Seema Sharma Pangeni

 Grhhhhh.. (Mobile vibrates)   I woke up suddenly at the middle of night to check the updates, it was only a notification from a marketing company in a browser. I checked the notification and automatically my fingers were driven to social sites. It took another half an hour for me to scroll down the news feed and I went through the each application I had in my mobile before I put my phone down. It all started with one mere notification. Above was just an example of fraction of hours in a day. Once, I checked the phone usage hours ,even I was surprised to find that I was using the phone for more than six hours on my working days and more than 10 hours in my day off. It was alarming. And I thought of doing some research on “what was going on with me?” and found the term Tech addiction . Also called as Digital addiction, is similar as other addiction where the addict has an impulsive behavior disorder and is driven towards the source and if the source is not available the a...

 Reflection, in itself has numerous meaning , among many i have listed some of them. According to a Cambridge English Dictionary, reflection is “an image of something on a mirror or any reflective surfaces.” “The definition of a reflection is a thought or writing about something, particular in the past, or what one sees when looking into a mirror or body of water.- Your Dictionary. And so on. Likewise, for me reflection is a image that you see on mirror, reflective surfaces or within you. Reflecting on the past acts or deeds gives you the space of analyzing the actions, reasons for it. i personally have a habit of reflection. I normally look back to what i have done. Sometimes i pen down the feelings and sometimes it just fades away with the train of thoughts. Although it is not considered good to bring work tensions out of work. After i finish my work i try to remember what did since the start of the shift and i find many areas that should have been different if only i had used a...

Its been a while I was away. I was away from what I enjoyed most, in the past. I was away from  reading books in the free time. I was away from pouring down my heart on paper when felt low. I was away. I was busy with all the unproductive things existing in the world. I could feel I was not happy from inside. there was always a kind of heaviness felt on my chest (being a nurse, I can guarantee, it was not any sort of Cardiac symptoms). A sense of "I can do better than this and I deserve better than this " was always within me , just could not figure out clearly. Then a friend of mine(who is a gem by heart and super intellectual) showed me her piece of writing, which brought the trail of memories of the days when i used to write. it got me nostalgic. As soon as that girl (she never ceases to amaze me) knew i had blog back then, she motivated me to write again. . Some times the well known fact when said at the right time leaves a huge impression. Same happened with me. My frien...

  One day, about one or twice month ago I saw a sentence written by anonymous in twitter. It went this way : “Funny how many still believe Good English = Using big words. Our education system teaches 'make sentences with' and not 'explain simply'” I was like wow.. what is this ? I also think the same. And I also escaped blaming the education system like the above statement writer did. Until that day I always emphasized on the big words and complex sentences. I tried leasrning  synonyms of common words and practicing in a day to day basis. Whenever I listened to people in Television and read the articles in social media, I envied their English. I still agree, to some extent, I was right. But the path I chose to go was absolutely wrong. Directly leaping without prior preparation might give one big leap but, small compared to others who come after making their base strong. Yes, I read in a English medium school right from the beginning  plus we had compulsion to speak in ...

since yesterday, it is raining and it have cooled down the atmosphere of Kathmandu valley. the weather has been completely shifted to cold. Today morning , i had to go to lokanthali chowk to  receive brothers and was waiting at bus station. It was the time for students to go to school and there were bunch of students waiting for public bus. At first i didn't pay attention to what they were talking about, but slowly their conversation drew my attention. due to continuous rain, the bus didn't come in time so that students were worried ,if they could reach school on time or not. even after waiting for the long time vehicle didn't arrive and the intensity of cold increased gradually. the teacher who was guiding the students asked to them to go to school or home. they instantly answered of going to home without a second thought. It reminded me of my childhood. those days, when we used to  wait for the rain to come so that teacher would not take our class. sometimes due to he...

After my classs 8 in Birgunj, my family decided to migrate to capital city of the country, Kathmandu. and we came here, it was about 9 years ago. As i was 1 month late to be admitted in school, i had to give my entrance examination in an empty room. questions were quite easy and interviews were way more easier. After the administrative formalities, i was introduced to my new class, new friends with whom i had to spent my 2 whole years. when i entered the class i could hear my hear beat, feel the sweat running down from my back and sense the nervousness that was shown from my red and warm cheeks. Teacher asked me to sit on one of the sit which was empty . i sat beside "tara budhathoki". since, she became the first one with whom i talked and gradually i opened up with other friends too. but she and sabina sanya were the one with whom i spent my most of the time in that school. we used to talk, laugh and play together.i became familier to her and she to me. As we talked, we k...

I wonder the life , today has been simple, easier or more complex ? Talking about the office works like record keeping and other works, modern technology has helped us a lot. However the other part of us, namely, social and psychological part has been destroyed badly.  The new advancement in technology has helped in making corporate people run their offices, people lead the luxurious life and social life somewhat easy making communication less costly. Well, my notions on two contrasting heading coincided in a way in terms of communication and making people's life easy.