All these days... and me!

I have a passion for writing, need I say that? I wish I could post something in my blog daily but then there's always one or the other thing on my way. Loadshedding has not yet freed us and thrice a week we have to live in utter darkness. Of course the time has been decreased to some few hours but still the few hours of darkness spoil the whole mood.

As I have found myself quite lazy and idle except working full hour in office, I have started giving some time for actually reading. I am recently reading 'Beyond the Illusions' by Sheeba Shivangini Shah, the novel which I had bought in the book fair. I had wanted to buy a few more but I didn't get the books which were on my hitlist. I really wanted to read 'Leaving Microsoft to change the world' by John Wood in the original version (as I wanted to have the true feel of the author) but the stalls only had the translated one. The other book I really wanted to read was 'One night at the call centre', by .... I forgot (sorry) but I didn't get it too. I also wanted to buy Paulo Coelho's novel but they didn't have the one I was looking for. Unfortunate for me!

Anyway, I am also reading 'The Golden Notebook' by Doris Lessing, but try hard as I may, I have not been able to grab a thing about it. It's a tough read. I have repeated some 25 pages more than 10 times but still I have not been able to actually find out what has been told. So, definitely, I need more focus. "Concentrate poo!!"

Anyways, back to work...

I have been enjoying my work a lot. My otherwise 'technical' or 'straight' writing has found a new model and I have learnt how to beautify things... I had to learn that skill coz I am working for a glamorous magazine. I am really thankful that my colleagues are really friendly and helpful. Sharmila Gurung, our sub-editor, Pavitra Rana, reporter and Evelyn Moktan, reporter... the three of them and myself comprise the VOW team. In office, we are addressed as VOW girls... I must say we are a great team. I add 'didi' (sister) after the name of Sharmila coz I really think she deserves my respect. Not that I don't respect Pavitra or Eva. But they have more of a childish nature to them. Eva is very much like Smita, very helpful and very jolly. Pavitra is very sweet and she is really beautiful. On the other hand, Sharmila didi is quite mature, patient and really focused. She is really somebody I look up to. She is our team's boss but never lets us feel inferior in any aspect. She lets us grow freely. She is truly a great mentor. She has completed her Bachelors in Sociology and psychology from USA and had done her schooling from Hongkong... But she never boasts about all that. She is simple and honest and modest, as far as I have been able to understand. She has been dating Raj Gurung for a couple of weeks but he has already left for USA. I keep my fingers crossed for their happy times ahead.

And Samjhana didi, our events manager, is truly the lady... she is confident... she is truly the woman who can bring change. I must say women should be as confident as Samjhana didi. Sometimes she really talks a lot but then she really deserves our respect. I adore her a lot. Now, let's not talk about other departments ok? Or may be in later posts!!

And yeah, I shall post the photos of VOW girls and Samjhana didi really soon...

It was quite sometime that we didn't have any bandhs but we had one last Wednesday. I was expecting a holiday at office but we had to go. Of course there was not much work and many staffs took leave... there were only Sharmila di and myself in our department. We had a long lazy day... sipping coffee, turning the pages of magazines and surfing the net.

And yesterday we were invited to the Yamaha Glam 2065 Calendar launch at United World Trade Centre... Gosh, Nepali models are indeed HOT. I was literally speechless when I saw the photographs... BOLD but not all were beautiful. I mean, I don't think I have the right to comment on how the photographs were (technically they were wonderful)... but still I must say, Nepali girls have really really become more and more glamorous and bold and blablabla.

But truly, I liked some of the photographs. Niruta Singh, Richa Ghimire, Sanchita Luitel... to name a few. Some of them gave me a feeling 'are they really Nepali girls?'... just imagine how the photos were like!

So, content with what and how I am, I now am going for dinner. I will surely write very soon. I just hope I will not have to attend these sorts of programme again. And I will also write a detailed description of the programme in my next post... with some photos if I manage to get a few.

Lastly, BETTER TO HAVE AN UGLY FACE THAN AN UGLY MIND.