My happy moment!!

I saw this book when Dr. G introduced held it up in the class and said that he and a student of his had written it together. The name looked very interesting, "Chronicles of a Quality Detective". The name was a combination of 2 things I really loved. One being my passion of yesteryears, Detective novels and stories and the other thing ( the one thing I truly loved in engineering), The study of Quality. And to add to everything, this was by my very own professor, Dr. G. I decided to look it up online cos I did not really have the guts to go and ask him where I could get a copy, cos well he has his own ways and I was not certain as to how he would react. So, google I did, and with good result. I found an online  copy of the book on Google Books and started reading it. Going through it, I realized that its main characters were Dr. G and his student Payal Sheth. Also, I got to know things about Dr. G like his wife was a Doctor and things like he loved Sherlock Holmes..ahh...and I think it was at about this time that my dad had rediscovered Sherlock Holmes and kept trying to make me read it again in spite of my telling him that I had read my share of Doyle and I thought Holmes was phenomenal. And it was only today after I finished reading Dr. G's book that I suddenly realized how I got into the habit of observing. Yes, u guessed right. It was from Sherlock Holmes. My memory is not that good and its been about 10 years, so I cannot recollect the various stories I ve read, but the amazing detail that Sherlock Holmes used to go into the moment he saw a person always fascinated me beyond anything. I guess, it is since then that I have tried to observe people in my own way and deduce maximum I can about them by just looking and observing them. Wonderful, I tell you. The method and the results that it can give you. I am not that bad at observing people I think and by reading the book I have clearly understood that I can apply this trait to a lot many other places and that it need not be necessarily limited to just analyzing people and their behavioural patterns. It might be useful somewhere else too..yippee!!

I loved the method of differential diagnosis. I want to write a detailed review on this book which I will be doing soon, not cos of anything else, but the sheer reason that the book, its authors and the technique..all three clearly deserve it. And if not for anything else, for making me happy and taking me back to the two places I was actually happy in...the Mystery and the Quality worlds.