Life is fast! And often it isn’t really easy to keep your mood up.

As I shared here last my weekend lately wasn’t one of the best once I had ever and looking back I just can say I’m happy about it is over.
Belonging to the Internet access I wasn’t really able to archive much. I’m getting the actual connection a bit cheaper and doubled the speed, but it is far away from the speed I wanted to have. On the other hand this new company offering the 32 MBit connection does not really seems to be very reliable and therefore it might not be a very worse thing I’m now not dealing with them.

But you know what? …. Donating a little gift (huh .. little?!) to yourself always is a good way to raise your mood again…..

And so did I  !!

Quickly decided I’ve ordered something I was wishing to buy since ages, but never was able to justify for myself so far, and as it looks it is shipped very quickly. So with a bit of luck I will be able to hold it in my hands tomorrow or the day after and I’m "very" sure my friend Wilf and me will have to exchange about it a lot.

For you here ….. sorry about! ….. at first, I will remain with the question about what I’ve ordered plainly not answered, to simply ensure I will have something left I can write about tomorrow.

Follow Wikipedia, Communication is commonly defined as "the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs. An act or instance of transmitting and a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. An exchange of information.

Communication can be perceived as a two-way process in which there is an exchange and progression of thoughts, feelings or ideas towards a mutually accepted goal or direction.

Now this is good to know …. especially as for I lately have the impression that especially with one person it doesn’t work that way anymore. It must now be the third or forth time this person just ended a dialog suddenly and left. Why is that?

Years ago I would have examined that again and again.  Especially the question whether or not I could have forced this situation. Today I’m getting more and more getting aware about I’m tired about such things.  In my eyes it is simply impolitely and rude and someone shouldn’t do. What do you think?

Today right in the middle of my second week of training I feel a bit of everything. Still excited about heading into something new, keen to learn all that new stuff, but also a bit tired and exhausted by trying to store it away with the hope to be able to remember it later on.

As known before it is a totally different world and even many things sounds similar …. gone into details it is all very specific for exactly their way to use it. And so at the end it is about both, bringing in your old knowledge and work with it, adjusting a bit for the new, but also accept that many things are … just different.

I still think about the atmosphere there as very winning and all the people there are very friendly. After one and a half you do now also know the other seminar participiants a bit better and talking and exchanging besides has become more intensive as well.

So at the end I have a good time learning about that SAP actually. It is just that in sum all together it is more tiring me as usually and with a few other things going on around I will not feel grumpy about diving back in usual work next week again.

But yeah, by the topic and by my made experiences, I’m sure about I will head there again. It is still 99,9% left to discover of this New World.;-)

Whatever others to tell me three days of conference is tiring. Travelling to such an event is not to compare with some vacation trip anyway and the first or two night sleeping in a hotel is anyway somewhat less relaxing for me.

This years DOAG was even a conference of a style I personally think about as some intermediate one as for there is no real new major release announced as coming soon. So I personally think about most of the speeches I’ve heard as another "remake" of companies which do now think they’ve got the glue about.

But for me it as a good feedback about which new feature … announce a year ago as "brand new" … has really set and is accepted by the market.

And another big point for me is that I’m able to renew and as often possible and very appreciated – extend – my contacts to Oracle folks. You know each other, exchange again a few idea and information and in case there is a needs, you have a contact or number to call and ask.

This year the social aspect of the conference was big and I really had the feeling to meet a lot of interesting folks besides all the official and scheduled program.

But now …. yes, and I’m not feeling ashamed to share …. it’s about time to head home again.

Recently a friend of mine visited New Zealand and for me very unexpected (still expected her there) she yesterday came up a chat and after the ususal short “Hello – How are you?” we immediately started talking about her trip and the experiences she had made at Kiwi Country.

In 2003 I had visited both Islands myself and so it was easy talking about as I really had enjoyed my trip to there. The scenery on both island is breathtaking in many ways and the Kiwi people living there, at least those I was lucky to met and talk with, are extremely friendly.

Now by talking about her experiences, all my own memories came back and we soon started this “Have you seen? … Have you done!” answering and questioning game with each other and it really was a pleasure talking about.

Hearing about she had warm and sunny conditions during her Milford Sound Cruise nearly turned me jealous. But later on I was able to “beat” her with the helicopter flight I had made in 2003 finally landing on top of a mountain and walking on the icefield there she couldn’t do for weather reasons as well.

Later on and majorly forced by us living in different time zones and she feeling terrible tired, we committed us to catch up soon again continuing our chat and exchanging more about.

Shorting time with here was sweet and lovely. I’m looking forward to see you again!