Aman's Blog....

Okay this will be a short one as I am traveling and having a tough time.  But this is something which I found very funny so thought to share with you. I got a call from Worldspace Radio  sales person. He asked me that when he can come to me so that he would be able to present a demo of the Worldspace Radio and its services. He spent some time to explain to me about price, features and all that. Well I told him that I am traveling so I shall be available in my city after a while. But I was curious to know that he got my number? To this what he replied is some thing which made me jump off my seat and I couldn't stop laughing. He said that their company has the data and details of all the people in my city who are "extremely rich" and yours truly somehow got listed in the same list :-). Well I was able to say this only that this must be a mistake but he said no this isn't and he simply refused to listen anything what I was saying about that I am not at all any richy ric...

Yes I shall be leaving tomorrow. This time I have stayed beyond my normal timings. Thanks to my accident, I had to cancel couple of programs of mine. Anyways I shall be leaving tomorrow and to make things spicy, I shall be doing two toughest programs for the "originators" of the technology itself. Great! So it means its not going to be any joy ride. Lets see what happens? Things are not so good. I am just hoping that all would go well and stay like that only. Pray for me guys, I really need all of them now!

Cafe Coffee Day(CCD)  is one place where I like to go whenever I get a chance and have some spare time. Alone? Well yeah I go alone most of the time. Seems like no one else likes coffee ;-). But yes I go alone as for me that time, I am just with my self. Its a great fun to sip coffee and watch people doing funny things all over the time. I have just been to CCD few days back with my sister and her friend. My sister wanted to do some shopping so I had to go along. While coming back, we sat in the new joint of CCD,3rd in my city. Well I didn't like the place at all. It didn't look like a cafe joint but rather a college canteen. Anyways I tasted a new taste(not so new but first time in CCD). I really want to go to my favorite joint and sit for some time there. The only problem is that I am not able to make up mind to go there. There are certain things happening which are stopping me from going there mentally. Lets see when I shall go? Those who know me ,they will confirm this t...

In music, out of the most pure forms of it, one is Qawalli . This is that form of music which is sung by the people who are not mere singers but devotees of God. This form of music was not a part of commercial music industry some time ago but due to its magic, its now very common to hear this in almost every where. Despite its used now in the commercial music industry, still the original form of it with minimum music instruments and claps of the singers while singing is the most popular one and remains untouchable. There are many singers who sing this form of music but some have made it a household name due to their singing. Late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan   is among those very few who singers who are known as the masters of this devine music form. Out of millions of Qawalli songs available, there are some which hit straight in the heart. There is one that I am listening from some time and thought to share with you all. This one was specially recommended to me by my friend Sumit who hi...

Just now I saw this video when it was sent to me by one friend of mine. And what ever is mentioned for this video in its description is indeed true. Love is blind as they may say but its all about choosing between your wish and your love. If you understand the importance of love, the choice comes easily between two. A very touching video I must say,showing something which is very hard to do despite how much one he/she boasts of! I am posting the video right here. The song is not in English as the band, Kiss J-Intercom is a Korean band. The song is in the same language. I am posting the video which is having English subtitles of lyrics.  I shall be the posting the lyrics too here.  Watch the video here, Here are the lyrics, Its's impossible to understand What's going through a guy's heart! You tole me that you wanted me and now that I've given you everything,you tell me you're leaving! You told me that it was the first time you felt this way, and said that I was ...

Life is full of wishes. We have lots of dreams and for all of them, we make lots of wishes. Some times those things come to us which we had always wished and some times , those things come to us which we had never wished to have in our wildest dreams even. But despite for few times when we don't get what we wish,we never give up.  As wishes are and will be always there in our lives. They make humans! If they are not any , one still must zero upon few wishes, Where he wants to be in his life, what he wants to achieve! If one doesn't have these things in his mind, he should sit and think about all these things. After all we have got just one life and we must make sure that in this very life only , we do accomplish all that what we ever wished! Just like wishes, we also have choices. Choice like either to pick right things or to go for wrong ones. Choice to make some one happy or give him tears. Choices to take away everything from some one and still call him selfish! Choice that...

I never thought that I would be able to write some thing,some thing which would be having any sort of relation with art. I don't know how such nice things in our literature are written. But still , as it is said, sometimes, you don't know what will happen which will make you do unbelievable things.  The same happened and I wrote my  first poem, Few Words . And then I wrote 2 more,  Once Again  and  Few Words Again . As I mentioned at over these posts too, I am not at all a poet or even closer to that.  Its just what I felt and wrote, just tried to give face to feelings with words that's all! I haven't written another "few lines". This time its just 2 lines! And except for explaining the meaning in English ( as the original is in Hindi), I wont be explaining anything about it. If you have loved, you would be able to understand the meaning yourself. If you have never been in love and won't understand the meaning, let me know and I shall try to explain. So ...

I got this one in my mail! I am not a programmer and I really don't like programming much. May be that's the reason I chose to become an Database Administrator(which still I have to become though) but this programming is something which I guess even person like me could understand it and as like added bonus,it made me smile too! So have a read, class Single_ female_professional                                   {                                                                 double styles; s...

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...

Love is a feeling which defies time, age. Love should have no limitations of caste and creed and most importantly, person must have a faith that his/her beloved will love him/her for forever doesn't matter what will happen? Even when the times will not be smooth and winds will be hot, the love will not fade away. Its just so easy to say but its so much tough to do. It takes a lot of guts to stand beside your love and hold his/her hand all the time without caring about yourself. As it is said,one has to dance on the streets even when its for his/her love and there must not be any shame in it as its for none else but for that person whom you love. Not many actually do it or I should say are capable to do it. Its very easy to say I love you but its much harder to actually prove that love! If there is some time, one needs to ask his/her beloved that whether he/she will always be besides , will he/she always be in love with you, I guess these are the best lines which one can say to hi...