Aman's Blog....

If you are a traveler, you must be aware about a saying, “this world is a book and if you haven’t traveled , you have just read one page” . But how about when you are doing a little too much of reading :-) ? Well, your eyes would start to get hurt ;-). Okay, a not so good joke, never mind, let’s come back to the post. I was going to post this post when I had just reached Banglore but thanks to being tired like dead and a task to complete the book review of my friend’s book, I just couldn’t do it. Anyways, its better late than never, isn’t it! So, I have finally managed to reach Banglore in one piece, without missing any flight and with a smile and satisfaction because I was able to finish my work properly. There is nothing which makes one more happy than seeing his hard work appreciated and seeing a smile on other’s face showing that they were happy and the time that they spent, was worth spending! That’s what I guess I was able to achieve with my last session and not to forget, relive

Its Friday but I am still at Singapore, fortunately in the same hotel where I was the entire week. The hotel got a cancellation and didn’t throw me out but gave me an extension today for a day till tomorrow :) . I went to have dinner and tried a new place today as well(have tried one yesterday and did dine at an old place as well). Did buy some chocolates and now, back in the room of mine. As I mentioned already in an another post, I came to Singapore in 2006 for the first time. At that time, I was totally messed up mentally(just for the record, I still am) or may be I can say that the mental breakdown of mine happened at that time and it hasn’t healed since then. I did get up from a very serious sickness(stayed in the hospital for many weeks) and got an offer to come here. I took the offer to come here to change the environment around me because I was almost dead and if anything could distract me was a place change and loads of work.  And these are the two things that I am doing sin

Those who know me well, are aware about the fact that I absolutely love oracle database and poetry. I am always looking forward to read something new about oracle db and also to read a good poetry that would shake the inner soul of mine completely. If you haven’t done yet, search over this blog for many such poetries that I have put and also some which are written by me as well. Its just amazing that how in just few lines, a lot can be said, isn’t it? Keeping the trend alive, below are some of those poetries that I absolute love and are among my favorites. These are in Hindi and I shall translate their meaning in English as well. So without further delay, here we go, (1)Tumse ulfat ke takazay na nibhaye jaate, Warna humko bhi ye chahat thi ki chahe jaate! You just couldn't fulfill the promises of love, Otherwise I also wished to be loved! (2)Hum ne aaghosh-e-muhabbat se ye seekha hai sabaq, Jis ko zinda na rehna ho wo muhabbat kar le! I have learnt this lesson

This is actually one of the three posts which I have in my draft folder from some time. Since one) I am sitting a little free at the moment in my hotel because its the last day of the session tomorrow and second) I am not sure that I shall be able to write it tomorrow because there is some problem with my booking status at this hotel. It was supposed to be till a certain date but it is getting over tomorrow and now, I am not sure that I shall have an extension because the hotel is completely full. If you haven’t seen me angry and upset, well , then its not possible for you to imagine that how much I can get and how do I look when I am angry so will just say that I am TOO MUCH angry right now. Anyways, will see what will happen tomorrow. At the moment, the post is about the HTC Incredible S , an Android based phone from HTC which I bought few weeks back. I have an iPod touch which I bought few weeks back. I blogged about it here as well too. Besides that, my sister also has an iPh

I just read this below statement and needless to mention, I truly loved it. The only sad part is, its far away from becoming true ever and to be honest, I really am not holding my breath for it to come true as well. But still liked it so much, Sometimes when I say "I'm okay", I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight, and say, "I know you're not."

Yes, I am at Singapore . Its been a while since I have come to this office where I am sitting right now, Suntec Tower 4 . The last time when I came here was in 2006. That was the first time when I came overseas for delivering a training program and this time again, the reason is same. Its so good to be back here and meet few persons whom I had met long time back and who actually taught me the few of the first lessons about the tactics of delivering a sessions. The session which I am handling right now is a VERY tough one and I am trying my best to keep things running smoothly. Hope all remains and goes fine. Its time to go for lunch. Been very long that I have seen food courts here at Suntec . Hope will find something to eat :-) .

Yes, that’s a truth. Its been tons of things that I have just done in these last two days of mine and still, the list of things is not finished. And to make things more spicy, I am going overseas for a very tough module for which I have done a lot of preparation but still, the heart is beating so much fast because I am aware both about the complexity of the module and the mandatory condition that I must perform well, if not in the best manner, in it. Whether I shall be able to do so or not, I am not sure. Last week session of mine was a very pleasant experience. There were just four delegates, three guys and one gal but all of them were very friendly and eager to learn the technology of which I was taking the session. One delegate out of four was very witty and he did bring so many moments in the sessions which brought not just smiles but laughter on the faces of all of us. There was one particular thing that he was really interested or was mentioning about, about my wedding :-) . I

I am not a poet, never claimed to be one and probably, never will be one either. Whenever I have tried to write something poetic( here , here , here , here , here and here ) , I have mentioned it that don’t expect that I shall be writing a masterpiece in poetry. Still, at times, when some thoughts, pains of some wounds given over soul rise their head, one does attempts to do many things. Some die(some try doing it but not sure why their wish of going away doesn’t get fulfilled) , some get themselves buried under work and some, along with burying themselves into work, do give a try to write some words even. Irony is that those who give such wounds, such pains to their beloved ones . This is the reason for these write up to originate, at least in my case. If you think that they are a complete shame to poetry, well, there you go. I have been warning you all the time that don’t expect Shakespear or Ghalib writing here. So with the fair warning, here is one another write up that came up

I have got this text just now which had this below statement, A boy becomes valuable when a girl drops a tear for him, and a girl is priceless when a boy drops a tear for her. Is it really true? If yes than what about when even after seeing tears, one gets to hear, “ I have nothing to do with these tears? May be some drops of tears have really no importance neither does those eyes who have them or may be, what I remembered reading long time back is more true than the above statement, Saathi jag te sab jiondian de, koi raahi na jag to challeyan da! Sach sayane keh gaye ne, hassa sarian de rona kalleyan da!   And its translation in English is, All are companions of alive, no one is going to accompany those who are fleeing the world! Its a wise thing said by someone, laughter is for all but cries and tears are just of your own!   Isn’t it?

Its Friday and I have finished my session of this week today. Its been a hectic, really hectic week and I guess, this hasn’t over yet. The next coming two weeks are also going to be same, or may be, even more harder than this one. But that’s next week. For this week, I am done with the session and I am hoping that it did turn out okay for the delegates. There were just three of them but they were very senior and experienced guys. It was a hectic session for them as well and I hope it was productive and useful for them as well. All three were really friendly and nice and I hope that in some other program, I shall get a chance to meet with them again. I normally travel on Friday but this time, I shall be traveling on Saturday since the flight booking for me is done for the same. Now, this is going to be really bad for me since I shall be having just a night to spend at home and on Sunday, I need to start the travel back to Delhi for another program( which I have mentioned that will be

I should be actually sleeping right now because that’s what I was thinking to do when I was about to leave from the session today. I was(and still I am) tired like dead and didn’t have anything except a Pasta at Barista. But thanks to this darn headache, I am still having my eyes wide open and not sure what to do about it. Its being a very hectic week so far for me. The module that I am handling right now is VERY tough and hectic. The delegates in the session are very nice, friendly and eager to know about the stuff though which is always a good sign. But still, there is so much of work that I have to finish of my own for which I am not able to make up my mind that when I shall start and how I shall finish it? There are three blog posts which are lying in my draft folder right now which also I need to complete. Not to mention the mind which gets lost in tons of thoughts! Hope I shall do finish everything soon.

And what a week it has been! I haven’t slept for not more than 3 hours in all the days and was busy doing study. My eyes are all red at the moment and I need to wake up VERY early in the morning to start the travel for a very tough session. Hope it would go well. I am very disappointed from the last session’s rating of mine, especially from this fact that the most worst rating was given, not for the technical part but for me being not punctual! HUH? Me and not punctual and that too when in the last entire week, I actually reached office by 8am(1 and half hour before the session) and closed it at least for 3 days at 6pm (half an hour late from the official time). I had skipped lunch for two days in a row since I was so struck up in solving the issues. If that’s still is not enough to call me punctual, well, not really sure what really can be. Anyways, I think all has their own way of looking at things and may be, the viewing angle of mine and others are different for certain things. I j

I have mentioned this so many times that pain is the most common and unbiased emotion that we all share. Tears don’t have different color for different people and wounds, especially given by your loved ones, give the same kind of pain and same deep and long cries for all. And to depict this pain, at times, many words are required and at times, in just few lines, a lot is said! Irrespective of the count of the words, what’s more important is that whether the underneath pain was depicted completely or at least, close to completeness or not? If yes, I think that’s about it! And what more can express the pain than tears except music and/or a good piece of poetry right! I have posted many many times such small snippets of poetry which appear to be just 2-4 lines but they say a lot. Yes, I have been criticized many times that what the heck is the meaning of such lines anyways and I do agree, at times, the meanings are not so clearly described. But let me tell you, to understand the meaning

I have been asked number of times that whether I do know any other Indian(or foreign language) besides Hindi(national language), Punjabi(native language) and English(global language) . And the question is quite obvious since I travel a LOT. Also, at times, its asked that if I don’t know, didn’t I ever try to learn any language too? Well, the answer of both is partially yes and yes. Partially yes for knowing other languages than the three I mentioned and yes for that I in fact did try (a really honest and effortless try) to learn one language of India. Heck, I even bought books, audio tapes to teach me that! Yesterday, while looking for an Oracle book, I did find one of those books in my closet. I bought this book in 2003. Needless to mention that I did read it more than once and not just for learning speaking but for writing as well. I have one more such book and few audio tapes for the same. Even, I was going to hire a tutor to teach me the same in person,a guy who came to my off

If you are a regular here, you must have read my last post SMC , you would be knowing that after a continuous 6 days of work and a mere Sunday off, there was a grilling week which was waiting for me. Gladly, that week is over and not just over but with a  great satisfaction too came when I was closing the session. As I said couple of times by now, I had an expectation that the last week would be really hectic. And as like always with me, any wrong/bad feeling that I get into my mind, does come true so the same actually happened as well. When I reached to the office(and I reached very early, 8am itself) , I saw that the whole setup was different from the past sessions that I had taken and due to a change in the policy, I can’t access the support documents for it anymore as well. You can imagine from this that in how much tension I came after seeing this that while I was sitting in an centrally air-conditioned room, drops of sweat came over my forehead right away. I tried to check coup

I couldn’t think of any other title to describe all the three things that’s the reason for SMC and I think it came up quite nice isn’t it :-) . There are three different things that I wanted to talk about and that’s the best I could think of to combine them together. If you are a regular here you must be aware that I had a three days session which I finished at Hyderabad and then I flew to here, Banglore for another 3 days session. Its normally till Friday I work but for this session, the Saturday was also occupied. Besides that it was going to be really hectic taking a session back to back including a travel as well, the module that I was supposed to take was also a new and tough one for me. I had taught an early version of this many times but this was going to be the first time for me for this version’s session. Gladly, it did go okay. I had just three delegates with me and as per them, they learned many a new things in these three days. With lesser number of delegates, its always

At times, within a very short time, your mood changes either by seeing something, meeting someone, reading or hearing something or even by eating something. That’s almost the same that did happen with me just now too when I read couple of things at the same time out of which, few raised my eyebrows and few brought a smile on my face. Needless to mention that the mood did change a lot and in a complete contrast when I read both the kind of things. First, let me tell that part which did bring a smile on my face. It’s an email that I have received from a delegate who attended one of my sessions some time back. Somehow, he remembered me as “Amit” and was using this name to send the email. Obviously, that couldn’t reach to me because this is Aman and not Amit LOL. Well, better late than never, so finally, he somehow saw on the certificate of his that the name of the instructor was Aman so he sent immediately the below email which just made my day. I have edited names from the email but the

If you are thinking that I have forgotten the spells of the world relieved in my last post feeling relievedd , well that’s not the case. I did it on purpose to remind me that it’s a post that I have re-posted on Friday because Blogger did some blunder and due to the maintenance of it, they removed the posts posted from Wednesday(temporarily). As per this post , they are now back to functional and are also restoring the posts(slowly). Mine, which was posted on Thursday, haven’t yet restored so I have posted the same with a new( and with wrong spells) to avoid the confusion. I hope my original post comes back soon from Blogger’s backup tapes. As I had mentioned in the last post that I shall be uploading the pictures as soon as I shall get them. Well, I got them last night in the raw format. Raw means that they are given to me in the form in which they are captured. There were a lot of them and the total size, without compressing the pictures, was coming up to around 5gb. After compres

There is a saying that behind every successful man, there is a woman. Well, I am not really a successful man so I wont say that that this proverb suits me perfectly. But yes, I can surely say one thing that there is not just one but two women in my life who have always been the pillars of my strength. These two ladies know me more well than anyone else in this world, have seen me in my best and worst times and also, stood with me as well. They guided me, loved me, cared for me and still do in a way that I don’t think anyone else would ever be able to do so. There are so many things of my life which only these two know about. And these two are, my mother and my sister sis. Well, there is one another, third lady who knows most about me. She has seen some of those shades of mine which no one else would ever be allowed to see. In two days and few hours spent on an early morning on the airport, I had told her some of those things, pains, secrets of my life which I never did share neither w

I am an Aquarian and that makes me a person who would be much into listening than saying . This means, I won’t be sharing a lot of things, at least not with all at any cost. I may share all the happy things but the sad parts and/or the troubles, that’s highly unlikely that I am going to talk about them to anyone. There is something very important going to happen in my family on 8th of May and there are tons of things about it that I am handling right now along with 4 other friends of mine(thanks so much guys).  Besides the hassles and troubles of the arrangements, there are tons of other things related to this that are going in my mind right now but I can’t (or should say, won’t) talk about but I really wish I could. There is a marathon of mixed feelings going on within me. I am happy, scared, worried, tensed, sad and god knows what else. Also, I am feeling I may not be able to handle everything well but I shall give it my best of the efforts in a hope  that all goes well. Actually,