Ashu,

I have not seen or talked to Ashu for more than five years.

I came across your picture in Nepal Times, possibly the latest one.

You wears specs now. The mesio-distal, supero-inferior, lateral- verticle, dimention of your forehead has increased.

The chronological factor seemed to have taken some toll.

Could not tell by the size of picture if you have gray hair or not.

Seemed to have put on significant weight.

A fast receding hairline there eh, Ashu! :-) Hope all is well with you.

***
Thanks Shirish.

lahure

My hairline has not receded in a horseshoe pattern but hair has thinned out. I fear I wll begin from the vertex.

Who is Ashu?Is he a sajha user Ashu?What is his real name?

:-) Shrirish.. good one.

Talking about the pattern, I remember going to an barber shop once, run by a Jordanian who employed a few native/local hairdressers.. There was one mushy haired pot-bellied hajaam, who ruined my life! Almost! :-)

His idea of a simple sharp haircut was to do three curly stripes that ran horizontally above one's ears and over on to the back.. Sergeant's stripes he said. I had to intervene but by that time, his 'No 3' had reached the mid-point. I had him redo the cut, and alas, I ended up having one of those funny American crew-cuts. Well almost, so much to the delight of many! I stormed out of the place without having said thanks.. I paid him the dosh though. You've got to try hard to annoy me - jolly as I am but the barber git had got on my nerve massively this time. If I could, I would have easily battered the hell out of his fat buttock - I was that annoyed! :-) I never went back to the place again and never will.

Hope all is well. Okay bed time for me. Good night.
Carpe diem

I read the topic of this thread as "Ashu's New Book", really!

Ok needs new glasses! ;)

Hi Lahure, Ashu, Shirish--Happy New Year!

Sitara Sis,
howdy? Long tyam no see :))

When some of my friends (class mates from high school) had some grey hair, I thought I would never have grey hair.

When some of my friends from Ascol days, had receding hair pattern, I thought, I will never lose hair.

I was dead wrong, when one day, a barber told me that I have a very thin hair.

I was dead wrong, when one day, I saw many white hair on my right temple. Damn, I thought.

My naive and uneducated grandmother used to tell me keep my hair out of my fore head for lucky people have bigger foreheads. She did not have any reasons for that but she may have been right. Bigger fore head means more frontal lobe and more brain cells. But combing hair backward would not increase my intellect or be bhagyamani !

I had to wear specs at grade eight, when my vision was not even 20/30, forget about 20/20.

So what is all this? Genetics. I do not know since my fore fathers had the history of dying young.

So what is all this? Time. Yeah..time.

Now a days, I am so convinced by the saying:

Time Flies. Oh NO..Time stays we go. And I am going..going...and some day will be gone.

Also:

"Aging is mandatory and growing up is optional."

I have definitely aged but growing up process never seems to cease. I wish there is a parameter for measuring how much I have grown up.

may be those changes in me made me write this line:

समयका धर्काहरु लुकाउन, श्रृंगार फेरि रहन्छु !
मष्तिष्कको कसरत भनेरै, तिम्रो नाम केरि रहन्छु !

गतिमा या घुमी रहेको छु कतै, खाली एकै बिन्दूमा ?
आफ्नो अबस्था जाँच्न, बाटाका स्थीर बस्तु हेरि रहन्छु !


Ashu,
I hope you will not take things seriously by putting your picture. I kind of felt, I should not have done this. I am sincerely hoping your sense of humor will kick in.

Lahure,

I used to come back with total dissatisfaction every time I went for a hair cut. During student days paying 10.95 plus two dollars as tip was an expensive event especially when a possible trainee barber at Super cuts, spends less than two minutes clipping and not even using scissors to make the length of hair equal. They were too quick to say, "You are done".

No I was not. I needed to go home and try to trim hair that are sticking out of my ears.
Now a days I go to same Italian barbers.

Sitara,
welcome back. Where have you been?

Just sharing and celebrating one of many glorious moments from the past.

- http://www.sajha.com/archives/openthread.cfm?threadid=11736&dsn=sajhaarchive

Nepe

Glory to Bald-R-Us

"God only made a few perfect heads
And those are the ones He uncovered"


BALD HEADED MEN

Some men have a full head of hair;
With others there is a lack.
Those with abundance aren't always fair
And throw the bald ones a lot of flack,

Like---"an empty shack needs no roof",
Or---"granite grows no grass".
From such ones I stay aloof
For it sounds like belching gas.

To the first I say, "no roof lets in light,
Therefore, I'm not in the dark.
To understand is pure delight".
That stops that vile remark.

To the next remark I simply say,
"You could have let that statement pass.
As well as granite, a brain is gray,
And a busy street grows no grass".

So, listen, all you bald headed men,
Don't be ashamed of your dome.
Don't accept a blow to your chin
Just because you need no comb.

'Cause next I say what the smart aleck dreads
And all his remarks are smothered,
"God only made a few perfect heads
And those are the ones He uncovered".

- http://www.things-to-say.com/humor-clean/baldmen.htm

Oh god, we are all dying, aren't we? :P Shirish, what a thread you started! :)

Ashu must not be too thrilled at people using him as an example to discuss aging so I will refrain from commenting specifically on his new looks other than saying he looks very dignified in that picture :) But I will say is that even though I don't know him, I have seen his picture over the years in the Nepali Times, read his articles and seen him express his views on Sajha - and in the process have grown to like and respect him.

What I do want to comment on is some of the things Shirish mentioned in his musings. It is always a sombre experience, at least for me, to watch those around you age. I remember this one time that I met my dad after a few years and every strand of gray hair on his head hit me like an arrow. I guess when we watch near and dear ones age, at some level, it reminds us of our own frailties and the path ahead that we must all follow.

My friends and I have not yet hit graying time yet - it is still entirely black and mostly intact :) Touch wood! :D But we will get there and your comments stirred me up a bit because I realize there will come a time when we too will be asking the questions you asked and thinking the thoughts you thought. This is a bit cliched, and I wish there were other popular expressions for it, but I am reminded of an old quote "Count your happiness by smiles not tears, count your age by friends not years". :) If you can put aside the element of cheesiness in that quote for a moment, I feel there is a lot of substance behind those words, especially when I reflect on life and all the things that await us that we can never be too sure about.

Phew - some heavy stuff there. Glad to get it out of my system. Hope everyone's having a decent evening (or day ) where ever they are

To good life!

:)

Sirish et al,

Thank you.

This thread is funny, and am enjoying all your rib-poking humor.

My thanks to my lovely wife for her sustained gentle insistence that I replaced that old NT mugshot with
this new one :-)

oohi
ashu

Ok...the above poem had me laughing..I know a few domes myself!! ha ha...Am going to fwd it to some of em..

As for revealing Ashu's pic..really shirish..you shudnt have..Always imagined him to look like a cheeky bugger.. but he looks pretty stern in that pic. O well..Tis a funny thread I say.

gone with the wind.

Sitara,

Happy new year (the Chinese one?:) It seems that I do need to change my glass!

"My friends and I have not yet hit graying time yet - it is still entirely black and mostly intact :) "

Captain Saap, No! To some people like me, "Graying" DOES NOT relate to "time" or "Age". It comes unnoticed and when we DO notice it, it is already too late to worrry about.

When I do not see mirrors (perhaps due to psychological reasons, I seldom look at mirrors-- let me grow my beard than to feel too old) and the fallen hair in the barbar shops, I still feel like 20 :) My experience is that WAY of THINKING does not change a lot (it must be genetic factor) but the knowledge does (with age and with education).

No matter how old I am, I am still thinking iin the same way as I was in undeegraduate student.

शिरीष, ओके,

एउटा क्षुद्र कालमहिमा भनौं कि जुङ्गामहिमा:

कालको अनम्य गति उपर म गम खाँदैछु
कलप लगाउँदै छ नेपे फूल्दो जुङ्गाहरुमा

अनम्य = unbendable, unbreakable
गम खानु = to ponder
कलप = dye

पूर्ण गजल: (वास्तवमा अपूर्ण, "बहर" को हिसाबले)
- http://www.sajha.com/archives/openthread.cfm?threadid=6649&dsn=sajhaarchive

Nepe

hahahaha...looks like an Oldies Reunion going on here hahahahaha........:P

what am i doing here? it would be an utter insult to my vibrant youth full of gusto if i dare write more words :P

have a good one old people :P :P hahahaha

LooTe

"आगो ताप्नु मुढाको कुरा सुन्नु बुढाको" this famous Nepali quote might not just be creatied out of reason. But I think all of us fear getting older, getting wrinkels, getting called Uncle and Hajur Baa for that matter losing hair, getting bald and so on.

Well, but I do not know why do we get older? Sometiems I imagine if we were young forever, body strong and powerful like in early 20s and everyday full of romance, unlimited desires, great ambitions and bigger dreams!! I do not know how does one feel when one reach 50s or 60s and do not fulfill their dreams.

Is it worth looking back those days? Is getting older synonyms to getting clsoer to DEATH? In that case, do we fear ageing or death, perhpas both. I do not know why everyone tries to look younger, colour hair, and feel pleased if one praises saying something like "Unbelieveable!!! you look so young" hehehehhe.........

Here I remember the quote of Victor Hugo who once quoted "The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody (perhaps to SAJHA USERS)


On the contrary Gergoe Elito had counterattacked on this issue "What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind--the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."


Once again "आगो ताप्नु मुढाको कुरा सुन्नु बुढाको"

It is so nice to see all good old friends writing in here. Once, as a silent reader of sajha, I always used to read Ashu's and Nepe's postings. These guys are awesome. Good to see Ashu back after long long time.

Please keep writing you people. Give us something to read and learn.

Shirish, thanx for starting this. I hope we will get more inputs from these guys now on. I liked the one you said,"Aging is mandatory and growing up is optional." I have been escaping the growing up part till now.:-)

Namaste SL, h1b, SITARA, Scarlett, sapphire, OK, LooTe and Amazing!!

Great thread!!

Have a good day everyone.
:)

.Oopss How did I forget Captain Haddock in there??

Namaste Captain Saab!! Kyaa Naam, bhool se mistake bhayechha!
:-)