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Name: Lakey, aka "Lakey"

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Bio: Description: Just another being traversing this journey called life. Interests: Reading, Movies, Music and Photography.

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The OZ Lingo

August 8th, 2010

One of the obvious accompaniments of an individual’s sojourn Down Under would be, no doubt, his or her exposure to the Australian way of speaking.  Whether you are there for a brief spell or on an extended stay, or whether you are located on either extreme of this vast wide continent–up in the Northern Territory or down south in the Isle of the Apple (Tasmania in Aussie slang), or by the same token in Perth on the far western fringe or as an interim Queenslander on the eastern edge–it would be near-impossible to be oblivious to or to have not been affected by that somewhat rakish, heavy, raw and even folksy style of the Australians as they speak; not to mention that formidable reservoir of their exclusive vocabulary and slang!

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Footbalimericks!

July 3rd, 2010

Here’s my take on the ongoing “beautiful game” in the form of limericks, written in their usual rhyme scheme and meter. I was almost through with it this evening when Brazil crashed out unceremoniously, and I had to change some of the verses. I am posting it before there are any further upset, forcing me to re-write my lines!   Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry “

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Travel Travails

June 13th, 2010

An irreplaceable part of boyhood memory so intrinsic to my upbringing and growth is that of travel, and the trials and tribulations thereof. Coming from a farming stock in a far-flung village clearly meant extensive travel, and therefore the inevitable exposure to the accompaniments of a journey by motor road that was yet to acquire the creature comforts of a drive we enjoy today. Those episodes of journey by bus and later by train formed a cornucopia of human elements, of joy and exuberances, of success and failure, and of high emotions of suffering and pain: all in equal measure.

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Ho hum Haikus!

May 30th, 2010

My O My, O dear

My poor tender misled mind

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Musings of a Wayward Lad

May 12th, 2010

As a high school student some fourteen years back I would also dabble in a bit of Ngyen Ngag – classical poetry. Ngyen Ngag, in classical Chokey, stands for poetry and directly translates into “beautiful sound” or “beautiful utterance” and is one of the Rigney Chungwa Nga or the five minor sciences.

I learnt the rudiments from my maternal uncle, a monk, who also taught me basic calligraphy during those brief hiatus in farming chores back home in Bumthang. Read the rest of this entry “

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Seven Limericks

May 2nd, 2010

Inspired by Englishman Edward Lear, I have some limericks, written in the prescribed limerick format (meter and syllables)  with the rhyming scheme “aabba.” They are simply products of passing thoughts.

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Buddhist sans Buddhism – Indifference with a Difference

March 28th, 2010

An old dilapidated weather-beaten man takes a time out from his pressing farming chores at home, walks all the way from his remote hamlet and finally directs himself into one of the myriad offices, in all humility. He instantly sees contempt and derision in the eyes of some of the personnel within. The rest don’t even care to acknowledge the presence of a fellow being who has ushered himself into this supposedly hallowed sanctum of service. Some fifteen minutes later one of the inmates manages to fish out some papers from a binder, takes one smug glance before announcing the futility of the old man’s visit, and guffaws at his misery. His colleagues – chuckle in, revealing a couple or two of their doma-stained teeth, huddled around a crackling bukhari.

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A not so bright sliver off the glass of memory (final part)

January 27th, 2010
Encouraged and emboldened by the absence of a faculty member, two of the scums started moving about grabbing every boy in the class by his hair. We had thought that the situation had mellowed a bit and as we were already into the final months of the semester we’d let our hairs grow past the prescribed brush length. Read the rest of this entry “

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A not so bright sliver off the glass of memory (Part I)

January 24th, 2010
A recent news item featured a student in one of the colleges in India who was admitted to hospital following an incident of severe physical abuse by her seniors. As recent as August last year a college in Bangalore made the headlines when its Maldivian students were relentlessly beaten up by groups of drunken seniors. Read the rest of this entry “

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Bollywood Calling

January 3rd, 2010



Souten, Pyar Jhukta Nahin and Hero were the very first Hindi movies that I watched. Like any other first, these three films are forever etched into memory. Every once in a while I fall back to recall and recount my tryst with the varied and colourful extravaganza that is Bollywood. To me, they formed the very calling card by which Bollywood fares were to be identified with. It whetted that palate, and the gourmet that followed was to be savored for some time. The year was 1985, almost a year into my six-year stint in Thimphu as a student. Personal video sets were then the preserves of the few and hiring a video screen and a VHS player was quite the de rigueur for most families. Families would jointly rent a set and the film fest would continue for days, usually ending with us young ones being barred from the final day screening which I later discovered was “strictly for adults”. Read the rest of this entry “

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