Crossing Valley

First time in life I was bored due to the long weekend of three days at home. Suddenly, I received a call from my friend asking to join for a day trip to Matheran, a hill station located near Neral, a town in Mumbai district.

Since Matheran is my all time favorite destination to chill out, I immediately agreed to join the group. We started at 7.30 in the morning by car and reached Neral in two hours. My friend wanted to go up to Matheran by the Toy Train, a small train runs on the adventurous roads and mountains in a very slow speed, so that tourist can enjoy the nature, mountains, greenery of Matheran or probably a risk of driving the train on a narrow rail track makes its speed slow. :)

We reached Matheran in two hours and started walking around. We decided on a tour plan and ordered for lunch. By the time it reached to our table we were off the mood to have lunch. It was very pathetic lunch.In past, whenever I visited I experienced a delight food at Matheran.

After lunch we visited local shopping market to see if, we get to buy an unusual stuff that can make our trip memorable. But unfortunately we didn't get anything. After local market visit we started horse riding and visiting different points at Matheran. We reached to the Eeko point where we clicked some snaps.

When we were at the Eeko point suddenly, my friend noticed an adventurous sport of a Valley Crossing by the Zip drive technique happening from the next point.

So he insisted us to go for Valley Crossing but I was not ready since I was exhausted. Still he took us to try Valley Crossing. We reached to the starting point from where we can cross the Valley. A group of experts was providing an information to the tourists who were ready to take a risk and experience the adventure, power of a nature while crossing the valley.

My friend was very enthusiastic and agreed to take the risk after knowing that the experts are having controls and can manage mis-happenings, if any. The Valley crossing by Zip Drive technique is a really adventurous and makes you feel as if you are going to die. It gives that heart dead feeling when you start from one point to other. The zip is a thick metal rope that can tolerate weight of 1000 tones that means 10 elephants can scroll from one rope at a time.

My friend started with this adventurous game and I was zapped since I had a dearth in my mind of what if that Metal Rope tied between the mountains gets break. A person will fall down in 900 feet deep valley. But fortunately he reached safe to the other point of a mountain.

The metal rope was tied between the mountains from one top to other. One mountain was higher compare to other so due to gravity person starts scrolling automatically on the rope without any external support except belts and scrolling hooks.

After admiring my friend's enthusiastic nature I decided to try this game and informed the experts to make me ready with necessary belts, scrolling hooks etc. I got ready and was standing to start scrolling but saw a deep 900 feet valley and thought of backing out, therefore, informed the experts that I unable to do it since I am scared.But the experts convinced and assured me my safety. The experts also told me to start with closed eyes and if feel comfortable then to open the eyes.

I agreed with the experts and started scrolling with closed eyes. It was my first experience and realization of self because of this adventure. When I reached in the middle, I opened my eyes and was amazed. I was hanging on a rope with the help of three belts and five hooks. I saw down it was very deep beautiful valley.I saw around and noticed high mountains standing in a sunny day. It was an amazing experience of my life. I had a mixed feeling of happiness and scarcity together for the first time. For that moment I realized the meaning of risk and why people don't take risk.

When I reached at the end, was very happy and proud to realized that, Yes, I made it and I can do it. I crossed 900 feet deep valley successfully.I realized one more thing that actual doing the actions make a person realized what all his/her capabilities are. Definitely, not a shopping but the Valley Crossing made my trip memorable.

It was a fervent experience of my life so thought of sharing with you.Do let me know your comments on how you feel while reading these lines that may provoke you to try this adventure of crossing the valley at Matheran.

Obscuring Marriage

Many people believes “Marriages are made in Haven”, but I get a question mark for why Haven and not Hell; nobody says “Marriages are made in Hell.” After all Marriages are human made and not gifted by God. So when it is not gifted by God then why human emphasis marriages, which they have invented are made in Haven.

Sometimes it is very difficult to understand human nature. Of course, every coin has two sides. Considering the positive side,human thinks marriage is good for a social and personal life where human gets support by their partner, understands them well throughout their life, probably better than their parents. In addition, they get a feeling of fulfillment due to physical and mental satisfactions that they achieve from each other and many more reasons that make their life ‘Haven’. I guess 50% of people experience this kind of life after marriage. But my question is still unanswered that is who has seen ‘Haven’ and who knows what happens in ‘Haven’. When nobody knows about 'Haven' then why people say ‘Marriages are made in Haven.

Now, let’s think about life after marriage, being together as a husband and wife for many years many things are understood to each other without saying it to each other because of a comfort zone created by them. This comfort zone allows them to be happy irrespective of whatever problems they face or deterioration of their external life etc. in such situation also they maintain the comfort zone, which is known as ‘Trust.’ Here, I like to mentioned the second thought that I heard ‘The back bone of a successful marriage is Trust.’ This so called comfort zone allows life partners to live happy irrespective of any situation. But when a life partner has two different faces trusting that person may lead to a Hell.

So Heaven is nothing but a positive and Hell is a negative side of a human nature.

The conclusion is human has positive and negative sides, which makes Marriages either in Heaven or Hell. Human tends to discover and support positive side of a nature rather than negative. Though, God has not gifted 'Marriage' but human 'Brain' that thinks positively or negatively is gifted by God. So whenever human gets into a new venture, tends to think positive, also influence the positivity of a marriage on others.

As the world is going ahead with new technologies and discovery, we also need to rethink or rather discover new essense of 'Marriage' for today’s life, which will not have a wrapping of ‘Marriage’ but the focus will be more on understanding human, their behavior and brain as a life partner.

Above thoughts are just about Human nature and thinking power that has Negative and Positive sides and not against Marriage.

Games People Play

Recently I read the book ‘Games People Play’ by Eric Berne. Author has successfully written the book in three parts; summary of analysis, details on different games played by people and a significance of games, players, and a paradigm. The book describes a psychological theory and analysis of people behavior, interactions that are called as ‘Games’.

• Part – I includes summary on different Transactions, structural analysis, procedures and rituals, pastimes and games.
• Part – II explains in detail a thesaurus of games which covers life, marital, party, sexual, underworld, counseling rooms and good games.
• Part – III – describes a paradigm, significance of games, autonomy that makes audience to think about game free life.

Author has also described three different Ego states that every person has inside Child, Parent and Adult. The balance of ego(s) helps a person to grow in life and interact with people in a game free environment. This book also provides examples on different behavior patterns at different situations by different people. The conclusion is it is a good book to read that helps to know games people play, game free life and its significance.

Brand Name and Acquisition

India has emerged as the fastest growing IT hub in the world, its growth dominated by IT software and services. We know many brands from this IT hub like Microsoft, Google, Symantec, IBM, Infosys and many other that make our day to day life easier.

But have you thought on, What is a brand name, how it is build, its strategy and impact on us. There are many emerging trends such as acquiring small and large organizations. This trend focuses some light on the details of brand name and its impact.

What is a brand name?

Brand name is an expression of services experienced by the people. It is a symbol, name or design, or combinations to differentiate the services, products from the competitors.

Brand name is goodwill of an organization that helps an organization to step up the ladder of success and compete with others. Developing brand name and maintaining it is a long process and takes many years, hence the strategies and policy of building a brand name requires keen attention of top management.

Many criteria such as, services, products, usability, audience, USP (Unique selling points), communication, advertisement, costing, investment, purpose and other are considered to establish a brand name. Many organizations recruit specialized people to develop a division that helps in brand building activities.

What is acquisition?

The acquisition refers to merging of two or more companies. Acquiring small domestic IT company by larger IT company is a normal trend.

But nowadays, the small domestic IT firms are acquiring larger IT firms than their own size who are struggling for IT services. This helps smaller companies in brand building and creates domestic as well as international market. Many factors are responsible for acquisition such as work environment, domain, company stability, company financial position that help to strengthen the brand name. Thus acquisition and brand name goes hand-in-hand. Some of organizations contemplate acquisition for domain, new technology and employee expertise that assist organization to proceed in new technology and domain with expert advice.

Fuelling this trend further many bankers are investing huge amount in India centric IT sector, ultimately helps IT to grow and put India on world map.

Technical Writing

I feel everyone should know about new emerging fields,to know better read this:

Technical writing is an emerging field in Information Technology.Technical writing is communicating technical information to the end users precisely, accurately and in easy to understand methodology. Many industries nowadays require technical writing to communicate and write about the application, product, and so on. Even in hospitality industry technical writers are in demand to create documentation.

Even after such a huge open market for technical writers,they are struggling for respect in most of the industries. People in many industries don't know about technical writing and they treat the profession as inferior or low priority.

But now the time has come to raise the head to introduce the technical writing profession and its value. Many companies today can get benefited by the documentation project rather,getting well paid for documentation projects. Documentation is as important as coding or testing the application. It is one of the marketing tool where one can introduce , communicate about the service or product to the end users. I guess, documentation is a very old methodology wherein one use to communicate with end users, now only the label of documentation has become more precise and accurate as Technical Writing or Information Development. Technical writing is done in very systematic methodology, known as Document Development Life Cycle (DDLC). Today, there are many style guides available in the market that provide basic standards and procedures of technical writing.

To become a good technical writer a person needs to have good command over written and verbal English (Depending on the continent the language may change) good understanding of logic, concepts and a passion to learn many things to explore the talent.There are many courses available in the market on technical writing but before investing in a course one has to ensure about the technical writing syllabus and other criterion of the institute.This is just a brief introduction of technical writing to know in detail keep reading.....