I've been meaning to write this post for ages, but I never have the time. I still don't really have the time, I should be doing one of the million things I have to do before I leave Nepal. But I'm writing this blog instead.
Anyway.
I've never had the best memory, so whenever I see/hear sayings/words/jokes/whatnot, I write them down in my phone and save them as a draft. I've been doing this for the past three months in Nepal, so there's quite a list and I've wanted to go though it and remember what I saved. So here's the list:
1- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it
2 - An old lady in a dress was walking home with her groceries when she slipped and fell on a patch of ice. Her groceries went everywhere. As she was trying to find all the items, she asked a man going by, "Did you see my butter fly?" He replied, "No, but I did see a big black moth."
3 - "The none existent Australian Embassy or the dingy Fire Club. Such a tough decision." (We were trying to decide where to go out one evening after eating out and a Nepali guy at the table next to ours said there was a party happening at the Australian Embassy. Mac, the volunteer coordinator for Umbrella, was quite sure that the Australians don't have an embassy in Kathmandu. Our other possibility was going out to Fire Club, a super dingy, sketchy, loud, dirty dance club, full of creepy old Nepali men. :P Tough choice eh?
4 - Noon - salt in Nepali. Thakyo - tired (Very important words to know :)
5 - 'For the first day of trekking, a nine hour bus to Sephru. And I'm going to the Langtang Himalayas' (While I was trekking, I was trying to come up with lyrics for 'The Twelve Days of Trekking.' I didn't have a pen and paper to write down my ideas while I was hiking, so I saved them in my phone :)
6 - 'Love is a chain of nature' (Seen on a poster in one of the tea houses we stopped while trekking)
7 - 'Fish and Cheeps' (A sign for fish and chips)
8 - 'When you're traversing an unlit road that's barely two lanes wide and isn't straight for more than 100m and is occupied by monster lorries, huge buses, the odd tractor or wayward four legged animal, with motorcycles weaving in and out, sixty clicks is fast!' (This is what was going through my head on the jeep ride back to Kathmandu)
9 - 'Devighar and Galchhi, Trisuli River' (two towns we drove through and the river we rode along on the way back to Kathmandu, it was STUNNING. I wanted to remember the names, on the off chance I had time to go back, but it didn't work out)
10 - 'I wish you blue birds in the spring to give your heart a song to sing. And then a kiss, but more than that I wish you love.' (written on the wall in a pub in Thamel)
11 - 'Going on a date with your lover? Now know the dating tips to impress your love.' (One of the many spam texts I get from NCell, the main phone company in Nepal).
12 - 'Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often, and for the same reasons' (Written on the wall of a pub in Thamel).
13 - 'Beer: now cheaper than gasoline, so don't drive, drink' (written on the wall of a pub in Thamel)
14 - "Afghanistan was hard core in the sense that there were bombs" (An expat comparing the dangerousness of Afghanistan and Africa)
15 - 'The Honk and Holler Opening Soon - Billie Letts' (A book I need to read)
16 - 'Dress Classy, Dance Cheesy' (Excellent advice!)
17 - 'Dance Lalla with nothing on but air, Sing Lalla wearing the sky. Look at this glowing day! What clothes could be so beautiful, or more sacred?' (A saying on the back of a book I found while perusing though the bookshop)
What would we do without cell phones?
:)
Anyway.
I've never had the best memory, so whenever I see/hear sayings/words/jokes/whatnot, I write them down in my phone and save them as a draft. I've been doing this for the past three months in Nepal, so there's quite a list and I've wanted to go though it and remember what I saved. So here's the list:
1- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it
2 - An old lady in a dress was walking home with her groceries when she slipped and fell on a patch of ice. Her groceries went everywhere. As she was trying to find all the items, she asked a man going by, "Did you see my butter fly?" He replied, "No, but I did see a big black moth."
3 - "The none existent Australian Embassy or the dingy Fire Club. Such a tough decision." (We were trying to decide where to go out one evening after eating out and a Nepali guy at the table next to ours said there was a party happening at the Australian Embassy. Mac, the volunteer coordinator for Umbrella, was quite sure that the Australians don't have an embassy in Kathmandu. Our other possibility was going out to Fire Club, a super dingy, sketchy, loud, dirty dance club, full of creepy old Nepali men. :P Tough choice eh?
4 - Noon - salt in Nepali. Thakyo - tired (Very important words to know :)
5 - 'For the first day of trekking, a nine hour bus to Sephru. And I'm going to the Langtang Himalayas' (While I was trekking, I was trying to come up with lyrics for 'The Twelve Days of Trekking.' I didn't have a pen and paper to write down my ideas while I was hiking, so I saved them in my phone :)
6 - 'Love is a chain of nature' (Seen on a poster in one of the tea houses we stopped while trekking)
7 - 'Fish and Cheeps' (A sign for fish and chips)
8 - 'When you're traversing an unlit road that's barely two lanes wide and isn't straight for more than 100m and is occupied by monster lorries, huge buses, the odd tractor or wayward four legged animal, with motorcycles weaving in and out, sixty clicks is fast!' (This is what was going through my head on the jeep ride back to Kathmandu)
9 - 'Devighar and Galchhi, Trisuli River' (two towns we drove through and the river we rode along on the way back to Kathmandu, it was STUNNING. I wanted to remember the names, on the off chance I had time to go back, but it didn't work out)
10 - 'I wish you blue birds in the spring to give your heart a song to sing. And then a kiss, but more than that I wish you love.' (written on the wall in a pub in Thamel)
11 - 'Going on a date with your lover? Now know the dating tips to impress your love.' (One of the many spam texts I get from NCell, the main phone company in Nepal).
12 - 'Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often, and for the same reasons' (Written on the wall of a pub in Thamel).
13 - 'Beer: now cheaper than gasoline, so don't drive, drink' (written on the wall of a pub in Thamel)
14 - "Afghanistan was hard core in the sense that there were bombs" (An expat comparing the dangerousness of Afghanistan and Africa)
15 - 'The Honk and Holler Opening Soon - Billie Letts' (A book I need to read)
16 - 'Dress Classy, Dance Cheesy' (Excellent advice!)
17 - 'Dance Lalla with nothing on but air, Sing Lalla wearing the sky. Look at this glowing day! What clothes could be so beautiful, or more sacred?' (A saying on the back of a book I found while perusing though the bookshop)
What would we do without cell phones?
:)
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