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Brad Finally Arrived in Bangalore! He arrived Saturday - 11 Sep 2005 Night and I picked him from the airport and he stayed in the Royal Orchid on Airport Road. There is a neat golf course attached to the hotel and I thought he would enjoy, till I met him the next day! Sunday morning I meet him and he come panicing and wanted me to find an alternate accomodation! I asked him why? It was past midnight, he was tired after the long trip from Tokyo! So tired was he, he turned off the light and bang.. saw something run across and over his bed. He switched on the light and saw a big lizard! So shocked was he that he spent the whole night awake! It was really sad that he had to start his India stay that way! To add to his agone, for some reason, he had absolutely no HOT WATER to shower! I tried calling all the good star hotels in Bangalore and all were sold out! So, I had to run to the manager and ask her to set things right. Which was... Later we went to the restaurant attached to the Hotel for a Buffet Breakfast! First experience of authentic south Indian food for Brad! He simply enjoyed, the delicious Kesari Bath, Kharabath, Idly, Vada and Masala Dosa with Sambar and Chutney, Dokla and Kachori with Tamarind and Mint chutney and finally an Aaloo paratha with Yogurt! He simply enjoyed it! Later we went on a small sight seeing trip to Vidhan Soudha - the capitol building and the Hare Krishna temple (ISKON temple). Brad had an unique experince and he had the complete Aarthi of long Balaji and had Pushpanjali - flower offering to Lord Krishna. He exclaimed it was a fascinating experience! Later we spent the evening to nullify all the good karma that was obtained - we went to NASA Pub! Tomorrow we are in Hyderabad!
 Last week we had the first Advanced Class completely conducted by the India Crew!  We had a full house of 18 registered students. They came from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and even from Nigeria! That was a great mix of students. The one from Nigeria, Chuck has already taken the Certification Test! Congrats Chuck!  But the two members from a big partner of ours, bailed out after the first session! They were Java ignorant! I don’t know, how they are going to help with no knowledge of Java! God Save us…  Amit helped in conducting several sessions and the Labs – A Big Shout Out to AMIT!  The new member to the JBoss family, Vicky Kak was also equally helpful. I will Blog about his later! Thanks Vicky!  The sessions were very good, interactive. We had the group from HP who have already experienced JBoss and the ones from Softpro, the other partners who really added value by pitching in. Thank you guys! How come so far there have been no girl/lady students in any of our classes in India? Common Fair ones… Next time give these guys a run for their money!  Some of the sessions which we thought will be killers, were in fact a cake walk… Like Class Loaders, JMX, Tuning etc. I was expecting a kill and slam dunks from participants… but the students seemed to have got them…  The venue was good, but for the traffic to get there. The participants were very late on the first day! I think from the second day they planned. The food was good over there and the class room seemed alright too! So I think that was a good place for future classes! Let see!  As soon as I get pictures of the class, I shall put them.   I think overall it was very successful! Looking forward to expand to other cities here in the near future!