Latest attempt at road repair in Kathmandu. Note the lack of bamboo, which is a good thing.
Average monthly mobile bill in Kathmandu for this techie over 20 months: $47…
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Bike, meet Taxi. Taxi, Bike. Driving skills optional.
1. An undertaking requiring thought, planning and execution, consisting of “moving pieces” and requiring proper timing and often cooperation between two or more parties. Closure is achieved through completion of the “project” with a “deliverable.
2. (diplomatic) An undertaking requiring more than five (5) minutes continuous thought, zero planning, slip-shod execution, consisting of “cultural misunderstandings” and requiring constant revision up until completion. Closure is achieved through resignation to failure of one’s obviously too high standards for the “project” with the “deliverable” being a shadow of one’s expectations, but in the end no-one knowing because of one’s diplomatic poker face commenting on the quality of the wine.
Ex: 1. Dinner. 2. Organizing the pantry. 3. Scanning one’s childhood photographs. (when a project is abandoned, or just left alone for ten minutes, it becomes furniture; SEE FURNITURE)
1. Objects that occupy one’s residence for the general purpose of posing one’s body and allowing socializing, eating, relaxation, rest, or alternately pain from non-ergonomic posing.
2. “” (diplomatic) for taking up space, adding weight to one’s HHE/HHG shipment, or causing financial distress when one’s children damage and destroy gov’t-owned same.
3. “” for imposing cultural fascination upon one’s children, ultimately with the intent of embarrassing one’s children during teenage dating years. (ex: “Why is your parents’ armchair upholstered to look like a cloth napkin from Chili’s?”)
In all above cases, furniture eventually becomes invisible to the owner until it is called attention to by visitors, family members.
Nagarkot view of Himalayas