King Gyanendra is the recent king of Nepal – and will probably be the last one if nothing went wrong (or went right?) in Nepal. Whereas Sun Quan is a legendary character from a classical chinese epic, Romance of Three Kingdom (a.k.a. Sam Kok). (Hey, so what is the relationship between these two? One of them came from eon ago, and the other is the recent persona!) Well, the relationship between these two characters will be explained later – or perhaps you will be able to deduce it from the explanation of their background below.
Let's talk about Sun Quan first, since he is the older character. =)) Sun Quan is a prince from Wu Kingdom in the era of Three Kingdom, the second son of Sun Jian. The Kingdom of Wu is one of the three big forces at that time. Their leader was Sun Jian, the father of Sun Quan and Sun Ce. Unfortunately, Sun Jian died and leave the kingdom to the crown prince, Sun Ce. According to the legend, Sun Ce was the brightest ruler of Wu, even better than his father. Thus, Sun Quan was so relax upon the possibility of ruling the land. Unfortunately, even the brightest star should fade away, thus died Sun Ce of illness. The death of Sun Ce forced Sun Quan to assume the cape of the ruler. He was so hesitated, since he never dreamed of being a king, since he considered that his brother was a better ruler than himself. But, the show must go on, Wu must stand out among Shu and Wei. And history noted, the early death of Sun Jian and Sun Ce would raise Sun Quan to the stage of history. 
Enough with Sun Quan, let's take a big leap to the present day. The next story took place in a country next to China, Nepal. As most people know, Nepal is the only Hindu kingdom left in the whole world. But at the end of the 20th century, something happen there. A wise king Birendra and his family was shot by the drunken prince till death. What was the motives? It was simply because King Birendra didn't allow the prince to marry a girl of his choice. At dinner party, this prince shot down his whole royal family, including King Birendra and the crown prince Dipendra, leaving only Gyanendra, the brother of Prince Dipendra. With no one left to serve as king, Gyanendra was appointed to replace both Birendra and Dipendra. (Okay, I got your point. The similarity is in the king – crown prince – replacement, right?) However, unlike Sun Quan who finally rose to the center of the stage, Gyanendra faced a lot of problem. And the ultimate problem to come happened when Nepal finally held a general election. This election was won by the Maoist party, the party which wants to eliminate monarchy at Nepal. What happened next? Well, since this is a real world, Maoist gave a month-time to the royal family to prepare for their downfall. After a month, the monarchy of Nepal will be completely eliminated, changed to republic. And there won't even be a symbolic king as in many other countries. Hhh, so what is the point of writing this down? Nothing. I just instantly remember Sun Quan of Wu when reading the article of Gyanendra and the downfall of Nepal's monarchy this morning. They came from the similar tragedy, but unfortunately ended in a different way. Sun Quan managed to reach glory, while Gyanendra should suffer the fate as the last emperor of Nepal. Be patient, king! Even the monarchy of Nepal is no more, the romanticism will still be there, in the heart of the people.
Eh, additional trivial things. If Sun Quan lived in the era of Three Kingdom, I read that Nepal is surrounded also by two big forces, India and China. Strange, so strange! Is this a cycle of history????? Gyahahahahaha!
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