ENGT 102

Background Duwakot, a village with access to the crucial facilities for modern lifestyle, has a high dropout rate during the 10 th standard. Be it community, private or public schools, the village has got some of the finest schools in the city, but is still lagging behind in terms of education sector and the effect is seen prominently among the students appearing for the then "SLC", SEE exam. The guardians are also very much concerned and have tried to improve the education of their children through various coaching and tuition classes. The methods look flawless as the students and the guardians are trying their hardest efforts from their own sides. But still, the result seems to be unsatisfying as the performance of the students continues to decrease. There could be millions of reasons to be noted if the problem is to be dealt individually, which seems impossible, at least for the current time being. The most logical solution seems to be the addition of libraries in the...

 I love watching anime. Watching anime has been a part of my life since my childhood. I used to watch anime only for enjoying the fighting scenes when I was a child. I remember doing the hand signs used in one of my favorite anime, Naruto and saying "ino saru tori hitsuji.. Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" which basically was the technique to summon a giant animal and all these words which seem random are basically the Japanese words for different animals. But nowadays, I love to watch anime with some good information that would teach me a lesson, Even though I have a keen interest on watching anime, I have not been watching any for a long time. But one of the recent anime I watched was "NHK ni Youkoso!" which is kind of an old anime about people with social withdrawal syndrome. In this anime, the main character is a Hikikomori. Hikikomori is a Japanese term for defining a person who seeks an extreme degree of social isolation and confinement. In the anime, the main character, ...

  It's not surprising to see and find someone stronger overpowering over the weak ones. That's nature and it's been like that since the very Stone Age from which Homo sapiens have got through to this modern era and it just seems magical as there were many other fit creatures back then. We were just mere humans with the capacity to think logically somehow. As of now, human beings are the absolute predators and for us to be at the top of the food chain, it was not easy. There were many challenges that humans endured. They were challenged by the wild and naturally gifted carnivores, unknown diseases which could wipe out the whole human race and even by the nature itself during the harsh ice age that lasted for millions of years. Let's expect a scenario where a new creature arise and they become way more rational, logical and smarter than us humans. The result could be something that fits the concept of the "survival of the fittest". They would certainly overpowe...

Every aspiring gamers and even the real old gamers from 90s share a common thing in the field of gaming. They all know about a game, Counter Strike. At some point of their life, they must have been introduced to this game by their relatives or friends and what astonishing to this point of era is that the game has not lost its fan base. Instead, every gamers try to learn this game in order to improve their game sense or their raw aim in any other games. Counter Strike was originally a mod game for a then well-known game called "half-life". The game was based on the concept of two different sided teams as "Terrorists" and "Counter-Terrorists" where the main motive of terrorist-sided or basically T-sided team was to plant the bomb/C4 in one of the sites of the map and the motive of the Counter-Terrorists or CT was to not allow the bomb plant. The game was 5 vs 5 and it was really fun. The game developed its later version starting from Counter Strike 1.0 all...

Is it just me or people actually like winter more than the other seasons? Obviously, people's favorite starts with the spring season but I like to spend time in winter more than in any other season and here's why. Let's just skip the best of the best, the spring season as we cannot accept it any more to be the most favorable season. Let's begin with the Rainy/monsoon season. It is very calming to get some sleep during rainy afternoons and rainy nights. We get a different type of vibe during rainy season. It feels as if the nature is cleansing itself and the vibe just feels natural. We feel like our hearing senses are honed to maximum and it is actually true during the rainy days as the sound travels faster in moist air than in dry air and having tea during rainy season just feels exceptional. The main downside to this season is that we get allergies and even some infections if we spend most of our time in the rain. We get tired too fast as the chances of feeling aslee...

I still remember the first English class and I thought about trying to make a post-class reflection about it even though it has been a long time. It is still crystal clear in my mind. I was unsure about how our teacher would be like and I was also very worried that there were going to be more online classes to be attended from that day onwards. With heavy heart, I clicked the invited link for the meet and there I see our teacher sitting casually and chatting with my friends. I felt like he was a chatty person and was way more social than any of our teachers. He was trying to make us familiar to the class and he was asking for the introductions of each and every students according to our roll number. After a while, we found out that he had tried to connect to our few students to maintain the routine of the class but unfortunately, he was not able to do so. Most of the students had their mobile switched off and he got Mission Shrestha, our fellow classmate to inform us about the Engl...

Aug-14 This post-class reflection is being written after a long time and some ideas may be vague but I will try to include what I did on that day during our English class. It was Friday and we were up for the English class. There were going to be two presentations for the day and both belonged to literature. One of my closest friends was going to present about "The Stub Book" and the other presentation was about the text, "Adaptive Failure: Easter's End". We were eagerly waiting for the presentation and the class started after most of the students had joined the meet. The first presentation was about "Adaptive Failure: Easter's End" and to be honest I was not getting much of the text and I was scrolling the web to find a short summary about the text. I was partially understanding the text but at the same time I was left void at some situations during the presentation. I tried to cover that up with the summary I got after googling for a bit and I ...

Sept-02 I was having a rough day as the submission date for the engineering drawing was near and was busy drawing since the whole morning till the noon. I was just trying to get a short nap after I had my morning meal of the day but it was not going to happen as the English class was going to start within 30 minutes. I joined the meet and I found most of the students had already joined and our teacher was also there and he was asking who the presenters were for the day. There were two presentations in line and they were going to be presented by Mani and Jamyang combined and the next was going to be presented by Ayush. Our teacher put forward a question if some people really are Mr. Know All. I thought "Mr. Know All" was someone who corrects people immediately if they make any mistakes in a usual conversation. I had this vague idea and was unsure of it since I had heard "Mr. Know All" only once in a series "The Big Bang Theory" where a character, "S...

  October 20, Time: 9:43PM I was not in the mood to write today but today's events made me write about the day. It was just another day like usual but a bit colder. The whole day just passed without me accomplishing anything and I was trying to catch up with my studies by trying to complete my blogs for my English subject. I was trying to remember the events that took place during the classes about a month ago and surprisingly it was not as vague as I expected. I was fluent with my typing and I was feeling good. I wrote the post-class reflections and I also wrote a short story/ essay of the assignment of Dashain. Practically, I was not too late since today, is actually the last day of Dashain and people even put on "tika" till Purnima and I was still writing my Dashain assignment while it was still Dashain. The day passed with me playing one of the oldest games, "Clash of Clans" and I was feeling great as I was making huge progress in the game. In the evenin...

Bijay Shahi is a faker! I just watched a video where a man memorized a whole book and wrote some random pages of that book as asked by the interviewer. The way he expressed himself was laughable. Seriously, what is that sound he made while flipping through the pages? And the funniest part is that he has the interviewer pour down water for this, "memory king" to be able to flip through the pages faster. Anyone can guess that this is fake, but still this is going viral on media like its some sort of wildfire. I am trying to control myself but these uncertified YouTube journalists are going out of their way, trying to get popular with fake news. Now has come the situation where some people may think if these journalists actually are not trying to gain viewers by making some random guy do unrealistic tasks for them. Let's just hope that they are not. But it still brings us to some questions, "Are they out of their mind?" "Do these so called journalists know wha...

Aug-26   Today, it was a bit different from other days as I was going to present the topic "Keeping Errors at Bay" with my colleague, Rajaram Karki. We were excited and enthusiastic and apart from all, I was a bit nervous too for it was going to be my first presentation in my whole life. I had prepared for it by jotting down few key points that I would focus during the presentation. The class started and there were three presentations in the line. Luckily, we had our presentation allocated at the final slot and we were able to be familiar with the tense environment. We had our teacher evaluate our works. First came by the presentation about "Travel Report" and the thing I found interesting was the idea of Q and A session during the presentation. It really tested the attention of the students. I found the writing process and purpose of travel reports fairly familiar. I don't know how but it was somehow a derived portion of different report writing with the key ...

  We live in a world of three dimensions. It means that the physical objects around us have a basic geometry that includes length, breadth/width and height. We have the ability to perceive the things around us in 3D. We can imagine a world in one dimension where the objects can only move in a straight line. We can also imagine a world in two dimension where the objects can move in two directions and within that plane. No surprise, we are also able to understand and imagine the world of three dimensions, the very 3D world we live in. Now the confusion here are "Is there the fourth dimension? Can a universe of n-dimensions where n is any arbitrary positive number be possible? What would a universe greater than three dimensions look like?" To answer these questions, let's dig into a basic world of one dimension where any object can move only in a straight line. The objects/organisms in that dimension will have no concept of existence of a plane or a 2D world and hence they...

An alternative way to compete in the field of virtual gaming is the science behind the e-sports. The traditional way to compete in the outdoor or indoor games as a professional to making it a career was the only way to shine as a renowned player until 1990 when the growth of online video gaming became popular. It is required to be physically fit, young, skillful and have a good decision making capacity to be a well established player in the sports industry. The daily routine of an athlete would be to be on a healthy diet. go to gym, practice on the skill sets and develop a good teamwork. The main focus would be to maintain the body so that the stamina would not lag behind and be on a good form for the game. Now, with the platform to compete virtually in the games which people love to spend time on, a recent survey conducted by Limelight, according to Irish Tech News revealed that more young men now prefer to watch e-sports than traditional sports, with e-sports being their second most ...

It was just like every normal morning but the morning was scheduled with an English class. I was waiting for the link to be public to the students but due to some technical issues, our class did not start as planned. After a while, the link was provided and we joined the class. Our teacher looked happy. He told us that he had obtained the premium version of Zoom meetings and was happy. Just as he expressed his happiness, there was some technical issues and our teacher hanged up. After he joined again, he said, "It must be due to the some kind of update." It was planned that the students would present the topics selected for them. And here came our first duo, Abishek KC and Pujan Jangam. Pujan started the presentation with short introduction and all. It was followed by Abishek and he concluded the topic himself. We enjoyed the presentation but the it was not recorded. So, to keep a small portion of their presentation, Pujan was requested to do the introductory part once more a...

     Hello everyone! I am Sampurna KC and this post is an introduction to myself. By doing so, I believe that the ones following me would know about me and I am also trying to make myself familiar to blogging. It's my first time here and basically, this is my first post.       I am a student. My major is Computer Engineering. I am from Changunarayan, Bhaktapur and I live with my parents. They are supportive and caring. We are a family of five including my parents, my sisters and me. I joined a local school for primary and secondary education and I joined Capital College and Research Center(CCRC) for my high school. I spend most of my time watching anime and playing computer games. When I was gaming, I met a lot of people online. I was so competitive at one time that I even considered to play games as a career but that spirit faded as I grew up. Thinking back, I am pretty sure that I have been called by the names like "Scorpio19", "Madara", "TheZero19" ...