Z is what I am ending with my a-z challenge april 2013

So with the letter 'Z' just 'Z', I am ending my a-z April 2013 Challenge and want to thank a-z challenge organizer. I am happy to have challenge for April 2013. I am glad and happy to meet my new friends. Thanks to a-z challenge.

Yeah flowers are in full bloom!

Azalea

Azalea

Thorn-less rose

Rose

Magnolia

Rose

Azalea

The above still photos are photographed at Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang, Thimphu on April 27, 2013

Xenophobia in relation to culture

Xenophobia means the fear or hatred for the strangers or the foreigners. Xenophobia in cultures occurs in many different regions of the world, especially with the regions with the rich cultures. It’s the feeling that is developed to hate other cultures or discriminate it. But the love for one’s culture is so intense and feels it is the most superior. It is always increasing with the increase in Xenophobia with other cultures.

Xenophobia usually helps in the preservation of one’s own culture but it usually leads to discrimination or hatred to the other cultures. It’s reversible with Xenophilia, which is the love for the other culture and feels that one’s own culture is inferior.

I believe this is the era of both the Xenophobia and Xenophilia, where different people have various perspective and attraction in relation to cultures. Some people don’t have both, they don’t love neither hate their own or other cultures.

Culture is what is used to be in the past, when the settlements were so isolated and not connected to each other. So in next few generations the world will probably have culture of information and technology, weather one is Xenophobia or Xenophilia  and the museums shall have many cultures to represent.

PS: No Proof Read & Personal Opinion

Walathang got beauty too!

On the way to Walathang, Punakha, Bhutan. Puna Tshang Chhu River

Bridge towards Walathang

Chorten (Stupa) on the hillside of Walathang

Livelihood at Walathang. Its the only water tap for around five households. 

Vanda, Vandopsis & Viburnum

Vanda hybrid (BKK)

Vandopsis undulata (E. Bhutan)

Viburnum sp. (E. Bhutan)

Urena lobata

Urena lobata Bongo, Bhutan, Feb 2013

 

Through the Time of My Life

God give me the grace!

For I know not what my life is about

It is the time that takes care of me

Holds my hand and shows me the direction

Sometimes it is right and sometimes wrong

Either way, it is the direction that beholds me

Through the time of my life

Now, I have come a long way

Even the time of my life has

I was a kid back then

I was a teenager five years back

And I know I will grow old one day

I am here walking every day and night

Through the time of my life

Wasn’t a time, I know not where I will be

Learned lessons through this dimension

And got teachings and blessings

I know not how far I will walk

Neither do I have the reason to walk

All I got is the time standing by my side

Leading me through the time of my life

PS: No Proof Read

Snow fall is never expected in Spring

Snow is never expected to fall in Thimphu in spring and neither it will fall.
But Thimphu city is freaking cold nowadays as if snow will fall for the third time.
But none will expect it, because it is known that it's showering everyday and snow never fell in spring.
I am feeling like its a very long winter and I am reminded of the snow fall.
So, here's some pictures of snow fall in far south Thimphu taken in February, 2013.

Far South Thimphu. Hope you spot the Buddha Statue.

Cypress tree. A view from the Royal Botanical Garden, Serbithang, Thimphu.

Remember That I Remember You

Looking back into the memories we had

You were the queen of my inner land

All I got to do was to understand

That we could have been a perfect blend

And this is what I got to say at present

“Remember that I remember you.”

No matter how hard I try

Things always change between you and I

But whenever you feel down and you want to cry

I will be there to make your tears dry

And make your grief and sorrows die

But remember that I remember you

All we wanted was love and peace

Now, all I wanted to do is erase

All those stupid little things of no use

So our good memories will never cease

And god is always there to grace

So remember that I remember you

I ain’t got no desperation

To make you gain my attention

But my attention towards you is a source of inspiration

A source of love, trust and reconciliation

So with your consideration and my expectation

Please remember that I remember you

Or miss me instead!

PS: No Proof Read

Quotes That I Like

Some of my favorite quotes -

1. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did" ~ Mark Twain

2. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ~ Thomas Jefferson

3. "Every artist was first an amateur." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger." - Buddha

5. "Beauty is whatever gives joy." ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

6. "Love is friendship, set on fire." ~ Jeremy Taylor

7. Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy." ~ Celestine Chua

8. "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.: ~ Albert Einstein

9. :Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." ~ Henry Ford

10. :Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." ~ Timothy Leary

Pumpkin and Me

I get tired most of the times

Got to complete the works assigned to me

Also got to finish the works that’s not assigned to me either

And I need to hang out with my friends after my tasks

I do walk many a times in a day

And I run a minute or less

Also play some games for a while

So I get tired and hungry

Home is a place I love the most

So I come, rest and check out my kitchen

For I am too hungry and tired

And I see you Pumpkin for my dinner

I never liked you till now

I won’t like you in my future too!

My day and mood is spoiled whenever I see you in my kitchen

I would rather be hungry, if you were my only option

I wonder how you can impress my mom and sisters

I can’t even imagine you in my kitchen

Guess! what it feels like when you are for the dinner

I forget my hunger and get angry instead!

So Pumpkin, I am so sorry

You are out of my life now

And I am out of your generation too

Don’t take it easy Pumpkin,

I will convince my mom and sisters also

By the way Pumpkin,

I know you got many other lovers

And also you got one of the sweetest names

I won’t forget your sweet name

Mind you, only name!

PS: No offense to Pumpkin lovers

Only If I Was Perfect!

I could have called you every day

Missed you 24x7

Understood all your moves

Confessed all my actions

Spent all my times with you

Said words of love in so many ways

Only If I was perfect!

I could have responded every word of yours

Answered all your questions

Cleared all your doubts

Talked all those silly little things

Listened all your gossips

Concerned all your worries

Only if I was perfect!

I could have been by your side forever

Lived the moments with you everywhere

Looked into your eyes all day

In so many beautiful ways

Hugged you everytime you were sad

Could have never let you down

Only if I was perfect!

PS: No Proof Read.

North of Bhutan got the beauty

Gasa Dzong (Fortress in olden days) lies in the North of Bhutan, near the China - Bhutan boundary. It is beautiful though.

A calm and tiny lake near the Dzong.

Utse (Centre tower) of the Dzong.

Gasa Dzong

Gasa Dzong, photographed in the evening. Probably, it is the side view, I never entered the Dzong.

Meditation on Twin Hearts

This meditation is a part of Pranic Healing and the meditation technique was developed by Master Choa Kok Sui. Where, upon the meditation the healers develop good mental state and can invoke divine energies in order to heal the patients.

I have heard and read lots of testimonials raised from the Meditation on Twin Hearts.  It has always showed positive effects, it has helped lots of people reform their lives. Parents were saved from broken relationships, student could perform better in their exams, people were seen a lot happier, etc and most of all, the meditation accumulates lots of good merits and eventually one could experience inner peace and stillness. 

It is meant for the modern people, who are usually busy. It really helps out! If one practices this meditation, one could understand what it really means to be in state of loving kindness, forgiveness, reconciliation, hope and inner peace, it couldn’t be the perfection though. 

For me the meditation usually helped me out to refine my perception towards life and it’s clearer now. I could understand more why we always feels good to be nice to the world at large. This doesn’t really mean that I am good, but of course I try to be.

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them" ~ Bruce Lee

PS: No Proof Read

Lygodium and Lantana

Lygodium japonicum (Oct 2011, Zhemgang)

Lantana camara (Jan 2013, Phuntsholing)

Kerrang List of Bands, My Selection (Top 25)

  1.    Linkin Park 
  2.  Green Day 
  3.  Bullet for My Valentine 
  4.  Iron Maiden 
  5.  Blink 182 
  6.  Simple Plan 
  7.  Pantera 
  8.  Sum 41 
  9.  Avenged Sevenfold 
  10. Limp Bizkit 
  11. Rage Against the Machine 
  12. Metallica 
  13. Pink Floyd 
  14. Guns ‘n Roses 
  15. Red Hot Chili Peppers 
  16. Bowling for Soup 
  17. Lost Prophets 
  18. Evanescence 
  19. Good Charlotte 
  20. My Chemical Romance 
  21. Aerosmith 
  22. Cradle of Filth 
  23. Megadeth 
  24. Slipknot 
  25. Nickelback

PS: Selection based on my personal interest.

Just for fun

I remembered few jokes by Canadian comedian Russell Peters of Indian origin which i scribbled below, although I could remember them faintly.  

·        When god created the Indians, god told “I am going to put you in the hottest place in the world and just for fun, just for fun… I will cover you all with the hairs”.

·        When the Indians get impressed, they express in a peculiar Indian accent and it goes like this: 

“Russell, your show, your show last night was too… good! Too… good! Fantaastic! It was mind blasting! It blasted my mind! ”

Most of his jokes I am remembering now has adult content, so I can’t really write it here.  

So I am ending here with his famous punch line 

“Be A Man!”

PS: Post above is not intended to malign anyone. 

It's written just for fun.