International Youth Day

Who Are You?

At every break of the dawn,

My soul awakens elated,

My head move focused,

My heart fully determined.

I have responsibilities to carry out,

For I am the youth of this nation,

For I am the pillar of this country,

For I am the leader of your children.

I am the savior of my people,

The doctor of your illness,

The teacher of your children,

The lawyer of your mistakes.

I am the guide when you are lost,

I am the builder of this nation,

I am the guardian of this country,

I am the future of this world.

I oath to take care of my country,

To make my country even more proud,

To make her the best place to live in,

For I am the citizen of this land of the Thunder Dragon,

But who are you?

                                                            Written by:

                                                                                    Dorji Wangmo

                                                                                    XI Sci. B

A Review on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Chhimi XII C

Title: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

 Author: Rick Riordon

Genre:  Young adult fiction and fantasy

Major characters: Percy Jackson,  Anambah chase ,Groover underhood.

This novel brings forward the ancient myth of greek to world immortal gods watch over the mankind. Monsters comes out from tarturus to create chaos and disorder on earth while demigods, children of god and human ensure that the monster are send back to tarturus. This noble is centered on a young teenager name percy Jackson, the son of paseidon. It comes out as a shock to him when he learns that the Greek gods are real as any human beings on earth. The problem takes its roots when zeus, one of the big three gods and the god of the sky, lose his most powerful weapon, thunder bold his suspects Poseidon of the robbery. It is up to percy and his friends Anabeth and Groven to recover the lost item before the winter solstices. But the quest isn’t a child play. Percy and his friends tackle many hardships in recovering the lost item with the time lacking by taking suggestion of Mr.Bernard, they travel to underworld suspecting Haydes behind the robbery. The truth slowly unfolds and to the astonishment of everyone, the mastermind behind the robbery turns out to be Kornos, the dangerous and powerful of all monsters. To avenge the gods for his death, Kornos slowly raise bringing distruction in to the world. At the end,Percy and his friends gets successful in their mission. But his task remains incomplete as Kornos slowly starts to rise the book comes to an end with Percy’s adventure continuing in the second of series, the sea of monsters Anabeth Chase is the character I like the most. She was a source of inspiration for me. Though being a girl she is as brave as she is other two male friends. Throughout the mission, she overcomes every hardship with her calm nature. She is a wise girl due to her intelligence. It was amusing to see her know everything. It intrigued me to know that the secret behind her intelligent was her books and as a result, I was inspired to read more books.

Zeus is one such character I dislike; the very reason is due to his super-god pride. He thinks no end of himself and he is impulsive without thinking he blamed Poseidon of the robbery.

After completing the novel, the morals I have learned from it is:                                  

1. No matter how powerful the evil is, the good always sledge hammers it.

2. Nothing can stop a willing heart.

For people loving adventurous and fictions books like me, the Percy Jackson series are the best books you can hold on. The book is unavailable in our school library but if you like, the story there is a movie version of the novel. In addition, to find out what happens in the sea of monsters, go hurry up and grab the Percy Jackson series. It is worth reading and I as a reader assure you that you will not be disappointed.

                 Thank you and Happy Reading Year.

Review on The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Miss Dawa Zangmo XIIC

Title : The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Author: Robin Sharma
published by jaico Publishing House, Mumbai

Page: 198 pages

Cost : Rs. 350 

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is wonderful book filled with many inspirational values that will enforce one to reflect into ourselves, give some thought to our life, the daily activities you are engaged in and to goals in life.

It’s a story told from the perspective of one of his associates who admire Mantle’s great success and aspires to be like him.  The story revolves around the protagonist “Julian Mantle,” a high profile Attorney with busy schedules who sets priority that centre around money, power and prestige. Mr. Mantle has everything in life that one would aspire of yet, the hunger for more fame consumes him finally. He suffers from a series heart attack which brings a turning point in his life that completely altered his notion towards life. He no longer hunts for those materialistic possessions rather he sells everything including his most treasured Ferrari. He realizes that wealth, fame and success were not everything in life. He goes to India in search of meaning in life, where he meets with some mythical saints. When he returned home, his associates is amazed by the transformation mantle has gone through.

The very important ideology that I would like to convey here is, with inline to Mantle’s life, human desire is never ending emotion; all he wanted was more and more. Today due to earthquake, Nepal is suffering from the massive destruction, people are in need of clothes, food and shelters, yet the lucky people who have their properties secure, they tend to sell a bottle of water which is actually Nu.15 in almost ten times the price, Which shows humans are unbelievable who want to be rich in the hubbub of all the destruction, instead if that person donate the basic things in charity to the needy people, the immense satisfaction that will get is much more worth appreciating and blissful. Money can’t buy everything. So give love to all, because no one know at what point and when we will be in need of it and desire creates chaos not the satisfaction.

The character I liked in this story is Julian Mantle because a real human is one who learns from his mistakes, not the one who repeats his mistakes.

“He slept beneath the moon, he basted beneath the sun. He lived the life of going to do and died with nothing done”_James Albery

I would recommend everyone to read this book because it is worth reading with good morals, a fable about fulfilling your dreams and reaching your destiny and a tale which provide you step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.

Debate: Rich but dishonest or poor but honest. - Karthik Srivastava From class 10 ‘A’

 “THE GREATEST TRUTH IS HONESTY, AND THE GREATEST FALSEHOOD IS DISHONESTY.” by Abu Bakr( BA-KAR). With this I wish the respected judges, teachers, and all my dear fellow-mates a very pleasant morning. Today I Karthik Srivastava From class 10 ‘A’ Druk house am on this great podium taking the grand opportunity to speak in front of you on the occasion of Intra-House Debate competition to debate on the topic, “It is Better to be poor and honest than rich and dishonest.” I and my partner will be speaking for the motion.

Before beginning I would like to state a famous proverb by Robert Green Ingersoll, “ EVERY MAN IS DISHONEST WHO LIVES UPON THE LABOR OF OTHERS, NO MATTER IF HE OCCUPIES A THRONE.” With this I will state my points:

It is an assumption that honest people are poor, no they are not. Warren Buffet is very rich! I know lots of honest people are who rich and I know lots of scammers who went to jail. Honesty is good because you don't need to have a good memory to remember all the lies. Honest men are rare and respected by all as the great religious leader, example Lord Buddha, Lord Jain all left their houses. Whose fathers were king and they were rich but still than they lead an honest and poor life. And are worshiped by people till now. Hones and poor man are always honest with their profession work because they have high moral and ethical value.  They have courage to argue with wrong and rich person. From inside, they have strength even in the modern times, “Gandhi Ji” father of nation who is respected above all the political post like President, Prime Minister and other rich person like Tata, Birla, Ambani.

But the love of money can motivate any evil on this earth and make any one dishonest. Thus most of the rich people are dishonest. Rich sometimes get rich by oppressing the poor. There are many wicked rich people in this world who have hardened their hearts filled with arrogancy, selfishness, harshness, cold-hardheartedness throwing parties wasting their money on useless things, who are overfed and have no pity nor concerned about the poor but are piled up with wealth, pride and refused to pay their workers, who do not even defend the rights of the poor nor share their wealth or food with poor and needy. But no doubt, an honest person has to suffer more than dishonest and rich person but at last, hones wins and gains high order of respect in the social political system.

But most of the dishonest people either ended up in jail or got robbed of their freedom whether they are rich or poor. If your career is built on lies, then you've essentially created a prison for yourself. It's a foundation primed for collapse. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? If you speak, honestly you can talk eye to eye and work with no worries.

Whether you're rich or poor, dishonest people are always hoping people won't find out the truth.  They're always suspicious and they live their lives waiting for the right time to start being honest because they want to be free.  This point can be explained by the proverb present in the Bible, “BETTER IS A POOR MAN WHO WALKS IN HIS INTEGRITY THAN A RICH MAN WHO IS CROOKED IN HIS WAYS.”

So I would like to conclude that being rich or poor doesn't matter because money can't buy the things that really matter like happiness.

The key towards achieving the IMPOSSIBLE-- By Pema Wangmo XII B

“True courage is pursuing your dreams even when everyone says it’s impossible”. With this, I would like to wish you all a pleasant morning. Respected principal sir, vice principals, T.O.D, teachers and all my friends. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to speak on the key towards achieving the IMPOSSIBLE

When we say impossible, 99% of us tend to think that it is something that can never be achieved.  We follow the same mentality that has been passed down to us through our forefathers without bothering to bring a change. The world is developing. Telephones are being replaced by smart phones while people are being replaced by intelligent machines. So, I would say that it is high time that we bring a change to our thoughts. Thinking properly, you would realize that the impossible has been achieved several times in the past. The things such as computers and vehicles which we are seeing as normal objects of usage today must have been considered impossible to be achieved a few centuries back. What I mean to say through this example is that, things are always considered impossible until it’s achieved.

The impossible has always been achieved from thinking outside the box. In short, the way we think matters a lot. To make a difference, we need to do great things. Problems must be taken as a challenge that will lead you one step forward towards your goal. Not too long ago, I remember one of my teachers saying, “I tried my best to confuse you all with my teaching”. I was surprised as to what he meant by his words. Later, I realized that he was confusing us so that we could make mistakes and learn through them. I was fascinated by his thoughts. Likewise, thinking differently or doing different things doesn’t make you strange or wrong but unique.

Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown out your inner voice. Most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart no matter how silly or challenging your attempt may seem. Our heart somehow already knows what we really want to become.

Have a want, to feel like what you have right now isn't enough. You can always build something better. One day, there will be something better and more important than even the smart watch. Don't be afraid of looking foolish by questioning something that has been commonly accepted for years. Notions like "that isn't possible" or "no one's ever done that so we can't" should be something that you carelessly cast to the wind because that kind of thinking is just an excuse to avoid doing something great.

So, to sum up, the key towards achieving the impossible is within you. What is required is the courage to throw away our thoughts of fear and the heart to follow our dreams. 

Reading Pranita's Way.............................Pranita Adhikari of 10 F

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once.” George R.R Martin. With this good morning , honorable principal, vice principal, teachers, and all my friends. I am Pranita Adhikari of 10 F and I am here to give a talk about the strategies and my reading habits. Hope you all enjoy.

Knowledge knows no bounds. Even if we gain more and more knowledge, we cannot be satiated as there is much more than we an absorb. Reading book contributes towards the achievement of our knowledge in terms of human experience and information. Reading is constructing meaning from he content and making sense. Reading develops the vocabulary and even the language of a person. So I have 10 ways to cultivate a lifetime reading habit:

1.       Set times for reading.

2.       Always carry a book.

3.       Make a list of books you read.

4.       Find a place to read.

5.       Reduce television/ Internet.

6.       Read fun and compelling books.

7.       Make reading pleasurable.

8.       Set a high goal.

9.       Make connections between readings on other issues.

10.   Read every day.

Everyone in this world craves for happiness. Happiness is just a state of mind. It is very difficult to define happiness. For some, happiness is related to material glory and for some it is associated with the health of a man, but for me happiness is reading and reading is happiness. You all may be thinking that I am a book worm right? Yes ,I am a book worm. I do read lots and lots of books.

My reading habits have changed over the years. As a child, I had different tastes in book. Even though my habits and reading preferences have changed over the years the years I still enjoy it as much as I did when I was a child. My reading habits as a child were such that l read when I came home from school, and before I went to bed. I always had my nose in a book. I have a pretty large collection of a book as well. For birthdays, I would make a list of new books I wanted. I’d rather receive books as gifts than toys! When I was young I used to read fairy tales. I could picture in my mind everything that I was reading. As an adolescent I enjoyed fictions books, I try to read 2-3 books per month. I haven’t scheduled time for reading. I read whenever and wherever I find something to be read. Once I start a book I get tempted to read more and more like a child gets tempted for chocolate. The more we read, the more we like.  if you all take a book as a chocolate, you will enjoy the taste and get deeper and deeper into own world.

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book. It happened with me. It was in class eight. My dad handed me a Novel titled “A walk to remember.”

By Nicholas Sparks. I started reading it and with each unfolding page, my temptation grew , resulting in me finishing that book within 4 hours . I was so much in that book that I had no idea of what so even of the world. To be honest, I even cried in the process of reading it. I was in my own world, my world of happiness.

I must say that it is a book worth reading. Many of you may prefer to watch television, play around, go on dates, browse the  internet,  but I prefer reading a book rather than obeying all those stuffs.

Through reading I have improved a lot. I have improved in expressing ideas, reading, communication and writing. The more you read, the more you explore, and the more you explore, the more knowledgeable you become. We should awe books and read as many as we can because today a reader, tomorrow a leader. One of the books by Nicholas Sparks. Right now I am in the process of reading his 5^th book “The Choice.”

In conclusion, reading has always been an important part of my life. I believe that reading stimulates my brain and it gets me thinking. I would say that reading is my favorite thing to do. A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. Reading a book is like re-writing it for you. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books. Reading is dreaming with open eyes. I would like to end my talk here with a quotation. “I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it, you can escape from the world, into a story that is way more interesting than will ever be.” Elizabeth Scott.

   

Karma Yunton Shares his philosophy ........ Karma Yunton is studying in class XII Science

“I think of life as a good book. The farther you get into it the more it begins to make sense” by Harold Kushor.

“Why do you read?” is a common question asked by my friends when they see me reading a book, my answer to them is, it is fun to read an old habit of mine.

As you know the old habit die hard. I started reading when I was in class 5 where the teachers encourage us to read and the school provided us the opportunity by opening the door to the library at lunch, so every lunch. I go to the library for at least half an hour.

Why is it fun to read? It is fun to read because it keeps me company whenever I get lonely and keeps my boredom at bay. Fun for us is when we are with our friends, but for me it was always a good book. One good thing about the is if you don’t like the characters in the book or the story it contains than just shut the book, but can you do the same to the people who you rather avoid.

Sometimes I prefer book over television because when I watch too much of T.V at the end my mind is blank but when I read a book for some the time at the end my mind has load of new ideas in it, if history was written in story, it will never be forgotten.

Another reason I read is because what happens when I read. Whenever I read a book I feel like I have open a door to a new world where I am characters in the book doing what he does and feeling what he feels.

Also, the readers make me fit mentally because it temporally forgets all my problems and stress and send my mind in a clam meditative state.

Lastly, I hope that I have struck a spark of reading enthusiasm in my audiences to kindle it to flame of the reading habit.

Reading according to Meena Acharya XI Arts

A happy Reading Day to all. I am Meena Acharya from the 11 Art and I am feeling really pleasured to share my journey and inspirations about the worlds of reading in front of you and here it begins.

“Dear fellows, please throw away the TV because students watching it have no eyes have been popped out and instead create a world of imagination by providing yourself a book.”

Reading can be so good as going deep into a beautiful dream. It’s when we read we come closer to a world with wonders, wonders of reality and fiction. Reading means the ocean of knowledge. Without accomplishing great knowledge we face is lots of competitive persons. To fill the emptiness in our self what we need is reading skills and conveying what we really mean to say we are a day dreamer whose dreams fade away just as we open our eyes.

Through knowledge or reading we can heal every emotion and problems. Our capacity to read is our reflection of how far we can move in our lives. It’s our power of mind that proves us that Buddha lies within us.

A true reader is one’s best judge because we have the knowledge that differentiates us from good and bad. Reading is not only about reading a prose.

I started my reading habits not just once reading a thick novel, but by hearing bed times stories from my mom and I discovered later on that my mom’s stories have built a reading world for me and it really built a world of curiosity for me.

When I was a kid, every night my mom used to tell bed time stories. But she was a busy woman, she could not tell her stories every night. But I was so addicted to her stories that I could not sleep without it. For the solution to this problem, She started bringing a fairly tales and lady bird's story. Though I wasn’t so good at reading. I still tried…. And my reading skills improved since then, I wasn’t good at reading, but because of my interest, my standard improved drastically… I stared reading those small pages of poem to stories and then now I am able to read and understand those thick novels.

And my relationship with the book had become so strong that I can leave the world but not books.

I have such a mutual understanding with books that sometimes I laugh out loud thinking what so funny it was and sometimes I shed tears silently thinking how the character bears out the pain. It’s really not me who have brought me here, but the power of knowledge that dragged me here.

As a reader, I am inspired to read books of Stephen R. Covey and I would say I am the greatest fan of him because he is in the process of writing his 28^th series and I am in the process of reading his 23^rd series and that is “The seven habits of highly Effective People” and I am sure I will finish reading all the series within this year.

People say a smile is the best make up but for me reading is my best make up because what’s the use of having such a pretty appearance when we really lack the interior appearance that is the knowledge. Right?

                                                I quote

“Don’t land others your book because the book that I have in my shelve are the books that I borrowed from others.” And my personal tips to improve reading skills are:

1.     Start reading with an adventures book or biography because it built curiosity within yourself.

2.     Build a world of imagination as it’s a window to the world.

3.     Love noting down all vocabularies that is beyond your understanding and always have a habit of nothing quotations and etc…

4.     Always have temptation to explore in the world of reading.

Reading skills are essential to success in society today. The ability to record is highly valued and very important for social and economic advancement. Reading books can develop one’s vocabulary. Incorporating these new words in every speaking will increase language skills and boost confidence in the speakers as well. Having a large vocabulary is not only impressive but useful in many areas of public speaking.

Do you all know why we lack in speaking skills and why it’s so tough for us to adapt the language code? It’s because we don’t have the habit of reading books. If I described about a simple example, then it would be; Our students have got freedom to choose our book from the library and we all proudly carry it in our hands. But if you all be honest, how many books have you read so far one. ..Two…three...Some may not have read a single. To improve our speaking skills we just can’t rely on the textbooks, we have to go beyond the textbooks like magazine, reader, etc…

Hence the bottom line is:

“Hope for change, move for it.”

And we have a happy reading journey ahead.

                                                Thank You.

     

   

Reading in Rechhung's way..............Thinley Reychung Wangchuk IX E

W

e never know when we fall in love with books. It is the bonding process that makes you closer to it. The bonding process would simply be reading a book and liking it, then reading more books. It happens all the time to any person. It can happen to you. Now, after hearing what I have to say I hope this process takes place in all of you. Never have I thought that books are just pages. For me it is not only the book. It is the author’s thoughts that captivate us and draws us nearer and nearer to it. Books help us break free from the world of now. It takes us to places far and wide. When people read, they do not read for the sake of reading books but for the pleasure they gain from it. Reading habits inculcated in us from a very young age helps us to develop good reading skills. Reading books help us to understand the ways of reading. Our vocabulary, our expressions, our voice modulation are enhanced by ten folds. A person who reads books knows about the world outside Bhutan. The English that is spoken by him is pure as the Buddha’s soul.

Reading helps us all in our day to day life. It is true that books help us improve our reading, but it also helps us improve the basic necessities we need in our life. Books help us to understand ourselves and deal with our everyday problems.Even a paper with letters and words which is thrown on the ground is worth reading. I love reading books. I read books because it helped me relieve my stress and improve my standard in reading.

I read books when I was very young. My mother read me bedtime stories. That was the start of my journey into the world of books. She was my inspiration and motivation. She always asked me to read books from a very

 Young age  and she bought books for me to read. I started reading Ladybird books which are short stories about Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc.…. I am here due to the books that I have read. When we read so many books we need to maintain bookshelves. My bookshelf mainly consists of the books that I have read till now. I don’t particularly have choices but that is my strength. The different types of books help me to understand more about the world of books and it introduced me to different styles in which books are written by different authors as they have their own unique way of writing. These different genres of books helped me to improve my reading and speaking skills as they depict different emotions in different manners. Good books are not written by the brain but by the heart. I also ask books as my birthday presents and ask my relatives for books instead for money, clothes, etc… Books are in the very roots of me. Books helped me to reach the position I am in now. Books have helped me in my studies as it improves our English and makes our comprehension strong which in return helps me in my other subjects except for Dzongkha. Reading books improve all bases in language improvement. It also improves our English writing skills. My younger brother did not start reading at the age I did, but right now he is reading books because of me. I have been his inspiration and motivation and I hope I will be with you all too. A book helps us to explore our imaginations and is a door to the soul.   Books helped me understand the world we live in now. Reading can help us reach a stage equal to enlightenment. Books are like flowers in a garden. Even if they wither away another always grows beautifully.

Well, I would like to conclude by saying that we read books to enhance not only our mental strength but also our physical composure. Reading books help all of us in every way possible. So from today I hope you all pick up a book and flip some pages because it is never too late.