Life long expectations...

                                                

                                              In life you expect happiness,
                                                        but sadness is a part too


                                               In life you expect love,
                                                             but hatred is a part too


                                               In life you expect friends,
                                                             but enemies are a part too


                                                In life you expect success,
                                                              but failure is a part too


                                                In life you expect smiles,
                                                           but tears are a part too


                                                In life you expect togetherness,
                                                           but loneliness is a part too

A small way of giving back to the society

GyG members

One day after work, a friend invited me for a cup of coffee, I accepted the offer and went to his office (which is nearby). It had been long since I met him, so we had lots of things to talk about. We walked to his office canteen and he asked me sit, while he ordered coffee.

There were other people sitting in the room and they smiled, I smiled back. After a while my friend came back with another friend (our common friend). I was happy to see him too.

We were sitting and suddenly one of the person there said, we should start our meeting now. he asked each of us to introduce ourselves. I was confused and said I had just come for tea. My friends insisted that I should introduce myself and I did.

Later I found out that they were discussing on forming an international youth group in Bhutan. Nothing could be resolved that day, so the meeting concluded with the decision to meet again.

I though, I could be of some help so I accepted to come again.

The next meeting, had more people come and attend, and during that it was confirmed that opening an international youth group in Bhutan would be difficult.

There was many follow up and some people stopped coming but there were others others who joined. Finally we came up the group Go Youth Go (GyG).

Today GyG is doing a lot of things, from engaging the youth, entertaining patients, social services and cleaning campaigns. I had always wanted to do something for the society and GyG gives me the right platform to do so.

GyG is not just a group, but we are more like a family.

Lessons from a little girl

There are times when we learn lessons from the younger generation and at times they give us the courage and strength to move on. After BBS had featured a story about this little girl (http://www.bbs.bt/news/?p=12208) who wrote with her feet, we went to visit her. 

Tshering with her best friend

Tshering Lhamo studying at Zangtherpo Community Primary School in Bumthang is just 10 but she is a lesson for most of us. She had a stroke when she was a baby and then she was not able to move her hands. That never stopped her, she taught herself how to write with her feet. 

She is one of the brightest students in her class.

Her best friend who sits near her helps her pick up pencils from her pencil box. If only we could have a physiotherapist who could help her, her live would have been so much more comfortable. Her speech is also not very clear but she always seems happy, never complaining about anything.

  

She was such an inspiration for me. Really made me feel so proud. Thank you Tshering for teaching me a lesson of being happy the way you are.

The crazy pedestrain day

Ever since the government has declared every Tuesdays as pedestrian day, I have not complained and walked as an obedient citizen.

I even shared my views with  a weekly paper stating that it is good to walk and that if government had built safer roads more pedestrians would be there.

I heard a lot of people complain about the day but I always though it was not so bad until today. I have an office guest who has to be dropped to Paro. The guest has been kept in a hotel in town so we had to get a permission from the police for movement of our vehicle on the P Day.

On Monday, I went to the SP's office of the traffic division but he was not in his office so I approached the OC with my application. The OC said they never give movements to vehicles for guest and that we should go to Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB). The TCB did not give us once since we are not a tour agent. We went from pillars to post but we did not give up.

Finally we got the movement letter, now I understand when people complain