Nature’s call: Fun Meeting at Naghdaha

Being a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP), I got this opportunity to share and enjoy a quality time with some of the most active MSPs from different engineering and technical colleges of Nepal and a couple of people from Microsoft Nepal as well. This was a kind of informal gathering at a spot called Naghdaha( Nepali translation: Nagh means snake, daha means lake), a place full of greenery and a beautiful lake which lies exactly south, not so far away from the main city of Kathmandu.

Although, it was a MSP gathering, we missed our own Community lead, Mr. Shailendra Jha this time since he was leading a delegation of Nepalese Microsoft Community including an MSP Mr. Kushal Gautam to an Annual International technology fair TechEd India 2009 an event by Microsoft to Hyderbad in India.

It was a cool and sunny Saturday afternoon and the meeting was more like a fun. We all the MSPs along with country manager, Microsoft Nepal Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar and Technology Specialist Mr. Udhyan Timilsina got sitted at one of the many shades available there something in a manner that looked like we were in a round table meeting (But I tell you guys, everything was so informal) from where we could enjoy the great looking panoramic view of the lake and the people enjoying boating there as well.

We enjoyed food and drinks together and had lots of unofficial chats, had a deeper insight of each of the MSPs personal life, a bit of privacy access and so on and so fourth. To make the gathering even more interesting, we hired a couple of boats and all of us had a boating session for about an hour. Looking at the facial expressions and body postures of some of the people among us; it seemed as if they had hydrophobia but interestingly everybody nodded a comfortable ‘yes’ for this experience.

Yes, of course we had some serious talks together for couple of times as well. We took time to discuss about our future plans and events, status of MSP activities at respective colleges and ‘Ask for genuine’ issues. We also shared our individual perspective on the present status of Nepalese Microsoft Student Partners, how we could go about more efficiently in the years

to come and roll out more fruitful and rewarding programs at colleges.

Finally, as most of our activities pushed our informality to its limit, we didn’t really realise when we exactly started packing our stuffs to get back to our destinations, but I think the group photo sessions at last, gradual setting of sun and some bid adieus from beautiful lady MSPs made us to realize that, yes it was time to leave.