K. RANGESH e-DIARY ON 18.02.2021 (I have been writing my e-Diary since January 7th 2016 and This is a sample of my e-Diary)

K. RANGESH e-DIARY ON 18.02.2021

Today I woke up at 6:30 AM.   I freshened up, brushed and took a cup of tea.  I did Vajrsana, Suryanamaskar and Patchimothasana yoga for 30 minutes.  I bathed and ate breakfast (Idly with coconut chutney and sambar).   Yesterday Anand sir told me to come faster to MKU.  Hence, I departed to MKU around 8:55 AM, then I said bye to mom, dad and two younger brothers.  I listened MP3 songs such as ‘Pavithranaya namaha, Pazhamuthircholai song, Ilayaraja songs, etc’ via Bluetooth neckband.  I reached MKU by bike at 9:30 AM.  I went to MKU main office reception and took our school gate key.    I went to our school campus then I opened school gate.  I went to our old room but there were many stocks to be transferred to new room.   I called to Anand sir and asked where he was coming.  Anand sir replied that he was coming near Balaji printers (around 4 km away from MKU).   Anand sir came around 9:45 AM then I wished him.   I transferred some of the things from old room such as ‘stationery items, books, journals, mirror, comb, dishwash bar, santoor hand wash, etc’.  I went to new room.   Anand sir opened google meet room and waiting for presentation at external college (conducted by Dr. Munis – Anand sir’s junior).  I turned on bluettooth speaker (TG113) to connect with Anand sir’s laptop.   Anand sir presented about ‘Marine ornamental fishes & its prices, importance & Mumbai businessman’s success stories, etc’ since 09:40 AM.  Meantime, I received a phone call from SBI-MKU to receive RUSA project bank passbook, I asked the staff mam whether I have to take photos of Anand sir to paste on passbook; she replied that Anand sir’s and RUSA coordinator Dr. S. Chandrasekaran sir’s passport size photos to paste in passbook and I have to bring photos to SBI-MKU bank by 11 AM.   Anand sir was at presentation and I did not disturb his presentation.   I took passport size photos of Anand sir from Anand sir’s black file.  Chairperson Dr. Kannan sir came to our room and urgently asked me to engage class for first year’s 1^st semester SSS students from other department who came for Marine Resource Management course from 10 AM to 12 PM because actual guest faculties Dr. M. Santhanakrishnan brother and Dr. J. Wilson sir did not come earlier.  Hence, I went to upstair M.Sc class room and engaged class for SSS students.    Actually, SSS students were from many departments but today only students from ERAC department (from School of remote sensing / Geology) came for SSS classes.  Chairperson Kannan sir introduced myself to students and told that today I would engage classes for SSS students.  Kannan sir added about my research, expertise, my Ph.D area, etc with my introduction.  Then Kannan sir left from that room.  I said good morning to all students.  I interacted the students with self-introduction of themselves.  They one by one tell their name, past degrees & institution where they studied.  Totally 12 members were attended my class.  Out of 12 students, 4 of them from Tamil Nadu and remaining 8 of them from Kerala.  I started the class with questions, ‘anyone knows what is marine, what is research, what is teaching, research, & extension in eductional aspects.  Then I told about my Ph.D research, Gulf of Mannar study area such as Musal, Manoli and Manoliputti islands.  I also asked about the climate change, global warming, coral reefs, echinoderms, etc.  Then every student has interacted with me actively and I felt I was going with successful teaching strategy.   Around 11 AM, Anand sir came to our room and interacted with students about absence of guest faculties then asked their name one by one.   Anand sir left out the room.   I continued my class with my study research.  I asked about the syllabus from Kerala student, she showed me from her mobile.   It was GPS tools & its application.  I taught about QGIS & ArcGIS software tools then I conducted activity-based teaching.  I told all students to search ‘list of mapping software’ in google.  All were searched and told the list of GPS & GIS tools.  Many students asked questions from me about coral reef, marine resource management, Gulf of Mannar, Rameswaram, Tsunami, etc then I replied to them for clarifications.  I gave a white sheet to write name & signature for student’s attendance.  The name of SSS students form ERAC department were J. AISWARYA LAKSHMI (20ERS01), S. SHAJEETHA KHANAM (20ERS09), SHILDA LAL (20ERS112), JIFIN PINHERO (20ERS06), SHERIN SHAJU (20ERS10), JYOTHISH JACOB (20ERS07), K. VENKATHESH WARA PRASATHA (20ERS12), K. MANOJ KUMAR (20ERS08), ALLWIN K. WILSON (20ERS02), ANANDU. S (20ERS03), HARIKRISHNAN. R (20ERS05) and ANOOP KRISHNAN. J (20ERS04).  Then I said thanks to all and I departed to go back to department.   Santhanakrishnan brother came there at that time and I told about the classes I have conducted then I gave the attendance sheet to him.  I clarified from Santhanam brother whether GIS mapping tools can be placed in Marine resource management subject then he replied that it surely came to that subject.  I told to students about the activity class topics such as list of mapping tools will be asked at the examination for 10 marks.   I came back to department new room.  I pasted the decoration sheet on the table which looks ugly with nonremovable stains.  Colleague Rajeswari called to me and told that she was leave today and she also told me that she had sent her ‘Artemia ocean acidification’ research article to my email for review and corrections.  I went to RUSA office and met Malvannan sir there.  I asked the passport size photo of RUSA coordinator Dr. Chandrasekaran sir.  Malvannan sir told me that I have to submit the RUSA bank passbook’s front page.  I thanked to Malvannan sir then I went to SBI-MKU around 1:30 PM.  Passbook issuing madam went for lunch so she was not at seat.  I told to nearby staff that I will come around 2:30 PM.  I came back to our new room.  Anand sir told me to start lunch.  I gave balance money Rs.100/- (remining balance of yesterday canteen ice-cream expenses for M.Sc students).  Anand sir told me to buy egg fry from Hotel.  I went to Vadapalanji Hotel Shree Muniyandi vilas then I bought two parcels of ‘egg fry’ then I paid bill Rs.30/-.  Chef parcelled two egg fry in single parcel.  I came back to department then Anand sir and I ate lunch (Peanut potato kuruma mixer rice with home made lime pickle + Anand sir’s French finger potato slices) around 2 PM.  The tap water in our room was not working.  I went to upstair DMCS lab then I collected tapwater in 5 litres can then came back to new room.  BOSS Kodiakanal institute’s faculty Dr. Hemalatha mam (formerly Shanmugarajan sir’s team researcher, ICMAM) came to our room for Board of studies.  Since we ate lunch, the madam told us come back later.  Anand sir asked about my today lecture for SSS students then I talked about my area of lecture delivery, student’s interaction and activity-oriented class, etc., to Anand sir.  Hemalatha madam again came to our room and spoke with Anand sir about board of studies.  Anand sir and madam shared about study area & research, Aragonite saturation research, Dr. Shanmugarajan sir, etc.  Anand sir told about our INZEC project’s publication / my Ph.D work publication at Heliyon journal (One of the Cell press journal Impact factor: 38.637).  I pasted the torn floor mat with fevicol SR gum.  2019 batch M.Sc student Mr. Harivignesh came to our room and told that Chairperson Kannan sir was calling Anand sir and myself from School of Energy’s seminar hall.  The madam was waiting at our room.   Anand sir and I went to seminar hall and Kannan sir and Vijay Bhaskar sir was there along with 17 B. Voc students.  Chairperson Kannan sir talked in Tamil about NAAC visit and works in MKU that we all have to join hands and do the work for agriculture activities in school campus as well as biodiversity centre.  Meantime, I took photos and videos of instruction to B.Voc students.  Anand sir spoke to students and segregated the B.Voc students, M.Sc students & research scholars into seven groups with mentor, mentee grouping system.   Anand sir separated us with random group.  Chairperson Kannan sir interchanged students for perfect shuffling based on the hostler/ day scholar B.Voc students & Kallupatti students.  Chairperson Kannan sir assured to all students that he will buy & hand over the things for agriculture activities, fertilizers & vermicomposting for plantation in school of Energy sciences.  Anand sir and I came back to our new room and met that Madam.  She told that she was working in Aragonite saturation state and looking for journal publication on it.  I went to school campus and all students were there.  Students were writing their name and designation as per Mentor & Mentee system.  I took photos of team members.  For Team 1, Mentor I is V. Ajaykuamr (2^nd year M.Sc Environmental studies), Mentor II is myself (K. RANGESH, Research scholar, DMCS), Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. M. Anandhan & K. Karthickeyan.  For Team 2, Mentor I is M. Durga Saraswathy (2^nd year M.Sc Marine Biology), Mentor II is Dr. M. Santhanakrishana (Guest faculty, DMCS), Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. N. Sriram and J. Kavinesh Kannan.  For Team 3, Mentor I is S. Suwathi (2^nd year M.Sc Environmental studies), Mentor II is J. Jerald Wilson, (Guest faculty, DMCS), Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. J. Algarsamy, T. Punitha and 1^st year Marine Biology Mr. G. Praveen.  For Team 4, Mentor I is K. Divayabharathi (2^nd year M.Sc Environmental studies), Mentor II is Dr. K. Nithya, Guest faculty, ENS), Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. P. Saravanan, S. Sridhar and 1^st Year M.Sc Marine biology student Mr. M. Shanmugavel.  For Team 5, Mentor I is T. Suthakar (2^nd year M.Sc Environmental studies), Mentor II is Jayashree, Research scholar, Dept of Solar studies), Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. Muneesh Kumar, V. Shanthini and 1^st year M.Sc Marine Biology student Mr. Jeyasaran B.  For Team 6, Mentor I & II are 2^nd year M.Sc Marine Biology students Mr. S. Hari Vignesh and C. Johnson Arunkumar respectively; Mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students. T. Abarna & L. Yogesh.  For Team 7, Mentor I is 1^st year M.Sc Environmental studies Mr. T. Udhaya Moorthy and mentor II is Bioenergy Research Scholar Mr. V. Karthick and mentees are 1^st year B.Voc students K. Arul kumar, A. Ajay and D. Priya.  All students, research scholars and myself walked to canteen and took a cup of tea from Chairperson Kannan sir’s sponsor. 

Anand sir came to canteen and he also took a cup of tea.  Anand sir told me to bring tea for Thavasi sir, Wilson sir, Jeyashree mam, etc who were working for NAAC at Gopinathan sir’s room.  CLR Pandi brother came to canteen and he took a cup of tea.  Pandi brother and I went to our department and took our tea flask then we went to canteen and received parcel tea with paper cups.  We came back to school and surprisingly, I saw Dr. M. Rajesh sir (Assistant Professor at The American College).  I told Pandi brother to distribute tea for faculties working in Gopinathan sir’s room.  I spoke with Rajesh sir and we went to Chairperson Dr. Kannan si r’s room.  At that time, powercut was there.  Rajesh sir told to Chairperson Kannan sir that I was his student in The American College, Madurai.  CLR pandi brother served a cup of tea to Kannan sir, Rajesh sir and Bernardshaw sir.  Rajesh was interacted with Bernardshaw sir about his subject interest, study area, AMC G.C. Abraham sir.  I came back to my room and spoke with Anand sir about AMC Rajesh sir’s visit to our school and meeting with Kannan sir. Anand sir and I met Rajesh sir and we planned to conduct bird survey at Kaarankadu in Ramnad district.  We said bye to Rajesh sir.  Anand sir and I departed to home around 6 PM.  I relaxed at Viraatipathu Shree muthu tea shop.  I went to Anaiyur Shree G.P.S. Traders for mosquito net stitching for our DMCS-MKU new room windows.  I gave measurements 59.25” X 19.25” window.  Totally four windows hence 40 square feet totally.   Shopkeeper Ganesan sir initially told me Rs.30/- per square feet then I told to negotiate for price reduction then he finally accepted Rs.25/square feet.  I gave advance amount Rs.400/- out Rs.1000/-.  I told him to give remaining balance Rs.600/- to him by tomorrow and would collect mosquito nets.  I went to my home and freshened up and ate egg omelette).  I sent email to Santhanakrishnan brother and CC to Anand sir at 7:24 PM as below “Dear brother, Today (18.02.2021 10 am-12 pm) I engaged class for SSS M.Sc 1st year (1 Semester) of ERAC Department.  I took the lecture on mapping software analysis and shared about my Ph.D research methods, study area in Gulf of Mannar, using QGIS map Software, etc.  In addition to that, I told them to take a elaborate notes on mapping software.   They listed out many software tools including QGIS, ARCGIS, Google earth pro, in this class and noted down the same.  With this activity-oriented class, I told them to prepare this topic for important big question in Marine resource management subject.  Hence, please include question during their examination as below mentioned:  "List out any ten Mapping software and briefly explain each with its significance.   Add notes on freely available mapping software". I herewith attach the attendance for SSS students.  Raju nephew invited me to his home by whatsapp message.  I went to Siva brother’s home and met Siva brother, Maragatham sister-in-law and Raju nephew. Maragatham sister-in-law asked to recharge for her mobile number then I recharged for Rs.49/- by Phonepe app.   Raju nephew gave money Rs.800/- towards my lend for past week train ticket from Madurai to Tanjaore Rs.370/- and return ticket from Tanjore to Madurai Rs.370/- & recharge Rs.49/- today).  Maragatham sister-in-law served dinner (Poori with potato kuruma and bengal gram mixer).  She also gave some poori for my home. I said bye to all then I came back to my home around 9 PM.  Krishnamoorthy (NEET tutor) called to me and requested me for combine study for CSIR NET exam from tomorrow because today he had some work in Madurai Koodal Nagar.   I saw some youtube videos on meditation, etc.,  I typed my e-Diary till 10:45 PM.  I slept around 11 PM.