Have you walk past the New parliamentary zoo (Former BICC) at evening or night, the only place on earth where Parliament and UN Mission share the office on same compound. If you haven't then you must try once, it's a lifetime experience. In the darkest hour of night while whole city is plunged into black blanket of Nature, nurtured by beloved Nepal Electricity Authority's load shedding, you'd actually be dazzled.... Ya dazzled, not by stars burning tons of fuels of their own (I am jealous) but by array of halogen lamps installed round the compound in "One lamp per tree" fashion, most amazing part is other three sides of compound don't have this privilege. Ahh!... That might be obvious because adjacent to the wall there is mighty UNMIN's HQ (or office).

Ok, long story short, I am extremely jealous and furious. Jealous because at the same time we are bound to bear the darkness inside our dwelling staring at the electric heater in chilling cold and sheer darkness. Angry because The actual mission of UNMIN feels like infuriating us by showing the light at our face. the NEA always barks about CFL's and asks us to shutdown our heaters and appliances to save electricity, at the same time the 1000s of wattage of electricity glowing in halogen lamps seems sooo.. ethical to them.

Passing by the way I saw one fat officer inside the well lit room of UNMIN's office, listening/watching something on his cellphone. Don't know why but I strongly believe he was listening to Fire Water burn.