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 have boldly stated that world would be more peaceful some decades later. Will it be?
                                  In general, women population outnumber men in most of the European and American countries and most of these countries are comparatively peaceful. Before long, we would be seeing more women than men even in our country. Count our HIV infection! We are at 173:173, and evenly distributed although UNAIDS alleges more than 500 plus victims in Bhutan. Choden had looked at those figures with utter disbelief and wondered at such sickening trend. Given our casual attitude to casual sex(read Aum Dorji Dhratyul of "ESCAPADE" fame), the trend would simply improve for quite a long time.
          Few days back, i was trying to read about the general population trends but it left me more confused with different anthropologists and demographers making 100s of varied claims. However, there is inescapable coherence in general trend : the female species is on rise! And i get a sinking feeling that world would be better place. He he.
We have nearly 1.02:1 male/female ratio at home. Even our orthodox big brother(India) has 940 females per 1000 males. India ought to have outdone that ratio way back if only there were lesser female foeticide(according to that all-knowing nobel laureate Amartya Sen).
With TFR(total fertility rate) at 2.13 per woman, Bhutan stands at a loosing end of controlling its population. On the other hand, Singaporeans are low-performer on beds since their TFR stands at 0.78, one of the lowest in the world, thanks due to Mr. Khaw BoonWan, who spelt Bhutan being un-shangrila!
                              Statistics and interpretations are not my interest. Simply put, i am more interested at women population. At off side of 30, little is left in me to boast about male macho but truth be told, it still brings smile on my face when i think about increasing number of girls in my country.
However, Bhutan is still not receptive to feminism. Rejection of DCT by the general electorate was politically in-correct indications. My own theory at home is, settle every dues and chaos first and go off to vacation leaving the rein to Choden.
At a similar level, we can not leave our world in chaos and groom female leaders to straighten it. It is a far cry from being real. Why is it? Is it that difficult not to trust females for their leadership?
 My point is, sexism is still prevalent everywhere around us. It is high time we shed our stereotypes and offer the opportunity to our opposite counterparts. In the world of Hillary Clinton, Oprah, Sonia Gandhi,Rosie and Lily, world doesn't look as blur as we inherit from our genes!
Infact, it would be better to work under a genteel Principal than an arrogant, self-centered one.

Where are our Toms??

I had really wanted to write on this topic but it never hit me harder than yesterday.  As usual the annual exams for the students are in full swing and there are so many things to do before i finally call it a year. So i was on duty in one of the classes to invigilate while the students wrote their exam. Just as i entered the room, the students stood up to greet me. I let them sit and informed them to make themselves comfortable. Ofcourse, exam time is not the fittest of the comfortable times. It is more than a war for the students during the exams.
             In my room, there were 36 girls and 6 boys. Easy to handle, i thought myself. With girls,with due respect to all our female species, you just have to use small tricks to control them. With boys, you really need muscle to deal with them. Boys are disruptive even on their death bed!
                                           Well, my subject of interest is the ratio between boys and girls. Gone are those days when we rarely saw girls taking up the reins. In my primary school, there were about six girls in my class. There were only two girls in my 3-year B.Sc course. I didn't get to turn at them even during my sick days since both of them had their boyfriends.
              Look at the trend now. The ratio is almost reversing. Enter any classroom, you should not be amused to see more girls than boys. It is a girls' world. Blame your mating misadventure for female foetus, but things doesn't look as bright as it was. Not that i am a misogynist. I love girls:)
                        Seriously, our world is going to be more peaceful 50 years hence. You wouldn't expect being attacked by women armies too often. I would love to elaborate the implications of self-framed
"Ratio Reversal" in another post. I tried to put up few pictures that i have presently to bring out the difference.

Find out the boys

Who is the weaker one?

who are the chaperones?

boys or girls?

Can you do that?:)

trust me for the future?:)

see how many male here?

through my lens!

8 hours and a minute glimpse!

We travelled to Tsirang yesterday. Earlier, i had cajoled Choden to move in the School bus so that i would be able to accommodate my aging parents in my car. Ofcourse, she consented to it but with loads of false accusations. "I will follow the bus closely", i ensured her and the kids. It was barely morning when we commenced our journey; my grumbly mother, my bulky father, my as-silent-as-grave niece and my erratic nephew. None of us talked much because mom told me that it was utter indiscipline to chit-chat while making religious sojourn.
                   Except for the prayer that mom incessantly muttered, everything was silent. I wished Choden was in the car. She would always light up the moment with her trifles. She would talk about the duplicate broom that she mistakenly bought from a Boro pheasant. She would boast about her 3 am-wake up time while i would complain about the weird alarm from her chinese mobile phone. She would talk about how she cooked the pack lunch, all single-handedly.
                                                         Some three hours later, we were at Tsirang only to be embarrassed that hundreds had already queued. I volunteered to stand in the queue while mother and father duo rested in a hotel sipping over the tea. I regularly checked on them to see if all was alright and more so to spy if father was drinking! He has that nasty habit. He would explain me about the car sickness if i catch him drinking. 
Moving at a snail's pace, it took another four hours in the queue to finally get the glimpses of those sacred objects of Buddha & co that was brought all the way from India.
 "Joba joba joensh la", the cop shouted at us sternly. Within a minute we were out of that famed hall that housed all those important relics. I wished if i got another round but that was not possible since thousands had already lined up by that time.
"What did you see?", i teased Choden. She gave her frozen quizzical smile. "What did you see?", she returned back.
 I tossed a 50 Nu. at a donation box that supposedly boasted of some chorten construction somewhere.
There were other forms of donations to be made if one was too forgiving but i had to with hold all those attachments temporarily.
We hurried back to Norbuling, the other side of Maukhola, also the blind spot of DPT and PDP governments! Things are different at this side but that is another story.

The Tenth..

Who could remember but a Tigers' Day? I do not even remember my own birthday. However, i force myself to believe that i must have been born under pleasant signs for no obvious reason.
 Personally, it struck me with stupid surprise when the whole bunch of boisterous delegates all over Bhutan convened in our School to celebrate the Tigers Day(29th July). But that is expected in a School such as mine where we have avuncular management writhing under palliative care!
And yesterday, the much awaited midterm results were hastily declared, more than a month since the completion of midterms. I bet there is no other School in Bhutan that hasn't given away the results later than my school. But this school boasts of 10th position in the national rank(year 2011). The ranking hit its hysterical low this year(35th). Nobody talked about it. They talk only of the 10th. :)
There is start similarity between JYT's sale of GNH philosophy to the outside world and the 10th position! When more than half the population suffered, JYT had the audacity of touring the world delivering his well-rehearsed GNH speeches. When even the tiniest of any activity goes topsy-turvy, the school can still linger at its accidental position .
Talking of the results, 52% passed from my class(IV A). Most of them had failed in Dzongkha, one of the major subjects. In general, some 700 plus managed to sail through while 200 plus failed. Isn't that quite a number? When all other schools try and promote as much students as possible, here is one which is bent so much on detaining students.
Personally, i achieved just average. My daughter and nephew passed while my son and niece failed. No wonder, both of them failed in single subject(Dzongkha). There is nothing to say much. When a students scoring 17 can pass and 19 can fail, when Dzongkha I and II combined together can give one an average of 42, the candidate still gets failed in both Dzo papers in the result sheet, there is no good in it.
I raised the issue of coherent award of Ongoing marks in the recent meeting but it fell onto deaf years. They had this reputed system all these years!

(hmm..there are 101 issues but i wont delve into details.)

All is not well?

Soon after the ominous 13th, we were greeted with "gun salutation" in Chuzergang, a few kilometers from my place. The DPT fanatics must have tossed some beers at its specious timing. Choden had asked me accusingly,"What now?".
"This is nothing!", i consoled her like an enlightened Mahasiddhi. With volatile situation such as this and at such close proximity, i need to bare my chest and assume nothing discordant happened. After a day or two, the teacher colleague surrendered the single bullet that penetrated through 40 mm CGI sheet of his house. Without much chaos. I had told him that i had wanted a bullet not in my chest but around my neck as a sungki.

Now it looks like the whole election process was farce and was marred with malpractices as we hear. While the PDP is "cautiously" celebrating behind the closed doors, the pudding is brewing up in DPT cauldron. Understandably, the humiliating defeat had logically pushed the DPT to misanthropy and disharmony and has almost crept into most of our senior citizens who head most of our bureaucratic shelves.Even the erstwhile BBS tries to maintain laudable neutrality with DPT overtones, while the RCSC treads with measured echo of DPT remnants! Indeed, many of our officials at upper echelons are still recuperating from the shock  at the loss of their crony DPT. On the other hand, the innocent public were made to portray as if they would have to pay heavy price for their voting misadventure. As we can see, the government is held at ransom by some sections of people but what we do not see is how ignoble are our lofty aims. Often we have heard about but bubble reputations!
Seriously,where did we err? Was it PDP's over-spiced promises? Was it the dichotomy between theory and practice of DPT? The least any non-supreme human can do is respect the verdict that majority of our population made. In our contemporary time, it is a rare feat to boast of 66% voters turnout.

On a lighter side, we are almost done with the mid-term results with our students. As i corrected the papers, i was more than humiliated to find so many answers that my students wrote. I permitted myself a hearty laugh when one of my fourth graders answered the last part of the question wishing them "Happy Summer Vacation". He assumed it to be a question and had answered,"No, it is very hot and warm. I not like"!
:)

What is Work??

• I have tried to reproduce a full portion of conversation that i had with one of my friends. He resigned from his teaching profession after more than a decade, to find greener pastures in Australia. 

  The irony is we hardly know how difficult it is to sustain in foreign countries in our pursuit of extra dollars.(This is purely personal conversation that i reproduced and intended to give a glimpse of hardship across the oceans....)And only few lines were doctored since the readers might not like to read bizarre words!:)
  

  Sonam Yeshi

  
  

  ?
  
Phento:  

wat?
• 
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  wad?

  having night mare again huh??
  
• Phento

  
  

  Did u pray for me

  Coz I got two days of work!
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  zai jiggs..here i pray not to have work!
  
• phento

  
  

  U know what work

  Don't ask
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  ke ke ke ke

  tell me

  i am curious!

  
  
• Phento

  
  

  When u com here u wil know

  Pray more for me man
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  deah..that is good wai

  i am happy for u

  hope work shine on you like sunrays!
  
• Phento

  
  

  It is very cold here

  It's winter man
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yeah i can understand that

  hit your wife for warmth!
  
• Phento

  
  

  Ja da
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  ee see
  
• Phento

  
  

  Already once over!
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  cant you boast abt ur stamina more than once eh?!
  
• Phento

  
  

  Tired man came from cleaning work
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  social work?
  
• Phento
  
  

  Ask me what kind of cleaning
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  are you into some social services there?

  wad type man?

  feel freeeeeee

  he he he
  
• Phento
  

  Yes yes f.....g. kind of social work

  Back in Bhutan people talk only about dollar in Australia but story behind Dollar is horribly terrible
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  i find some similarity between some dunkards who break the laws there and go into prison..they do some detention works as a part of their correctional behaviour!
  
• Phento

  Are u really planning to come serious
  
• 

  4:17am
  

  Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yeah yeah

  seriously

  my wife is soo obsessed with that idea

  now a dumbo like u flew there..she is crazy abt the chancess!!
  
• Phento

  I understand

  Ja daaaaaaaa
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  hahaha
  
• Phento
  

  For u it is very easy just sell all ur land at gelegphu and fly hahaha
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  hmm..i truly need good suggestion

  selling off the land and how do u think i wud survive laters?
  
• Phento

  Like me tey
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  wai..how much did u make as of now?

  $?
  
• Phento

  
  

  Secrets..

  Oh only four bags
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  hahaha

  dreaming again huh?

  come on
  
• Phento

  This is a dream land and dreaming is the only way
  
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  wai..i wud like to make a movie based on ur story..you would be the KETA?

  willing ??
  
• Phento
  

  Really
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yeah

  sounds bit interesting. I have always considered one rare and interesting species of Homo sapiens!
  
  
• Phento

  
  

  How much dollar?
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  talk in Nu.

  i dont have dollars
  
• Phento

  
  

  Do u have Skype?
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  hmm yeah but i dont rember my Password

  why?

  stripping for me?
  
• Phento

  
  

  Still u haven't shed ur Tarzan nature?
  
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  haha

  now u sound like sophisticated metro boy
  
• Phento

  you bet that.
  

  Thanks
  
Phento
• 
  
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  oh so this is the only facility your second hand mobile can do right?
  
Phento
• Now be serious

  U really trying to australia?
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  ong sey

  give me one clean procedure

  but i might surely need your help for the few months there
  
• Phento

  
  

  That's fine, Inform me when you come.
  I wud have to switch off my cell!!
  
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  i look upto you as my father..same age ee mena?
  
• Phento

  
  

  I would like to suggest u to go to counsel rant

  Ja da

  I mean consultant other wise it is very difficult to try on self
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yeah this summer i wud try and ask some information
  
• Phento
  

  Coz they give u all the direction

  But be careful some consultant are crooks
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  no wonder..u out-witted those crooks

  lol

  by and by..how did you get through those IELTS or wadever>?
  
• Phento

  
  

  My tragedy started right from the ielts
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  i can get that

  lol

  wai..i am using these lines in my blog..mind it?
  
• Phento

  
  

  That is not difficult after that the process is very rough
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  seriously

  i wont use the name though

  
  
• Phento

  What ever I don't care
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  good boy
  
• Phento
  

  Coz I m immune
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  thick skull!
  
• Phento

  Jaffa
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  haha

  wai i gtg

  will get to you soon

  will u be online few hours laters?
  
• Phento

  
  

  Ok dinner time here too
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yaya
  
• Phento

  
  

  I will b in bed
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  cool

  some other time

   have loads to ask before coming there
  
• Phento

  
  

  Same time 2maro
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  be freindly wit me if u want some Bhutanese ema and shakam!

  hmm..i wud be late tomro
  
• Phento

  
  

  Great
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  some get together at school

  anyways

  will get to you or inbox you
  
• Phento
  

  U r still not fade up in school seein face of f.....g principals

  It is because of the principals I resigned man
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  hmm..dont infuse me with your GNH

  lol
  
Phento

• K bet 4 now
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  yaya wai

  take care ..say hi to ur mam

  may be i love you too

  heh he he
  
• Phento

  K

  Haaaaaa
  
• Sonam Yeshi
  

  
  

  byebye wai

  got some work
  
• Phento

  
  

  Ja da my dinner is getting cool

  Bye

Horse-trading..eureka!

What we need is not a strong Opposition but a sound and healthy Ruling Party.  However, following the current trend it looks all otherwise. Although it is unlike i to make political statements but silly temptations gave me much needed impetus to opine.
Firstly, the almost true scenario of horse-trading, notably with PDP and DNT is received with mixed reactions. Half the population feels that it was so unbecoming of PDP and DNT to unify and battle with DPT.  The other half welcome the news and are of the opinion that fielding the capable candidates is the right way to go offensive with DPT. Perhaps, it is better to gang up and compete than to fight a losing battle. The alarm whistle in DPT is blown and are rumored to have convened adhoc meetings to activate their second strategy.
>>>>Not to be continued,,,,,(There is no inspiration..he he he he)