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End of June 2008, Blabla from Pokhara (Nepal)
Geplaatst op Friday 25 July @ 06:31:44 GMT+1
Onderwerp: Around the world in 8 years
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 I have not much to report but of course i have to write my experiences down, otherwise they disappear into the black hole of oblivion, and that is sin. Now therefore just a few comments, concerns and experiences in the tumultuous Nepal. Nothing exciting, but may nonetheless fascinating.
This is a automatically translated story by google Translate, so some grammer might be a bit funny.
In Nepal, many Chinese things are sold. Logical course, the countries bordering each other. Unfortunately, almost all is imitation. I had no idea that there was so much imitated. That the famous North Face jackets that here in Nepal are sold on every corner were not real that is known (and also logical for a price of 15 euros), but there is more, much more.
So I stood in an electronics shop with Leo, who was looking for new earphone for his his music player. After several not succesfull attempts, I say 'try those original Apple things that are good'…… the seller says no, that are not original but imitation. Please note, original packaging, Apple logo on there and everything. But it can get worse.
I like a certain Chinese sweet. These are not easy to find, had found some in Pokhara. When I arrived in Kathmandu i saw these sweets at a 25% better price I bought only two sacks. That night I try for a couple to eat but bah, which tasted very different. Back in Pokhara I compared them them, proved to be the imitation sweets.
Looks the same, but its not
Did I already told you about my evolution theory? No he, so I should really.
I certainly believe in evolution. The only thing I think there might change if it was proven that humans long ago put on earth by another alien people.
My idea of evolution is that there very long ago simple life arose on Earth, probably by a comet. The one-celled animals are our forefathers. But how can we single-celled animals to humans? Very simple, what we would call abnormal births. Let me take as an example the fish, which suddenly when one of its eggs a kind of deviant child received, one that also could breath in the air. Or the monkey which got a child with a curved back 'what it claimed to be able to walk upright. These deviations are steps in the evolution. The child with the 'crooked spine "shows much better run than the current monkey on four legs and then plant also continues. The evolution was thus always in jumps and the course has lasted very long before we are where we are today.
This evolution is based on two important things. One is variation. Evolution makes small steps in various fronts, one of those fronts has led to humans. Two is the principle of the steps, so let's say abnormal offspring, who then develop as a new species.
Talk about evolution, this is Leo from Mexico
All fun and good, but we are now working to stop evolution. Any deviation in human births, deviations in plant or animal is seen by us as undesirable and killed (aborted, cut down, removed). The second major problem is that we all are the major variation in particular. Entire animal / plant species are helped to dissappear. The number of animal and plant species are drastically less each year. We also worldwide our best to do the same for everyone and everything to do the same to eat the same to develop. I mean the human development in Bangladesh millennia is quite different than the human development in Europe say. Would best that can look like one of the two peoples a new step in the evolution would come. But, we are working hard at first to the people in Bangladesh same as the people in Europe (same food patterns, the same dealings with others, even the same TV programs hehe), and while we would, as in pregnancy, research shows that there is a derogation, the pregnancy termination. In other words, we are working to stop the trend. The domination of Western society is of course a part of evolution (the strongest overcomes) but perhaps also the downfall of there.
I suspect that in the (near?) Future will be an epidemic that the majority of people will eradicate. Only a few will survive. That will be the ones who, because evolutionary reason will be immune to this epidemic. And that is an evolution step.
Even so things from the newspaper in Nepal. It is noteworthy that Nepal is the country of water. Many and huge rivers across the country, rain, melting snow, it comes with force from the mountains. Yet there is a shortage of water, especially in major cities. Clean water, I mean. And that is so many years in this country and fairly incomprehensible. Thus stood there in the newspaper that the new water policy, Kathmandu is divided into 11 districts. Some districts get once every two days water from the pipe, but more districts once every three or four days, and some even once every 7 days. And I am not talking about a full day of water, no, a few hours, sometimes even 3 minutes. There is a district that once every 7 days, 45 minutes… get water. between 2 and 3 o'clock in the night. And then you know that most houses have no pipes but a community tap, so they have to stand in line with water jerry cans, buckets and jars. This whole district is serving a 45-minute course not, and certainly not about 3 hours at night.
But it's not only what water is and remains a problem in Nepal. Still people strike for the most stupid reason (and sometimes less stupid reasons). So for example here are the fuel prices very low, but when the government tried to raise what (there is only one state oil company), in no time the country was flat on its back, the whole country by strikes and road blockades. There remains the somewhat weak government nothing else than to turn back the price increase.
Buying for an expensive price and sell back to a low, that you do not long endure. So not long before the oil company's account in India could no longer pay, result.... virtually no more supplies, gasoline shortages, long queues at the pumps. That has lasted a good number of months, and now finally the population understands that it no longer can last like this. the government has now given permission for raising the petrol price. It now costs 100 rupees (1 euro) per litre. Consequence is that the bus companies and transport companies also may increase their tariffs, something which in the past irrevocably to the close throwing all roads would suffer. So there are more examples of stupidity of the population or stupidity of the gevernment who might not sell the policies well.
Himalayan Times on June 12. Mud and sand comes from the tap:
In the ABC district residents are stopped drinking water from the tap after mud, sand and in one case even a pebble from the tap came. Approximately 10,000 households are particularly affected. The water company gives the blame to the 40-year-old water mains to the rust. Because too little money, the problem can not be resolved.
Himalayan times on June 12.
Butwal. Consumers have closed the office of Nepal water society in Butwal through chains locked. This portrait of both the office and the treasury department. The protestors people, mostly students require that potable water from the tap. There is usually no water, they reported, and if there is water, it is dirty and brown in colour. The water company explained that the problem arises because the supply of electricity is always interrupted so that no water from the wells can pump.
Himalayan Times, June 15. Kathmandu.
The king has left the palace. (Nepal has recently become a republic, and the king has been put on the side). However, he has tried to take the car, which his father had received from Hitler, with him. The car, a Daimler Benz from 1938, stood within the walls of the palace. In the middle of the night came a crane truck to the car to the palace to hoist it out but the security did not allow the crane in. We will of the palace museum and the car will be one of the showpieces.
Himalayan times, June 12.
Hetauda.
4 people killed in traffic accidents in 3 different yesterday and today. Mr. X was on his moped hit by a truck and died on the spot. His family blocked 15 hours long (single) east-west highway. Approximately the same place the next day was the 7-year-old Mangal hit by a truck and also died on the spot. His family in protest blocked the same road from 6 in the evening. For 3 hours the following afternoon the road was released, but 3 hours later the same people again blocked the road. In addition there were two people in a jeep with people who frontally on a truck collided.
A pic, just to keep you interested
Himalayan Times, June 13.
East of Nepal suffer from strikes. The increasingly popular trend to block roads in order to make your voice heard, resulted in a lot of inconvenience to residents of eastern Nepal. Seven districts in the east had experienced some form of blockade in the past month. Strikes / lockouts lasted between 30 minutes and 30 hours. In the past month, there were only three days strike / blokad Friday.
The Kathmandu Times. June 13.
Taxi drivers blocked the road in Maharajgunj today, because one of their colleagues last week by an armed man was stabbed. He was declared dead in the local hospital after he was given no medical attention because nobody could afford the 500 rupees treatment fees (5 euro) could pay.
Himalayan Times on June 21.
Kathmandu. Students and transport companies to block main roads in and around Kathmandu.
Students blocked major highways because the government bus tickets average has increased by 25%. The other carriers blocked main roads because they claim the government's price on its own has increased 25% and because this is not enough. The union of transporters has also announced a strike for an indefinite period from tomorrow in and around Kathmandu. The students union has proclaimed a national strike for June 27.
Would you oh so beautiful in this country want to live? * sigh *
Yesterday there were a lot of football players on the field where I parked, while Thursday was usually a school day. For enquiries showed a 10 year old girl to have been raped somewhere, and all schools do than protest the doors shut. Maybe one day, maybe for a week, nobody knows. The school had also been closed a week because there were no schoolbooks, closed for two weeks ordinary holidays, closed a week because of exams, one day closed because of the anniversary of the one or other publicity. I have the idea that the Nepalese kids are more at home than at school. That is not the way to get there Nepal.
Wanted to leave Nepal gradually, so decided the 22nd even quite a few messages to do for the trip. Meat (especially beef, because that you can not get in India) and fresh vegetables, canned vegetables and Sun, all pleasant for the trip. When I stood at the bus stop and there but no bus came I decided to go walk, but after 15 minutes walk seen nothing yet. For enquiries revealed today nationwide all buses to strike. Pff, walked back, it will try again tomorrow. But it is now so annoying.
Had an talk with the German girl whom I met on the Poon Hill came against. She worked for a company in Bangladesh did to development assistance. Well, I have something with (or rather against) all these aid workers and companies, so I started to tease her a little. The company where she worked for was semi-government and tried to improve the position of women in Bangladesh. I started, why should a Western company export our western ideas on the Status of Women. We believe that the woman is equal to the man, (and I have no problem with that,) but in Bangladesh it is not. And that's been so for centuries. Why should we then our standards and values to their beds? Why should a Western company teach them how we think that their women to go. I think its pure nonsense. Let those people determine their own development. Ok, Bangladesh is not as advanced, but so what. Is it a worse country? That there are people hungry and very poor, so this is very annoying for those people, but that is partley their choice. That the lot since almost every year under flows, that does it for decades, and many people keep this in mind, even lives of those floods. That we even help them by building a dike (or better, by their learning how they should build a dike), well, I can still understand, but that we have to dictate how they treat their wives, believe that I nonsense. Well, the nice, but very straightforward thinking German girl was at a given time no more happy with me and what was angry, but am convinced they could not. Too bad, so I remain anti development aid.
Last night it was the first game of the Netherlands in the knock-out phase of the European Championships. I had not yet seen any game but heard from all sides such wonderfull stories about the Orange team. Well, I usually take that with a grain of salt because the Dutch press already called Orange champion if once the ball were able to kick but even the foreign press did praise. The game against Russia from the Netherlands began local time at half past one in the night. The alarm clock for 12 hours and went my bed (I'm an early sleeper) and at 12 in the dark by an empty Pokhara deserted to a place with a TV. The first pub where they would show the contest the TV on and reported that they no football today would show. One reason they are not wanted to give.
A few hundred metres further on was Club Amsterdam. Despite everything that was sealed inside I heard TV sound and after what I was knocking on the shutters inside left. Together with 6 others Dutchmen I looked at the oh-so-fantastic Orange. Bah bah. It was as a youth team from the D or so. Any communication between players seemed non-existent and the Russians clearly had the better chances. When Netherlands also got a goal against it went from bad to worse. With an 'every man for himself' mentality and a lot off luck succeeded van Nistelrooy still a (beautiful) goal-scoring. In the extension you could feel the desillusion coming. It was pure bad football what Netherlands showed, as is so often the spoiled boys who, as it is somewhat against them heads hanging, not cope with the pressure and then a mess of it. Compliments for Guus Hiddink, the coach of Russia. Too bad for Orange, I should have known.
On Monday the 23rd it rained. And it was raining. My plan to go shopping with the bike fell in the water. Changed so but my plans. I leave tomorrow the 24th but driving and driving away I visit the supermarket along with the car.
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