A Proud NAGer

By Tsewang Sherpa Class VII

 

My name is Tsewang Sharpa. I am 19 years old and studying in class 7. In our school we have four houses in our school. These are the yellow, green, blue and red houses. I am captain of the blue house. I am also a monitor of class 7. I also do other duties beside my school hours. I look after the dinning room during break, lunch, tea and dinner. The other captain of other house, the school captain and the school vise captain also help me to control the dining hall. We need to control them, because they make unnecessary arguments and some even try to violate the rules of the hostels. Most of the trouble-makers are girls. They try to create problem. So I am very strict and pay attention to them while they eat their food. They also waste food and throw it on the floor. Nicole Miss and Jeetan Sir are happy with my duty in the dining hall. At the end I would say from my heart that I am very happy, proud and lucky to be a NAGer.

 

  

 


INTERVIEW WITH NAG’S SENIOR BOY

Ganga Khadka Class VII

1. Name: Lait Waiba

 

2. Nick name if any:  Actually I don’t have any.

 

3. Date of birth:  According to S.L.C certificate 2040 B.S.

 

5. First day at Nag:  Don’t remember

 

6. What are the changes you find in yourself today?  I can decide what is good and bad.

 

7. If you were not in Nag where would you be? I would be working in some ones filed.

 

8. What is your aim in your life? My aim is to become social worker, but since I didn’t have any, money I first want to do a hotel management course and get a job.

 

9. What is the principle of your life?  To be honest and trustful.

 

10. What do you think you are for Nag?  A good student.

 

11. Whom do you love the most?  Of course my parents

 

12. How much you love the rest of your family?  Except parents I don’t love anybody, because they don’t care about me.

 

13. We know that you had a girl friend in Switzerland, is she in touch with you?  Of course she is in touch with me, but not like before. Even though we have less contact, she is in my mind & heart.

 

15. What does falling in love mean to you? Trusting and understanding each other.

 

16. Who do you think is the most important person in your life? Why? My parents are, because if they had not given birth, I’ll would not be in this world.

 

17. What types of friend do you like?  Honest trust-worthy, help-full and kind-hearted.

 

18. How do you feel about staying at Nag and studying?  Good and Lucky.

 

19. Do you have some words to say to your country?  We need brave, honest and trustworthy people to solve our problems.

 

20. When you are busy and someone comes for a favor, how do you react?  If I’m in good mood, I’ll help and if in bad mood I’ll say no.

 

21. Do you think you will help Nag in future? Yes, I want to help Nag in future.

 

22. Everybody who knows you knows you talk in English. Why and from when you have started speaking in English? In class 5they told us to speak in English.

 

23. When you were small you used to be a very serious boy. Now we find you joking and communicating lot with people. Why is that?  I have to adjust with the time & of course the circumstances.

 

24. What is more important for you – Education or Money? Why? Of course education, if we have proper education, we can easily earn money.

 

25. How long do you want to study?  After class 12 I would like to study Hotel Management.

 

26. What should your partner be like? I would like my partner to be Kind -hearted, honest, trustworthy and helpful.

 

27. Describe yourself? A bit insecure, to dependent, like pleasing, honest, hardworking, always trying to smile, don’t want to show when I am sad and always trying to do my best.

 

 

        

INTERVIEW WITH THE TEACHER

By Jamuna Khadka Class VIII

 

1. Name: Tilak Bahadur Panti.

 

2. Date of Birth: 4th February, 1966

 

3. Designation at NAG:  Vice-Principal of NAG’s School (Shrine Academy former Niten Niketan Academy).

 

4. Other profession: Senior Math teacher at New Shrine Boarding School and Young Heart Boarding School. Also managing Director of Handy Hands Pvt. Ltd.

 

 

5. Since when have you been working in NAG’s school? Since May 1999.

 

6. What do you like about NAG? I am impressed with many aspects of NAG. But what I like most is it’s noble objectives to providing educatoin for the under-privileged Kids.

 

7. What don’t you like about NAG? So far I have not come across any such bottlenecks to dislike.

 

8. What do you think the school is lacking? I don’t think Shrine is lacking anything. We are providing education to the kids in a very congenial atmosphere compared to other schools. We have made every effort to enhance the educational standard of our students.

 

9. How do you personally think about working in Shrine? How long do you think you will be working for Shrine? I am happy with my job in terms of personal as well as professional satisfaction. So, it would be unwise to pinpoint about the duration of working.

 

10. What do you think of the students studying at NAG? Do you think they are doing better than before (study/ discipline/ outdoor activities etc)? Obviously the students studying at NAG are very fortunate to get the opportunity to study. Definitely they are doing better then before in terms of discipline, studies, extra curricular activities. But they must strive for further progress in every aspect of career.

 

11. What is the best part of your personal life at NAG? The best part of my personal life at NAG is to make my students get rid of Mathematics phobia. I think I have been successful to some extent.

 

12. What do you think the students feel about moving from Boudha to Sanepa? When shifting to a new place it takes time to cope with the new surrounding and society. Some might have some personal attachment with the old place or some acquaintance with some people. They will adjust to the changes. For the day students there seems little more problem of getting ready earlier. But our kids must realize that this sacrifice will help them to lead a life of virtue in the future and we have a school Bus for them.

 

13. Who are the most important people in your life? The most important people in my life are Mr. H. B. Tandon, L. M. Gynawali and Krishna Bahadur Thapa. I am highly obliged to these trio-gentlemen for their continuous support. They are my Honorable Teachers who left no stone unturned to continue my studies when I was compelled to give them up and work. They taught me that the success demands sacrifice and education outshines the ignorance and the feeling of insecurity.

 

14. Do you think the students of NAG are getting what all the students are getting in other school? Of course, they are. In fact, they are luckier than the students of some other schools where the facilities of library, laboratory, sports etc are lacking.

 

15. What is your worst habit? Can you get rid of it? My worst habit is smoking. I can’t say I can get rid of it, but I am trying first to minimize, then to give up.

 

16. How much you think you are important for NAG? My importance for NAG should be thought and felt by the boss, not me.

 

17. Do you have any nickname and who calls you with it and why? I have a nickname “Abajhi”. Nobody calls me that now. I started this nickname myself when I was a college student.

 

18. What is the most embarrassing moment in your life? I don’t have such a moment.

 

19. Can you tell us about your childhood and your education as a child? My childhood was miserable. My father married three women and when it was time to focus on my studies, he ran away with a fourth woman leaving me alone in the remote village. I had to remain without food for two or three days. I worked for others in their field so that I could get some food crops (not money) as my wage. With this situation I had no other alternative except to give up my studies. But God had different plans. He came to help me in the disguise of the pre-mentioned trio-gentlemen and made me continue my studies. Those gentlemen did everything for me within their reach. I was lucky to enjoy the love, faith and help from those honorable gentlemen.

 

20. Why did you come to NAG? You are a man with lots of talents especially in the education field. I joined NAG through an advertisement. I had no special feeling before I joined. After I joined the school, I sensed the difference between the objectives of NAG and other commercial schools. Then I realized that not all the schools are the same. Here the students have more or less similar circumstances as I had during my school days. This actually brought the change in my attitude and hence I have been working till now. As far as my talent is concerned, I would not to call it “talent” but “knowledge through experience”.

 

21. Are you happy to work at NAG? Of course I am happy. Had I been unhappy, you would have not been here interviewing me now.

 

22. Would you leave Shrine if any better opportunity comes along? If a better opportunity would be my condition to work here, I would have already left in past. Better opportunities still keep coming but all such opportunities do not come along with the conscientious boss. I prefer the opportunity with benevolent atmosphere.

 

23. Under what circumstances would you leave NAG?I cannot think of any such circumstances.

 

24. Who influenced you the most?  If you mean ideology, I am greatly impressed by the life of the poet Devkota of Nepal and Abraham Lincoln of U.S.A.

 

25. What do you want to change at Shrine? We are growing in terms of quality education and number of students. Naturally we might need to change ourselves in certain areas to cope with the existing circumstances.

 

26. Most of the people find Mathematics hard subject? Why do you find it so easy? Mathematics is not hard at all rather it is often portrayed to be a difficult one. When we teach, we should erase the notion that Mathematics is difficult. But math really demands concentration and sincerity.

 

27. Can the school run smoothly without you? If that condition comes, why not?  Everyone is replaceable in this world.

 

28. What is the principle of your life?  Equal opportunity for all through education.

 

29. We would like to hear few words, how you feel about NAG and the SHRINE ACADEMY.  Nag and Shrine Academy are synonymous. The kids are very lucky. They are erasing their ugly past and heading towards a bright future. NAG is providing them everything that they need.


 GET TO KNOW FIVE NAGERS

     

 

Manisha Tamang

Gopal Gurung

Ohm Thakuri

Rewati Dhamala

Hiralal Tamang

Describe your self

A short girl with short legs, I have to fold my pants two times. I get angry very fast and I like coping others acting.

I am the tallest boy of NAG

I have black hair and long fingers. I am a black guy.

I am Ohm

A student

I am tall girl with black skin.

I am about 5.5 feet tall, have black hair, black colored eyes and

I am a silent boy.

What is the most important thing in life

Mother because she gave us Life. Second manners because if you have education but no manner you are not valuable.

To know the value of life and for what we are born, for whom and why we are born.

The most important thing in life is to be a successful man.

Education because without education people cannot have success in their life.

Education, good understand, and the value of time. If you don’t know the value of time, you will always suffer.

What makes you feel good

When I see my family happy and when I succeed in my studies. If I succeed in study then I succeed in all.

I feel good when someone tells me something interesting

When I achive what I desire then it makes me feel good.

Staying in Nag with my friends and teachers makes me feel good.

When I will succeed in my dreams I hope it will make me feel good. Today I feel good about little successes in my life.

What will you be doing in 10 years

Maybe I will be studying or I will be doing an engineering course.

A football player. I play football today and in 10 years I will be playing football.

In 10 years, I think I will be doing a job.

In 10 years time I will be doing a model job or some thing else.

In 10 years, I think I will be studying or will have a job.

What dose NAG mean to you

NAG is a kind of heaven where we get love and affection.

Nag means a home for poor children, which it has been successfully doing for a long time.

Nag means home to me.

NAG means home for the people like us.

For me NAG is a palace where people can make their future bright.

What animal would you be and why

I’d like to be a fish because I like to see inside the ocean. Is their real mermaid or not?

I would like to be a cow because in Nepal we worship the cow as God and no one kicks or kills a cow.

I would like to be daphay (bird) to carry the pride and respect such as the daphay does for Nepal.

I want to be a dolphin, because it is the intelligent mammal on the world

I want to be a bird because it can fly everywere I want and can have a lovely view of nature.

What is the worst thing you have done

The worst thing is that I hurt someone badly, that I cannot say sorry though he also made a mistake.

I have done many bad things but I have not done any worst thing.

I have not done any worst thing. If I have, then I don’t remember.

Smoking is the worst thing I have done in my life.

All the crimes that people do not like.

What should your Partner be like

He should be understanding, and not possessive, if I talk with friends. He should trust me and should care for his parents and me too.

A gentle girl, who will help me with my problems without

being shy as every nice girl does to her partners.

She should be educated. She should understand my problems and she should have good feeling for me.

My partner should understand my problems and should be talented and should share his feeling with me.

I don’t have the exact view, but she should have a good understanding and education and she should have some talent.


Wishes

By Gelbu Sherpa Class VII

 

There are many wishes within me

But they are hanging like dreams

So my heart breaks

 

All my dreams turned to be disabled

And are getting weak

All my smile and happiness swept away

Laughing at my poverty

And my dream itself has been wounded within me

 

My dream that used to be like mountains

But today it is tearing within it

These are my dreams

These are my wishes

Lost in poverty

 

Mystery

By Avay Gautam ClassVII

 

Where are the place and the land that I went for voyage?

Where is the dream that I searched to be true.

Where is the happiness, which yesterday was in me.

Where are the people to see the tears in my eyes.

Who are the friends that used to give me inspiration?

Who are the people to make me laugh?

I was drowning in the ocean of tears.

Who is the creator to create these feelings?

Who are the parents that gave birth leaving me puzzling.

I will ask questions to those.

Where and who knows?

How and when will it happen?

I think the mysteries may just unfold in a second.

 

 

 

Dead Alive

By –Raj Kumar Shakya Class 8

My heart beats for my people ……

I don’t know about my life

Still I know there are dead-alive

Because their dear ones son, daughter, father, and mother have died

No one knows if they might live or die another day then that is all that remains

Who will be there at the end to grief

Tears fall on the sand and dry in the wind

It is better dying than being dead alive

For what is there a world to stay happily?

Beside the grief of their family

I wonder, why they are not killed with their family.

It is to grieve for a lifetime and to live dead alive

 

 

Will they be able to live without their relatives?

Beside, why is there more destruction and less construction?

Though it is not my right to mention I think but I don’t understand why the people are doing this.

For being great! Who will call them great?

Other than themselves, will they be great

By killing others and leaving their relatives

To grieve and if it comes to the word ‘Great’

The left relatives curse them

Because they have made their life

Only the dead-alive

 

MAN KIND

By Sudeep Khatri, Class: VIII

 

Man can feel others affection

Man can share his affection

Man wants to be content.

But therefor will be discontent.

 

Man himself is poor.

He has a house with window not door.

Other disgrace his living

So, he will stop giving.

 

Man will do crime.

Man will be a captive.

Man’s heart will be broken

And he will realize all.

 

Man begged to be out of prison.

But he never accomplished it.

His affection remains inside.

And he will give up his living

to leave a safe journey behind.

SAYING

By Hiramotti Tamang, Class VIII

 

One after another many things can be made

One drop after another, the biggest ocean is made.

One bricks after another, the highest wall is made.

One step after another, the longest journey is made.

One tree after another, the deepest wood is made.

One sand after another, the widest desert is made.

One mistake after another, the biggest blunder is made.

One compromise after another, the choicest decision is made.

One wise act after another, the wisest man is made.

One patient understanding after another, the profoundest patience is made.

One good after another, the noblest man is made.

One kid after another

Nawa Asha Griha is made

 

 

Wisdom

By Dhurba Giri, Class VIII

Borrowed garments never fit well.

 

Money spent on ourselves may be a millstone about the neck; spent on others it may give us wings like eagle.

 

Moral life is the backbone of the spiritual life. There cannot be any spiritual life without a moral life.

 

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

A culture that cannot understand modern times is an incomplete culture.

 

Forgiveness is the strength of the weak and ornament of the strong.

 

He is only bright that shines by himself.

 

There is more pain in doing nothing than doing something.

 

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

 

Respect others and in return you get respect.

LAUGH! LAUGH!! LAUGH!!!

By Raj Shakya ClassVIII

Karma was closing his eyes and watching himself at the mirror. His friend Ram enters his room and saw him. He was surprised to see Karma closing his eyes and standing in front of the mirror. Ram asked Karma astonishingly ‘What are you doing?’ Karma replied ‘I want to know, how do I look when I am sleeping’.

 

 

 

Once, the elephant and the ant were great enemy. One day, an elephant, with his huge body was prowling on the ant’s playground. Two ants were there at that moment and they saw the elephant but the elephant didn’t see them. Then they started discussing; 1st ant ‘What are we going to do?

 

Let’s beat up the elephant’. The 2nd ant-Please said ‘let’s not, because he

is alone and we are two, we outnumber him. We should have a kind heart and leave him.’

 

 

    Father: Daughter, we should not be greedy….

    Daughter: You yourself are very greedy, father.

    Father: How?

    Daughter: If you were not greedy then, why did you do the operation to my brother to take out the gold coin, which he had swallowed.

 

 

 

     

Once, a traveler came face to face with a tiger. Then with his eyes closed and hands joint, he began to pray to

God to save him. When he opened his eyes, he saw the tiger also praying to God. Then,

Traveller – Oh!  Are you scared of me? Ha Ha …. So,,,

Tiger – Not at all.

Traveller – Then, why are you praying to God.

Tiger – Oh! That! I just got the habit of praying before my meals.

Photos of 2 NAG Bands