Oldo breaks leg!

Sorry to inform you, my family & friends, that shortly after posting the 'Rice Harvest' story, on Tuesday evening, Nov. 1st, I misstep in my own house and broke both bones (tibia & fibula) above my left ankle! It happened quite simply as I walked down the four stone steps into living area, electtricity gone some minutes ago, but enough light from the myriad of Luxmi-puja lamps & candles my Indu lighted up, and in thought I forgot how many steps there were and planted my solid 105kg on the poor stretched left leg! It felt like a bolt of lightning, sound like when a 'khukri' shatters water-buffalo leg, first time I ever heard this horrible sound, and knew immediately I'm in deep dodo. Indu laughed as I writhed in pain on the carpet - she had 3 times missteped last year and stretched tendon and sore ankle... But I KNEW!
I just came from B&B Hospital in Patan, after 8 days and 2 operations, still in pain, will write more later...

Update: My nice guest, Steen from Silkeborg, the Lake City of Denmark, sent me my last photo as a walking man:



Note the drying rice... Nice harvest, ain't it?
The taxi's waiting, his holiday is over, my nightmare just 5 hours away...

Rice Harvest 2062 B.S. (CE2005)

The fields here in the east of the Kathmandu Valley are teeming with people. Rice harvest, late this year, is in full swing. Literally, for the most important 'machine' is a foot-driven thresher. And from rice comes 'jar', beer-like potion, even children imbibe. Though I don't think this one gets more then mother's milk:



Laxman proudly poses with the famous thresher - his is a slightly modern model - it runs on household current, and thus could be used on our field:


Happy Harvest!

Oldo turns 57!

With my beloved INDU infront of our house God, the great son of Shiva, Ganesh. As years go by, I think I get, if not mellower, then ROUNDER...

Outrage in Christiania

The followers of RoP reached a new milestone last week in the peaceful dope-smokers' oasis Christiania (former Royal Danish Navy yard, occupied by hippies in 1971 - if you didn't knew - ): a murder commando of these sons-of bitches entered Christiania with a single purpose - to kill their ( perceived ) business rivals (business beeing sale of hash, a lucrative business!). They didn't care whom they hit - just as they intimidated the danish. These bastards look at us Europeans as wolves look at sheep, with less compassion and empathy than these predators. Every sign of kindness on our part is seen by them as sign of our terminal weekness...
When the shooting was over the Police found 35 bullets, 6 bodies on the ground, one of which, an easy going fella named Morten, died on spot... The arab bastards car-jacked a car and in their Audi 6 (Slovak gangsters too are fond of!) with swedish license took off.
And how our Police tackled this worst ethnic attack in newer danish history? Well, they used the fact that Christiania was in shock and started a great 'clean-up' operation! First time ever a mean looking foot-patrols walked criss-cross around the 7 ha. big area, and whoever was caught with a smelly joint in his hand was arrested: they had unlimmited supply of plastic handcuffs and the poor sod could look to 3-4 hours at a police station and abt.$200 fine. Full court press!

Nepali buddhist monks in pro-king march

And I thought these guys were only interested in travel to the US, ROLEXes and PAJEROs with darkened windows! And golden batroom-fittings in their "ascetic" gompas (monasteries).


Well, some of them have the heart on the right side and show more sense then "professional" politicians and the "Toyota Talibans"!

Univerzita Karlova - Zakládací listina

Univerzita Karlova - Zakládací listina
Just foolin' around with friend's computer: installed GoggleToolbar on his IE6.x.
It has a nice feature - Browse by Name - it even has 'Blogger'-button, so you can comfortably append a site to a blog!
Maybe I should start the dusty XP-again? Just for this Google-toy? I hope they port the 'toy' to other OS' - they used to brag about their server-farm running LINUX. Mayb they could repay some brownies to the Open-OS community for free LINUX.

Cautious optimism in the Kingdom

First reports from the Kingdom suggest the people of Nepal shown more political savvy and intuition than their (justly) infamous politicians! There is a feeling of relief, and questions why this Emergency was not declared earlier.
On Tuesday evening, one week after HM King Gyanendra's speech, the land-line phones and internet were back on-line. The mobile net is still switched-off, and according to RNA, this gave the Army a "leg-up" on the maobadis. They relied on the GSM-net for a lot of tactical C3 (Comms-Command-Control), and now they are being deprived of it & rolled-up.
The CPN-M (maoists) called a general strike for 3 days last week... and everybody ignored it!!!
Our intrepid Mjr. Andrew filed a brave Losar-report from Pokhara, and basically confirms the base-line: Relief, Expectations, faith in Monarchy as the Last Standing Structure in the F-state of Nepal. (F not as 'Failed', but as 'Fucked-Up')!

Valg i Danmark - Betragtninger II.

Så er valg-dagen imorgen! Så partileder-debatten igår på DR1, alle 10 var der...
Marianne fra Helvede slog vildt rundt omkring med sin virtuelle håndtaske så Mogens fik næseblod... Pia, med det sædvanlige forurettede mine parerte "racisme" anklager fra bossen af Minoritetsparti, en vis betong-kommunist fra Århus, Rune E., beundrer Pol Pots og Guzmán, supporter af blodige nepalesiske maoister.

Nepal still cut-off!

As of today, a week after leaving Nepal, I have not been able to call anybody in Nepal. Neither could I check my e-mail with World Link, their servers are still DOWN!
There is surprisingly little on the net about Nepal: one source is a Nepal BBS with some links, the other is soc.culture.nepal
HM King Gyanendra's action is according to sketchy eye-witness reports widely applauded by the people on the street, termed as "unevitable"! O3 made use of his legendary "nose" and managed to flee to his Indian paymasters' Embassy

King has had enough...

Copenhagen Airport, morning 1st.Feb. 2005.
HM King Gyanendra probably even surprised himself with the cup d'etat this morning: suspended what little of the Constitution there was, placed my favorite enemies (O3, MK Nepal ++) under house arrest, declared state-of emergency.
I aplaud it, and expected the shit to hit the fan earlier - just to get away from the absurd situation where the Maobadi are gayly killing teachers and social workers and blowing up life-line hanging bridges, while the politicos from O3 down are blaming HM for everything, even the Original Sin! The RNA is fighting with one hand tied behind its back. So, as they say in Ireland - "They hang you for stealing a lamb, so you can just as well take a sheep!" - if they blamed him for "Regression", and there was NON, then we will give you REAL REGRESSION, with house arrests, suspension of civil liberties and cutting communications with outside world!
I can't at this time get direct contact with my loved ones: I flew out of Kathmandu Airport last night at 8, and just landed. None server in Nepal replies (Mercantile, WorldLink), and the phones are "dead".
Will post later, when I get to Århus.