Usha's marriage

Attended Usha Kiran's marriage yesterday (23rd Nov). It was nice ride on the bike from my place of work to Panambur (around 22 kms). Had to detour in the middle near Kudupu as Shashti festival was being celebrated there. Police were not allowing any vehicles to pass through during the afternoon since the rath (temple's car) was being pulled at that time. There was a huge crowd.

Met lot of my ex-colleagues in the marriage (was expecting it anyway, which was my another agenda to attend the marriage!). I think the other advantage of standing in a long queue to wish the wedding couple is that you get to chat a lot with your friends - that's how I effectively used my queue waiting time (Hmm... Is there any clue that we can get from it in devising scheduling algorithms while designing operating systems to improve their overall performance? :-)

It's been long since I had seen her; so it took a while to recognize her from far! :) Later when we met her - it was typical Usha at her best. She was introducing us to her hubby by effortlessly telling our names as if we were working with her till yesterday! However, I'm not sure if she could remember all those who had come for her marriage (as usual with any newly wedded folks)
Met many other folks during lunch time too. Overall, we had a very nice time. Thanks Usha for the opportunity. Wishing you both a very happy, colorful, joyous and successful married life!

Long-term perspective

Long-term perspective - I think it's another buzzword that corporate folks like to cling on to. Whatever it may be, it certainly has its own positives. In the hurry of making quick bucks or reaping the low handing fruits so to say, we loose sight of much better fruits that are high above. No. of people to fetch the low hanging fruits is also high and whose quality is also not as great as the high hanging ones. Enough of theory I guess!

Why am I saying so? After the paradigm shift of my professional life (Industry to institute), it looks pretty evident to me with the kind of things happening around me. No doubt education has become another business domain nowadays. In the process of making quick bucks, it's quite unfortunate to see people missing sight of many more years to come. A clear vision, focus on quality, a standardized process, time management, commitment and more importantly the true professionalism, is severely lacking. (I see 'vision' statement board in most of the colleges though; however may not be connected to the things they do) All these take a back seat in this environment. Even if somebody mentions it, they just nod their head without actually thinking through it. If you are not well equipped with such things, how can one expect it pass it on to students who are going to be the future professionals or entrepreneurs?

People seem to be quite complacent with things in whatever state or level of quality they may be. I think it's also got to do with the exposure. The more you travel, the more you interact with different kinds of people and the more you become 'open to ideas'. Once you are to yourself and don't accept suggestions from others, that's where you stop growing in life!

I think it should change. I'm trying to introduce such changes in the institutes slowly. I know it's a tough challenge - going against the odds. I'm not sure if we can use the same aggressiveness that we use in the corporates to do stuff here. I've just started this new journey. Let me see how much do I succeed in here ...

From SIT

It's after a long time that I'm starting to blog again (not that I was a major blogger earlier though!). Recently I've changed my profession from an IT industry to an Engg. institution. You certainly feel a lot more relieved here and feel like you have lot of time at your disposal. (On the contrary, wherever you go in the world, you will always have enough time to do anything. Only thing is that it depends how you prioritize things around you, which makes you think 'you are very busy' if you fail to prioritize things properly!)

Things are much different here from a corporate life every minute is considered in terms of money. Do I say it's the other extreme!? Nevertheless, people (faculty & students) here also consider themselves as 'busy' too! I think it's a craze nowadays to say that I'm busy. Some may think that I'm being paid only if I'm busy and may feel a little intimidated if asked 'are you free now?' :-) As people say, if you want a help from somebody, go to the busiest person, s/he will make sure that it'll get done for you for s/he knows how to manage his/her time effectively.

Well, enough gyan (lecturing) I guess. More on my new professional life, in the next blog ... Till then, take care.