けいおん！！

Included in my watch list is K-On!! -- this is the second season of K-On! which was shown last year with only 13 episodes. Up until now, it's still overwhelming with cuteness and some gags here and there. Yui was my favorite in the first season, but Azu-nyan is also cute with her long hair and pig tails! <3>

If you like overwhelming cuteness, silly childish gags and happy-go-lucky school life, then this is the way to go! Personally, I like this a lot better than Lucky Star. Well, I'm not sure if I should really be comparing them. But there's a lot more going on here than in Lucky Star. Most of the time they were just chatting and talking about anything in Lucky Star. K-on! is also carefree and pretty laid back, but there's always something going on somehow. ^__^

I also like the idea that I'm watching something which looks like shoujo (sorry, I'm not very familiar with the exact description and classification of anime and manga) but there's not a hint of romance anywhere. Too good to be true, but you will be watching 5 joshikousei who are not interested or talking about love at all.

So, how's this for my first anime review? I even included an image (I just noticed there are very few images in my blog)! xD Well, not really a review, but I just want to talk about the anime or manga that I'm watching or reading. Next up might be Kaichou wa Maid-sama, Yumeiro Patissiere or FMA Brotherhood. Otanoshimini~...onegai! xD

So happy and so sad at the same time

Today is Tal's last working day in VC.

T____T

Because once again, one of our beloved colleagues is leaving. It's really really sad... but yeah, I guess I have to get used to it. It's particularly depressing because she was the most cheerful in the team. She was a smiling face since day 1 until the end... I hope we can still keep in touch in some way, especially when I'm not using FB. xD Blog is the only place I'm active on the net and yet, her blog remained untouched for the past year, save for that one BE deploy which she needed to use a real website, lol. Anyway, there's still the company outing which we're hoping that she could attend -- our boss says he'll try to make it happen. :)

^____^

Because we just had dinner for her farewell party. And it was a really happy and cheerful dinner. We had so much fun talking about various things in life, work, love life. It was so much fun, I think this is the best dinner I ever had with my current colleagues. I just hoped it would last longer. :) I think I just realized the feeling when you want to keep all your precious friends close to you... Never thought I'd feel this way, so thanks to Tal and her friendship. :)

String

Given below code :

public class StringTester {

private String test;

public String getTest() {
   return test;
}

public void setTest(String test) {
   this.test = test;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
   StringTester stringTester = new StringTester();
   if (stringTester.getTest() == null) {
       System.out.println("test is NULL");
   } else if (stringTester.getTest().isEmpty()) {
       System.out.println("test is EMPTY");
   }

   System.out.println("test : " + stringTester.getTest());
   if (stringTester.getTest().equals("hello")) {
       System.out.println(stringTester.getTest() + " is equals to \"hello\"");
   }
}
}

The result will be :

test is NULL
test : null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at vc.qa.automation.rachel.StringTester.main(StringTester.java:21)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90)

A string which has not been set :

• will be printed out as "null".
• cannot be compared with other strings.