Cafe N v 17

Welcome to the 17th thread of the series.

About Us

Who we are
We are a group of fun-loving people interested in having unbridled fun and talking about the lighter side of life on Sajha.

We are unapologetic about what we say because we don't put too much thought into our words. We have come to learn after all these episodes that when your goal is unrestrained and harmless fun, you can only be so careful or thoughtful about what you say. We mean no harm towards anyone and welcome everyone to join the fun.

The Cafe series, as it has evolved over the weeks and months, is an effort to create a community of like minded people who want to have fun - or as SNDY likes to says - "be good and have fun". That is the only clause in our one-line constitution.
What do we do in the Cafe?
Meeting, greeting and sharing is what we do a lot of. As well as singing, dancing, needling (one another of course), opining, joking and anything else to kill time. Not to forget serving and partaking virtual lattes, biscottis, tea, coffee, samosas, jalebis and other tasty baked goods that we take out of the Google Images oven. We've also posted videos, dedicated songs, confessed our crushes, talked about weather, food, work, sports - anything that is fun.

History
History is never uncontroversial and ours too might not be free from it.This is version is subject to revision as members deem fit.

This whole thing was started by Hi Nanu and instigated by SNDY. Back in those days, SNDY had so many people to say hi to that she would go on each thread where her friends had posted, and say hi, regardless of what the topic was. It had a positive impact on the site, IMO, because it made conversations lighter and soon others started following that trend and we had several threads where the topic might have been something like the "Collapse of the European Monetary Union" but other than the first few posts, the conversation turned out to be about anything but that.

So one day Hi Dai opened a thread called "Thread for greeting each other". Little did he realize what he had created. That thread filled a vacuum in Sajha, as we saw it, for friendly conversation between people that was free of name calling, personal attacks and caste/creed/school/language prejudices. This was back in the dark days of the caste wars and turf struggles. That thread quickly filled up and reach it's maximum posts in a matter of days and another one was started. And then another and another ...

At that time someone jokingly (perhaps contemptuously) referred to us as the "Nautanki" group. We took on that joke and called our self the Nuatanki Briagade and fulfilled SNDY's long running desire to become a Brigadier. So there were several threads (or episodes as we called them) under the Nautanki banner. We got to a point where we ran the joke to the ground and thought it might be time for a name change. We figured a word like Nautanki can wear out after a while and we suspect it might have deterred some people, who would otherwise have posted, from posting on the thread .

We held a poll on whether or not we should change our name. We decided, by an overwhelming majority, to change the name. It was Juggy who came up with the name "Cafe N". The rest, as they say, is history.

Geography
As of last count, in alphabetical order of countries and US states: Alabama, Australia, Belgium, California, Canada, Connecticut, Denmark, Florida, Illinois, India, Iraq, Italy, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nepal, Netherlands, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, UK, Washington,Washington DC. Some of us haven't disclosed our locations and I might have missed some so the list is probably longer.



Languages
Languages heard in the Cafe: English, Nepali, Punjabi, Hindi, Newari, Sanskrit, French, German, Gujrati, Spanish, Esperanto and mixtures and derivatives thereof. The list is bound to grow as we plan to expand to all the corners of the world - although we haven't quite figured how.

Politics
Constitutional Assembly elections are slated for a some time the future, around NPL2US's recently announced wedding date. The Fun party and the Sun party are running neck to neck so we've figured we are in for some fun and sun regardless of the outcome.

But seriously we tend to leave our politics, class, caste, creed, schooling, religion, Indian idol preferences and anything that could affect the fun on the other side of our keyboards or for other threads. Thapap and Loote may battle it out like there is no tomorrow on other threads, but they've been good buddies here.

How do I join ?
Post something, anything, in the "be good and have fun" spirit and you are guaranteed to receive a warm welcome


Previous editions


(Folks, the above is just my interpretation of things done in the spirit of the Cafe and purely for fun. If there is anything you want changed, added or removed, please let me know)
 

Rythm and Capt. saab, good nite hai ta..hope to see you again tomorrow..

Flips, if you're reading this, it's always so nice to talk to you..take care hai..:)

G night Mummy ji!:)

Mr. Hyde...i think "give ass, India !" sounds infinitely va-va-voom! :D

Maverick...new band? The tabla sounds amazing.

Sndy,Cappy,Rythm..I totally agree...there IS too much clutter,although its not half as bad as it was at one point when there were pixs of almost-naked girls eh? San the Man has to do sthg about it. One's eyes tend to go "boing" after a while!

See ya all!

Okay...let me have the honor of opening Cafe today as well..
La hera ..Kasto fohor raichha
Hijo rati safa nai na gari Cafe banda gareko ?

Good morning everyone..
Let me go and prepare Tea and Coffee for our regular customer before they show up...

G'Morning Guys,

When is next episode coming up???
It would be good if we could put the names of the CafeNicans on the start like they do in chautari ( i havent posted over there for a long time...they must be missing me...lol).
I today saw "How do i join" in this thread?
Lets put smthing like "why did I join". I guess it would be fun..

Rythm fuchhi, just curious, can u read Devnagari script?

haddock: No i am not in the video. Lol

Audrey: Its not a new band.. This song is of band named Albatross. They were kinda popular among underground bands...i guess... this song ..hmm i am not sure, but was popular a yr back in nepal. The vocalist is of that band but the other two arent... I like the tabala and fusion....n everything other than lyrics..lol which doesnt make sense..
A grt hi to all of u guys..enjoy ur warm wednesday.

Nepal ko chora!! Coffee for me please...!!
Hello everyone I am new here...I hope I am not intruding...!!

welcome to the new guy............ or a girl :P:D

fohor fohor cafe...coz NKC forgot to clean yesterday:P (oh ya ...he opened :D nevermind)

Hiya doing Mav.

GUY!!! Ceriine!!!

:D
ok sursum guy :D
Welcome to the cafe...

Feel free to stay and chat with buncha nautankis here :D

Hi Everyone, Welcome Sursum Corda!

NPL2US - Where's the new thread, bro?

:)

Welcome me too ! Though I was involved in the very beginning....

Shirish Dr Sab - You have already been welcomed. How many times do you want to be welcomed?

Have a good day!

NPL bro - Khoi ta?

then welcome back to ya !!

don't disappear again

Well said Cerine - why didn't I think of that? I am beginning to loose some of my social polish it seems. Yes, welcome back, Dr Saab. How are people's teeth this morning?

Later folks - see you all in the new thread once it's opened.

:)

hus Cerine !

Kasto risako capt bro....million blistering bernacles

NEPTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE where's the new thread? Darr lagdaina?

Hey u all..

Audrey, lol..eyes go boing re?? He he..it does hoina? I think the homepage is looking better this morning..I was kinda sad thinking Sum_off had deleted his thread again..LOL..

Sum_off, I take back my question r kya :)

NKC, you did a good job of cleaning up this place..natra beluka sarai fohor chodeko thiyo..he he he..

Sirish, welcome back..we won't say welcome next time hai..u say welcome next time..

Capt. saab, hope you're not too busy today..ajha

Sursum Corda..welcome..hope you enjoy this place as much as we do..

Cerine, ready to rock and roll? What's for lunch? ( bihana dekhi khana ko kura)

Hello to rest of my favorite people..

Nepte, again..better open a new thread..and happy Sept. 26th..

Lunch? No lunch for me

hafta think of something :D
Good morning !!

so when does this thread actually end?

Do you guys have a new thread every day???

Cappie, though it seems you are discouraging people to post here.. and start posting on the still non- existant new thread.... I will still post here. :D

Mav phuchhe... Of course I can read devnagari script!! I am a Nepali and Indian script in devnagari too (where I did a lot of my schooling). But I dont read it because I am not a good reader of the script.. and after a few lines it hurts my head... Specially when the font size is soo small!! The irony is I read hindi faster then I read Nepali, dont ask me what the difference is. I havebt studied Nepali since I was in my 2nd grade!! Ugh. Why did you ask?

Mummy ji,
Sat Sri Akal. Ki gal hai mummy ji no hi no hello for me?

Hello to Nepal ko chora, sursum, Sirish and everyone else