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I haven't written much, thanks to some unwanted distractions and tensions which are still not over. I just hope that they are gone asap. In the meanwhile, I just received this in my mail box and I guess, its good enough to bring a smile. A good one IMHO, A French teacher was explaining to her college class that in French, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. House is feminine “la maison.” Pencil is masculine “le crayon.” A student asked, “What gender is computer ?” Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups male and female - and asked them to decide for themselves whether “computer” should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for their recommendation. The men’s group decided that “computer” should definitely be of the feminine gender (la computer) because: 1.. No one but their creator understands their internal logic; 2.. The native language they use to communi...

I have started reading blog of Vaibhav and got the following from his personal blog. Needless to say that its just awesome. Surely enough all the credit for the post goes to Vaibhav. In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys. While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they're well-meaning 9 out of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands? Wonder what HIS intentions are... plus, I've never had a geek guy not call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE. They're useful. In this tech-savvy world, it's great to have a b/f who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs into a wall behave itself. They're more romantic than they're gi...

Its the festival season and first grand festival of Indian continent is  today, Vijayadashmi aka Dussehra! I wish you all very happy and prosperous Dussehra. Have lots of sweets, chill out and have fun with your friends and family! May god take away all of your pains, problems and sorrows and bless you all with his choicest blessings! Enjoy!

At times, things which appear to be simple and straight forward give you the baddest times of all and you reach at a point where you start thinking that when its going to end? The same kind of thing happened with me, Vaibhav and Sidhu when we left for buying a desktop pc( I actually should call it server. I shall tell the reason of it later) and thought that it won't take not more than 2 hours including our commute time. But what appeared to came in front of us that we spent the whole day trying to get things sorted out which finally came on the track this morning when we were able to install Windows XP 64bit (yes 64 bit, can you guess why I mentioned "server"? No, keep on reading) and also Windows 7,32bit . It ended well but the journey towards the end was surely not smooth and gave us a real tough time. Sidhu wanted to buy a pc and I suggested to him that he should get a bigger desktop than what "ordinary" people use. What I mean by "bigger" was...

Some times, even when you give all your love to someone, give her all the love, care, affection that is possible, yet she picks up her career than you. Even though you cry in front of her because of all what she did, she still doesn't care a bit even about it and without any shame tells you that she has nothing to do with you, your tears don't mean anything, it hurts! It hurts way much more than words can describe or voice can narrate! Yet some times, you come across such incidents, poetries which just depict that pain flawlessly. I came across one such poetic marvel yesterday writen by Ahmed Faraz . If you ever got hurt by your own love even when you loved her more than anything else in this world, you would love the following lines. Have a read, Jab Kabhi chahe andheron me ujale usne, Kar diya ghar mera sholon ke hawale usne! Us pe khul jati mere shaunq ki shiddat sari, Dekhe hote jo mere paon ke chaale usne! Jis ka har aieb zamane se chupaya maine, M...

It may come as a surprise but I am attending a training this time. I did attend one in the last week as well and just for the record, I have paid for both from my very own pocket and I paid a LOT. I have been asked by all that why did I pay from my own pocket but that's not a very long but indeed a very disturbing story. I won't be writing about it (at least not at the moment) but I have learnt couple of lessons from this episode for sure though! Anyways, so this is the day 4 of the training today and it will be starting in another 2 hours or so. So far it was an okay kind of experience. I can't say its very good but I can't even say that its really bad. Good thing is that the instructor is a good friend of mine and he is putting a lot of effort to explain the concepts , guess why, because I am sitting in the class :-) .  About the other delegates, my partner is extremely good, a real techie and guess what , he is from Ludhiana as well which means, a Punjabi like me onl...

Okay so I am here today with my friend Amardeep Sidhu at his place because I am going to attend a training tomorrow onwards. I decided to stay with Sidhu as this is going to be the best reason for spend some time with him and the current mood in which I am at the moment, staying with him will surely give me a nice refreshing change. So I started today morning at about 9.30am and got here by 5.30pm. The first thing that I came to know when I got here was that Sidhu and entire gang is going to visit a shopping mall, Emporio Mall . I didn't visit  this mall before and neither did Sidhu so it was going to be exciting. So finally me, Sidhu, Ankit and one another friend of Sidhu, Rajesh with his wife were on their way to the mall. It was a good experience as the mall hosts a wide range of national and international brands of clothing , apparels and other stuff. Today there was some fashion show also going on over there so we did have a look at that too. It wasn't good at all to be...

Well, I guess you must be tired of reading the same title , "yes I am back" or "back" so thought to give another  one but couldn't think of anything other than the old ones :-( . So the title again became, Y(et)A(another)T(ravel)P(ost). Its different right :-) . Anyways, I just got back today from a 16 day long tour. I can't say that I really had a very good time except for the last 3 days where I had some smiles and a good time as I was on the "other side" of the table where I was listening to someone else. Yes, I did attend a training myself this time. No, not for a change. I really needed to have this training and I tried a lot for it in the past but some how, it was not happening. So now , when I came to know that its happening and a good friend and highly techie guy is taking it up, I just jumped for it. It was a good session and I had some really good laughs in addition to meet up with very nice folks in the session. All the other guys who we...

What it can be right? Well it is when you don't really want to or have planned to go for shopping but still you have to get up and go because of conditions which were not in your hands! I did make the whole thing sound very serious right ;-) ! Well, here is what happened. I haven't gone for shopping for myself since quite a time and when I say "quite a time" , it ranges back to past couple of years actually. I have mentioned already at couple of posts that there is a reason for it which I am not sure when and how I shall disclose. I do go for shopping still but that's not for me but for my sister. So I had no plan to go for shopping this time too if a stupid event hadn't happened. I have a white shirt which is there with me from "quite a time". A very nice, Van Heusen shirt which I really liked to wear all this while but I guess my liking went a little too far and I didn't retire the shirt from its services at a suitable time :-) . So 2 days b...

Its just very very rare that you watch a movie and it leaves with you some thoughts , making you think about it again and again, making you watch it repeatedly still feel like its just the first time. Also to make you write a blog post about it at 2.20am in the night, not all can do that! There are just very few which have touched me so deep. I have seen few Chinese movies so far and I am just spell bound with them. I watched both parts of Red Cliff some time back and I referred to it all I knew who like to watch good movies. Today I couldn't sleep thinking about some tensions and just switched over television. Over a movie channel, Hero starring Jet Li , Tony Leung Chiu Wai was coming. Now, I had seen the end of this movie couple of times before as well and to be honest, I neither did understand it nor I liked it. But this time fortunately, it was coming since from the beginning. Though I still couldn't see from the actual beginning and got hold of it some where from ahead...

I couldn't write anything for last 2 days  thanks to the guest house where I was put in. As I mentioned that it never happens with me that if I am going to be in some another guest house over here , it never turns out to be a good one and the same happened this time too. Except for an "okay" kind of room, there was nothing that could be called even bearable over there. Be it staff of the place, be it food, internet connection of them, anything and everything was not working. I normally get along with the staff of any guest house/hotel really well and very easily too. It doesn't take me much time to observe and see how they are and how would they behave, call it whatever, a skill, instinct anything but I guess, I hardly have gone wrong in my guess about this. And this is not limited to just guest houses and their staff, this does apply to almost every place where I get interaction with another person. Its rare that my observation about the person is going to get proved...

I am writing this post sitting at the laptop charging point. Its raining like anything and I am dead tired because I couldn't sleep last night at all. Okay, to be honest, I did sleep for 2 hours and woke up at 3.30am after seeing a bad dream and since then I couldn't sleep. I was going to wake up anyways at 5 because my train(yes I came by train this time) was supposed to leave at 7.06am and as train station is far from my home, I thought to wake up early. I didn't have anything yesterday and that's why I was feeling so much hungry, even it was just 5.30am. After having a small and quick byte kind of breakfast, me and dad drove to the train station. Its a good thing that the train from which I came, doesn't get delayed normally but it can't happen that if I am traveling, things would go as they always went. It was late today by 5 minutes and believe me , its a heck too much late for that train. Anyways, the train is quite good and if you travel from it, you don...

I am leaving tomorrow. There are 2 programs ahead which I need to take care of and after that, there are 2 other programs. As I mentioned in the last post, there are couple of stupid tensions over my head and I really am not sure that how would I perform in these programs of mine with those tensions? Let's see what happens. Hope all would go well. Pray for me guys that all would go fine and even the tensions would go away!

I didn't write since I came back. I won't put here the reason that all I guess do, "I was busy". No, its not the correct reason in my case. I wasn't busy in anything. All I did was just nothing  and still I didn't write anything. Well, I did  write a small post on my oracle blog but that too wasn't really exciting for me. I didn't write because of this loneliness that I am feeling, which is not letting me do anything. I wanted to get some clothes for me, I left the idea. Now, there is a stupid tension that's there on my head and is killing me(no, its not about clothes). I am not sure why but I just don't feel like doing anything at the moment. One may think, if not doing anything than he must be sleeping.  Sadly, that's also not happening. I haven't slept in last couple of years for more than "few" hours(don't ask few=how many) and yesterday, when I did sleep for some time, a nightmare woke me up after which I couldn'...

I got back home today morning. I am not sure but this time, I really was a bit desperate to come back home. Not sure why though? Anyways, so I am back home and the session is over. About the program, well, I can just say at the moment that its finished, how it went really, I am not sure? I am waiting for the official score to come which would take some time. As like in all of my programs, I try always my best to deliver and there was no difference this time as well. But still, there are times when the delegates are from a different stream and the content talks about an entirely different area of expertise and this, never is a good combination. The same happened this time as well. Though the guys , in the end , were smiling and did ask for my contact information, which is always a good sign if you ask me, but I am still eager to hear what they said about the program and surely about me as well. Let's see what comes up, hope it would be okay :-) . I am just so much tired. Though I ...

I am leaving tomorrow morning. Its going to be a tough program even though when I have done it numerous times already. There is a lot of hue and cry that is there for Swine Flu here at my place and its actually becoming more and more scary with the passage of time. I just got a little better and now I shall be again at a place which is being caught up by this flu very rapidly. I just hope that everything remains fine, both with me and with the program. Pray for me guys and wish me luck, as like always, I need it so much!

At times, some lines, some poetries depict truly what you are feeling. It doesn't happen very often though! I happened to be in a very bad and upsetting mood today and what I see in my mail, a friend forwarded a poem which  just left me standstill. If you have ever been hurt by your loved ones, ever it happened that love has hurt you, leaving you just a body without soul who appears to be alive but actually its dead, you would love it! Unfortunately, I don't know who is the writer of this poetry so I would urge if anyone knows, do let me know via comments and I shall put his/her name here because credit must go where its due! The actual poetry is a mix of Hindi and Urdu(which is not so good of mine). I shall put the English translation as well. First, in Hindi, Ye kaun doob gaya aur ubhaar gaya mujh mein, Yun kaun saaye ki suraat guzar gaya mujh mein! Ye kis ke sog main shorida-haal phirta hun, Wo kuan shakhs tha aisa k mar gaya mujh mein! Ajab hawa-e-baha...

Yes, I am just totally pist off from some people and from their acts. I really am not sure why some people do completely insane things , act completely irresponsible and yet claim to be right. And some do completely wrong things which are bound to hurt others, they know their acts are hurting others, yet they just do whatever the heck they want and still claim that they are right giving their illogical logics. Not sure why and how one can do it? And worst is after doing everything just plain and clearly wrong, they think a simple sorry would be enough. Give me a break! Sorry is for those things when you unknowingly did some thing wrong, not when you did it within your complete senses. I really have no idea about how one can do all this and still claim him/her to be correct but yes, seeing it happening just make me really upset and I am very much upset at the moment!

Its been years I guess now since I have gone and done some real shopping for myself. I can count on fingers what I have bought since last 7 years. What's the reason? Well, there are couple of them and I certainly won't put them here. That doesn't mean that I have not been to shopping stores at all. I actually went many times but it was just not for me and for others. I still have my membership cards lying in my cupboard of those malls from where I used to buy so many gift items. And I still go do lots of shopping for my sis and few close ones. Still, I do have some things in my shopping list which I want to get. Not sure when I shall be doing it actually though but there is no harm in having a list isn't it :-) ! The very first thing is a bike. Are you saying, what, this guy has no bike! Well, yes I don't have one , I didn't buy one actually. One of my friends from Hyderabad just bought a new one and he (purposely) sent me his snap riding over it and needless ...

I had always been asked why don't I write a white paper about Oracle? I am told that the I explain things in a simple manner and it would be good if I would write some thing simple which people can understand with less difficulty. Well, my reply always is for this question that I know nothing about Oracle so I can't write. But from past some time, I was asked couple of times to write on certain topics which I discuss many times in my sessions and delegates don't find them explained them very well either in the material or at other places as well. So I was asked to write about those topics. There are couple of them and I finally gathered some courage and tried to write a small white paper, my very first one! I yet have to see how it is received and for this reason, I have mentioned its version as 0.1. It would take couple of revisions before I make the number as 1.0. But I am really happy that I finally was able to write one. My statement still remains the same that I know n...