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  Nepali Mother's Day - Aamaako Mukh Herne Din or Maataa Tirtha Aunsi  ( आमाको मुख हेर्ने दीन, माता तिर्थ औंसी)    Mother's Day is April 29, 2014 in Nepal  (Baishak 16, 2071 B.S.)  A very Happy Nepali Mother's day to all our wonderful mothers, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, and mothers-to-be.   (Haardik Subha-kaamanaa - हार्दिक सुभकामना!)   Celebrating Mother's day by cooking for Mom.  This day is my favorite time of the year.  It gives me the opportunity to tell my mother how much I appreciate, admire, and respect her.  This year I am preparing her favorite meal of traditional home-cooked Daal-Bhaat-Tarkaari, with fresh ingredients and bright Nepali flavors -- all made from the scratch. Dinner consists of larger portions of freshly boiled rice and the accompanying dishes are daals,  seasonal vegetables, yogurt based cucumber achaar, tofu, mixed salad, Quail curry and fiery tomato chutney.  The dessert includes fr...

Update- Just an update to my previous post on WIMAX internet review .  The internet speed depends on the time of the day and during the afternoons the performance seems to suffer a bit. The upload speeds specially suffer and see below screen shot for the poor upload speed.  Internet speed for upload is bit slow Voice Communication Skype: I ran a few Skype call tests by calling overseas and the results were good when the internet was running fine, however when calling from skype during peak internet traffic times such as afternoons results in the other person not hearing you. This is a frustrating as NTC's ADSL internet doesnt seem to suffer from such performance issues in skype. Viber: In addition to skype, I also tested calls using Viber and the results were much improved. Viber being less resource intensive compared to skype it makes sense to use it in Nepal specially when calling overseas.

  A Happy Nepali New Year!  Shubh Nav Varsha! (Baisakh 1, 2071 - bikram-sambat)  May Peace, Love and Prosperity follow you always and forever!  नव वष॔ २०७१ को मंगलमय शुभकामना! Come, celebrate the Nepali New Year (April 13, 2014) with me by viewing my pictures from several rural Nepali villages. You will smell fresh flowers, see newly painted mud houses, and observe the spectacular rolling hills of golden mustard seed plants.  You will also see the customs of the friendly, welcoming villagers and all the good things happening here to celebrate a new beginning for the New Year. Please set aside sometime to view these pictures and let me take this opportunity to thank to my blog readers for your support, comments, feed backs and following me regularly.  May this Baisakh month and throughout the year bring a lot of happiness to you all! A village mother and her children enjoying their evening time at one-room mud-hut (chapro-छाप्रो) made of wood, str...