tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56451537978664802502024-03-28T13:13:14.655+06:00 Writing My Own Unwritten Lines Finding Solace in Wordsདཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-21097355683454684062021-08-16T16:56:00.004+06:002021-08-16T16:56:23.918+06:00༆ །ཤིང་མཁར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་དགའ་ལ་སྐྱིད།། ༆ །ཤིང་མཁར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་དགའ་ལ་སྐྱིད།།
སྐྱིད་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའི་གླུ་དབྱངས་མཆོད་པ་ཕུལ།།
མཆོད་པ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཡབ་སྲས་མདུན་དུ་ཕུལ།།
གནས་མཆོག་ཆོས་ལ་བཀོད་པའི་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཡོད།།
ཤིང་མཁར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་དགའ་ལ་སྐྱིད།།
སྐྱིད་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའི་ཞབས་བྲོ་མདུན་དུ་ཁྲབ།།
མདུན་དུ་མཆོད་པ་སྣ་ཚོགས་སྤུངས་སེ་སྤུངས།།
ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ཟད་པ་མེད་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཡོད།།
ཤིང་མཁར་བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་དགའ་ལ་སྐྱིད།།
སྐྱིད་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའི་ཞབས་བྲོ་གཡས་སུ་ཁྲབདཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-75037038274895288732021-08-16T16:45:00.005+06:002021-08-16T16:45:37.421+06:00༆ །བསླུ་མེན་སྐྱབས་མཆོག་བླ་མ།། ༆
།བསླུ་མེན་སྐྱབས་མཆོག་བླ་མ།། ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཀློང་ཆེན་རབས་འབྱམས།།
ད་ལྟ་མཇལ་ན་དགའ་སོང་།། ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྒྱལ་བའི་དབང་པོ།། གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པའི་བུ་ལ།།
ཕ་ཡིས་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབ་མཛོད།། སྨན་ལྗོངས་སྦས་པའི་གནས་སུ།།
གདན་ས་གླིང་བརྒྱད་ཆགས་ནས།། འབྲུག་ཡུལ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཤར་ཡོད།། གནས་ས་ཤིང་མཁར་བདེ་གླིང་།།
རྒྱལ་བ་བཞུགས་ས་ཡིན་པས།། ད་ལྟ་བཞུགས་ན་དགའ་སོང་།། ཀུན་མཁྱེན་རྒྱལ་བའི་དབང་པོ།།
སྟོད་ན་རིབོ་ཟུར་ཆེན།། བདེ་བ་ཅན་དང་དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-43395391778116896982018-07-19T10:30:00.004+06:002018-08-14T08:39:54.015+06:00Just my Thoughts
Finally, after more than a
decade, Project DANTAK cryingly completed the construction of much hyped
Chukha-Damche bypass road. Like many other Bhutanese commuters, I am excited too
about shortened distance and prospect of cost saving on ever expensive fuel. In an opening ceremony, our Prime Minister
said, the road would remain as a symbol of Indo-Bhutan friendship. But I have
other དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-29152912779536773632018-07-17T09:51:00.003+06:002018-07-17T09:51:26.480+06:00Times do not change
Often we think 'times's changed'
And often we say, it really did.
But it's not.
We have four seasons.
There is sun and there is moon.
There is rain and there is shine,
There are rainbows,
There are clouds,
It's summer when its summer,
Like a running stream,
Rest of the seasons follows!
Hence:
Time's not changed!
It is rather us who have evolved over much.
We have དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-52411939771987474612016-02-04T12:58:00.001+06:002016-02-05T16:58:05.354+06:00From Gelephu
1st February 2016. New RRCO complex for Gelephu region was inaugurated by His Excellency Lyonpo Namgay Dorji, Minister of Finance. Officials from the Ministry of Finance and the members of parliament representing from the region were present with him. Present at the inauguration ceremony were the retired civil servants and the officials from the Sarpang Dzongkhag. Headed by Dasho Thrompon,དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com251tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-44413603551982455032015-11-10T16:54:00.002+06:002016-01-22T19:23:09.348+06:00Tribute to our Beloved Drukgyel Zhipa
Sometime in 2011, our popular blogger, Mr. Passu, in his blog "remembering-young-jigme-at-17." asked us these questions:
At 17, what were you doing? At 17 what are our kids doing now? Remember at 17, His majesty ensured happiness for all of us till the end of time. The best way to celebrate the life of the Great IV is to leave behind our excuses and start giving our best!
And here isདཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-72767202872655678662014-12-27T10:42:00.000+06:002015-11-10T13:34:22.864+06:00Nine Years In Paro Airport
I have completed my nine years in airport and soon I will be leaving for another place. After nine long years of attachment I feel like I am leaving my home. I met my wife in Paro, married her here and even raised my kids here. So Paro will always hold a special place in my heart.
One year ago, I wanted to move out. That time it was purely in the interest of my career advancement. It དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-7583362454815515502014-11-26T16:03:00.002+06:002014-12-14T15:12:47.259+06:00Chath Dorji of Shingkhar
If not thousand, I am certainly several hundred years old. I have lived all my life here in Shingkhar which is some 4000 meters above the sea level. To be more precise I live in an idyllic sanctuary of bliss. People also call it Dechenling. Bhutan has eight such sanctuaries. They were all named by the visiting Tibetan saint Longchenpa in 13th century.
Apa Chath Dorji of Shingkhar
དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-13354695232711647422014-11-02T15:46:00.002+06:002018-08-24T16:44:28.651+06:00Perhaps This is Life
October 2014 is gone. But I must say that no month in my life has kept me this busy. Running between home, office, hospital and the cremation ground, I never thought my simple life could suddenly become this busy.
First there was a case in ICU of Thimphu hospital. It was one serene morning when a phone call from Thimphu brought a ominous silence in my family. I heard my mother-in-lawདཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-61890158670019949522014-09-30T16:29:00.002+06:002014-09-30T16:33:07.594+06:00Sanctity of Jarung Khashor
Below is the portion of article I wrote for Bhutan airline's in flight magazine 'Kuzuzangpola'
Baudhanath Stupa and I
We all know Katmandu is home for some the most ancient Buddhist monuments. Therefore as a Buddhist, there is something so fulfilling about being able to go to Katmandu. Some Buddhist structures there are listed as UNESCO heritage monuments. Back then, as a village lad, I དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-28846967029078829272014-08-24T15:33:00.000+06:002014-08-25T16:56:48.006+06:00Exporting Cordeceps, The Dilemma of Bhutanese Millionars
Picture Coutesy: Lhendup Tharchen
In Bhutan, collection and trade in cordecep was legalized in 2004. The Royal vision behind this initiative was to bring economic blessings to the Bhutanese nomads. To keep this business exclusively for highlanders, the collection of the same is strictly monitored. After fixing the minimum royalty, the seasonal collection permits are issued by the Government དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-39001307338946165192014-07-27T16:40:00.002+06:002014-07-29T09:41:12.476+06:00Post Pay and Tax Revision Thoughts
Yesterday, I received my new pay slip and finally I did my own math. Yes, the raise was minimal. I am sure it’s not even going to cover up the inflationary gap. But all thank goes to my house owner. At the moment, there is no sign of rent revision from his side. Elsewhere, some of my friends have already received a rent revision notice.
In places like Thimphu, Phuentsholing and Paro, དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-86605100185991206902014-07-23T12:47:00.000+06:002014-07-25T14:27:33.482+06:00Passing Through the Dark Economic Days?
One year ago, I wrote a post titled "eventful" July 2013. I chose to call it a "memorable month". With new set of politicians in power that promised "service with humility" and "power to the people", I had reason to harbor lots of positive expectations. Their alluring 100 day manifesto, I thought was the promise of the century. The much needed "change" it seemed was in the offing. དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-65738945824672749502014-07-12T06:12:00.001+06:002014-07-12T06:25:02.929+06:00For Now, Good Bye to Seoul
After a meaningful 2 weeks in Seoul, Korea, I am finally going back. My training has been a great achievement. I had the opportunity of being trained by some of the best analysts in the world. At the end of our training, fours of us, -me and my friends from Bangladesh, Philippines and Sri Lanka, we all learned that report writing is fun but at the same time can be sensitive too. In my དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-49079691237711543912014-07-07T18:48:00.002+06:002014-07-09T04:14:29.109+06:00Tenda Tsechu In Shingkhar 2014
I am writing this post from South Korea.
Today (on the birthday of Guru Rimpoche) if I were in Bhutan, I would have been among the people of my village. I would have been with my father and mother, with my siblings and with my relatives. I would have got all sorts of accolades and applause from our elders for consenting to sponsor a day long Tsechu. I would have been in marvelous དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-40300971887861002962014-07-06T20:45:00.001+06:002015-04-23T19:42:06.323+06:00Chang Deok Gung Palace of Joseon Dynasty
Few months ago, I wrote a short post on Joseon Dynasty of Korea. By the way Korea was ruled by the Kings of Joseon dynesty for good number of years. Today the dynasty is long dead and gone. But there is an air of respect and gratefulness which Korean people still show to the their long lost leaders. Some of the palaces built as early as the 13th century are still preserved as though the royal དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-65603147520833446642014-07-06T02:44:00.000+06:002014-08-04T06:06:33.403+06:00Living in Gangnam City
Without much hitch, I have completed my first week here in Korea. Each day has been an exciting one. I am privileged to have the company of my three trainee friends from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Philippines. While the Lankan girl and Philipino guy are friendly, its the humor of our Bangladeshi friend that keeps us all going.
According to Mr. Naser, the Asst. Director of དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-26309589621359599532014-07-01T21:09:00.002+06:002014-09-30T14:40:47.723+06:00Suiting and Booting Abroad; My Way
With this trip abroad, much to the envy of my friends, I have been to several countries already. Each travel has been an exciting enterprise. There are some enriching experience which I cannot put in words. They can be only felt. Although I have never benefited monetarily from the travels, there are few intrinsic things which even million dollar wouldn't buy. The bond of friendship I tie དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-2950878624945171812014-06-30T03:58:00.000+06:002014-07-07T10:14:16.892+06:00My Second Trip to South Korea
Thanks to my department and RILO AP office, I am here in South Korea for the second time. Its always a pleasure and happiness travelling to such a beautiful country. I flew in Drukair till Bangkok on 28th June 2014. His Excellency the Prime Minister of Bhutan was also on the same flight. While the plane stopped in Bhagdora, I had the opportunity of being asked by the PM about my travel. I དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-40604697782945024202014-06-15T15:43:00.000+06:002014-06-15T15:53:20.905+06:00Prime Minister Modi in Bhutan
Today is 15th June 2014 and is a big day for Bhutan. The Prime Minister of India is finally here. Although we (the airport staffs) were told in advance to wear nicely cleaned, pressed and polished uniforms, on the day when PM's flight finally landed, we were all chased out by the securities; -Like the dogs.
As per media speculations, he is rumored to have come with billions of rupees to དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-11010409912959212942014-06-11T00:51:00.001+06:002014-09-09T07:24:49.231+06:00My Trip to Katmandu, Nepal
out of hundred shots, I think I nearly got one right.
Few days ago, (on 7th June 2014) I had the privilege of boarding the Bhutan airline’s inaugural flight to Katmandu. There were over 70 people who were carefully selected and invited by the management of the airline. It included two Ministers, few senior bureaucrats, few media people and lot of travel agents. Although I was not in the listདཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-18673781355660658402014-06-06T09:41:00.001+06:002014-06-06T18:55:49.251+06:00Big News for Bhutan
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi
As per media sources in India, the new Indian Prime Minister, His Excellency Narendra Modi has picked Bhutan for his first foreign visit. He is scheduled to visit Thimphu any time in the month June. I am excited and happy. In preparation to his visit we are going to see so many training flights in Paro. I am also expecting meet some Indian officials དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-62555060588682811092014-06-05T08:37:00.000+06:002014-06-06T10:40:22.235+06:00The Legend of Wang Sisi Chumo
Over the last many years, I must have traveled Thimphu-Paro highway over thousand times. On all the occasion I have seen the sight that has captivated me millions. Its the palace of Wang Sisi Chumo.
Today I wanted to write a brief account of the same. It is all based on the oral stories. Its totally non academic, and hence I could be wrong. Anthropologists and historians are thereby དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-36423352615811014602014-06-03T01:00:00.000+06:002014-06-03T07:11:21.981+06:00Woochu Naktsang
Every morning I open my window curtains, I see the majestic Woochu Naktsang. I helplessly see the same structure while closing same in the evening. Although inhabited by none, there is certainly an air of awe about the building. Its awesome ! The sheer size of the structure tells us that it was once a dwelling place of an aristocrat of the region. As such Woochups are known for དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5645153797866480250.post-89289172583862375792014-06-02T15:16:00.000+06:002014-06-02T15:22:13.779+06:00Criminality and Sanctity of Economics
Pay hike for civil servants have just been announced. Its suppose to be a celebration time in the town. But the irony is that there is an avalanche of angry opinions gushing every where. While the topic has infuriated many, civil servants are musing and quite. Surely, there seem to be an issue. First People, it seems are angry with the Government for using a mathematical tricks. Second, དཔལ་ལྡན་བསོད་ནམས་ཉི་མས་སོ།།http://www.blogger.com/profile/14851417243526501752noreply@blogger.com6