M.P. Great sense of humor. I like it. Keep it up. It's fun to blow off steam by smiling at your jokes. Meantime, my strategy as someone who genuinely does NOT know much but wants to learn a lot is to read up as much as I can and till 2 am about other countries and try to understand/see different perspectives re: how they coped with their armed struggles to push for democracy and better economy. *** Mailadai, Unfortunately for you, and happily for me, I do verifiably have: a) relatives outside of KTM, and b) plenty of friends who are from outside-of-KTM c) BUT I am NOT excited by the results of the Sajha polls for the VERY SAME REASON that I am not excited by the student polls printed in Drsiti and made famous by Nepe with amusing qualifiers. Both polls suffer form various degrees of self-selection biases, and each appeals ONLY to the partisanally delusional crowd. But unhappily for both of us: a) I am not eating tato tato momo, and I do miss Nepal. Other than that, after some travels this week, I'll return again (if this thread is still up) next week to answer others' concerns. After all, kaam ta garnai paryo, yaar!! oohi ashu