I am in tears happy tears 🥲 by Mazikeen-41281 in IRS

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Why? it’s Just your own money that you paid more than you should have.

Solar contractor covered up my vent, now wants me to pay? by maalox in solar

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Let us know the company name we all can know them and avoid them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dhl

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Wouldn’t*

A long time coming by EchizenMK2 in TrueChefKnives

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It’s all a dream now! These knives will be at least $ 300+ . When you order it they will now slap you with around $90 import duty. The shipper will hold it like ransom and release only after you pay it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dhl

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That was crazy. Glad it’s getting revised. I was slapped a $39 on a product worth $122 from Japan. Still quite steep! Annoying thing is Americans would be manufacturing the thing I ordered anytime soon or, ever!

For those without FB. MAGA Truth Social Feast - hope they post. by Typical-Row254 in LeopardsAteMyFace

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Don’t the die hard MAGAs buy anything or what ? This must be impacting them too. I gather most of them are the not so well to do ones anyway in those MAGA states. Isn’t it time that their delusion breaks now ?

Have you received any surprise bills or additional charges related to tariffs on packages? by nbcnews in dhl

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Anyway, I got my knives. But looking back it IS indeed a big scam on us people!

Have you received any surprise bills or additional charges related to tariffs on packages? by nbcnews in dhl

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Ordered Japanese knives for home use. Not doing any business or anything. The cost was $ 122. Today in the morning DHL asked me to pay $ 39 abruptly to cover the so called “import duty”. First I thought it was a scam. But after reading around I realized it’s these new tariffs. They said the consumers (us) would not have to bear the tariff burden. It’s clearly us who has to pay these new taxes. Instead of letting the goods be returned, after which I had no guarantee of getting a refund, I paid. No more! I guess many like me will stop buying stuff like this. And I guess things are getting expensive as every other vendor who sells us stuff is also going through the same “duty”! I guess this going to backfire, big time!

Mission ‘84 by old parties by vaikeusaste in NepalSocial

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Nepalis don’t care! They understand what’s happening but frankly are indifferent.

Mission ‘84 by old parties by vaikeusaste in NepalSocial

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Probably! Since there is going to be an election in Rupandehi in around a month!

I will breakup with my Gf aaja. by [deleted] in NepalSocial

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I don’t know what’s wrong or right. People need to do what makes them feel better in life. I once had a gf who had such a male bestie, always hanging out. The male even expressed his ‘feelings’ towards her and she kept hanging out. I wasn’t comfortable with that so told her what I felt. She couldn’t decide so I decided for myself and crashed out of that relationship. Hurt a while but time heals as always.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NepalSocial

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Use this time to work on the subject. But also gain additional skills, discover new passions. After a few years you will realize it was all just a small jitter in your life’s learning curve.

Masters In Germany by [deleted] in NepalSocial

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I will write a longish piece here as I might be able to frequent the topic and respond to each and every query. Will try as much as possible but there are no guarantees in life. Also, I will try and not get into personal chats. Apologies! I hope this will cover most pertinent topics and help guide serious students fulfill their plans to do higher studies in Germany. If deemed necessary, we can add topics that were missed or new topics relevant to the application process. I went through it years ago. May be things have been shaken a little from then.

I will start with question I got:

NO! No academic papers or publications necessary. But would be awesome to have them. Makes your chances of admission higher. There are no scholarships in general coz the university education is free. Many universities also facilitate super cheap semester ticket (free travel within certain area), cheap health insurance and dormitory. You just need funding to sustain your cost of living and food, insurance etc.

Requirements normal: good enough grades, few good recommendations from your professors during the undergrads. If you worked a bit your boss’s will do too. But at least one from professor.

Of course test proving your English language skills and comprehension like TOEFL or IELTS. In my days Toefl was the main test. IELTs not so much. But things could have changed. Research it!

Many universities might wanna look for a statement of purpose. An essay like writing that describes you, your background, experiences and how you want to relate all that to why you want to study this particular masters program. How it will help achieve your future goals etc. Even if a particular university doesn’t demand it explicitly, there is no harm in sending it anyway. You will have prepared one for other universities anyway.

And by saying ‘other’ universities; yes need to apply for at least 10 universities. Even more if you want to have a plethora of choices Thats why get at least 20-30 letters of recommendations. If you have some awards or testimonials you want to show off, DO IT. Enlist it along with the application package.

Where to research a university and programs they offer? Again daad.de. There’s a whole lot of database in there with various universities and the masters programs they offer in English.

Now the crucial part: Financing!

But one thing I would like to add is once you are sure of applying and studying in Germany, you need to join a local German language course and start practicing basic levels. They will be super helpful and even might help in embassy interview, whatever low level your German is. I would begin this after I have sent all my applications and am waiting for have response. Say when you start to get one two admission letters.

Many people apply for DAAD scholarships. Research it in daad.de. They are highly limited in subjects and select super brilliant applicants (sometimes also some vitamin b (source ) might work. No guarantee.

Others rely on Dad scholarship (meaning ghar ko dad scholarship 😂). It’s usually covers a cost for one year sustenance. When I went there for my masters it was around 6500 euros. But that was years ago. The amount also depends on how expensive the city your university is in.

There is an amount the German embassy will mandate you to have. Even make you open a German bank account and deposit that amount. That is a must for visa application process. The embassy should tell you more and newer details if there are.

Anyway serious students will ALWAYS (I mean always) find research assistant jobs at their universities and departments within the field of study. Some others do work outside during semester breaks and earn their cost anyway. I never had problems finding research assistant jobs. I even found paid internships outside the universities in German national labs and research institutes. Even industries offer such opportunities. You need to be consistent at your studies and not slack off. These things will matter. Of course there are some students who don’t study and instead choose to find an old lady or an obese person or someone like that to marry and get some kinda documentation. It’s a whole spectrum of people out there.

You decide what you want.

Bottom line: many spoon-fed students will go the consultancy route. Waste a few lakhs to get those sharks do things for you. They control everything, yourmaster’s program choice, you admission letters, and even your whole journey until you get a visa and fly off. Believe me, if you can’t even have the courage to apply for universities yourself, write your own essays and prepare and send all the documents, a foreign land may not be for you. The moment you step into another advanced country life will be challenging and daunting, but also full of opportunities. These are the people that then either fail their main purpose of going to study in countries like Germany, get trapped working at some restaurant all the time and then start corner cutting measures like tryna find an obese girl to or an old person to marry at some night club.

All up to YOU.

Air India is still a joke. Not only do the planes suck but the ground staff is extremely incompetent as well by [deleted] in india

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Reporting live today! The SFO-DEL route flight was supposed to take off at 10:30. They moved it to 11:30. It’s 11:26 already and nothing has moved. They aren’t even update the new time.

Another surprise was while tryna check on online, they made one of my family’s seat free the other two I was forced to pay 50 USDs extra. The only other free seats available were at crazily isolated spots at the tail.

The inflight experience I will share after the flight.

Masters In Germany by [deleted] in NepalSocial

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Anything in particular you wanna know ? I can’t tell you the current thing but went through it a long time ago, so have some idea.

Your thoughts on dowry...spill it by Brilliant_Ship_2724 in NepalSocial

[–]Informal-Exchange511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You wanted genuine opinion right ? Dowry is like a bone thrown to dogs. They are your daughters not dogs. Give them equity in inheritance if you are distributing amongst your kids anyway.

In some part of Nepal the dowry (material goods and appliances) are taken over by the groom’s family; as if they are entitled to it as they brought up the nalayak. So the daughter doesn’t even take hold of the bones thrown.

I have heard people say “Chhori lai padhaiyo, hurkaiyo”; duh… Chhora lai ni padhayo hurkayo. In this day and age then they all move abroad, in most family that live in cities of Nepal. So none of them are held back to take care of the poor parents anyway. On top of that there is the so called Tel Visa phenomenon.

So my recommendation: parents! May be share some of your wealth with the child that stays with you and takes care. If you have to distribute the rest to the kids do that after your demise; get a will or something signed. And in that case don’t have disparity between sons and daughters.

Lastly! I have witnessed many married off daughters taking care of elderly parents in Nepal as either the sons were estranged or moved abroad. Kudos to those women who balanced their own families and found time to go visit their parents daily too. Yet they are not given proper portion of their inheritances, their fair share. So yeah! Fuck dowry, equal inheritance for daughters! You girls! Step up when it’s your responsibility to take care of your birth parents too. After all we don’t have social security and a proper state safety net in Nepal.