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IELTS test in Bhutan

younten — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:27:28 +0000

In Bhutan, International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam is conducted only four times in a year. Royal Institute of Management (RIM), Thimphu is the only IELTS Exam Center in Bhutan. You can apply online by going to https://ielts.britishcouncil.org/

Kuenselonline website

younten — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:26:19 +0000

This where the pages that I came across when I went to kuenselonline.com.

18th Oct 2011

19th Oct 2011

I guess kuenselonline shifted from IIS to Apache web server and they are redesigning their site in wordpress.

Druk Air’s third aircraft

younten — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:16:46 +0000

5 June, 2011 – With a colourful chipdrel ceremony, the national airline welcomed its third aircraft to Bhutan on Saturday.

Drukair has leased a 48-seater European built aircraft to operate between its short haul routes, such as Kolkata, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal. The lease includes the option to purchase the aircraft.

The aircraft will be operating to Kolkata and Kathmandu on a daily basis. With the smaller aircraft having a smaller fuel consumption footprint than the airbus jets, the airline is expecting to save on operating costs.

Drukair also expects to operate the ATR 42-500 aircraft on the domestic sector, which is tentatively scheduled to begin sometime between July-August. But the department of civil aviation has not cleared the ATR 42-500 to operate domestically yet. Drukair will be conducting test flights to satisfy civil aviation that the aircraft can safely operate on the shorter runways of Batpalathang and Yongphula.

If the aircraft is passed, the airline will operate domestic flights before 9am and at 50 percent load capacity to ensure optimal performance of the aircraft.

The airline is also looking at the government to charter the aircraft for scenic flights and other purposes.

The arrival of the ATR was delayed by about three weeks, causing some scheduled flight disruptions. One of the reasons for the delay included having the aircraft painted in Drukair colours.

Despite the addition of a third aircraft to its fleet, Drukair still requires one more airbus jet to expand its network to include other cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Drukair is expecting its fourth aircraft next year.

Source: Kuensel

Online System’s in Bhutan

younten — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:42:44 +0000

Audit Clearance System – Royal Audit Authority
Security Clearance Service – Royal Bhutan Police
Planning and Monitoring System – Gross National Happiness Commission
Asset Declaration System - Anti-Corruption Commission
Forestry Information Database System – Department of Forest and Services
Forestry e-Services – Department of Forest and Services
Civil Service Information System – Royal Civil Service Commission
Tashel Online System – Tourism Council of Bhutan
Labour Market Information System – Department of Employment
Labour Net System – Department of Labour
Technical Vocational Education & Training Management Information System – Ministry of Labour and Human Resources
Office Procedure Automation – Ministry of Information & Communication
e-Sakor – National Land Commission

MMS Configuration In Corby Pro

younten — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:18:47 +0000

Finally i was able to make my samsung corby pro use the MMS feature of BMobile. The day BMobile launched its free MMS, i registered myself for the service. Having waited for its setting to receive, i tried googling and finally came to ThimphuTech website, where there was a issue on MMS. In one of the post in ThimphuTech, the person posted his configuration as below:

Access Point Name: mmsbt
MMSC: http://192.168.20.5:10021/mmsc/
Username: (leave blank)
Password: (leave blank)
Gateway/Proxy address: 192.168.20.10
Gateway/Proxy port: 8799

I used the above IP setting and MMS Location in My Samsing Corby Pro as below:

1.Messages > Settings > Multimedia messages > Profiles
2. Create New Profile
Set name : [Put Any Name]
Bearer type: Packet data
Access name: mmsbt
Auth type: Normal
User Id:
Password:
Protocol: HTTP
Home URL: http://192.168.20.5:10021/mmsc/
Proxy Address: 192.168.20.10:8799
3. Save
4. In Profiles check the above profile name that you have just created.

Yahooooooooo! finally I did it, now i can use MMS in my Samsung Corby Pro B5310

I carry Your Heart

younten — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:10:55 +0000

I carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
I am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you
You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart, I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

by E. E. Cummings

The Best Things in Life!

younten — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:05:34 +0000

The best things in life don’t come with out a struggle. Love is one amongst them.

Why do we close our eyes when we sleep? When we cry? When we imagine? When we kiss?
This is because the most beautiful thing in the world is unseen.

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

A great love? It’s when you shed tears and still you care for him, it’s when he ignores you and still long for him. It’s when he begins to love another and yet you still smile and say I’m happy for you.

If love fails, set yourself free, let your heart spread its wings and fly again. Remember you may find love and lose it, but when love dies, you never have to die with it.

The strongest people are not those who always win but those who stand back up when they fall. Somehow along the course of life, you learn about yourself and realize there should never be regrets, only a lifelong
appreciation of the choices you’ve made.

A true friend understands when you say, I forgot, waits forever when you say, just a minute, stay! Leaves when you say leave me alone, opens the door even before you knock and says can I come in?

Loving is not how you forget but how you forgive, not how you listen but how you understand, not what you see but how you feel, and not how you let go but how you hold on.

In love, very rarely do we win but when love is true, even if you lose, you still win just for having the tingle of loving someone more than you love yourself.

There comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they’d be happier if we let go.

It’s best to wait for the one you want than settle or one that’s available. Best to wait for the one you love than one who is around.

Best to wait for the right one because life is too short to waste on just someone.

Sometimes the one you love turns out to be the one who hurts you the most. But that’s okay. Your love shouldn’t be dependent upon someone else’s love or hate.

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present! “