My Little Piece of Cake

I didn't have a big cake. I only had a slice for my birthday. It's okay, I'm still eating my cake.


Happy Birthday to my beloved twin sister too. :)

Gross National Happiness

Some excerpts of the article:

'Gross National Happiness', or GNH, is Buddhist Bhutan's unique approach to national development, and a pursuit that many in the remote country say has been vindicated by the ongoing economic meltdown in the outside world.

"The whole world is going towards materialism, and the more they get the more they want. But they're still not happy. They don't need to copy us, but they should take a look at other ways."

Bhutan has been pursuing GNH for the past few decades: it was conceived by the country's last king, and the new monarch -- 28-year-old Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who was crowned on Thursday -- says it will remain a policy centrepiece.

According to a pilot survey conducted earlier this year by Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Commission -- previously the national planning commission -- 68 percent of Bhutanese could be classed as being happy.

Read the whole article here.

I think I'm going to apply for a Bhutanese citizenship. I want to be a part of that historic 68%, not an easy feat especially in this day and age of ours.