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Traveling is one big part of the work that I do and I do a LOT of travel, both domestic and international. People ask me that isn’t it not exhausting and the answer to that is, it surely is but its a lot of fun too-at least most of the times. Some times, the fun part changes to pain and tension and this time, I experienced the tension side of the travel. I am at the moment at Phnom Penh and this is my second visit to the place. Last trip proved to started of on a bumpy note with my luggage hung at the Bangkok airport itself. If you are a regular, you might have read about it already. If not, you can read about it all from here . The good thing was, the tour, overall proved to be a good one and also the place and people are very nice. Yes, food can be(is) a problem if you are a vegetarian but that’s also not a big issue as there are plenty of Indian food joints which you can visit. Anyways, all things said and done, I got back from the tour and finally, had a big sigh of relief when ...

I thought that I shall write about my travel related issue first. But just now I read a quote over Twitter and I decided to share it right away. A girl's laugh is much more cheerful than a boy . A boy's tear is much more meaningful than girl's tear . If you are a girl reading this, you won’t ever be in agreement with the statement but its true, believe it or not! Its not very easy for us, guys to cry but when we do, its only because the pain has gone beyond the limits of tolerance. I just remember this old song which says all that can be said about the tears of a guy. Its a song from Eden Kane which is of the same title, Boys Cry! Below is the link to the song and its lyrics, And here are its lyrics, Boys cry when no one can see them When no one can see them cry No one can see them cry Boys cry when their hearts are broken When their hearts are broken by Someone who says "Goodbye" When a boy gets hurt by a girl Hi...

At times, its just so tough to finish a job, even when you have done the same job many many times before. There could be many reasons for the job to be tough but the end result still comes out to be that you end up feeling like dead after getting done with the day. The same happened with me in this week when I entered in the session of mine. The delegates didn’t want to listen to just the course contents but also wanted something “extra”-a demand which is very hard to meet! I always wonder when delegates enter into the session and mention that the course for which they have come, is not a good course and they want to know more than what the book is talking about. From an end-user point of view, I can imagine and to a certain extent, I can even be agreed to the sentiment but from a practical point of view and from my side, its not possible always to meet such demand-especially when you didn’t know about it before(which also didn’t have helped much). There can be a lot that can be aske...

I have just finished this week’s session of mine here at Colombo. I am not sure but some how I was having a feeling that I am not really doing well. May be it was the injury of mine that was keeping me distracted and I wasn’t paying the required attention on the work of mine or may be it was just a bad time, I really don’t know but I do feel that I didn’t do much justice with my work in the last month or so. That’s why I had finished few programs in the past, I didn’t have that feeling of achievement but rather disappointment. Now just for the record, for others I may still have done well because the criteria with which my work is checked is the rating and it wasn’t bad at all. But when you are a person who can’t be settled for anything less than the best, having an “okay” rating which may be fine for others , is not really what you want! And may be that’s why I wasn’t really very happy from myself. And I was really wishing and praying so hard that it must end ASAP! It seems god did ...

This is a test post, just to check that the new authentication mechanism is letting me post from my writer tool or not. If you can see it, all worked well!

Just now, I got this below song showed up in my YouTube channel recommended to be listened. I had never heard it before and just when I was about to close my laptop to  take a shower and get ready, it popped up from nowhere and I have listened to it from last about 10 minutes again and again. Here are the lyrics of it, courtesy  AZLyrics .                                                          "Tonight I Wanna Cry" Alone in this house again tonight I got the TV on, the sound turned down and a bottle of wine There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me The way that it was and could have been surrounds me I'll never get over you walkin' away [Chorus:] I've never been the kind to ever let my feelings show And I thought that bein' strong meant never losin' your self-control But I'm just drunk enough to let go of my pain...

I sat down to write this post 4 days ago when I was at home but than got injured(yes again) and the entire focus got shifted to get the injections and medicine since I was traveling on the very day (yes, just like before). It was 3 weeks since I was at home and I wish I could say that it was for just taking rest but unfortunately, it was rest because the wound of mine was giving me much more tension than I expected from it. I am at Singapore right now, about to leave in a while for the airport for flying back home. Those who are regular here must be aware that I met with a very serious accident about 2 months ago. I got injured and lots of drama happened along the way of the medication. In between, I had to travel to Banglore and to Cambodia as well and things after coming back from both the places, didn’t go very well. When I came back from Cambodia, I expected that after going through a very very painful process of getting stitches after 22 days of the injury, finally it must have ...

Yes, I am back from Cambodia. If you have read my last few posts, you must be knowing that it wasn’t a very smooth sailing tour from many angles but a mix of many things.  But finally, like any other tour of mine, it also is finished now and I am back at home and also,  I am back to going hospital and taking medicines. More on medicine and hospital later though. First, let’s talk about the tour. Cambodia was one place where I hadn’t never traveled before and also, I didn’t ever plan also to be honest since I never tried to explore about the place. But as I believe that wherever you are destined to go, you would go there for sure doesn’t matter what, finally I got an assignment scheduled to this place and that’s how I ended up visiting there as well. As you might have read from the other post of mine, the tour didn’t start on a very good note as my luggage didn’t arrive from the connecting flight-something that never did happen with me before and I really wish it won’t happen...

No, that’s not the normal routine of mine. Its just that there is nothing else I can do here at Phnom Penh after my day is complete other than coming and watching movies. And on the weekend which has just passed, that’s something what I did almost all the time. Some were already seen and some were new. I can’t recall all of them but below are few which I remember that I watched, Fast Five : It was an okay movie. If you have seen Fast and Furious and its other parts, you won’t find it too interesting. I have seen them so you can guess how I felt :>). But I hadn’t seen it before though. Battleship : Just another movie where aliens attack and some one saves the world/earth. Hadn’t seen it before so yeah, I can say that I have seen it now. The Double : Again a movie that I hadn’t seen before. I can say it was okay but the deal breaker for me was that the whole suspense of the movie was gone in the first half an hour itself. Just Go With It : Well, for me it was a new and a very...

Its 9:30am local time at Phnom Penh where I am at the moment since this Sunday. Its Saturday and I have two days of off time with me but I am not sure what to do with it because of many factors. The only good thing is that I managed to finish my this week’s session with a good rating. There were no comments but still, I am happy about the rating considering the language challenge that is here. I have one more session pending for the next coming week still though. Let’s see what happens in it. This travel seemed to be started with a very painful and rough start. If you are a regular here, you would be knowing it already that I have met with an accident (again) and I haven’t still recovered form the injuries. Now,its almost more than 25 days that it has happened so this is actually a very serious thing for me because I am not having the privilege to be at home and wait for it to get healed properly but have to go out to earn bread and butter for my family. So I insisted the doctor ta...

Its Monday morning but I am at home thankfully, just waiting for the clinic to get open so that I can visit my doctor. So what can be more better than surfing the web for some amazing poetries isn’t it? And when you are out for looking something, it has to come to you so here are two for today which I found just superb. Have a read, Mujhe bhi sikha do bhool jane ka hunar, Mujhse yøon raato'n ko uth uth kar ab roya nahi jata!   And its translation in English is, Some one please teach me too the art of forgetting, I can’t cry staying awake all the night anymore!   And here is the 2nd one, Meri aankho'n me chupi udaasi ko mehsoos to kar, aye dost! Hum wo hain, Jo sabko hansa kar raat bhar rotey hain!!   And its translation in English is, Try to look deeper in my eyes to find the hidden sadness in them my friend, I am one of those who cry all nightlong after making all smile the whole day!   Ain’t they are amazing but as always, fo...

Yes, I got back home yesterday after spending a week at Banglore. It was supposed to be a light week with no adventure expected( or asked for) to happen but somehow, still the week didn’t go very smooth. May be because when you are injured, have a group of a little distracted delegates and thinking about home, this is inevitable. If you are a regular here, you would be knowing that I met with an accident-a big one! What I was asked actually by the doctor that I should take complete bed rest to get my wound healed but since this session was a long time back scheduled one and also wasn’t very tough, I decided to go for it anyways. Yes, I definitely needed to carry my medicines along with the dressing that I was supposed to do daily twice over the wound. Since I couldn’t travel by public bus and the AC bus timing was not suiting me, I started the travel by taking a cab from home to Delhi. Fortunately, the cab was a good one( the driver was a moron) and all I did was that I just took nap...

At times, some things just pop up in front of you making you sit back and think about something. Just the same happened with me when I stumbled upon this below picture which has also a very true fact mentioned in it as well, something which I don’t think any one can deny. Have a look, So as I am a guy, I shall pick the quote given for the guys and say that its absolutely true. It takes long, rather very long for a guy to cry for a gal but when he does it means that gal means so much to him. So if you are a gal, make sure that if your guy cries for you, hold on to him and never let him go because its not always that you would find someone who cries for you! And if you are a guy remember that at times when you may cry, you may get to hear this too from you gal that she has no time for these tears! What to do at that time? Wish I could tell you but I have no answer with me for it.

I am not sure that what’s the bloody reason that whenever a little smile tries to come to me, something terrible comes along with it. I bought a new phone and something for home and just on the same damn day, met with an accident! Yes, I got injured but its my sister who has got the much worse muscle injury on her leg. Though I am at home right now but I have to leave soon for work and that’s just making me so much worried and upset. I thought I shall write about my new Galaxy S3 , about organizing something again that I did three years ago and also about the last session of mine which made me really upset. But I believe all of this would have to wait since neither I have time nor mood to talk about anything else at the moment.

I am a guy from a small city and I really don’t think that I know a lot about Oracle database that I can be called a Guru or a master, let alone to be called or considered as a celebrity. But some folks , very kindly do consider me a little knowledgeable and I am so grateful for them to think in such a high regard about me. One of such kind persons is  Nassyam Basha who asked me few days back to answer some of the questions that he wanted to post as an interview of mine on his website. I did give the answers and sent them back to him and he very kindly, posted my first ever interview on his website. I must say thanks to him for giving me the space and chance to speak about myself and some things that I probably always wanted to share with others. I am going to post the entire interview over here itself for easy access. Have a read, Interview with Aman Sharma (Aman…) – Oracle ACE, Author, Instructor Aman Sharma has more than 11 years of experience working with Oracle products,...

Yep, in about 3 hours from now, I shall be on the road hopefully. Though travel is not something that’s new for me to do but this time, right away after the travel, I shall be in the session-in about 2 hours after reaching the destination. That’s going to be really REALLY hard especially after a night long travel in the cab and two hours in the plane. And as like always, just to make things more spicy, the module would be very tough too. Let’s see what happens. I have two drafts sitting in my draft folder which I really want to post ASAP but I guess both have to wait for next week. I wanted to post this week itself but I have been very busy in it so far. Anyways, its time to get some stuff needed for travel and start to do the packing. Hope Sunday is treating you all very well and wish that Monday would be a little kind on all of us :) .

Its very early in the morning but I shall be very busy today, just like the past few days so I thought that I shall write this post at this moment. Its been already 3 days that I am at home but there has been a lot of work that I am supposed to do which is taking a  lot of time of mine. Yesterday, I was traveling and today. hopefully, I shall be indulged in a task which is very near to heart, a tradition of Punjab which makes me feel very proud to be a part of whenever I can. I am not sure any one can guess what it is but to give a hint, its something which I did organize about 3 years back for the first time and did write a post about it too. No idea still? Well, wait then because if all goes fine, I shall definitely be sharing it here. In this post, I shall just mention about the last trip of mine which has made me extremely happy. I have been on the road in the last month for all 4 weeks. Three weeks were spent at Colombo and the last one was at Bangkok. I have mentioned alrea...

The entire weekend of mine, I spent in preparing for an upcoming new module which I am going to teach soon. I can’t even start to explain that how tiring the entire process of preparation is! Today, I have sat for straight 9 hours doing the hands-on with the product and trying to make it work. From last 8 days I am struggling to make the darn thing work but it didn’t happen. May be it didn’t because I was in the session teaching and doing the preparation of mine along with it. So may be I wasn’t paying a proper attention to all the details needed to get it going. Since yesterday, since I had no distractions , I was able to pay complete attention to the hands-on. But the worst part was that even till today afternoon, few of the things didn’t work. I tried a lot of this and that, but no, the result was zero. Finally, I decided to leave the given examples of the course curriculum and prepare my own demo. It would had solved two purposes. One, since its my own demo, the entire naming conve...

Its just amazes me at times that how cunningly smart people try to be by using some of the worst excuses that can be possibly made. This is the same which happened with me today  leaving me surprised and angry at the same time. I am traveling overseas at the moment name of which I shall not mention. I have been here before and I must say that I really like the place and even than that, people of this place. This is my 3rd visit to this place(probably would be the longest too) and every time I come here, I feel very happy and also very closer to my home too. And even this time, the experience so far otherwise has been the same. I have got some really GREAT feedback comments from the delegates. If I may mention one of them it is,” Oracle is lucky to have an instructor like Aman ” . Need I ask for more? I can just say I am just so grateful for so kind words from the delegates and that’s enough to mention that how so nice the people over here are! And just when all is so good, some...