Happy New Year 2063

I suppose I should be wishing you Happy New Year 2063……… But the word “happy” seems to be a little out of context for what seems to lie ahead in this New Year. The daytime curfew has been lifted these last three days but there was no change in the night-schedule till yesterday. The cell phone started working earlier today. I guess somebody important had some Happy New Year SMS to send.
More than the New Year, there’s a big fuss about the speech tomorrow. The King is said to address the nation; probably to wish us all a happy new year – or perhaps more. After all, many believe that he’s got a pivotal role to play in deciding how much happy this New Year’s actually gonna be. I’m not too fond of speeches but I’m glad we’re finally gonna hear from him. All the events that have unfolded in past week were all asking for this speech; too bad we had to wait till the New Year to hear it, but we’re hearing it none-the-less. Some people are pretty mad at him for this delay in dealing with the situation. Rather odd – the guy to whom all these demonstrations are aimed at doesn’t seem to give a shit. I don’t think it’s all his fault though. After all, it’s affecting everybody but him. This is a quite strong offensive move from the political parties but it’s hard to say how much of it got to the intended target and how much went elsewhere. We Nepalese aren’t known for good aiming anyway. I mean where else in the world the bullet hit towards a demonstrator in the street goes on to hit an onlooker standing in his balcony. They said that this was going to be a peaceful demonstration. Well, I was never too good in Nepali (except for the kick-ass scores I got in SLC) – but I don’t think all that happened qualifies for “Shanti-Purna Birodh Pradarshani”.
I don’t mind his decision to address the issue in the occasion of the New Year’s Day. After all, he’s a businessman – he must’ve been busy. The poor guy was just waiting for a public holiday. Actually I’m quite thankful towards them for staging these demonstrations just a week before the New Year’s Day. Had this all started months ago we would’ve had to wait months for any reaction from the King. So I have to admire the impeccable timing and a brilliant strategy by them. It’s a different matter that innocent people are getting hurt, hospitals, schools and colleges are all closed, getting out of your home seems to be an adventure in itself, many exams have been postponed and with four years engineering course I think I’m gonna get a half year course extra……. Maybe it’s one of those New Year Offers. Lucky Me!