thealternate One

It was an ordinary day; waking up early in the morning, a little bit of exercise, the regular breakfast, the rush to the work, the same boss, colleagues and apprentices, the constant struggle between the desire to work and desire to slack. Anyway the day had been spent as usual. I had dragged myself to the finish line for the day and as usual was returning home. The waysides were as usual calm and comforting with quiet hedge at the edges. Vehicles were moving smoothly as always with no intension of disconcerting the state of my mind, they had somewhere to be and so did I. Small groups of people passing by or sitting contentedly on the benches had their own life and no intensions of sharing that with me and I did not cared for them either. It was a lonely walk from work back home as usual. Maybe it was few minutes to my home, I noticed something beside the hedge some meters ahead of me and it was strange because normally there would be nothing noticeable other than the calm and quie...

One of the most discussed topic among friends, or family members, or even some random strangers must be the struggle between science and religion. In every instance of our life we can distinguish the groups of people, one believer of religion and other group that defies religion. Even in the state of solitude our own opinions are in a constant struggle with the ideas of religion and science. I have been a believer of science since my early childhood. My family, as always, has been a religious one; one that believes in the philosophy of Gods and Goddesses. My concern is not that they believe in Gods and Goddesses, but is the fact that they, and everyone who share similar philosophies, credit each and every activity to the supreme power. As a believer of science, I have always been fascinated by the process of interpretation of any phenomenon only after some analysis or case-study. Even the everyday activities, I believe, must be analyzed before crediting its certainty. ...

It is a no brainer that music is an integral part of our life. To me, a day without listening music is nearly impossible; even having a slightest thought of spending a day without music gets to my brains. Music is the soother that keeps me fresh, energized, and motivated. Quite frankly to me, it is not just an integral part of my life, but rather it is my life itself! I have been listening to songs and music of various genres all my life. I think the first sorts of music that I was exposed to must be the lullabies that my parents used to sing to me, to soothe me, to get me to sleep, and probably to make me smile but I do not think that I know much deal about it. Next, probably the religious songs, or bhajans. The indulgence into songs about deep faith of some supreme power surely energized the whole body and mind; but somehow I (and am sure most of us) cannot listen to these songs and music quite as often as the commercial songs. The first songs that I loved must be from Nepa...

Solar energy is one of the most important sources of renewable energy; and the fact that the sun has been providing energy since the beginning makes solar energy even more important. Plants have been using solar energy since their evolution; either in the form of heat or for photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process that is introduced in early schooling days. Simply it is the process by which plants prepare their own food from carbondioxide ($CO_{2}$) and water $(H_{2}O)$ in presence of sunlight. It can be represented by a simple chemical equation.  $H_{2}O+CO_{2}=C_{6}H_{12}O_{6}+O_{2}+\bigtriangleup H$ The positive value of $\bigtriangleup$H shows that energy is required for the reaction to occur and this required energy is obtained from sunlight. If we study just a little further we will know that the energy required is absorbed by chlorophyll, a green pigment found in chloroplasts of leaves. The absorbed energy is used to excite electrons in different Photo-systems ...

Just a couple of days earlier, I was wondering how I could cope up without using of Facebook and here I am today writing an article about what has happened since I deactivated my Facebook account; and by what has happened I mean what good things have happened since then. I am not implying that Facebook is bad, fairly it is better than what most of the social networking sites have to offer. It would be absolutely impertinent to internet and social media if I do not mention some good things about Facebook.  It would be an naive attempt to call Facebook, and social media as a whole, useless; but what I believe is as every other advancements, especially in the field of web, the usefullness of Facebook are sometimes overshadowed by some negative aspects of it, and it is not an irony that most of the negative aspects come from users, at least predominately. I am not here to compare the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook. There are excellent reviewers and analyst...

It probably would be inappropriate not to have an article related to Dashain and Tihar , not only because these are two greatest festivals that I celebrate each year but also because there are many memories that are related with these festivals. I am not going in detail about what the festivals are about because those information can easily be accessed. Dashain and Tihar are the greatest festivals of Hindu and since there are majority of Nepalese are Hindus, it is of great importance here. It is interesting to know that there are minor variations in methods of celebrating these festivals according to place to place, society to society; but the theme remains the same. I do not have much information on how these festivals are celebrated on other regions but despite the differences everyone celebrate with great joy and fun, with sense of togetherness and love. These festivals provide a platform for all the members of family to come together despite where they currently reside, what j...

Bulky books, pieces of papers everywhere, notebooks, calculator. a cup of beverage (coffee, they say!)! A desk of complete mess! Scribble on a paper. Did I come up with something, a solution to the problem that popped up during the class earlier that day? No way! how can the solution be that simple? A solution to the problem that kept me off concentration during the entire class be that simple! Pause for seconds, take time by looking at something I call beauty; i.e. some scribbles on the paper. I need to look at some references. Open a book, open index, read, make some notes; Read again, make some more notes. Open other books; do the same thing; make some notes. Unsatisfied. Probably need to browse the internet for more information. Yes, Definitely need to do that! Open laptop, Headphones on the ear, Music on (Need some music, don't we?). Check some papers, google books. Amazon, Buy! No way! Check some more papers, only those that has interesting topics, though! Wait, there...