Dechen's

I don't understand politics and high level talks. I don't know why, but I often have problems understanding big things or something requiring many procedures to be done. By the virtue of our beloved monarchs and my own past merit, by the nature of the place I live in, I was happy, satisfied and doing my regular duties. Few days back, while I am returning from the class I was shocked to see many of my fellow teachers with a head phone each and some sharing with others. Its an unusual scenario of our staff room. They were listening so attentively. I was curious and asked them, what are they listening to and they told me that our pay is going to be raised and they are listening to the parliament session on radio. The first thought that struck me was "No, it is impossible." I thought so because I heard and know that our country is having lots of debts. I am at least aware of our economic conditions though I stay in a remote part of our country. I had my next class, so ...

Today, we had a Cluster Based Inservice Programme in our school and I came to know an interesting thing.  I met a teacher who teaches at Khangrab CPS.  His name is Choki Dorji and he is from Benzibee, Tang, Bumthang. We chatted for sometime and I came to know that he was the first person registered in the civil registration. He comes first in terms of rank of citizenship identity card from our country. Going by the alphabetical order, Bumthang comes first from the rest and his village Benzibee comes first from Bumthang.  Since his name starts from 'C' , he ended up becoming the first person to get photographed for Citizenship identity card despite many people whose names also start with 'C'. Though there can be coincidences in such cases, I personally feel its a wonderful coincidence. One would not get such opportunity even by chance if we dont have a great deal of merit and karma. To be on the first rank of about 741,822 people, without any effort !

Dear Dechen's, Yesterday was one of the happiest day of my life. We had the honor to have an audience with Ashi Kuenzang Choden, the first women writer from Bhutan. We invited her as a guest speaker as we are observing writing week for the first time in our school. Listening to her soft soothing words of wisdom,  changed my very notion of writing. She explained writing in a very simple and interesting manner. She told us that we shouldnot be afarid of grammatical mistakes and structures while writing which I worry about every time. In her writing secrets she shared with us how she struggled as a sstudent, how she came to love English and how she gets inspiration from small simple things. From now on, I will not fear as long as I have interest and as long as I can express my thoughts.  Mistakes will no longer bother me now! She also talked about how she wrote Dawa. I read the story but it was not as touching as she summed up to us in about 10 minutes. Her English was very...

It’s been almost 2 months since I didn’t write on my blog. Blogging is something I love doing though my writing is not that good. Although I am not a regular blogger, I really miss doing it these days because I don’t have access to internet.hehe. “We know the value of something, by the want of it”, truly said! I regret for complaining about the speed of wireless connection back in college, now that I don’t have any access to internet and broadband connection is ten times slower than the slow wireless connection in college. After my RCSE selection test, I am placed here in Tang Middle Secondary School under Bumthang Dzongkhag. TANG, as it sounds, has a remarkable and beautiful meaning. Legends have it that Guru Rinpoche created a wooden airplane in which the mythological KHI-KHA-RA-THOE and his descendants took off and landed here in Tang (creating the sound TANG), hence the place got its name. It’s unbelievable that Guru created Aeroplane before Wright Brothers did. And the place w...

James Barrie said, "God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December." This post contains some reminiscences of my class mates, some of the interesting things I want to remember. I hope my friends won't mind for writing about them here. Its because I find it interesting.  Lopen Zhip Tshoel (Research). Phub Dorji was the Lopen Zhip Tshoel of our class. He got this name because during discussions and question answer sessions he would always say that he did some research and found out something else to support his answer. Actually he really does that in real. He chases every lecturer and enquires a lot if he had doubts which many of us don’t dare to do. For this reason, we despise him sometimes for making the class bit longer especially when we wanted free periods. But his persistence helps us a lot at the end of the semester. A true lover and a very sincere talented guy. Lopen Pey Tam (Quotes) We can, with 100% expect him to utter ...

 The past four years were the most indelible moments of my life. When I first joined college in 2009, four years sounded like eternity. I would often wonder, When will the training period end? What am I going to do in such a long time? Or am I gonna go out of here a little older and a little taller? (hehe) Now it’s already 2013 and I am out of there. Looking back now and answering the questions I used to ask myself, those four years passed me without even a warning notice. I learned many things and I am loaded with lots of unforgettable carefree memories. The only sad thing is I am still the same little Dechen both in height and size, haha. The days were as tough as drinking a cup of tea. Others say “not as easy as drinking a cup of tea” but I say TOUGH because drinking a cup of tea to me is not an easy task. One will end up burning one’s mouth if one didn’t check if it’s hot, or the tea would not be tasty if it cooled too much. We need to know when and how to drink the tea ...

This book was on my shelf since 2006. I never attempted to read it.   I always preferred to read novels of Daniel Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Agatha Christie, Nicholas Sparks and etc. Finally I read it and it was a nice change. This novel is first novel by a women to come out of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. Unlike those novels written in western context, this novel based on a Bhutanese setting represents various aspects of rich Bhutanese culture and pattern. Photo from Google. It gives a clear and tough picture of the kind of life a Bhutanese village woman lives. The importance of Karma or one’s actions, whether good or bad is clearly portrayed. This novel gives the message that each human being will experience the consequence of his/her Karma in one or other way, in this birth itself. There is no escape from that. God has created each of us in this way. The author,   Kunzang Choden , in this novel tells the story of...