My Leap Year, 2012

I was half dreaming and through my clouded eyes, I saw my roommate awake. It was early morning, a rainy morning as predicted by the weather forecast. I lazily stood up from my room to the loo and back to my bed again. My bed is always so inviting. I love it and I hate it too. Lord knows why. Actually, I know it myself.
As excited as I was, I reached to my computer that was left open in the evening .What do you think, I would click on to? FACEBOOK, of course! I caught you smiling here, didn’t I? This life is normal for some while some might find it like What a facebook freak!
Anyways, as I signed in to my facebook account, I scrolled up and down to see the updates and an hour has passed already. My time flys so fast, it was almost one hour. Shit! I have a class to attend. I hurriedly checked my timetable and then sat back happily again. My class was after the lunch only.
As happy as a little kid with an ice cream on a sunny day, I dancingly opened the blogger homepage. I thought it would be a fresh start for the day. I was busy clicking from Rikku Sir’s, Langa’s, Leo’s, Sogyels and lot’s more blogger’s updates, my room mate suddenly and silently called me, “Miss Norfe, look outside the window near you.” I blankly looked out and I noticed two beautiful green bird lying outside. It was soooooo close.
Awww, they were so cute together. I immediately grabbed my phone and took continuous snap shot. For ones, I felt like a photographer trying to get a clear picture of them together. They were lovely. We assumed they were after the shelter because it was raining heavily. I and my roommate tried hard to resist the joy and enjoy their visit outside our window.

Aaaah! Those two little birds really made my day. The longer they stayed, the happier I was. The pictures weren’t that clear and good. I excitingly started to open up the window fully. Funny, they flew away as I started to pull up the window curtains.
Nature has it! And I love it! My Leap year, 2012, I WILL NEVER FORGET IT!

My One is to Three Ratio New Year Resolution

The closing of 2011 flashed everywhere-in news, in facebook, in twitter and other social entertainments. Everyone started to wait for the new day and to make a new motivation in their life. Like everyone else in the world, ever since the last month of 2011,I started to bucket list my New Year Resolutions that particularly connects with my hygiene. Accordingly, as excited and sad I was, I came up with three tops most resolutions. They were;

1) Quit the Drinking
2) Stop eating chillies
3) Become a Vegetarian

I am looking at my above resolutions again and wondering whether I have really succeeded in fulfilling the above resolutions.

Firstly, as a friendly gesture and as a company to my friends around, drinking wine became a casual stuff. With days going by, too many birthdays and the celebrations blew my heads off and honestly, I felt like I have more liters of wine than water. I enjoyed the blurriness when drunk, I liked the dizziness, when drunk and took joy being talkative when drunk. But for how long am I going to rejoice over drinking? I thought it would be a good idea to stop drinking and see how my life goes with it. I made it my first priority among the resolutions then.

Secondly, as for the chillies, I have my usual habit of eating hot chillies. I am Bhutanese and a sharchokpa girl, nothing makes my tummy happy like those hot chillies. But this hot chillies really made me suffer and ended up going to hospital for check up and then finally, taking medicine to cure the nail pinning pain on my stomach. That’s how I stopped eating chillies and at the same time, I included in my New Year Resolutions.

Thirdly, becoming vegetarian as my New Year Resolution just happened to click in my bucket list. I somewhat wanted to go back to my old times when I was a vegetarian in Bhutan and then see how my life works outside my country being a vegetarian. I have seen my other vegetarian friends complaining about meals from the restaurant and they would usually eat it from home. Or sometimes they take vegetarian burger. Their life seemed quite hard not getting to eat other delicious non-vegetarian meal. Despite all these, I challenged myself and just go through and survive without meat.

It is almost a month now that I really see the progress on my above resolutions. Well, there were occasions and I didn’t drink. There were meats laid on the table during my meal time with frends, I didn’t eat the meat. How about the chillies now? I stopped eating chilies for four to five days. I lost my appetite and every time I take my meal with less chillies, I started to get annoyed to myself. Isn’t this crazy or say, is it funny to get angry at myself? I even started to barf off the meal right in the meat.

Then, I realized how I made the terrible mistake of eating too much of chillies despite my friend’s acknowledgement. Mistake was a mistake and I need to dump the mistake in the bin and continue eating chillies. Irony, I am eating it all over again. This time, I am eating with precaution not to eat raw chillies alone and eat with the food only. At last, my three to three new year resolution didn’t work out and for one thing I am sure, I can never stop eating chillies. If anyone of you have any solution to this, help me out!!!

Now that Chunipa Losar is so close knocking your door to yet another family and friends gathering and celebrations, you all must have bought meats and drinks. Wish You All a Happy Chunipa Losar tomorrow and Enjoy your day at the fullest.

5th November, 2011

This day, 5th November made me cry happy tears. It was my birthday. What should I say about it!? The day comes once a year and it happened beautifully and memorably. It is at this moment where everyone wants to know our age and we reciprocate by telling them the wrong age.

Anyways, to my surprise, Kezang, who has been my roommate since our high school time in 2007 and also my best friend, made my midnight an unforgettable one. Kezang and all my other friends had a fare share of cakes, chips and drinks.

I want to thank Kezang for arranging such a lovely birthday eve and also my other friends who came to wish me at this hour in the cold evening. You all made my night an awesome one! I can wish for just one wish and I had my wish wished for another time. Kezang,  you are the best.

With my Mates

Had a really dry day but my friend who came all the way from Sydney to Wollongong made my day. 

Me and my roomie stalking those young Aussie boys.

It was fun and I had a good and a fun time with my friends. Thank you all my friends for wishing me.

What am I doing!?

The clock is ticking and with each sound of a tick, the day is coming to an end. Within each period of my time in the facebook and then with my book, I also spent few of my time doing other activities that keeps me occupied and away from stress.

Music is the top priority of entertainment and with facebook, my entertainment is doubled. There is not an hour that I didn't listen to the music of my choice- Dzongkha, English, Hindi. I prefer Rigsar and the recent Dzongkha songs. They are simply melodious that keeps me emotionally attached and sympathetically affixed. With English, I like pop songs, the really fast and the slow sentimental musics. About hindi, it is random, I like them all-old or new, it does not really matter to me.

With each passing day of listening to musics and facebooking, Pasta one of my favorite meal keeps me fresh and alive. I know most of my friends are surprised and I guess even fed up of hearing me say, 'Pasta' for most of the time. But there is no other meal that satisfies me the most. Potato has been my favorite too. So the mixture of Pasta, Potatoes and lemon just makes my day a wonderful one- full and happy. I sound like a kid now. So being in the kitchen is another reason to stay away from computer or from typing my work.

Another day, another new schedules to follow.The Halloween fever again. We didn't have any plan than to stay at home and stare at our computer as usual. But the last minute decision of going to the club made our night an amazing one. The place was filled with crazy party people--some dancing, some drunk, some couple kissing and some busy doing their work in the counter. The main Halloween event was yet to come but still, the ghostly figure near the entrance scared the hell out of us.It was indeed a refreshing night.

One of the craziest thing I recently did was cutting off my front hair. I don't know what my friends felt about it but I was totally out of my way of what other people might think about. Good or bad hairstyle, I will still be me. But we know, how this world works, we can't help commenting on others, including myself.







So here it is, I have cut my own hair- a fringe that will apparently make me look like "You are not Yeshi anymore" type.

Have you ever wondered or thought about like "How our hairstyle can describe people's personality and then accordingly, our appearance changes- from ugly to beautiful and from beautiful to ugly?"

The Wait

You are my down to earth boy
You make me go gaga over you
Every time I think of you, I hug you, I hold you

You are always with me
You keep me occupied and accompanied

So close in heart and yet so far away

Oh darling, I wish you were here
To give me that perfect moment of being with you

We met at a perfect time a year ago

When both of us needed a company

But we are just not in a perfect situation now

It is hard to be in a situation like this,

But distance means so little

When someone means so much to you

But we will get through this,

“Promise”

We have just few months to go

And then I will be meeting you

I can’t wait for that day to come

It might be stormy now

But it can’t rain forever

With so much longing

With so much love and with misses
I am ending here 
Wishing to see you soon

What will they call me?

Oh! I am a long way away from home. I think of things that I am going to experience while I am back at home. Friends were at home, they were talking, my roomie was bust facebooking and some of them were in the kitchen. Then, I thought we are old now, it is time we learn to make decisions and stop being childish among ourselves. I was facebooking as usual and the thought ran into me, ‘What will they call me?’ ‘Aunty?’ This is so obvious, they will. Time to grow up!

Anyways, I am so used to be called as ‘Yeshi ‘by my friends or else Norfe, my facebook surname by my Wollongong friends. Some of them even call me ‘Pasta Choden’ ever since I started eating PASTA and I never stopped and it still is my everyday favourite meal. I then call my families at home and the kids call me, Aue Yeshi.

We friends here gossip about getting a title of Ms, Mrs, Madam, Sir, Aunty back at home. We say, we don’t want to be called as Aunty. This is going to be strange. Not that we don’t want to be called as one but the fact of becoming old crosses our mind. I feel old actually and otherwise I am too young to be called as Aunty. And then I smile over the thought of becoming someone’s Aunty very soon. Still smiling! Let’s see!!!

She made a memory out of him

I was looking down the road through the porch The street lights were shining Vehicles were passing on a busy evening Then I came across you You were waiting near the traffic lights You were carrying a bouquets of flowers I saw your face excited, nervous, and happy I wondered if it was to impress someone you know As I gazed, your innocent and excited face started to dissappear A fear crossed my mind, 'What made you frown?' Then I knew you were looking at a man already gone He was with another woman in the road You see her arms locked in hers What kind of heart doesn't break in such awkward moment! Then I silently whispered, "What a disgrace!' You were waiting to surprise your arrival at home Who knew, he was going to turn you off this way He moved you from his heart A vision is all you see now like a statue of past a part of history She indeed made a memory out of him A memory she will ever forget for life And a moment, I never want to go through. P.S, The story is purely fictitious and it is just my thoughts on how life can really cheat us knowingly.