Prod Release over the Long Weekend.

This long weekend will go down as major Prod release implementation.
Its Major one, Due to the 200 GB table's data migration from one schema to another schema using SQL Insert statement by partition wise. Then comparing the record counts verifications and Building Indexes and Last migrating application Synonym from old table to new table.

The whole release took almost 20hr spanning over Friday night to early morning and upto Evening. Surely, the next week will also be the busy one. Its feels different when whole world relaxing and you are working hard.

FedEx - International Priority

FedEx truck never bothered me before. Now every time I see a FedEx truck or plan it reminds me that they charged me hopping $48 for International Priority delivery to India.



I’ve been using USPS’s Global Priority Mail to send the documents to India, for which they charge me reasonable $10. But this time due to the non-delivery of documents I had to use FedEx. They claim to be "World On Time" and thats important in Shipping Industry and as they say "Time is Money".

Ta Ra Rum Pum

Somehow this year hasn't been lucky enough to produce a single big Hit of the year. So even after reading the disappointing reviews, We thought to give a shot for this movie, Keeping in the mind the director's previous hit movie "Salaam Namasate". Thou we weren't quite happy with the outcome, We were humming few song like "Hey Shona" and "Chika Chika...Chika Chika ...Girl...!" when we came out of the theater.

The problem is this movie has too much of Racing, and every time we had wait for 100 Laps to finish.

Recipe for "Green salad"

After eating various salads in lunches at work it was time to try out one at home.

So the other day we picked the essential ingredients for the “Green salad” from the grocery store. Most importantly we needed fresh-cut Asian salad, Honey Mustard dressing, Zesty Italian Dressing, fresh Mozzarella cheese and Garlic Croutons as toppings.

It is obvious that you will have few of these items handy when you plan for salad.
Those are tomatoes, sliced cucumber, carrot, kidney beans, chick pea, green peas, white onions, green & bell peppers, Walnuts or almonds.

As for salad recipe, all you got to do is throw these veggies and toppings in big bowl, add the dressings accordingly, mix-up the entire stuff by tossing the bowl and there you have it, A fresh, tasty healthy green salad.

And thus it adds another dish, which I can make on my own.

Stew Leonard’s Dairy Store

Sometime just taking a different route might lead you to a new place. That’s what happened this weekend when we stumbled upon this great new specialty dairy store called “Stew Leonard’s”. They claim to be the World’s Largest Dairy Store.

The unique thing about this place is everything is fresh here, even the bakery products are served out of the ovens.

As New York Times says "Disneyland of Dairy Stores" because of its own milk processing plant, costumed characters, scheduled entertainment, petting zoo and animatronics throughout the stores.

Indeed, We had good time shopping here.

Pad Thai - the usual

Pad Thai – that has become “The usual” for me at any Thai restaurant.

I love those sauteed rice noodles with the combination of veggies, garnished with crushed peanuts and coriander, served with a piece of lime.

The Occasion was another farewell team lunch at Thai restaurant.