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I am sure that you must have guessed "which" time I am talking about here :-) . Yep, I am leaving tomorrow for a program. Its been almost a month so I am feeling good about it. There is still some tension over my head and I won't do a mistake of assuming that its going to be an easy tour as well. I just hope that all goes well within the program. Do pray for me guys, I am going to need all of your prayers and wishes as like always!

Most of the time, I read Oracle related books. Its not very often that I do get time to read anything else. Its either some market book related to Oracle or the books that Oracle University supplies that are around me. But this doesn’t mean that I don’t like to read anything else. Don’t believe me, no honestly its true! I do like to read and I have made a promise to myself that I am going to increase the count of non-oracle related books as well. So towards this, I took an initiative and read 2-States( Chetan Bhagat) few days back. This post is part review of the book and part things which I felt after reading it. Chetan Bhagat has become a household name with his novels. A banker turned novelist, he has hit the right chords almost all the time with his novels which are almost inspired from the real life stories. This novel is again inspired from a real life story and guess whose, of Chetan himself! Yes its the story inspired from the life of Chetan that how he got married to love...

At times, when you really to get some thing and don't get it despite of your bestest efforts, it just makes you feel really bad! And if you are like me, who doesn't let things go so easily, you will be agreed that the level of frustration reaches to the 7th sky.  The same happened with me yesterday when 3rd attempt of mine for buying something got failed. Just for the record, it wasn't due to any fault of mine but truth remains truth, I still haven't got what I was looking for. Though I did have a very good time with a friend of mine, did do some shopping still but that feeling of satisfaction is not there. Sigh! If you have read this blog post of mine ( and I would suggest to read before reading this one) , you must be aware that I spent a lot of time to find the brand of trousers that I wanted to get for me, Dockers! But I couldn't find it anywhere. Even when I went for the 2nd time with my sis, we still couldn't find it. Though we did buy few formal trous...

Twitter has gained a surprising popularity in a very short span of time. Almost everywhere you see, you can feel its presence. Some may call it time wastage( which is even true to some extent) but in a broader angel, its still one of the best mediums to stay connected with those whom you know and also with those whom you don't know personally. Looking at the immense popularity of it, there has been a flood of applications which have been created for almost all of the available platforms , either for a desktop or for a mobile device. All said and done, there are still not many who use all those features subject to the numerous limitations that they face, be it a device which can't go over web or they simply can't afford to have a web connection bill added to their monthly plan.  This may not be a very serious question elsewhere but in India, it surely is. But this shouldn't stop people from India from using Twitter, should it? The answer, if you ask me, is a big NO and ...

Darkness, sadness, failures do come in our lives. To some extent, they are needed too as if we don’t have them, we would never be able to value joys, happiness and success. In the same way, evil is out there everywhere but it must end and it does too. Diwali is the name of this only, representing joys over sorrows, good over bad, justice over injustice! With being the biggest festival in India, it also brings hopes for the new year that the next year would be even more better than the one which is passing by. As like the darkness of Diwali’s night is taken over by lightening of firecrackers and candles, in the same way, darkness in our lives due to any sad, wrong things would be taken away next year. Diwali is the name of a festival to be with our families and friends, making the bonds between us more stronger than ever before and also making new bonds with new friends! And Diwali is today! I wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali! Have lots of fun by having lots of sweets, w...

Men are from Mars and women from Venus and fortunately ( or unfortunately, what ever you may want to call it) , they have to be together on planet Earth :-) . So the classic saga of Mars vs Venus is going to be there for forever! Just to add one more small piece to that, following is a list of 7 things which men and women do. I have got it in email and surely enough(at least for me) , its a classic piece! Have a read and let me know whether its true or not, Men 1) All men are extremely busy. 2) Although they are so busy, they sill have time for women. 3) Although they have time for women, they don't really care for them. 4) Although they don't really care for them, they always have one around. 5) Although they have always one around them, they always try their luck with others. 6) Although they try their luck with others, they get really pist off if women leave them. 7) Although the women leaves them, they still don't learn from their mistakes and kee...

Okay that must be the shortest title that I might have used for any post I guess but that's actually for a lot of things which I would mention in a while. So keep on reading to know what came out finally :-) . I guess, its almost nearly 2 months that I have written something over here. I did write some short posts but they were more or less "fill in the blank kind of stuff" . So the first "finally" is for "finally a blog post" :-) . There was some serious tension that was there over my head from quite a time, making me not to do anything, not having a single moment of relief as well. I can't say that I should had been so tensed. Some close ones mentioned to me that I am in  a useless tension but may be that's how I am, if some thing gets struck in my mind, its a bit hard for me to get it out, at least in an easy manner. So from the last 2 months, I have wasted alot of time , slept much lesser than even before, thought about tons of things whi...

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!