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Longitude Consultancy
We focus giving advice and helping to clarify issues on higher education. Longitude Educational Consult (LEC) operates in a slightly different way to Executive Education programmes. There are a variety of ways in which consultancy projects can proceed one being the formal tender process. We typically invite all the participants or students or guardians who are willing to go abroad to study.

Our Aims
Our aim has been specifically set up for higher academics for those going overseas. We are awareness of the opportunities available in the networking with the concern organization. We provide a range of services including consultancy and action plan research. We try to find the results of its progress and how we have done in our management. We explore ideas and project management in services with the related organisations.
LEC Enterprise provides a professional interface between LEC and the wider student community or customers. For more information on these services, please visit our main office.

Our Services
We advice on how to make the right choice of studies: information on admission requirements, application forms, comprehensive information on individual courses of study, exams and degrees, change of study courses, visa processing, financial aid, air ticketing, predeprture information, airport collection in country of destination, home stay or hostel stay answers to questions relating to other links or further studies after graduation.
Individual and/or confidential advice or counselling services are available, for example, if you want to consult an adviser on career choices, if you are feeling confused or discouraged about university life, if you are thinking of discontinuing studies, or if any circumstances arise which may influence your academic success. Our professional help may be obtained by mediation to settle conflicts.
At this point we would usually need to provide various details about how we would administer the services, including biographies of the academics we suggest putting forward. If acceptable, we would contact you at this stage to ask whether you were interested in our services and ask you for a brief biography. Following a successful documentation, we would expect to produce all educational certificates to the concerned institute of higher learning.
LEC Enterprise would then co-ordinate your qualifications for further steps to the destined for institution, college or university in particular and county in general. We carry out on schedule and to specification, including organising any follow-up you which are necessary.

Process of Application
This is very practical manual. Like other educational processes, admissions have identifiable stages or phases. There are not different methods that have faster but only the way using more efficient way to cover it. The ultimate thing we value is the applicants obtain a quality and interesting services. Preparing students thoroughly for further study is a key element of the process.

Conclusion
As college graduates face new expectations from the workplace, academic gurus can help them learn to take responsibility for their decisions. Academic advising, in developing these valuable relationships between teachers and
students, becomes an important form of teaching. Academic advisers help undergraduates understand their choices as students and the effect of those decisions on their future plans. Through open-ended questions and discussions, academic advisers develop a valuable relationship with undergraduate students, helping them to become more responsible members of college or university communities and to develop a lasting sense of personal responsibility.

For further information or if we can assist in any way, please do not hesitate to contact Chandraman Gurung (Managing Director) on 977-1-4650784 or at longitude08@yahoo.com

Choice is yours only we proceess

Thank you very much for choosing to find the right program of your choice at right place to achieve your goal.
We intend you:
To be an international student
Get high quality counselling
Get a wide choice of desired programs
Get quality education from the prestigious institutes of higher learning
Get friendly environment of the desired place to study

Studying abroad will exhilarate you change the landscape of your life permanently. We guarantee that you will return home changed or you will have broad prospective to get your job abroad, more confident, more open and knowledgeable, a citizen of the world with a much perspective.

Choice is yours with inquisitively
We help to overcome it

Once more, we remind you choosing the right combination of course, college and country is probably one of the most important decisions any student who is considering studying abroad will ever have to face new environment. So take your time to get well knowledge or information of the different places and countries-places within the country. They are all very, very different and have a huge amount of information that advice you.

Panchase, a beautiful hills

With 400 square km, the Panchase is extended its area bordering to 13 Village Development Committee (VDC) in three districts-Kaski, Parbat and Syangja. It is about 8000 ft from the sea level, highest in the region. Home of several watersheds (tributaries, gullies and rivers) which form the famous Phewa Lake or Phewa tal in Pokhara, Kaski and the Andhikhola Hydro Power Plant in Syangja on the other.
Since the region is its high level, it offers terrific views of the Annapurna Range and other parts of the Himalay in different shapes and colours. Other parts of the hills and valleys are seen all around in a spectacular view. The old generation people still say that in a clear day or no pollution in the atmosphere the shape of Kathmandu valley can be seen from the peak of Panchase.
Panchase possesses a large variety of flora and fauna. Ayurbedic medicinal valued vegetables are available. It is believed that locals and outsiders are attracted by these resources. Until few years back, many local people used to spend their seasonal lives with their cattle and agricultural farm in Panchase, very few are still on with the profession. However, the surrounding villages are receiving abundant benefits from Panchase in several ways either.
All the VDCs sharing border with Panchase have been receiving drinking water, irrigation, grazing lawn for cattle, fodder, cooking resources, seasonal jungle vegetable and fruits and many more. People still have a hunting place in Panchase.
Tourists can enter any of the route of the VDC to visit Panchase.
One of them is through Bange Phatke rout, they gain a new experience with a variety of panoramic views. As you are heading toward the north, you can see different natural and man-made environments. The VDC is unique in its kind. On the way to Panchase and back you can visit different ethnic grooups-Brahmins, Chhetris, Gurungs, Dalit or disadvantaged (Kami. Damai and Sarki)groups. The neighbouring VDCs are not the same as what it belongs to. Although the people are mixed, they possess their own culture, custom and identity. When you visit through this village, you can see the man-made environment-living houses in different shapes and colours. Distinction can be made from the houses to which the ethnic group the house belongs to. As you mingled with the community, you can make the differences from one to another. Furthermore, if you visit their houses, their way of living is vast different from one community to another. On the one hand, the modern society has still been following their tradition, culture and custom on the other.There is a good understanding and tolerance amongst the community, and their helping hands between them are welcomed with their open heart. It can be believed that and the history is witness they consider this is a traditional value that has been following from generation to generation.
Summing all, Panchase and its surroundings-VDCs- possesses a variety of environments- man-made and natural. Bange Phatke is one of them that borrows many natural resources from Panchase, but the peculiarity of Bange Phatke has its own identity that has been standing in its place, that is, multiculture and its value.

Phewa lake in Pokhara with Panchase at the background

Phewa lake in Pokhara with Panchase at the background
Phewa tal (lake) in Pokhara, main source of water deposite in Phewa lake is from Panchase.

Phewa lake with Sarangkot at the back

Pokhara is composition of different cultures

Pokhara is composition of different cultures
(A bird eye view of Pokhara valley) The original culture of Pokhara is Newari. For the better life, people migrated from the surrounding hills accumulating more population. With their migration, they brought their own cultures and religions. It has become a cosmopolitan city now.

Panchase Experience by the Hita's Jeep

Only one jeep is going to Arthar from Pokhara. It leaves Pokhara in the morning and returns in the evening. Arthar is the last destination in approximately five hours time. The jeep takes its way via karaudi, Bange, Bangsing, Saradi, Tunikhola, Kahule then Arthar. The nearest point to reach Panchase is from Kahule village.
The owner and driver of the jeep is Hita Gurung from Kahule itself. He is regarded very experienced driver in this rout. Though the road is not pitched in muddy condition he takes his passengers with care. So the people in the area believe him. As he said, he loves driving with his several years' experiences.

Annapurna Range with Machhapuchhre in the morning

From left Padamlal, Ramkumari, Bishukumari, Rudrakumari and Kamala photgraph taken in Grandruk

Ghandruk

Ghandruk
A typical Ghandruk village, wall is made of mud and stone and roof with black slates. The whiteness on the wall is not white cement but it is a white mud (a local one)

Once the house was own by one family now many visitors come and stay there (Ghandruk)

Nanu with her lovely MUM in their house in Kathmandu

Nanu with Aajyu in Kathmandu

Anus (left) Deep Shikha and Alex

Payun

Payun
A seasonal flower tree that bears fruits like cherry

Monday, November 10, 2008

Old is Gold

The above wooden craft window is quite an old art in a house in Bange, south of Panchase. The brokers usually come to visit such craft and offer quite a lot price.

The photograph of the above wooden art was taken in Ghandruk Kot Gaun. The art attracted my eyes. The price should be quite lot as compared above

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Porter's off time

Down town in Kathmandu while the porter does not have his load to carry he keeps himself busy reading newpaper. Winter is approaching. Reading under the son is more pleasant time.

President of the United States of America in 08


The first African American (black), Barack Obama, elected the 44th presedent of the United State of America. He was born in Hawaii from American mother and Kenyan father. The father with a scholarship from Kenyan government joined Hawaii University. The father left Obama and his mother, Ann, to join Harward while he was two years old (mixed stories about his birth and childhood). Then the father left for Kenya, Africa. Later Obam met his father while he was ten. His mother, Ann Dunham, married an Indonesian, an oil company executive and moved to Indonesia. Barack also accompanied them and lived in Indonesia about five years. Later Barack back to Honululu to join his grand parents, and started his study in an elite school, financed by his grand mom. He started his political career in 2004 that rooted him to become a president of the USA.
Every black is happy, every democrat is happy and every African is happy; may be the world is happy. However, Obama is not from the root of Afro-American slave community. It can be argued that he is the son of love making by a Kenyan father and an American mother met at the university. Brought up and attached with the American white grandparents in their healthy environment with an elite academy reflecting to enter into the white house. It also can be remarked that even he never experieced how a good father behaves his son as a member in the family . Actually, his attachement with parents was not good enough so it is said that he is an orphan with having parents alive.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Ghandruk a typical gurung village now changing ...

Baarghar, one of the images of several villages in Ghandruk. A classic gurung village in the northern part of Pokhara. Almost all gurung (race) used to live there once. But, as the people wanted better life, the village is now adopted by other races. It does not mean that peope are languishing, but the migration took place instead. Some houses are converted into the guest houses.
It is assumed that the bamboo baskets (daalo) were used to keep food stuffs once by the house owner but now beautiful healthy roses, geraniums, crimsons and other flowers replaced the food stuffs. However, the baskets are not kept empty. It seems better meanintful than waste.
Interestingly, people those who have adopted to live in the village speak gurung language well in local tune. On the otherhand, the locals who left do not speak even their own language well. Is there local gurung language drained to some extent?

Friday, October 31, 2008

My mom is the great mom

Today's my blog is my mom to whom I dedicate for ever. My mom lives in a village, Bange, in the southern part of Panchase in Nepal. The village is about fifty kilometres from Pokhara. She is seventy seven years now with silvery hair and countless wrinkles on her face indicating maturity of age. We cannot escape if we are lucky to alive. She can work, walk and talk very smartly.
At the age of eighteen, she got married. There was neither father in law nor mother in law in her broom's house. Both were assassinated years ago her marriage, with her husband and herself one brother in law and a sister in law used to live in the house. Both were younger than her. Since they are younger than my mom, my mom had to give them psychological treatment. She had to learn everything as she entered the new culture. Even cooking was not familiar to her because in her parent's house she did not learn properly. In addition, she had to maintain the farm work, look after the cattle, bringing water from the well beside this she had to perform other additional things. During that period, there was not rice and nor was grinder all had to do manually; so she had to get up early in the morning and late to the bed. Furthermore, she had to look after her children but priority had to give other chores. Out of ten, she has four daughters and two sons. She says all the past moments were important for her.
Now, she has been saying that she cannot live in the village because she is physically weak. Day by day, there will be increasingly difficult life which is a natural phenomenon. What it can be remarked is she worked very hard for her home and children but never got record who else kept it. There are many examples around like her.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Cultural Festivity

The Yama Panchak or Tihar is started on 26th of October, and lasts until five days. To some extent this is the season of festivity. About fifteeen days back, Dasain lasted for ten days. During Dasain, people get blessing from their respected ones. They put on new clothes and eat more delicious food.
Unlike Dasain, Tihar is dedicated to differnt animals and bird. There are different myths about how this festivity is lasted for days. However, the first day is dedicated to the crow (kag tihar) because of the corw brings good or bad message. People offer food that the crow likes. The second day is dedicated for the dog (kukur tihar) to whom is known as the most obidient animal and a good pet. The dog receives tika on its forhead with flower garland and favourate food.
The third day is worshiped to the cow because the raw milk is drank by different ages of people and made variety of sweetsa from the milk. The fresh cowdung is used to clean the house and composed manure is used in different agricultural purposes. So the cow is respected as sacred animal and meat is not offered in the Hindu community. In the evening of the day, IMAGE OF LAXMI (goddess of wealth) is offered with variety of flower garlands and sweets. People wish to have more wealth buy new thing that lasts longer; some open their bank account. In India, most buy jweleries and some buy new behicles. During this vestivity more flowers are used, so the festivity is also known as festival of flowers. Variety of lights are used in the house and street. The fourth day oxen is honoured because of it countless help in the field to cultivates land. On the same day some community belive in self honoured. So, in literal meaning they are worshiped by themselve. From this, they believe their improvement in self esteem.

The fifth day is the day of honour of brothers from their sisters if they have no sister/s the aunty (father side) honour their nephew or some adapt the sisters. On the day, the brothers are most respected by symbolising TIKA on their forhead and beautiful fresh flowers granlands by the sisters. Then and there, the brothers are offered with variety of delicious food and fruits. And the brothers also give soveniers and cash. There is a reciprocal love and affection, peace and prosperous for the future of life. As what it is a myth, Yamuna had invited her brother Yamraj from the jail on this day to offer honour. It can be imagine that how happiest day is this day. A belief is still left behind people gamble with variety of means during this festivity.