UPDATE 2: Donation using PayPal now accepted
After witnessing peoples desire to contribute Money to the relief program and realizing the lack of ways to do so, Rangeen Chara has come up with a transparent way to collect fund. The donation can be made by clicking on the ChipIn button on the right of this post. The fund raised so far is displayed in real-time by the ChipIn application. The amount collected by 5 September, 2008 will be handed over to the Kantipur Relief Fund by the name “Rangeen Chara : Nepalese Abroad”. Let us come together and raise fund beyond the targeted amount.
UPDATE 1: Fund to be Transfered to Kantipur
The amount will be forwarded to “Kantipur Rastriya Bipatti Sahayog Kosh” by depositing the collected amount to Siddhartha Bank Account No. 062881 C. Amounts exceeding NRs 1,000 will be mentioned in Kantipur media therefore providing transparency to the campaign.

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At the time when more than 50,000 people are deprived of food and are left without a roof, our leaders are playing the blame game (Kantipur Online Aug 21, 2008). What the people really need at this moment is food and medicine, and roof if possible. I have been thinking hard about doing something as a blogger to help these people and finally came up with this idea to raise some fund.
I earn some nominal amount for bringing traffic in my blog. I have decided to bring as much traffic as possible in the coming ten days and contribute my earnings to the flood victim relief program. For each comment left on this post, I will send NRs 10.0(Ten) to the relief program. I am targeting to bring at least 2000 readers which would amount to NRs 20,000 in donation. I have not yet figured out where the money should be sent but am thinking that there will be some presidential fund for the relief program. If you have some suggestions, please leave a comment. As soon as I have an idea about where the money will be sent, I will post the information on this page. Also, I will post the proof of the payment made to the relief program.

Please pass your words to your friends and help Rangeen Chara raise more money for the Koshi flood victim relief program. Remember, every comment is worth NRs 10, a meal for one victim.

If you live in the US, one additional thing you need to take care of is your credit score. Your credit score plays a great role in deciding the price of different services and interest rates. Further more, a bad credit score reduces your chances of getting apartments in big cities. This means that you need to be aware of your credit status when making major decisions. Planning to buy a new car? Or thinking about moving to a new city? Make sure to check your credit score before you go ahead with your plan. If you have not-so-good credit score at this moment, it is in your best interest to wait little longer and take necessary measures to repair your credit score.

Credit scores are maintained by three different bureaus and you do not have direct access to the scores. However, US government mandates that everyone should be provided with their credit file once a year without any charge. This way everyone can monitor their credit file and ensure that their credit file doesnot have any inaccurate entries.

The three credit bureaus have come together with this web-site to provide access to the credit files. From this website, you can obtain a free copy of your credit file every year. Unlike many other sites where you get charged for services that are said to be free, being mandated by the government, this site has no such catch.

Please remember that you can access your credit file for free only once a year (however, if your credit application was rejected, you can request free credit report within 30 days). If you need more detailed credit monitoring or if you want to monitor your credit score regularly, there are several tools available in the market for some basic fee. I will come up with another post on these tools some time later.

In my last post, I presented a video that illustrated how people were forced to leave their home due to the armed conflict. This post is in a way the remaining part of the story: what is the life like after they leave their home? As many of us now know, it is not as enjoyable as we thought it would be.

Amricama is a song composed by Madan Krishna Shrestha and sung by his son Yaman Shrestha. I first discovered this song at merovideo.com about a year ago but merovideo.com was hacked by some Iranian hackers (it is still under the hackers control). After receiving an impressive response from readers, I spent some time looking for some other source for the song. I found it finally and it’s here for you in today’s post.

The video is funny with some kids dancing throughout the video. The song however is heart touching (despite the lightness of the lyrics) as it reflects nepali people’s problems in the foreign land.

Here is the video for you. I would really appreciate your opinion about the video as that would help me choose the content for my next post.

Enjoy!