An increasing empahsis is being placed nowadays on finding valid and reliable indicators of job performance. Never did I think that I would be out on a “job” for these two years. However, I did hope and expect to perform. It was tough to decide which committee or club to stand for in the recently concluded elections for the Students Welfare and Activities committee and the various other interest clubs that have just concluded.

I had stood for a post on the Media and Publications committee earlier and lost ( albeit gracefully, I should say). There is this something about the mirror that stops most of us having a deep hard look at ourselves. A passing glance ,now and then, off and away, is all the we like of ourselves. It is almost fascinating -this desire to avoid change and the consequences of change. Its just like the story of Peter pan – the boy who refused to grow up. Also similar to the human being a prisoner of his own creation. ( the so called psycic prison). I thought long and hard once again and concluded that the time was right for me to take a good hard look at the mirror. Though I still do not really like what I see, it does help in ensuring that I do not wake up one fine day to find out that the path which I had consciously chosen many years back has not come to merge with the one that I had so desired to avoid.

One this however is sure is that is not possible to fake such test advanced tests such as the peer performance evaluation tests. (This pertains to those votes that I would have loved to get, but did not. The only possible explanation is that I didnt deserve them. This leaves, as always, something to take in future; hopefully before I run out of time :-).

And yeah, I forgot to tell you – I lost the election for the post of the secretary, but did get elected to the post of a member on the committe for which I had chosen to contest….