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Kshema's 7 Quick Takes Friday (Volume 01/2015)

--- 1 --- Picking up strings from my last post in November 2013 and wrapping up 2014..... it has been an eventful year, I must say, both on personal and other-than-personal fronts. It was Diwali, when I last blogged. 2013 quickly got over with a great Diwali and Christmas time. I did suffer some bad health towards the end of the year, nevertheless, quickly recovered too. I must thank God for His mercies from time to time. In 2014, I worked hard in office and at home, not that I did not work hard before; but the rewards that your hard work pays you make you forget all the pain and bask in its pleasure. As an employee, a professional, and an individual the happiness of receiving an award and appreciation for your work, is immense, especially when you put in a lot of efforts and churn it with your creative juices. This award was followed by an opportunity to showcase my skills of documenting and anchoring, which were again, rewarding! Along side I could read, watch movies and sing ...

Kshema's 7 Quick Takes Friday (Volume 17)

--- 1 --- It has been a stably good week. Traveled to my choicest nearby place. Did some awesome work that gave out equally awesome results. For a librarian like me, challenging tasks and learning opportunities only can give immense happiness. Climate is a bit hot and humid with a couple days breezing awhile. I know I am one restless soul, but I have to accept that the physical body needs some rest. --- 2 --- “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”  ― Benjamin Franklin So true! One of my recent experiences provoked me to travel down the memory lane only to reminiscence about the teachers, mentors, guides, friends and philosophers I had the fortune to associate myself with. A moment to stand and offer my heartfelt thanks to them all; and above all to Him for bestowing upon me such good fortune to strike some time with them. Almost of them taught something to me without even a slightest hint that they are teaching me. ...