When he first got himself a Walkman, he had no clue that it would turn into his best friend. Thapa loved trekking and he always took along his Walkman while walking up and down steep trails.
“My Walkman always helped me walk through long distances. It always made my journey musical,” Thapa recalls. When he became Minister of Information and Communication in 1988, he became the fortunate one to get to use the first long-distance cordless phone introduced in Nepal.
“It was a matter of pride to me. As minister, I got the chance to carry Nepal’s first long-distance cordless. It covered the capital city of Kathmandu,” Thapa smiles as he starts to remember those early days of his life.
He has lost count of how many cell phones he has changed so far. From the simple Motorola mobile set that he carried first to almost all the Motorola and Motorazer series and to Samsung’s and LG’s outlets, Thapa has tried his hands with different models of mobile phones. He was also habituated to using O2 and iMate quite a time ago. Now he has switched to using Nokia E61 from Nokia N95.
“Nokia E61 is highly user friendly. With this mobile phone, I don’t need a personal secretary to assist me in my daily deadlines and assignments. The gadget does all for me. It fixes up my appointments and alerts me to all my duties for the day. Its wide screen allows me to feel like I’m working on a mini computer and it looks fashionable too.” Looking at the E61, he highlighted why he is so much into it recently.
Not that he is fond of putting on brand wrist watches, but he says he keeps on changing watches every three days. They are from his friends and well wishers. For now, he loves to carry a Raymond Weil Gene VI, which was gifted to him by the Swiss President in 2000. The most expensive gadget that he has ever bought on his own is his IBM Laptop that he got for Rs 110,000.
Thapa, who once thought that he would never own a Walkman, now carries his Apple iPod shuffle whenever he is off for vacation. But for cameras, he says he’s not very fond of getting DSLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex) and he is comfortable with his Sony cybershot 5.1 megapixel camera.
“Though we can’t deny that gadgets have made all of us lazy bones, we however have no escape now. We’re already part of the gizmo-generation, and without them, we hardly can imagine ourselves doing anything,” says Thapa with his juvenile smile.
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