Woesel, Tenzin

She dives and rises in love, Dives and rises.. Like a mermaid in a  deep blue sea. She soars high and low in love, High and low.. Like a butterfly in the spring season. She weeps and misses her man, Like a widow who just lost her husband. She knows not if he would return  Like days long gone, never come back. 

As I checked my timeline, I grieved along with the families and friends of the 298 hapless people on board in the ill-starred Malaysian Airlines MH17, shot down by the Ukraine rebels who are pro-Russians. The reports and the photographs of the crash site were haunting and nightmarish.  The number of tweets with the hash-tag #MH17 escalated, every now and then on Twitter. One of the users, Oliver Chris, tweeted “I’m sorry for all those lives destroyed so violently and without reason. I’m sorry for the continued selfish inhumanity of…people #MH17”   Chetan Bhagat; a well known Indian author tweeted “Really sad to hear about #MH17. Strange world we live in.” One of the people I follow on Instagram posted a photo in condolence to MH17 tragedy, captioned “F***ed up world, we live in.” A close friend of mine told me that it is a bad time we are living in.      To be honest, the tweets not only left me mourning but bemused me at the same t...

You're that one friend whom I love having around but, every once in a while i really hate you and get the sudden urge to beat the sh*t out of you. Thank you for being a 'good, but-not-that-good' friend for me. May you pass away soon, so you don't have to get scoldings from me anymore. At the same time, I wish you live long, for I haven't beaten you yet for always being that annoying friend. Happy birthday, baby girl!  -Owlly PS; I'm hoping i'll make you happy today by using the name I never wanted to be tagged.

International Women's Day is also known as Working Women's Day. It is celebrated on the 8th day of March every year. Women has been an integral part of the human society since time immemorial. A woman turns a house into a home. In early times, men go to wars and hail glory but women stay at home, look after the house and the children. They are strong enough to stay away from their husbands who go to war for months. As Euripedes says in his play 'Medea', women is no less heroic than men.  As a young woman from another country studying in Delhi, India, the only thing that worries me every time is, when I need to go out, the question comes if it is risky for a woman to go alone, regardless of what time of the day it is. There are news about women being raped and molested in the papers and TV news channels almost everyday. We are judged by the way we  dress. Since we are foreigners in the country, we were at times being teased for having a different face, unlike the ...

Tibet is known as ‘The Roof of the World’. It has the highest plateau region on earth. It neighbours China on the north and India, Nepal, and Bhutan on the south.  The country is the source of river Brahmaputra, Indus, and many other major rivers flowing to India and south Asia. It is the homeland to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and 6 million Tibetans scattered all across the globe. We have been in India as refugees for the last 60 years.             Tibetan New Year also known as Losar (‘Lo’ literally means ‘Year’ and ‘Sar’ means ‘New’) is the most important festival on the Tibetan calendar. It falls very close to the Mongolian and Chinese New Year following a lunar calendar. The festivities last for 15 days and the first three days are the most important.  This year, it falls on the 2nd of March. According to Tibetan Calendar, it will be the first day of the Wood-Horse year 2141. We go to temples and worship, hang colourful prayer flags...

We set off from the shore of love, Love which gave rise to expectations, Expectations of things going perfect, Perfect as planned, as we sailed. The day we headed into the sea, The sun shined bright and the sea; calm. "Bon Voyage" and waves, heartbeat fast, Happiness in our heart flashed on our faces. Days passed as we sailed into the vast sea, Waves started drifting us hither and thither. Dark clouds wandered, harsh winds blew, We uttered "God, save us" but all in vain! Thunders roared down the sky, To the sea, we were sailing gleefully. Lightning stroke and left us pathetic Never did we expect this would happen. We held our hands tight and prayed, We held our breath long, then sighed. If only we can reach the shores back, If only we have not started the voyage. The deafening thunder rumbled, The volcanic lightning flashed. We cursed the weather, we cursed love. We blamed our fate. Our destiny as well. Our ship started sinking, we pan...

Despite having the jittery mind going through the exam phase, Monday still made me smile and it's not just one reason it gave me, but many!  This controversial, yet celebrated blogger; Perez Hilton retweeted my tweet early this morning, trailed by a 'Follow' from Cody Simpson  at 6am  (which I least expected). The dashing boy-band whom I have dedicated three long years as an obsessed fan-girl; One Direction's third album #MidnightMemories is officially released today although it has been leaked a week early. Further more, one of the big music awards, #AMAs 2013 is happening right now in Los Angeles. In spite of not being able to watch it LIVE due to the examination week i'm going through, i'm getting the best of updates from  Hollywood's oh-so-entertaining Celebrity-journalists whom I look up to. Adding to the thrill of AMAs,  One Direction is performing LIVE today. The last reason for the big weird smile on my happy face is; Justin Bieber's new mus...