Bamboo as home utensils

Today, I am posting a picture from a newspaper. Though it is not taken by me, I like the picture very much as it is one of the rare conditions. Besides this, the picture also reflects indigenous technology existing in the country. Bamboo is used for many things but as a water pot is really new to me.

The text in Nepali (below the picture) says that: The picture is from Sankhuwasawa Sisukhola-2 where Gorimaya Rai is filling bamboo pot with drinking water. They do not have bucket or water pot to collect water. Other people in the village also use bamboo as spoon, cooking utensils and others. As cooking utensils, they put rice and water in bamboo pot and put near fire to cook. Click the picture for larger form.

The picture is taken by Surendra Subedi/Kantipur (published on 27 August 2009)

Aesthetic value of solidwaste

In Environmental Science, 'aesthetic value' plays an important role. Environmental pollution lowers aesthetic value of nature and man made environment. If you can not see beautiful mountains in Nepal, you blame it to air pollution or to climate change. Similarly, people in Kathmandu blame solidwaste for tourist's flow decline. It is true that solidwaste is not collected regularly from the streets of city. This has affected the health of people, city environment and economy of city people. Besides these, how solidwaste affects the aesthetic value can be seen from the following two pictures. The first picture is with the solidwaste openly dumped in the street and second is just after the collection of same waste. How do you feel with and without the waste?

Tuborg house

Nepal is rich in water resources. It should promote on water based industries for maximum profit as raw material (water) is available for free or in lower cost. May be because of the same, there are many beer factories, Tuborg being one of them. I saw an advertisement of the same beer painted in the wall of a nice traditional house in Nepal. The house is located in an agricultural area as corps can be seen around the house the has cattle. I don’t know how the house owner and beer advertisers take it but for me, it looks like a Tuborg house.

Robert or iron waste

I saw this item standing like a Robert near an area where engineering subject is being taught. This might have developed by engineering students as a part of their project or just arranged the waste items of their other works. However, it looks like a person in a weight lifting mood. I can clearly see shape of head and two eyes plus antenna. Two hands with fingers are holding an item. The body does not look attractive but standing with two legs. What do you think? Is it a Robert or just a waste product compilation?

Natural bugs

I was walking in a natural trail and spot this event. I have usually seen lady bug but not this dark and shiny blue beetle. They were in the same leaf. Wow! What a nice moment. I don’t think they have mutual benefit on the leaf or that plant is their host but how they came together is unknown. There are many unknown natural mystery anyway.

Bhaktapur flooding

On Friday, it was raining like a monsoon while I was on the way to Kathmandu. When I reach near Suryabinak bus stop, I saw flooding in the small stream. Usually the streams were almost dry and many people even don’t know that there are streams. The water was flooding nearby paddy fields and restaurants. It was unexpected event for the locals so many people were watching the scene. I was expecting similar rain and flooding in all streams of Bhaktapur to call ‘Bhaktapur flooding’ but when I reach next bus stop, Sallaghari, there was no sign of such flood nor rain. After Thimi area, there were even no rain drops. The road was dry. This type of partial rain is due to environmental change?

Balaju baais dhara (Useless twenty-two taps)

When I was secondary school student, I used to visit Bajalu park with excitement. However, it is not the case now. The main attraction of the park was twenty-two stone sprouts and contineous flow of clean and clear water. The park still have such artestic and decorative taps, picnic areas, fish ponds, swiming pool and forest areas but ponds are without fish and taps are in complete dry condition. People used to take bath in the taps with cultural and religious belief and there are some songs especially made describing the taps. I could still see large number of visitors but I don't understand what the management does with the entry fee? It might be enough to give life to the area with the same income source.