I am still thinking what too reply. Main bahut bhao-bivhor ho gaya hoon :)!!! I would like to forward this message to my boss, Rawat sir too, because he is very well aware what I have been through and he is one person who was closest to me during all these phase, and also to Ninad Raut who knows everything. I am not sure if thats the right word. But its really too kind of the members and especially Gurcharan sir to write this.
I know I had been bad before. When I look back, I was thinking for the whole night why and what was wrong with me. I had been in research field just even after my finished my MSc and its over 9 years that I spent at WII. I have faced very odd days but by grace of god my supervisor was Dr. G.S.Rawat who is one of the most wonderful person on earth. But my struggle for survival in research field had been very hectic due to many reasons, all of them outside eflora. Dr. Rawat also used to read mails and he used to calm me down and boost my moral knowing that I was going through some bad phase of life. I always tried to help people but in return what I got were some very bad experiences. I lost many things, both at professional level as well as personal level. At the same time, I saw very mediocre people getting success for whatever they were doing. All those reasons made me so much frustrated that I almost lost my hopes to achieve anything significant in life and then pressure from family and expectations of my boss and friends..... Those were really some of the disheartening moments of my life. I always tried to give the best I can but nothing seemed to have went into my favour. These frustrations started showing up and I was like READY TO FIGHT guy on minor issues on eflora mostly with respected Gurcharan sir. It was like I had nothing in my hands and so I didnt even go home to meet my parents at Ranchi for nearly 6 years. But as it is said, things really happen for good. I lost many things and then what I received through a long round of interviews, question and answers and presentations, was really better than what I had lost before and I shifted to Hong Kong. What I am doing here is EXACTLY what I wanted to do in life, but yes, I never expected to move to HK, rather I was dreaming that I will go to Kew. Even Dr. Rawat and my boss here Dr. Gunter knows that Kew is my dream destination. So I was also looking towards Europe. But yeah, I think I have some mroe days to live so this may not be my penultimate destination !!! I hereby take this opportunity to to apologies for my behaviour with the members hence at eflora. I am really thankful to my boss, Dr. Rawat and many members who interacted with me here to boost up my morals, especially Dinesh sir for calling me every time I was upset, Balkar sir and Gunjan Sud (they actually asked me for my birthdate and they showed it to some fortune teller too, which was too considerate of them), Tabish sir and many silent members like Yazdy sir, Shrikant sir, Mani Sir, Usha Page mam and then some who had been my very good friends from before and some who became friends later, Vijayshankar, Ritesh, Navendu, Swapna, Aparna, Neha, Sweta, Amit Kotia, Ninad, Raju Das, Prasad and many more names. I know people who may not for eflora posts regularly but they follow any mails sent by me. I may not be able to recall, but for sure you credits goes to all above 1600 members on eflora who have helped me in coming to this stage in life. I owe this all to you. I really hope to do some good work and make you all proud. Frankly speaking I am really not able to write to express properly what I mean. This group has been more like a family than just a group. Regards Pankaj On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > No doubts about his capabilities, skills and knowledge...keep going Dr. > Pankaj..congrats. > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > -- ********************************************************************** "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" Pankaj Kumar, Ph.D. Conservation Officer Office: Orchid Conservation Section Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. Residence: 36C, Ng Tung Chai, Lam Tseun Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 (mobile). Fax: +852 2483 7194
