I think i must table it here

This has been much to the reality of everyone and as a concerend citizen of my beautiful yet neglected howmetown "Leh". The writing below was in a portal of Ladakh and i had to let you know about what's all happening and so thought to take your time to let you all know:
"There are strong grudges among the people in travel business in Ladakh against the state government for its, alleged, dubious role in impeding the fast growing tourism here, which has touched new heights in the recent years.“The list of complaints is endless, however, to point out some immediate problems I would like to begin with the permit system,” said Tundup Dorjey, General Secretary, All Ladakh Tour Operators Association. The unnecessary rule of traveling in group of four in restricted areas cause serious complications to everybody including tourists and administration showing more strictness in issuing the permits has added to the problem, he added. Another major impeding factor, he raised, was the restricted flight operations to Leh and government’s apathy in this regard, although, many low-cost airlines have been added to the flight operations in the Kashmir despite the poor state of tourism in the trouble-torn Valley. A delegation met the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel last winter to take up this matter and they were promised about reduction in airfares, however, on the contrary there has been sharp rise in the fare. One of the delegation members Tsering Namgial, Joint Secretary, ALTOA said, “In 2004 there was sudden surge of domestic tourists visiting Ladakh but, in the following year this encouraging trend sharply fell due to the curbing of Indian Airlines flight operations between Leh and Jammu and Leh and Srinagar.” There was unprecedented 40 percent reduction in domestic tourists with the record 13000 figure of 2004 going down to 7000 in the following year.He said, the government cannot jeopardize the tourism potential of Ladakh by stopping the flight operations and it should stop such discriminatory policies against Ladakh. Here also brought out another matter of a CD containing a documentary titled ‘Srinagar to Leh’ produced by the J&K Tourism Department. He said, the visuals in the CD are completely mis-representing and misinforming depicting such blunders as ‘Kargil: situated beside the River Indus’ and ironically there is nothing shown about Leh. Similarly, the bus fare from Srinagar to Leh is higher than from Leh to Srinagar, which speaks for itself the intentions behind such unreasonable fare system, Namgyal pointed out."....................
So, this is where i live and afterall it's everybody's concern, right folks?

Trekking for joy.......

A while ago, I saw one of my orkut visitor posted a link to a website where somebody had tried to make a massive trek (which didn't quite work, possibly because they tried to shoehorn it). Anyway, as a trekker and more of an enthusiast I gave them link to a few of my nearest and dearest, and my friend sent me back a link to a strange site, where the people do the same thing with lots of extraordinary and so called experiences, including a rather wonderful some tips and guidances for the firsttimers. There's also another veru beautiful trekking destination to attempt, only marginally more successful. Anyway, hope you enjoy it as much as I should. With treking love, nawang.
PS. I've been with many information gatherers before about a debate(probably at a place where i would be more a free to join openly) with some Crossiant and Doughnuts from the famous German Bakery of Leh - we're a tad obsessed with any kind of tea accompaniment. So I thought, as an self help project, we should try to contribute to one and for all, but we've had trouble coming up with something that should be made massive. But my places talking here is concerned about the trek destinations in Ladakh. So, any ideas?

The time has been for all......

For years, I had used various news collectors and sites that promised to build the greatest personal portal an ape could ever want. Never truly satisfied with the various options out there, an evolutionary process was apparent however. I bided my time, living with the lies of perfection and hoping for something better.
I fondly remember starting with Yahoo settling for the twenty or thirty sites I could stick on one of a few templated pages, and changing the colors to reflect my "bad coffee" / "good coffee" moods. I thought this was the greatest possible portal available - who could beat the mighty leaders!?
Then the Linux geek starting rumbling in my throat and, for months, I looked at the clippers there but eventually thrown it up.... rather i was going for easy yet majestic one!
Dejected, I returned to the smaller, but functional Yahoo. It slowly became a scar. My interests were changing, and those portals wasn't following them. I grew listless, and cast off the shawl of "portal", content to spending hours a day going through bookmarks for my news.
The sky turned blue again the day I found this page. They didn't try to force pre-jarred content down my throat. They pointed me to a small box, said "type in the site you want", and allowed me to clip parts of that site into one page. Immediately, I spent a weekend splicing all of my bookmarks into here. When I finally finished, my daily routine was shortened by an hour or more. Suffice it to say now that years later, around the same time I was falling in love with "my page". Different tools were released to read and write pages, aggregators and sites were beginning to integrate and share headlines, and I started to reinvestigate the options available. I shook in my boots: this was good! I focused all my energies on it... once again, my weekend was spent tweaking, hemming, and hawing.
A month later, my enthusiam was stronger for the next stage of syndication evolution. The development was a wonderful piece of work, but little things here and there were slowly contributing to a nagging sense of unease. There was something that bugged me about individuality, a collection of "should have's" and "wished for" that seemed too fickle to be acted upon.
Now that i got almost eveything done.... (from bringing my page to reach out to the world out there) I had now got to scrap in the everything i have been longed for. The people allaround appeared rather suddenly one day and nicely solidified a firm distinction between "I wish there was..." and "Hey! I'll roll my own!". See, ever since the Leh geek starting awakening; realization dawned: I could screamed what I wanted! A email exchange with friends (how they codes with only three fingers is beyond me) solidified the lust. The sky and sun turned cheerful blue.
Don't jump to conclusions, however. I don't believe this to be the next step of the evolutionary process. I consider it a step toward bringing concerned aggregators to the collectors and gatherers of tips. There's some unique individual out there who knows the year ahead of Leh, he just needs to be pushed in the right direction. And with the ease and happiness of the friendly locals, maybe all will turn on their proverbial lightbulb.
After that realization, Leh looked busting strongly ahead, focussing on tourists paradise, environment friendliness and removing and fixing the desires of curios onlookers.
The place is for you and me. It's for my mom, the mistresses I can't believe I mentioned, and the 30 year old gardener who cries when she commits illegal operations. Whereas Leh is a wonderland for the many more, it is accessible to the neophyte, yet lovable to the comman.
And if you don't like it, tough... I do.