Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Ride the bus.....


Was thinking of renting a car ... ani driver lai side ma rakhey-ruh afaai hooi-kee-dai from Bhairahawa to Pokhara ... but then I realized ... I hadn't been in them local highway buses since 1996!

After going through my formula for theory of relativity or something like that .. I figured I would save like 6,000+ NRs if I took the local mini-bus to Pokhara! Yes, them long buses haroo chahi aaj kal chal-dai-naw rahecha from BHR to PKR!

Ticket ko chahi only NRs 380.00 ... blawdy hell... why am I wasting my money on them planes and so-called tourist buses?

Bus ko tyam was 9:00am and like our load-shedding schedule (the only other thing!) the ride began on tyaam kyaaruh!

Them bus was half-empty ... and the conductor saheb refused to close the door kyaaruh! And thanks to my relatives, uni haroo ko advice ' take that seat dhoka ko seee-dhaa, more comfortable ni!' ... well, them seat weat chahi .. just popped out and I thought.. 'damn, if this bus ever falls in them river siver, I better use it as a flotation device or something!'

We got to Butwal in no tyam kyaaruh.. only because the local bus wallahs don't like them highway buses picking up them local route ko passenger rey! If they do that, then the local don son aka bus sanchaa-luck saw-meet-eeee will burn them buses rey!

Butwal ko bus stop ma chahi, met them guys who wanted to sell me a 'SeeKo' watch for NRs 150, and another guy from UP, begging me to buy a pack of 'Chinese candies' for my son! Abuh biha nai bhaako chainuh.. chora kaha baatuh liyeruh auney ho! .. and then the local mariachi band just stormed the bus and started singing some 'Antonio Banderas' lay gauney gaana haroo!

Everybody has their own organization, unions and what not! Our 'All Nepal Gandarva Sangathan' members decided to sing some song ... kyaaruh and then after 60 seconds, the bus started to gooding ani uni haroo lay hamroo paisa mooding!

I didn't have change sange hola... ani fasaad! 100 Rs tuh nikaali-haaliyo. abuh change kati maagney!

No change sange... a little bit of half-arse blessing.... 'lau tapai ko yaatra safal hos ani ..... yeee gaadi tuh chaley cha.. lau jhaarooom ho guruji!'

The conductor refused to close the door .... even after giving him euta soontaalaa, 12 wata badaam and mero half can Red Bull!

Bajiyaa lay sabai tuh khaayo taruh Dhoka chahi .. uh-oh... banda garnai maaney nuh! Ani biccha bato ma Jhyaang tiraa 'bathroom break' ... euta Churot pani diye... taaan-yo jindagi churot nai naw-taaney jasto!

Narayanghaat baatuh ali taw-law khaana khaanuh rokiyo! 2 bajey bhaat khaaney.... bhaat pani chiso... masoo ma chaala maatruh, achaar hijo ko , sabji tuh jhan asti ko! hehehe!

Baccha ko bela ma tuh mungling sungling ko bhaat tuh mitthai laag-thyo kyaaruh!

Feri goo-di-yo.. taruh Bajiya lay dhoka chahi banda garey-naw.. abuh pitnuh bhaye-nuh.. co-pliot lai .. feri Nepal bandha garlaa bhanney durr! Khaa-yee-yo Chiso Hawa chahi... Danny Dengzopa lai samjhi-dai!

Dumre ma ayeruh... euta tyre nai puncture suncture! Arko 40 minutes.. tyre syre banau-naw... bhagwan lay saath diye-cha.. tyre workshop ko agaadi nai puncture... ki chahi tyehi sahuji lay bato ma killa silla rakhyo hola ni?

By the time.. Pokhara poo-gee-yo.. it was already 6pm! Took a Cab to RamKrishna Tole, thulo aamaa ko ghar ma ... ani shower liyeruh ... Ek Jerkin Kodo ko raksi agaadi basiyo dhyaan garnuh!

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