Friday, November 11, 2005

Amma,

Mom,
You are Mother Of all Mothers;
This day,
Is one among God’s choicest selections.
You were born in November coz,
You,
are Noble that makes everyone of us admire you,
are Omniscient in knowing what one wants and not,
are a Visionary who raised our standard of living,
are the Epitome of Love-Ah! Needs any explanation?
always Makeover our misdoings!
Brought us up the way we must be,
your Endurance know no limits,
are Resilient.
That doesn’t say it all Mom,
November had only eight letters!
You are ---------
A superwoman,
Something that cannot be defined,
Something that cannot be measured,
But surely,
Something that could be felt!
Thanks Mom,
This day,
Also is a day,
To say that we love you,
To say we care for you,
To say we are what you made us to be!
Long live this precious possession of us!
Happy Birthday Dear Mom…


P.S.:

written on the eve of my mom's birthday...Nov 11 2005

Monday, October 17, 2005

FRIEND

Friend,

I were a hidden mine,
Till you were mine;
You became my friend
Boosted my dreams to take a stand.

Your spirits kept alive my fire (to succeed)
Your comforting words no one can hire.
You are my motivator,
You are my resistor.

Only that I had met you,
I got the courage to think BIG;
I had put a meaning in my life,
I had decided to put meaning in others’ life too.

I thank you my friend,
For all that you have done to me;
For all the realizations you have given me;
Above all, for being, my friend forever.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Result Evaluation

Created on Feb 2005 to express my views to The Department of Examinaations, Anna University.
I would like to share the present situation prevailing in our educational system and the effects forced on the students.
We are the first batch of students to be taken up by Anna University. Everybody (the public) feel that being controlled by the top university we are being moulded into grads equal in academic intelligence to that of the AU grads. I feel sorry to say that the truth is a big NO indeed! From the start, we have been forced with a lot of new systems, rules and regulations. As our syllabi failed to match the AU, a bridge course was conducted to lift us up. But, are the self-financing colleges serious about providing standard education? We had been always forced to accept things as they come and we accepted the bridge course, unavailability of staff community, no prescribed text books and so on…

Hope the State must be aware as to when the results have been published. The students feel that the papers are not being corrected with devotion. Everybody seems to earn money from that and is least bothered about the way they evaluate the papers. I should also make an honest comment that few of us who don’t deserve a pass mark do get good results and are delighted that luck favored us! Do the staff members make not an injustice to the student community? The students do feel that they would clear their papers if luck favors them and not that their efforts would fetch them their deserved marks!! We should really accept that this is the pitiable state of our educational system!

One more accusation on we students is that, even after gravitating the top class industry people to the University campus and allowing merit students to attend the tests conducted, the number of placed candidates is very small. The list also includes the communicational lag among the professionals. Are we being taught from our school days that developing our personality is but an important trait? No, we realize that only after we face an interview personally. I don’t mean to say that we don’t have any mistakes on our part but laying the sole responsibility on our shoulders is too ridiculous!!!

I would also like to add few more facts regarding answer paper evaluation. The marks published as result shows 6 of 80 and after applying for revaluation the mark becomes 36 of 80! Isn’t it awesome? If marks that are carelessly left counts less than 5 or 6 it can be taken as a mistake. But leaving out 30 marks during evaluation is a blunder! Are the evaluators least bothered about the future of we professionals? If this is going to happen who is going to attend the exams with dedication? The evaluation pattern is frustrating, discouraging, misleading and totally is unplanned!!!!

We do regret to think that false marks are left just to earn the additional money for revaluation!!!!
The noticeable, but pitiable fact is that we have to pay our exam fees, including the amount to reappear for arrear subjects, before our revaluation results appear! Our college doesn’t refund the money we pay if our revaluation fetches us a pass mark in the subjects.
If the university feels hectic to correct such a huge number of answer papers, they may very well change their validating pattern and please do leave our future unharmed. At this point of industrial expectations, the percentage gained by the individual matters the most. The first impression is given just by the percentage we score. Are the people responsible for raising professionals appreciated by this kind of act? We do wish that this never happens to anyone in the future and proper measures are taken to evaluate students accurately and efficiently, thereby taking into consideration the career and future of the students.

WORD ETHICS

How conscious are we before we start to converse, talk, express…? How powerful are our words in conveying exactly the flash that appeared as a thought/idea in our mind? How true are we in practising what we preach? How many of us are aware of the fact that each and every word we say reveals our attitude, our personality, our feelings towards others and self? What care do we take in not hurting others through words?

It is high time for us to think of all these things. Ask why? We all now talk of communication skills, interpersonal skills, soft skills as a vital factor in entering the software, why, any industry for that matter.

The foundation for interpersonal skills lies in command over a language, courage to address people and above all our attitude, knowledge of the purpose in our delivery. Teasing, oral abuse, insult are all happening in all parts of the world irrespective of the varied spheres of life. Especially, people with pride, adolescents full of fun, people pretending to be over smart, superiors for whom the subordinates are slaves, form the sources for aforesaid abuses.

What is the reason to worry about all these stuffs? You wonder right?! Here comes the answer-

What if a parent says to his/her child, “ ‘let go this time, but take an oath that you will succeed the next time!’ instead of ‘Uh! You are a dumb boy! Or you are a useless fellow!’ ”?

What if a teacher asks, “ ‘tell me what your problem is. Let us find a solution together.’ instead of ‘well it is high time for you to help cattle to graze’”?

What if a friend says, “‘don’t worry. You can do it. You need patience and perseverance that’s all’ instead of ‘I asked you not to risk right? ’”?

Will the world not be as nice as it could have been if we had changed the way we speak? Why did we forget to think in this way? What stops us to feel the importance of such a serious issue?

“My superior reacts to me the way I react to my subordinates” – an answer as simple and obvious as it can be! The POWER, possession of mere designation shuts the sixth sense and makes the boneless tongue to twist as worst as it can!
Everyone is after respect. Everyone loves to be regarded in a higher position than they deserve. Isn’t it?
Factual saying goes like this ‘give respect and take respect!’. What you sow, so you reap. That’s true in all cases.
If a teacher scolds in a rubbish language at a student, the student talks so, at the back of him. How could any barbaric language reap respect? We’ve got to make sense!!
Think twice before you speak, once more when you scold! Just coz a person is in a good social status, or in a higher position, does not get the power to abuse any individual.

We are now spending lots putting on accent, learning the foreign language without cultivating a positive civilized mental attitude, which is the foundation for the real ‘human’ being! Putting on an accent, having good social strata, earning handfuls does, but make you just a ‘being’ and not a human being!

Thousand ways are there to correct people, to make others realize their mistakes. Let us not toxicate ourselves by using negative, abusary, barbaric language!

According to me a possible solution would be to make it a compulsory for both students and teachers, included in their syllabi, a subject on positive, purposeful, harmless, soothing communication in the language they learn. As today’s students are tomorrow’s individuals, the sole responsibility lies with the teachers to mould the students properly in a way they make a better life on earth!

“Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.
–Swami Vivekananda.”
So, lets start from the foundation named school and academic institution and grow higher and higher in our character! Be happy, be cheerful, enjoy life, have fun – at the same time take enough care that not a single word or deed of yours hurts another soul.


Best wishes and Cheers,
Nadhi.