Met a Chinese.

Had a Girlfriend.

Received  gift ever from anyone ( someone send me )

And Last one,

I have never been admitted in a hospital.

I think this is the reason for their failure. I have nothing bad about that city but i guess focusing your whole business operation to one city is just pretty bad decision you take on start of your business venture. I do understand Kathmandu is a big city with 3 Million population but you need to look beyond that. Though sparsely spread, Nepal has a population of about 30 Million, if you start your operation from somewhere in the middle of country and focus at least 2 development region then you get a customer base of more than 3 Million.

Let me give you an example

Wlink Communication, the leading ISP of Nepal, though it started from Kathmandu initially but now it has franchises or branches in almost all the cities of Nepal. But what about other ISPs, hardly anyone expect Wlink has even a single subsidiary in any other city., Mercantile used to have in some places but now they don’t seem to be interested in providing Internet to end user.

Subisu, Vianet, etc. etc. Name any one ISP that has countrywide presence. None. You would rather find local ISPs operating in any give city. But not a single ISP expect Wlink which has cross country operation and that is the reason why Wlink earns so much whereas other ISPs have to fight for their survival.

Take my advice, if you are planning to start a SME in Nepal, then ditch Kathmandu. Open your HQ in places like Pokhara, Butwal, Birgunj or Biratnagar and target an entire belt of that region; you will be profitable from day one. There’s a huge market outside Kathmandu which is untapped in every single niche. All you need is to look beyond the Capital and you will find yourself in much better position.

You wont see anything concrete even for the next 7-8 years. But slight hints? You can get that all the time, provided you look for it.

I don’t see what’s gone so bad as compared to the last 5-6 years. I mean most of the changes we have seen, even the degratory ones; are more or less a consequence of the process we are in; in the context of a country like ours.

You might be thinking so because there’s been no stop in strikes, rallies from dissatisfied masses.
You might be pissed because of Loadshedding.
You might be pissed because of continued debates and pulling-each-other’s legs by politicians.

You might be frustrated looking at how the media goes on and on about politics – the problem, in part, is the media.
Too much highlight on politics and politicians — people pay too much attention to those issues — people get frustrated. To media, politics is masala. Media has corrupted many of us here – Indian news channel jastai hunchha bhanne darr chha malai!

There have been no real restrictions or blockades to the people, no disastrous happenings. All that’s happened are quite obvious during Transition phase for a diverse-people country like ours.

Good Things that have happened.
The things that have massively changed for the good in the past few years.

- Totally unaligned parties go into agreement: 12 bunde samajhdaari. Very phenomenal, even looking back.
- Jana-andolan
- Constituent Assembly election. A great achievement in itself.

- King being overthrown: let’s not go into the goods or the bads, but a change like that is phenomenal.
- The common man can voice out his/her dissatisfaction towards the authority. Unlike the past.

- The deprived masses being aware: a very big achievement again. Madhes aandolan, dalit and janajaatis, tharus, kirats.

- Maoist & Nepal army organization/re-allocation/integration process underway. Another indicator that things haven’t been completely damaged.

Even concerning other sectors, I do see development.
- We have a friggin ~10 national broadcast TV channels now!
- Look at the number of FM radios!
- Internet. The penetration is increasing and you can at least get online from all 75 districts! North Korea does not even have a single ISP. The condition is similar in Bhutan. And China – tyaako internet bhanda ta malai hamrai thik.
- Common man can still monetarily survive, if he works. It’s not like Zimbawe. Even poor people rarely die out of hunger — it’s not like India!

A very important thing to consider. DO NOT COMPARE OUR PACE WITH OTHERS. Sure we lag behind, but we have not gone back! [Let me remind you, countries do go back. Pakistan ma din dinai manchhe mariraako chha. Iraq dhwasta bho. Africa ma kati country ustai chha.]

We are just slower — it’s kind of obvious considering the political/constitutional mess we have been through in our past and are still sorting.

We should not expect a lot in this transitional phase. We should not expect an unnatural pace for things to get sorted.

As for loadshedding — that can be blamed on everyone who has had power the last 50 years. Tetro varsha samma overhead banai rakhnu pardaina? Demand ta badhi halchha ni.
Nepalma ta loadshedding jaile dekhi nai chha — kasko galti bhanne? Dosh dine nai ho bhane pani aajako shaasan bhanda pani pahile pahile ko shaasan lai chai baru dosh dina milchha hola.

Tara tyo ni nagarum, kasailai dosh nadium. Aile ko loadshedding hami sabai ko samasya ho. Hami sabai le afulai hune harm minimize garna aru alternatives khojnu parchha.

Sorry bikalpapaudel, didnt take your permission before posting it. I hope you wont mind it.

It will be shifted. I can sense it. Maoist will be the sole force now. No one can challenge them. NC is going to break. Sujata is too opportunist. I saw her giggling on the TV right behind her father’s immortal body. Deuba is too weak to face Prachanda and Baburam and no other leader in NC has support of their own activist.

Now it is only a matter of time and we will see whether Prachanda is true leader or just a fake. If he has the caliber then he alone will lead from the front.

Though i voted for UML in CA but i don’t believe them especially MKN. If he had slightest of leadership quality he wound not have taken the PM’s oath after loosing the election. They are just retard.

One more thing can happen, few new leaders can come in front like those of the likes of Gagan Thapa when they see NC breaking apart. I just hope this happens. We want some new bloods to run the country.

I live in Madesh but i don’t support any of the Madesh Badi Dal. They are plain opportunist and corrupt. None of them are fighting for Madeshi People. They even have no idea what madesh wants.

I am just being positive here.

Negatively, Maoist can take over the country dissolving CA and that too with support of Nepal Army. Yes. they can get there support. You never know.

This was first posted as a comment on Nepalivoices.com

Lastly, once again, RIP GPK

Most of the posts that I see on Freelancing blogs are focused to freelancers in US, UK or any other First world country. But as you say offshore freelancers or web workers who are working from countries like India, China, Philippines, Nepal, etc. have quiet different outlook of web working. We have a different working style and timing as compared to that of freelancers in US or UK. Working for a local client might be an option for most web workers in US or UK but for people working from third world countries have to look out for opportunities on Internet only to find any decent project.

I am a web worker working from Nepal a small country situated in between the giants like India and China. Though many of you may know about this country because of Mt. Everest and Buddha but hardly anyone of you might have an experience with a Nepali web worker, that’s because there are only few dozen people from this 25 million strong country working online as a web worker.

Dying infrastructure reduces productivity
Dying infrastructure, problems of network outage, system downtime, and various other issues which might be smaller or negligible for freelancers in a first world becomes a major issue for us and immediately reduces our productivity. Though web worker in third world country might pose technically sophisticated to their clients in west but the fact is that we have to cope each day with our dying infrastructure and slow internet speed to deliver projects on fixed deadline. A 1 MBPS internet connection might be an average speed of internet in US but over here 512 kbps internet speed is quiet a luxury.

Unstable economy and working conditions
Third world countries are not economically stable and technologically advance as the first world countries. We regularly have to face situations where we have to hide our actual condition from our clients to land up the project. Though technologies like VOIP, IM and email enables us to complete with our counter-parts in the western hemisphere but in fact we have to work harder than them to equate the amount they make per month.

Lack of online payment solutions
Online payments are another huge problem with web workers in third world country. Most of the people in this part of the world have no idea of Paypal and having a credit card is considered a luxury. Few countries like India, China, Singapore and Philippines have fully operational Paypal but countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, etc have to find someone in other country where Paypal is accepted to help them accept payment from their clients.

Trust factor
Trust becomes a greater factor for client when it comes to giving out projects to offshore freelancers. Though I have never faced a situation as such but i do hear from people who are talented but can’t get a project landed simply because an overseas client does not trust him or her. Secondly, we cannot quote our clients the same amount as the freelancers in their local place because as an offshore freelancer we are expected to charge a lower rate.

There are few advantages of working from this part of the world though but the disadvantages and the hardships that people over here face outnumbers the advantages. One of the advantage is that we earn in dollars but spend in Rupees so that gives us a huge saving at the end of the day.

Make Money Online is something which should be top searched term for the last decade but seriously neither Google nor Yahoo came up with it. More and More People have realized that working online and making money from internet is really possible. You want a list of things that you can do online then go Google for it. There are 162,000,000 sites that tell you how to make money online.

Here i am going to show you the real truth behind make money online phobia.

1. It’s not easy: Yes, i say you it in your face. Don’t dream of being overnight millionaire. No, you cannot. There is no way you can earn 1 million dollar overnight. I have been working online solely since last 4 years and i am not even close to that figure.

2. Work Hard: Well, if you could work hard then you could have done anything you wanted; you didn’t have to search online for make money online.

3. 99% of sites which say you that making online is easy are scammers. Run from them. If they themselves could make money online then they would not share the secret with you. Now run! You have been warned.

4. Forums, Blogs, Web 2.0, Twitter, blah blah. None of it will make you money if you just think they will make you money. You got to work your ass off to make them work.

5. Make Sites – Put Ads – Earn Dollar does not works, Go Figure.

Still interested,

Well, you can actually make money online, now ask me how?

Well, be prepared to work harder, not just 9 to 5 but beyond that because internet never sleeps, I started working online in Feb 2006, that would be almost 4 years next Feb, i was also one of you trying to easily make money online because i believed that internet worked and i too could use it make money online and you too need to have that faith in Internet. Web is not just for facebooking or chatting with your friends but there are many more things to it.

I had a diploma in web designing and had worked as a web designer before i ventured out independently on Internet so that helped me. If you have any skill that you can use on Internet than you will find working online easier than 99% of people. Web workers or internet freelancers as they say aren’t made overnight. Go ask anyone who has seriously made money from internet and they will say working in a corporate setup, going office 9-5 is lot easier than working online from your home wearing your pajamas.

That said, don’t get disheartened if you are just starting in it, The Movie has just started and there is still long way to get before this market gets saturated. But let me tell you one secret, business on internet will never get saturated, its people who get lost in the way. Things change so fast on Internet and if you don’t flow along it then you too will get saturated. Keep changing your business model and venture into new business and fields when you see your income dwindling.

Just keep faith in internet and you will surely make money.

Till, then, Best of Luck

Something about Geocities:
GeoCities began in mid-1995 as BHI, which stood for Beverly Hills Internet, a small Web hosting and development company in Southern California.

In January 1999, near the peak of the dot-com bubble, Geocities was purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion in stock, with Yahoo! taking control on May 28.

On April 23, 2009, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing GeoCities, and stopped accepting new registrations, though the existing GeoCities accounts remained active.[3] In late June 2009, Yahoo! updated the GeoCities home page to indicate: “GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009.”

The domain geocities.com attracted at least 177 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.

ComScore stated that the Geocities had 18.9 million unique visitors from the U.S. in March 2006. In March 2008 Geocities had 15.1 million unique U.S. visitors. In March 2009 Geocities had 11.5 million unique visitors, a 24% decline from March 2008

One thing i don’t understand about Yahoo! is that despite Geocities being such a huge success in its heyday, how come they could not find a single way to monetize it. It’s still the 195th most trafficked domain on Internet but still Yahoo! prefers closing it. I wonder what will they close next? Yahoo Messenger where i have my account since 2000 or Yahoo Mail.

RIP Geocities! You will be missed.

See more info at Google Adsense Blog

I hope now more folks from Nepal will be able to seriously see the online income. Good Step Google. Hope oneday Paypal also becomes full service in Nepal. fingers crossed..

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-countries-go-western-union.html

Rule #1: Don’t assume that Muslim women need to be saved, or that you know how to save them.

Rule #2:Rather than assuming you know what Muslim women’s lives are like, try asking them.

Rule #3: Be careful of who you talk to regarding Islam and/or Muslim women.

Rule #4: Understand that Muslims are just like anyone else in terms of their belief systems.  Not everything a Muslim does has to do with Islam.

Rule #5: Understand that there is no such thing as a “Muslim culture” or “Muslim Language”. Muslims come from a variety of cultures, region and countries and culture is dynamic – it’s constantly changing.

Rule #6: Don’t create a dichotomy between “Muslim” and “Canadian” (or “American,” “British,” etc.), or between “Muslim” and “Western.”

Rule #7: Tone it down! Be mindful of the language you use.

Rule #8: Take responsibility for the consequences of your writing.

Rule #9: Leave the headscarf alone.

Rule #10: And please please don’t act like every Muslim you meet is a terrorist or a fanatic Islamist. There are whole lot of in fact the majority of Muslims around the world are way liberal than you can think of.

The last rule is added by me, since this was one thing i have been feeling lot lately.

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