Nepali People: The life of the Nepalese in Qatar

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With 266,000 people, and 100,000 more to come in 2008, the Nepalese in Qatar are about to become the first foreign community in this tiny Gulf country. They are also the first concentration of Nepalese outside Nepal and India. As soon as one steps off the plane from Kathmandu at Doha airport, one is struck by a certain kind of familiarity with the airport staff. The visitor to Qatar wonders at the number of young men speaking khas kura or wearing “Nepal” branded caps. In the streets of Doha, in shops, in shopping malls, in offices, in restaurants, on building sites, the Nepalese toil to earn their living and help their family at home...


Unskilled workers are usually put up in labour camps that is buildings rented by their company. The biggest concentration of labour camps is the Industrial Area, near Doha. Hundreds of thousands of men live there in camps where living conditions largely depend on the care the company takes of its workers. Some camps are well maintained, and even provide table tennis and snooker facilities. But the majority of them are overcrowded (up to 16 men to a room with three tiered bunk-beds), sometimes dirty and not suitable for men spending years abroad...

More on...
(With pictures)
http://www.phalano.com/?p=704


There is a strong need of very efficient contact office of Nepal Government in Gulf region.

Kathmandu Durbar Square: Odd Angles

I was like a tourist in the Kathmandu Durbar Square. With My camera.
I have been always fascinated by these places. I used to go and stay there and spent hours watching the beauty of the place, whenever I felt that I was under pressure. I wish I could take more pictures and I wish the day could have been a better one in terms of clearer sky and nice light.
What made me upset, like always, was the fact that the place could have been more cleaner. The small kids begging, the standing sellers chasing the tourists and the urination in some of the places. I was really angry to find that they had failed to keep it clean. I think there should be a standby team to keep it clean because tourists have paid the money to see it and that is one of the source of income. They did not pay to see the human dump. We should think on What kind of image we want to impart to them.
Pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/n.arxiv/KtmDURBARsquare1Jan2008

Memory helps us to remember :)

Basanta is a good writer and I enjoyed reading his comments on my blog. I think it was more than a comment. It was worth a separate heading on my blog. As a guest. Thanks!

While I was in Central Department of Physics as a master's students I had to remember very long formulas and tricks on tensor analysis and the components of 4by4 matrices. I had to remember those to save time and efforts it would take if I were to derrive it on the spot. Around that time we used to have debates like what is learning? Is it a process of remembering the stuffs so that you become too much familiar with it that you think you have learnt it? But anyway, it is associated with memory. I was really bad at remembering such things so I had designed some tricks on how to remember the mathematical components. I think every one has his/her own style of remembering things. For example to remember the telephone number of friends, I used the trick of some artistic shapes on the key pad of the phone. And it worked well. Though I was not the "walking telephone diary" like some of my friends.

Recently I had heard about a man who could remember many (I don't remember how many) digits of pi. He told that he remembered it as some beautiful picture.

Some links:

http://members.chello.nl/r.kuijt/en_pi_onthouden.htm

http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070911083118AAjIju1

http://hwebbjr.typepad.com/openloops/2006/06/how_to_remember.html

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/M/mindcontrol/remember/memory.html

There are a lot to remember!

I do clear my cache everytime I exit firefox. So ,at least, my computer has nothing to remember.

:)

Events! we do remember ...

What was I doing when I heard the 9/11 news?

I can remember it!
I was sitting on a chair in the tea-shop of my bhinaju. And I do remember the couple who delivered me the news. I can also remember his body language and everything he said about the live telecast from CNN.

This case is similar with another incident
I can also remember the place, and time and everything around me when I heard about the killings of the Late king Birendra and the massacre that occurred in Nepal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/south_asia/2001/nepal_in_crisis/

Do I remember everything for every moment?
No!
Then I will have the storage problem, I can not install a new hard drive on my brain.

One of my friend had told me that the events of such time are stored deeply in the brain and it depends on how much we can recover it. I used to discuss with my friends about remembering the childhood activities when I was M.Sc. second year student at nepal. We used to discuss whether the brain was recycling the memory. Because we had few friends who were claiming the same thing was going on with them too.
By the way, how is the memory stored in the brain?

Is it that the brain becomes extremely awake/active on such events?
What if we could activate our brain to that level forever?
At least without going crazy!