Club Mahindra - a lesson

I became the Club Mahindra member in April 2003. My wife was not for it. But I was interested in this, as I want to spend time with family. I thought, I would definitely use it as I invested money on it. But I was not able to as I got the off-season membership. It is Blue- Feb. and August of every year. I can use it only one type above that will be during March and Sept. During these periods my kids are having exam.

This year May I went to Shimla for vacation. I saw the Club Mahindra resort in Kufri. But I was not able to use it. In the last three years I was not able to use it once. I have decided to cancel it.

I went to Club Mahindra office to cancel it. They said it is not possible to cancel it. I was wondering because they said I could sell it whenever I want to sell it. Now they are telling that I can transfer it to someone else and I cannot cancel it. I heard that if I cancel my membership I would be loosing 40% of the money. But I do not know what is the rule.

It is my fault that I did not get the complete details before going for it. Once you are a member, you can cancel your membership within 10 days or six months. Otherwise you cannot sell it to Club Mahindra but you can transfer it to others (I do not know how much money to be paid for this).

Now there are options to use it. I can sell my time-share in the open market and get back my money. But my only concern is the sales person did not tell me that I couldn’t sell it to Club Mahindra (I have to read the agreement that the above statement is right or wrong!!!!).

I learned that go through the rules and regulation (it is tough) and get everything clarified before getting into any agreement. This is my second such experience while signing any agreement. First is at Singapore. After knowing the seriousness of the clause I signed the agreement as I was in need of a job immediately. But this was my mistake that I did not go through it and I took decision very fast with out thinking.

Forums an experience

We are using the phpBB for our internal forums. We are facing issues on the performance of the forum. Ever after increasing the RAM we are not able to see any improvement. The issue may be because of the DB model or the query we are using in the application. Or it may be because of the table size. We wanted to fix this.

We used two machines to share the load one for the DB and the other for the client. This did not work out for us. We cached all the pages. Even then it was very slow.

We are going to try clustering. We will be having two servers for the DB synchronized by the master-master concept of mysql and four clients. A load balancer will be used. This may solve our problem.

Shimla Trip

First week of May we went to Shimla, Delhi and Agra. We went by Toy Train from Kalka to Shimla. First time in my life I saw train breakdown. The train was late by three hours. I felt the train journey was very tiring.

It was too cold and it was raining in Shimla. We visited the JAKHOO TEMPLE, Tara Devi Temple. Also we visited Indian Institute of Advanced Studies former Viceregal Lodge.

We visited Sutlej River at Tatapani that is 55 km from Shimla. A dam is going to be constructed there and that area is going to be under water in few years. It was a nice experience to be on the bank of a river. It was rough even though there is less amount of water. I used spend time in Cauvery banks when I was in school. Nowadays there is no water in Cauvery. Even during the AdiPerukku, I am not able to see water in Cavery.

From Shimla we went to Agra. We went to Tajmahal and fort. We went to Lotus temple in Delhi and Zoo. Guru enjoyed the trip and I enjoyed the nine days and this was the first time I spent so much time with my family.