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CRISIS Red stripe shirt, United Colors of Benetton, Rs 4,799 Being a teenager is Levi’s Jeans, U.F.O, Rs 1,498 never easy with all Red stripe cotton belt, the problems you are United Colors of Benetton, Rs 1,500 bound to face, read Red tees, Store One, Rs 999 about everything you fear as a teenager. Yellow print tees, U.F.O, Rs 998 Purple half pant, Rs 398

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Read the exciting journey of our reporter as he follows the students of Gyanodaya Residential School on their hiking trip 47 COLOR THERAPY AHILYA SHARMA

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FEATURE CONFESSIONS CLIPPED WINGS Feel like a fl ightless bird? 58 Find out how different JULY BREAKING things can tie you down INTO 2011 BREAKUPS contents FEATURE 20 GAMING HIGH SCHOOL BLUES High-school can be a 18 grueling experience, read how diffi cult it could be RETRO RAVE Read how an out-dated console system has still inspired gamers FICTION 64 today. AT THE SLOPE OF EVEREST FROM THE STREET 76 30 GIRL’S WARDROBE

GUY’S WARDROBE 32 Teenz Magazine, Kupondole, Lalitpur, Nepal. Tel: 501.1571, 501.1639 No. 6 „ 1 JUly 2011 Associate Editor: UJEENA RANA Design Executive: MANJESH MAHARJAN Assistant Managers, Sales & Marketing: For Advertisment Inquiries Sub-editor: SAMRIDDHI RAI Assistant Design Executives: DIPESH ANGIRAS MANANDHAR, BIJENDRA PRADHAN Manager: Stuti Thapa Copy Editor: UTSAV SHAKYA MAHARJAN, ANJAN ALE Sr. Sales Executive: VINAY RAJKARNIKAR Marketing Offi cer: Dipta Shrestha Contributing Editor(Fashion): Design Assistant: SMRITI SHRESTHA Sales Executive: SAMITA BAJRACHARYA, Marketing Offi cer: Umesh K.C YOUR TIME IS NOW SEBASTIAN ALCALA Design Trainee: SUNIL MAHARJAN Asst. Sales Executive: MANISH AMATYA Asst. Marketing Offi cer: Isha Pareek Editorial Assistant/In-house Writer: Sr. Photographer: DASH B. MAHARJAN Sales Assistant: SAPANA MAHARJAN, Account Executive: Rupa Koirala PRAJESH SJB RANA Photographers: MOHAMMAD SHAHNAWAZ, SABINA TULADHAR Publisher: ECS MEDIA PVT. LTD. In-house Writers: BONITA S. BASNYAT, UMESH BASNET, SUYESH RAJ SHRESTHA, Ad Enquiries: [email protected] Managing Editor: SUNIL SHRESTHA GAURAV THAPA, POOJA BYANJANKAR, LIZA HARI MAHARJAN, RABINDRA PRAJAPATI, Sr. Executive, Subscription & Distribution: Director, Editorial & Marketing: NRIPENDRA KARMACHARYA PAUDEL, YUKTA BAJRACHARYA YOGENDRA MAHARJAN Group Editor: ANIL CHITRAKAR BIKRAM SHRESTHA Editorial Secretary: PRAGYA POKHREL Admin Executive: SHRUTI SINGH Sr. Manager, Editorial & Marketing: SUDEEP SHAKYA Marketing & Subscription Executive: ATULYA ACHARYA Editorial Enquiries:[email protected] Accounts Executive: JEENA TAMRAKAR Manager, Editorial & Marketing: NEERAZ KOIRALA, CHARU Subscription Assistant: PRERANA AMATYA, RIJAN Accounts Assistant:AMIR BAJRACHARYA, S. MALHOTRA SHRESTHA, UDIP PASAKHALA, BIKKY PODDAR RABIN MAHARJAN Deputy Manager, Editorial & Marketing: NILADRI S. PARIAL Subscription Enquiries: [email protected] Credit Assistant:BARSA MAHARJAN Color Separation: CTP Nepal Pvt. Ltd, HATTIBAN, 525.0466, 525.0468 | Printing: JAGADAMBA PRESS, HATTIBAN, 525.0017/18/19 | Distributor: Kasthamandap Distribution Pvt. Ltd Teenz Magazine is published 12 times a year at the address above. All rights reserved in respect of all articles, illustration, photography, etc published in Living Magazine. The contents of MediaAMediaActct (Pvt(Pvt.) ) LtLtd.d this publication may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the written consent of the publisher. The opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of the Media Support publisher, who cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. All editorial inquiries and submissions to Teenz Magazine must be addressed to [email protected] Ekantakuna, Lalitpur Tel: 5000026, 5000064 EACH ISSUE: Rs. 30.00 in Nepal, ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION IN NEPAL: Rs 350.00 (For 12 issues) | Send all subscription request to Teenz Magazine, E-mail: [email protected] FAX: 977-1-5000064

ISSUE 6 JULY, 2011 JULY 2011 EDITORIAL

And I can tell you I was So stay updated on that by liking blown away by some of the our page on Facebook at facebook. talented kids that performed on com/teenzmagazine and logging on the stage that day. Whoever said, to teenz.com.np, today. Nepali kids aren’t as talented Now, for this issue we hope that as the kids constantly seen on our cover story on “teenage crisis” international TV channels?  e and ways to smartly avert it will be only thing Nepali kids don’t helpful to you. have, is the platform and we’re And of course, we have all of glad that Healthy Life, however our regular sections, that are geared small, gave them one. up to hopefully inform, inspire and And the other thing that entertain you all the while. A er all blew us away was also the this is your magazine and we ask magnanimous response to you to be a part of us by sending in this online voting contest, 675 your photos to be featured in the participants with over 3 lakh many sections like “wadrobe”, “my Hey there Teenz readers! votes that poured in, showed room” or send us your articles to be Greetings! that Nepal has indeed reached published in the “reader’s stop” and So, we’re here again with our July the point of being extremely many more. Issue and we can only hope that it internet savvy and are looking Hoping to hearing from you soon. fun-tertains the brains out of you. to ferociously participate in Until we meet you next time with Well not literally though. Of course, competitions, because really , exciting new contents and an exciting new Teenz for August, this is me I don’t want the brains coming out there are hardly any. wishing you all “Happy Reading”. of our youth of today, pioneers of  at brings me to announcing, our country tomorrow, because that wait -not yet announcing, Much love, would be, just so…mmm.. well tragic. but defi nitely giving you all a Samriddhi Rai Jokes aside, to go a li le out of heads up that we at TEENZ are [email protected] context here, I only recently emceed bringing you a competition of a Sub-Editor for our sister publication Healthy Life similar nature, this time for our Teenz Magazine’s widely successful online youth population of the country. competition “Sweet Child Of Mine”.

Entertainment MOVIES Movie-Time AT WORK No matter how hectic our lives may be, everyone has sometime for good movies. Read on to fi nd out the favorite movies of those inhabiting ECS Media. TEXT: BONITA S. BASNYAT

Yukta Bajracharya (Writer, Fr!day) All Time Favorite: Home Alone Prerana Amatya Recent Favorite: (Subscription) Worst: Tees Maar Khan Wished it had a sequel: Lake All time Favorite: Boys before house fl owers Recent Favorite: Thank you Worst Movie: I hate Love Stories Wished it had a sequel: Boys over fl owers

Gaurav Thapa (Editorial Assistant, Living) All-time favorite movie: The Fountain Recent favorite movie: True Grit Worst movie: Twilight Wished it had a sequel: Superhero

AAmar B Shrestha (Editor, Healthylife) Sachin Tamrakar AAll time Favorite Marketing movie: Roman holiday All time Favorite: Kuch Kuch Recent Favorite: Hota hai and Tum Bin King’s Speech. Recent Favorite: I hate love WWorst movie: Hindi stories. Movies (not my type) Worst movie: Ragini MMS WWished it had a Wished it had a sequel: ssequel: Roman Holiday Golmaal 3

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Entertainment BOOKMARKED “LoveBook Review ofStory” — Eri Segal “The past 40 years have so overly hyped and popularized Love Story that I expected to be blown away by it and, in the end, was left only with a half-fi lled appetite for a good read.” BY SABRINA SINGH

or all those who have a handwriting was curious- small sharp sweet (like when they fi ght over hankering for tragic romance, le ers with no capitals (who did she whether or not to name their future Erich Segal’s Love Story is think she was, e. e. cummings?)”. baby “Bozo”!), but that is hardly defi nitely recommended. For Sadly though, the novel drags on enough for a novel to transition from theF rest of us, it is not. Love Story is a from there- its content not fulfi lling a mediocre-read to a classic status. simple, hackeneyed sort of a romance and the plot not tantalizing enough.  e protagonists- Oliver and tale of two star-crossed lovers (think Love Story’s story is- for want of a Jenny- are very likeable characters, contemporary Romeo and Juliet)- be er word- simple- too simple. It is with strong but diff erent personalities. Oliver Bare IV and Jennifer Cavilleri. fresh and entertaining whilst our two Oliver is rich- coming from a family He’s rich. She’s poor. She’s majoring protagonists fi rst meet; but then is steeped in heritage and importance- in music. He’s a sport fanatic. But plainly predictable in the second half of but not ostentatious (rather, he seems when they meet sparks fl y and, the novel. For those of you who want a embarrassed by his father’s repute forsaking all rules and family ties, they mixture of passion, drama, twists, cliff and money). Jenny is savvy, smart marry and start what they hope to hangers, adventure or all of the above and funny, and the only child of a be a lifelong journey together. Again, in a love story, Segal’s story would turn widowed baker.  is contrast in their here comes the oh-so-predictable twist out to be disappointing. Of course, I characters ideally sets the mood for in the story (the way it is wri en, I have to acknowledge some moments of the incredibly clichéd “one completes doubt if it deserves to be called a twist sensitivity that are heart-wrenchingly the other” situation.  e humorous at all)- Jenny has cancer and is going dialogues between these main (and to die. only) characters are what would make Love Story a passable read. To what li le there is to appreciate, I What puzzles me is why this loved the opening of the novel- when novel has been so widely appreciated the two college sophomores meet at a and loved, even credited as being library and wi ily end up with a date. Segal’s masterpiece; the San Francisco  anks to Segal’s knack for humor, the Examiner calling it “funny, touching chapters that follow are not boring. and infused with wonder”. It has a  eir fi rst impressions of each other Hollywood big-screen adaptation of are not exactly mesmerizing- she calls the same name which was not only him a “Harvard Preppie”, he calls her a commercially successful but still “sno y Radcliff e bitch” (how on earth nominated for seven Academy Awards. did they fall in love so instantly!). As  e past 40 years has so overly hyped a narrator, Oliver is funny, honest and popularized Love Story that I and poignantly vulnerable. I love expected to be blown away by it and, in how his earnest recount of Jenny the end, was le only with a half-fi lled shows his piercing love for her -“Her appetite for a good read.

 TEENZ | JULY  U n Me SLAM POETS TEXT: TEENZ REPORTER

So, what is slam poetry, really? We slammed an undercover with some slam poetry queries. Here is what that person had to say.

Who is a slam poet? Slam is actually the competition aspect of poetry which is meant to be performed for an audience. However, they are used to refer to all poems that are aimed at being performed in front of an audience. A slam poet is a spoken word poet.

Is it any different from rapping? Or is it just a fancier name for rappers? Rapping is only one form of spoken word poetry. Any poem written for the page is fi t for the stage – be it a haiku or a poem written in iambic pentameter. One maybe called a slam poet if one is a rapper, but it doesn’t really have to be the same the other way around.

How many slam poet events have taken place in Kathmandu so far? From the Word Warriors group, more than 10. If there were other such events, we are not aware of them yet.

How many slam poets are there in ktm? (The ones who have performed) This is like asking how many poets are there in KTM. The Word Warriors are a thriving group on Facebook but there are religiously nine slam poets who have been performing in spoken word events, regularly. There may be many who are still in the closet.

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What are the qualities needed to become a slam poet? Can any random person try to become a slam poet? Yes, anyone can be a slam poet, if they really want to. The spoken word is a form of expression, a movement that any one can join. Of course, one has to have a good command of the spoken word. The writing of the poem is also important but performing it is the main part. Each slam poet has a different way of slamming and performing.

Do slam poets in Kathmandu have a group or an organization? Yes, there is an organization called the Word Warriors – perhaps the fi rst of its kind.

Where and how can we fi nd future slam poet events? We do slam poetry everywhere and anywhere – from popular bars to coffee shops to book launch events. From the group, the Word Warriors, we try to organize at least one spoken word event every month. To stay up to date with the events, fi nd the Word Warriors on Facebook or send us a message and we shall keep you on our emailing list. And of course, keep your eyes and ears open!

Slam Poet is so far off and almost alien to our culture and yet it’s getting popular by the day . why do you think that’s happening? The term Slam Poetry may seem alien but what slam poetry actually is, is not alien. It’s always been there in one form or the other. Slam has now offi cially been recognized all over the world and the rise of slam is the sign of the rising desire of people, especially the youth, to speak out and voice their feelings. The spoken word has always been a powerful medium.

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Writing Workshop TEXT: PRAJESH SJB RANA

n June, 15, 2011, Teenz A er a brief introduction about conducted a One-day ECS Media and Teenz magazine, Writing Workshop with Dr Abhi Subedi started the Professor Dr. Abhi Subedi workshop. Oof Tribhuwan University with the Asking questions here and purpose of helping school-going teens there, in between his introduction of Kathmandu get a be er perspective to writing, he made the workshop on writing. as interactive as possible.  e Held at Hotel Himalaya, twenty- students made a wonderful eight students from fourteen audience, listening and writing to diff erent schools showed up, keen on every bit of valuable information listening to how their writing could shared by the Professor. Dr. Subedi be improved.“ e experience was then asked the students to fi rst intriguing,” says Rasmita Dhamala list down the topics of what they from Siddgartha Vanasthali School. wanted to write about and then

 TEENZ | JULY  having made them pick one topic , “It was a very pleasant experience he then suggested that the students talking to such brilliant young jot down a series of words on their people,” says Dr. Subedi a er the selected topic. A er they were done workshop. with it, they were then asked to  e students came up with venture further and form a paragraph wonderful pieces of prose by the end in accordance with the words they of the session, where Dr. Subedi asked had listed, then moving ahead with a few students to read out what they formulating paragraph by paragraph, wrote. A er the workshop, the students eventually dra ing an entire story. were guided down for lunch. Tech Realm GAMING RETRO RAVE! BY: PRAJESH SJB RANA

he gaming world has even with their out-dated graphics or gamers experience games originally never showed any signs sound. Game-makers are still inspired manufactured for the SNES.  ese of slowing down, new by the classic gaming ages and some emulators run ROMs, extracted games are displayed at gamers have hold on to the fading from their cartridge counterparts. standsT every day, most likely with age that was the Super Nintendo  e widely famous ZSNES would be be er graphics and gameplay.  e Entertainment System (SNES). SNES the best SNES emulator, supporting PlayStation 3, XBOX 360 and Wii was the best-selling console of the all games in addition to user hacks have taken gaming to heights to 16-bit gaming age and continues to in or translations. SNES emulations gaming that we could never have trance gaming enthusiasts and retro are now even available for hand- imagined, bringing the best of the gamers. SNES was a turning point held devices like the Andriod, iPod/ technological world into your home in gaming history and people can iPhone, PSP or Gameboy Advanced. TV. With games like God of War III still be found creating computer-data  e biggest reason SNES had, and BioShock, the magic of gaming replicas of original game cartridges and has till date, such a large cult seems even more real now. New called ROMS. following was because of it games. technology has brought about a new Even years a er its release or SNES has been home to a lot of age for gamers but what about the support, SNES gaming is still alive era-altering games like, Megaman age that has passed? on personal computers in the form of X or  e Legend of Zelda. Below, I Classic games, on old consoles, Console Emulation. Various programs give you to the top ten of the SNES have succeeded in making a that emulate the state of the console, console. signifi cant mark on gaming history have come into existence to help Many of the games mentioned above are still growing stronger. Many of the above games have many sequels, and many of these games have been re-made for newer gaming Chrono Trigger – 1995 by Square consoles.  e SNES is like an old treasure chest for any retro gamer, or 1 real jewels for any collector. Bahamut Lagoon The Legend of Zelda: – 1996 by Square Link to the Past – 1992 by Nintendo

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Tech Realm iCANDY TECH MENAGERIE The tech world keeps racing ahead, so to keep track of all the new gadgets fl ooding the market, we bring you four gadgets to keep an eye on BY LIZA PAUDEL

XBOX KINECT (RS. 18000)

A console awarded ‘Parents’ Choice fact, it is the only console to Awards’ in the United Stated for its rely on body gestures and voice top quality content that entertains commands alone, and with that you’re limited to saying words that and educates simultaneously, it takes gaming to a whole new are on screen only. stimulates imagination and helps level.  e standard playing area is stated children grow, the Xbox Kinect is Kinect’s gesture navigation as 6-8 feet but it really should be available in Nepal at the Gadget consists of moving your hand in 8-10 for the player to get the best Shop. A direct rival to the Playstation time with the cursor and holding out of it. And as an added bonus Move and to a lesser extent, it in place while a selection there is the video chat, compatible Nintendo Wii, unlike them, Kinect confi rms. It is fairly accurate with Windows Live messenger. opts to actively integrate all voice, and fun to carry around. Voice, To a market that equals motion a camera and full-body sensing to on the other hand, works almost gaming with casual gaming, get rid of the bu ons altogether. In fl awlessly, perhaps also because the Kinect is cautious to cover all varieties of games that may appeal to the potential gamer. True, many games widely loved are yet to be released but the CHIMEI 96VS (RS. 12,000) ones that have been, have been A new model of the LED Monitor weight of 2.9 kg including stand! A cited to be “immense fun” and of Chimei brand is now available glossy black color and built in stereo “creating new experiences”. In at Sagar Infosys. Complete with speakers make it a treasured addition fact, critics around the world a 3 years warranty, the model is to any household. are so impressed that they have the successor of the previous LED  e LED display is superb with 16:9 named it—if executed correctly— monitor 96VD. aspect ratio and 10,000,000:1 dynamic to be the future of gaming. One of the key features of the ratio.It also boasts of features as CC  at mainly dwelling on the new 96VS is its very low power Pro Chimei color enhancement and exciting new avenue of gesture consumption. For a monitor, it 3D Color Gamut making it pleasing navigation where, as Kinect’s consumes surprisingly 20 wa s to the eyes and accurate in its campaign expertly says, you’re only; and in its power-saving state, visualization. the controller! a bare 1 wa . At 18.5”, the monitor Sagar Infosys, New Road Gadget Shop, Durbar Marg stands tall but is hardly heavy, a light 4233618, 4245058 4257895/4226669

 TEENZ | JULY  SAMSUNG GALAXY ACE (RS.27,900)  e Galaxy Ace powered by android operating system version 2.2 froyo is the new smartphone by Samsung that will most certainly leave all the others behind, in terms of providing great service and making it aff ordable. It has an inexpensive price and by off ering the almost complete Android experience, it provides total worth of the money, and more.  e features of Samsung Galaxy Ace go beyond expectations.  e web technology, 3G network, multi touch input, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, up to 32 GB expandable memory has made working more systematic and quick. Android HD recording while the signature with many features similar and OS, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Samsung digital sound clarity in the same screen size of 3.5 inches, YouTube, Calendar, Google mp3 format is also there. despite the Galaxy Ace’s relatively Talk, Picasa integration, super If customer adores games then small size. Comparing them, you smooth touch, 3.5 inches screen, Samsung galaxy ace can also act come to the conclusion that the unlimited call records have been as a powerful game- station as its Samsung is generally smaller, wedded for be er effi ciency motion sensor and wide screen lighter and nicer in the hand than and faster setup. Also, its 5 MP gives a fairly accurate simulation. the iPhone, if slightly less sleek. camera and autofocus encouraged  e body of the Galaxy Ace But with the price like that, I’m superior photography more than provides for a subtle yet noticeable not complaining! makes up for the absence of a similarity to the Apple iPhone 4; Samsung Plaza, Durbar marg, 4441571

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JULYJU  | TEENZ  Trends WARDROBE Manisha Khadka This sweet-16 girl loves to hop around Durbar Marg to shop for her favorite clothes. Starting her A Levels at Rato Bangala School, she is full of life, energy and enthusiasm. This July she is starting off her third year in High school and also being featured in the TEENZ wardrobe section! GIRL’S WARDROBE Going fl oral this summer

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Ready for Summer GUY’S WARDROBE Rubik Joshi Standing tall at 6 feet, 19-year-old Rubik can always be trusted to be aptly dressed. White tees teamed Gucci Belt with a pair of jeans is his favorite attire and he knows how to rock it out at being the laid-back- yet- suave- dude that girls go gaga for. By: Bonita S Basnyat

JULY  | TEENZ  Trends FROM THE STREET

Bishrom Basnet “Pre y woman walking down the street!” by Rob Orbison was playing in the back of our minds when we spo ed her on the Saloni Sharma street. She was spot on Simple and stylish with her bag, shoes and is in fashion these her outfi t. days. Nothing else can be more beautiful than simplicity and that is what Saloni is portraying on the streets.

Sarina Who says girls in Kathmandu don’t know how to dress up? Who says they’re not fashionable enough? Sarina is a proof for such talkers! She could steal any show with those Navaraj Timilsina boots and accessories. Even with a tshirt and simple pants, a person can look the best with the way he carries it off . Navaraj here has done . STRUTING By: Bonita S Basnyat

 TEENZ | JULY  Sussane Lama Sussanne gave us the perfect Shreeja Shah teen a itude.  e smile, bag, Studying MBBS in high waist pants and shades go Manipal, Shreeja perfectly well with what we’re knows how to walk trying to spot this time. Go girl! it off in the simplest way and manages to look the best and turn heads all at the same time! And who says only bright colors look good?

Mr. Gurung We spo ed Mr.Gurung walking on the streets of Durbar Margh. Looking as cool as white, he manages to look best for the weather, I wonder who he is inspired by or is this his own style? Parikrama Rai Dresses are what we have been imagining this whole winter and Parikrama is proof that summer is here to stay .  e red A and white combination is perfect for our WAY spring look and goes with her colored laces.

JULY  | TEENZ  Trends GO GLAM!

Pink Softness, sweetness, innocence, youthfulness and tenderness and is regarded to be a feminine color. Wear it when you’re sad as it is believed to heal grief. It restores youthfulness and brings you in contact with your feelings.

Green Peace, rest, hope, comfort nurturing, calmness and harmony. Since green is the color of balance and harmony, wear it when you need to calm down.  CerapyOLOR When Summer makes a comeback, you know what should come back in your wardrobe with it, right? Yes indeed, splash away your closet with some vibrantly hued apparels. Walk hand in hand with the nature’s brightest season with some brightly colored clothes of your own. Our in- house stylist, Nitesh Sherchan, shows you how. Read and learn as to how you can incorporate some color therapy into your wardrobe too. Green side-pocket pants, U.F.O, Rs 1,298 Model: Aditi Budathoki

 TEENZ | JULY  Indigo The deep blue of devotion. Indigo is cool, electric, and astringent. Wearing Indigo/ blue brings a person to a calming mood.

Blue shrug, Marque store, 3,500 Purple/Yellow Polo T-shirt, Baleno, Rs 1,690 Navy blue jeans, U.F.O 1,498 Beige cotton side patch pocket pant Rs, Store One, Rs 3,599 Mustard yellow tank top, Store One, Rs 999 Model: Rubik Joshi, Aditi Budathoki

JULY  | TEENZ  Yellow The color of the sun, life- force, vividity, vitality and energy. Yellow helps strengthen the nerves and the mind. It is an excellent color to wear when you’re nervous.

Brown An earthly color for practical people with a preference for natural, tribal and primitive things, solidity and simplicity. Wearing something brown is believed to make relationships solid and increase decisiveness.

Yellow T-shirt, Store One, Rs 1,798 Green quarter pants, Brown side pocket shorts, Baleno, Rs 2,290 U.F.O, Rs 898 Shoes, Puma Shoes,

Rock port Rs 8,429 Store One, Rs 5,598 Model: Yachnit Rana, Rubik Joshi

 TEENZ | JULY  Black A color for extremes, everything and/or nothing. It is a color of people who foremost trust themselves. Black helps us connect with our sub-conscious. Wearing black makes one seem alluring. Red Passionate love, great energy, impulse, action and stimulation. Wear red when you’re feeling lazy/lethargic, as the color is believed to bring warmth, energy and stimulation. Wearing read relatively increases your level of attractiveness too.

Black Shrug, Marque Store, Rs 2,700 Black Jeans, U.F.O, Rs 1,448 Pink T Shirt, U.F.O, Rs 698 Polka Dot fl at Shoes, U.F.O, Rs 778

Red check shirt, India terrain, Store One, Rs2,999 Denim jeans, U.F.O, Rs 1,498 Model: Rubik Joshi, Aditi Budathoki

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BY: Teenz Team CrisisTeenage is a time most adults fondly reminisce of, an age that kids and adolescents wish to reach faster. But in all reality, teenage could just be as disappointing if all the teenager was hoping for was just the glitz and glamour. And as much as the word “teenage” may have been glorifi ed, most likely by the media, over the years and the world of consumerism cashing on it, as it is turning out to be the most lucrative of businesses of all times, one should be aware that while teenage years are adventurous and fun, it may also come with its share of pitfalls. So, if you’re a teenager or if you know or have any teenage friends or family members, which we are sure that you do, then you might want to read what we have a empted to compile for you. Yes, Teenage is a vulnerable time and one should arm themselves with the right facts and smart tacts, before any of these negative aspects looms up into a sizeable teenage crisis. Read. Learn. Smart up.

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SugarikaMiss Nepal KC 2005 Kriti Tamang Ruby Rana Shah UshaMiss Nepal 2000 Khadgi Miss Nepal 1994 (First Miss Nepal) I Love Maskey Trees I Love Miss Teen Nepal 2010 I love Shopping My daughterUgeshna. I Love Children Travelling Ryan Chau- Hong kong Shoping. Facing the camera High School BLUES Traveling Cooking. I Hate The fact that I am a beauty queen Honest people Over partying The colour purple and not to forget I Hate BY: GAURAV THAPA I hate Oily foods my family and my friends Back biting. Teenagers normally start dating when they are at Liars Women violence Spiders. I Hate: school. Friends encourage the relationship by teasing Pollution Dust. when people get judgemental our years is what it takes Dirty politics A Beauty Queen according to me is… you about your partner and the like. In Hong Kong A Beauty Queen according to me creepy creature to make a man. Four Talent, humane, bold and beautiful. when I get nervous we generally text our girlfriends since it is the cheaper A Beauty Queen according to me… is… excruciating years! Each is a role model who is beautiful, trendy, intelligent and has good a blend of beauty and brain. My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen… A beauty queen according to me is: option. Also, I think it is popular because it does not moral values. Ruby Rana, 1st Miss Nepal. Someone who has it in her from the core of her heart. passing day at high school involve face to face interactions. We go out on dates Fis a new life lived. Each moment My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen… What my title means to me… to places that are crowded with people- cinemas, My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen: Usha Khadgi and Sugarika K.C is Miss Nepal 2004, Payal Shakya. A platform to demonstrate my passions, performance & the Malvika Subba (Miss Nepal 2002) subsisted is a grueling feat.  is is not shopping malls, parks. Making out in public, however, reason to my being. What my title means to me a narrative of a high school movie nor is still considered a bit inappropriate in our culture. So What my title means to me… What this Title means to me : The essence of beauty with a heart Turning point of my life. A message to aspiring Beauty Queens… It is a dream come true and a milestone in the journey of my life. is this any account of a coming-of-age in that sense, you could say that it is not very liberal. Explore your strengths, focus on fi ne tuning your talents and novel. Veracity is that, high school is A message to aspiring Beauty Queens A message to aspiring Beauty Queens… cleanse your inner beauty A message to aspiring Beauty Queens: Parents are generally, not beastly about their children Beauty Queen is a woman of the new millennium- pretty, intelligent, Always respect elders. Believe in yourself and your dreams. the ultimate ba le for survival.  at dating but the permission to date does come with opinionated and strong. A message to those who are against beauty pageants… senile geography professor, those A message to those who are against beauty pag- Your discouragement provided more strength to aspiring A Message to those who are against Beauty pageants: the usual warning of - “I don’t want it aff ecting your A message to those who are against beauty pageants sturdy bullies, that brazen Richie Rich, eants… talents and one day you may realize its importance when your If they’ve got the right to protest then we’ve got the right to studies!” Teachers at school are the same way about Its not only physical beauty, being women and beauty queens, we First think and try to know the details truth of beauty daughter will participate. participate. those exasperating backbenchers, that it.  ey wouldn’t really bother whether or not you are contribute our strength and courage for our nation. pageants. repulsive Mr. Know-all, and those crazy dating unless you are ge ing into fi ghts because of it li le fl oozies – the villains of one’s or if your academic performance starts to go downhill. Time and again, they’ve raised controversies for being a part of a contest that many activists view nastiest nightmare are all there. as demeaning to the women kind, and yet, time and again, these women who emerged from these You don’t know why but that stout OOOOHHHH!!! ISN’T HE HOT? I WISH I contests bagging a crown, have not failed to charm the media to thousands of ordinary people ill-tempered professor always has alike.  ese women, we like to call –  e Beauty  eens. you on his hit-list. Just as he enters And queens they are, for they rule the hearts of many and we all know just the outer beauty COULD BE WITH HIM. HE’S SO CUTE. the classroom, he glares you with his Julieta Miranda - Argentina Beauty isn’t enough to sustain an impression so strong, its also their personality that has us all captivated. bloodshot eyes and asks you the only COMMON GIRLS, GO GET A LIFE! So, brace yourself Teenz readers as we give you a special treat to your eyes this issue. Here question you don’t have the answer we have some of the most loved Miss Nepals of all times and the reigning Teen Beauty  eens. of.  en, the worst part comes.  e  e dating culture in Argentina young age, although it obviously Check them out, you know you want to. he got hold of that genie but he owns your league”. He is the pet of all the yelling gives you mental trauma and is quite “liberal” in the sense depends on the type of family,  eensTEXT: SAMRIDDHI RAI whatever he wishes. And however teachers. Your parents taunt you with your reddened face accompanies good you dress, he’ll make you look his example let alone your teachers. that it’s totally normal to date religious beliefs, etc. Some the disgrace in front of the entire a total jerk. And, bugs on the trash Why can’t you be like him? Why the someone of a younger age, and fathers or brothers may be a bit classroom. You wish the earth beneath heck would anyone want you to be nobody considers this to be like protective, but nothing extreme, Malvika Subba Zenisha Moktan Anjali Alisha (antonymous to icing on the cake!), Miss Nepal 2002 Miss Nepal 2009 you tears up and swallows you inside. those fl oozies love him. Oooohhhh‼ ! Isn’t like somebody else? You are special on against religion or anything, so the only thing that this may Pradhanang Kunwar yes couples can be seen in public cause is the girl to hide the I Love Miss Teen 2010, Bullies are the pits. And those your own. You create music from your I love he hot? I wish I could be with him. He’s so My family and friends Miss Teen Nepal 1st Runner Up 2010 second runner up god-dammed rogues have such without any problem. However, relationship from them for a My family cute. Common girls, go get a life! armpits, you fi t six chicken-wings in Riyaj it’s not liberal in the sense that while. My boyfriend I love good eye-sights. Even if you bury Always warming up the last your mouth, you spit farther from a My job Everything in my life My hair yourself in the murkiest corners of you start a relationship within I love: benches of the classroom are the roo op, you know the name of every I hate: Speaking in public the playground, you cannot escape few weeks of knowing each Concerning the inferiority I hate Shopping Giving poses backbenchers.  ey live in packs. other person in your school, and you Corrupt politicians Saying goodbyes Make up their a ention. In your teen-life, Irregular heights, spo ed faces, creepy make be er paper-airplanes. Can he other. Teenagers normally date complexes, I don’t think such Late comers Fake people I hate Cameras people whom they share some a thing exists in Argentina .I Unprofessional people Slow Internet connection Fats this is the only a ention you wish hairstyles, and an unusual level of do that? Why doesn’t anybody notice I Hate: Imposters you hadn’t got. And once they fi nd noise is what distinguish them from that talent in you? Why is it you who is part of their routine with, like know many people older than A Beauty Queen according to me is… A Beauty Queen according to me … My stubborness When I get nervous you, they pounce on you like hungry at school, neighbourhood or at me who never dated anyone, One who carries herself with poise, is is a real woman who inspires others who look up to her to lead Reptiles the others. And, you should watch doomed? intelligent, smart and in your face, strong woman. a happy, beautiful life. A Beauty Queen according to me is … Judgemental people scavengers.  eir saliva-dripping out for their shenanigans at all times. Berserk is the word to sum up sports club. but they don’t feel like they The one who is beautiful inside out tongue scares the crap out of you. wasted their lives or anything, My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen: My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen A Beauty Queen is: On occasions, you could fall trap to high school. Berserk is your a itude, Saddicha Shrestha Shweta Singh My favorite Nepali Beauty Queen is One who believes in herself and believes in what she does At times, you feel like revolting. But, their pranks and boy does it hurt, both berserk is your personality, berserk We use texts and mobile and they certainly don’t have an Usha Khadgi intimidation gets the be er of you conversations a lot; also the inferiority complex. What my title means to me: Its been 9 years , but I am still ad- What my title means to me My Favorite Nepali Beauty Queen is physically and emotionally.  e only are your classmates, berserk are dressed as Miss Nepal, no matter what I do. It has given me recog- Achievement! This is what I’ve always wanted and when I see What my title means to me Malvika Subba and you fi nd solace in the fact that fun you can have with them involved your teachers, berserk is the whole blackberry chat has become some Schools and teachers also nition and respect. the crown today, I know I’ m on the right track. The biggest achievement I have till date. everything is going to be over in sort of a fashion, and Facebook is regard dating as something What my title means to me: is either when they get in the nerves experience, berserk are you. At the A message to aspiring Beauty Queens: A message to aspiring Beauty Queens A message to aspiring Beauty Queens A dream come true. mere four years. Four more years only! of that professor or when those bullies end of each day, you die. And yet, you used as well. completely normal, although Be yourself, know the world, be focused about your goals and ambi- Be aware, know yourself, educate and empower yourself. Be Have confi dence, believe in yourself and stand out tions. A message to aspiring Beauty Queens: He has a fancy ride; speaks in a have them on their target for a change. rejoice in the fact that your high school “public demonstrations nice to people, work hard and stay grounded. A message to those who are against beauty pageants Just believe in yourself and follow your dreams weird accent; dresses up good as if a Mr. Know-all is the worst of the lot. is a day shorter. Oh the High School Most parents are pre y cool with of love” in school are not A message to those who are against the Beauty Pageants: A message to those who are against beauty pageants Nothing has ever stopped the pageants from happening, nothing I feel that a beauty pageant is the place where you can explore A message to those who are against beauty pageants gay; and has a secret genie. Who?  at Blues. their sons/daughters dating at a allowed. You are free to pursue your life, let me pursue mine. You have You are a nobody to him. He is “above ever will. Please go do something productive, rather than protesting no right to judge anyone! yourself and no one should have the right to meddle with that. The world has moved on and its time that we do the same. sick Richie Rich. Nobody knows how once every year.

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Malvika Subba, Usha Khadgi, Ruby Rana Shah, Anjali Pradhanang, Kriti Tamang Maskey, Sugarika K.C., Alisha Kunwar, Zenisha Moktan the World Dating Cultures BY: SAMPADA KC over

Tom Lyon - UK

Well if you can generalise from my example I started dating when I was in the Scouts and that was when I was 13. In the UK, I would think we are quite chilled about the whole dating business. We take it very casually and our parents are normally fi ne with us going out on dates. At school, the teachers don’t mind you hanging out with your boyfriend or girlfriend as long as you are not making out, right in front of them. In public places, seeing couples making out is not a very rare scene but then again you do fi nd a conservative few who do not approve of such behaviour. I wouldn’t say there is an inferiority complex among teenagers when it comes to dating. But I guess if all your friends are going out and you are the only one single, you will have reasons to feel a bit le out.

 TEENZ | JULY  what you miss the most.” he says about his recent breakup, four months ago. When asked the reason, he pauses and answers, “Well, things didn’t work out. We both perhaps weren’t the people that we initially thought we were.” Whatever be the worked-out reason: insecurity, incompatibility, a third-wheel or even an I-want-to-be- single revelation, the actual reasons are more complicated. You could shrug off saying ‘S/he’s not the one’ but the underlying cause would more likely be that you could not stand him smoking anymore, or got tired of him/her never remembering the dates, or fi nally case 2 gave up on her nagging. You couldn’t se le for anything less than what you wanted; you just weren’t happy. BREAKUPS ARE HARD; BREAKUPS ARE Strengthened by—again—movies, AWKWARD. THEY RAISE EYEBROWS TV and celebrities who break up every AND QUESTIONS THAT YOU WOULD other day, teenagers these days seem to RATHER NOT ANSWER. see breakups as coming. A er the fi rst few months of mush, no “true love” One thing remains however, what friends’, and willing to accept that? While exists and Bollywood movies suddenly a er the breakup? Too o en than not, living up a breakup is already a strong act turn foolish. Friends break up, their the girl and the guy turn complete in itself, it takes even more strength and favorite athletes divorce, and breakups strangers. To quote Sukriti again, “I quite a bit of maturity and understanding become the general conclusion to a wish it were diff erent. But it’s just too for the ex-couple to remain friends post- relationship. Easier than trying to awkward.” Many others complain of the breakup. make it work becomes simply le ing same “A er all, being in a relationship In conclusion, breakups are hard; it go. With the fl u ers long gone, the with the person, at some point or the breakups are awkward.  ey raise “love” gets lost somewhere between other, you did love them. You were close eyebrows and questions that you the irritating idiosyncrasies and the friends, why do the closeness and the would rather not answer. But for all the “forever” comes a li le too early. friendship have to disappear a er you sadness and loneliness they bring, you  en follows the long string of break up?” Nisha, 18 asks.  e answer lies evolve a li le mature and a li le wiser. loneliness, brushing off of egos and in maturity. Are you secure enough to  e wrong choices and the naiveté uncontrollable rumors about the see the person you were once with, with behind you, you understand, If not the same. Suddenly you’re noticed by somebody else? Are you mature enough whole world yet, at least yourself be er. people and are whispered about, and to go from ‘more than friends’ to ‘just Cheers to that! not necessarily in a good way too; countless awkward social exchanges occur. On the bright side, with the case 4 break up, you also get the courage to face it all. You become more confi dent and can defend and stand up for yourself.  e breakup does that to you. A er every breakup, you come out, if slightly bruised, tougher and stronger than ever. Four breakups old Sukriti, 21 tells us, “With him no longer beside me, I am required to be more independent. I get immense satisfaction and pride from the fact that I am on my own and doing very well. Of course, I miss him at times, but the sense of accomplishment about makes up for it.”

JULY  | TEENZ  Case 1: A friend, who seemed oh-so-happy in a relationship until yesterday, casually tells you she’s broken up. “It was mutual.” she says. She pretends to smile. Case 2: A best friend calls you in the middle of the night to tell you she’s been dumped. Over the impossible NTC static and her crying and wailing, you ask the reason and strain to hear. She cries louder. Case 3: The girl in the seemingly perfect relationship, whom you’d always seen with him, is happily walking alone in the street. You meet and ask her how he is doing. She says, “Oh, we broke up.”, a case 1 nonchalant response. “But you were such a nice couple. What happened?” “I wanted to be free.” she smiles. f you’ve ever faced any of the Breaking above, or even their slight into Ivariations, you know how a typical breakup is, and all the madness it ensues. Streams of clichéd “Men are dogs/ She wasn’t that hot breakups anyway,” dialogues from friends and (if the movies are to be believed) unlimited scoops of ice-cream is With many teenagers getting into a relationship what follows.  ere is also the silent today and a new one the next day, breakups stalking and wishfully waiting for something to happen from the other these days come cheap. But do teenagers side. Until one of them moves on, and then fi nally, so does the other. realize the gravity of what they’re doing when But that is it perhaps. To the they terminate (or even get into, for that matter) Hollywood and Bollywood fed teenagers of Kathmandu, who see Ranbir Kapoor relationships? TEENZ explores. and Deepika Padukone dance before they By: Liza Paudel are 10, or see Di Caprio make steamy love to Winslet the fi rst time they watch case 3 an English fi lm, the idea of relationships and “love” is highly romanticized. When you see gooey eyed couples on pre y much every channel on TV, constantly hear songs about “the one” and even read about it in books, doesn’t that seem a tad bit tempting than, well, say math books and schoolwork? “When you’re in a relationship, you have this go-to person, to whom you can open up to. You’ll always have friends but there is always a distance there. In a relationship, there is no such distance, you are comfortable with them and best of all, you are the priority.” says Prajwal, a 19 year old. “When you break up, you lose that company, and that is

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knowDid you Every year 15 million children die of hunger. Count Eating your blessings Teenz readers, you’re not one of them. Respect your body, nourish Disorders it well. Eating disorders refer to a group of conditions defi ned by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insuffi cient or Anorexia Anorexic people have a strong fear of excessive food intake to the detriment of an gaining weight and a false idea of their individual’s physical and mental health. body size.  ey hardly eat in the fear of weight gain and the li le amount of food intake becomes an obsession. Teens with anorexia restrict their food intake; they go on extended diets, fasts and exercise excessively.

Bulimia Bulimics o en eat large amount of junk food at once. A er eating they then try to reimburse in extreme ways by forced vomiting and intense exercising to prevent themselves from gaining weight.  is can be dangerous both physically and emotionally as this leads to compulsive behaviors that are very hard to stop.

True Story

Nicole Richie In 2007, a treatment center stated that the then 25-year-old Nicole Richie was in possible danger of losing her fi rst baby if she did not get help from an anorexia treatment center. Her battle with anorexia along with alcohol and cocaine abuse put her and her unborn child’s life in danger. With needed medical and psychological assistance, however, she then gave birth to her fi rst baby daughter Harlow and Nicole is now reportedly working her way out of the eating disorder crisis that almost proved lethal to her.

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JULY  | TEENZ  Pathsala CANTEEN TALK

Siraj Mani Acharya Amarjeet Bahadur Thapa Bardan Shrestha Money Talks We asked six Shuvatara students how they felt about pocket money. All about money from the kids themselves.

TEXT: BONITA S. BASYNAT

Jenny Shrestha Aditi Nepal Sasha Chaudhary

 TEENZ | JULY  What are the things that you usually spend If you cannot get your money from your on? fi rst source who do you ask? Sasha, Aditi and Jenny: Its Aditi: If I can’t ask my mom again, I usually ask my father for usually recharge card because money. even though they give it to us monthly, its never enough. Jenny: Yes, Its easier to make my dad give me money. A er the recharge card, its food, Sasha: A er my parents, my Phupus (aunts) usually give me movies, books and other outings. money. I don’t even need to ask they’ll just tell me to keep it and Siraj, Bardaan and Amarjeet: For I save it. us it is usually the taxi fare, food Bardan: Its usually my grandmother, she just loves me a lot. and colognes as well. We spend more on transportation, especially Amarjeet: Even for me, its my grandmother because she trusts when we miss the school bus. me a lot.

How do you get your pocket money? On a monthly basis or whenever you ask for it? All: We usually ask for the money, we never really have the monthly basis thing except for recharge card issues.

How do you think money should be given to children? When you ask for Aditi: I think it should be given when we ask for it. It is easier. money, do your Jenny: Yes, when we ask for it but they should give us some bonus parents ask you to money as well. It’s hard being a teenager and not having money do something, any sometimes. household chores Sasha: I believe monthly allowance is also fi ne but they need to that you need to understand that we sometimes may need it in advance ☺ sometimes. fi nish? Bardaan: (laughing) It should be both! Monthly and also when we Aditi: No, not really. My room need it. is a really big mess anyways and she is always telling me to Sijan: It should be given to us when we ask for it. clean it. Amarjeet: I wish there was some type of reserve where they could Jenny: No, not really. keep money and we could just take it from there. Not o to them everytime.

JULY  | TEENZ  Pathsala COLLEGES TO EXPLORE

Of Randolph and America ugust 9th, 2010:  e day I my immigration documents, I was I was really fascinated to see how le Nepal and made an fi nally on my way to start my new ife. nothing was ever le to chance. e exit to see the wonderful Although I had a premonition orientation was not by any means a world. a er seeing the cornfi elds that I mere social event. It was very well A might end up staying in the middle designed and I can’t imagine how Hours later, I fi nally landed in of it for the next four years, I was things would have gone for me had Dulles Airport, Virginia. It was a however, spellbound by the amazing it not been for the information I got very long and tiring fl ight from natural beauty of Lynchburg, Virginia. during that week. Kathmandu to Doha and from  e city was a mixture of forests, Coming to America was about Doha to fi nally Virginia. My fi rst farm fi elds, industrialized buildings, adaptation and confi dence. But, view of the Virginia plains from amazing downtowns and just plain life slowly came to shape when the window of the tiny plane that “awesomeness”. the semester started- meeting new brought me to the airport was one of Sure, I was, nervous and excited friends, ge ing to know professors, strangeness. I was mentally prepared to see my college. Regaining a li le American culture, a ending for skyscrapers, high rise buildings bit of a courage, I started to look for lectures, enjoying abstract topics and a lot of street noise.  e actual the entrance gate where I would be of eccentric lecturers ; all gave me experience of cornfi elds and grain welcomed. Fortunately, it didn’t take interesting new insights. I gained towers was therefore surprising. A er me long to fi nd it.  e next day kicked a be er understanding of culture the US Department of State processed off with a week long orientation. and tradition and earned a close

 TEENZ | JULY  experience with diversity since I was of photographs of my friends 24/7, uploading some random pictures, fortunate enough to have friends (Did I mention that I have this and enjoying the comments on them. from China, Vietnam, Korea and ‘thing’ for photography?), eating  e best I can think of social Russia among others. like a hamster and working like life for now is the ‘Daisy Chain’ Although, the academic life has a donkey.  e end of the fi rst event that commences right before been very challenging so far, as the semester brought winter vacation graduation for it involves no alcohol. college has a lot to off er.  e system which turned out to be the most  e clean event is about sophomores of General Education encouraged exciting moment of my stay here. singing goodbye lullaby to their me to stand out as a ‘human’ with I visited my grandparents and seniors and expressing their love knowledge in many fi elds. Surprising uncle in California where I got the for them. I loved this event not just enough was the fact that I had to opportunity to see San Francisco because the photos turned out great, take classes like American History, and a lot of other great places.  e but also because I felt that I had Gender Studies, Geography, Physical second semester started the same another bond with the college. So Education and Literature- the classes way, ended the same way as did much for college socialism. which had never interested me in my the fi rst semester, and I am now A er ten months, I still fi nd life. But I took it as a challenge. enjoying the cool spring breezes. myself heading over to the driver’s Although I was in Randolph to One of my greatest progresses side (which is the passenger’s side study Environment Science, taking worth mentioning in the second in Nepal) when a friend picks me other subjects such as Psychology semester is photography again, up. It might sound weird, but I still and Economics helped me a lot. I where I decided that I’d do a 365 say “li ” rather than “elevator” or challenged myself to take up seven days photo challenge which meant “footpath” than “sidewalk”. I’ve learnt classes in the fi rst semester itself and that I had to take one photo every many new I was brave enough to have a few day and upload it. I have been words (“I know right?”), but the of my A-level credits transferred to doing good so far , in fact just nuances of “geez”, “nerd” continue the college, which meant that I could fi nished uploading my 47th photo. to elude me. I still can’t digest the graduate early. Talking about the social life, environment where students eat  e semester passed with despite a few valiant a empts, I during class time, and I’m still preparing papers, research reports have never been able to follow the ge ing used to living on my own. It’s and si ing for exams which was tradition of drinking in college. It summer time, and just thinking that then followed by good grades too. I constantly reminds me that I am an I need to cook on my own gives me was academically strong, was doing outcast because I am always in the grudges and makes me miss home good in photography, taking loads corner of my room, using Facebook even more. To summarize, I gained a lot of experience. I’m learning how “DAISY CHAIN” AN EVENT THAT to live independently, I’m ge ing COMMENCES RIGHT BEFORE GRADUATION opportunities to meet new people from diff erent cultures and I’m IS ABOUT SOPHOMORES SINGNG ge ing professional opportunities concerning my career. I cherish the GOODBYE LULLABIES TO THEIR SENIORS, circumstances that granted me this IS THE ONE EVENT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE. opportunity and I shall continue to make the best out of it.

JULY  | TEENZ  Pathsala USEF Advising You from Start to

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JULY  | TEENZ  Reader’s Stop FICTION

At the slope of Everest he blindingly gushing wind le with the brutality of loneliness, torrent of unrelenting pain. And had made it impossible for panic, and despair. And he knew even before he realized, he had slept Dorje to make any sense of that trying to go down, without any his second day half buried, hopeless reality as he stood taking assistance of his friends, without any at the slope of Everest. His life was deepT breaths at the slope of Everest. mountaineering gear, without the fading away. As he looked down the same track assertion of visibility, meant death. Dorje had a life full of dreams and that he had taken to come that far,  is was why he knew that he had hopes. He dreamt of a good education, searching for his lost friends, all he no other option but to search for his a good family and loving children. He could see was the devilish stare of the friends. A er all, he could not give had hopes of running a medical post cold. up on them. and a school in his hometown and of Dorje loved climbing.  e Surviving Everest isn’t something developing his rural village. But his exhilaration he felt when his face that just about anyone can do. biggest dream was probably what was splashed by the icy cold wind, Every year, many people lose their many of us would think is too tough the thrill of being able to enjoy lives while trying to conquer its to be a ainable- he wanted to climb the amazing view from the top of treacherous steeps or cross over its the highest mountain on earth. And the summit and the sheer sense precarious crevices. he had the zeal for it too. Born to the of dominance and triumph a er But his heart had been constantly renowned Sherpa clan, Dorje had been brought up into a family that considered climbing Everest as the ultimate test, a WALKING OVER THE THICK BLANKETED true testament to their heritage. He had SNOW HAD ALREADY MADE HIM WEAK. HIS gathered fi ve of his friends; all of whom shared a common desire of reaching the LEGS WERE DEAD AND SO WERE HIS HANDS. top of the summit . But there he was, le alone, with reaching atop, had motivated him to pounding with fear for the past two nothing but his hope to console him. climb the summit “in his backyard”. days. He had been surviving only Half buried in the snow and his food But triumph and dominance was with a small can of food and a bo le and water fi nished, he knew time was not what he had in his mind when of drinking water, which he had slipping away. He gasped for every he tucked his head under the cover kept in case of an emergency. By last breath of air hoping for a miracle, of his thick shielding jacket; his crouching his head and body inside a shine of bright light among the dark hands, blue and dreary, his whole the warmth of the furry jacket, he shadows of gloom. In the horizon the body shivering with insurmountable had avoided the wind, the snow, sun had begun to set, sinking another cold. He knew he was in big and the loneliness. Searching for day of desperation, despair, and hope. trouble. For the past two days, he his friends for two whole days had As he watched over the had been in search of his friends. taken its toll on him. Walking over spectacular sunset, he took a Struck by an avalanche, the sheer the thick blanket of snow had already moment to soak up the beauty of force of nature had blown him and made him weak. His legs were dead his surroundings. As he took his last his fi ve-member expedition team and so were his hands. Even an inch breaths, he was happy to know that away. Dorje had survived but was of movement gushed in an incredible his dream had been fulfi lled a er all.

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Group 2, the Red Dragons drove up to talking and ge ing to know each other Kakani and started their trek. be er. A ferocious thunderstorm roared A er walking 8km uphill and at us in the middle of the night and downhill, we arrived at our campsite since our campsite was on a hilltop, at Patesaura, although by the time we we had to evacuate to a nearby scout reached, heavy rain had started pelting building, where we slept through the down. It was very diffi cult pitching thunderous night. tents in the rain but the students A er breakfast the next morning, we worked very well together and walked to the  ai Memorial Park where succeeded in pitching a perfect tent. we watched a few of the groups perform Working together they fi xed a brilliant their presentation. “A memorable trip,” meal of meat-sauce and spaghe i too. said Narayan Silwal as we made our A er dinner, the students went to their way down to Kakani, “I’ve learnt a lot of respective tents, leaving everything survival skills and I think it’s experience quiet and dark, le ing the fi refl ies shine that’s a be er teacher than a book . We stopped for a quick lunch of bread out. It was then that we realized that and cheese with mayonnaise and jam, we were camping among fi refl ies, in a where the Red Dragons passed us by, fi eld of glowing lights. making their trip to our fi rst campsite at We woke up the next morning to Patesaura. “I loved walking with Nature, the smell of fresh air and beautiful fi elds I liked how the city opened up below me and I loved how close I seemed to the mountains. I learnt a lot during this hike, like learning how to function well in a group and how to cook well,” says Salora Ghimire, catching a moment to watch the waking Kathmandu Valley below. A er a long tiring walk, we reached the scout camp at Tinpiple and got ready to pitch the tents as fast as possible fearing the rain once more.  e students had been given books on various topics ranging from Worst Case Scenarios to the Plants and Animals of the Hills, on which they were expected to give a presentation.  ey spent some time preparing their presentation a er And just like that, the trip was over. the poles of the tents had been fi xed.  e brilliance of the morning, the A er the work on their presentation majesty of the mountains and the cool had been substantial, we started to rejuvenating taste of the water from the cook a fi lling dinner of rice with lentil waterfall, all obscured by the polluted curry and vegetables. Satisfi ed with air of the Kathmandu city. I enjoyed our cooking, we dined under the stars, the trek and I know the students did too, even through all the rain. Back at IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT the Initiative Outdoor offi ce, the Steel PITCHING TENTS IN Dragons had their go at abseiling. I met of white grass that the locals call “Siru”. with my group one last time, thanked We cooked a breakfast of halwa, ate it THE RAIN BUT THE them for showing me a good time with bread and cheese and got ready to because a trip is as good as the people leave by 10. A er a brief clean-up of our STUDENTS WORKED you travel with. And as I le , the crisp campsite, we got ready to walk 16km to VERY WELL TOGETHER smell of the fresh air came back to me, Red Dragon’s fi rst campsite at the Scout the white peaks of the mountains staring Camp at Tinpiple. An enjoyable walk AND SUCCEEDED IN back at me fl ashed across my memory where the weather favored us and the and the people I traveled with fi lled up students enjoyed stopping by plants of PITCHING A the cockles of my memory and I couldn’t “aisalu” and savouring the small berries. PERFECT TENT. help but smile to myself.

JULY  | TEENZ  QUIZ Relationship

What would you do if someone was messing with him/her? Meant to Be Give the person a mean look a and then walk away. or Not Let it slide and tell him it’s not b a big deal at all. Meant to Be c Stand up for him/her.

Are you in love? Do you disagree in Have you been on and off numerous every decision you make or does he/ times in this relationship? We have talked about taking a she complete your sentences? Are a break, but have not done it yet. you confused if he/she is “the one” b On and off, on and off and on. or not? Take the relationship quiz and We have been ‘ON’ the whole time. If c you are going to be off and on, you do get an idea. not deserve such a relationship

When you fi rst met, what attracted What usually happens when you have a you to each other the most? difference of opinion or an argument? We both thought the other was good looking and We are both very stubborn. a seemed like a nice, fun person to hang out with. a Big fi ght! The fact that we clicked After an argument, we either drop the topic or b physically very quickly. b act lke we are agreeing with each other. We seemed to fi t together. When we talked, we We discuss why we feel a certain way and try to learn c realized how our interests and beliefs matched. c from our differences. Making up is the best part.

MOSTLY As MOSTLY Bs MOSTLY Cs May be May Not Be Not Meant To Be Must be – You and your partner are perfect for eachother HIS QUESTIONS…HER ANSWERS Relationship

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Whenever I walk around down to socially accept- of man-hand-holding is wallet. I bet there are as Kathmandu, I see many able means of bonding and actually quite common and many girls who think he is girls walking around establishing intimacy. I’d publicly accepted in parts a jerk as are there willing holding hands. It is very hold hands with my best of Asia! To sum up, it’s to go out with him. I’d weird for us guys to hold hands because of being friend, same as you’d pop culturally “okay” for girls certainly get impressed called the G-word. Why a can of beer with yours. to hold hands because it is by a guy’s money- if he is it that it’s okay for girls But, to be totally honest, a not a threat to our gender has earned it himself, for to hold hands and walk sizable number of men (yes, identities- no such thing as it refl ects characteristics around fl aunting it? adult men) in Nepal walk a “G-word”, as you put it, like hard-work and skill, I bet when you meet your around holding hands, or a “L-word”, for that mat- whereas there is close to “bro’s” you shake hands. some with pinkies daintily ter, follows. nothing less impressive So why is shaking hands tangled together. And some than a man who blows and relatively weird for girls exposure to Russell Peters, I have a friend who is shows off money his par- and why do guys walk provided you trust him, very rich, and has lots ents earned. In conclusion, around fl aunting it? Same would have you informed of girlfriends. I try to ask don’t worry, we are woo- him to give me tips on reason, my boy: it just boils that this phenomenon ed by things many and impressing girls and all he tells me is that girls varied- sense of humor hhave a very weak-spot for and humility, good looks mmoney. Is this true? Do and charm, and an occa- It is not a mystery how guys are easily attracted to ggirls get impressed by sional naiveté like yours girls physically, but I’ve always wondered if girls are mmoney? that makes you ask such at all attracted to us, boys, in a physical way. Do they TwoT words: hell no! “Girls” cutely innocent questions! just notice our personality and stuff like that? Didn’t Justin Beiber make a million ladies misty with dod not get impressed by money;m gold-diggers do. I have seen my sisters shop a fl ick of his blond hair? Didn’t Leo DeCaprio do the as a hobby or pastime. Girls YourY friend cannot gener- same years ago in Titanic? Of course, we can get seem to be so into it, but I attracted to a guy solely based on his looks, although alizea women-kind as dupes really can’t understand this girls might not be as vocal about it because in our forf dough, although a behavior. Why is shopping country at least, girls are encouraged to be sexually fractionf of us may con- so important to girls? shy. But that does not mean we don’t have crushes on sciouslys be. I’d guess your One of the universe’s Jake Gyllenhall in Jarhead because of his rock-hard friendf intrinsically a racts abs; or Christiano Ronaldo’s muscular legs do not unsolved mysteries. Really, girlsg who are interested in sometimes, even I wonder make one or two of my girl friends swoon every couple moneym because his main of days. We do check out (and appreciate!) a sturdy why. anda perhaps only way of pair of arms, a broad back, or a gorgeous smile, approachinga them is by If you have any guy related although we do search for qualities beyond that. query, send it to editorial@teenz. thet thickness of his … um, com.np

JULY  | TEENZ  Train of Thought

come into play once you’re an adult, like which college I’m going to go to, what am I going to be once I grow up, In Your will I be fi nancially sound if I go for an artistic course? You get weighed down by everything in the future and we get so caught up in life that we forget all about the li le happiness that lurks within, here in the present. I say that I’m that kind of Eyes person who enjoys living in the present and things will eventually work out but I know deep down that, that’s not true. I have to think about what I want to study and what I want to be and when I end of anxiety kicks in, frustration grows erasing away what li le of that childhood innocence I had. I met my friend a few days back, all grown up and beautiful. We cha ed how amazingly innocent our childhood was and how we missed it. She was still as lively as I remembered her, still as cheerful as always but I noticed that her eyes weren’t as bright as they used to be. I noticed how the electricity in her eyes wasn’t there anymore, how now I could see the innocence dying in them as well. But I guess what keeps you remember a girl when I was young, a girl with bright eyes I MET MY FRIEND A FEW DAYS BACK, who I used to play with. Our ALL GROWN UP AND BEAUTIFUL. WE parents were friends and we’d CHATTED HOW AMAZINGLY INNOCENT meetI o en, on our birthdays and on OUR CHILDHOOD WAS AND HOW WE our family night outs. She’d always MISSED IT. SHE WAS STILL AS LIVELY AS be there with her bight blazing eyes and now even my failing memory I REMEMBERED HER, STILL AS CHEERFUL refuses to remove what li le memory AS ALWAYS BUT I NOTICED THAT HER EYES I have le of her. I remember her eyes, WEREN’T AS BRIGHT AS THEY USED TO BE. most distinctively than anything else, those eyes that refl ected the electricity collection of water with uncountable going is realizing that there is happiness of the city that refl ected everything our numbers of tadpoles swimming around. in people, that there is a sliver-lining to childhood together was. Maybe I had Together we used to make up stories, for even the darkest of clouds. And I guess eyes like those then, but all I see now is each tadpole, sometimes even venturing that why we hold on to memories, li le a sha ered man looking back at me. further and trying to grab some, but fading pictures to remind us of how Magic, I guess, is what we lose now I’m older, I must learn to put there was this electricity in between all while growing up. Everything seemed childish things to rest. It hurts me to see of us as a child, how there was magic in so new when I was young, so full of how with adulthood we learn to trade everything and how our eyes could see wonder. Building up a story for even the our li le magic for facts and science. it and refl ect it. I guess innocence is one smallest of things and fi nding beauty How the brilliant shining dots in the of the biggest things you losegrowing up, in the li le details. I guess that is what night sky are just huge balls of fi re and the electricity and the magic unraveling the electricity is all about, I guess that how tadpoles are just the infant form of even in a city like Kathmandu. is what our eyes refl ect, the innocence. frogs, nothing supernatural about them  ere was a pond I used to visit with at all. I guess a lot of diff erent events my friend when I was young, a small

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1. Parbeena Thapa, 22 I’ll take all my I would rather try to valuable things and extinguish the fi re run to a safe place.

2. Sonam Dolkar, 22 9. Roshan Shah, Cell phone (to call the 21 fi re brigade) I would take my house out of fi re. 3. Pallawi Thapa, 21 Nothing! I’d just check 10. Janak Singh 9 10 if everyone’s out of the Dhami, 20 14 house. Simple ☺ ECS Living & Teenz 4. Smita Khanal, 21 I would take my family 11. Zenita with me as they are Tamang, 19 very important to me. I’ll take one step to call fi re brigade to 5. Sujita Amatya, 21 save my house. My photo album 12. Utsav 6. Sumit Chhetri, 22 Shrestha, 20 I’ll take whatever I Everything think is important at 11 12 that time. 13. Rajendra 15 Pakuwal, 20 7. Racchya Pradhan, Books and pen 21 I would take my 14. Jayanti cell phone and call Maharjan, 21 emergency rescue. Cell phone

8. Pawan Raj 15. Garima Bajracharya, Rajbhandari, 19 Cell phone

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16. Jenishma Sitaula, 18 ‘The Other Sides of My most expensive pair Midnight’, an impressive of shoes novel.

17. Sazada Shrestha, 19 31. Shrawan Bhattarai, Mobile phone 20 Save my family members 18. Aanchal Wagle, 18 Mobile 32. Sushovan Makaju, 40 22 19. Eachhya Shrestha, I will take whatever I’ll 33 34 21 fi nd fi rst. A tent to stay as I wont have a house to live 33. Binu Tiwari, 20 My childhood photographs 20. Sonika Pokhrel, 19 Cell phone 34. Ashish Subedi, 20 Teenz magazine 21. Ayusha Dahal, 19 41 Laptop 35. Rabin K.C, 19 Important documents 22. Jasmine Pradhan, 18 36. Pratigya Sharma, 20 My cell phone Nothing is as important as my family’s security; 35 36 23. Samrita Malla, 18 I’d make sure I take them Mobile phone along with me.

24. Suraj Oli, 37. Moleesha Joshi, 19 Clothes My guitar 42

25. Sajan Shrestha, 19 38. Shristi Hatuwal, 18 My academic certifi cates I would defi nitely want to and my photo gallery take my family away.

26. Kamal Raj Gadtaula, 39. Geetanjali Bhatta, 20 20 My fi rst valentine gift My passport and academic certifi cate 40. Anu Maharjan, 19 37 38 Cell phone 27. Roshan Thapa, 18 43 My daily diary and photo 41. Sujan Bhujel, 20 album Nothing is as special as my guitar 28. Tapish Agrawal, 20 Money 42. Rajeep Byanjankar, 20 29. Abishek Bhura, My laptop and camera Nothing 43. Sneha Shrestha, 20 30. Nawaraj K.C., 21 My Burberry coat

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44. Anu Byanjankar, 20 58. Samriddi Shrestha, Cell phone 20 Cell phone 45. Picka Singh, 20 Photo album 59. Sudip Thapa, 20 My boxers 46. Khush, 20 My laptop with CS setup 60. Diwakar Ojha, 20 CD Oxygen pump

47. Rajat Sharma 61. Sushant K.C, 22 Subedi, 20 Mobile phone 62 63 The gifts and prizes I 69 have received till today 62. Amar Shahi, 22 Mobile 48. Bibek Shrestha, 20 My football posters 63. Bijay Shrestha, 23 Guitar 49. Shreya Shrestha, 17 64. Sushila Maharjan, Cell phone so that I 22 could inform my relatives My purse

50. Meleena Shrestha, 65. Ritesh Shrestha, 23 18 My certifi cates My photo frame 64 65 66. Ranjana Thahaliya, 70 51. Rajen Shrestha, 29 Photos of my friends and Laptop family 67. Sangita Maharjan, 52. Dipesh Shakya, 21 19 My bag T.V 68. Sushant Ghimire, 53. Rojeep Man 18 Kayastha, 20 Laptop. It has all the My life necessary things for my bright future. 54. Amit Shrestha, 20 66 67 Football kit 69. Arun Ranabhat, 19 71 My patience 55. Naina Bataju, 19 My family photo 70. Dipika Joshi, 19 Gold ring that my 56. Siddhi Adhikari, 20 grandfather gave me My life before he passed away

57. Saurav Bhattarai, 71. Madhu Sudhan 20 Shrestha, 21 PSP My coin collection

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Many children fi t with ADHD bene from competitive sports. “I’m just different in the water,” says Michael Phelps. So if you’re the one with ADHD , fear fi rst not, see it as an opportunity to perhaps bring Nepal’s Olympic medal. Get cracking in on that sports you Attention love. Defi cit Hyperactive Disorder(ADHD) ADHD is a neurobehavioral disorder which is commonly seen in children and adolescents. ADHD includes excessive hyper activity including ina ention, apparent listening problems, and diffi culty following instructions, avoidance or dislike of tasks that require mental eff ort, distractibility, and forgetfulness in daily activities.

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Michael Phelps, the 25-year-old Olympic swimming sensation is famous for his incredible focus in the pool, so it’s hard to believe he has struggled with ADHD since his childhood. His teachers complained about his inability to sit still until, in fi fth grade, the Phelps’ family physician diagnosed him with ADHD. After two years on medication, however, doctors agreed to let him be med free and instead, Phelps used swimming to help him fi nd focus.

JULY  | TEENZ  Depression When people frequently start thinking about sadness, guilt and worthlessness, a lot more than what they’re used to, it is marked as depression. Depression also comes along with loss of appetite, withdrawal from the outside society and lack of interest in regular activities. It is an emotional state and is usually triggered by diff erent types of stimulus. Depression usually comes along with other problems like substance abuse and personality disorders. Depressed people also have a tendency to completely neglect personal hygiene.

True Story In an interview in 2003, singer Sheryl Crowe discussed her struggles with depression. Crowe suffered from long bouts of depression as a child. Crowe believes that her depression is the result of a genetic chemical imbalance .She says that she has severe mood swings, After completing a tour with Michael Jackson, Crowe fell into a period of depression that required treatment using antidepressants and psychotherapy.

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And like Sheryl Crowe who channeled her bouts of depression into composing songs, making her one of the most celebrated country artiste in the music world, we suggest that you do the same. Not necessarily make music but start working at expressing more of what’s inside of you rather than suppressing it.

 TEENZ | JULY  Bullying  e Merriam-Webster dictionary defi nes the term bully as, “One who is habitually cruel to others who are weaker.” Studies show that people who are abused by their peers are at risk of mental health problems such as low self-esteem, stress, depression and anxiety.  ey are also likely to think more about suicide more.

Physical: Some bullies a ack their targets physically, Cyber: Any type of bullying that is carried which can mean anything from shoving or tripping out through an electronic medium such as text to punching, pinching, scratching or hi ing, or even messages, video clips, phone calls, e-mails or chats sexual assault.  ey make take things and never falls under cyber bullying. return it or return it damaged. Emotional and Psy ological: When students Verbal: Here the bullies make insulting, sexist or spread nasty, falsestories about someone and make homophobic jokes, tease them and create nasty them the subject of malicious rumors, exclude gossips about their victim.  ey also use sexually them from social groups and black mail them, it is suggestive or abusive language and off ensive remarks. called emotional and psychological bullying. Verbal abuse is the most common form of bullying.

Mean Smart Up Tip behavior among kids is a universal problem. Every child is susceptible to bullying which A poll conducted for kids means you are too. So, buckle up and tackle this in kindergarten through 8th problem head on. Remember that this is one life grade at an elementary school, you’ve got and you shouldn’t live it in fear and showed how every child claimed submission.  ere are plenty of people around to have been the victim of at you who will gladly help you out if you just least one schoolmate’s or ask them for it. Take your guardians, your best sibling’s meanness in the previous month. friends, your teachers as your allies here

JULY  | TEENZ  More than 60% of teens said that drugs were sold, used, or kept at their Drug school

BeAbuse it peer pressure or the sheer drive to try something new just for fun or to experiment, teenagers are the most vulnerable and therefore highly likely to give in, to drug abuse.  ese misused drugs include marijuana, alcohol, cocaine and ecstasy, as well as prescription and over the counter medicines.  e greatest consequence of all–the most dangerous–is its dependence. Ge ing clean of drugs and alcohol can be one of the most challenging and confusing things to accomplish, especially for teens, but it is certainly not impossible.

True Story In their early twenties celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears have gone to rehab multiple times, have been behind the bars for drug intake, drunk driving and so on. Lohan who has visited rehab three times and was also jailed after being caught with cocaine, revealed she hit rock bottom and risked blowing her entire career via drug abuse. She lost all her movie contracts due to this problem and there was a phase when people could not trust her enough to work with her.

Smart Up Tip Drugs and alcohol abuse lead to Good thing, there are ways to get out dodged successfully and it is nothing good. So use your wise head of it. Talk to your guardians about it. possible to do so too, nothing and stay away from it and help your It’s never too late to start afresh, living will stop this from being the friends stay away from it too. Incase, if the teenage life that you deserve. best years of your lives. you did fall into its trap by your own profound stupidity or by peer pressure So there you go, the possible crisis  e team at Teenz wish all the fi rst step to ge ing out of it is by that may be brought about during of our teen readers the same. coming clean and accepting the fact those fun yet vulnerable teenage Safe and happy teenage years that you are indeed in big trouble. years. However, if all these crisis are everyone!

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“Creativity is in our genes,” says Mahima Shrestha, currently a +2 student at GEMS. Seeing her room, adorned with creations and crafts that she along with her sister Prathana and her grandfather made, one cannot help but agree! Sharing the room with her sister Prathana Shrestha, a 10th grader at Shuvatara, the sisters have made the room a niche of their own. BY: LIZA PAUDEL

 TEENZ | JULY  The hanger – a piece of wire—and this little dress was to make an invitation to a formal party at their school.

Curtains they made when they saw something similar while visiting a craft store six years ago, and were appalled by the unreasonable pricing: Rs. 120 per piece! Mahima’s favorite part of the room

Prathana’s favorite part of the room, the Piano steps Mahima came up with after watching Rajuchacha the movie. They measured the individual steps, drew the piano on each and taped it there. Who would’ve thought it wasn’t already there? CRAFTY

Pizza delivery boxes put to good use! DÉCOR

Inspired by the TV Show Art Attack, Mahima made this frame with the help of a little used aluminium foil.

Borrowed from the Christmas decoration at school!

Prathana’s teen idols: Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber.

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And as we walked On the 19th of May, the he true beauty of Red Dragon started from Nepal begins outside Kakani. I followed the Steel students of Gyanodaya Kathmandu. I’ve Dragons with facilitators heard a lot of people Chandra Ale, Jhaved Akhtar, International Residential sayT but I never knew how Anne McGuinness and Raju School, started a 3-day hike true it really was until I woke Gurung.  e Red Dragons up surrounded by clouds of were supported by facilitators from Shivapuri to Kakani. white and diamond peaks Rajesh Lama, Mahima Rai, gli ering in the distance. Prem Gubaju Bijay Singh and Here is what happened and Initiative Outdoor, an outdoor Binod Dahal. Each group was what they saw that brought adventure organization, took further divided into fi ve sub the students of Gyanodaya groups, each one consisting of out the magic of the hills. International Residential School one facilitator. out of the classrooms and into A er a short briefi ng on the BY PRAJESH SJB RANA the wild.  e students divided proper way of packing by Mr. into two groups, Red Dragon Ale, on  ursday, 19th of May, the and Steel Dragon, followed Steel Dragons le the Initiative a 3 day trail from Gudhagau, Outdoor offi ce at 10:22 and drove Shivapuri to Tinpiple, Kakani. up to Godhagau atop Shivapuri Steel Dragon followed the National Park and started the trail from Shivapuri whereas trek from there. At the same time,

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CONFESSIONS Reader’s Stop Clipped wings? Break free! he ideals of realism never and specifi c degrees.  is notion can Is it important to burden children with fail to cease people from be backed up as from early childhood. so called ‘life changing’ decisions? Why dreaming but there are some When asked of aims and aspirations, a can’t they go study music or art instead who still dare to run a er kid somehow manages to answer a big of the usual HSEB and A levels? Why is Tpure uncertainty.  ese dreamers have word. He either wants to be a doctor the system so strict? What is the whole that inner fi re but the world is a harsh or an engineer. It is quite clear; the point in studying Biology if you do not place to live in and the golden era of mentality people have developed is like the B of it? Everyone should be able ecstasy is dead.  oughts alone cannot so strong that it imprints on a child’s to make their decisions of what they feed people and money does not grow early years. Do the guardians actually want to learn a er thirteen years of on trees. People need a career and a preach lads to seek of positions? I don’t schooling, don’t you think? Guidance stable job and that is how the papers know but whatever they are doing, the is essential; I am not saying leave the fl ow, or that is what everyone thinks freedom to choose is under a ack. kids astray but at the end the power to at least.  e whole cycle seems to be so choose should be handed over. We are not breeding horses they traditional. In the past, there used to Coming back to desires, such say but almost everyone is lined up be family commotions over which yearnings have a strong foothold in the in tracks, and the eager eyes watch. branch of education to hang hearts of people and that is why they Expectations versus dreams; on to.  e subjects had are hard to let go. I once read in Paulo this competition goes their own social class. Coelho’s book,  e Alchemist, “ e soul on.  e interests of Science was grand, of the world is nourished by people’s the people revolve so it had the topmost happiness. And also by unhappiness, around capital priority whereas envy, and jealousy. To realize one’s commerce was treated destiny is a person’s only real obligation. to be satisfactory and All things are one”. Destiny is a diffi cult humanities was plain thing to grab but I think dreams are the nasty.  e learners start to it. Chasing the unknown can were more or less forced be depressing because the outcome is to take up the prioritized forever a maybe, but the whole point in fi eld of study and therefore these dreaming is waking up and working on uninterested candidates struggled hard it. It is the eff ort that actually counts and to get through. All they could do was if someone is willing to do that extra follow orders and imagine what life work, they must not be stopped. would be like if they were studying Life is all about living on the edge something that actually made sense and walking that extra mile for the to them. But again, wishes always most irrelevant things.  e day you contradict needs. open your heart and challenge your In our country, the pressure starts own conscience, you will feel liberated. a er grade ten. Is that even necessary? Society can chain hopes but you can always break free. If you are not happy with your job, get a career switch careers look for jobs in Honolulu? Who cares? You are never too old to dream, so spread out those wings and take your fl ight. Dream on. Interested ones can send in their articles at [email protected]

Lights Out QUIZ Test your trivia of the QUIZ ON entertainment industry ENTERTAINMENT BY: GAURAV THAPA

Which is the longest running television What is series in the United Angelina Jolie’s States? hobby? The Simpsons Collecting stamps Meet The Press Photography Saturday Night Live Collecting daggers 1 Good Morning America 2 Collecting babies What is the last recorded Beatles 3 ablum? What’s the full form of Let It Be LL Cool J, the rapper? A Hard Day’s Night Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road In which movie do Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith share the screen? 4 The Karate Kid 6 The Day The Earth Stood Still Lonely Luke Cool John The Pursuit of Happyness Ladies Love Cool James Men In Black Love Like Cool James Lucky Luke Cool Johnny

1. Meet The Press Meet The Press has been running on NBC News since 63 years till date. First aired on November 6, 1947, more than 4850 episodes have been telecast so far.

2. Collecting daggers This is 100 per cent true. Cooking is not Angelina Jolie’s cup of tea but accumulating knives defi nitely is. Angelina Jolie lives the image she has on screen in real life as well.

3. The Pursuit of Happyness Released back in 2006, The Pursuit of Happyness is a biographical movie based on an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker Chris Gardner (Will Smith) and his son Christopher (Jaden Smith). Which 4. Abbey Road cartoon Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band The Beatles. Though Let 5 It Be was the last album released before The Beatles’ dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the fi nal album recorded by the band. character is

5. Johnny Bravo this? Johnny Bravo is an American animated television series created by Van Partible for the Richie Rich Cartoon Network. The series stars a muscular beefcake young man named Johnny Bravo, who dons a pompadour hairstyle and an Elvis Presley-like voice and has a forward, woman- Popeye – The Sailor Man chasing personality. Johnny Bravo 6. Ladies Love Cool James Samurai Jack James Todd Smith, aka LL Cool J, is an American rapper and actor. He has released twelve studio albums and two greatest hits compilations, with his fi nal album being 2008’s Exit 13.

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Lights out HOROSCOPE Career Aries Gemini Leo March 21 to April 20 May 22 to June 21 July 23 to August 22

Aries is the sign of pioneers. You’ve got the gift of gab. Your Like lions rule the jungle, Leos love You always tend to be intense, silver tongue allows you to to rule the corporate jungle and take energetic and sharp. Your ability succeed in careers that involve responsibilities. You enjoy dominating to think fast and take quick communication. You will make others and careers where your leadership decisions will help you become wonderful diplomat, photographer, qualities can be utilized are the best. You a good scientist, engineer, teacher, preacher, writer, make a wonderful performer, speaker, researcher, doctor, psychiatrist journalist or lawyer. Also, since interior decorator, tour guide, lawyer and or dentist. You are not the you can sense the pulse of the doctor. As Leos have a seep-seated need one who will accept money people and move them with you to feel important and are competitive, as a compensation for living a superb speeches, politics may be you are known to be pretty arrogant and mundane life. a very good option for you. manipulative with others to reach your goals. Reecha Sharma July 16, Cancer Are you a true Cancerian? Did you always know that you wanted to be I am a true Cancerian. a model/ an actor? Yes, acting was, is, and will be my passion What are the traits of a typical Cancer, you always. think you own? I believe Cancerians are sensitive, Are you a believer in Astrology? moody, caring, ambitious, easily hurt, very I really believe in Bejan Daruwalla and imaginative, unforgiving, and hard working Sundeep Kataria’s predictions (both Indian and these are the quality I own too. astrologers). Ya to some extent I believe it but not fully.

Taurus Cancer Virgo April 21 to May 21 June 22 to July 22 August 23 to September 22 Since you know how to Being a Cancerian, you appreciate the beauty around are a creative thinker and The best careers for Virgo you, your sign suggests a have an excellent retentive are those that are service- wide range of interesting memory. You make oriented. You will fl ourish careers. Possible options an excellent journalist, as a good waiter, restaurant include beauty business, politician, social worker, manager, writer, critic, arts, architecture, sculpture, stock market executive, researcher, accountant, and banking and accountancy. housekeepers, chefs and teacher as you are realistic Alternatively, because you so on. You have a fl air for at workplace, think deep, are connoisseurs of nature, handling money and will do analyze people carefully and you would do great in fl oristry, well in any career related to have a practical approach to agriculture and horticulture. fi nance. doing things.

 TEENZ | JULY  wise Benjamin Pakhrin 22, Editor, Hotcourses Nepal goals, then I do my best to achieve Born: July 27, Leo, them no matter what.

Are you a true Leo? Did you always want to do I cannot say that I am a true Leo what you’re doing? but all I can say is I do feel like I I am happy with what I am doing right possess most of the qualities and now. As the editor for Hotcourses characteristics of a Leo. Nepal, I get a chance to help my fellow Nepalese students make better What are the traits of a typical Leo academical choices by providing that you think you own? information on studying abroad. I think I defi nitely have the leadership quality. Like the mighty lion, I am Are you a believer in Astrology? courageous and once I set my target/ I fi nd it intriguing. Libra Scorpio Sagittarius September 23 to October 23 to November 22 to October 22 November 21 December 21

As a Libran you are blessed with Scorpios are blessed with strong Sagittarians aim for high goals and analytical brains and have a sense reasoning powers and active have an endless thirst for knowledge. of fairness and justice so you make imagination. Your intelligence is You have a brilliant mind and are good judges, pr consultants and remarkable and the analytical extremely self-confi dent. You are good diplomats. Any work that requires capabilities and intuitive abilities at explaining the workings of various any type of manual labor is not your you posses are an asset to any things which makes you wonderfully type as you don’t like getting your organization. You will be a great stimulating teacher, doctors, public hands dirty. Your natural artistic fl air detective, surgeon, police offi cer, relations offi cer, entertainment will help you become successful researcher and lawyer as you do professional and salesperson. This gift artists, interior decorators, graphic well in jobs that require a great deal of of the gab also makes them excellent designers, painters and so on. concentration . preachers and lawyers. Capricorn Aquarius Pisces December 22 to January 20 to February 19 to January 19 February 18 March 20

Since you can handle situations You want to get out of the box. You are categorized as the most very calmly; people often look up Following the 9 to 5 humdrum creative and innovative group to you as a very responsible and routine is not what you want in of people. Professions requiring dependable person. Banking, your life. You look forward to adequate amount of analytical fi nance, accounting, medical- the have a job where everyday effort is what you desire to have. related jobs and law are some a different kind of challenge You would enjoy working as an of the career options where you stimulates your life. You would actor, writer, and graphic designer could easily excel. You work hard make a wonderful photographer, an artist. But, you are not the one and put a lot of effort to live up to musician, travel guide, who gets motivated by money. So, the expectations that others have researcher, scientist, journalist, business related career options from you. writer, and animator. aren’t really the best ones for you.

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