Aman's Blog....

I mentioned few days back here that I have bought a new box, a very heavy duty one, which I desperately needed for the stuff that I play around with. Everything was going fine, in fact , it was going great. But, as like always, when ever I get a bit happy about some thing,  issues start coming up into it. The same happened with the new box as well. All of a sudden, it started getting rebooted. I tried to do all what ever I could find out but all went in vain. I had got 3 window versions installed on the box with one linux version. Everything started getting crashed for no reasons. Even the attempts of mine to resin tall the o/s also got failed with not-so-nice-looking Blue Screen Of Death . Now, I am really very fussy when it comes to the things which I have got for myself as I don't get many things for myself often. So I tried my best to find the cause of the issues that I was facing. I shall say that I was not very lucky and despite searching like mad, I got just a little bit of...

It is said so many time that if you are doing some scam, do it perfectly otherwise don't attempt to do so at all. I just received an email from "my bank" that just being a customer of them is the best that ever happened to them and to honor me, they are giving me some "gifts" (read below what). Whosoever sent it, he/she/whoever doesn't know what an official email look like and in this current slowdown of global economy , distributing apartment , "lots of cash prizes" will bring the bank on the verge to get shutdown only. But that's what spam is I guess, if spammers really do think, they won't send the spam mail in the first place isn't it. Here is the exact mail that I have received.  I have removed my bank's name from it for the obvious reasons. Have a read, This is to notify you that XYZ Bank is Currently running a promotion for account holders. As an active account holder of XYZ Bank, you have the chances of winning great priz...

I had taken my OCP New Features exam some time back.  I am not sure but now I guess, Oracle certification delivery team sends a mail to confirm the address before sending the actual certificate. Probably its to avoid the hassles that happen when they send and people argue that  they never received it , anyhow its a good thing IMO. So I got my success kit delivered to me today. I must say, its always a  very sweet feeling when ever I see my certificate. Its the same feeling all the time when I had received it for the very first time . So today, officially I am 11g certified database administrator! Sounds cool right !

Link To Part-V Some times, you read some thing which just depicts that which you are thinking and when that happens, you never forget that piece of writing. This is a story which you all may have read some time or the other in those forwarded mails. I am putting it here thinking about some things. Every time I read it, it shakes me so deep down under and brings tears in my eyes. Have a read, While a man was polishing his new car,his 4 yr. old son picked stone & scratched lines on the side of car. In anger,the man took the child's hand & hit it many times, not realizing he was using a wrench. At the hospital, the child lost his fingers due to multiple fractures. When the child saw his father, with painful eyes he asked ''Dad when will my fingers grow back?"  Man was so hurt & speechless. He went back to car & kicked it many times, devastated by his own actions. At the same time, when he was sitting in front of the car,  he looked at the scratche...

I thought that I shall blog about the new LCD screen that I did buy last night, an awesome  20 Inch , Samsung Mist 2033 , enough to take anyone's breath away but there was some thing else about to happen and becoming a post. I just mentioned in this post that accidents just love me so much! I am not sure that why it happens with me only that I meet with lots of accidents all of the time. And the irony is , most of  the time, its not my mistake. Believe it or not, this time too, it was completely not my fault. My scooter is very old. and when I am saying old, I mean REALLY old! Its that old that those positions where the bolts of the tyre's are there, they even have become outdated and been ripped off  completely. Due to this, a lot of time, all of a sudden , the tyre's become loose and I need to go to someone to get them tightened. It has happened couple of times before so I didn't really care about it much, a bad thing to do on my part. Today, when I dropped my si...

I have just added a widget to show my tweets from Twitter over the left sidebar of my Blogger blog . The same is added to my AristaDBA website. I was not sure where to place the widget so after choosing a lot of different places, I finally settled over the one where it is at the moment at both the places. This is a Flash based widget so you need to refresh the page in order to see the latest tweet. The old ones can be seen with the up-down arrow buttons given over the widget itself. Do let me know your feedback, both about the widget and about its placement. If you think that the color, placement or the widget itself requires change(s) than leave your suggestion in the form of comment. If you are on Twitter than follow me by adding me and I shall do the same as well. Happy Tweeting!

Its "the cancellation day" today! It doesn't happen very often but this time, all that happened with my tours is that they are canceled. Some are canceled by me and some got canceled on their own. I was supposed to leave tomorrow for a program within India, for which I got the news that its canceled now. There were two international programs, one was in Melbourne and another in Bangkok. I had volunteered myself for the Melbourne program in last year June and put a lot of efforts to get it too. But I opted out from it  in this January so for that also, I got the confirmation today only that its unassigned from me now. Why I opted out ? I don't like the weather of Melbourne that's why ;-) ! The same program was supposed to be done in Bangkok and it was also assigned to me with the Australia program. As I am not going to Melbourne, so automatically, this got canceled too. That's a lot of cancellations right :-) ? Good thing is that I shall get some time to stay a...

Its always good to come back home and I guess, this is becoming more and more a happening thing for me. I am not sure why so but yes, I am longing more than before to come back home after any session. Does this mean that I am no longer willing to travel away from home, well, yes I guess so. I believe when you start asking about some thing that is it the right thing or not to do that means the finale of that thing has come already and I believe, this is now happening with me for the kind of work that I do. The session went well, that's the most important thing for me. Entire audience was smiling when they left so I am hopeful that I said some thing which was worth of their time that they spent with me. As like always, the audience was great! In every session, its always that some one catches your attention, be it for a good reason or bad, but its bound to happen. Fortunately, for me, most of the time its for good things that someone catches my attention. The same held true this ti...

The biggest issue with the kind of work that I do is that almost all of the time, I need to stay alone without anyone to talk to! And this is one thing which at times does pinch a lot. I hate this thing that I have to eat my meals alone, sitting on a table looking at the walls or the stupid tv. But I can't help this fact most of the time that in my job, its nearly impossible that I shall get any company. So whenever I get a chance to talk to someone, I try not to miss it. And I guess, I am lucky enough that wherever I go, almost do think that I am worthy enough to be having a word with. So be it the manager/owner of my hotels/guest houses and even the staff too, all do talk with me. Some times, luck does smile at me and I get a chance to talk to some one who is working in the same profile of mine and I get a chance to share a word with him. It did happen the other day when I met a guy from Pune while having my dinner. We did have a lot of talk over the dinner table. It was good bu...

I couldn't, actually I should say, I didn't write anything since I came here. There were two reasons for it, one and the foremost important one, I am getting too much exhausted when I am finishing my session. In the last 2 days, I just got back and went to bed immediately because there was enormous pain in my legs and sheer tiredness was there. All I did was, got back, change and slept. I am not sure that why I am feeling so much of tiredness? I guess, the after effects of too much traveling( and too frequent too) are becoming visible now. I am not sure that there is any other reason or not for this much exhaustiveness. There is nothing much going on. We started with the program with little technical issues related to the setup. I am not sure why people who are responsible to do the setup, don't take it seriously. Its almost every time that I have to come out and tell someone , hey I am getting interruptions, issues in the network and so on , please fix it. And as soon as...

I am leaving tomorrow. Yes, its Holi, the festival of colors tomorrow but I need to go for an assignment. I just hate this thing when I need to travel on that day where the rest of the world is sitting at home and enjoying and I just wonder( with a lot of anger) how the heck this kind of schedules get actually finalized? Anyways, I need to travel and that's not going to change. Though the module is not tough but I have a small doubt somewhere in the heart, reason for which I can't mention. Let's see what happens. Pray for me and wish me luck. Fortunately, I am going to a city where I don't get a chance to go very often and have got couple of friends there so I am hoping that I shall be able to see/meet them all and spend some time with them. I wish you all a very happy Holi. Where ever you are, enjoy the day with your family and friends with lots of colors and sweets. May god make your lives as colorful as the colors of Holi. Happy Holi!! Update: John Scott, the ...

As I mentioned in this this post of mine that I am not feeling so well mentally. Though the accident's wounds are also giving a lot of pain but somehow, that seems to be negligible in front of some which are more deeper than on the body. I was asked a question from some one who commented over a post of mine. I believe the answer of his question is far too big to be covered as a fellow comment only. I shall try to write the reply of mine of that question very soon. I am not at all a poet/never was and I doubt I ever will be one even but at times, I do sit and write some loosely coupled pieces which ,I am not sure can be actually called true poetry or not. Whatever they mean to others, they mean a lot to me. If you think that they no where stand near to what is quality poetry than you are absolutely right and no where you will find me claiming them to be one even! Its the same which is true for my posts even. They are not to change this world but are the reflections of my thoughts...

I am into reading a lot. Though most of the times, I am reading books related to Oracle technology only and even in that too, about database stuff. But besides Oracle too, I love to read novels, story books, comics, love stories,  biographies and just anything which I find interesting. I should be honest while saying all this that I haven't read much outside Oracle's domain from last few months. I do have couple of books lying in my almirah but I hardly carry them with me while traveling. I had heard people talking about Kindle2 a lot but I never bothered to check what exactly it is. I knew though that its a e-book reader but that was all what I knew about it. And it can't be actually called knowing about a gadget when you don't know how it works, what it does, what are its specs right? So my geeky mind gave that me that tingle last night and I decided to finally have a look at this device more closely and I am just so glad that I did so. Kindle is a fantastic effort...

I am not sure but I am not feeling so well. No this is not due to the accident that I had met just few days ago. I am not actually sure what exactly is the cause of this sickness which is not out worthy but is inside. I have got tons of questions in the mind which demand answers from me all the time but I don't have any because, those questions did arise because of the acts of others. I am trying to keep myself busy but that even is not helping. I am not going much over the Oracle Forums too from last few days, just don't feel like going there. May be I need to travel, a change of place, even for just few days too may be will helpful. I am leaving on this Wednesday so hope this would lessen the pain a bit. Let's see.

I meet with accidents all the time. And whether you believe or not, most of the times, its not my fault most of the time, just like today. I am not sure that why it does happen with me only? I am sure it must be happening to others as well, but I guess, accidents love me a little too much, hmm now that's not so good right? Okay so here I was, driving very nicely and it must be worth mentioning, very slowly. I learnt this lesson in a very hard way that one must not drive fast. I was once coming back to home late night after making a call to someone and I was driving REALLY fast! I normally have a good control but on that day, my bike got into a small hole over the road and there I was, flying nicely in the air. I haven't told about this to anyone yet but it did teach me a lesson that drive slowly, at least it will ensure that you will reach to your destination rather than never! Anyways, so I was driving on a normal speed. I had to pay my hand phone bill and the customer care ...

Okay so I got tagged by Puja . Its the first time that I have been tagged.So here goes 50 untold secrets of mine. Have a read about them here, 1) Were you named after anyone? Well no, at least I have never been told anything like that. But my mom wanted to name me as Aman only which means Peace. Its a Punjabi word and its not a very common word. You won't find many with this name. So I wasn't named after anyone but still got a  special name ;-) . 2) When was the last time you cried? Hmm , now that's a tricky one. Normally people(especially gals) think that guys don't cry but they do. I cried last time on this birthday of mine thinking about some things which happened in that month and on the same dates, 3 years ago. 3) Do you like your handwriting? Nope! But hey, I use this keyboard so I am not bothered and I guess, others won't be too! 4) What is your favorite lunch meat? I am a vegetarian. So pass :) .  5) Do you h...