I would have not known that I have been at UWA for 12 years so that’s a new record for my 22 years working life. Thanks to all who took time to congratulate. Much appreciated. Looking back at the four organisations I have worked for, as a full time medical educator, perhaps joining UWA has not been a bad decision at all. The benefit of working so long at one place is building networks within the institution but at the same for a stranger at a completely new place, one of the

Here comes the story of my wok life balance. It is now one week that I have not posted on social media after 10 pm and life is going smoothly. As part of my work life balance, I also do not check and respond to emails from Friday 4 p till Monday 10 am. Though there are instances where it happened that I was looking for a recipe on ipad and read some emails in fact also respond to a couple. I have definitely no withdrawal symptoms and the next step is to get rid of the paper

So I decided to continue with my blog 'academic's life'every day this year but was unable to do so. The reason, getting things ready for the new students as well as continuing students in addition to annual leave. Hence, I have now decided to resolve that the blog will be weekly and see how it goes. What I learnt was that do we give students the same opportunities? So many academics are using reflective writing and many do ask students to write weekly /daily reflections. How