Things have finally started getting hotter by the moment now. Classes have started full throttle and I have started feeling the heat despite the cool rainy Singapore weather. But I don't attribute all that to the deadlines or the packed schedules. Many other things have changed too.. A kinda new phase. Some people who were close have gone away and some who were far off have barged in. Some had to be intentionally pushed down the 'relationship priority list' while others have come up now. A challenging thing to face I must add! However then, that's what adds spice to life and it's bound to happen all the while. Imagine, how dull life will be if you got to see all the same people around all the time? :-)
Life on the academic front has been busy too. First there was this classy truly intellectual lecture series on IT Leadership and Strategies by our Dean which included a video titled "The world is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman. Then there was this young MBA student "Vijay Rao" from the Nanyang Business School presenting his ideas of how to turn blogging into a profitable exercise. Innovative idea I must say! Then was the much awaited ERP series by another senior faculty from Paris (who also happens to be an ex-IBM’er to the core). The ERP series concluded with a lecture by a senior person at IBM Singapore about the SOA Architecture and IBM's strategy behind it.
And now… as part of the Visiting Wisdom Series, we have Robin Sharma, the renowned author of "The Monk Who sold his Ferrari" coming on campus on 26 January 2007. I have read almost all his books and am looking forward to see him in Singapore. Will be a great learning experience I guess.
Hmm… That’s all for now! Got to attend a meditation session tomorrow morning at 7! Got to sleep now to cool down a bit… Zzzzz.
