the month that went by...

My my! hasnt it been long since i visited this page! time to dust off the ol blog coz its monsoon time! yaaaay :)
and keeping with tradition i am home to experience the wonderful monsoons in Rajasthan. well i know I should'nt hv stayed this long and i should've spent more time working and less time looking at the rain or at the TV or at novels (which btw i meant to read since ages. 5 books in a month...its a personal high! ;)
but i keep telling myself that it was just not possible to work at home, even though its not true.
so what have i done after 5th June when i left Singapore....
lets see...i spent a couple of days at Bangy and Coorg with friends...needed that....deserved that rather! after the BORING month at Singy :P
spent 10 days at home preparing for a trip...hectic! lots of work...made everyone think i was a very hard worker!!
spent the next 12 days in Bhutan...meetings lots of people...asking the same questions and writing stuff down furiously!!!! seriously lots of serious work!
the next 10 days....compiling a document which should've taken me 3 days at the most....this is where i started wearing out really.... :P
and frankly havent done any thing to talk about in the last two weeks :P :P :P
wow have i wasted time!
but really? have i wasted time?
i read 2 books in these weeks and am saving the other 2 so that i have something to read on the train.....saw numerous movies on TV...caught up on a sitcom i like these days....spent some time with the gramps....should've done more though....and i GYM-ed! YES I DID! :P
and that too with a regime! (take that!)
i slept (meh! not much of an achievement)
hmmmm...so what else should've i done?
oh yes! written the paper for the internship research and the big fat PAE!!! When am i going to do that?! :(
get started on the next field visit contacts! this....week.....or I'm dead! :( :(
compile the pics and data from the last week!! OOPS! should've done that long back! :( :( :(

but! its raining right now and I'm going to stop thinking about these silly things and listen to the pitter patter (more like 100 tap dancers :P)...and waste some more time!

sigh..!

On God, cows, dogs and goats in Bhutan

This is a story I heard from a co-passenger on my flight from Paro, Bhutan to New Delhi. I had met her the day before on my feeble attempt at the trek to Taktsang Monastry, which is amazing by the way. She heard the story from somebody else's guide in Bhutan and here I try to recreate the story as i remember it.

In Bhutan, you will come across many cows sitting on the roads, dogs walking along the roads-crossing them better than humans can and rarely will you see any goats around roads. God of course is omnipresent. This too like nearly everything else in Bhutan, has a story behind it.

Once upon a time, there was a bus going from some place to some place and there were three passengers on it- God, a cow and a dog. The goat did'nt have any money to get on the bus, so it was left at that some place.

The bus conductor asked all three passengers for money for their tickets. God said, "I will pay you when I get to the destination." The dog paid the exact fare, the cow paid more than the fare and was told to wait for change because God paid nothing and the dog paid the exact fare.

When the destination arrived, God simply vanished into thin air, the dog got off and the cow was still left without the due change. And so in Bhutan, God never pays His fare, dogs travel carefree as they pay the exact fare and cows are always waiting for their change.