Presentation

It's been a while i attended any sort of self development training
Since i had no work and simultaneously the 'Presentation Skills' training came up i opted for it.

Well the write up is about an observation on the presentation.
We had to give a 3 minute presentation for pre-assessment.

So i talked about a topic too. Just to make it interesting i took a funny topic.
I was sitting in the bus on my way back home,thinking about that episode
Inspite of being an ordinary presentation the topic was found interesting by the team. They got involved so much that they even forgot to give their observations.
A tangential discussion started based on my topic and few of them started talking about thier experience too. So what went wrong/right

I came to the conclusion:
Discussion can turnout good inspite of ordinary explanation if the topic is found interesting.
If this is true then what about the contrary side.
Can the discussion still be good with a very boring topic with extra-ordinary presentation?

Well lets see if i can recollect some examples on most common topics
Cricket - Indian Premiere League, a hit!
Romance - Movies: Same theme but diffent repesentations has resulted in blockbusters

So the contrary side also holds true :)

Fear n the Fight

Its been almost an year i had that horrible experience on flight.
The impact was so deep that even now i chose it only if must. Only if that is the only way out.

Since then i had almost decided that i wouldnt board a flight again.
Then after a couple of months, thought it is foolish and just to kill my fear i decided to fly again. Felt satisfied about my bravery....and called it 'I faced my fear'

But after that there were a couple of occasions where i could have chosen flying but ended up going by bus. Though i convinced myself that bus was cheaper...deep down it was that fear which stopped me from chosing to fly. The fear had crept back again without my notice

Finally i decided this time take on my fear and booked for a to-fro flight to chennai. I had been wanting to visit chennai and clubbed it with to meet my college mates.

Saturday evening was fun, Friend took me to a couple of pubs and was taken by surprise. I had underestimated the social life of the region.

Sunday morning i got a chance to check out few upmarket bicycles.
Bianchi-Liquigas (priced at a lakh plus rupees), Cannondale.

The food was great....typical south indian hotels with unlimited rice served. Being a veggie and with available options, ate like pig.

On my way back i was more prepared to fly....constantly convincing its better than dying everyday.