Kuenza's Diary

My parents worked so hard to first get a land where they could farm. Then they worked so hard to build a house of their own. Their hard work paid. They made a name for themselves. They built two houses; more if we are to count the houses they help build for their children. But for what? We could argue that if they did not work that hard, their children -- my siblings and I could be doing something different, and earning our living in a different way. They worked hard--all for us. They taught us humility. One thing that rings in my mind still to this day is that, we are humble people and we should always remain humble. I could say we have lived it. What hit me hard was this picture that my eldest brother sent me from my village: I cannot believe that the place that I called home and the place that lives in me has become like this. I had to look at this picture again and again -- closely. The landscape itself looks changed and it is nothing like I remember from my childhood...

This is for those who are looking for a way of importing list of contact addresses at once on your iPhone without having to add one at a time. Having joined a new organization, I had to have contact addresses of more than hundred staff and I did not want to tediously type in one by one on my phone.   But first you must have this contact list in excel format or in some form of list on your computer. 1. If you have the contact list in the excel format, convert it into csv format 2. Now convert it into VCF format online on this link: http://www.artistec.com/pages/CSV2vCard.html 2. Follow the instruction on this link 3. Once you have the output of your contact list on that link in the VCF format, copy and paste it in a notepad 4. Save it with the file extension .vcf 5. Log in on icloud using your login credentials 6. Go to Contacts on the homepage of your iCloud and then go to settings 7. Click on import and choose the vcf file you just created.  You ...

If you are looking for a way to paste Excel table into Gmail without losing its format -- without having to use MS Word as an intermediary, here it is: 1. Download the Chrome extension CloudCodes Insertable 2. Reload your Gmail 3. And then after copying your table from Excel, click on the new icon on your gmail: 4. As soon as you click on this icon, your table will be pasted in the Gmail without losing its format If you don't want to add an extension, you can do the following: 1. Copy Excel table into MS Word 2. Now copy this table from MS Word and paste into Gmail The first option is required only if you want to do it straight away from Excel to Gmail by skipping a step.

I love growing up with my daughter by being part of her daily experiences. Unless I am rushed by an inevitable meeting or work, I make sure that I attend her school’s morning assembly because getting to stand in line with students and recite the  Jamyang Soeldeb  (Prayer to Manju Shri) and National Anthem is a rare opportunity. And I take it solemnly. I have recently been transferred to Ministry of Labour and Human Resources and this gives me time to do that. The walking distance between her school and my office is only four minutes.    This morning, she woke up early, which gave us time for her bath as well as have a relaxed time for breakfast. After getting ready for school, she still had time while I got ready – so she used it to read a story, ‘The Folk Museum’ by Madam Chador Wangmo. She sure does like the imaginations it gives her.     So we arrived at her school on time today. She could join her friends to sing the nursery rhymes which gives stud...

As part of the GNH dissemination workshop series, I was nominated along with three other colleagues to travel to Malaysia and South Korea in March this year. I was in a dilemma about whether to join them or stay back – because my second child had just turned one year. But having watched so many Korean dramas from being a girl to now, I was tempted to visit South Korea so much that I wanted to join them. And so I did! My husband, my mother and my niece had to take extra responsibility of caring for him; putting babies to bed and soothing them back to sleep when they wake up in the middle of the night is quite a tiresome job for non-mothers. But my boy being a very amiable baby gave them little trouble.  Our counterpart in Malaysia had arranged so many meetings – from meetings over breakfast to lunch to dinner besides presentations to different offices and gatherings, we were left tired to our bones on our last day there, which was 23 rd March 2017. Our flight to Seoul ...