Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Unplanned Trip

[SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH]
tl;dr
You do not need to have a lot of money to travel or to have fun or to enjoy. All you need is a similar mindset friends and you can make history.

When the planned trip does not work well or fail how can an unplanned trip succeed??
I am not an expert but I would say it would need "Yes, that looks like a good idea. Let`s go" lol .
The idea to take this trip came in when I was smoking with my friend .It felt like we should just do it like nike. But the main problem was money, so all we had was Rs 5 from me Rs100 from my brother and IRC 50 from my friend. Lack of budget did not stopped us abandon our trip. We googled jhor and asked my friend for direction. Ok, we were headed for the place that we had never gone before and that is a kind of adventure, right ? haha. With only Rs 185 ,  2.25 lt of drinking water and 2 carrots grabbed from the fridge we started our "The Unplanned Trip".

We started our trip from Samakushi, took a public transportation to jhor. At jhor we got off the vehicle and started downhill to the popular jhor waterfall. We had all these visuals of how it was going to look like. Water , clear as crystal falling from a height , striking hard rocks and eroding it day by day. We would take off our clothes and enjoy the cool water all over our body.Taking pictures of the fall. All these imaginary visuals of the waterfall was making us eager to get there in a one huge step. But it is not always rainbows and butterflies, the waterfall was dried and our dreams were crushed like the rocks. The good thing was, we knew how to have fun. So we slept beneath the fall in those white rocks and it felt soft like the cushions on my bed. The only difference was, I could see nature here. Soon the whole sleeping in the rock was getting less adventurous and we decided to look around. We started climbing up of the fall and the view from there was just majestic. All these huge huge hills were touching the sky. We had no idea where climbing even further up would get us but we already knew we were there for adventure. And at the top we found another small waterfall but it was dried too. So nothing to see there too. We again continued our ascend and a small mistake in that path would cost you severe damage to your body. Enjoying our victory we started to smoke. It felt like even smoking was very natural there.
As we were low on budget, we decided to walk to tokha on foot. When we were at tokha there was a pond where little children were bathing. We could not hold ourselves to dive . As soon as we got there we saw that the water was not very clean as expected but healthier than swimming pool`s.
Dived in and started swimming. The funny part about swimming was since we were not wearing any swimming costumes our undergarments slipped every time but we managed to pull that off like a boss. Fearing that we might get late, we dried ourselves and left. Finally we reached home, safe and sound and tired and hungry but we knew we made a history.

Cost break down:
Rs 80 was spend as transportation charge from samakushi to jhor and I had an ID card.
Rs 40 was spend as transportation charge from tokha to samakushi and I had an ID card.
Rs 15 was spend on noodles that we ate on the way
Rs 30 was spend on samosas that we ate after our trip
and the rest of remaining money was spent on smokes

Direction
Take a mini bus from samakushi and it will directly leave u to jhor
or take a micro from samakushi to tokha and you can reach jhor in about 20-30 mins walk.

Conclusion:
Though I had a lot of adventure going out there , this place is perfect to go in only some season. A local guy there told me that 'Shrawan' was the best time to enjoy water fall there.
first visual of water fall

uphill climb
water was supposed to flow from here







my friends taking rest

that is all the water in the name of water fall, and we were not disappointed

relax, breathe in and breathe out

this picture is missing water from the fall :D





ducks crossing the road

not very clean water but cleaner than swimming pools

Ok it was not deep as I thought it looked like



Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Were these my entreprenuerial signs?

Way back in the olden and the golden days, I guess I was between 8 -13 yrs of age .Franky I do not remember my age . My family used to be a one huge and lovely and caring family , 5 children and 5 adults. In general terms, "Join Family" .
All the 5 children used to attend the same school. Back in those days, I remember that even Rs 10 was a lot. Each of the children were given Rs 10  as our tiffin money and forget about the extra pocket money. I was really bothered with the fact that we were not given extra pocket money as in those TV serials shakalaka boom boom, hello dolly and the list goes on. So what I did was, I told all of my siblings that I would take the responsibility to buy them tiffin so that they did not had to go and buy it themselves.
Each day I used to collect the tiffin money from our parents and then go to the shop and choose only those products which cost less and had more to eat in it.

Biscuits like Gulcose, Buttercracker were cheap and were not pricey as others. So it saved me 2 - 3 Rs from one person , meaning 10-15 Rs each day and that would make Rs 60 -105 a week . It was a win win situation for me. But that regime did not lasted long when they found out about my monopoly.
Since I needed another way to make extra money, I teamed up with my siblings. We had an awesome idea of selling powdered milk wrapped in a paper to our school friends. So we got a handful of powdered milk from the kitchen and then started to wrap those in papers and started doing our math. Guess what? No one bought it.
I remember my next move was lottery but at that time I used to call it chitha. Well I got that idea from my classmate who was making a lot of money selling chitha. Damn that business went down like a Titanic when teachers came to know about it.

So when I was 16, I opened an organisation in the school called "The Pen Pal`s Club". To raise fund for my organization , I took the chitha`s business from the olden days to a whole new level. I took permissions from the school authority and got approved of GAMBLING in the school. I started a very very very huge BINGO tournament. The whole school was in favor of my idea. A lot of students from each class bought bingo tickets.
I freaking do not remember how I persuaded so many children as well as teachers to buy those tickets. Well, anyway I earned a huge huge amount of money from that . I guess between 6-7K deducting after giving away the prizes to the winner.

So I guess life changed after my SLC, then plus 2 . But I still have that blood running inside of me.
But the question is
Were you also like this in your olden and golden days? Were You also an entrepreneur ? Let me know that in the comments.


Saturday, May 23, 2015

Intern at Young Innovations (YIPL)

It feels like just yesterday, I joined YIPL as an intern but time passes quickly . It took me a lot of courage to even for applying at YIPL. Why courage?? I was working as a PHP Developer at a dead end company where I saw no whatsoever personal growth. Life started to get freaking monotonous and not very challenging. But still it does not answer why Courage? I had a steady income working there and in country like Nepal where you have to take permission from your family then the society for pursuing your dream I was leaving a job. So my father told me " People are lucky to even have a job that pay`s them less 10k per month and You just left a job that pays more. I know that you are going to be a failure and you will take the whole family down with you too.". He certainly has no idea how much I wanted to learn but not earn and follow  my passion. So I solved the problem YIPL gave for internship. I submitted the problem in PHP and ruby. 
I remember the very first day, I was not able to find the YIPL building but I guess luck works in a funny way. I remember the first meeting with Anjesh daii, he was taking a look at an application that I built for earlier company. That was the most intense part because if I could not qualify for the intern I would be totally unemployed and my DAD would be 100 and 10% right. Then there was a very awkward introduction with other interns and now bigyan daii and kriti dd are a part of my startup team. Like I said, luck works in a funny way.
The internship there took me out of my comfort zone and I loved it. I loved that I was growing more that I could imagine. I could easily grasp the new technologies like nodejs and its framework, design patterns, software architect and the list goes on.
YIPL served lunch and I was surprised because the company that I used to work for earlier did not served shit. Ok let`s not be that brutal too, well they did served diuso ko khaja and chiya.I dont drink chiya. After lunch, employees there were playing TT. Was I in heaven?
One thing that I really loved about YIPL is that they treated us ie Interns as part of YIPL. We got chocolates in numerous occasions, got to eat cakes on birthday and all the interns were invited in one of the employee`s weeding. Common man, I  mean who does that? And the answer was , certainly not the company I used to work for. 
Goodbye`s are always hard and I never loved them. I had no idea what was I going to do after my intern of 3 mnths. So the only thing on my mind after intern was bag packing and taking a solo trip to some where I would get abundance of nature.
During my intern I met a lot of people that really had left a mark in my life. I learned a lot from these people. One person I will fondly recall is sumit daii. Because of him, I now know how to solve a problem, design pattern, debug an applicaiton and  ..... .

But I do not want to be satisfied, that is my weakness. I am still hungry for success and still will be. I will put all the ideas i got from intern into my startup and if it fails I will start a new one and never give up.
I want to quote my favorite quote from Muhamad Ali .
When do u start counting?
"I do not count my sit-ups,
I only start counting when it starts hurting,

When I feel the pain, that`s when I start counting,
cause that`s when it really counts. "