My Plain Blueberry Juice: July 2009

Sunday, July 26, 2009

The Aftermath...part I

Its been a while since I last wrote anything on this blog, I didn’t update not because I'm on annual leave or due to the fact that I'm too busy with post-wedding matters but mostly because I'm preoccupied with my work at the office. My weekends were filled with reading technotes on several topics ranging from best practice on running Netbackup and Exchange server to designing disaster recovery or business continuity plan based on EMC Recoverpoint and EMC Recovery Manager. It's been very hectic these past two weeks to say the least, a lot has happen on several fronts at office and at home, the pace of everything developed is occurring at an eccentric level that I missed quite a lot interesting facts and maybe some rather peculiar facts that could be written here

I just got myself certified as EMC BURA Technology Architect this week after completing the last exam required to get myself accredited. Naturally the next step is to aim for something higher than being a specialist but there's a minor obstacle that prevented me from progressing further on this area - there's no expert level exam for BURA consultant at the moment. I will attempt to clarify with EMC Education Services folks about this as it is illogical to limit and confined BURA scope to specialist level only. On another development, I might be attending SAN switch management and troubleshooting course in Singapore for 4 days this mid August, when I said might it simply means everything is finalized inclusive of flight number and hotel booking just waiting for our company CEO to approve this training and signed on the dotted line. Looks like I will be going in depth on SAN switch configuration and management so I might as well get my self ready for Brocade Certified Fabric Professional Exam. Its funny when 4-5 years ago, I could've sworn that I will be getting my CCIE batch or number instead of diving head first into the world of Storage Area Networking but I guess that’s how fate intertwined everything and I ended up with SAN not that I'm complaining though!

I will be departing for London on Tuesday morning for my honeymoon; my wife is pretty much excited about this trip. I couldn’t blame her for that as she only went as far as Phuket =p. We just bought essential items for travelling overseas and she will have to start packing our stuff tonight. We actually went to Mid Valley Jusco today to buy clothes and new jeans but ended up with additional item in hand; meet our new Tower Fan from DeLonghi:

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I will update this blog more often after my holiday, still contemplating on whether we should go to France or Switzerland while we're in London, until then.

Regards,

MARK