"No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you’ll
not know until you spread your wings."
Holli,
the Festival of Color (March 2002)
Due to some unavoidable circumstances and the problems with the school, the 5th issue of The Kid’s Eye was delayed of a long period. We apologise for the inconvenience. Thank You all for waiting patiently and supporting us.
Kid’s Eye Family
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Tsewang Sherpa | |
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Bimala Gurung | |
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Munu Sherpa | |
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Raj Kumar Shakya | |
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Ranjita Koirala | |
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Ishor Mishra | |
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Sudeep Khatri | |
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Jamunua Khadka | |
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Rajkumar Shakya | |
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Bimala Tamang | |
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Avaya Gautam |
Pleasure is an interval between two pains
Handicraft is one of the simple and easy workshops. Everyone can learn it very fast by joining it. This work is especially for those who do not have any job to earn money. It is money-earning work and it is very interesting.
In handicraft we learn to make bags from nylon string and many other things. We weave many types of bags with many designs and strings.
At NAG we
started this workshop from December 2001. Our teachers name is Meena Lama. She
teaches us to make paper flowers and other things. The classes are from 3pm to
4.30pm every day except for Saturday and Sunday. It takes us three to four days
to weave a bag. We have sent some of the bags to Switzerland. I hope few of our
sponsors will get a chance to see the bags made in NAG. Now we have started to
make flower. Hope this handicraft will also go fine and we love to make it.
by Tsewang Sherpa
This is one the workshop of NiNA. Six girls and one of the NiNA’s teachers, Parina Miss go to the dance class 3 times a week.
The dance we are learning is Jaipur Gharana {Kathak}. It is one form of classical Indian dance. It is not easy but it is very interesting to learn. We fell that we are learning it very fast. There is lots of systematic movement to do.
The name of our teacher is Mrs. Prerna Chamling. She is from Darjeeling,
India. She has done the masters in Kathak Dance from India. From school, we go
by tempo and it takes us 15 to 20 minutes to reach her house. We go on Saturday,
Sunday and on Wednesday. In one class, we dance for more than 2 hour with a
short break in between. We practice it at home too. We all look forward that
one-day we can teach the little ones in NAG. We Love to Dance.
A man’s best friends are his ten fingers
Ans. Jeeten Thakuri
Q. Nickname
Ans. Pappu
Q. Date of Birth
Ans. I am a Proud “Leo” 27 July 1971
Q. Birth place:
Ans. 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN
Q. How did you come to Nag?
Ans. Saroj brought me here.
Q. How is your life with the kids of Nag?
Ans. Need a lot of Paracetamols, but it is fun.
Q. What do you feel about Nag?
Ans. It’s a children Heaven.
Q. What do you hope for the kids?
Ans. That they work hard to break the chain of poverty and that they will help someone needy later.
Q. Who is your favourite student?
Ans. Too many to name.
Q. What do you like to see in all the teachers?
Ans. Dedication and selfless work.
Q. What change do you expect from the kid?
Ans. That depends on which child.
Q. Which life is more comfortable for you? Life in Nag or elsewhere why?
Ans. Nag is a very good place to work. The best part about Nag is that everyone can have his or her own ideas and work on it.
Q. If you were not in Nag, what would you be doing then?
Ans. Maybe living selfish life somewhere.
Q. Being the Director of the institution what do you like to progress?
Ans. I want Nag to be a happy home and Nina, one of the best school in Nepal. But I need co-operation from all of you.
Q. How do you feel if any child goes out from Nag forever?
Ans. Depends how a child left.
Hurt not others what pains yourself.
Q. In case, if the situation goes, there you are in option either to educated Girls or Boys only. Whom do you prefer and why?
Ans. Both boys and girls are on equal level for me, but if I had to choose then it would be girls as they are the ones who needs it the most in Nepal.
Q, What is the reason behind the opening of Nag?
Ans. So that all under privilege children get quality education to become better people.
Q. If in some way you were asked to help the older people in some ‘Old Age Home’ would you offer any kind of help to them?
Ans. Whatever I can do for them physically and financially.
Q. Till now what difficulties have you faced to make Nag as it appears today?
Ans. Many difficulties but can’t remember them now. I think they were not that important.
Q. By devoting your life to Nag. What have you gained and what you have lost?
Ans. I gained a lot more than I gave up.
Ans. Opportunity knocks only once – so take that chance!
Ans. I don’t know you have to ask them.
Q. Excuse me Sir, a very personal question, whom do you love most?
Ans. Nicole, Kim, My mother, Parina, my family that includes all of NAG and my friends.
Q. What is the Naughtiest thing you did when you were child?
Ans. Too many to write down.
Q. As you take Ohm as your son, from which angle do you see Ohm, your daughter Kim and the rest of the children?
Ans. They are all children for me. If they are good I reward them if they are bad I have to punish them.
Q. We came to hear that one day NAG might have its own building and school in Kathmandu. Is it true?
Ans. Till now it is only a dream but dreams sometimes come true.
----MUNU SHERPA
Learn to give, not to take, learn to serve, not to rule.
NOW A BOY WILL
RAJ: Today, a boy will be born in my home.
DEV: How do you know?
RAJ: A few days ago, my mother had a stomach-pain and she gave birth to a daughter…
Now my father has a stomach-pain, so he will give birth to a son.
NO ONE GAVE ALMS
KING (TO A BEGGAR BOY): SON, you should go to school at this age.
Boy: Sir, I went there but no one gave me even one single coin.
RUNNING LAME MAN
Once, I saw a lame-man begging for food. One of his legs seemed to be broken. I gave him some money. Then, suddenly, there was an earthquake, I started to run. Then, I saw the lame-man running even faster than me with his two normal legs.
“How are you getting on in school, Silvia?” asked her mother.
“Fine. But I wish we had a smarter teacher. Today I drew a horse on the board and she did not know what it was.”
Pupil: Sir, a bird.
Teacher: Why?
Pupil: Sir, have you ever seen a bird wearing glasses?
Contributor: Yes, every line of it.
Editor: Then I am glad to meet Mr. William Wordsworth. I thought you were dead long ago.
You must write more clearly
The teacher handed back to the class the answer book she had marked. “Does anyone want to ask a question?” She enquired. ”Yes, Madam. I cannot read what you have written at the bottom of my paper,” a boy said .The teacher glanced at the paper, and after a while, teacher said, “I have written, you must write more clearly.
Small Contribution
He bus was very crowded when a fat woman entered. She stood for a minute glaring at the seated passengers. The she asked. “Isn’t someone going to offer me a seat?” A lean man rose and said timidly. “Well, I am ready to make a small contribution.
Filter your words before you shoot to others, otherwise they might take it as poison
-by Ranjita Koirala
We first make our habit and then our habit makes us.
I am Isor
Mishra. I am one of the students of nag, you can call me a nag’ger. I am sixteen
and I am handicap. I have to use crutches to walk wherever I go and it is very
difficult to walk. Because of my legs, I used to hate my life and be so nasty.
After a trip to Calcutta I have a new desire, a new feeling for my life and hope
to become something. Here is what happened on the
trip.
The trip begins with nineteen students and with four teachers. The day before leaving Nag I was given a new tracksuit and shoes. My shoe was on my bedside. I had my new crutches too. In addition, was thinking if I could make it or not. Nicole miss had been kind to me and said Deepak Nakarmi will be always be with me on my journey. Deepak is a very strong boy. If he needs he can carry me as well as my bags. I was so glad that Nicole miss had thought something for me. Nicole Miss wished me good luck for my journey. I was happy too. Everybody was down stairs, Fredrice Sir hugged me tightly. He was also very happy for me. Hemraj went to get the bus, which he had ordered yesterday. He came after some time with a taxi. He told us he did not get the bus .The one he asked yesterday was not willing to go today. Gush, Nepali, I thought they could not keep their promise. So we got into 4 taxis. It was little difficult for me to get in the taxi. Deepak B was great help. Many of the kids waved us goodbye, seeing this I got excited and impatient when the taxi started moving. I was looking out of the window, things behind me were moving fast. We reached bus-park around 3:30. We have reserved the bus. We put a school banner on the bus side. Federic Sir had already separated the groups. I was in Frederic sir’s group. We got on the bus. I was sitting in the last seat of the bus with Deepak B. Bus begins to go faster and faster. I was looking out of the window. At about 4:30 Jeeten sir and Frederic sir took a group photo in front of the bus, and we moved again. We crossed more than 20 bridges until we reached Ramechhap. We had dinner at 8:15 in that place. After that again we got in to the bus and listen some Nepali songs. Some of my friend slept on the bus. I was so excited I could not sleep at all. We had to stop in some places because the armies were checking each bus that passes through there. They checked our luggage and our pockets. I was annoyed with them because they checked students too. I did not say anything, in a few minutes, they let us go.
We reached Hetauda at 10:36. However, we did not stop
right there because it was very dark. We listened to Nepali folk songs. We
reached Kakarbhitta at around 9am. We had some time and eat allu puri. Frederic
Sir, Jeeten Sir and Panthi Sir went to exchange Indian currency for everyone.
Later they returned and again we were on our way to Siligury travelling in a
jeep. We were there after two hours. I can see all the Indian people staring at
us. Seeing this I felt little proud of myself. We rested in a hotel. I took bath
with hot water. Frederic Sir fell fast asleep because he was very tired and
exhausted. Others were sleeping too. Some of them were very excited to see a
train. We had to make two groups. Boys and girls. Girls ate first and we, boys
always last (ladies first). Then we all got our pocket money (50 rupees I.C).
Time went very fast. Jeeten Sir, Bikash Dai (the brother of Jeeten sir) went to
get the train tickets. All of us were ready, Deepak B and me had to take an
auto- rickshaw to the train station. At 7:15, we all were in the train. Jeeten
Sir counted the students to know whether anybody was missing or not. I look at
the train; my God it is like a large snake, my eyes could not reach the end. I
had seen it in the picture and in the films but not in the reality. We all get
on the train and the train started to move. I took a short nap. We had to shut
the windows of the train at the night. Therefore, I could not see anything
outside. I wake up in the morning around six and washed my face. It has a funny
toilet inside it. You are bound to hold the pipe if you want to do toilet. We
drank coffee and train stopped in Calcutta at 10am. To be
continued………..
-by Ishor Mishra
Life is not a destination. It’s a journey.
On 16th of December when the students of my school, NiNA
were having an exam, this was our “SECOND TERM EXAM”, that day was a happy day
for NAGers and was a very nice day. What I mean is, that day our godfather whose
name is Frederic Perrier arrived at NAG. We were very happy when we saw him
after a long time. He had told us (before he came) that he would bring a
surprise when he came. The surprise was a telescope. I had never touched or even
seen a telescope before. I had only read and heard about it. At first, FREDERIC
sir made us look at the moon and then at Jupiter through the telescope, which I
had never seen. I saw the moon bigger than the Jupiter because of the distance
Jupiter and the moon are from earth. The previous day he taught the bigger boys,
who are studying in a college, how to use the telescope. Sir gave us a chance to
learn more about the telescope. We had many groups who would practice it for a
day and the next day another group would practice. There were four students in
each group. At first, Sir taught us how to use the telescope and then left us to
see all around the sky. At first we saw the Boudha stupa and made the exact
aiming. I started looking at the sky by putting the eyepiece of 20mm. I found
Saturn and let my friends watch. After that we found Jupiter, Mars, and the moon
too. So, now I or any other Nepali children can get a chance to look through the
telescope at the heavenly bodies in the sky. Now at NAG we have a great
opportunity to use our telescope to see the sky and dream of bigger
things.
by SUDEEP KHATRI
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A bomber was flying to its destination. When it reached
to its destination, the pilot pulls the leaver off to drop the bomb down, but
the bomb did not drop off.
Why?
2. Those who have it don’t want it.
Those who buy it don’t use
it.
Those who use it don’t know it.
3. What is in the middle of the WORLD?
4. Which form of women, the husbands do not see it.
5. How can you make a dog fly?
by Jamuna Khadka
If
you judge a person, You will have no time to love them
We have many workshops at NAG. Tae-kwon do is one of them. It is a kind of a martial art. Everyday, we practice Tae-kwon-do in the morning from 6: 00am to 7:00am except on Saturday and Sunday.
We have sixty students who are in the Tae-kwon-do workshop. There are students 7 years old and above. About ten students have left the workshop because of different reasons. Some are too lazy to wake up in the cold morning; some are scared that they might break their bones.
Our Tae-kwon-do teacher’s name is Rajiv Thapa. He lives nearby NAG. He is a very experienced teacher. We like the way he teaches us.
We have gone to different inter-school Tae-kwon-do championship competitions. We have won many medals and received many certificates. Until now we have about twenty-five medals in the NAG office and all our certificates are framed and hung on the walls in front of the office room. Whenever, you are here and you want to read the certificates you can see them on our walls.
We have grading every two months. If we pass in the grading, our belt is changed with a senior belt. When we are a beginner, we get a white belt and after a grading, we get yellow belt and so on. The greatest belt is the black belt.
I feel this workshop is very necessary because it builds up our bones and makes our muscles strong. We can protect ourselves from our enemy. We do many exercises while we practice Tae-kwon-do.
There are many Tae-kwon-do championship competitions between schools, which helps to build co-operation and friendship between the schools. Likewise, the Championship competitions between the countries also help to keep a good relationship between the countries. Therefore, I feel this workshop is important.
by Raj Kumar Shaky
If I
take the salary without doing the work, it becomes theft.
Hi, I am Bimala (Seema) Tamang and would like to write about the Thanka Paintings methods and materials. The first item required for the making of a Thanka is a suitable piece of fabric cloth. Before the preparation of the cloth, we sometimes need to wash it. This is very important. After washing the size of the cloth usually shrinks a bit as it dries. Then, when it is completely dry, we cut the cloth to fit the wooden stretch frame.
We have to prepare the canvas by covering in a special gelatine animal Fat. Since the prepared canvas was quite translucent, an Special original design can be attached to the back and held up to a window for tracing.
The painting part is very hard. It takes us many months to finish one painting. After finishing the Thanka painting, we paint many areas with gold.
It is not easy to do Thanka painting. Only ones with patience can do it.
-Bimala (Seema) Tamang
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes everyone feel great. |
Life is to smile, not to cry
If there is tear drop in your eyes
You would certainly feel shy
Don’t be afraid of thinking
The ghost will kill you
But sure in knowledge
God is always beside yo
If you smile
Your days will be brighter
Not only you are thinking
While you smile
You will be loving all
No rich, no poor
No great, no small
Therefore, life is to smile not to cry
In addition, life is to study not to spoil
To show your good work don’t feel shy
Moreover, if you don’t get success, keep on trying until you die.
Though I am not a poet, I wish I would be, for I try to say,
I wish it would be.
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Answers to the riddles 1. Because the bomber was flying upside down 2. Coffin 3. The alphabet “R” 4. The widow form 5. By keeping it in an aeroplane |
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What appears to be the end may really be the beginning. |