It has been a fantastic week of discoveries for me...I discovered my favourite author in Gokulam, a magazine for children which I read decades back .I also discovered truths about eyes as cues to the thought process. If I had not entered the world of blogging through this blog, I would never have discovered the immensely funny and satirically humorous J.Vasanthan, a retired Professor of American College who wrote the famous King Jayabalan stories.
As for the next discovery, it was through an In-House NLP Training Programme for the Faculty of GCE to Improve Professional Efficiency, convened by the Department of English on 28.2.2008. Mr.Aravinda Krishnan, a former GCEian and an active and well known HR trainer and consultant taught us techniques to effectively use visual, auditory and kinesthetic cues to become more acutely aware of the person on the other side trying to communicate with us. That was followed by a very interesting session on scanning eye movements to understand the reality of the thought process in the other person's mind. So, one learnt that the visual rememberance, visual construction, auditory remembrance, auditory construction, auditory internalisation and kinesthetic cues help us find where we stand in our unconscious thought processes. The tests we did under the guidance of Mr.Aravinda Krishnan were interesting and stimulating exercises.
And before I forget, on 26.2.08, there was a grand function to present the Memorial Awards for the years 2002,2003,2004 and 2005 to the college toppers and class toppers. It was called 'Achievements Award Ceremony, 2008'. Ms. Ramya was the overall college topper for 2002. Mmm..I wish I had brought the list of sixteen names to give you all the others' names.
It was a joy to see past students, and if they were not there, their parents, proudly receiving the awards. Dr. K. Arthanari, Managing Director, Sri Gokulam Hospital was the Guest of Honour. In addition to these academic awards, there were Accident Insurance Policies presented to 31 of our regular blood donors of GCE at Sri Gokulam Hospital.
I am so glad that the one precious gift that we can all give so freely, without having to think too deeply, was given by our students in selfless gestures of service. Believe me, as someone who had her brother given back to her through anoymous blood donors following a terrible accident that he had, I was touched to see that so many of our students had in some way given families some loved one, somewhere....through their blood donation.