Lead, Succeed! great free education series!

This week, I attended a seminar on Leadership and Management offered by UCLA Anderson School of Management. Free lecture and free food. The speakers were very inspiring. The event featured 99 Cents Only Store CEO Eric Schiffer and Professor Eric Flamholtz, moderated by Frank Mottek of KNX 1070. I found it useful.

I have to try and attend a few more of these. It helps me renew my enthusiasm to lead and direct our company. 

It was also nice to see who Frank Mottek was. I have been listening to him on the radio for a long time and now there is a face to match the voice. 

Seeing my mother in pain is difficult.

My mother went through a femoral bypass surgery and she lived in the hospital for a week. Although she is feeling a lot better now, she is depressed about having to go through so many cuts and pains. I feel sad. Yeah, she can walk better now. Diabetes is a deadly disease. It progressively gets worse. She has made so many changes with respect to how she eats and lives. It is perhaps because of that she is doing as well as she is.

She is done!!!

Lakshmi graduated and we are all back from Pittsburgh. Heard some very inspiring speeches, met loving families, and returned feeling elated. Now reality hits... she needs a job. 

Anyhow, this is a new chapter for all of us, reshaping our priorities and thinking about our duties...

Graduation Time!

Lakshmi is done with school, atleast for now. Last Saturday, Carnegie Mellon University's Los Angeles chapter had a mixer for students and parents in Castaways. It was a wonderful evening. Castaways is located high in the Burbank hills with a wonderful view of the golf course and the city. It was a joy to see all the students finally feel relieved and enjoy the fruits of their labor. 

Now we are off to Pittsburgh for the graduation ceremony. 

Honor from my community

On Saturday, May 2nd, the Karnataka (state in south India) Cultural Association of Los Angeles(KCA)  honored me with an Award for my contributions to art and culture.  It was very nice of them to recognize me. KCA was founded about 36 years ago and I remember becoming a part of it 35 years ago. This was one place where  we met people from my hometown, Bangalore. Now after this many years, I notice that most people who frequent these events are unknown to me. They are younger families who have recently moved to Los Angeles. However it was nice seeing a few familiar faces.  So much water under the bridge...