NIC, exploring chovar danda with NIC brother, dropped at Kirtipur gate, walking about Kirtipur town, settled at Newa Lahana, rich newari meal and thwon, meow meow cat, tired and lazy, pathao home, hangout at mamaghar [Mon 13]

Disclaimer: This is being written in mid-July, because that's how things are now. I'll write the daily journal posts months after the original days. Shrug. At least it's happening?

I went to NIC early in the morning, chilled around and talked to people. With brother A I bailed out after lunch, we went to this tea place by the mountain in Chovar and talked about his grad school plans, his brother who also happened to be my junior in school, and how to approach studies in general. I got him to drop me at Kirtipur gate.

I then walked around the core Kirtipur down, the old part and the new part, and saw what the big deal was all about. Here's my opinion: if only they spent and invested not that much money, this town would become a much much bigger deal that it is right now. Which, at the moment, is just another square, another locality of the giant all-encompassing monster that is Kathmandu city.

Ended up at Newa Lahana where I got the vegetable samay-baji set. Yum. Yum. Yum. Also got one or two different kinds of thwon. There was a cute little cat that was eagerly waiting for me to finish so he could eat my leftovers.

Perhaps it was the eat, or the booze, or the food but I felt so tired all of a sudden. I visited couple of local temples, saw that the movement to increase awareness of the ranjana script, one newari is written in, was getting bigger, and wanted to do it myself. Climbed down a whole goddamn series of stairs and walked toward town because pathao wouldn't come where I was at. Finally found a location where they serviced, and got a pathao to home.

And then went to mamaghar where my parents were with my grandparents and Singapore gang and mama-maiju. Had yummy dinner there, as usual.