Fungus grown food at departmental store in Norway

I was shopping food and other items in a Rema1000, chain of grocery shop in Norway, I was surprised to see an item on rack with fungus grow. It was their with other items and how can the store not see such item and not remove where people are very much sensitive on food or other issues. I remember the issue of Nepal when 'Real' juice had such production mistake, all medias voiced for it and later even Indian ambassador to Nepal has to 'press down' the press by providing more advertisement  to their media or through taking role artists on advertisement and so on. In Nepal or India, we try to hide the issue but in developed countries, they try to explore the mistake and try not to repeat again. I hope the problem of this fungus grow is with broken packet box, not with production system. The mistake might be due to store boy/girl  who didn't see it while putting on rack. Advice to all whether you are in very good store or in street shop, check the item carefully. Special care should be given to check packet condition and its seal and expiry date.

Yumyum

Fruits are best for health and taste and fruit salad is even better for appetite. If it is of tropical fruits, can you tolerate not eating it?

Housing colony in Kathmandu

This is a picture of one of the housing colony in Kathmandu. Due to not planned housing, road and other infrastructure development, the city looks very haphazard and ugly. However, recent investment on housing has little bit helped to add a beauty of city plus other basic facilities like water, road, sanitation and so on. All colonies under development are focused on high story buildings rather than city environment. Recognize the colony picture below.

Lotus for Buddha

There are different traditions of worshiping God. Like in Nepal, people offer flowers, food and fruits. Offering flowers is common in most of the religion and places. In Sri Lanka, especially for Buddha, people offer different color lotus. Some are white, some purple and some red.

A visit to Sri Lanka

A month ago, I was visiting Sri Lanka for a office work. I like the place due to its greenery and a system developed for basic things like drinking water, education and health. I had an impression that the country must be in a painful condition due to thirty years of war but I didn't feel that after my visit. I got a feeling that if it would not have faced the war, it would have really become a 'pearl' of Asia a long back. Here are some pictures taken during my visit.

 Scene from Kandy hill

 Scene of early morning

Buddha Tooth Temple (Earlier it was a Royal Palace)

 Kingfisher seen at Sri Lanka lake, Royal Botanical Garden (RBG), Kandy

 Very beautiful orchid inside RBG, Kandy

 Root network of a tree at RBG

A side view of Sigiriya hill

A view of Sigiriya hill from Sigiriya hotel

Wild berry from Nepal

This wild berry's picture is from Kavre, Nepal. I don't know the scientific name of it but in Nepali it is called 'bhui yaiselu' meaning 'ground berry'. Some people also called it 'a berry of snake' but it is edible and some people even compare it with strawberry. If we look carefully, the seeds and wart in the fleshy fruit resembles to strawberry but smaller in size compare to strawberry. It is also round in shape where as strawberry is oval in shape. If you know the exact name and scientific name of it, share with me.

Godawari: Botanical garden Nepal

On the occasion of Nepali new year 2067, I went to Botanical garden, Godawari, about 15km from Kathmandu city. I was thinking that the site will be very peace and beautiful with lots of trees and many flowers. However, there were many people than the number of trees and flowers. Though the season was flowering, there were very few flowers. Many people were having picnic (it is not allowed to cook inside but you are free to eat the bought food). I don't understand why the authority allowed to sell alcoholic drinks and food inside the park. Because of the sale, the park was dirty and having trash everywhere. You could see the the condition of the park through these pictures. The last picture still tells that the area is less polluted (lichens on the tree). Lichens are consider as indicators of air pollution and their number is high in unpolluted or less polluted areas.

Flowing water: peace of mind

Flowing water is an inspiration for poet, writer, lover and all. How does it inspires human mind? Due to coolness, softness, cleanness, or its continuousness? I have no answer but there are very few people who don't like the flow and flow sound of water. You may not hear the rhythm but see the flow in these pictures.

Some flowers from Godawari

Godawari, a place at the base of Phulchoki hill, a hill south of Kathmandu, also known for national botanical garden. The garden is of interest to research scholar and others to conduct research or to visit and enjoy the nature. I visited the site after more than ten years and could see that the site is very much crowded. It might be due to limited gardens and open space in the Kathmandu. Here are some flower pictures from the garden. I don't know the scientific names of them.

Hottest day in Kathmandu (206C)

I was checking the weather condition of Kathmandu through the web page of meteorological forecasting division of Nepal, I got this page. I was very surprised to see the temperature of Kathmandu as 206°C. I am sure that the figure is wrong and it might be missing . (dot) in between 20 and 6. What happens if you consider the data provided by the division for your research if you don't notice the error in bulk or while taking average for long term data analysis. I hope some scientists will not claim that the Kathmandu got highest temperature due to 'climate change' for the mistake.

Traditional wooden pots from Nepal

In earlier days, still today in few places of Nepal, uses wooden pots to store foods. Depending upon the size and shape of these wooden pots, they are used to store milk, curd, ghee and other food items. Now a days, wooden pots are replaced by metal, ceramic or plastic items. I don't know which one is hygienic and environmental friendly but plastics are definitely not good.

Hail stones hits Kathmandu

While scientists are fightings with 'global warming', almost at the end of winter season, Kathmandu is hit by large amount of hail stones. It was windy night and all of a sudden, I hear 'pop' sounds above my roof. I came out of my room and saw white balls hitting hard to roof, ground and my flower pots. Oh! in a very short period of time, the amount of hail stone was so high that I have not seen before. It covered the streets, ground and everything within five minutes time. Enjoy the pictures of the same event occured just yesterday.

A visit to Manakamana Temple

Few weeks back, I visited Manakamana temple. The devi is belived to fulfill the will of everyone. I don't know whether everyones will is fulfilled but I enjoyed the natural beauty on the way to temple and scenes from the cable car. Hope you will also enjoy the trip with these few pictures.

Sun through sunglass

I was thinking to look solar eclipse looking solar eclipse needs special glass. In search of the glass, I got an idea of using camera, look the eclipse in camera screen. That was also a good idea to take picture of the moment. I took a stand and pointed to sun but it was so bright, my idea could not work. Then I must have a filter. I didn't have lens filter so I put my sunglass infront of my camera and looked the eclipse in my camera lens. I also took picture through the glass.

I like this picture as it has captured a flying bird.