Adventure Of The Year : Sano Babu and Lakpa

Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa's three-month long adventure titled The Ultimate Descent won the National Geographic's 'People's Choice Adventurers of the Year' today, over 72,000 votes was cast worldwide by supporters choosing their adventurer. The Ultimate Descent was one of 12 adventures shortlisted in the category for the 'Adventurers of the Year'. 

If you were wondering what exactly Sano Babu and Lakpa did in 'The Ultimate Descent' then check out the images below.

• Ascent of Everest, highest mountain in the world (a first for kayaker Babu, but the fourth for mountain guide Lakpa)
• 8,865 meter free-flight paraglide descent from the summit (which set a world for free flight)
• 850km kayak trip from Nepal to India on the Ganges river to the Bay of Bengal.

Intense right? Babu shares 'taking off from the highest point of the world' as his favourite part of the adventure. 

May 21, 2011

 

So amazinng! Anyone here reads the National Geographic magazine? I love it!

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Coambothic T-FEST

           

Coambothic

Representing Farnborough

Coambothics was formed in mid 2007 and since then we have played several gigs and done many cover songs in a range of venues. Our main motto is to come up with new music.

There has never been a specific influence for our band as any good music from classical, blues, rock, heavy-metal, and progressive have always been admired. We are now on a journey to focus more on heavy-metal with alternative and classical touch in terms of sound. Lyrics hold a great meaning to our song and much is based on freedom and humanity. Coambothic’s stand for class of alternative melodic blues and technically heavy influence classical style.

Things are definitely getting more edgier! Check out Coambothic! Like them? Get ready to vote for them.

Why You Should Watch LOOT!

Could the LOOT fever reach any higher??? The movie which has done extraordinary business is being screened in every corner of the world! Well... not every but you get what I mean! Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, Australia, USA have been LOOTED and more countries including South Korea, Qatar and UK are yet to witness the magic behind LOOT.

Whilst the promotion is sky high, one must also acknowledge the current trend of Nepali movies being made and compare that to LOOT in order to realise what worked in LOOT which didn't quite so well for many other productions. LOOT's not an extraordinary movie, it's a simple movie... and that's the things that has worked. 

Below are some fast facts of LOOT made by blogger/beauty queen Samriddhi Rai on her blog: 

1. Loot was made with a budget of around 50 lakhs. It raked a total of 2 crore, 55 lakhs as of Friday morning, Febraury 24.
2. Rs. 13416670 that is 1 crore, 34 lakhs, 16 thousand, 670 rupees was collected in QFX cinemas alone. QFX cinemas started with the inception of Jai Nepal in 2001 and now runs its uber popular movie theatres from 3 locations in Kathmandu. But you know that by now already right? 
3. QFX had to take off Agneepath and another English movie to screen Loot because of its high demand.
4. For many days in the first week of screening Loot, in many halls there was 100% occupancy by male audience only. Young guys who came to watch the movie in their bikes to be precise. 

 Check out a parody video made purely for entertainment by these girls who are high on LOOT fever!! Remember, you can catch LOOT in UK! Aldershot/London/Ashford. More info? Click Here!

Speedball T-FEST

          

Speedball

Representing/Maidstone

Our sole purpose is to get hypnotically lost into music and rock the sole out of the audience. We are a band who has a deep passion for rock and metal music but also follow other types of music too. We don’t believe that music has to be done in a commercial way to fit the audience but we believe and focus more on creating our own originals which represent taste and love towards music. So, basically we would like to give more of our originality taste to our audience. 

OMG guys!! Here's the first rock metal band for T-FEST! Definitely rocking my socks ;)

Pradeep Gurung - Dance India Dance

                           

Here's one Nepali who has full belief in himself and is taking his passion further... he's the man of the moment, Pradeep Gurung. 25 year old Pradeep who comes from Guwahati, Assam has been competing on the Indian dance show DANCE INDIA DANCE for a while now! Though I'm not following the show, I hear Gurung is making a remarkable impact on the show as part of 'Terence ki Toli' and has also made it to the TOP 13, great news right! We wish he continues his journey to the top.

All the best for Pradeep, enjoy his performances.

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Pabzee Phame T-FEST

           

Pabin Gurung aka Pabzee Phame
16

Representing/Catterick

As an Artist I consider my name as 'Pabzee Phame'. Born and raised in Nepal, Pokhara my hometown. But shortly at the age of just 7, came to UK and have been living here ever since. Life,Love,Family and Music are the four things that I consider essential in my life. Growing up, it was hard, but it was through music, that I could express my emotions and feelings towards how I felt. Throughout Music is how I get respect and let people know who I truly am. When people normally ask who your main inspiration in music is? People normally start naming lots of artists, but to me, my main inspirations are my family and love. However successful I become in music or anything, I do it for them, they mean the world to me. When it comes to the genre of the music, I mostly like all types of music, whether its Rock or hip-hop etc. It makes no difference to me.

I would love to be a singer but unfortunately I wasn't gifted with the voice for singing.
So that's why I started Rapping and I turned out to be better than I thought.

What I initially love most about music is performing. I love performing.
Honestly, nothing gets better then the crowd enjoying and having a good time from your performance. Once I get a good vibes from crowd it really makes me feel better and improve as an artist. Apart from my passion for music, I also like to play football & Basketball.

Last but Not least! I’m proud to be a Nepali!
So whatever I do, I'm representing Nepal! 

JAI NEPAL! 

He's got the swag!! But check out if he has the voice!!!

Rajesh Hamal Coming To UK!

As the Nepali calendar draws to an end for another year, it's time for the New Year festivities and celebrations to be announced and what could be better than Samsara Nepal UK's latest announcement which is that the 'Maha-Nayak' the legend himself, Rajesh Hamal will be joining the Nepali diaspora communities in the UK to usher the Nepali New Year. Alongside actor Hamal will be the couple that makes millions laugh in Nepal, and also those that watch it on dcnepal.com [lol], the Tito-Satya duo Deepak Raj Giri and Deepashri Niraula. I'm already wondering how long the show will be because there's in-fact more acts following up the star-studded list.

Musicians Dipu Gurung, Himal Sagar, Bivek Shrestha and Kranti Ale will also be belting our their hits for the hundreds that are expected to turn up to the shows that will be taking place in Ealing, Hawkinge, Plumstead and Reading. I can't quite imagine Rajesh Hamal doing a stage dance performance, I'm guessing he will be sharing few words and saying Happy New Year, very excited about Deepak Raj Giri and Deepashri Niraula tho, bet it'll be a laughathon!!

Are you excited?

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Dipesh Lama T-FEST

          

Dipesh Lama

25

Representing/Aldershot

I'm a music lover with a huge passion for singing. Having started by singing career since my school life when I was in class 6, I also took part in many school functions which helped me to build my confidence level. College life was really fun and I used to take part in almost all college events. My colleagues were so encouraging, that really helped me to participate in NEPALI TARA 2. Among all 14,000 contestants from all over Nepal I managed to reach up to the TOP 13. It was my bad luck that my illness led to a poor performance hence I couldn't further in the competition. I also took part in another competition called BAND VASKER, my band was able to reach up to the TOP 4. The management team of the show could not take the show further hence the show stopped.

I have performed in many national and inaternational shows in Dubai, Qatar, India and UK. Id this show goes in my favour and if I win it, it will definitely help lift my singing career.

Here we have a pakka Nepali thito! The daura suruwal look's awesome, and what do you think about his singing of Birta Ko Chino and Maya ko bato? Likey??

Nepali Nationals Lose Thousands In Visa Scam!

Nepal born Jyoti Shrestha was conned out of £11,000 in promise for a British Citizenship and work permits for relatives by a fake visa 'fixer' Jack Plancey. The good news is that 30 year old Plancey has been jailed for 12 months after amassing up to £30,000 from immigrants desperate to live and work in the UK. Jyoti was not a lone victim of Plancey's fraud as many other immigrants also fell prey to his lies. Several other Nepalese [unidentified] are believed to have lost out on their hard earned capital on this visa scam which is the latest to hit Britain.

For many readers of my blog that do not live in Britain, stories such as these are common here. I'm sure similar can be said in the US, Australia and other developed nations. Due to the constant policy changes for international students by the Home Office, many Nepalis who came here to study are left with no option but to return to Nepal or pay more and attend a university [instead of a college institute]. Whilst some have called it quits and left for Nepal, the number of students opting to pay their way into France, Spain and Belgium are slowly increasing. Those making these decisions are hoping to be accepted better in those countries courtesy of their more laid-back immigration rules, not to forget an easier chance of earning a nationality.

It's a hard life...

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Jit Pun T-FEST

           

Jit Pun
23
Representing/University of Kent, Canterbury

I have always loved singing and entertaining people. My music style is mostly acoustic and traditional Nepali songs. I love acoustic performances as I feel this really show's my feelings through the lyrics and my singing. I feel through T-FEST I can reach out to people with my singing and inspire others to sing and love music like I do. For me T-FEST isn't just about winning, but gaining experience and working alongside other great artists. T-FEST is a great platform to showcase the current Nepalese talents around the UK and I hope I can positively represent Nepali youths of this generation. Thank you.

Things are definitely heating up with T-FEST! What's your favourite performance so far?? Remember, you decide the winner! Voting opens very soon!