We do have a sense of humor during the times of difficulty. Here are some for your musing and amusement:

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  1. Responding the call from the government to be generous, a cooperative in New Baneswor area is reported to have mistakenly donated Rs1 million instead of intended Rs. one lakh, one thousand and one hundred. He just mistakenly typed additional “zero” making Rs10 lakh, one thousand and one hundred. Now, the poor manager is seeking refund of Rs9 lakh from the PM Office. After reading this news, I am bit worried whether our President Ram Chandra Paudel decided to donate Rs5,000 or something gone wrong on typing. May be our old man is economical, not stingy. Same goes with our Uncle Sam for donating $500,000.

  2. Amid the stampede for expressing generosity, there are fake donors, using ChatGPT to create QR code receipts and posting the material in their facebook.

  3. There are pains and gains – somebody’s pains could turn into others gains. While people in the upstream suffering, people downstream are having a fun with freebies collecting gas cylinders, woods, logs, big fishes and really stingy ones stripping ornaments from the dead bodies! Some unlucky ones were caught breaking bank safe swept in the flood. Remember, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

  4. Social media has made viral of that Green House in Rasuwa, standing firm amid the massive flood, saving its residents. There were news about rewarding or awarding its engineers, least the fear of the government nationalizing it for preservation. Now, there is even more serious news. Some cement companies have approach the owner, offering crore of rupees, requesting the owner that he used their cement during construction.

  5. A group of fashionable housewives, at Maitighar (literally, meaning in-laws house), could be seen disputing over who to be credited for the collecting relief materials! Nepali society is really competitive.

  6. A Ward Chairman from the flood affected area could be seen briefing the media that the situation has turned into a traumatic situation. When people say “gadi aayo”, meaning vehicle has arrived due to reopening of the roads, there is a panic run, as people hear it as “badi aayo”, meaning, there is a flood.

  7. Late poet Bhupi has written, “To be brave there is no need for a courage; simply absence of mind is enough.” Some Nepalese are so brave that, just for the sake of selfie, they can defy Tsunami waves. Hopefully, by now, up above, Yamaraj may be busy browsing their mobiles.

  8. A flood victim at Trishuli could be seen complaining local administration pre-warning of the flood. “The administration just informed us that there is going to be a flood, we took it as a normal flood. Instead, it should inform us about its type and gravity”.

  9. Amid the chaos and confusion, as usual, our honorable cantankerous MP Ashika Tamang is busy creating a scene. I just wonder why some people in the social media mis-spell her name as aashika (come and teach us) Tamang or aachhikha (for the sake of decency, this can’t be translated here) Tamang?

  10. Least not confuse like this scribe. There are two rivers in Nepal exactly named Bhote Koshi – both originating from China and ending in India.