Ah! These Mothers....

I just tuned in this morning to this brand new 'virtual toy' I have "Blogging" to see what my friends had to say about my maiden posting last week.

Was mentally prepared for a nice quite half hour of cyber-surfing, when I was shocked to hear the loud vehemently angry voice of a woman saying "Don't you dare come back to my house unless you improve your attendance and grades.


I am ashamed you are my son" . Would have minded my own business and not bothered to find out the reason for this, if the source of the voice and the associated brisk steps had not come into my department staff room and settled itself in my adjacent chamber.



Inherent female qualities of curiosity filled me, and I risked a peek above my cubicle wall, at the adjacent chamber where a 'temper sensor meter' would have exploded cause it wouldn't be calibrated to handle the onslaught of two furious people, the mother of a student and his teaching faculty.The student was desperately trying to preserve any semblance of self-respect he had, by silently listening to the sharp allegation made by his faculty for having missed two classes and one test.Maybe he was hoping that if he remained silent, the screaming would stop, especially from his mother, as some of his classmates were already peeping into the staff room from the corridor.

I got reminded of something my mother told me when I was in high-school. She said--"When you no longer have to look down to see your child's face looking up at you, you should realise that he is an individual, with an idenity of his own, and treat him as a friend".

Would this mother have shouted such a harsh statement so blatantly and openly in front of her son's teacher and classmates had her mother told her this?

I wonder.....

Transitioning to an Academician.....

Hmmm....Well, you know me, coz I send you this URL of my Blog Page.

It just struck me how Iam slowly but surely transitioning to be an academician, after around 8 years being part of hard-core IT(read software industry), when in the beginning of last year(2005), one of my students asked me "Mam, do you blog?".

I stared at him blankly, as the word "blog" wasn't part of my vocab then! Over the last year, heard this repeatedly from a few of my blogger-friends who are (un?)fortunate enough to sit in front of PC whole day!

It took the beginning of a brand new year and the realisation that I have not yet created a 'blogspot.com' id that I decided to come out of my 'Intertia Of Rest' and punch away at the key-board of my work PC today!

Today, I truely realised that though I have jumped out of the IT Bandwagon,


I don't want to cut myself away from it and morph into the 100% Academician with minimum or no contact with knowledge beyond syllabus and books, which is the easiest path to choose.

My tuning into the frequency of my students and IT Friends, like you, I would want to keep myself updated with the what's happening around me, be on the aware level, if not know the intriciate details of the technological advances being made!

Waiting for the day when my son(and his friends)would call me --'Cool Mom', where the 'Cool' there stands for being "tech-savvy". Wonder what slang will be in use 10 years from now, when he would reach college, like my students now!

So, help me in my transition to be a 'Cool Academician', ok, my friend? :-)