Happy Blessed Rainy Day

Hope there will be drizzle and mizzle tomorrow. Hope the sun will be brilliance. Hope I can dream parents tonight. I hope my relatives and friends will have wonderful time with their dear and near one. High above with great smile I pray that all beings on earth survive happily tomorrow. 

Bhutanese are ready to enjoy and celebrate the day as Blessed Rainy Day. Government offices, schools, and institutions are closed for the day. People take bath to purify and to cleanse the negatives and defilements from body, mind and speech.  The day also marks the end of monsoon season.  Families traditionally gather for meals. 

I wish Happiness and hope all people will smile throughout the day to remember as history in their life. 

Happy Blessed Rainy Day.

Rose

Q & A on Blogging and Bloggers

Firstly, let me thank Madam Rekha Mongar for the initiative of the wonderful Q & A on Blogging and Blogger’s Tag.  It is indeed first of its kind among Bhutanese bloggers. It facilitates to understand more about the fellow Bhutanese bloggers that are blooming day by day. The genuine reasons and the idea behind their blog and interest will let know the effect in one with writing. Thank you senior and fabulous Bhutanese bloggers for driving me to write little I can. 

Q: Why did you start blogging in the first place? And what’s the story behind your blog title?

I never knew about blogging in the first place. In the second place I am not good in writing, but I like to scribble my thoughts. In the third place, I could find information everywhere. It is readily available on websites, news papers, from radio, and verbal interaction with friends and so on… I was reading Bhutan Times news paper once upon a time when I was in first year. There was an interesting article authored by the present prime minister. Since then I noted his website id and was regular visitor and reader on his blog. Then I thought why I can’t I have my own blog? I was inspired by his Excellency.  I have my own thoughts and feelings. The thoughts and feelings that I feel will be worth sharing though it depends on the readers. This is the story behind for coming up with the idea of blogging. 

 

I was shaped to better man by my teachers. They corrected me in every wrong that I did. They told me where to go and what to choose in life. I have nothing to present them as gift, be it on teachers’ day or during farewell dinner except that I study hard and make them proud. I had my Geography teacher when I was in tenth standard. His name was Cholden Khandu. He was a cool guy as human being and good leader for me as teacher. He was in no doubt my best teacher. As a token of thank to him, the name of my blog – Sangay Cholden’s Random was born. It is indeed my dedication platform to all my teachers. 

Q: How long have you been blogging? Where are you based?

It is almost three years that I was into blogging. I started posting from October 2010 and till date I have posted 174 posts that are tagged under different levels. 

I am base in College of Science of Technology, Phuntsholing currently. I am not sure where I will be after my graduation and I contemplate that I got to be in internet access area. 

Q: How do you schedule your blog post? Daily or weekly? Or as and when inspiration strikes you?

I don’t have any particular time that is solely dedicated and scheduled to update and post on my blog. As and when philosophical and poetic inspiration strikes I write and post. In an average I could post five to six posts in a month. 

Q: Does your family and friends know about your blog?

Yes. My friends know about my blog. Certainly I feel sometimes very proud to hear my friends call me to say about my article. It motivates me to write more and share with them. The more I write, the more I learn about myself. This is the magic of writing.

My Dedication to Lyonchen Jigme Yeozer Thinley - II

Beyond the law of the land, there is a law of humanity, which is way above.

Beyond the law of the land there is a law of humanity which is way above. I was into social networking sites since the day I joined the college. It is the platform used for both good and bad. There is a choice of anonymous and real. Users go for anonymity to defame and allege someone. But the truth behind them is never known to be unknown and defamed to the best possible extent with whatever vocabulary they choose to portray. Given a choice of anonymous, people overlook the human ethic and self-censorship. 

In the little country that is hardly known to the outside world and that people believe in lay jumdray, the proximity of social division is questionable. It is not more than even a decade into a democracy. But the things shapes like the democracy was legendary. 

It is indeed very sad that the person who was involved in shaping the cause of the nation way long ago, since the start of his career, ultimately stepped down. It was celebrated for a few and a great loss for many and to the nation. A few groups turned what he did and contributed to his motherland into an agenda to defame and falsely accuse him. The endless debate about the seeming negligence of the former government resulted in nothing but a division in unity that we had. But I hope the successful formation of a new government was the best rejuvenation. 

Every step that the country and its people move ahead is a success. It is the new thing for the new times and change for the cause. Definitely people yearn for the change. But the change with unfairness and involving outside force is not a good sign of good change. It is indeed very sad that the India was involved directly or indirectly in the second general election. It is the direct question that we subject need to ask about the sovereignty of country. 

Was the meeting with the Chinese government clandestine? Or does it was a clandestine operation of JYT? Does JYT’s act really contravene? Was this the caprice of one man? 

Involvement of India in the Bhutanese election has resulted in the question of the sovereignty of GHN Bhutan, and the dignity of the first democratic leader is completely spoiled. 

Don’t we need to optimize our own unity and identity?

It is the remedial measure we have opted for by rejecting JYT. 

So, lastly, I wish his Excellency, the former PM, a good and healthy life ahead. You will be in the heart of many no matter what few social media users define to tag you for. 

My simple poem dedicating for your excellency; 

The horizon was clear and wide.

The beautiful flower was in the aroma of midges.

The country made a long journey.

The bounty was not like in tourney.

Jigme Yeozer Thinley, the ex-PM,

You will be remembered round the a.m. and p.m.

Round the clock the country desires you.

Abiding memories under thy leadership,

True citizen is inscribed in you - the son of Bhutan!!

Trashi Delek!!

My Dedication to Lyonchen Jigme Yeozer Thinley - I

I am enjoying everything by default. I am a loyal son to a humble father and caring mother. I am Bhutanese. I am a Buddhist. I am a student trainee. I am a devoted citizen of the country that is roughly six years old after it was transformed into a democracy. I have my own default right and responsibility. I fulfill my obligations as defined by the law of the land. 

Let me introduce my village first. If you turn the page of history, you will see the history stained with the name Gomdar. The slogan “drowa meyee wangcha go rang go” will be bold on the page of Bhutanese history. My gewog, Wangphu, was bifurcated from Gomdar gewog as per the 85^th National Assembly resolution. Up on the plateau, which is vividly seen as tabled on the slope, is my village, Bayyuel Pangthang. 

Until the first democratic election, the village, remained untouched. My father in particular and villagers never remembered any high officials paid a visit to the village when it was under Gomdar gewog. Some grandparents said once upon a time a minister named Tamshing Jakar visited the village when the gewog was under Trashigang Dzongkhag. There was no electricity, farm road, or mobile network connectivity, and not enough drinking tap water. People had to walk hours to attend meetings at the Gewog. The staple crop of the community is maize, and it has the potential to produce a huge quantity of mandarin. Mandarin is the commercial crop. Everything was a struggle. People had to wake up as early as 3 am in the morning and prepare to reach Mandarin at the road point, Tokorong, which is about 8 hours walking with mules and horses. Their hard work paid off, placing them on the edge of self-sufficiency and poverty. 

After the 2008 election and with the unanimous majority of the people elected, Ugyen Dorji as MP Representative from the Deothang-Gomdar constituency, the faith of the community under Wangphu Gewog was changed. 

Everything said and promised was fulfilled under the dynamic leadership of ex-Lyonchen Jigme Yeozer Thinley. Whatever ex-MP UgyenDorji made pledges were all delivered. First the community got mobile connectivity, both T-Cell and B-Mobile. When people were struggling to get their mobile phones charged, the villages were brightened with electricity. When people were happily in the light of modern facilities, the winding road made its journey through the sloppy terrain of the community. It suffices for all the tediousness of transporting the mandarin. Within a short span of five years under the DPT government, everything in the community was rewarded. And they are now self-sufficient. 

Like my community, I am sure that almost all the pledges promised were fulfilled because 99% of the pledges were reported completed. 

Every nook and corner of the nation with human settlement was connected with roads, mobile network connectivity, electricity, and safe drinking water. 

Sooner or later the new campaign for the current government began, and the poor quality—muddy road—became the main agenda to criticize the former government. Even too few sections of the electorate—an apolitical body—utter the same reason.

It is sometimes very funny when I relate such to the technical reality. Nobody questions or alleges the government on the eco-friendly construction of the road, though everything is mourned for budget constraints and the economy of the nation. It is impossible for the road to be stable and mud-free within this short period of time. Way below the cutting edge of the road, the beautiful and pristine slope became bald. The cultivated field below is spoiled with boulders and filled up with excavated earth materials. That was real trouble for the villagers. 

Travel back home. See and feel the development done by the DPT government. 

Part II about various allegations against him and his resignation, is coming soon...