Aman's Blog....

We never wish to cry or be in tears do we? ?We always want to be happy and smiling all the time. But some times, all one wants and wishes is to hug some one so tight and just cry his heart full! But some times tears despite being our best friend , leave us and don't come! They don't come because there is no one around whom we can hug, there is no shoulder besides where we  can rest. That hurts so much! So much! I am quoting few lines which are penned by the legend Shiv Kumar Batalvi , a writer about whom it is said that he doesn't write words but fire. These are explaining the feelings of a person who is just broken and just wants to cry thanks to the endless pains! These are in Punjabi. I shall explain the meaning in English in a while. Have a read, Jaach aa gayi hai mainu gam khan di, Hauli huali ro ke jee parchan di! Changa ho gaya tun paraya ho gaya, Mukk gayi chinta tainu apnan di! Mar tan jan par damma walio, Dharti vi mull hai vikdi shamshan di! Na deo mainu saah ...

Last night was the worst night. I wont tell the reason why but  I am broken. For the very first time, I am so much upset and feeling so low in my life. And I am feeling alone, really alone! There is no one and there wont be any one who would share this burden of pain with me. Why it is that when you need some one, he is not there and it hurts even more to think that he could be there if he wanted to! Really don't know why.

Howard Rogers  is one of those very few persons who are really the best in the business. It was a shame that due to some thing happened in the Oracle community, he had to take a decision and close his doors for entire Oracle community. I won't go into the details of that incident here again. The good news is that he is back now.  Well not completely and I doubt it will be like the old times ever again but for me, its the most best thing that he has again opened his site and I really hope he keeps it open for a while.

Windows Vista  probably proved out as the worst step taken by Microsoft. Last time when the same response was give to any version of Windows was Windows ME or Windows Millenium  edition. The kind of hatered that it received from public was enough to hurt Microsoft for couple of milleniums. May be that's why after just one year of the release of Windows ME, we got Windows XP, by far the best product release from Microsoft if you ask me. Now as Vista has ruined the reputation of Microsoft as a company and have made people lose trust in Windows operating system completely, may be for this reason Microsoft has decided to revamp its operating system completely and is working upon Windows 7 . The product looks more stable as compared to its base release Vista. But still it will take a year or two may be before we can see it into action. It looks promising from the videos which are on YouTube. Lets see whether this will be the life-saver for Microsoft before it gets completely...

Automatic Storage Management(ASM) is one of the most exciting yet most confusion creating invention that Oracle has done. This feature has added lots of benefits but still, there are a lot of issues that come with it. To manage ASM, we need RAW devices and one of the most common issues in ASM is the configuration or discovery of the disks. For this the parameter asm_diskstring is there but 9/10 times , this parameter doesn't give the results which are expected. While browsing OTN forums, I read a thread where there was a discussion about a utility called KFOD utility which can help to troubleshoot the errors coming for the disk discoveries. Its an undocumented ( I believe) utility but Amit Bansal  has described it in good length over his blog post. . I am just quoting the entire post here just for my own reference but the entire credit for this post goes to Amit only. While creating ASM diskgroup or adding new disk to a existing diskgroup, Disk should be visible in V$ASM_DI...

I didn't write anything since I have come back from Hong Kong. There are two reasons for it. One is obviously my health as with the accident, I have so many injuries and at times they do pain too. So that leaves me with a lazy feeling which stopped me from writing. That's actually is not the main reason for not writing. I am feeling a weird feeling of emptiness, a zero-inspiration sort of inner thing due to which though I have certain things in my mind but still I didn't write anything. Its just so painful at times to think about certain things and more painful when you can do just one thing, thinking about those matters without being able to actually do some thing about them. You can fight with anything and anyone but there should be someone who should be supporting you in that fight, in that process, should be happy on your win and should stand at least with you in that fight. You can't fight with anyone when for whom you want to fight this whole world. he/she doesn...

Well yes its true. I am not going at the moment as per the pre-scheduled program. Last evening, I met with an accident and its going to take some time for me to get recovered. So the travel is canceled now. Its just amazing to think that one minute back you were fine and having a tea with your friend and the next minute , you are lying on the road with lots of people surrounding you as you presented a classic movie stunt scene with a completely smashed vehicle and lots of bruises and wounds everywhere over your body. Isn't it? Well it was quite some time since I met with an accident. The last one I can recall was about 4 years back before my first travel to Malaysia. It was a big one. And this time also its at the same level. I wanted some break but definitely not like this and by this reason. Anyways can't help it now. Its already happened so just hoping that I shall recover soon. Lets see!

Ok I got back. It was a tiring trip to world's Asia city, HongKong . I had no plan with me and also there was no such thing that it was conveyed to me before that I have to go there. Just the other week, I was sitting in Delhi office when I met APAC(Asia Pacific) Resource Director. He asked me what I am doing next week( this week) and I said nothing! So he mentioned that there is a program in HongKong which needs to be done and he is not able to find a good resource( tech person) to do it. So he immediately made few calls, checked my schedule with the schedule coordinators and left saying that prepare your baggage. So that's how in about 15 minutes total, I was confirmed that I have to visit HongKong and its confirmed. Alright, sounds good! So that's how the visit got confirmed. I was already doing a program which was supposed to get finished on Thursday. So I had only Friday with me to get myself prepared as my flight was leaving on Saturday. I was traveling by Cathay Pa...

Here I am sitting on the airport waiting for my flight. I don't know from where I have come to this song. But since the first time I heard it which was about 10 minutes ago, I am not able to stop myself from listening it again and again! I have lost words. I wont be able to tell you why I did like this song and moreover why you would like this song if you will. But I shall say this for sure that if you have ever fallen in love and worst, got hurt by your love only, you would love each and every word of this song. Here are the lyrics  for this song. Listen it here, Why it happens that even when you are hurt by your love, you still love him/her? Why it happens that no matter how much pain, tears and cries he/she gave you in return for all the love and care of yours but still your heart always have just and just love for him/her and misses him/her with each and every breath of yours? Why it happens? A question which I guess has no answer and probably never will have too!

Yes its the time. I shall be leaving after a while for an offshore assignment. A lot is dependant on this assignment and it has tons of issues. I just hope and wish that I shall be able to put things at their right places. Wish me luck and pray for me guys. I really need it!

Yes I got back today morning from a 8 day program. I was supposed to be spending just 4 days and was going to leave on the last Sunday only. But all of a sudden , last Wednesday I received a call from the India core delivery manager that there was a program which was going on but now halted. So he immediately asked me to come and take over it. There was a lot of mess that had been created in the class from the last instructor. I don't like to pass comments on any individual in general. Reason for that is that its neither professionally nor personally ethical. But there are certain things which are certainly not acceptable. Every profession has some regulations and rules to follow and it doesn't matter what and who one is, he/she has to follow all of those in order to be called a true professional. Some how this was some thing which the past instructor completely ignored. I never heard ( neither can tolerate) that an instructor challenges a student that he knows better than the...