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Overcome life

Cheers to 20 years, Overcome Life!!! :) - Cheers!!! :) Just realised now that this blog has been with me for 20 years now. Wow!!! Look how far I have grown and how much memories and moments I have...
Butterflies of Singapore

Life History of the Grey Tinsel - Life History of the Grey Tinsel (*Catapaecilma major emas*) *Butterfly Biodata: * *Butterfly Biodata :* *Genus :* *Catapaecilma* Butler, 1879 *Species :*...
Bhutan Land Of The Thunder Dragon

Bhutan Bird Festival 2024 - I just returned from attending the *Bhutan Bird Festival 2024* held at *Tingtibi, Zhemgang: 13th* and *14th November, 2024*. It was expected - and the Zhem...
Wild Junket

Spain with Kids: Tips from an Expat - Having lived in Spain for 8 years and returning every year to visit family, I’ve learned a lot about traveling Spain with kids. Here is my comprehensive gu...
Just like that

The Reason for not Losing the War - Just getting commissioned in December 1999. I was young and inexperienced. However, due to the security situation in southern Bhutan, most of us were dir...
Expand your horizons with lost writing

A Journey of Friendship - Yeshi and I Catching up with old friends is always a joy—it brings back so many memories and a wave of nostalgia for the good times that we will never q...
Dorji Wangchuk

What makes a great teacher - (Sharing my prepared speech at the Teachers Appreciation Dinner at Paro for teachers of the well-being club. 26 October 2024.) This year marks the 11th Yea...
Travel Photo Discovery

Road trip through Utah - Road Trip through Utah – Five Days Exploring Utah’s Best National Parks! Some of the most breathtaking, and I don’t use that word lightly, landscapes i...
PaSsu Diary

Gelephu Mindfulness City for Bhutanese - The world has made remarkable strides in the last few decades, advancing more in the last fifty years than it did in the previous fifty thousand. But thi...
Lobsang Nima's soul searching diaries

Bhutan’s AI Ambassador : Sonam Pelden - Evan SpiegelEvan Spiegel, the founder of Snap Inc. was one of the speakers at the Bhutan Innovation Forum 2024 at Paro, Pangbisa, Dungkar Dzong. His sess...
Ami Vitale | Photography

My Earth Essence Presets with Luminar Neo - I’m excited to announce my partnership with Luminar Neo. We have launched an exclusive Earth Essence Presets Collection that captures the essence of classi...
Paulo Coelho's Blog

- Top 10 Paulo Coelho Quotes: Your Roadmap to Success
Dumcho's NOTEBOOK

Ume Lam : The Middle Path - One of my friends who is self-funding his postgraduate studies shared his struggles in a sombre tone, indicating lower self-esteem. The gist of his talk...
Twilight Zone

Unforgettable Day - 😓 Yesterday was the weakest day of my whole entire life. I had to crawl my way to stay at my sister's place. At her Mont Kiara condo the concierge had to...
Rachna's Scriptorium

April IWSG Post and my Long Blogging Break - I was on a long blogging break for several reasons. For one I had to finish writing my books, I had to do the first round of editing for my debut adult...
The Novice Pen

2023 publications on teachers use of action research in Bhutan (a few more to be released) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/11356405.2023.2255798?needAccess=true https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2023.2230593 ht...
Untold Stories and un-revealed thoughts

A decade of service - Time does fly fast. It's already a decade into service. Looking back I don't really know if I have contributed anything solid to deserve this so-called ...
Colour your life with crayons... Pink-Blue... are d best!!!

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Thoughts and Works

5th July 2023 - Today, I went to ADB office after signing my agreement with them yesterday. I am hired on intermittent basis, for the next six months. My contract with th...
Riku Dhan Subba's Blog

A Must-visit Place in Damphu - The footpath along the highway between Damphu town and Damphu High School is a must-visit place in Tsirang. It’s serene, surreal, and hypnotizing for me....
Thoughts of Jigme Zangpo

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐌𝐀 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐧 - Of course, RMA stops education loans but if they open what is the solution to improve the current situation of the country? Even opening an education lo...
Sangay Cholden's Random Thoughts

Acknowledgement - The journey of my study was filled with recurrent question of ‘Why CST, why not Australia or other countries for masters?’, from anyone who I informed th...
Tshewangs' Journal

Application of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Strategy in History Class to Enhance Critical Thinking Skill of 8 th Standard Students - Abstract This action research was conducted in Thimyul Lower Secondary School in Lhuentse, particularly for class VIII students in History classes. It wa...
MY PAGE

My little angel - with your senseless gigglesyou woke me up with your pink toothless smileyou saw me off with your dimpled cheeks you greeted me homemy little angelmy stress...
To Teach and Learn

How To Raise a Feminist Son - Reading this book by Sonora Jha has been so very helpful in making me reflect on my thoughts and feelings that were until now so very reticent. It has al...
Norbu Wangdi's Blog

Biography and Legacy of Togden Ugyen Chogyal in Kheng Phykor (Shingkhar and Bardo Gewogs), Zhemgang. - *Introduction* Photo courtesy: Facebook Togden Ugyen Chogyal (1919-2001) popularly known as Meme Lama in Kheng Phykor (upper Kheng), Zhemgang remained...
i Relate To That

Snowfall after 64 years - Punakha Dzong, Picture from Kuensel This morning at 7:30 I was woken up by a call from my father from Wangdue. He was a little alarmed that I was still s...
Thoughtfolio

His Majesty's Address to the Nation on 114th National Day - *"As underpinned in our age-old saying, “the golden yoke of secular laws,” accountability must henceforth become the cornerstone of governance. We must c...
a WiSe VOICe

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Writing My Own Unwritten Lines

༆ །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...
Wangcha Sangey

The Olympics in Tokyo. - Japanese athletics have usually performed well in the past Olypics with good tally of gold medals. This time in their home ground the story may sour. Hard ...
Tshering Tobgay

Keeping Bhutan safe - A 72-hour lockdown has been imposed on Phuentsholing’s “Megazone 2”. This is terrible news, as it has been only a few days since a 62-day lockdown that all...
Penstar

System Thinking - System is a collection of interrelated elements that create one complete and unified whole. All components within it constantly interact with each other to...
a ray of hope

THE EXCEPTION - I knew I was trying everyday every moment To let go you But I always find myself Coming back to you every time. I know You will never be mine Never...
Leythro- the Continuity of Fate

Letro: Internationals go Greifswald - This is just a copy paste of what is being reflected on the International go Greifswald web, part contributed by myself. Just in case they update the we...
i wonder and i still need answers...

Story of Namdu Dorji from Laya - Meet the healthy and hearty 2-year-old ‘Namdu’ (helicopter or plane) Dorji, who was born overdue after 10 months and 6 days at the JDWNRH after being ...
gyembonamgyal

A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON COVID -19 PANDEMIC - *A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON COVID -19 PANDEMIC* When the first Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) case was reported from China in late 2019, nobody thoug...
The Bubble Universes

Emerging infectious diseases and Bhutan: the case of 2019-nCoV - The worst pandemic in recent history was the 50-100 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu in 1918-1920. Bhutan was not spared from this pandemic where F...
Once Along the Journey of My LIfe

Hydroponics;Soilless cultivation- An option for the Young Bhutanese agri-entrepreneurs? - Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without the use of soil by using| nutrient rich solutions in a water solvent. In simpler terms, it is the art of ...
along life's journey...

no matter - no matter how we justify our silly actions the consequences are for us alone to bear to cry over connect the dots backwards our own actions come to light b...
Writers Association of Bhutan

I Remember - I REMEMBER. I jump quietly from rock to rock and ledge to ledge in the cliffs. My long bushy tail helps me make perfect landings on to the next rock. I am ...
Bill Guffey

Peace of Still Waters - This painting is being donated to Cumberland Valley Manor through the wonderful ongoing project of CVM Operation Renovation. The folks who work at CVM trea...
MY OPEN DIARY

A Dream from Classroom - The Druk Namrup Tshokpa’s one of the ambitious educational pledges – to do away with examination until Class VI threw the general public into a spin. Su...
Thoughts of the moment!

National Interest First - Politics is not only getting dirtier but dangerous too as less than a week remains for people to go to … More
Letters from Launna

I Will Be Me - It's been a long time since I sat down to write, I lost my muse ... it was easier to veg out in front of Netflix and binge watch show after show. If I di...
dIaRy Of MaD fAsHiOnIsTa

FAB OR DRAB - Face it, everyone is a sucker for a cute pajama set. Whether you like your personal style to be reflected in your pajamas, or you’re just looking for so...
Che Dorji learns to write

.1% of Somethingness and its magic - My wonderful brothers, sisters and friends taking a walk in the meadow of Phojikha valley 2900 msl a.k.a home of the endangered bird Blackned crane, who f...
Tashi's Deep Thoughts

Conversation with Jamba - This is the conversation with my daughter that I have written on April 27, 2017 which I failed to post. So here it is, for the amusement of my daughter whe...
Porky Pie

10 years passed - 2008 May 2 10:25 AM My mother breathed her last. A decade passed so fast. Dear mother, Please know that we always remember you. Whenever your children are ...
feelings n emotions

The Brown File - Miles away from the cozy town I had made a place I called home, I became just a mere brown file. I don’t know whether it was a blessing or curse but havin...
Studio Notes

Studio Notes is Moving! - Hi everyone, thank you for reading Studio Notes! I wanted to let you know that I am moving this blog to a new platform under FASO. In recent years par...
Mesmerised

Welcome Back - Holla People, I don't know from where to start. It's certainly quite long i m away from this blog. To be exact I lelt this page exactly on 21st March 2015....
Author LINGCHEN DORJI

- This site has moved to www.lingchendorji.com
Symphony

Changing times - Life is not a bed of roses, they said Slowly getting to realise what they meant The bubble wrap around me popping slowly but steadily Eyes opening up to thi...
Peace and Sustainability

On The Trails of The Divine Madman - *LosarJab Chorten to Khuruthang- From the Divine Madman's Hat to his Field:* *Beautiful and Blessed Lobesa*Lobesa is quite synonymous with Lam Drukpa Kuen...
Dhan's Ultrabook

A letter to Mom - Dear Ama, I’m always hoping that you are doing well and your health is better hai. I know I hardly call you but there are no single day where I ma...
Joy Lies Slain : Reading Thomas Hardy

Writing 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' - The cover to a recent mass-market edition of Thomas Hardy's third novel *A Pair of Blue Eyes.**A Pair of Blue Eyes* was Thomas Hardy's third novel. It is ...
Library of my Life

Feeling the Missing........ - The stone in my heart has just started to become lighter and lighter that suddenly, it feels so damn heavy with the approaching date for me to leave the pl...
Dawala Horgola

I fell in love twice in two hours - I go to my favorite café for my morning dose of caffeine. There is a sea of people. Every individual with unique thoughts, ideas and perceptions. Enslave...
Aspirations Juvenile

The theory of evolution and the Buddhist concept of ‘Karma’ - Recollections from the Tibetan Book of the Dead I have often heard among Tibetan intellectuals, a popular saying oft-repeated, “When the West was explorin...
SONAM TENZIN's BLOG

Happy ( Almost ) New Year. - 2016 has almost come to an end. The year blessed me with lots of opportunities and success. And I am happy that I could live through this year. Satisfied. ...
Journey with Choki G

SIKKIM – Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom ~ Andrew Duff - *A book review* Sikkim was an independent small nation in the Himalayas, like a fairy-tale kingdom with a king and an American queen. Sikkim is now an ass...
Namgay Opines

Lotus birth of Padmasambhawa: Unverifiable Myth or romanticized fact, Swat valley or Paghman? - For instance, had the death of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel not been revealed by Je Kuenga Gyeltshen, Bhutanese people would believe he is still alive and ov...
THE Abyss of Freedom

Speech at Motithang HSS - *I delivered this speech on 03rd September, 2016 at Motithang HSS. I was invited by my former English teacher, Madam Sonam Choden Lungten, who taught me ...
Dorji Wangchuk

Moving to new site - Dear bloggers fraternity and sisterhood, I am moving to my own domain name www.dorji-wangchuk.com See you there.
My Bizzare World

Stolen Glance - I closed my eyes Trying to conjure the images Of past and future together Then I felt an intense scrutiny From the guy next seat Making me fidget
DorjEE's BloG

- *THIMPHU CITY~ CAPITAL CITY OF BHUTAN. * The buildings in Bhutan when looked from far apart, it appears to be more like piles of Match stick boxes. Such a...
Tsem Rinpoche

12 Little Known Law of Karma that Will Change Your Life - (By Tsem Rinpoche) Dear friends around the world, I came across this article and thought to bring it here for strictly educational purposes. I think it is ...
Lungten Wangchuk

My Three Words For 2016 - It is really a difficult task for everyone to hold on with their new year resolutions because their resolutions are either too long or too prolix. I better...
Zhonba and PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo Shoot with Dema Yuden -
Langa Tenzin's Blog

Happy 108th National Day - Bhutan celebrates the 108th National Day today. Today was the day when the representatives of people of Bhutan unanimously agreed to put an end to the war...
Sherab Tenzin's Blog

An invitation letter to my old friend - Dear money, I am writing you today just to remind that it’s high time for you to visit me once more. I don’t remember when it was that last you visited me...
Freezing time

Stars With Fertility Problems - There are usually a variety of elements that can significantly affect your own body's. Preparing for Emotive Ivf Considerations By: Blossomivf India - IVF ...
my LITTLE VIEWS

Early Deepavali in Christchurch - There was sparkling lights dazzling in huge auditorium here at Christchurch. Ten's of thousands were gathered to mark the day. The day of lights and the ...
Pelmo's Journal

To the unknown - I sit here alone to watch the sunset But for a company I long For someone who is yet to come To whom I will belong But when the sun sinks, I wonder Who could...
Bhutanomics : The Bhutan Analytics

Nubri and RICB – Cozy Cozy - Ever since our ace sleuth Goodpath probed the Nubri RICB story that was too cozy for comfort, Goodpath’s inbox has been overwhelmed with emails of all so...
Life at Willow Manor

New Blog - I will now be posting on a new blog, *Tess Abroad. *Check out my thoughts on living on a new side of the Atlantic. Here's the link
SONAM DORJI'S BLOG

Tibetan Book of the Dead - Final Review - I have written few lines about the aforementioned book when I started reading the book. I remember that I have promised all my readers that I will post fin...
Sangay Phuntsho's Blog

Birthday - Today's generations are fortunate in a number of ways, many are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Everything flows like a running river to the ocea...
And there's more to life

Bottom of the ranking, but top of the world; story of Bhutan's Maiden world cup qualification 2018 - Football is God’s Gift to the humanity. History books are filled with sporting events which brought about peace, excitement and above all, unity amongst the...
Dhendup's diary

- *What is your real job???* *“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”* ...
summer love...(--:

d tInY tOeS - Everything starts form you... those tiny feet, little fingers, small eyes,hands, lips i mean everything in you is cute. i have Neva seen anything as cute a...
Building up a life

Living and Believing the Distance - *Dear you* *Its just been hours since you have been gone * *But hours just seems to stretch too long* *It will soon be mont...
TEA PEA'S BLOG

Teacher huh! - *Placement Day 1: Teacher Deployment* On the chilly morning of February 3, 2014, teacher and councilor graduates (225) holding Postgraduate Diploma in Educa...
Sonam's SillyWit

Rise off Women! - Now that it is fairly known there are more girls than boys in our schools, i get nervous about my improved opportunities in near future. In my last post i ...
Blogyul

Riku Dhan Subba's Blog: Serving tea - Riku Dhan Subba's Blog: Serving tea: It’s stark midnight. Out on Thimphu Street was frost-cold and bone chilling. Drayangs, karaoke and discotheques - all ...
Bhutan Literature

Certifying Friendship - We had two days of mind grilling bulwark on Performance Measurement System in Thimphu. At the end of the session, my friend certified my participation.
A Mother's Journey

My Soul-Mate - In Paulo Coelho's *Brida, *he talks about soul-mate. The inert message indicates how the person we are entitled to spend our life with today need not neces...
Saamy's thoughts into words

Traditional conservation can it be for economic boom..? - *Loss of traditional structures an economic disaster in making, Dont you think so?* The Rupee crunch in shooting, I think is because of the adaption of mod...
MOUNTAINS & ANGELS

THE LADY - THE LADY; My Reflections and Tears... I’ve always wondered the question of Love and Sacrifice with much perplexity. I read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
EXPRESSING ME

INVICTUS - I always loved this piece of work by William Henley and when a movie with the same title appeared, I had to watch it. And today, I am ever more inspired. ...
SoNam TrAshii

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