8 things about me
Posted by Arul Ramachandran on February 3, 2008
Fellow bloggers H.Tonguç Yılmaz and Freek D’Hooge blog-tagged me a while ago… I was in the process of transitioning to a new job and did not bother to play then. Here I am now, better late than never… a few things about me.
1. I am a transplant from India, living in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States for the past 11 years.
2. My affair with Oracle technologies started from version 5, I started as an Oracle developer programming on Oracle v5.x, SQL*Forms 2.x, SQL*Reportwriter 1.x and I still find her attractive 
3. What I recall of Oracle V5 is pretty vague now.. a BI (before image) file was used for rollbacks, CCF (create contiguous file) to add a datafile.. by now you guessed that I am not that young
4. Between Oracle v5 and v6, I worked on Informix for some time. I never liked it, so I promptly came back to Oracle. If Oracle was a girl, I bet she must be a blonde!
5. Before coming to the U.S., I was in Kuwait for 3 years working on Unix, Oracle and Informix.
6. I have been driving the same car for 11 years - a Toyota Camry, it had some problems and repairs but it works fine as of now… and I am happy my insurance and registration costs are low…. so why bother buy a new one.
7. I started to learn Digital SLR photography a couple of years ago. I love photography and I would like to devote more time to this. You can see some of the photos I took at my picture trails.
8. I love skiing. For someone who has lived in a hot, tropical climate and never seen snow for the most of his life, I had a hard time learning to ski, let alone adjusting to the cold winter and snow. After several years of visiting the various ski resorts at Tahoe, I am now an avid intermediate skiier. I love the thrill of skiing on the slopes and enjoy the quiet scenery of the snow and mountains from the top… it is priceless.
