Aman's Blog....

I was just so much upset when the following came in to my inbox and I must say,it did make me smile. I found them really good so thought would share it with you. Have a read, My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?' I said, 'Dust.' And then the fight started....                                                                       ********** When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive. So, I took her to a gas station.. And then the fight started....                ...

Yes I am back today. It was a LONG tour as I normally go for a 5 day schedule but this time the schedule grew to 8 days and there was 1 more day added to that because I had to travel on my way back to see a friend who just got married. Besides that long number of days, I was supposed to handle three different modules this time in front of very talented bunch of delegates which is adequate enough to make one feel nervous. But at the end of the program(s) , all were smiling and that's a sign that things did go "okay" :-). The start of the tour was not very much hectic as I was not supposed to take a flight this time. I was going to Gurgaon this time which is just next city after New Delhi where I go all the time over bus. The same was true this time too that I took bus from my place and headed for New Dellhi. From there, I had to take a cab which would had taken me to the client's guest house. I was given a room which otherwise was okay except just one thing that it h...

I am sure you must have understood from the post title by now, what's it going to be about :-) . Yes, I am leaving tomorrow morning. Its going to be a long tour this time , not so much long but still more longer than the usual ones with one more challenge that I shall be covering three different modules at one single place and that too for a single client. Let's see how things would go? I won't be going much far from home this time, okay, technically, I shall still be far but I don't consider that place far from where I can travel to and from via a bus/train. Only when I need to catch a flight , its far for me. Anyway, let's see what happens with the program. Besides this, there is another thing that is a small issue at the moment, that is that my phone is not working! And trust me, that's a BIG issue when you are traveling. I haven't done much work since I came back from my last tour. Though I thought that I would do start a very important thing, it didn...

At times, you come across certain things which just shake you apart. You never knew about them before but when you know about them, all you can do is just say thanks to the god that you did get face to face with them. If you are a regular here, you may already be knowing that I love music and its very rare that I miss a good piece of music. But at times, it happens, due to my so much busy schedules, I don't get time to search and listen some of them. Though it does happen very rare but yes, it still does happen. And if you have been a regular here , you must be knowing already, I love to hear those songs which have meaning, which depict emotions as I believe, emotions are the only thing which make us a human, otherwise we are just as like that beast who have a body, hunger, who lives and dies. Its the emotions which makes a living person, a human and out of so many emotions in this world, the most soul touching emotion is of pain, sadness. No one in this world can say that he/she h...

It was just one of the most sad days for me. If you have read the immediate last post, I did mention there that I am not feeling happy even when I had bought some new stuff for me and like a chain-reaction, another blow came up and that too so soon and in the same day! I won't mention the whole detail here but just would say this much,how would it feel when a kid would give up his meal to make sure that his dad/mom would their? No matter how old your kid may become, you would never want him/her to suffer even the slightest one, you would always want that he/she must be always happy and smiling , doesn't matter for this, you have to face what kind of times? I don't have kids( I am not married) but still, I did feel the same today, felt the same kind of pain today. And needless to say, that did hurt me so much! Already, I was not feeling good , the event which happened, proved to be the final blow to knock me off. With this immense feeling of sadness, I am also so much upse...

Its been many years since I have gone and bought some thing for me. Don't ask me the reason for it as I won't mention it here. Despite that my mom and sis has mentioned this so many times that I must go and buy some stuff for me as well, I haven't done so. Needless, they are never happy from me doing this. But today, I had to go and get some stuff for me because of the trip that's coming next for me. This is going to be a longer-than-normal trip so I ran out of the required number of clothes. Well, I shall be honest, its always good to get some thing for yourself, its always a great feeling. I am a very fussy customer and it takes a long time for me to get stable on one particular piece which finally comes back with to home. Anyways, so when it was decided that I am going today and won't be coming back without getting at least one shirt , I had to look for the place from where I would buy my stuff. Among many stores in my city, there is one which is quite good, Bomb...

I have been lucky ( so far) that I didn't come across anything in my life that I had to stay at the hospital. Yes I do get lots of injuries and I meet with accidents almost all the time, but still, thanks to god, so far I have just gone to hospitals to get the treatment and later , would just come back home. I have not met anything that serious with me that I had to get admitted over there. Yes, few months back, when my dad with an accident from which he is still recovering, I spent almost 20 days there at the hospital. And that was the first time, when I had spent such a long tenure over, enough to make me believe more and more that a person must never should see the face of this building called hospital. At times, even when you don't want some thing to happen with even your worst enemy too, it does get happen with some one near to you. And at times, things happen all of a sudden. The same kind of thing happened two days back when two of my very good friends, Amit and Sumit ...

Its Baisakhi today, which brings the start of a new year for Punjab . You can read more about Baisakhi from here and here . This is the most awaited festivals in Punjab as up till this time, the harvesting of the crops is over. This makes farmers free and as they have just sold their crop in the market, their pockets are also full. So this day is celebrated both to celebrate the success of the last year and to pray and hope that the next incoming year would also go just as great as this was. As this day starts a new year according to Indian calendar, this means in one way or the other, in entire India, this day is celebrated , may be with different names but the spirit and the joys are same all over. I wish you all a very happy and prosperous Baisakhi. Celebrate this day with lots of happiness and joy with your family and friends and may god bring you so much of success in this year as well. Happy Baisakhi to all of you!

Yes, I got back.  I must say, I am really relieved now as both the programs went really well. Last time, it wasn't the case and despite of my best efforts, I got a really really bad feedback. Now, if you would ask my friend Pavan , he would tell you that I am just fussy about the rating and I shouldn't actually bother about it. But I don't think like that way. I believe, if you have done a good work, it should reflect in the final ratings too and you must get a good one. There can't be any excuses for not getting a good rating if according to you, everything went well in that program. I had a talk with a senior in this tour and she told me that at times , when senior fellows are there in the session, they may give you very good personal comments, appreciate your work very well but will not give a good rating. According to them,  "good" is the best rating, not the "excellent" one. So if there are senior/experienced guys sitting in the room, I must not...

Its been almost a week since I have come here and I didn't write anything. I should actually say , I couldn't write anything because it was not due to me that there was no update but it was because of the low or we can say, almost no internet connectivity and constant power failures that were there. Today, finally I got shifted to that service apartment where I stay all the time and which is perfect in everything and so I got the connectivity back. Why I didn't come here before? Well, again it was not my fault , this apartment was completely packed with the guests so I was shifted to another apartment, needless to say that the other one was really worse. So when the people of this apartment came to know about my issues with almost everyone in that other apartment, I was immediately shifted back here. This time, there was nothing which I can say , was exceptional or adventurous which did happen in my travel. In fact, it was very boring. I got the bus as usual from the bus ...

Yes , I am leaving tomorrow. Since last one week, I didn't write anything. Well, its not good to mention that I didn't write because I didn't have time to write but because there is some strange kind of sadness that is there in the heart. I don't about the reason of it. Just know this that despite that I wanted to translate two  songs which I really like so much, I didn't sit and do it. I shall do it for sure in the coming week hopefully. Anyways, I shall be leaving tomorrow. I had a "not-so-pleasant" meeting with my employer who was really pist of from my cancellations of tours. Let's see what happens? About the tour, I am not sure what's going to happen and its for those two modules which are always so tough to handle. Let's hope that everything goes fine. Pray for me guys. Before I leave, there is some thing wrong I guess with my editor from whom I am writing this post. Its showing the entire text in bold and in a very large size for no re...

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...