So. It’s over. It is really over; and there are no riots in the streets of Chicago and LA, no disappointed citizens packing their belongings together to leave this country for good, no thoughts of anger, of despair. No. Instead there is hope. A light at the end of a long and dark tunnel; after eight years of disappointments, of embarrassments, of failed policies, and of a divided country, there is suddenly a future again that people are willing to fight for, that they are excited to fight for.

It is amazing for me to think about the journey this country has traveled over the past two years. Since I moved to New York, and probably long before, no other topic has been discussed as much as the presidential election. What a long journey it must have been for Barack Obama. From campaigning for the first primaries, to his victory over Hillary Clinton and winning the Democratic Presidential Nomination, to this day of his election and his speech at Grant Park in Chicago tonight.

While I was watching the results come this evening, I couldn’t help but wonder what he must have felt during those last hours of this two year long process. Where was he? What was he doing? New Hampshire. Pennsylvania. Ohio! What went through his head when he saw these election results come in, like we did? Relief? Joy? Pride? Did he possibly even cry when the news channels announced him to be president-elect of the United States of America? All this stress and tension falling off him for a few moments and making room for emotions to take control. Even if just for a split second maybe?

I can only imagine his thoughts and his feelings in those moments. A whole country, the entire world is now looking up to this man. What a responsibility! And how courageous to take on such kind of responsibility, not to shy away from it. What kind of character does it take for someone to endure a two year long campaign, to be scrutinized by the media – every single sentence you say, to be followed wherever you go, and wherever you have gone in your past?

Being an aspiring leader myself, I look up to this man today and bow before him in awe and respect for what he has achieved. For making history. For bringing back hope to this country, and to the world. For standing firm in his beliefs against all odds. For showing strength, courage and fearlessness, when I know that no man or woman, facing the enormous challenges that he will face as the next President of the United States, no man or woman will not also at times feel week, dispirited and fearful during difficult times like these.

But today is not only the day of Barack Obama. Today is the day of the American people. In the past couple of years, Americans I met were embarrassed for their President Bush, for the politics of their country. They apologized for what their country has done to the world. But after eight long years, Americans can finally be proud again; proud to have now an incredibly intelligent, inspiring, and humble man as their leader. I am proud of Obama, and I am happy for all of my American friends who don’t need to feel ashamed anymore, but who can be proud, too. Proud of their new President, and proud of their country, which is no doubt capable of doing much good in this world.

Today, the United States has become a better place. Today, the world has become a better place.

After having spent more than five months in Nepal, and witnessing devastating poverty, Christian Kroll, felt a strong desire to help people in need and founded OneCentPerSearch in May of 2008.

The 24-year-old German wanted to give everyone the opportunity to support causes they are passionate about, regardless of their own financial situation. For this reason, he started OneCentPerSearch after finishing his studies in business administration.

The goal of the OneCentPerSearch team is to achieve a high market share in the multi-billion dollar search engine market so that OneCentPerSearch can help as many people as possible.

OneCentPerSearch: The Better Search Engine

After having spent more than five month in Nepal, one of the world’s poorest countries, Christian Kroll felt the strong desire to help those people, who can't help themselves, and founded OneCentPerSearch in April 2008.

With OneCentPerSearch we give everyone the opportunity to help people in need, regardless of their own financial situation.

In an effort to revive my blog, I'm going to start posting updates from my work at TIG & GYAN :) Here is a reflection about my trip report to Chicago:

On April 17th I traveled to Chicago to attend the Global Engagement Summit at Northwestern University. I was invited as one of the Summit’s three keynote speakers and also held a workshop on “Technology as Global Platform”.

The mission of the Global Engagement Summit is to build the capacity of the next generation of global change leaders to cross-borders and partner with new communities to produce responsible, sustainable solutions to shared global programs. I was very impressed with how well the summit was organized, and the level of engagement and commitment of staff, participants and facilitators was incredibly inspiring.

One of my personal highlights was to have two active TIG members from Nigeria and Liberia attending my workshop on Friday morning. Both of them are actively involved in CLCWA, and the guy from Nigeria was also an active member of the Nigerian WSIS Youth Caucus team (he was wearing a green ‘Nigeria Rocks’ scarf, which brought back many good memories and made me very happy :)

In my keynote speech I emphasized the motivation and hope that derives from being part of a community of like-minded young people. When I prepared my speech the night before, I read on the GES blog on socialedge.org that, in his opening speech, one of the co-directors of the summit had remarked how he had always felt really frustrated about the limitations young people face in affecting change in a complicated world, and that it wasn’t until he participated in a previous Global Engagement Summit that he realized he was not alone, but part of a larger generation of young people with similar concerns, who together were making a difference. In my speech, I quoted him and then told my own story, which is very similar to his and indeed, in my belief, the story of so many of us.

I then went on to talk about GYAN’s 5-level model of youth organizing, explaining how social change is created through the collective and collaborative efforts of individuals and organizations focusing on awareness, action and policy change (the title of my speech was “Connecting global youth movements and community efforts to global systemic change”).

This is the blog post about my speech, which provides a brief summary from a listener’s perspective: link to blog about my speech.

* Anger is the condition in which Tounge works faster than the mind.
* You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
* Love and you shall be loved.
* God always gives the best to those who leave choice with him.
* All people smile in the same language
* A hug is a great gift one size fits all, it can be given for all occasion and its easy to exchange
* Everyone needs to be loved especially when they do not deserve it.
* The real wealth of a man is what he has invested in eternity.
* Laughter is God's Sunshine.
* Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it.
* Its important for parents to live the same thing they teach.
* Thank god for what u have, Trust god for what yo need.
* If you feel your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
* Man looks at outward appearance, but lord looks with in.
* The choice you make today will usually effect your tomorrow.
* Take time to laugh for it is the music of soul.
* If anyone speaks bad of you,live so none will believe it.
* Patience is the ability to ideal your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
* Love is Strengthen by working through conflicts together.
* The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
* Harsh words break no bones, but they do break hearts.
* To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.
* We take granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.
* Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.
* Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depends upon others.
* For every minute u are angry with someone, you loose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
* Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have.

The Xabbel team went to the village where the Sonam Lama’s family is living. Sanistar – the village of Sonam Lama is located 12 kilometers away from Kathmandu. This village has just a few houses, which are made of clay, wood and mud. The small house of the Lamas has temporary thatch roof. It seems like they don’t have enough room for their four family members.

Sonam also has a grandmother she is more than seventy years old and cannot do much on her own anymore. That’s why his parents have to take care of her.

Sonam’s father Mr. Dipendra Lama is working in a hospital as a caretaker since 11 years and he earns around US$ 60 per month. This is just enough to manage his household expenditures. Sonam has a happy family, but they simply don’t have enough money to provide him good education. Thanks to your searches at Xabbel this has changed now.

Every living being has some rights. Humans are considered the most superior among all the living beings. All the human beings have certain rights. They have rights to equality. All human beings are equal regardless of Race, religion, sex, caste. They have equal rights. They have same rights to education, voting, health etc. No human should be discriminated on the basis of race, caste, culture, religion. Xabbel is a charitable search engine which supports these issues ie " Promotion of human right"

Still in this 21st century there are lots of discrimination prevailing in our society. But there is still the lack of awareness. People have no idea what are there rights and how to fight for there rights. It also may be because of the lack of proper education in the society. There are many places where there are no schools and colleges and even if there are schools and colleges then there are no teachers.

Government seems to take no actions regarding these issues. While I am talking about these issues people may think that this happens in the developing countries only but the thing is that it is the same in the developed countries too. But the rate only differs.

ITs not just an issue of a particular country but its an global issue. As world is becoming a global village. We are becoming one. So wait a minute and think about this issue. How it is affecting us and the people around us.

Nepal is a small but wonderful country with lots of beauty stored in it. It proves the saying that beautiful things comes in small packages, Nepal is filled with various culture, art and great histories. Tourists are treated like god in Nepal, its rich for its hospitality. But as It is one of the developing countries in the world there is high poverty rate. There is high rate of illiteracy. The political situation can be considered very critical and lacks proper attention.

But to say it all in one sentence, NEPAL is a heaven.

Though Kathmandu is the Capital of Nepal, Kathmandu is also suffering from load shading. Within 7 days a week there is 5 days load shading ie 15 hrs a week. Thats hampering not only daily life but has put lot of negative effects in the students life and all the business also. Xabbel is also suffering a lot due these frequent power cuts. Due to the inefficiency of certain body the notice about he power cus was not properly circulated so, most of the general people don't know when the power cut is gonna be next.

December the number of searches seemed Stagnant. It was mainly due to the holidays and also because of the internal constraints Xabbel. This month we were mainly focused on the development part of the new Version due to which we lacked in the marketing part. But with the new version on the way everything will be in place hopefully. As the new version is much more interactive we hope that more users would be interested in using Xabbel. The number of searches will be increasing hopefully in the coming days.

Xabbel has not only trying to help people through the charity but it has also help people by providing them the employment opportunities. Though Xabbel is in its initial stage but still it has employed 5 people. Xabbel hopes to get bigger and better with each passing day. So Xabbel needs all the help and support it can get.

Hope This year brings Happiness and laughter in your life. Have a Wonderful year. God Bless you all. EnjoY

November 2007 has proven to be a great month for Xabbel. During this month Xabbel opened an work place for its employee in Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of people working for Xabbel grew to 5. The users of Xabbel seems to be growing constantly. And Xabbel started working on its New version as per the requirements of its users.

Hopefully By the end of this december the new version of Xabbel will be complete and ready to run. We are trying our level best to complete it soon and lunch it for our users.

Please let all the people you know, know about us because it is really for a nobel cause. Help us Help others. Use Xabbel and donate as much as you can. We would appreciate your help and support.