building a STORY of SUCCESS for INSPIRATION !!!

building a STORY of SUCCESS for INSPIRATION!!!


Dear Friends,

While just passing by or interacting with the people, I often come across few threads of concerns! Have you seen the movie “Enemy at the Gate”? And next is do you believe in the stories of success/heroes or whom and what do you look upon when you are working for any kind of direction? Well, for the first concern please watch that movie if you haven’t (the actor Jude Law has done a great job/justice in the film – a film based on World War -II). For the second concern, the answer could swing in either direction of 180 degree! It really depends upon the person, their attitude and flexibility.


About impressions, I would go for another Hollywood film – “Last King of the Scotland”! God!!! I can’t imagine how damn I was impressed with Forest Whittaker’s acting! He deserved anything for that acting and he won Oscar for that! I’m so impressed! I mean how people work so hard, honestly, enjoy it and do justice to their job. I meant to say we can see them and learn how our work should be taken and done in our life! So was with Leonardo De Caprio in “Departed” and “Blood Diamond” – showing the limit of one’s smartness, passion and zeal to their work (whatever it may be). I’m not movie fanatic but I got these lessons from these movies (some of them which I saw). Therefore, may be building stories of success helps other people to learn in their life and look upon.


About two years ago I was in the field Mechi Zonal Hospital, Jhapa district right after launching XENOMED. There when I was in the last rotation, I was in Ilam District Hospital, Ilam where I bought a tabloid magazine “WEB” in which I read about a man who is launching e-technology and helping school children and yak herders in Myagdi.


http://www.wavemag.com.np/issue/article76.html One of my friends who were doing public health and was fond of social work at altitude was stunned when I told him about this. I gave him the magazine and he was impressed. Then suddenly media coverage came with him winning “The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award” (Asia’s Nobel Prize ) for Community Leadership! http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Cita...tionPunMah.htm It was amazing! All the news media covering including BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1615454.stm !!! It is a great story of all – hard work, innovative idea, service to the remote area, and all.


The technology is amazing! I wrote a blog few months ago here about how accidentally I met one friend while adding my colleague Dr Sanjay Dhakal (xenomed advisor)! He is too Sanjaya Dhakal and while adding MSN ID, I happen to add this latter man – now my very good friend! http://www.xenomed.com/forums/blogs/...speration.html
Since then we have been in touch. We have talked and discussed many issues regarding health system, technology and its impact, Nepal Government, Nepalese people, Remote areas, foreign countries, career, Nepal’s political stability, working environment and all in gross. This man is doing Master degree in Telemedicine e-health from University of Tromsø, Norway (http://uit.no/informasjon/english). Very new subject and he has many fantastic ideas up his sleeves! I remember a French telemedicine expert giving a guest lecture in TUTH and the great ideas three years ago. Sanjay seems totally engrossed and determined with all that having better understanding.


He is currently holding the post of “Secretary General” in International Student's Union (ISU) in University of Tromsø http://www.student.uit.no/isu/index....d=13&Itemid=37. It shows his leadership as well. He time and again talked about this Mahabir Pun’s work and he has so much passion, interest and idea to work in Nepal – especially to those remote, backward and underprivileged communities. He recently talked to the Dean of Institute of Medicine and his professors about his idea! All are impressed and are ready to help – in words so far I guess! He has been preparing great proposals. He said IOM dean and Tromso University have agreed to work in collaboration. There could be many threads of collaboration in the future once it is established. I’m looking forward to meeting him and organizing a talk program in Nepal. May be he will be coming to Nepal very soon. Nepal should encourage such young bloods to develop the country in the better direction.


Let’s see !!!


Finally, do you think the moral education is limited to the primary and lower secondary school where we read of ideal things, stories of success/heros/gods/sin and all that? What about the stories of people like Mahabir Pun and the man who engineered Chilime mini hydroelectric project (if you haven’t seen it – Please Please visit it!!!) - "Dr Dambar Bahadur Nepali". It is wonderful piece of development)? Do you read autobiography? And so is Daya Bir Kansakar !!! So many, so many and so many !!!
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents...eb06/index.htm (read the headline : Capital salutes a doyen among social workers)

Thanks Sanjaya for your permission to write about it and you!


Best wishes,
mati