Java Teaser

Yet another small java teaser:

What is the output?

  for(int i=0; i < 12; i++) {
     if(i<6) break;
   }
  System.out.println("Value of i:" + i);

TT Doubles !!

The tournament began today... And this time, for a change, its a Knock-out tournament.. I remember last time i played with freddy where we just began to learn to play...  Looking at the way, i have performed last time.. no wonder, i made myself clear... ok thats it.. i cannot imagine to win, atleast win one match...

I initially didnt find any partner... A member of my team, Sameer pinged me while he was @ home and asked lets join... so i joined him.. Our first match was - supposedly a tough match. After listening to the name of the opponent player, i lost all the hopes. Opponents are Anant Gilra and Sandeep (of coldfusion)... Last time, i watched both Ananth and Sam (of Flex) play together... 

The game began at about 4:30 pm... Sandeep served me.. I lost to pick 3 of his serves.. it ended with 1 (we) -4(them) ... Later, game went little one sided. We were 10 and they were 18... Ananths smash shots had no return in anyway. Ok thats it. We lost the first set to them.

Court change. We've decided to Chop. I started the serve. I took 4 points.. its 4 (we) and 1 (them)... Then i kept on back-hand chopping keeping the ball low and maximum spinning on it. Opponents wanted to hit the ball badly (smashes).. i recognized ananth cant play spin... I kept both of them putting ball to the net and loosing the match themselves. They tried hitting the low spinning ball and it again and again went to net. It was a clean win this time for us - 20 (we) - 7 (them)... We won the second set...

Court change. We've kept our startegy clean. It was 11 (we) - 10 (them)... Both Sandeep and Ananth decided to smash. we kept on chopping with a lot of spin and wow.. it was a clean cake walk, come back for us. we won - 20-13..

Ahh.. finally won a come-back match... !!

We are into quarter finals.. now.. We now have to play the tough players who might actually win the tournament (Gautam palthady - guy who was into singles semi-finals last time) and Fireworks best TT guy (Sarthak)...  Game started... Sarthak serving me... Clean bowled.. We came back with my serve ... 4-6... But as the match went on, it was like Sarthaks smaches on our chops, spins... both of them played pretty decent game.. they won the first set... 21-13...

Second set started. We were consciously trying this time... proper chopping, proper spinning and proper placing... We were (13) and they were (17)... With my serve and some of our decent placings we got it to the stage where we were (20 - set point) and they were (19)... It was my serve time... Serving to sarthak... I thought i will do a magical serve and get the point, but sarthak picked it to my surprise, Sameer failed to push it to that court and it was duce..  In no time, they were taking advantage... I was the one who hit a smash and it went out ending us loosing the match in irony !!... no wonder, Gopal and Mani (of director team), congratulated us saying, they played 8 doubles matches with gautam and sarthak the day before ending up loosing very badly all the 8 in a bad manner.. We reaching duce stage was really a great thing...

No wonder, we felt we could have done it a little better and grabbed the game from them... but then, cheer up... Its ok.. !!

Chennai Turns 368 years

Was watching NDTV yesterday and found this flash news !! Chennai celebrates 368 years of its existence. Congratulations to the people of chennai... i am not sure how the journey of 368 years have gone though !! ofcourse, its 6 generations?? (if i take 60 yrs per generation)...  Thats a lot actually... Time to Yippeee !!

Golden Temple - Sripuram.. near Vellore, Chennai

Mahalakshmi Temple, 600 Crores of budget, 100 acres of land, located @ Sripuram, near Vellore - 125 kms from chennai, 400 goldsmiths and copper smiths, crafts men from Tirumala tirupati devastanams, 6 years of construction time, Surrounded by mountains and lush scenic beauty... Temple covering 55,000 sq. ft. Area..

Construction lead by "Amma"... (thats what they say!!) Isnt it a lot for a temple ?? People feel a lot of poverty would have been removed with all this money ?? no wonder... Its a lot for a temple, and no-wonder it will make to the most visited-crowded place soon !!

What is the output??

Its a simple java program.. Any guesses what is the output ?

int x=3;
if(x) {
System.out.println("x = " + x);
}

Cute Nani Poems...

Nani (Varun) is the name of my Sisters son.. Hez just so cute... He is 3 yrs of age.. Going to school, started off with his pre-nursery.. I''ve recorded some of his cute poems... Pardon me for my poor mobile video clarity, yeah i know it sucks big time !! :)

1. http://www.youtube.com/v/_SYb9uHdkwU

• vande mataram
• sujalam sufalam
• malayaja seetalam
• sasya syamalam mataram
• vande mataram
• subra jostna pulakita yamini
• subhashini..

2. http://www.youtube.com/v/9quHCjOTQHg

• Ammakottindha..
• Thota kellava..
• Pandu thechava...
• Gootlo pettava...
• Gutukku mingavaaa.... :)

3. http://www.youtube.com/v/ZSo0klPd8n8

• January to December

4. http://www.youtube.com/v/OX7tc_KL6_A (Twinkle Twinkle...)

 

Wicket down !!

Yes, i got myself out for an unknown reason. All of us are so happy all these days... but yeah, happiness doesnt make complete life right? yes, it doesnt.. so its my turn now. I was asked to go through something which is other than the routine happiness. I was pretty fine last friday... I was compensating for my PTO on last saturday so i was @ office. Happened to go for lunch to KrishnaChennai with susoma... Came back in the night to home with an infected throat.. i had small pain in swallowing... Well, i am a self doctor of myself :) I was running temperature in the night as well.. Thanks to the balm which cures me most of the time.. Sunday, i went to Medical shop and got a throat infection pill - Erythromycin. Since i was running temperature, i took Combiflam.. Alrite, temperature is gone.. Combiflam works, i know that.. Monday morning, i went to office.. I actually went to eat a hot idli in Sagar automobiles. Swallowing was a problem to me. I knew it was paining, so i was eating very slowly... it was paining at every intake..  With great difficulty, i eat one idli and left the other.. Not that idli was not good, its my bad swallowing prob. Thanks to kishan (my other sidee), to whom, i told i am having throat swallowing probs.. do you know any good doctor.. Trust me, i had bad experiences earlier with doctors here.. He said, sagar apollo.. yup, near by to office..So i went and met doctor there.. realized that i was having "Follicular trounslities"... not-so-easily-pronouncable-disease !! Doctor gave me anti-biotics and asked me to take rest for two days, go to office after 15th Aug. Thanks to my manager for letting me WFH (work from home)..

   Its now the story began. On monday afternoon, again with a great difficulty i had just one more idli. Same thing in the evening. I was surviving on 3 idlies on monday. Tuesday began...  Monday night was really tough for me.. i had severe problems even swallowing my saliva.. I took pills and laid down... I got pomegranate juice.. I had it. I had 2 idlies on tuesday, one in the morning and one in the evening. I still had the pain.. Hmm.. i had some peaceful sleep in the night.. Got up... Another idli, couldnt have the other one... It was a lot more pain this time.. I cant speak for more than 20 seconds... decided that i will do - moun wrath !! Went to see doctor and realized, OPD (Out patient doc) are having a holiday for being 15th Aug... Returned home.. keeping quite, was giving more pain.. something is pinching so badly... tried eating my lunch, scratched hardly 1/4th of idli but couldnt eat... went to an emergency doc and asked him what to do.. are u going to get me operated sometime? he said.. no need... if you have continuous tronsils then we should do.. now you go and complete the prescription course for 5 days... I came home.. boiled water and had... realised, having boiled water relaxes me.. Evening... its just sometime back.. I was determined to eat this time.. I took one hour to scratch two plain idlies and eat it... Never in my life, i have survived like this.. its so horrible. I speak my parents, as if i just hv cold... Yeah, what is the point of telling them when you can manage it.. they may worry unnecessarily...  Now, i know the solution to my pain.. have boiled-water... and am surviving !!

  Life has no meaning keeping yourself ill-health... Its not in your hands though (most of the times) !!

Banking Loan - A Nightmare..

    Past two months has been really a night-mare for me. Construction work at hyd is stopped as the inflow catalyst got drained... The Money.. I dont want to discuss about this term in big here. I did some analysis on some banks on who are the least interest charges... i picked a few branded ones and few un-branded govt. banks. I was lured to the not-so-branded govt banks offering low interest rates as opposed to private banks. I had two govt banks in mind and got their telephone numbers from internet. For the past two months, i have travelled to hyd for getting my bank loan sanctioned several week-ends every time with a strong feeling that - Yes, i now have all the documents required to get a loan... i am all set and this will be my last visit to complete the paper work.. Nothing moves forward.. I'll just give a brief on what it required for me:

• Gather all the personal documents required for the loan - starting from DL, Pan card, passport, last 6 months bank statement, last 3 months sal certificate etc. etc. till form 16 of this year. It was a big list though
• I apply for two days PTO in office and go to hyd and try talking to banks. First, Canara bank... Manager is not present in office. Asst. Manager denies to speak about the same. He wants me to come on monday (i went on thursday).. I went to Syndicate Bank.. Manager is not present. Asst. Manager makes me wait for 2 hours and then looks at my documents and says, ok we can give you loan. How happy ! But you will have to meet the manager on monday. I cant do anything.
• I go to hyd next saturday. Manager is there. I show him all the land documents. He asks me to get EC (Encumberance certificate) for my land.. Took the whole day to get the same after bribing the attender in the registar office to get a memo, then submit the memo at the sub-registar office, bribe him again and get it done on that day. Next day is sunday.
• Next Week-end visit again. Manager tells me to get a legal opinion of an advocate on my land. Advocate charges me 2000Rs. And he takes a week-time to get me some documents. I had to submit the original land documents to him. He will put them in sealed cover and return to us. Meanwhile, he would scare you that you dont have this document, that document and all.. but thats all just for the money...
• Next week-end. My Bro goes to give the legal opinion sealed cover and give it to the manager. Hyderabad bandh (CM and Oppsition party leader fight) and call for a bandh. Bank is off.
• Next week-end, manager has the legal opinion now given by my brother. He gives me housing loan documents like a) Mortgage paper for submiting title deeds b) Housing loan aplication form c) Three more forms just to get idea about the money/deposits/investments i have. d) Surety from my brother.
• Last week. i applied for PTO and went there. Filled all the forms and given it to him thinking thats all final. He told, did you open a joint account along with mother on whose name land is there? I told, not yet. He now wants a person who can introduce us to the bank. Found my friends mom and got her signature... one day wasted.
• Next he would say, get the documents done with Frankin... 5000Rs. frankin on mortgage document and 100Rs. frankin on other documents. Went to sub-registar office.. Sir is not there come on monday ! Heck.. i go to registar office in lakdikapool. They say, for getting franking above 1000Rs. you need to go to moosarambagh Statebank and pay the challen. then get the challen the next day and come here.. What the heck... I bribe the person again with 300Rs. Frankin is done. By then bank is closed.
• I Apply for another PTO, Give the frankin thing done on the documents to the manager. He now says, ok go and get these mortgage documents registered now. What the heck ! I go to sub-registar office... along with mom and get the registration done in a VIP manner by catching a broker and bribing him again. He says, registration is done. Come and collect the documents on monday. Now what the hell.. another PTO ? alrite..
• Another PTO, determined to finish it this time. I go on monday to get the registration papers.. he says, you will have to wait for two more days to get registration papers done. On that registration papers, i need to get EC again !
• I go and submit my bank account opening papers. It took me some 4 hours to just submit the papers where people dont look at you and respond to you.. or after standing in line for long time, they tell you to go and paste the photo on the application form and dont staple it. Heck ! Mom, got so frustrated... Thanks mom... she got the pass-book done by bribing a female bank person there...  I got my savings pass-book done.
• I went and told the manager, Thats it ! I am leaving to bangalore. I cant wait here any more. I might come after a month or so. Until then keep my papers pending ! He thinks for a long time and tells me, Please wait for another two hours. We will take your moms and your signatures on one whole set of remaining documents. You can submit the registration EC docs after sometime also. Huh ! relaxed now.
• I go to the asst. manager who took nearly 40-50 signatures... god only knows if he has asked us to give our property on his name ! haha.. But done, he finally says... please ask your brother to submit the other documents, then we will process your loan before you come back to hyd.

For all this pain, PTOs, CLs of mom... Time... Registar office, bribe... I feel the 11.25% HDFC loan with no-tension is really worth it ... Yes, i mean it... After the last 4-5 days of all this hectic hassle, i reach home just an hour before to pack my stuff to bangalore... With full of head-ache... An uncancelled train ticket for an earlier day and additional money for a bus booking... its just so sick feeling ! Its done now... atleast the initial phase is done...

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Bank loan is just like a nightmare which haunts you when it grows with the passage of time. Because now getting loans is not a tough job like payday loans are available countrywide and its approval is just minutes away. You can even get home mortgage or loans for starting a new business or for home investment. After getting a loan it is also important to have a cheap insurance for your new business or home like car insurance or home insurance. You can clam the money from the insurance companies if some thing bad happens with your property. If you are applying online for these insurances then be careful as insurance fraud is a significant problem nowadays.

Un-bonded relations are weak !!

                 There are some relations which are very strong but becomes fragile with time. What could be the reaons? Firstly, the relation might be becoming fragile because of lack of interaction between two people? Lack of time to talk/express ? Taking for granted at times? These relations usually are not-bonded relations. Located far in geography and hence timings differ? Lot of conflicts these days which never happened before? Any wrong misconceptions about ones feelings of the other. Time and Money stopping you to achieve somethings? Situation and circumstances also stop you many-times which is not there in your hands... Dont find the person important to your life as you have a newer person/group to move on in life? Failure in changing either of you in certain aspects how-much ever trying so hard? Trust and liking on one other is coming down day by day due to other regular routine priorities n schedules. Immature enough to act up to a situation? Lost in yourself and hence your personal priorities took over the other persons priorities just to make sure the other person can manage and you can manage with the rest?

                    Reasons apart, there are a lot of relations starting from your child-hood friends till the last team/last company with whom you worked with... relations tend to evaporate due to several factors. We met, we spoke, we smiled, we shared, we walked out.... Is this what an unbonded relation be?