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And not just this one , which started on this weekend but from the last one too that did happen at Colombo. This session was a little unusual one for two reasons. One, it was going to get started on a weekend. I can’t recall that I have done it ever for a new session. I have taken sessions on the weekends but it would be mostly an extension or just a one day session. But this one was a new session and that was a little strange to start it of on Saturday. The second thing was the module itself. Though the module that I was going to handle was the one which I have taught many many times already but from the past few weeks, I hadn’t touched it at all as I was doing completely different modules. So though I did remember what it had, it was a little difficult to get into the flow. It’s finished now and also got finished with a very good rating but still, I am not very much satisfied with my work. I may add another point for the unusual session and that would be that it did happen at Mum...

I am sitting in the session of mine while the delegates are doing the lab session. It’s the 4th day of the session which means, there is just one more day to go next. So far, about the class, it’s going on and it’s worth to mention that this module is one of the most toughest ones and whenever I deliver it, it takes a lot out of me , both mentally and physically. And it’s not a very good stay also that I have got this time neither the travel was(and shall be) any better at all. I had to take the first flight from Delhi to Chennai and after a 3 hour long wait there, the next flight was to Colombo and guess at what time, 1am in the morning! Yes 1am, I am not kidding. I reached at Colombo at 2:30am and at my hotel at about 4:30am and had to start the session at 9am. I can’t say it enough that how tough it was and since then, the fatigue somehow , hasn’t completely gone yet and every day, after the session, I am just so burnt out. The same itinerary is for the return flight as well , actua...

I just finished my last session here at Singapore. It was a really hectic and tensed tour for me as I had to deliver 3 sessions and that too without any breaks in-between, including the weekend. And not just this, out of the 3, two of the sessions were going to be my first-teach sessions which means, I was going to deliver them for the very first time. And just to make things more difficult, I hadn’t gotten the time to prepare for those two modules before so I had to sit and prepare for them while I was delivering them. Not something so easy to do, let me tell you that! Though my weekend class went off well and I got a very good score( actually got 100% rating), the session of Monday started with tons of issues, right in the beginning of it. First the environment that was required didn’t get done completely due to which, I couldn’t set up the microphone and the webcam which I needed for the session. Second, this was not just going to be the first time teach of the module but this tim...

<<Rant started>> I just finished a session yesterday but this weekend, I am again in a session which would last for 2 days. This makes it 7 days of continuous talking but that’s not all. I have another session starting from this Monday as well. Life can be very hard at times, trust me, very very hard! <<Rant ended>>

I haven’t written anything from last couple of days. There were too many things going on, festivals, being sick, traveling to an overseas location(Singapore where I am right now) and not to mention the pressure of preparing two completely new modules , one of which is starting tomorrow-yes on a weekend. There is at least one thing that I want to definitely share, something on which I am quite proud about and also happy but that’s for the next post. This one is about Milo that I am having right now and in fact, I do drink a lot whenever I am at either Singapore or Malaysia. Now you must be wondering what’s so special about Milo eh? Well, nothing! There isn’t anything special about it per se. It is what it is, just a drink and I do have it a lot when I am here in this part of the world as here, its available as one of the options in the coffee machines that are available in the pantry area. For me, its a nice change to have it because normally , I shall either have a cup of tea or cof...

Those who are regular here and do comment on the posts, must be aware that I had enabled the options of both comment-moderation and anonymous commenting. Now, I have no issues in getting anonymous comments but I have a serious issue with getting spam anonymous comments and this had increased in the last couple of weeks a lot! So despite that I didn’t wish to, I have disabled the ability of people to post comments being anonymous. If you do want to post a comment, you MUST mention your name from now on. After some time, I shall again re-enable the anonymous commenting option to see how much spam comments come and if they would be reduced in number, I shall let the option stay. For now, no more being anonymous here! Update Well, I wont mention why but I am going to re-enable the anonymous comments. It’s my blog and I have all the rights to do whatever I wish to with it!

I haven’t written anything since last couple of days and it wasn’t because there wasn’t anything to tell but because, I just couldn’t find myself strong enough to share things. Today, I finally have gathered myself and decided to write this post. Its Sunday and there is nothing much for me to do, at least not for today. I am not sure that how many of you did remember that this is that unfortunate month, October in which last year, I lost my dad. That date, 9th October is now marked on my heart and I can’t even begin to explain how much tough this time is for me and for my family. This was the first death anniversary of my dad. How crazy are the names of the days? A day when I lost my best friend, a pillar of my strength, got broken into hundred of pieces inside which would never be able to put together,that damn day is considered as anniversary! And my mother, she is just been sad and broken, far more than me and my sister too I believe. She didn’t cry much-actually me and my sister ...

You are having fever , you are faarr away from your home and have to work. That’s pretty much the state of mine at the moment. I reached India the other day after finishing the two sessions on a good note. I was hopeful that I shall be able to pull through this current tour of mine as well but it seems that it won’t be a very smooth sailing to pass it through. The traveling itself was very tough and in some ways, scary and just when I thought, all is over, I fell sick. If you know me personally or from this blog, you must be aware that I travel a lot for my work. And if you are reading this, it certainly means that I am still alive :=) . But this time, the flight experience was not so good. The first shock came from the Bangkok Airways . It was not a very long flight and it started of well too. But just when the flight was about to land and started the descend , there came a spine chilling feeling. The pilot, for god-knows-only reason was not making the flight descend by lifting up...

Traveling is one big part of the work that I do and I do a LOT of travel, both domestic and international. People ask me that isn’t it not exhausting and the answer to that is, it surely is but its a lot of fun too-at least most of the times. Some times, the fun part changes to pain and tension and this time, I experienced the tension side of the travel. I am at the moment at Phnom Penh and this is my second visit to the place. Last trip proved to started of on a bumpy note with my luggage hung at the Bangkok airport itself. If you are a regular, you might have read about it already. If not, you can read about it all from here . The good thing was, the tour, overall proved to be a good one and also the place and people are very nice. Yes, food can be(is) a problem if you are a vegetarian but that’s also not a big issue as there are plenty of Indian food joints which you can visit. Anyways, all things said and done, I got back from the tour and finally, had a big sigh of relief when ...

I thought that I shall write about my travel related issue first. But just now I read a quote over Twitter and I decided to share it right away. A girl's laugh is much more cheerful than a boy . A boy's tear is much more meaningful than girl's tear . If you are a girl reading this, you won’t ever be in agreement with the statement but its true, believe it or not! Its not very easy for us, guys to cry but when we do, its only because the pain has gone beyond the limits of tolerance. I just remember this old song which says all that can be said about the tears of a guy. Its a song from Eden Kane which is of the same title, Boys Cry! Below is the link to the song and its lyrics, And here are its lyrics, Boys cry when no one can see them When no one can see them cry No one can see them cry Boys cry when their hearts are broken When their hearts are broken by Someone who says "Goodbye" When a boy gets hurt by a girl Hi...

At times, its just so tough to finish a job, even when you have done the same job many many times before. There could be many reasons for the job to be tough but the end result still comes out to be that you end up feeling like dead after getting done with the day. The same happened with me in this week when I entered in the session of mine. The delegates didn’t want to listen to just the course contents but also wanted something “extra”-a demand which is very hard to meet! I always wonder when delegates enter into the session and mention that the course for which they have come, is not a good course and they want to know more than what the book is talking about. From an end-user point of view, I can imagine and to a certain extent, I can even be agreed to the sentiment but from a practical point of view and from my side, its not possible always to meet such demand-especially when you didn’t know about it before(which also didn’t have helped much). There can be a lot that can be aske...

I have just finished this week’s session of mine here at Colombo. I am not sure but some how I was having a feeling that I am not really doing well. May be it was the injury of mine that was keeping me distracted and I wasn’t paying the required attention on the work of mine or may be it was just a bad time, I really don’t know but I do feel that I didn’t do much justice with my work in the last month or so. That’s why I had finished few programs in the past, I didn’t have that feeling of achievement but rather disappointment. Now just for the record, for others I may still have done well because the criteria with which my work is checked is the rating and it wasn’t bad at all. But when you are a person who can’t be settled for anything less than the best, having an “okay” rating which may be fine for others , is not really what you want! And may be that’s why I wasn’t really very happy from myself. And I was really wishing and praying so hard that it must end ASAP! It seems god did ...

This is a test post, just to check that the new authentication mechanism is letting me post from my writer tool or not. If you can see it, all worked well!

Just now, I got this below song showed up in my YouTube channel recommended to be listened. I had never heard it before and just when I was about to close my laptop to  take a shower and get ready, it popped up from nowhere and I have listened to it from last about 10 minutes again and again. Here are the lyrics of it, courtesy  AZLyrics .                                                          "Tonight I Wanna Cry" Alone in this house again tonight I got the TV on, the sound turned down and a bottle of wine There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me The way that it was and could have been surrounds me I'll never get over you walkin' away [Chorus:] I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings show And I thought that bein' strong meant never losin' your self-control But I'm just drunk enough to let go of my pain...

I sat down to write this post 4 days ago when I was at home but than got injured(yes again) and the entire focus got shifted to get the injections and medicine since I was traveling on the very day (yes, just like before). It was 3 weeks since I was at home and I wish I could say that it was for just taking rest but unfortunately, it was rest because the wound of mine was giving me much more tension than I expected from it. I am at Singapore right now, about to leave in a while for the airport for flying back home. Those who are regular here must be aware that I met with a very serious accident about 2 months ago. I got injured and lots of drama happened along the way of the medication. In between, I had to travel to Banglore and to Cambodia as well and things after coming back from both the places, didn’t go very well. When I came back from Cambodia, I expected that after going through a very very painful process of getting stitches after 22 days of the injury, finally it must have ...

Yes, I am back from Cambodia. If you have read my last few posts, you must be knowing that it wasn’t a very smooth sailing tour from many angles but a mix of many things.  But finally, like any other tour of mine, it also is finished now and I am back at home and also,  I am back to going hospital and taking medicines. More on medicine and hospital later though. First, let’s talk about the tour. Cambodia was one place where I hadn’t never traveled before and also, I didn’t ever plan also to be honest since I never tried to explore about the place. But as I believe that wherever you are destined to go, you would go there for sure doesn’t matter what, finally I got an assignment scheduled to this place and that’s how I ended up visiting there as well. As you might have read from the other post of mine, the tour didn’t start on a very good note as my luggage didn’t arrive from the connecting flight-something that never did happen with me before and I really wish it won’t happen...

No, that’s not the normal routine of mine. Its just that there is nothing else I can do here at Phnom Penh after my day is complete other than coming and watching movies. And on the weekend which has just passed, that’s something what I did almost all the time. Some were already seen and some were new. I can’t recall all of them but below are few which I remember that I watched, Fast Five : It was an okay movie. If you have seen Fast and Furious and its other parts, you won’t find it too interesting. I have seen them so you can guess how I felt :>). But I hadn’t seen it before though. Battleship : Just another movie where aliens attack and some one saves the world/earth. Hadn’t seen it before so yeah, I can say that I have seen it now. The Double : Again a movie that I hadn’t seen before. I can say it was okay but the deal breaker for me was that the whole suspense of the movie was gone in the first half an hour itself. Just Go With It : Well, for me it was a new and a very...

Its 9:30am local time at Phnom Penh where I am at the moment since this Sunday. Its Saturday and I have two days of off time with me but I am not sure what to do with it because of many factors. The only good thing is that I managed to finish my this week’s session with a good rating. There were no comments but still, I am happy about the rating considering the language challenge that is here. I have one more session pending for the next coming week still though. Let’s see what happens in it. This travel seemed to be started with a very painful and rough start. If you are a regular here, you would be knowing it already that I have met with an accident (again) and I haven’t still recovered form the injuries. Now,its almost more than 25 days that it has happened so this is actually a very serious thing for me because I am not having the privilege to be at home and wait for it to get healed properly but have to go out to earn bread and butter for my family. So I insisted the doctor ta...

Its Monday morning but I am at home thankfully, just waiting for the clinic to get open so that I can visit my doctor. So what can be more better than surfing the web for some amazing poetries isn’t it? And when you are out for looking something, it has to come to you so here are two for today which I found just superb. Have a read, Mujhe bhi sikha do bhool jane ka hunar, Mujhse yøon raato'n ko uth uth kar ab roya nahi jata!   And its translation in English is, Some one please teach me too the art of forgetting, I can’t cry staying awake all the night anymore!   And here is the 2nd one, Meri aankho'n me chupi udaasi ko mehsoos to kar, aye dost! Hum wo hain, Jo sabko hansa kar raat bhar rotey hain!!   And its translation in English is, Try to look deeper in my eyes to find the hidden sadness in them my friend, I am one of those who cry all nightlong after making all smile the whole day!   Ain’t they are amazing but as always, fo...

Yes, I got back home yesterday after spending a week at Banglore. It was supposed to be a light week with no adventure expected( or asked for) to happen but somehow, still the week didn’t go very smooth. May be because when you are injured, have a group of a little distracted delegates and thinking about home, this is inevitable. If you are a regular here, you would be knowing that I met with an accident-a big one! What I was asked actually by the doctor that I should take complete bed rest to get my wound healed but since this session was a long time back scheduled one and also wasn’t very tough, I decided to go for it anyways. Yes, I definitely needed to carry my medicines along with the dressing that I was supposed to do daily twice over the wound. Since I couldn’t travel by public bus and the AC bus timing was not suiting me, I started the travel by taking a cab from home to Delhi. Fortunately, the cab was a good one( the driver was a moron) and all I did was that I just took nap...

At times, some things just pop up in front of you making you sit back and think about something. Just the same happened with me when I stumbled upon this below picture which has also a very true fact mentioned in it as well, something which I don’t think any one can deny. Have a look, So as I am a guy, I shall pick the quote given for the guys and say that its absolutely true. It takes long, rather very long for a guy to cry for a gal but when he does it means that gal means so much to him. So if you are a gal, make sure that if your guy cries for you, hold on to him and never let him go because its not always that you would find someone who cries for you! And if you are a guy remember that at times when you may cry, you may get to hear this too from you gal that she has no time for these tears! What to do at that time? Wish I could tell you but I have no answer with me for it.

I am not sure that what’s the bloody reason that whenever a little smile tries to come to me, something terrible comes along with it. I bought a new phone and something for home and just on the same damn day, met with an accident! Yes, I got injured but its my sister who has got the much worse muscle injury on her leg. Though I am at home right now but I have to leave soon for work and that’s just making me so much worried and upset. I thought I shall write about my new Galaxy S3 , about organizing something again that I did three years ago and also about the last session of mine which made me really upset. But I believe all of this would have to wait since neither I have time nor mood to talk about anything else at the moment.

I am a guy from a small city and I really don’t think that I know a lot about Oracle database that I can be called a Guru or a master, let alone to be called or considered as a celebrity. But some folks , very kindly do consider me a little knowledgeable and I am so grateful for them to think in such a high regard about me. One of such kind persons is  Nassyam Basha who asked me few days back to answer some of the questions that he wanted to post as an interview of mine on his website. I did give the answers and sent them back to him and he very kindly, posted my first ever interview on his website. I must say thanks to him for giving me the space and chance to speak about myself and some things that I probably always wanted to share with others. I am going to post the entire interview over here itself for easy access. Have a read, Interview with Aman Sharma (Aman…) – Oracle ACE, Author, Instructor Aman Sharma has more than 11 years of experience working with Oracle products,...