A Thank You and a Couple of Pictures
Just a quick note to thank you all for your warm comments to my previous post: World Population = World Population + 1. I feel like you are my extended family online.
I now have a little bit of time to stay up-to-date about all the news that I missed during the past few days, and even write a few posts.
Here are a couple of pictures from the operation room (Jasmine had a cesarean section):
Due to the shortage of female Oracle developers, I will feed Julie not only milk, but also Oracle knowledge, hoping that someday we will have (female) Oracle developers = (female) Oracle developers + 1 
World Population = World Population + 1
Today, my wife Jasmine, my son George and I welcomed Julie, the latest addition to the Awad family. Jasmine gave birth to Julie, a beautiful 8.2 lbs baby girl, at 10:41 AM (PST) on September 26, 2006. Both mom and baby are doing fine. As a result of this life changing event, I have taken a three week “vacation”, mainly staying home changing diapers and staying up most nights (since we have no family members around to help us).
So, I will be blogging infrequently during the coming three weeks… I hope to get back to normal routine before my trip to San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld.
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I’m heading to China tomorrow for a two week vacation. I’ll be visiting my parents in law in Shanghai. It’ll be my second visit to China. My first visit was in 2000. I went to Hong Kong and Beijing. I hated Beijing. It is the most polluted city in the world, at least that’s how it was in 2000.
Most probably I will have Internet access while I’m on vacation. Humm! That sounds like an oxymoron: Internet, vacation. But hey, what will I be doing when everybody starts talking Chinese? Either I sit like an idiot, smiling and nodding my head, or fire up my laptop and start surfing. The choice is clear. Of course, I’ll be visiting lots of exciting places and eating lots of weird food (no dogs, I promise), and of course, taking lots of pictures.
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