calm after storm

As after storm wanes away, the eerie silence that prevails... I felt that on July 5th after the massive re-org that happened in my client place. This news not only shocked me who was new to this, but jolted also those who survived the brutal wave. Of the people whom I interacted with, few were clueless on their next steps, few hid their grief and were exchanging mail-ids excusing themselves that they got time for a vacation. This was purely a finance book decision which was really a bitter pill. 

Back home in my offshore team,  we were discussing in length on how to replace a team-member who was grappling with tasks. He is a nice man and is affable, but given the nature of the project we were not able to fit him in the team puzzle. Finally I was forced to take that harsh step, sending out a minor shock wave. It was well received at my client side though. 

Storms are a part of nature and we got to harden ourselves to the realities. Whatever doesnt kill us, makes us stronger !!!

Back to a classroom

After almost 10 years, I step into a classroom in a university-extension to attend a course on jitter in electronic systems. The difference in me this time is that I am already a practicing engineer who could appreciate electronics and I am self financing my course. I am able to  correlate the discussions to my lab observations and to concepts that I learned (or not learned) from my degree classes.

When I stepped into the room, I met people from various background and was really puzzled by their questions and approach until I was revealed how various pieces fit together and  understood where my roles fit in the whole jitter chain. Once again I felt timid like a lone boat rocking in the sea. The quiz, homework assignments and the final assessment tipped me to take the plunge into deep sea. I am sure to hunt invaluable treasures and return to the boat, but I doubt if I will ever return to the shore. 

Will keep the boat rocking ... on and on, steadily

from the other side of the globe ...

Its been a long time that I blogged something here. Life took its own twists and turns, taking me by its roller-coaster. The vicious arms of dull work, work pressures coupled with newer manipulative dynamics took the gas off me. These years, a crave for change started to set in myself.

All the lobbying within the organization yielded results - I got a promotion which was due for two years and a decent change in work location on the other side of the globe. I'm typing this from a conference room in California watching FIFA world cup match.

I plan to take the major step and plan to blog again- my experiences in a foreign land... as I always had thought and expressed "speaking and writing are my veins, transporting energy from the solid earth to the leaf, the factory of thinking"